[R] Error - function join()

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, In plyr I am using coding I have used before but an error seems to be apparent. Has the function join been replaced by another word? I tried this before and it didn't work and then worked for me. But now it is not working again. Please advise, Jean data.to.analyze -

Re: [R] warning in summary(aov())

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Thank you Michael, Another new and useful function for me. In brief, str() gave me: $ Aeventexhumed: chr A A A A ... $ Aeventexhumed: Factor w/ 4 levels ,A,B,C: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ... I think on the data sheet there are two columns for Aeventexhumed and only one of them was converted to a

[R] aov() usage

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am wondering if the function aov() in plyr is appropriate for two different types of tests: 1) summary(aov(EDI ~ VegIndex, data=data.to.analyze)) AND 2) summary(aov(HSuccess ~ VegIndex + Aeventexhumed + VegIndex:Aeventexhumed, data=data.to.analyze)) the later inclusive of

[R] aov(HSuccess ~ different VegIndexes)

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I would like to do an ANOVA with HSuccess ~ each individual Vegetation index (0-5m, 6-10m, 11-15m, 16-20m, 21-25m, 26-30m, 31-35m) and alternatively HSuccess ~ HTLIndex (-5-(-1m), 0-5m, 6-10m, 11-15m, 16-20m, 21-25m, 26-30m). I'm not sure how to write the script for it. I have

Re: [R] aov() usage

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Thank you! Is there a way to obtain R2 value? I am doing it manually but unsure about including residuals etc. in the SS(total)... There must be a way... Jean -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/aov-usage-tp4645380p4645401.html Sent from the R help mailing list

Re: [R] warning in summary(aov())

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Thank you for letting me know. It may be where I hit reply but I typically hit the latest comment. I'm sorry but I only know how to post my Q on nabble. If there is another way to post, please let me know. Thanks, Jean -- View this message in context:

[R] Mean SD in ANOVA Table

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, Is there a way to get the mean SD value after creating an ANOVA table? This is what I've been using to create an anova table. summary(aov(HSuccess ~ HTLIndex*Aeventexhumed, data=data.to.analyze)) Best, Jean -- View this message in context:

[R] Best method for comparing rectangles sections of beach

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am trying to compare sections of the beach separated from the HTL to the Veg (east to west), separated into indices (-5 to 30m), HTLIndex. Cross parallel (north to south) are major beach sections (Rayos 1, 2, 3, 4 and MNB). I am thinking to do an ANOVA for each independent

Re: [R] warning in summary(aov())

2012-10-08 Thread Jhope
and Assurance R-sig forum I should subscribe to? I don't understand. Please explain. Jean On 8-Oct-12, at 8:55 AM, Michael Weylandt [via R] wrote: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Jhope [hidden email] wrote: Thank you for letting me know. It may be where I hit reply but I typically hit

Re: [R] Anova, F statistics, P-values

2012-10-06 Thread Jhope
Thank you for the replies. I am actually trying to gain p-values and f values, and tried the below script but unsuccessful. 1) I have read in another forum to use the package lmer but apparently it does not exist. 2) Then I tried the pvals.fnc but it is not a function. 3) I read also that a

[R] warning in summary(aov())

2012-10-06 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am receiving an error - see below. Aeventexhumed is the event in which nesting occured, so it is defined by A, B, C. I thought as a factor was ok, tried to change it to as.character but it still gave me the same error. Is there something I should do about this error or just ignore

[R] R Update Failed !!!

2012-10-06 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I just tried updating my R and now I can't even open it and it is prompting me to relaunch then relaunch just reappears. And it will not open R. I am afraid I may have lost my scripts. What should I do? I am running a MacBook OS X Version 10.5.8 1) Restore the entire system to

Re: [R] Creating vegetation distance groups from one column

2012-10-05 Thread Jhope
Thank you! That has worked for me when creating graphs. In plyr I used the script: # Veg Index data.to.analyze$VegIndex - cut(data.to.analyze$Veg, breaks=seq(0, 35, 5), include.lowest=TRUE) VegIndex - data.to.analyze$VegIndex plot(VegIndex) But the vegetation distances on the x-axis in

[R] Anova

2012-10-05 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am trying to do an ANOVA for the following scatterplot and received the following error: library(car) scatterplot(HSuccess ~ Veg, data = data.to.analyze, xlab = Vegetation border (m), ylab = Hatching success (%)) anova(HSuccess ~ Veg,

Re: [R] Creating vegetation distance groups from one column

2012-10-05 Thread Jhope
Hi Thanks to all for posting! In plyr I did try something similar, a combination of what I learned from all who replied. It seemed to work. If anyone knows of any criticism about the grouping structure please let me know. I need this to be accurate. Grouping defined by (0-5m) (6-10m) (11-15m)

Re: [R] Creating vegetation distance groups from one column

2012-10-05 Thread Jhope
Hi, I have tried the script posted but received the following errors. I hope I copied it correctly. I'm sorry but I don't know how to alter the script myself. Please advise, Jean x - 0:30 + runif(124) data.to.analyze$VegIndex - cut(x, breaks = seq(0, 35, 5)) Error in `$-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`,

[R] Creating vegetation distance groups from one column

2012-10-04 Thread Jhope
Hi R listers, I am trying to group distances of nests to the vegetation into classes that are define by (0-5m, 6-10m, 11-15m, 16-20m, 21-25m, 26-30m, 31-35m, 36-40m, 41-45m, 46-50m, 51-55m, 56-60m). Each row is a nest and all the distances to the vegetation is in a column. In plyr, I have

Re: [R] Creating vegetation distance groups from one column

2012-10-04 Thread Jhope
Hi, Allow me to recap my question. In plyr I am trying to group distances of nests to the vegetation into classes that are defined by (0-5m, 6-10m, 11-15m, 16-20m, 21-25m, 26-30m, 31-35m). Each row is a nest and all the distances to the vegetation is in a column. As well I would like to create

[R] Error not found - for file retrieval with head()

2012-10-04 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am in plyr and using the script below and when I try to pull up the .csv file with head() it does not show up. I am not sure where I am going wrong. I have also checked the file box for turtlehatch.csv and it still does not show up when I head(turtlehatch.csv). Am I missing a

[R] Grouping distances

2012-06-11 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am trying to group my HTL data, this is a column of data of Distances to the HTL data = turtlehatch. I would like to create an Index of distances (0-5m, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20... up to 60). And then create a new file with this HTLIndex in a column. So far I have gotten this far:

[R] Grouping distances

2012-06-11 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am trying to group my HTL data, this is a column of data of Distances to the HTL data = turtlehatch. I would like to create an Index of distances (0-5m, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20... up to 60). And then create a new file with this HTLIndex in a column. So far I have gotten this far:

Re: [R] Grouping distances

2012-06-11 Thread Jhope
Thank you Rui, I am trying to create a column in the data file turtlehatch.csv Saludos, Jean -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Grouping-distances-tp4632985p4632989.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[R] Values in scatterplot??

2012-05-26 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am having trouble plotting the values for the R2 line, lowess smooth, smothered conditional spread, outlier identification. I have tried the function text and legend but was unsuccessful. Please see below. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jean library(car)

Re: [R] Q - scatterplot, plot function trellis linear regressions???

2012-05-20 Thread Jhope
HI R-listers, Thanks for the replies I am convinced of Q 1 and 2. Q 3 - I am still unsuccessful. Aeventexhumed has three events A, B and C. I am unable to make 3 windows of scatterplot graphs side by side showing the difference in regression of each event. With and without lattice I have

[R] Q - scatterplot, plot function trellis linear regressions???

2012-05-19 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, Q1) What is the difference between the scatterplot and plot function? Q2) I am able to make a graph with the scatterplot function: scatterplot(DevelopIndex ~ Veg, + data = Turtle, + xlab = Vegetation border (m), + ylab = Embryonic development

Re: [R] Q - scatterplot, plot function trellis linear regressions???

2012-05-19 Thread Jhope
Thank you Simon, Yes this was in the library(car). There were no negative values in the scatterplot graph or negative limits displayed. Q-2 Are you sure the lines from the scatterplot are not this?: solid green line: linear regression solid red line: non-linear regression upper dashed red line:

[R] Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'Rayos' not found???

2012-05-15 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am trying to make a trellis boxplot with the HSuccess (y-axis) in each Rayos (beach sections) (x-axis), for each Aeventexhumed (A, B, C) - nesting event. I am not able to do so and keep receiving: Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'Rayos' not found Please advise,

[R] masked by GlobalEnv ???

2012-05-12 Thread Jhope
Hi R Listers, I am trying to upload a data file and I received this message. It seems that I am still able to make graphs and Aeventexhumed still works in the analysis. Can I ignore this message or do I need to do something about this? Jean require(plyr) Loading required package: plyr

[R] R generated means are different from the boxplot!

2012-04-06 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, 1) I am having trouble understanding why the means I have calculated from Aeventexhumed (A, B, and C) are different from the means showing on the boxplot I generated (see attached). I have added the script as to how my data is organized. 2) Also when I went through the data

[R] NaN - trouble fixing NaN

2012-04-02 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I am using the package plyr. I am just trying to get the hatching success mean of each nesting event and have typed in the following and received the below results: tapply(HSuccess, Aeventexhumed, mean) AB C 0.2156265 0.1288559

[R] Q - scatterplots

2012-02-10 Thread Jhope
I was able to make a scatterplot but ... 1) what does the 86 mean? The 86 shows up on the graph as well. scatterplot (Shells/TotalEggs ~ Sector, data = data.to.analyze) [1] 86 2) Also how do you change the Y axis title? I don't want it to read Shells/TotalEggs, instead I would like it to read

[R] GLM Quasibinomial - 48 models

2012-02-07 Thread Jhope
I've originally made 48 GLM binomial models and compare the AIC values. But dispersion was very large: Example: Residual deviance: 8811.6 on 118 degrees of freedom I was suggested to do a quasibinomial afterwards but found that it did not help the dispersion factor of models and received a

[R] binomial vs quasibinomial

2012-02-07 Thread Jhope
After looking at 48 glm binomial models I decided to try the quasibinomial with the top model 25 (lowest AIC). To try to account for overdispersion (residual deviance 2679.7/68 d.f.) After doing so the dispersion factor is the same for the quasibinomial and less sectors of the beach were

Re: [R] How do I compare 47 GLM models with 1 to 5 interactions and unique combinations?

2012-01-26 Thread Jhope
Thank you everyone for your dedication to improving 'R' - its function to statistical analysis and comments. I have now 48 models (unique combinations of 1 to 6 variables) and have put them into a list and gained the results for all models. Below is a sample of my script results: m$model48 -

[R] How do I compare a multiple staged response with multivariables to a Development Index?

2012-01-26 Thread Jhope
Hi R- listeners, I should add that I would like also to compare my field data to an index model. The index was created by using the following script: devel.index - function(values, weights=c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)) { foo - values*weights return(apply(foo, 1, sum) / apply(values, 1, sum)) }

Re: [R] How do I compare 47 GLM models with 1 to 5 interactions and unique combinations?

2012-01-26 Thread Jhope
I ask the question about when to stop adding another variable even though it lowers the AIC because each time I add a variable the AIC is lower. How do I know when the model is a good fit? When to stop adding variables, keeping the model simple? Thanks, J -- View this message in context:

[R] How do I compare 47 GLM models with 1 to 5 interactions and unique combinations?

2012-01-25 Thread Jhope
Hi R-listers, I have developed 47 GLM models with different combinations of interactions from 1 variable to 5 variables. I have manually made each model separately and put them into individual tables (organized by the number of variables) showing the AIC score. I want to compare all of these

[R] 3 variables - GLM -- Warning Message ?

2012-01-24 Thread Jhope
Hi , I am trying to do a 3 variable interaction and received this warning message. Can someone please interpret? Model31.glm - glm(cbind(Shells, TotalEggs-Shells) ~ Aeventexhumed:HTL:Sector, data=data.to.analyze, family = binomial) Warning message: glm.fit: fitted probabilities numerically 0 or

[R] add1 GLM - Warning message, what does it mean?

2012-01-19 Thread Jhope
Hi All, I am wondering if anyone can tell me what the warning message below the model means? J add1(DTA.glm,~ Aeventexhumed + Veg + Berm + HTL + Estuary + Rayos) Single term additions Model: cbind(MaxHatch, TotalEggs - MaxHatch) ~ Aeventexhumed + Veg + Berm + HTL Df Deviance

Re: [R] add1 GLM - Warning message, what does it mean?

2012-01-19 Thread Jhope
Thank you Prof Ripley, I understand and changed Rayos into a factor. Can someone please tell me how to change the: Model: cbind(MaxHatch, TotalEggs - MaxHatch) ~ Aeventexhumed + Veg + Berm + HTL Into a model that has?: Model: cbind(MaxHatch, TotalEggs - MaxHatch) ~ 1 Best, J --

[R] GLM - fixed responses?

2012-01-19 Thread Jhope
Hi everyone, I just did a GLM binomial regression. I am wondering how do I know when my responses are fixed? I have found that an interaction between two factors is the most significant predictor amongst other factors by comparing the AIC and add1 with each factor. Does this mean that the

[R] Displaying GLM model fitting - best method

2012-01-19 Thread Jhope
Hi everyone, Does anyone have any suggestions on how to display GLM model fitting in a report? I'm working with binomial biological data. I would like to make sure biologists readers can interpret the response of different environments. If possible an example would be great! Thanks, J --

[R] Error in variable ' _' converted to a factor AND *tmp*

2012-01-18 Thread Jhope
I am wondering if anyone can tell me what the error I'm receiving means below. I thought it said that Aeventexhumed should be converted to a factor, so I tried to do so and received the following error. Please advise. J -

Re: [R] Error in variable ' _' converted to a factor AND *tmp*

2012-01-18 Thread Jhope
Thank you, I am new to R, and this forum. Aevent does not exist. I will also try to post a better subject next time. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Error-in-variable-converted-to-a-factor-AND-tmp-tp4305951p4308803.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

Re: [R] R help

2012-01-18 Thread Jhope
I am a beginner too to R and this forum! I signed onto this forum yesterday and received help overnight! I have also learn a bit by reading the posts. I took someone's suggestion and made a rule for my Inbox to filter the R emails into this folder and the listserve is now working very well for me.

[R] Interpreting script - write.csv

2012-01-18 Thread Jhope
Hi All, I am a beginner to R and a prof helped me with some script. I am having trouble understanding the below line. Is it finding the file turtlehatch.csv? I do not have my working directory set to this file. If so I tried (file.choose) and it did not work. R did nothing in response, no error