[R] identical values not so identical? newbie help please!

2011-03-10 Thread maiya
Hi there! I'm not sure I can create a minimal example of my problem, so I'm linking to a minimal .RData file that has only two objects: obs and exp, each is a 6x9 matrix. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10364753/test.RData link to dropbox file (I hope this is acceptable mailing list etiquette!) Here's

Re: [R] identical values not so identical? newbie help please!

2011-03-10 Thread maiya
Thanks Josh and Dan! I did figure it had something to do with the machine epsilon... But so what do I do now? I'm calculating the total absolute error over thousands of tables e.g.: tae-sum(abs(obs-exp)) Is there any easy way to I keep these ignorable errors from showing up? And furthermore,

Re: [R] identical values not so identical? newbie help please!

2011-03-10 Thread maiya
Aaah, it truly is wonderful, this technology! I guess I'm going to have to override it a bit though.. Along the lines of tae - ifesle(all.equal(obs, exp) == TRUE, 0, sum(abs(obs - exp))) Do I like doing this? No. But short of reading the vast literature that exists on calculation precision -

Re: [R] identical values not so identical? newbie help please!

2011-03-10 Thread maiya
Quite fascinating, if annoying. Nice example Petr! Turns out my expected values are causing even more trouble because of this! I've even gotten negative chi square values (calculated using Cressie and Read's formula)! So instead of kludging the error measurement code, I think I'm going to have

[R] plotting functions of chi square

2010-08-17 Thread maiya
Hi! This is going to be a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out. I'm trying to plot densities of various functions of chi-square. A simple chi-square plot I can do with dchisq(). But e.g. chi.sq/degrees of freedom I only know how to do using density(rchisq()/df). For example: plot(1,

Re: [R] plotting functions of chi square

2010-08-17 Thread maiya
Thanks, but that wasn't what I was going for. Like I said, I know how to do a simple chi-square density plot with dchisq(). What I'm trying to do is chi-square / degrees of freedom. Hence rchisq(10,i)/i). How do I do that with dchisq? -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] plotting functions of chi square

2010-08-17 Thread maiya
OK, for the record, this is not my homework, thanks for asking! Also, I am sure I could have phrased my question more eloquently, but (hence the newbie qualifier) I didn't. The code I posted was for the plot I want, only smoothed i.e not based on random sampling from the distribution. Dennis:

Re: [R] function to set log(0)=0 not working on tables or vectors

2010-01-18 Thread maiya
for not being more precise. Thanks guys! Maja. Ben Bolker wrote: David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net writes: On Jan 17, 2010, at 8:17 PM, maiya wrote: There must be a very basic thing I am not getting... I'm working with some entropy functions and the convention is to use

[R] function to set log(0)=0 not working on tables or vectors

2010-01-17 Thread maiya
There must be a very basic thing I am not getting... I'm working with some entropy functions and the convention is to use log(0)=0. So I wrote a function: llog-function(x){ if (x ==0) 0 else log(x) } which seems to work fine for individual numbers e.g. llog(0/2) [1] 0 but if I try whole

[R] count number of empty cells in a table/matrix/data.frame

2009-12-03 Thread maiya
Hi everyone! This is a ridiculously simple problem, I just can't seem to find the solution! All I need is something equivalent to sum(is.na(x)) but instead of counting missing values, to count empty cells (with a value of 0). A naive attempt with is.empty didn't work :) Thanks! Maja Oh,

[R] Error: cannot allocate vector of size...

2009-11-10 Thread maiya
I'm trying to import a table into R the file is about 700MB. Here's my first try: DD-read.table(01uklicsam-20070301.dat,header=TRUE) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 15.6 Mb In addition: Warning messages: 1: In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : Reached

Re: [R] Error: cannot allocate vector of size...

2009-11-10 Thread maiya
file in memory at one time. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:10 AM, maiya maja.zaloz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to import a table into R the file is about 700MB. Here's my first try: DD-read.table(01uklicsam-20070301.dat,header=TRUE) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 15.6 Mb In addition

Re: [R] Error: cannot allocate vector of size...

2009-11-10 Thread maiya
Cool! Thanks for the sampling and ff tips! I think I've figured it out now using sampling... I'm getting a quad-core, 4GB RAM computer next week, will try it again using a 64 bit version :) Thanks for your time!!! Maja tlumley wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, maiya wrote: OK, it's

Re: [R] ridiculous behaviour printing to eps: labels all messed up!

2009-06-08 Thread maiya
Solution!! Peter, that seems to do the trick! dev.copy2eps(file=test.eps, useKerning=FALSE) correctly places the labels without splitting them! the same also works with postscript() of course. I also found another thread where this was solved

Re: [R] ridiculous behaviour printing to eps: labels all messed

2009-06-08 Thread maiya
Wow! Thank you for that Ted, a wonderfully comprehensive explanation and now everything makes perfect sense!! Regarding your last point, I would love to hear other people's experience. I myself, as a complete newbie in both R and LaTeX, am perhaps not the best judge... But there are several

Re: [R] stars (as fourfold plots) in plot (symbols don't work)

2009-06-08 Thread maiya
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[R] stars (as fourfold plots) in plot (symbols don't work)

2009-06-07 Thread maiya
Hi! I have a dataset with three columns -the first two refer to x and y coordinates, the last one are odds ratios. I'd like to plot the data with x and y coordinates and the odds ratio shown as a fourfold plot, which I prefer to do using the stars function. Unfortunately the stars option in

[R] ridiculous behaviour printing to eps: labels all messed up!

2009-06-07 Thread maiya
OK, this is really weird! here's an example code: t1-c(1,2,3,4) t2-c(4,2,4,2) plot(t1~t2, xlab=exp1, ylab=exp2) dev.copy2eps(file=test.eps) that all seems fine... until you look at the eps file created, where for some weird reason, if you scroll down to the end, the code reads: /Font1

[R] indicator or deviation contrasts in log-linear modelling

2009-02-18 Thread maiya
I am fairly new to log-linear modelling, so as opposed to trying to fit modells, I am still trying to figure out how it actually works - hence I am looking at the interpretation of parameters. Now it seems most people skip this part and go directly to measuring model fit, so I am finding very few

Re: [R] indicator or deviation contrasts in log-linear modelling

2009-02-18 Thread maiya
I realise that in the case of loglin the parameters are clacluated post festum from the cell frequencies, however other programmes that use Newton-Raphson as opposed to IPF work the other way round, right? In which case one would expect the output of parameters to be limited to the particular

Re: [R] disaggregate frequency table into flat file

2008-05-22 Thread maiya
) hope this is clearer now! maja jholtman wrote: Not exactly clear what you are asking for. Your data.frame.table does not seem related to the original 'orig'. What exactly are you expecting as output? On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:16 PM, maiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i appologise

[R] axis and tick widths decoupled (especially in rugs!)

2008-05-05 Thread maiya
Hi! (a complete newby, but will not give up easily!) I was wondering if there is any way to decouple the axis and tick mark widths? As I understand they are both controlled by the lwd setting, and cannot be controlled independently? For example I might want to create major and minor ticks,