Re: [R] XML package example code?

2009-11-24 Thread cls59
Peng Yu wrote: I'm interested in parsing an html page. I should use XML, right? Could you somebody show me some example code? Is there a tutorial for this package? Did you try looking through the help pages for the XML package or browsing the Omegahat website? Look at: library(XML)

Re: [R] SVM Param Tuning with using SNOW package

2009-11-17 Thread cls59
raluca wrote: Hello, Is the first time I am using SNOW package and I am trying to tune the cost parameter for a linear SVM, where the cost (variable cost1) takes 10 values between 0.5 and 30. I have a large dataset and a pc which is not very powerful, so I need to tune the parameters

Re: [R] Error on reading an excel file

2009-11-16 Thread cls59
anna_l wrote: Hello everybody, here is the code I use to read an excel file containing two rows, one of date, the other of prices: library(RODBC) z - odbcConnectExcel(SPX_HistoricalData.xls) datas - sqlFetch(z,Sheet1) close(z) It works pretty well but the only thing is

Re: [R] Error on reading an excel file

2009-11-16 Thread cls59
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: You could try one of the other methods of reading Excel files and see if they are affected: I would guess that since Excel includes the blank rows when exporting to CSV, then blank cells are being stored by Excel in the data files-- therefore any method of

Re: [R] Sum over indexed value

2009-11-16 Thread cls59
Gunadi wrote: I am sure this is easy but I am not finding a function to do this. I have two columns in a matrix. The first column contains multiple entries of numbers from 1 to 100 (i.e. 10 ones, 8 twos etc.). The second column contains unique numbers. I want to sum the numbers in

Re: [R] pairs

2009-11-16 Thread cls59
David Winsemius wrote: ?order cindy Guo wrote: Do you mean if the numbers in each row are ordered? They are not, but if it's needed, we can order them. The matrix only has 5000 rows. No, he's suggesting you check out the order() function by calling it's help page: ?order order()

Re: [R] extracting the last row of each group in a data frame

2009-11-16 Thread cls59
jeffc wrote: Hi, I would like to extract the last row of each group in a data frame. The data frame is as follows Name Value A 1 A 2 A 3 B 4 B 8 C 2 D 3 I would like to get a data frame as Name Value A 3 B 8 C 2 D 3 Thank you for your suggestions in advance Jeff

Re: [R] Writing a data frame in an excel file

2009-11-16 Thread cls59
anna_l wrote: Hello, I am having trouble by using the write.table function to write a data frame of 4 columns and 7530 rows. I don´t know if I should just use a sep=\n and change the .xls file into a .csv file. Thanks in advance Base R cannot write .xls files by it's self. You should

Re: [R] Error on reading an excel file

2009-11-16 Thread cls59
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: That doesn't necessarily follow since the various methods don't use Excel itself to create the csv file. I was trying to point out cases where I have seen this behavior and R wasn't involved. Now that I think about it, I have observed to blank cells in a Google

Re: [R] pairs

2009-11-15 Thread cls59
cindy Guo wrote: Hi, All, I have an n by m matrix with each entry between 1 and 15000. I want to know the frequency of each pair in 1:15000 that occur together in rows. So for example, if the matrix is 2 5 1 6 1 7 8 2 3 7 6 2 9 8 5 7 Pair (2,6) (un-ordered) occurs together in rows

Re: [R] Best advice for connect R and Octave

2009-11-14 Thread cls59
Jason Rupert wrote: I see at one time there was a package called ROctave. I tried to install that package: install.packages(ROctave) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning message: In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) : package

Re: [R] Transforming a dataframe into a response/predictor matrix

2009-11-12 Thread cls59
Ki L. Matlock wrote: I currently have a data frame whose rows correspond to each student and whose columns are different variables for the student, as shown below: Lastname Firstname CATALOG_NBR Email StudentID EMPLID Start 1 alastname afirstname1213

Re: [R] creating custom package and functions

2009-11-10 Thread cls59
dvkirankumar wrote: Hi all, I am new to R-project I have to create custom package and some required functions in that package can any one help me how to create a custompackage and how to write my function in to that package These things I have to use in many places as per requirements

Re: [R] How to load a specific variable from an RData file?

2009-11-05 Thread cls59
Peng Yu wrote: Thank you. When the RData file is huge, it will take a long time to load it even though I may only need a small variable. Could somebody add an option to 'load()' to load only a few given variables? Check out the filehash package. It has an option that allows you to

Re: [R] How to load a specific variable from an RData file?

2009-11-05 Thread cls59
Peng Yu wrote: How to remove the environment 'e1' after I get 'nfree'? Did you try rm( e1 ) ? - Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] Help with RGDAL

2009-11-04 Thread cls59
Michael D. wrote: Hi Charlie! Sorry to jump in here so late but I just gave this a try. I usually install rgdal from CRAN on windows or download the binary from http://www.kyngchaos.com for Mac. I wanted to try your method from building from source since the directions were so clear

Re: [R] unexpected results in comparison (x == y)

2009-11-04 Thread cls59
Peter Tillmann wrote: Dear readers of the list, I have a problem a comparison of two data from a vector. The comparison yields FALSE but should be TRUE. I have checked for mode(), length() and attributes(). See the following code (R2.10.0): *SNIP* ZZ[4] [1] 0.02 ZZ[5] [1] 0.02

Re: [R] R crashes

2009-10-30 Thread cls59
premmad wrote: Windows XP 32 bit machine. allocated 2gb as memory for R 2.9.2 data will be 20mb and was running calculations on the data . but the r crashes with out any warning or so. Ahh, well 20 MB is not huge data for R, so there should be no problem with processing it. The

Re: [R] Help with RGDAL

2009-10-30 Thread cls59
Pablo Alvarez-2 wrote: Hello, We (two mac users) have been attempting to install rgdal from http://www.kyngchaos.com/software:frameworks;, given that it is not available as a binary on the CRAN (binaries) of the Package Installer. The GDAL library contains an impressive collection

Re: [R] Re ading and Creating Shape Files

2009-10-29 Thread cls59
PDXRugger wrote: Hello R Community, I have imported a dataset which contain X Y coordinates and would like to recreate a shape file after some data analysis. What i have done is to import some taxlot data and join them based on some criteria. I want to check to see how well the

Re: [R] R crashes

2009-10-29 Thread cls59
premmad wrote: My R crashes frequently when run with huge data. I'm afraid this is nowhere near enough information for anyone on this list to provide any sort of meaningful insight. At the very least we need to know: * What operating system are you using? * Specifically, for large

Re: [R] R 64 and R: using 64-bit versions of packages in R (32)

2009-10-23 Thread cls59
Richard Liu wrote: I'm running R 2.9.2 build 5464 on OS X 10.5.8. Having encountered memory allocation problems, I ran the problematic code in R64, the 64- bit version of the same build. When I attempt to load openNLP I receive the error message that the 32-bit version that I had

Re: [R] how to create a new data type

2009-10-22 Thread cls59
Markus Weisner-2 wrote: I am working on a new package to do fire department analysis. I am working with emergency dispatch data from different agencies that all contain the same information but have slightly different formats. Typically the variable names and date-time formats are

Re: [R] Diffusion of particles inside a sphere

2009-10-22 Thread cls59
carferper wrote: Hello veryone, I am interested in the diffusion of particles inside a sphere, and its release through a small pore on the sphere surface. Unfortunately, I have not found the way to do this in R. Could you help me? Thank very much in advance for your help I have

Re: [R] .Call() function

2009-10-14 Thread cls59
sdlywjl666 wrote: Dear all, What is the usage of the .Call()? What is the meaning of the follows:

Re: [R] S4 tutorial

2009-10-13 Thread cls59
Peng Yu wrote: I'm looking for some tutorial on S4. I only find the following one, which is not in English. Can somebody let me know if there is any introductory material? I'm very familiar with OO and C++. If there is some material that suits my background, it will be great.

Re: [R] splitting dataframe, assign to new dataframe, add new rows to new dataframe

2009-10-12 Thread cls59
wk yeo wrote: Hi, all, My objective is to split a dataframe named cmbine according to the value of classes. After the split, I will take the first instance from each class and bin them into a new dataframe, df1. In the 2nd iteration, I will take the 2nd available instance and bin

Re: [R] gee: suppress printout

2009-10-12 Thread cls59
joshua wells wrote: Unfortunately, i run thousands of these and the output gets extremely lengthy. Is there any way to suppress this printout in R? Thank you, Josh One function that comes to mind is sink() which allows you to redirect

Re: [R] Function Help

2009-10-11 Thread cls59
jimdare wrote: Hi there, I have created the function below: pirate-function(x){ a-x-1; b-a/5; c-a-b; d-c-1; e-d/5; f-d-e; g-f-1; h-g/5; i-g-h; j-i-1; k-j/5; l-j-k; m-l-1; n-m/5; o-m-n; final-o/5; final } I want to run this function until the output ('final') is an exact

Re: [R] Second y-axis --- alternative to par(new=

2009-10-07 Thread cls59
Rainer M Krug-6 wrote: Thanks - but if I want to have the histogram with counts (freq=TRUE), then I have exactly the situation I was talking about - sorry for not being clear: x - rnorm(200) hist(x, col = blue, freq = TRUE) lines(density(x), col = red, lwd = 2) i.e. left y-axis

Re: [R] Second y-axis --- alternative to par(new=

2009-10-07 Thread cls59
cls59 wrote: # recovering par('xaxp') uses the original x limits. plot.window( xlim = range( par('xaxp')[1:2] ), ylim = range( density(x)$y )) Actually, I misspoke. I believe the following is the voodoo you want for exactly recovering the original xlimit: plot.window( xlim

Re: [R] Unable to load 'doBy' package

2009-10-06 Thread cls59
Lauren Szathmary wrote: Hi all, I am trying to load the doBy package, and I am getting the following error: library(doBy) Error in loadNamespace(i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths())) : there is no package called 'Hmisc' Error: package/namespace load failed for 'doBy' This error

Re: [R] Modify base R functions in Rprofile.site

2009-10-04 Thread cls59
Yihui Xie wrote: Hi everyone, I want to modify two base R functions 'parse' and 'deparse' immediately after R has started, so I added some code in the file 'Rprofile.site' under the 'etc' directory. Here is a simple example: parse=function(...){ base::parse(...) } I'll get

Re: [R] Modify base R functions in Rprofile.site

2009-10-04 Thread cls59
Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: Why not just modify their source, and rebuild R? Duncan Murdoch In my case, the IT guys don't always provide the necessary tools and/or permissions to do this. Which is why we are fortunate that R is so flexible as to allow modification of core routines in

Re: [R] Modify base R functions in Rprofile.site

2009-10-04 Thread cls59
Yihui Xie wrote: Thanks a lot, Charlie. What a coincidence -- I'm also working on Sweave functions. parse() and deparse() can make the code more tidy (they are used in source() and RweaveLatexRuncode()), RweaveLatex function () { list(setup = RweaveLatexSetup, runcode =

Re: [R] Rounding error in seq(...)

2009-09-30 Thread cls59
Martin Batholdy wrote: hum, can you explain that a little more detailed? Perhaps I miss the background knowledge - but it seems just absurd to me. 0.1+0.1+0.1 is 0.3 - there is no rounding involved, is there? Unfortunately this comes as an utter shock to many people who never

Re: [R] matrix exponential

2009-09-30 Thread cls59
Kon Knafelman wrote: Hi Guys, Im trying to find the exponential of a matrix. Can someone please help me do this? Thanks a lot There was actually a very recent discussion of this, and related operations. See:

Re: [R] re ading and analyzing a word document

2009-09-30 Thread cls59
PDXRugger wrote: Howdy Y'all, So i am looking to read a word document in the following formats(.doc) or any type of accessible word processor software (e.g. text .txt, notepad, etc). Had the ability to search certain words, for instance banana, peacock,Weapons Mass Destruction. Then

Re: [R] re ading and analyzing a word document

2009-09-30 Thread cls59
PDXRugger wrote: Considering your instructions: #Define words to find to.find - c( 'the', 'is', 'are' ,'dr') #Read in the file... file.text - readLines( 'data/letter.txt' ) #Count number of occurnces of deined word in text line.matches - unlist( lapply( to.find, grep, x =

Re: [R] Teach me how to transpose in R

2009-09-27 Thread cls59
Hyo Lee wrote: Teach me how to deal with this problem. Thank you very much. -Hyo A good thing to try if you're stuck finding the right function in R is searching with ??. For example, if you type: ??transpose The base routine t(), which performs a matrix transpose, is one of

Re: [R] Select.spatial on spplots

2009-09-27 Thread cls59
Julius Tesoro wrote: Hi everyone. I posted this on R-sig-geo but got no response. Can select.spatial() be used in an existing spplot? I have tried selecting points (eq) from a plot generated from sp. However, when I invoke select.spatial(eq). It generates only the points without the

Re: [R] Downloading data from from internet

2009-09-26 Thread cls59
Duncan Temple Lang wrote: However, you can use the source form of the package as a Windows user; you just have to install it. That involves finding out how to do this (either with Uwe's Windows package building service or by installing the tools that Brian Ripley and Duncan Murdoch

Re: [R] evaluate a set of symbols within an IF statement

2009-09-25 Thread cls59
zubin-2 wrote: how do i evaluate this whole list to a single boolean True or False? If any of these are true the whole statement is True, else False. this only seems to work for the first ticker, the rest don't perform the operations within the loop. Try %in% tname %in%

Re: [R] Downloading data from from internet

2009-09-24 Thread cls59
Bogaso wrote: Hi all, I want to download data from those two different sources, directly into R : http://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/usa-cpi.php http://eaindustry.nic.in/asp2/list_d.asp First one is CPI of US and 2nd one is WPI of India. Can anyone please give any

Re: [R] save txt file

2009-09-23 Thread cls59
Eiger wrote: Hi, I have 2 questions: Question 1: I define 2 variables: a, b: a-rbinom(4,10,0.8) output: [1] 9 7 8 8 b-rbinom(2,6,0.7) output: [1] 4 5 if I write: write.table(a, file = filename, etc. etc. ) it save only the values of variable a. There is a way

Re: [R] Creating loops with strings

2009-09-23 Thread cls59
Rakknar wrote: Hello. I'm trying to run a series of commands in two different datasets. For make it efficient I want to make a loop for it. Until now the only command for loops i found it's the for() command it's only for series of numbers and not a series of strings, witch it's what i'm

Re: [R] Creating loops with strings

2009-09-23 Thread cls59
cls59 wrote: data.file - paste( set.name, sep='' ) assign( set.name, read.dta( file.name ), envir = .GlobalEnv ) Opps, those lines should have been: data.file - paste( set.name, '.dta', sep='' ) assign( set.name, read.dta( data.file ), envir = .GlobalEnv ) Sorry

Re: [R] Statistical analysis

2009-09-23 Thread cls59
Chris Li wrote: Hi all, I have got two datasets, one of them is rainfall data and the other one is groundwater level data. I would like to see whether there is a correlation between these two datasets and if there is, to what extent they are correlated. My stats background is

Re: [R] help with $ and % symbols in R

2009-09-18 Thread cls59
Edward Chen-3 wrote: Could someone explain to me briefly and point me to where I can find help on what the symbols $ and % mean in R? I have seen them in many others' codes, but I am still very unsure as to what they mean and what they do. Thank you very much! Help pages for

Re: [R] latex code in R - convert to pdf

2009-09-17 Thread cls59
Martin Batholdy wrote: is it possible to convert latex code to pdf in R (like a latex-program would do it)? Is there a package that comes with this capabilities? Unfortunately you're out of luck if you're seeking a direct path from LaTeX code generated in R to pdf without passing

Re: [R] dyn.load search path?

2009-09-17 Thread cls59
Steve Jaffe wrote: Sorry if this is somewhere in the fine manuals but I've been unable to locate it. Does dyn.load use a search path or does it just look in the current directory for non-fully-qualified filenames? If there is a search path, what is it? Thanks for your help I

Re: [R] How can I use R:sort function in C code?

2009-09-15 Thread cls59
Guozhu.Wen wrote: Hi, I wrote a C extension for R. Within the C code I wanted to invoke the R's sort function, with the argument index.return = TRUE. I found it is a difficult problem, how can I do that? I have implemented the decreasing sorting by the code PROTECT(R_fcall =

Re: [R] installation problem

2009-09-14 Thread cls59
wesley mathew wrote: Hello All I have some problem for installing XML_2.6-0.tar . I am working in widows and R version is R-2.9.1 Unfortunately, I think there are some problems with CRAN being able to build the XML package for Windows, at least the page:

Re: [R] Which apply function to use?

2009-09-14 Thread cls59
Masca, N. wrote: Dear All, I have a problem which *should* be pretty straightforward to resolve - but I can't work out how! I have a list of 3 coefficient estimates for 4 different datasets: Coefs-list(c(1,0.6,0.5),c(0.98,0.65,0.4),c(1.05,0.55,0.45),c(0.99,0.50,0.47)) All I want

Re: [R] Location of Packages?

2009-09-14 Thread cls59
iaw4 wrote: PS: do I need to install the car packages under the 64-bit version, or will it be seen by the 64 bit version if I do a 32-bit install? Or do I need to do a double install? for safety, I did it under the command line version, which I presume is still 32-bit, and the 64

Re: [R] Location of Packages?

2009-09-14 Thread cls59
iaw4 wrote: Sorry, one more: on OSX, I deleted my old 2.9.2 R.app, and installed the 64 bit version of 2.9.0. I then did an install.packages(car) under my new 2.9.0. It seems to have worked, but alas, I still get an error that package 'car' was built under R version 2.9.2 . Where

Re: [R] loading a package .Rda file at package load time

2009-09-14 Thread cls59
Hi, I have seen the answer to this sometime before but I just can't find it again - pointers appreciated. I have a package that contains some data.frames saved as .Rda files in the data/ directory. When the package is loaded I would like to have them be available in the workspace (without the

Re: [R] Brand new To R

2009-09-13 Thread cls59
czarjosh wrote: I am trying to learn R right now. I came from minitab and wanted to learn something a bit more robust. I am trying to figure out some simple probability to measures but I do not know the commands. I am using OSX. Are there resources for figuring out simple events?

Re: [R] making package interface with FORTRAN under windows

2009-09-13 Thread cls59
Carrie Li wrote: Dear r-help group, I am creating a package that has some FORTRAN code under windows. I have read through Writing R Extension but still not so clear about the steps. Before R CMD build, how can I create a dynamic library and later in my R function using dyn.load

Re: [R] Question about Factors

2009-09-13 Thread cls59
Chris Li wrote: Hi all, I am new to R and I have got a question in regards to factors. Say I have a simple dataset like the following: Name Time Value a 1:00 1.25 a 2:00 1.26 b 1:00 1.29 b 2:00 1.28 c 1:00 1.21

Re: [R] fitting nonlinear model

2009-09-09 Thread cls59
Bill Hyman wrote: My data look like: Np year 962 915 897 85 10 And which equation are you trying to fit to this data? -Charlie - Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] fitting nonlinear model

2009-09-09 Thread cls59
Bill Hyman wrote: Hi Milton, Thanks for your help. Actually, I would like to fit a non-linear fashion. For some data like below, 'lm' may not work very well. Do you have idea? Thanks again! That's why information equation you are trying to fit is very important. For example, the

Re: [R] The code behind the function

2009-09-09 Thread cls59
Chunhao Tu wrote: Hi R users, I have a question. How can I see the code behind the function. For example, boxplot function (x, ...) UseMethod(boxplot) environment: namespace:graphics I really would like to see how people code this. Could someone please show me how to see the

Re: [R] Writing R Scripts and passing command line arguments

2009-09-07 Thread cls59
Abhishek Pratap wrote: 1. What's the best way to pass command line arguments to R scripts ? As Gabor mentioned, the commandArgs function and the getopt package provide some excellent starting points for this. Abhishek Pratap wrote: 2. How to execute R scripts from command line

Re: [R] Why tempdir() always give me the same results in the same session?

2009-09-06 Thread cls59
Peng Yu wrote: tempdir() always gives me the same result. Should it give a different result each time I call it? The help page for tempdir() contains the following explanation of the return value: ?tempdir ... For tempdir, the path of the per-session temporary directory. I would

Re: [R] R to MATLAB translation

2009-08-10 Thread cls59
apjaworski wrote: Hi, Is there any package out there that might help me with translating R code into MATLAB? Using RSiteSearch I found a bunch of MATLAB stuff but it all seems to go in the opposite direction, i.e., emulating MATLAB functions in R. Thanks in advance, Andy

Re: [R] create dataset permanently in package (i.e. default or our own package)

2009-07-27 Thread cls59
Albert EINstEIN wrote: Hi, actually while opening R console and R commander we see some packages like car and datasets. in this packages we have default datasets are available. example: women and prestige like that. now i created a sales dataset importing from excel, xml or text file. now

Re: [R] storing output in html or pdf table format.

2009-07-27 Thread cls59
Albert EINstEIN wrote: Hi every one, Thanks for every one who are all supporting to us. we want some clarification on output in R. I have generated summary statistics output for dataset (E.g. sales) in output window. Now i want to store that output in a html or pdf in a table format. if

Re: [R] moving text labels in plot

2009-07-26 Thread cls59
Luis Iván Ortiz Valencia wrote: Hi R users I need to specify some parameter input in plot code to move Y text label to left. plot(temp, develo_rate, xlab = expression(paste(Temperature (C^o,))), ylab = expression(paste(Development rate (d^-1,))),las=1,pch=19,

Re: [R] how to avoid a for looping break after an error message

2009-07-25 Thread cls59
Victor Landeiro wrote: Hi all, I wrote a piece of code that generates simulated variables. after variable generation I use them in several analyzes. However, when I use a for to repeat the procedure 1000 times I get an erro message in one of the for steps, precisely at this time:

Re: [R] Include files?

2009-07-24 Thread cls59
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I have 15 or 20 functions I've written to convert the sort of data I'm working with. They are currently in their own R file which I load by hand in Rgui before loading and running my main programs. Is there any way to have this file included in my R program

Re: [R] A Flash Mob for R Content on Stack Overflow: Tonite @ 7-9pm PST

2009-07-22 Thread cls59
Michael E. Driscoll wrote: R Users - Tomorrow night, we are leading a group of R programmers to a site called Stack Overflow, Stackoverflow is a collaborative question and answer site for programmers, currently lacks much R content. to populate some of the most oft-asked and

Re: [R] space in column name

2009-07-19 Thread cls59
Farrel Buchinsky-3 wrote: I read a table from Microsoft Access using RODBC. Some of the variables had a name with a space in it. R has no problem with it but I do. I cannot find out how to specify the space names(alltime) [1] IDLVL7 Ref Pv No Ref Pv Name

Re: [R] space in column name

2009-07-19 Thread cls59
cls59 wrote: The following might work: alltime[grep(MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE,alltime[[ CPT Desc ]] ] -Charlie ACK! Terribly sorry about the double post- but I forgot to close the quote. It should be: alltime[grep(MIDDLE EAR EXPLORE,alltime[[ CPT Desc ]] ] Maybe I should wait until AFTER

Re: [R] space in column name

2009-07-19 Thread cls59
Farrel Buchinsky-3 wrote: I sifted some more and read about a workaround for the problem. I could simply rename the columns so that there were no more spaces names(alltime) -gsub( ,., names(alltime)) That would certainly be a solution. The method I was trying to demonstrate is that in

Re: [R] how to run a R program with input arguments

2009-07-13 Thread cls59
edisonying wrote: I am a beginner in R and know only a little about it yet. I have a script written in R language, named as a.txt for example. I am using a Linux machine, at present I only know that I can type R in the terminal and then copy-paste the content in a.txt to the R's interface

Re: [R] Tex fonts in R plots

2009-07-09 Thread cls59
KARAVASILIS GEORGE wrote: Hello, R users. I would like to display the font of Math Mode of MikTex 2.3, WinEdt 5.4 in R plots, e.g. in xlab, ylab or legend. How can I do that? Thank you in advance. A colleague and I have developed a package called pgfSweave that turns R plots created

Re: [R] executing an error prone function without stopping a script

2009-07-09 Thread cls59
TU wrote: Dear R Users, I've used this a long time ago but have forgotten. Trawling aroung the various sources somehow does not lead me to it. How can I execute an error prone function without stopping a script if it goes wrong ? Thanks in advance, Tolga See ?try Basically,

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-03 Thread cls59
Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: The Windows GUI was written before the Mac GUI, and was written using a fairly strange toolkit, which are two reasons the Mac looks prettier. But the Windows GUI has a few advantages over the Mac: (snip) You can copy from the console, prompts and all, and

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-03 Thread cls59
Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: cls59 wrote: I recently noticed that the Mac GUI contains a way to do block selection- so you can select just the code you want to copy and exclude the prompts. Just hold down the option key and the text cursor will turn into a crosshair which allows you

Re: [R] parallel R?

2009-06-26 Thread cls59
losemind wrote: Moreover, at my PC level, I have a 4-core PC, is there anything we could do in R to speed up my CV programs? I have seen one very nice paper that compared parallelization options for R: http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8991/ losemind wrote: we have to rewrite

Re: [R] Partitioning matrix

2009-06-23 Thread cls59
Bogaso wrote: Let say, I have following matrix : dat - matrix(rnorm(40), 2, 20) Now I want to partition this like this : dat1 - dat[1,] dat2 - dat[2,] But point is that, dat1 and dat2 become vector object. How can I force them to be matrix object with dimension (1x20) ? To

Re: [R] Calling Fortran from C++

2009-06-01 Thread cls59
Giura Gauss wrote: Hi, can anybody point me to a package with C++ code that call Fortran subroutines? I am trying to do the same thing but we scarce success. Error in dyn.load(utils.so) : unable to load shared library 'utils.so': dlopen(utils.so, 6): Symbol not found: _robcovf

Re: [R] What's a Data Frame?

2009-05-17 Thread cls59
prixel wrote: im completely confused. could someone please help. i have a series of data (0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0) and i need to create a data frame with it. but what is a data frame? thankyou :) A data frame is similar to a matrix- however each column may be of a different data type

Re: [R] About the efficiency of R optimization function

2009-05-15 Thread cls59
popo UBC wrote: Hi Charlie, Thank you so much for suggestions!! Actually, I used the optimization toolbox in MABLAB before and I even wrote some numerical optimization programs by myself. As far as I know, some commercial optimization softwares had already replaced L-BFGS-B by more

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-15 Thread cls59
baptiste auguie-2 wrote: Just a thought: There was recently a discussion here on the pgfSweave [1] driver --- it should be possible to use it in conjunction with XeTeX [2] to process the pgf output. Presumably there will be issues of alignment and spacing but at least arbitrary

Re: [R] Centering R output in Sweave/LaTeX

2009-05-14 Thread cls59
Jean-Louis Abitbol-2 wrote: Good Day to All, When sweaving the following: \begin{table} \centering echo=FALSE= ftable(ifmtm$type, ifmtm$gender, ifmtm$marche , ifmtm$nfic, dnn=c(Type,Gender,Ambulant,Visit)) @ \caption{Four-way cross-tabulation on all data} \label{tab:crosstab}

Re: [R] Sweave: Howto write real TeX formula in plot

2009-05-14 Thread cls59
Bugzilla from n...@jonasstein.de wrote: Thank you, Baptiste and Charlie. I found some examples wich look great on: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ I'm glad you found Texample! It is an excellent site that shows many practical, and beautiful, demonstrations of the types of figures

Re: [R] About the efficiency of R optimization function

2009-05-14 Thread cls59
popo UBC wrote: Hi all! The objective function I want to minimize contains about 10 to 20 variables, maybe more in the future. I never solved such problems in R, so I had no idea about the efficiency of R's optimization functions. I know doing loop in R is quite slow, so I am not sure

Re: [R] I don't see libR.so in my installation directory

2009-05-09 Thread cls59
Tena Sakai wrote: I became aware of such as I was preparing for an installation of little r. The installation material stated to look for libR.so, and I want to make sure that the one I installed (2.9.0) is used by little r. little r... do you mean the scripting front end

Re: [R] Seed of Random number generation

2009-05-01 Thread cls59
RON70 wrote: Dear all, is it possible to extract the seed that was used for some random number generation? For example suppose I draw a random sample of size 1000 from a normal population : rnorm(1000) Now I want to know what seed R used for that sample generation. Any way out?

Re: [R] Sweave: Howto write real TeX formula in plot

2009-04-19 Thread cls59
Bugzilla from n...@jonasstein.de wrote: Hi, i use Sweave to put plots in my .tex Documents. (pdflatex) Is there a nice solution for this: a) get a real LaTeX formula in the plot area. I have only found very complicate solutions. Is there sth. like \formula{x^2 = \oint f} b) how

Re: [R] changing Swaeve output settings for .pdf and .eps - is there a way?

2009-04-17 Thread cls59
markheckmann wrote: The pdf() settings do not affect Sweave settings when producing a .pdf graphic. How can I change the Sweave default settings to e.g. 3 inch? Try setting the width and height options in the figure chunk: fig1,echo=F,plot=T,pdf=T,width=5,height=3 plot(1:10 @ To

Re: [R] changing Swaeve output settings for .pdf and .eps - is there a way?

2009-04-17 Thread cls59
cameron.bracken wrote: I know the first time I set width=3 and the plot still spanned 80% of the page threw me off. I second this. - Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] using Sweave, how to save a plot in a given size

2009-04-15 Thread cls59
Lo_Lo wrote: I just want to add that I didn't have any overful box before I use : label=fig1, fig=FALSE, results = tex= pdf(fig1.pdf, width = wid, heigth = hei) plot(1:10) plot(1:10) dev.off() cat(\\begin{figure}[h]) cat(\\centering)

Re: [R] Compiling Fortran Subroutines as R Shared Objects on Mac OS-X

2009-04-15 Thread cls59
Chad R. Bhatti wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile some F77 subroutines as shared objects for R on my Mac. -- Mac OS-X Version 10.4.11 (Tiger Intel Mac) SNIP chad-r-bhattis-computer:~/MyR/Examples/Fortran/Test1 chadrbhatti$ R CMD SHLIB two.f gfortran -arch i386 -fPIC -g

Re: [R] I want to use Sweave, but only sometimes

2009-04-13 Thread cls59
Paul Johnson-11 wrote: Does anybody have a workable system to run an Rnw document through R-Sweave when necessary, but to just run it through LaTeX if no new R calculations are needed? I.e., the figures already exist, I do not need R to do more work for me, so I send the document straight

Re: [R] Cross-platforms solution to export R graphs

2009-04-12 Thread cls59
Philippe Grosjean wrote: ..I would be happy to receive your comments and suggestions to improve this document. All the best, PhG LaTeX is my personal tool of choice and the vector format I use most often is http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ PGF (Portable Graphics Format),

[R] Sweave and backslashes

2009-02-05 Thread cls59
Hello Everyone, I am an avid Sweave user and I am trying to pretty print floating point numbers for latex output. For example in my document, I would like: 4.2\cdot 10^-{8} Instead of: 4.2e-08 The Hmisc package has a nice function for doing this- but Hmisc has a ton of dependencies and has

Re: [R] Can R scripts executed in batch mode take a commandline argument?

2008-10-15 Thread cls59
On Unix/Linux platforms, you can use the included Rscript utility by adding the following shebang at the top of your program. Command line arguments can then be retrieved using the commandArgs function: #!/usr/bin/Rscript args - commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE) args is now a character vector

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