[R] Clinical Trial data sets in public domain?

2018-01-13 Thread Robert Wilkins
vents" and "Patient Info" are two datasets with a many-to-one relationship, the "Patient Info" dataset has precisely one row for each patient who received a dose of study drug.] Robert Wilkins [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _

Re: [R] Data cleaning & Data preparation, what do R users want?

2017-12-11 Thread Robert Wilkins
;> > has been recorded as a metric value". It's not an outlier. >> > >> > The more R gravitates toward "black box" functions, the more some >> > users are encouraged to let them do the work.You pays your money and >> > you takes your chances. >

Re: [R] Data cleaning & Data preparation, what do R users want?

2017-11-29 Thread Robert Wilkins
having to download a data file, save it somewhere, and then > open R and read it in. I'd like to be able to do it all in R. Would make > the generation of recurring reports easier. > > --Chris Ryan > > Robert Wilkins wrote: > > R has a very wide audience, clinical research,

[R] Data cleaning & Data preparation, what do R users want?

2017-11-29 Thread Robert Wilkins
ly before you? [BTW, I posed the same question last week to the r-devel list, and was advised that r-help might be a more suitable audience by one of the moderators.] Robert Wilkins [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org

[R] Best way to study internals of R ( mix of C, C++, Fortran, and R itself)?

2017-11-21 Thread Robert Wilkins
How difficult is it to get a good feel for the internals of R, if you want to learn the general code base, but also the CPU intensive stuff ( much of it in C or Fortran?) and the ways in which the general code and the CPU intensive stuff is connected together? R has a very large audience, but my

[R] How would you program an Adverse Events statistical table using R code?

2012-02-24 Thread Robert Wilkins
on the same page. Robert Wilkins __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

[R] Boston/Cambridge -- Statistical Programming Language Technology Breakthroughs

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Wilkins
If you are a statistician or researcher working in Boston/Cambridge, and you have a strong interest in breakthroughs in statistical programming language technology, contact me. Robert __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

[R] Statistical Tables Really Fast

2011-04-14 Thread Robert Wilkins
a new language that can produce complex statistical tables far faster, with much less code and effort, than any previous statistical programming language. a version that outsources ( gives work to do ) to vilno data transformation and R is already in beta mode, a version that outsources to

[R] how to loop thru a matrix or data frame , and append calculations to a new data frame?

2009-10-30 Thread Robert Wilkins
How do you do a double loop through a matrix or data frame , and within each iteration , do a calculation and append it to a new, second data frame? (So, if your original matrix or data frame is 4 x 5 , then 20 calculations are done, and the new data frame, which had 0 rows to start with, now has

[R] syntax for estimable(gmodels package) and glht(multcomp package)

2009-10-26 Thread Robert Wilkins
Hello, I have a question as to how the syntax for glht(package multcomp) and estimable (gmodels) works, since I'm not getting everything from the documents I've googled so far, especially with models with 2nd order terms. A modestly complex model: 2-way anova with one continuous covariate, no

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu, can ignore warning messages?

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Wilkins
It does, thank you. I was able to understand enough of it to do the install successfully . Still trying to understand the later paragraphs such as install.package() and the r-cran-foo build dependencies. (the site you pointed me to is the same site i did a printout of yesterday to try to do an

[R] Installing R on Ubuntu ( 8.10 ) ?

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Wilkins
installing on Ubuntu, how to do it and have people found it to be glitchy? which is easier , binary install or from source ? With the source install, are you less likely to have a dependencies issue ? ( Ubuntu does the GCC install seamlessly, but has no mention of R )

[R] easy way to find all extractor functions and the datatypes of what they return

2009-10-10 Thread Robert Wilkins
Am I asking for too much: for any object that a stat proc returns ( y - lm( y~x) , etc ) ) , is there a super convenient function like give_all_extractors( y ) that lists all extractor functions , the datatype returned , and a text descriptor field (pairwisepval lsmean etc) That would just be so

[R] Installing R on Suse 11.1 , cannot figure it out

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Wilkins
Can't figure out how the install works, it is certainly not automatic. Also , the Install option on the R web site for Suse 11.1 does not work. And the install software native to Suse, cannot figure out. Does Suse have more problems installing software than Fedora or Ubuntu? Or is this a hassle

[R] To hell with OpenSuse, ditch it and go to Ubuntu

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Wilkins
this blog entry http://www.viggie.com/blog/software/opensuse-ubuntu-usage-experience , if credible , would seem to suggest that there is no good reason to choose Suse. I really don't have time for such nonsense, maybe I'll just reinstall as Ubuntu. Also, noticed that GCC was not installed when

Re: [R] Installing R on Suse 11.1 , cannot figure it out

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Wilkins
=70perpage=1pagenum=5 When you install from source ( which I can't , because I can't figure out how to install GCC) , does the source install have binary dependencies? On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Cedrick W. Johnson cedr...@cedrickjohnson.com wrote: see below: Robert Wilkins wrote: Can't figure

[R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-05 Thread Robert Wilkins
Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to another, or is it pretty much the same? robert __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

[R] Gentleman and Ihaka's integrity in question

2009-01-19 Thread Robert Wilkins
It does look like Gentleman and Ihaka not only lied to the New York Times, but also to the New Zealand Herald and who knows who else. This is disgusting. The R programming language is the S programming language, and Gentleman and Ihaka are not the ones who designed it.

[R] The ATT researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-08 Thread Robert Wilkins
Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent ATT researchers from an earlier generation? It would be the appropriate thing to do.

[R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-08 Thread Robert Wilkins
Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent ATT researchers from an earlier generation? It would be the appropriate thing to do.

[R] survey statistics, rate/proportions with standard errors

2009-01-08 Thread Robert Wilkins
what does R have to compare with , say , proc surveymeans, estimate survey means/proportions with standard errors, using Taylor methods? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

[R] What does R have for age-adjusted survey analysis?

2009-01-08 Thread Robert Wilkins
A procedure that , after adjusting for sampling weights, also explicitly does an age adjustment to conform with an age distribution of an older census? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

[R] Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times

2009-01-07 Thread Robert Wilkins
Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times. This is typical of the New York Times. Because they get to coast on the prestige and reputation of their brand , they have a history of just this sort of journalistic sloppiness. Whether it's the author or the editor at fault doesn't really

[R] Estimating the standard error when you have sampling weights.

2008-11-24 Thread Robert Wilkins
Hi, Where can I find information ( freely available on the Internet , and also books or other sources ) on how having sampling weights changes the calculation of the standard error (of means and proportions)? How good is R for this type of procedure? And SAS? thanks Robert