Re: [R] Comparing fitting models

2011-01-06 Thread Frodo Jedi
Dear Greg, thanks for your answer, but that is not the point. My question is another: from the data in the R prompt how can I compare the models? I don´t understand the output of anova(fit1, fit2, fit3) What I have to look to understand something about the comparison of the models? Look the

Re: [R] Assumptions for ANOVA: the right way to check the normality

2011-01-06 Thread Frodo Jedi
Dear Robert, thanks so much!!! Now I understand! So you also think that I have to check only the residuals and not the data directly. Now just for curiosity I did the the shapiro test on the residuals. The problem is that on fit3 I don´t get from the test that the data are normally

Re: [R] speed up in R apply

2011-01-06 Thread Young Cho
When introduced to R, I learned how to use *apply whenever I could to avoid for-loops and all. And, getting the habit, I think I somehow got the mis-conception that it is a magic source, always an optimal way of coding in R. Thanks a lot for all of your helpful advice and comment! Young On Wed,

Re: [R] Comparing fitting models

2011-01-06 Thread Frodo Jedi
Dear Greg, thanks so much. Now I understand!! Thanks!! From: Greg Snow greg.s...@imail.org r-help@r-project.org Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 11:27:53 PM Subject: RE: [R] Comparing fitting models The output with all three fits gives you 2 comparisons, fit1

Re: [R] Advice on obscuring unique IDs in R

2011-01-06 Thread Petr Savicky
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:19:49PM +, Anthony Staines wrote: Dear colleagues, This may be a question with a really obvious answer, but I can't find it. I have access to a large file with real medical record identifiers (mixed strings of characters and numbers) in it. These represent

[R] Potential biparite problem?

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Chamberlain
Dear R users, I used to be able to use the package bipartite to calculate network metrics using the function networklevel, but now (with the new version 1.14) I keep getting the error messages below. I don't understand why I am getting these error messages given that colSums is not 2, and the

[R] Problem with 2-ways ANOVA interactions

2011-01-06 Thread Frodo Jedi
Dear All, I have a problem in understanding how the interactions of 2 ways ANOVA work, because I get conflicting results from a t-test and an anova. For most of you my problem is very simple I am sure. I need an help with an example, looking at one table I am analyzing. The table is in

[R] Interpolation

2011-01-06 Thread Rustamali Manesiya
Hello, I am new to R and need some help. I have data in following format DATA matrix DateTime oh l c 2009-01-01 07:30:00 2 3 4 5 2009-01-01 07:33:00 4 2 5 7 I am able to fill the gap using combination of seq and chron

Re: [R] speed up in R apply

2011-01-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Young Cho young.s...@gmail.com wrote: When introduced to R, I learned how to use *apply whenever I could to avoid for-loops and all. And, getting the habit, I think I somehow got the mis-conception that it is a magic source, always an optimal way of coding in

Re: [R] speed up in R apply

2011-01-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 05.01.2011 22:49, Young Cho wrote: When introduced to R, I learned how to use *apply whenever I could to avoid for-loops and all. And, getting the habit, I think I somehow got the mis-conception that it is a magic source, always an optimal way of coding in R. That is right, but your apply

Re: [R] What are the necessary Oracle software to install and run ROracle ?

2011-01-06 Thread thomas . carrie
Hello, I have applied all tips (except moving to different DB lib) : move to R-2.12.1 try R CMD INSTALL instead of install.packages('ROracle'); run as root checked that I have full 32 bit env It still fails with same error at installation when trying to load ROracle lib -

[R] Problem with timeSequence {timeDate} - wrong end date

2011-01-06 Thread Benjamin B.
Dear help-list, I have a problem with timeSequence {timeDate}. When I use it like timeSequence(from = 2008-01-01, to = 2010-12-13, by = 1 month) GMT [1] [2008-01-01] [2008-02-01] [2008-03-01] [2008-04-01] [2008-05-01] [2008-06-01] [2008-07-01] [2008-08-01] [2008-09-01] [2008-10-01]

Re: [R] Interpolation

2011-01-06 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Look into the na.approx() function in package zoo. The discussion below may be of help: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Filling-in-missing-time-samples-with-na-approx-td3063682.html HTH, Dennis On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Rustamali Manesiya rmanes...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I

[R] How to join matrices of different row length from a list

2011-01-06 Thread emj83
Hi, I have several matrix in a list, for example: e [[1]] [,1] [,2] [1,]13 [2,]24 [[2]] [,1] [,2] [1,]14 [2,]25 [3,]36 [[3]] [,1] [,2] [1,]21 I would like to join them by column i.e. [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4][,5] [,6] [1,]1

Re: [R] How to join matrices of different row length from a list

2011-01-06 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
try this: matLis - list(matrix(1:4, 2, 2), matrix(1:6, 3, 2), matrix(2:1, 1, 2)) n - max(sapply(matLis, nrow)) do.call(cbind, lapply(matLis, function (x) rbind(x, matrix(, n-nrow(x), ncol(x) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris On 1/6/2011 11:56 AM, emj83 wrote: Hi, I have

Re: [R] How to join matrices of different row length from a list

2011-01-06 Thread emj83
Excellent- that is just what I need. Thank you so much for your prompt help, Emma -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-join-matrices-of-different-row-length-from-a-list-tp3177212p3177252.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[R] Deselect one of the array's matrix

2011-01-06 Thread Alaios
Hello everyone and season's greetings. I have an array that looks like that R-c(1,2,3,4,5,6). Is it possible to select all the elements but except one? For example to not select the third element and get back (1,2,4,5,6)? How can I do that? I would like to thank you in advance for your help

Re: [R] Deselect one of the array's matrix

2011-01-06 Thread Ken Knoblauch
Alaios alaios at yahoo.com writes: Hello everyone and season's greetings. I have an array that looks like that R-c(1,2,3,4,5,6). Is it possible to select all the elements but except one? For example to not select the third element and get back (1,2,4,5,6)? How can I do that? I would

Re: [R] Problem with timeSequence {timeDate} - wrong end date

2011-01-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
Please report bugs in contributed packages to the corresponding package maintainer. Uwe Ligges On 06.01.2011 10:30, Benjamin B. wrote: Dear help-list, I have a problem with timeSequence {timeDate}. When I use it like timeSequence(from = 2008-01-01, to = 2010-12-13, by = 1 month) GMT

[R] Splitting a Vector

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Ward
Hi all, I read in a text book, that you can examine a variable that is colinear with others, and giving different ANOVA output and explanatory power when ordered differently in the model forula, by modelling that explanatory variable, against the others colinear with it. Then, using that

[R] Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

2011-01-06 Thread Kevin Wright
Hopefully a quick question. My package has a NEWS.Rd file that is not being found by news. The news function calls tools:::.build_news_db which has this line: nfile - file.path(dir, inst, NEWS.Rd) So it appears that the news function is searching for mypackage/inst/NEWS.Rd. However, Writing R

Re: [R] Problem with timeSequence {timeDate} - wrong end date

2011-01-06 Thread Joshua Wiley
Dear Benjamin, timeSequence() ultimately is relying on seq.POSIXt(). If you look at the last paragraph of the Details section in ?seq.POSIXt it seems to basically indicate that using by = month just sequences through the months and the day is only changed if it is invalid for a particular month

Re: [R] Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

2011-01-06 Thread Kevin Wright
If you look at tools:::.build_news_db, the plain text NEWS file is searched for in pkg/NEWS and pkg/inst/NEWS, but NEWS.Rd in only searched for in pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd. Looks like a bug to me. I *think*. Thanks, Kevin On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Kevin Wright kw.s...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [R] Cairo pdf canvas size

2011-01-06 Thread Eduardo de Oliveira Horta
Peter, thank you, that's what I was looking for! David, I forgot to tell you my OS. Sorry... it's Win7. I'm running a RKWard session. And this is strange: Cairo(example.pdf, type=pdf,width=12,height=12,units=cm,dpi=300) Error: could not find function Cairo ... maybe you're not using the

[R] survival analysis microarray expression data

2011-01-06 Thread Unger, Kristian
Hi there I want to test the expression of a subset of genes for correlation with patient survival. I found out that the coxph function is appropriate for doing this since it works with continuous variables such as Affy mRNA expression values. I applied the following code: cp -

Re: [R] defining a formula method for a weighted lm()

2011-01-06 Thread Michael Friendly
No one replied to this, so I'll try again, with a simple example. I calculate a set of log odds ratios, and turn them into a data frame as follows: library(vcdExtra) (lor.CM - loddsratio(CoalMiners)) log odds ratios for Wheeze and Breathlessness by Age 25-2930-3435-3940-44

Re: [R] Problem with timeSequence {timeDate} - wrong end date

2011-01-06 Thread Joshua Wiley
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Joshua Wiley jwiley.ps...@gmail.com wrote: timeSequence() ultimately is relying on seq.POSIXt(). If you look at My apologies, I spoke nonsense---timeSequence() does NOT rely on seq.POSIXt(). The timeDate package has its own method defined for seq() which is what

[R] weighed mean of a data frame row-by-row

2011-01-06 Thread Vassilis
Dear list, This must be an easy one. I have a data frame like this one: test.df - data.frame(x1=c(2,3,5), x2=c(5, 3, 4), w=c(0.8, 0.3, 0.5)) and I want to construct a weighted mean of the first two columns using the third column for weighting; i.e. y[1] = x1[1]*w[1] + x2[1]*(1-w[1]) y[2] =

[R] Extract data

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Mcowen
Dear List, I have a data frame called trait with roughly 800 species in, each species have 15 columns of information: Species 1 2 3 etc.. a t y h b f j u c r y u

[R] Multiple subsets of data

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Mcowen
Dear List, I have a data frame called trait with roughly 800 species in, each species have 15 columns of information: Species 1 2 3 etc.. a t y h b f j u c r y u

Re: [R] weighed mean of a data frame row-by-row

2011-01-06 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi Vassilis, Try test.df$y - with(test.df, x1*w + x2*(1-w)) test.df HTH, Jorge On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Vassilis wrote: Dear list, This must be an easy one. I have a data frame like this one: test.df - data.frame(x1=c(2,3,5), x2=c(5, 3, 4), w=c(0.8, 0.3, 0.5)) and I want to

[R] RSymphony appcrash

2011-01-06 Thread Vladyslav Kolbasin
Hi list, Please tell me why sometimes RSymphony.dll crashes on Windows 7 (may be on other Windows too). I saw that it depends on input data. For example this code bring to crash: library('Rsymphony') mat = c(0, 1, -100.37967, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, -200, 0, 0, 1, -0.4, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, -0.4, 0, 0.5,

[R] Rserve: failed to find config file

2011-01-06 Thread Newbie19_02
Dear R users, I've installed Rserve for R version 2.11.0 on x64 Windows 7. I've added the Rserve_d and Rserve files to the /bin/ folder where the R.exe is installed in the program files. I have also created an Rserv.cfg file that contains the following text: remote enable auth disable

[R] Cross validation for Ordinary Kriging

2011-01-06 Thread pearl may dela cruz
ear ALL, The last part of my thesis analysis is the cross validation. Right now I am having difficulty using the cross validation of gstat. Below are my commands with the tsport_ace as the variable: nfold - 3 part - sample(1:nfold, 69, replace = TRUE) sel - (part != 1) m.model - x2[sel, ]

Re: [R] weighed mean of a data frame row-by-row

2011-01-06 Thread csrabak
Em 6/1/2011 11:33, Vassilis escreveu: Dear list, This must be an easy one. I have a data frame like this one: test.df - data.frame(x1=c(2,3,5), x2=c(5, 3, 4), w=c(0.8, 0.3, 0.5)) and I want to construct a weighted mean of the first two columns using the third column for weighting; i.e. y[1]

[R] Find and remove elemnts of a data frame

2011-01-06 Thread Alaios
Dear all, I have a data frame that is created like that data.frame(x=CRX[-1],y=CRY[-1],z=CRagent[[1]]$sr) the output looks like 45 116 162 -30.89105988567164 46 128  79 -42.66296679571184 47 180 195 -30.45626175641315 48 114  83 -45.26843476475688 49 118  73 -46.85389245327003 How can I select

Re: [R] Multiple subsets of data

2011-01-06 Thread John Kane
Is there any common variable? From your description, I don't see how you would link a species to a community. I mean if you select species a in df1 how would you know what community it is in? --- On Thu, 1/6/11, Chris Mcowen chrismco...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chris Mcowen

Re: [R] Find and remove elemnts of a data frame

2011-01-06 Thread John Kane
With dataframe xx (naming a data.frame as data.frame is a bit dicey subset(xx, xx[,4] -45) --- On Thu, 1/6/11, Alaios ala...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Alaios ala...@yahoo.com Subject: [R] Find and remove elemnts of a data frame To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Thursday, January 6, 2011,

Re: [R] How to join matrices of different row length from a list

2011-01-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: try this: matLis - list(matrix(1:4, 2, 2), matrix(1:6, 3, 2), matrix(2:1, 1, 2)) n - max(sapply(matLis, nrow)) do.call(cbind, lapply(matLis, function (x) rbind(x, matrix(, n-nrow(x), ncol(x) It's good that you solved the OP's

Re: [R] RSymphony appcrash

2011-01-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 06.01.2011 15:04, Vladyslav Kolbasin wrote: Hi list, Please tell me why sometimes RSymphony.dll crashes on Windows 7 (may be on other Windows too). I saw that it depends on input data. For example this code bring to crash: library('Rsymphony') mat = c(0, 1, -100.37967, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0,

Re: [R] Multiple subsets of data

2011-01-06 Thread John Kane
You're definitely doing something I don't understand. Here's a quick mock-up of the sample data sets you provided. How do you know if species a in trait is from NA1102 or AT1302 in com? I may be blind but I just don't see what you're matching when you use which. Perhaps you might want to

Re: [R] Extract data

2011-01-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:36 AM, Chris Mcowen wrote: Dear List, I have a data frame called trait with roughly 800 species in, each species have 15 columns of information: Species 1 2 3 etc.. a t y h b f j

Re: [R] Multiple subsets of data

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Mcowen
Hi, Sorry the formatting has messed up, the common variable is species ( spelt different in both but i have corrected this now) I am having some luck with the which function but am struggling to automate it for all communities On 6 Jan 2011, at 15:09, John Kane wrote: Is there any common

Re: [R] Find and remove elemnts of a data frame

2011-01-06 Thread Alaios
Thanks a lot worked fine Regards --- On Thu, 1/6/11, John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca wrote: From: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: [R] Find and remove elemnts of a data frame To: r-help@r-project.org, Alaios ala...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 3:27 PM With dataframe xx

[R] Set axis limits in mixtools plot

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Harwood
Hello, Can the x and y axis limits be specified in a density plot with the mixtools package for a finite mixture model? Uncommenting the xlim2/ ylim2 lines in the plot command below generates 'not a graphical parameter' warnings (and does not change the axis settings), and uncommenting the

Re: [R] What are the necessary Oracle software to install and run ROracle ?

2011-01-06 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jan 6, 2011, at 3:11 AM, thomas.car...@bnpparibas.com wrote: Hello, I have applied all tips (except moving to different DB lib) : move to R-2.12.1 try R CMD INSTALL instead of install.packages('ROracle'); run as root checked that I have full 32 bit env It still fails with same

[R] Different LLRs on multinomial logit models in R and SPSS

2011-01-06 Thread Sören Vogel
Hello, after calculating a multinomial logit regression on my data, I compared the output to an output retrieved with SPSS 18 (Mac). The coefficients appear to be the same, but the logLik (and therefore fit) values differ widely. Why? The regression in R: set.seed(1234) df - data.frame(

Re: [R] How to join matrices of different row length from a list

2011-01-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:56 AM, emj83 stp08...@shef.ac.uk wrote: Hi, I have several matrix in a list, for example: e [[1]]     [,1] [,2] [1,]    1    3 [2,]    2    4 [[2]]     [,1] [,2] [1,]    1    4 [2,]    2    5 [3,]    3    6 [[3]]     [,1] [,2] [1,]    2    1 I would

Re: [R] Different LLRs on multinomial logit models in R and SPSS

2011-01-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Sören Vogel wrote: Hello, after calculating a multinomial logit regression on my data, I compared the output to an output retrieved with SPSS 18 (Mac). The coefficients appear to be the same, but the logLik (and therefore fit) values differ widely. Why? The

Re: [R] Different LLRs on multinomial logit models in R and SPSS

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Bolker
Sören Vogel sovo0815 at gmail.com writes: Hello, after calculating a multinomial logit regression on my data, I compared the output to an output retrieved with SPSS 18 (Mac). The coefficients appear to be the same, but the logLik (and therefore fit) values differ widely. Why? Since

Re: [R] Different LLRs on multinomial logit models in R and SPSS

2011-01-06 Thread Sören Vogel
Thanks for your replies. I am no mathematician or statistician by far, however, it appears to me that the actual value of any of the two LLs is indeed important when it comes to calculation of Pseudo-R-Squared-s. If Rnagel devides by (some transformation of) the actiual value of llnull then any

Re: [R] RGtk2 compilation problem

2011-01-06 Thread Shige Song
Look forward to it. Thanks. Shige On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Michael Lawrence lawrence.mich...@gene.com wrote: Please watch for 2.20.5 and let me know if it helps. Not really sure what is going on here, but someone else has reported the same issue. Thanks, Michael On Wed, Dec 29,

Re: [R] RGtk2 compilation problem

2011-01-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You need RGtk2 2.20.7 which is now on CRAN. Others have seen this, but it has taken a while to track down the exact cause. The diagnosis was that ML used a recent GNU tar which created a tarball with hard links that R's untar was not prepared to deal with. We consider that is a bug in GNU

Re: [R] Different LLRs on multinomial logit models in R and SPSS

2011-01-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Sören Vogel wrote: Thanks for your replies. I am no mathematician or statistician by far, however, it appears to me that the actual value of any of the two LLs is indeed important when it comes to calculation of Pseudo-R-Squared-s. If Rnagel devides by (some

Re: [R] Extract data

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Mcowen
Dear David, Thats great, thanks very much for the help, much appreciated. On 6 Jan 2011, at 15:53, David Winsemius wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:36 AM, Chris Mcowen wrote: Dear List, I have a data frame called trait with roughly 800 species in, each species have 15 columns of

[R] Solved : RE: problem installing R on ubuntu

2011-01-06 Thread Horace Tso
This question of mine is now solved, thanks to a suggestion by Homer Strong, the organizer of the R user group in Portland, Oregon. The unmet dependencies as reported by install was caused by an incorrect entry in /etc/apt/sources.list. Previously I had deb

Re: [R] Reading large SAS dataset in R

2011-01-06 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
Santanu, I second Phil's suggestion. sas.get is actually quite nice. Another current option is using a command-line utility called dsread (http://www.oview.co.uk/dsread/) to convert the sas7bdat file to a csv or tsv format, which can then easily be read into R using read.table and its

Re: [R] Extract data

2011-01-06 Thread jim holtman
'merge' comes in handy: spec - read.table(textConnection(Species 1 2 3 + a t y h + b f j u + c r y u), header=TRUE) comm - read.table(textConnection(community species

Re: [R] Problem with 2-ways ANOVA interactions

2011-01-06 Thread Greg Snow
You really need to spend more time with a good aov textbook and probably a consultant that can explain things to you face to face. But here is a basic explanation to get you pointed in the right direction: Consider a simple 2x2 example with factors A and B each with 2 levels (1 and 2). Draw

Re: [R] OT: Reducing pdf file size

2011-01-06 Thread Yihui Xie
Has anyone succeeded in porting any PDF compression tools to R so far? Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Andrew Miles

Re: [R] Assumptions for ANOVA: the right way to check the normality

2011-01-06 Thread Greg Snow
Remember that an non-significant result (especially one that is still near alpha like yours) does not give evidence that the null is true. The reason that the 1st 2 tests below don't show significance is more due to lack of power than some of the residuals being normal. The only test that I

[R] Calcuting returns

2011-01-06 Thread Amelia Vettori
Dear R forum helpers,I have following datatrans - data.frame(currency_transacted = c(EURO, USD, USD, GBP, USD, AUD), position_amt = c(1, 25000, 2, 15000, 22000, 3))date - c(12/31/2010, 12/30/2010, 12/29/2010, 12/28/2010, 12/27/2010, 12/24/2010, 12/23/2010, 12/22/2010, 12/21/2010,

Re: [R] Splitting a Vector

2011-01-06 Thread Greg Snow
I think that you are looking for the 'resid' and 'fitted' functions, these will give you the residuals and fitted values from an lm object (that added together gives the original response but are orthogonal to each other). Those values can then be assigned to a data frame or used by

Re: [R] Calcuting returns

2011-01-06 Thread Patrick Burns
I'm guessing this page will answer your question: http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2010/10/04/a-tale-of-two-returns/ If not, then you need to be more specific. On 06/01/2011 18:07, Amelia Vettori wrote: Dear R forum helpers,I have following datatrans- data.frame(currency_transacted = c(EURO, USD,

[R] Problem with package twitteR and converting S4 obj to data frame

2011-01-06 Thread altons
Hi, I wrote a simple script to retrieve an n number of followers for a given user in Twitter. I used a sample of n=10 to test my script and worked perfectly but once I started to changes n I started to get the following error: Error in list_to_dataframe(res, attr(.data, split_labels)) :

[R] need help for chi-squared test

2011-01-06 Thread kiotoqq
I've got a dataset which looks like this in the beginning: cbr dust smoking expo 1 0 0.20 15 2 0 0.25 14 3 0 0.25 18 4 0 0.25 14 5 0 0.25 14 (till no. 1240, anyway, a huge set) I have to analyse cbr and

[R] Waaaayy off topic...Statistical methods, pub bias, scientific validity

2011-01-06 Thread Bert Gunter
Folks: The following has NOTHING (obvious) to do with R. But I believe that all on this list would find it relevant and, I hope, informative. It is LONG. I apologize in advance to those who feel I have wasted their time. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer Best

[R] JRI plot( )

2011-01-06 Thread ying zhang
Hi Everyone, Thanks a lot for your guys help, I finally got it running, now I can call my R function from my java code. But there is one problem left. In my R code , it open a window and plot a curve. Once running in Java, the window did successfully opened, but nothing inside, instead

Re: [R] defining a formula method for a weighted lm()

2011-01-06 Thread Martin Maechler
Michael Friendly frien...@yorku.ca on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:33:25 -0500 writes: No one replied to this, so I'll try again, with a simple example. I calculate a set of log odds ratios, and turn them into a data frame as follows: library(vcdExtra) (lor.CM -

Re: [R] Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

2011-01-06 Thread Kevin Wright
Yes, exactly. But the problem is with NEWS.Rd, not NEWS. pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd is moved to pkg/NEWS.Rd at build time, but for installed packages, news tried to load pkg/inst/NEWS.Rd. I'm going to file a bug report. Kevin On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Kevin Wright kw.s...@gmail.com wrote: If

[R] Help spruce up a ggplot graph

2011-01-06 Thread Art Burke
Given the data structure below and the call to ggplot2, how can I increase the size of the axis scale points, the line weight, and the size of the legend? ddata -structure(list(year = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c(2003, 2007), class = factor),

Re: [R] need help for chi-squared test

2011-01-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:23 PM, kiotoqq wrote: I've got a dataset which looks like this in the beginning: cbr dust smoking expo 1 0 0.20 15 2 0 0.25 14 3 0 0.25 18 4 0 0.25 14 5 0 0.25 14 (till no. 1240,

Re: [R] Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

2011-01-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/01/2011 2:19 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: Yes, exactly. But the problem is with NEWS.Rd, not NEWS. I'm not sure who you are arguing with, but if you do file a bug report, please also put together a simple reproducible example, e.g. a small package containing NEWS.Rd in the inst directory

Re: [R] Problem with 2-ways ANOVA interactions

2011-01-06 Thread Frodo Jedi
Dear Greg, thanks so much, I think that now I have understood. Please confirm me this reading what follows ;-) To summarize from the beginning, the table I analyzed is the result of a simple experiment. Subjects where exposed to some stimuli and they where asked to evaluate the degree of

Re: [R] need help for chi-squared test

2011-01-06 Thread kiotoqq
I used chisq.test(read.table(C:/Users/Maggy/Downloads/dust.asc, header=TRUE)) and got this Pearson's Chi-squared test data: read.table(C:/Users/Maggy/Downloads/dust.asc, header = TRUE) X-squared = 5226.164, df = 3735, p-value 2.2e-16 and I think it should be right for the whole

[R] Accessing data via url

2011-01-06 Thread John Kane
# Can anyone suggest why this works datafilename - http://personality-project.org/r/datasets/maps.mixx.epi.bfi.data; person.data - read.table(datafilename,header=TRUE) # but this does not? dd - https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/trees.txt; treedata - read.table(dd,

Re: [R] Assumptions for ANOVA: the right way to check the normality

2011-01-06 Thread Frodo Jedi
Ok, I see ;-) Let´s put in this way then. When do I have to use the kruskal wallis test? I mean, when I am very sure that I have to use it instead of ANOVA? Thanks Best regards P.S. In addition, which is the non parametric methods corresponding to a 2 ways anova?..or have I to repeat

Re: [R] Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

2011-01-06 Thread Liaw, Andy
I was communicating with Kevin off-list. The problem seems to be run time, not install time. News() calls tools:::.build_news_db(), and the 2nd line of that function is: nfile - file.path(dir, inst, NEWS.Rd) and that's the problem: an installed package shouldn't have an inst/ subdirectory,

Re: [R] need help for chi-squared test

2011-01-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 6, 2011, at 2:34 PM, kiotoqq wrote: I used chisq.test(read.table(C:/Users/Maggy/Downloads/dust.asc, header=TRUE)) So, where did you download this data and when is your homework due? and got this Pearson's Chi-squared test data:

Re: [R] Assumptions for ANOVA: the right way to check the normality

2011-01-06 Thread Greg Snow
Some would argue to always use the kruskal wallis test since we never know for sure if we have normality. Personally I am not sure that I understand what exactly that test is really testing. Plus in your case you are doing a two-way anova and kruskal.test does one-way, so it will not work for

Re: [R] Where is a package NEWS.Rd located?

2011-01-06 Thread Kevin Wright
Andy, thanks for providing a clear way of saying it. I thought I was clear in the first place, but oh well). Here is the structure of my source files: hwpkg/DESCRIPTION hwpkg/R/hw.R hwpkg/inst/NEWS.Rd I'm using Windows XP. When I install this package, I do this: Rcmd INSTALL hwpkg Which

Re: [R] Problem with 2-ways ANOVA interactions

2011-01-06 Thread Greg Snow
See inline From: Frodo Jedi [mailto:frodo.j...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:37 PM To: Greg Snow; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Problem with 2-ways ANOVA interactions Dear Greg, thanks so much, I think that now I have understood. Please confirm me this reading

Re: [R] need help for chi-squared test

2011-01-06 Thread Greg Snow
David, I think the poster wants to use one of the columns as x and the other as y, ignoring the remaining columns. If that is the case then he/she needs to read the section in Introduction to R on subsetting data frames. I agree that the output so far is meaningless, from the degrees of

Re: [R] Accessing data via url

2011-01-06 Thread John Kane
I don't know. I can access it from within OOo Calc so it might be an authority problem but it seems unlikely or would Google sites have some strange restrictions ?  I did discover that the trees.txt file was rather messed up so I tried again with a clean csv file and I'm still getting the same

Re: [R] Assumptions for ANOVA: the right way to check the normality

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Ward
On 06/01/2011 20:29, Greg Snow wrote: Some would argue to always use the kruskal wallis test since we never know for sure if we have normality. Personally I am not sure that I understand what exactly that test is really testing. Plus in your case you are doing a two-way anova and

Re: [R] Cairo pdf canvas size

2011-01-06 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Eduardo de Oliveira Horta eduardo.oliveiraho...@gmail.com wrote: Peter, thank you, that's what I was looking for! David, I forgot to tell you my OS. Sorry... it's Win7. I'm running a RKWard session. And this is strange: Cairo(example.pdf,

Re: [R] Accessing data via url

2011-01-06 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 1/6/11, Alberto Negron albertoneg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alberto Negron albertoneg...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url To: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca Cc: R R-help r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Received: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 4:20 PM there is an option in

Re: [R] Help spruce up a ggplot graph

2011-01-06 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: I'm not sure what you mean by line weight - I interpreted it to mean size, but you already have have it in your geom_line() call. If you want thicker lines, increase size. As for the others, try this: ggplot(ddata, aes(x = area, y = disc, colour = year)) + geom_point() +

Re: [R] Stop and call objects

2011-01-06 Thread Sebastien Bihorel
Well, the goal is to include a reference to f2 in the error message returned by f2('char'); sys.call(1) appears to do the trick. You mentioned this function could be unreliable, could you please provide an example? Sebastien William Dunlap wrote: -Original Message- From:

[R] Global variables

2011-01-06 Thread Sebastien Bihorel
Dear R-users, Is there a way I can prevent global variables to be visible within my functions? Sebastien __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] Global variables

2011-01-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/01/2011 4:45 PM, Sebastien Bihorel wrote: Dear R-users, Is there a way I can prevent global variables to be visible within my functions? Yes, but you probably shouldn't. You would do it by setting the environment of the function to something that doesn't have the global environment

[R] Hmisc, summary.formula and catTest

2011-01-06 Thread moleps
Dear all, I´m specifying the fisher.exact test for use with summary.formula as follows: u-function(a,b){ j-fisher.test(a) p-list(P=j$p.value,stat=NA,df=NA,testname=j$method,statname=) return(p) } However I´m also required to specify stat df.

[R] algorithm help

2011-01-06 Thread array chip
Hi, I am seeking help on designing an algorithm to identify the locations of stretches of 1s in a vector of 0s and 1s. Below is an simple example: dat-as.data.frame(cbind(a=c(F,F,T,T,T,T,F,F,T,T,F,T,T,T,T,F,F,F,F,T) ,b=c(4,12,13,16,18,20,28,30,34,46,47,49,61,73,77,84,87,90,95,97))) dat a

Re: [R] Global variables

2011-01-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/01/2011 4:45 PM, Sebastien Bihorel wrote: Dear R-users, Is there a way I can prevent global variables to be visible within my functions? Yes, but you probably shouldn't.  You would do it by setting the

Re: [R] Hmisc, summary.formula and catTest

2011-01-06 Thread Erik Iverson
The closest I get is u-function(a,b){ j-fisher.test(a) p-list(P=j$p.value,stat=1,df=1,testname=j$method,statname=) return(p) } However then I manually have to edit the output. Is there a smart way of doing this? You're not explaining what

Re: [R] Stop and call objects

2011-01-06 Thread William Dunlap
sys.call(1) will work now, but as my code evolves it tends towards having more layers of function calls and so the count given in sys.call(count) has to be altered. This is a maintainance problem. Sometimes, as when using generic functions, you are not even aware that the number of calls between

Re: [R] Hmisc, summary.formula and catTest

2011-01-06 Thread Erik Iverson
Does the prtest argument help when you actually use the 'print' function around your summary.formula object? I think that's how I solve it. I.e., sf1 - summary(trt~sex+ascites,data=ex,test=T,method=reverse,catTest=u) print(sf1, prtest = P) Descriptive Statistics by trt

Re: [R] Hmisc, summary.formula and catTest

2011-01-06 Thread moleps
Allright..Works like a charm. However I do believe that the prtest vector should have been mentioned in the catTest or conTest option. Appreciate your time and effort. Best, //M On 6. jan. 2011, at 23.24, Erik Iverson wrote: Does the prtest argument help when you actually use the 'print'

Re: [R] Waaaayy off topic...Statistical methods, pub bias, scientific validity

2011-01-06 Thread Carl Witthoft
The next week's New Yorker has some decent rebuttal letters. The case is hardly as clear-cut as the author would like to believe. Carl __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] algorithm help

2011-01-06 Thread Carl Witthoft
try this: ?rle Carl ** From: array chip arrayprofile_at_yahoo.com Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:16:38 -0800 (PST) Hi, I am seeking help on designing an algorithm to identify the locations of stretches of 1s in a vector of 0s and 1s. Below is an simple example:

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