Re: [R] OT: did the wildfires affect tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au?

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Lemon
Carl Witthoft wrote: Just jumping to conclusions since the site is down as I type (7PM EST). What's the news from that part of Australia -- thus showing my complete ignorance of DownUnder geography. Hi Carl, The big fires are hundreds of kilometers from Newcastle, although there was a

Re: [R] summary statistics

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Lemon
William Revelle wrote: At 6:41 PM -0500 2/9/09, David Winsemius wrote: describe() in Hmisc provides much of the rest of what you asked for: describe(pref900$TCHDL) pref900$TCHDL n missing uniqueMean .05 .10 .25 .50 .75 .90 .95 9061904469 16051

Re: [R] Help on BarPlot

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Roth (geb. Kaliwe)
Hi, #There are a lot of examples for barplot if you just type example(barplot) # i altered one slightly to put the values on top of each bar mp - barplot(VADeaths) # default #tot - colMeans(VADeaths) #changed this line tot = colSums(VADeaths)#wether you need max, min, mean , colSums

Re: [R] twitter useRs?

2009-02-10 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Hi José, I wonder if there are any useRs sharing day-to-day realizations/tricks on twitter... Seems like a good place for those things that are good findings, but one is too lazy to blog about them... I don't twitter, but I wrote an R package to read and write tweets from the R command line

[R] Replacing dot with empty space

2009-02-10 Thread Sergey Goriatchev
Hello, everyone How do I replace dot with empty space in ED4.Comdty? I need to get ED4 Comdty tried sub() in many different ways, like sub({.}, , ED4.Comdty) etc but could not do it. Thanks in advance, Sergey __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Replacing dot with empty space

2009-02-10 Thread Sergey Goriatchev
OK, got it now: sub([.], , ED4.Comdty) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:01, Sergey Goriatchev serg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, everyone How do I replace dot with empty space in ED4.Comdty? I need to get ED4 Comdty tried sub() in many different ways, like sub({.}, , ED4.Comdty) etc but could not

[R] Problem installing MASS-Package

2009-02-10 Thread Kim Vanselow
Dear R-Help-Team, I tried to use isoMDS-Function of the MASS-Package: Message: Fehler: konnte Funktion isoMDS nicht finden (error: could not find function isoMDS) so I tried to install the package MASS: utils:::menuInstallPkgs() versuche URL

Re: [R] Choosing a random number between x and y

2009-02-10 Thread Bernardo Rangel Tura
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 06:40 -0800, Vie wrote: Hi, Ive been trying to find a function that will allow me to pull out a number between a minimum and maximum threshold. I want a random decimal number between, for example, 0 and 0.5 or 0 and 0.7. I've been searching everywhere for a function

Re: [R] twitter useRs?

2009-02-10 Thread Gesmann, Markus
Hi all, A colleague of mine wrote a little function to send messages to twitter: update - function(status){ method - http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=; encoded_status - URLencode(status) request - paste(method,encoded_status,sep = ) postForm(request,.opts = opts) } See also:

[R] Odp: Problem installing MASS-Package

2009-02-10 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi Did you try to issue library(MASS) before calling isoMDS? Regards Petr r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 10.02.2009 10:22:57: Dear R-Help-Team, I tried to use isoMDS-Function of the MASS-Package: Message: Fehler: konnte Funktion isoMDS nicht finden (error: could not find

[R] Fast fourier transformation

2009-02-10 Thread botto
Hi, here is a practical problem we would like to solve. In a pneumatic post the acceleration of the capsule is measured and plotted over time. From the graph achieved we would like to derive some kind of statistic value that describes the stress the capsule, or what is in it, is exhibited to.

[R] Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread David Croll
Hello, suppose I have a data frame: mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA NA 3 NA NA 4 NA NA 5 NA NA Then I attach the data frame: attach(mat) I assign some new values... id - sample(100,5) age - rnorm(5,mean=30) Then I want to create a new data frame from the variables id and age which still

[R] need help with installRExcel()

2009-02-10 Thread Shitao Xu
Struggled a whole day, but still could not get DCOM working on my machine. What I did is: 1. Installed R 2.8.1 under folder ../R/R-2.8.1 2. Installed R_Scilab_DCOM3.0-1B5 under folder .. \R\(D)COM Server 3. Installed packages: rscproxy_1.0-12, RExcelInstaller_3.0-10, rcom_2.0-4... 4. run the

Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu

2009-02-10 Thread Neil Shephard
znmeb wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Neil Shephard nsheph...@gmail.com wrote: There are pro's and con's to each of the GNU/Linux flavours and its really a matter of deciding which you like/have invested time in learning. Irrespective its still simple to install R from source

[R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 10.02.2009 12:02:53: Hello, suppose I have a data frame: mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA NA 3 NA NA 4 NA NA 5 NA NA Then I attach the data frame: attach(mat) Look into docs what attach does. If you do not understand environments use

Re: [R] Replacing dot with empty space

2009-02-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Also, try these alternatives: sub(., , x, fixed = TRUE) chartr(., , x) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Sergey Goriatchev serg...@gmail.com wrote: OK, got it now: sub([.], , ED4.Comdty) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:01, Sergey Goriatchev serg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, everyone How do I

Re: [R] Calculating variables

2009-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
Jesús Guillermo Andrade wrote: Dear fellows: This is the problem: I have 5 variables A, B, C, D and E with a range from 1 to 100 with 0.1 steps. Depending on the different values these have, the results of the formula change: alitemp - ((Abase/llmcc$Clase)*PClase)+(((1/llmcc

Re: [R] error using R Commander for text file import

2009-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
Krehbiel, Dwight wrote: I am getting the following error on iMac running Mac OS 10.5.6; this occurs whenever I try to import a text file into R Commander: Error in splitCmd(command) : unbalanced quotes So can you tell us exactly what you did and what the resulting code in the code

Re: [R] need help with installRExcel()

2009-02-10 Thread patricia garcía gonzález
Hi , What I did was similar, install R, R(D)COM server an RExcelInstaller package. Then just write installRExcel() in the console. And it works. Something you should know is that there is a specific mailing list for RCOM topic in here:

Re: [R] Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
attach provides a copy of rather than aliases to the variables within a data frame. d = data.frame(x=0) attach(d) x # 0, from the attached copy of d x = 1 x # 1, from the global anvironment d$x # 0, from d x - 2 x # 1, from the global environment d$x # 0, from d get('x', pos=2) # 2, from the

[R] harmonic function fiting? how to do

2009-02-10 Thread Yogesh Tiwari
Dear R Users, I have a CO2 time series. I want to fit this series seasonal cycle and trend with fourth harmonic function, and then compute residuals. I am doing something like: file-read.csv(co2data.csv) names(file) attach(file)

Re: [R] Choosing a random number between x and y

2009-02-10 Thread Vie
Thanks a lot everyone. You've been a great help! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Choosing-a-random-number-between-x-and-y-tp21914106p21930844.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread David Croll
Well, I knew that attach() only creates a copy of the variables in the search path. What I wanted to ask was how to *retrieve* that copy... mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA NA 3 NA NA 4 NA NA 5 NA NA attach(mat) id - sample(100,5) age - rnorm(5,mean=30) How can I make a new data frame

Re: [R] need help with installRExcel()

2009-02-10 Thread Shitao Xu
Thank you, Patricia, So basically, both of us did the same thing, but installRExcel() just worked in your case. Because I was installing (D)COM on my company's computer ( I have temporary admin right), do you think it may be due to that Excel won't allow the change caused by calling

Re: [R] harmonic function fiting? how to do

2009-02-10 Thread vito muggeo
dear Yogesh It appears that your model based on parametric terms is too inflexible.. A better alternative to parametric harmonic terms is a spline-based approach, may be cyclic splines.. Have a look to the mgcv package.. vito Yogesh Tiwari ha scritto: Dear R Users, I have a CO2 time

Re: [R] Replacing dot with empty space

2009-02-10 Thread Sergey Goriatchev
Thanks, Gabor. You are always very helpful. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:42, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: Also, try these alternatives: sub(., , x, fixed = TRUE) chartr(., , x) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Sergey Goriatchev serg...@gmail.com wrote: OK, got it now:

Re: [R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
David Croll wrote: Well, I knew that attach() only creates a copy of the variables in the search path. What I wanted to ask was how to *retrieve* that copy... mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA NA 3 NA NA 4 NA NA 5 NA NA attach(mat) id - sample(100,5) age - rnorm(5,mean=30) How

Re: [R] general inverse solver?

2009-02-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Yacas was completely rewritten in java (Ryacas interfaces to the C version) since the Ryacas project started so I would not exactly characterize yacas as dead. The work that is going on in yacas may not have high visibility but that does not mean there is none. Also while Maxima is more

Re: [R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day David, On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:23:50 +0100 David Croll david.cr...@gmx.ch wrote: Well, I knew that attach() only creates a copy of the variables in the search path. What I wanted to ask was how to *retrieve* that copy... mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA NA 3 NA NA 4 NA NA 5 NA

[R] A recommender system package?

2009-02-10 Thread Guozhu.Wen
Hi all, Recommendation technique is popular in recent web application. I was wondering is there any R package used for recommender system? Thanks in advance. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day David, On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:23:50 +0100 David Croll david.cr...@gmx.ch wrote: Well, I knew that attach() only creates a copy of the variables in the search path. What I wanted to ask was how to *retrieve* that copy... mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA NA

Re: [R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day David, On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:23:50 +0100 David Croll david.cr...@gmx.ch wrote: Well, I knew that attach() only creates a copy of the variables in the search path. What I wanted to ask was how to *retrieve* that copy... mat id age 1 NA NA 2 NA

Re: [R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 10.02.2009 13:57:44: G'day David, On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:23:50 +0100 David Croll david.cr...@gmx.ch wrote: Well, I knew that attach() only creates a copy of the variables in the search path. What I wanted to ask was how to *retrieve*

Re: [R] error using R Commander for text file import

2009-02-10 Thread John Fox
Dear Uwe, Thanks for trying to field this question, but the error is unlikely to be related to the data since splitCmd() is used internally to format commands generated by the Rcmdr so that they fit in the Script window. Unfortunately, the contents of the Script window are likely to be

Re: [R] Fast fourier transformation

2009-02-10 Thread Dieter Menne
botto b.otto at uke.uni-hamburg.de writes: here is a practical problem we would like to solve. In a pneumatic post the acceleration of the capsule is measured and plotted over time. From the graph achieved we would like to derive some kind of statistic value that describes the stress the

Re: [R] Fast fourier transformation

2009-02-10 Thread baptiste auguie
A powerful scheme for harmonic inversion of time signals known as filter diagonalization method is available from MIT: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Harminv I don't know of any R interface, but it might be a good option for your problem. Cheers, baptiste On 10 Feb 2009, at

[R] how to use axes=FALSE to get multple plots?

2009-02-10 Thread Dan Kelley
I am trying to plot two things on one graph, with a y-axis at the left for one variable, and a y-axis at the right, for the other variable. I thought I could do as follows par(mar=rep(4.5, 4)) plot(0:10, 10:20) par(new=TRUE) plot(0:10, 100:110, axes=FALSE) axis(4) but this writes both y-axis

Re: [R] What is the R equivalent of STATA's 'drop' command?

2009-02-10 Thread John C Frain
Try something like rm(list=ls(pattern=y+)) John 2009/2/10 stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com: It depends on how the data is set up (I am not an expert), but I have had good results with the subset function. subset(x, var!=3 var!=4) this will take the subset of the dataframe x where var is

Re: [R] general inverse solver?

2009-02-10 Thread Erich Neuwirth
My main problem is that yacas can only factorize polynomials in one variable. Any CAS which is not able to factor a^2 - b^2 into (a+b)*(a-B) for me is less than satisfactory. On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Yacas was completely rewritten in java (Ryacas interfaces to

[R] Help regarding White's Heteroscedasticity Correction

2009-02-10 Thread Kishore
Hi I am actually running the White test for correcting Heteroscedasticity. I used sandwich() car(), however the output shows the updated t test of coefficients, with revised Standard Errors, however the estimates remained same. My problem is that the residuals formed a pattern in the original

Re: [R] how to use axes=FALSE to get multple plots?

2009-02-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Dan Kelley wrote: I am trying to plot two things on one graph, with a y-axis at the left for one variable, and a y-axis at the right, for the other variable. I thought I could do as follows par(mar=rep(4.5, 4)) plot(0:10, 10:20) par(new=TRUE) plot(0:10, 100:110, axes=FALSE) axis(4) but this

[R] lattice shingle with time and date format

2009-02-10 Thread Jon Loehrke
Hi R-Users, I have a time series of bivariate observations (x,y,t). I've developed a few panel routines to explore certain aspects of the data, and now would like to break the time series up into smaller chunks to explore the temporal trends. I would like to know if anyone has any

Re: [R] Odp: Problem with retrieving updated variables after attach()

2009-02-10 Thread David Croll
Thank you, this does the job perfectly! Regards, David R new.df - data.frame(id,age) Or, perhaps more automatic: R new.df - do.call(data.frame, sapply(ls(pos=2), as.name)) Is this what you are after? Cheers, Berwin __

Re: [R] Help regarding White's Heteroscedasticity Correction

2009-02-10 Thread John C Frain
Generally in the presence of heteroskedasticity of unknown form OLS produces consistent estimates of your regression coefficients. The estimates of standard errors are biased in the presence of heteroskedasticity, White's procedure is a way of producing consistent estimates of the standard

[R] ISOdatetime gives NA for a specific date

2009-02-10 Thread pbarros
Hi all, I am using ISOdatetime, and I just found out that when I do ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,2,10,0) (or any other value under minutes or seconds) I get NA This does not happen with the same time in other dates, nor with different hours in the same date. Any hint why this happens? Using R 2.8.1

Re: [R] Help regarding White's Heteroscedasticity Correction

2009-02-10 Thread John Fox
Dear Kishore, Yes, White's heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors are just that -- standard errors for the OLS coefficients that are consistent in the presence of heteroscedasticity. The coefficients themselves don't change. There is an issue here: although the standard errors and OLS

[R] Problem with PVCM: 0 (non-NA) cases

2009-02-10 Thread Johannes Habel
Hello everybody, I have a problem with the the function PVCM in the plm package: I have an unbalanced panel with over 200 companies and 1 to 14 years for each company. I already excluded all NAs: dataset-na.omit(dataset) Now I'm trying to fit a variable coefficients model: model_vc -

Re: [R] ISOdatetime gives NA for a specific date

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
pbarros wrote: Hi all, I am using ISOdatetime, and I just found out that when I do ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,2,10,0) (or any other value under minutes or seconds) I get NA This does not happen with the same time in other dates, nor with different hours in the same date. Any hint why this

Re: [R] ISOdatetime gives NA for a specific date

2009-02-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, pbarros wrote: Hi all, I am using ISOdatetime, and I just found out that when I do ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,2,10,0) (or any other value under minutes or seconds) I get NA This does not happen with the same time in other dates, nor with different hours in the same date. Any

Re: [R] pause in function execution

2009-02-10 Thread Fuchs Ira
I tried using the command-line and indeed it does not buffer so that, for example: for (i in 1:5) { print(x) Sys.sleep(3) } does as expected. However, the following sleeps for 15 seconds and then produces no output: library(quantmod) for (i in 1:5) { getQuote(AAPL) Sys.sleep(3) } Why

Re: [R] how to use axes=FALSE to get multple plots?

2009-02-10 Thread Dan Kelley
Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: ...Are you really sure you want a graph with two different scales on it? Thanks, Duncan. I'll use mtext. It is common for people in my research area to put several axes on plots. The top two panels from library(oce) data(ctd) plot(ctd) shows this. Actually,

Re: [R] pause in function execution

2009-02-10 Thread Fuchs Ira
Oops...forgot to print(getQuote(AAPL). Sorry. On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Fuchs Ira wrote: I tried using the command-line and indeed it does not buffer so that, for example: for (i in 1:5) { print(x) Sys.sleep(3) } does as expected. However, the following sleeps for 15 seconds and

[R] plotting the result of a nonlinear regression

2009-02-10 Thread lauramorg...@bluewin.ch
Hello, to plot the result of a singular non linear regression (using nls) I usually use the function plotfit, for example: r.PTG.V-nls(PTG.P~ fz1(Portata, a,b), data=dati, start=list(a=10, b=10), nls.control(maxiter=200), algorithm='port', trace=TRUE, na.action=na.omit, lower=list(a=0, b=10),

[R] how to add points/lines to a surface plot

2009-02-10 Thread Domenico Vistocco
Dear All, is there a way to superimpose points and/or lines on a surface plot? Below I try to explain my problem. Suppose I have the following surface plot (likelikood for the normal variable when both parameters are unknown):

[R] summary of a list

2009-02-10 Thread lauramorg...@bluewin.ch
Hello, I'm using the following for loop to find regression curves using a list of functions (formList), a list of starting values (startList), uppervalues (upperList) and lower values (lowerList). A sample of the list of function I use in the loop is the following: FormList - list(PTG.P ~

Re: [R] ISOdatetime gives NA for a specific date

2009-02-10 Thread pbarros
Thanks. Now I know how to handle it. It was killing me Pedro Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, pbarros wrote: Hi all, I am using ISOdatetime, and I just found out that when I do ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,2,10,0) (or any other value under minutes or seconds) I get NA

[R] Strange behaviour of ISOdatetime

2009-02-10 Thread Pedro de Barros
Hi All, I am watching a strange behaviour of ISOdatetime. In my work computer, I get NA when I try to do ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,2,0,0) [1] NA But on other dates and/or times (hour) works OK ISOdatetime(1995,03,25,2,0,0) [1] 1995-03-25 02:00:00 GMT In my home computer, I do not have this

Re: [R] ISOdatetime gives NA for a specific date

2009-02-10 Thread pbarros
Thanks a lot. I will need to change the time to GMT, then, I guess (this is indeed GMT time). Pedro Daylight savings time, I guess. The clock went directly from 1:59 to 3:00 that day. Other systems behave strangely (er, handle the anomaly) in different ways: ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,1,10,0)

Re: [R] Strange behaviour of ISOdatetime

2009-02-10 Thread David Winsemius
My guess is that your two machines have different setting for locale. What does this produce on each of them: sessionInfo()$locale (Note: It would have been part of the information that you were asked to provide per the posting guide.) --- For questions about unexpected behavior or a

Re: [R] how to add points/lines to a surface plot

2009-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
See ?persp, particularly the example that starts with # (2) Add to existing persp plot - using trans3d() : Uwe Ligges Domenico Vistocco wrote: Dear All, is there a way to superimpose points and/or lines on a surface plot? Below I try to explain my problem. Suppose I have the following

[R] arithmetic comparison over corresponding values from two vectors

2009-02-10 Thread T Joshi
Hi, I have scenario in which I wish to check whether numeric values in one array falls within the range of numbers defined over corresponding values in two other vectors: starts = c(12,45,67,110) ends=c(24, 58,102,150) trgroup=c(18,87) The result should be 1,3 , indices of vector starts/ends.

Re: [R] summary of a list

2009-02-10 Thread Dieter Menne
lauramorgana at bluewin.ch lauramorgana at bluewin.ch writes: Hello, I'm using the following for loop to find regression curves using a list of functions (formList), a list of .. long non-reproducible code removed And I got the following error message: Error in chol2inv(object$m$Rmat()) :

Re: [R] plotting the result of a nonlinear regression

2009-02-10 Thread stephen sefick
?predict On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM, lauramorg...@bluewin.ch lauramorg...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hello, to plot the result of a singular non linear regression (using nls) I usually use the function plotfit, for example: r.PTG.V-nls(PTG.P~ fz1(Portata, a,b), data=dati, start=list(a=10,

Re: [R] Help regarding White's Heteroscedasticity Correction

2009-02-10 Thread Kingsford Jones
or simultaneously estimate the coefficients and variance structure via nlme::gls and its 'weights' argument... On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:57 AM, John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote: Dear Kishore, Yes, White's heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors are just that -- standard errors for the

Re: [R] arithmetic comparison over corresponding values from two vectors

2009-02-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 02/10/2009 11:02 AM T Joshi wrote: Hi, I have scenario in which I wish to check whether numeric values in one array falls within the range of numbers defined over corresponding values in two other vectors: starts = c(12,45,67,110) ends=c(24, 58,102,150) trgroup=c(18,87) The result

Re: [R] R running as a server on windows?

2009-02-10 Thread Antje
Nobody can help with this question (or tell me where I can find help) ? Antje schrieb: Hi there, I'm not sure whether this is the right mailing list to put this question... if not, please tell me where I can find help. I have a spare dual-core machine which run Windows XP Professional and

Re: [R] arithmetic comparison over corresponding values from two vectors

2009-02-10 Thread Keith Jewell
sapply(trgroup, function(x) which(x=starts x =ends)) works for your example data, but there's probably a better way HTH KJ T Joshi tejalonl...@gmail.com wrote in message news:11417a880902100902w53664a3dq11aee64a963d8...@mail.gmail.com... Hi, I have scenario in which I wish to check whether

Re: [R] how to add points/lines to a surface plot

2009-02-10 Thread David Winsemius
In this case, following your instructions and a bit of noodling with the example solves the problem with: persp(teta1, teta2, matrixMuSigma) - res points(trans3d( teta1, sigmaMax, apply(matrixMuSigma, 1, max), pmat=res), col=red) -- David Winsemius On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Uwe Ligges

Re: [R] arithmetic comparison over corresponding values from two vectors

2009-02-10 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Keith Jewell wrote: sapply(trgroup, function(x) which(x=starts x =ends)) works for your example data, but there's probably a better way For large scale problems this works well: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/60815.html HTH, Chuck HTH

Re: [R] R running as a server on windows?

2009-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
Antje wrote: Nobody can help with this question (or tell me where I can find help) ? Antje schrieb: Hi there, I'm not sure whether this is the right mailing list to put this question... if not, please tell me where I can find help. I have a spare dual-core machine which run Windows XP

Re: [R] R running as a server on windows?

2009-02-10 Thread Rowe, Brian Lee Yung (Portfolio Analytics)
Did you try the forums on Knime? That might be a better bet. -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Antje Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:24 PM To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R running as a server on

Re: [R] R running as a server on windows?

2009-02-10 Thread Greg Snow
I, for one, don't fully understand the question, and while there are many on this list that are much smarter than I am, they may also have trouble understanding the question. At first glance it looks like you are asking if R runs on Windows XP (the answer is yes, but this seems to simple to be

[R] loglik and arima()

2009-02-10 Thread Stephen Collins
All - I am evaluating an arima(2,1,3) and arima(3,1,3) and notice the log-likelihood of the restricted model is higher than the log-likelihood of the unrestricted. Since these are nested models, I thought the unrestricted model would have a log-likelihood at least as large as that of the

Re: [R] Strange behaviour of ISOdatetime

2009-02-10 Thread Tony Plate
Have you checked that that time exists in the time zone you are using? From ?ISOdatetime: Note ... Remember that in most timezones some times do not occur and some occur twice because of transitions to/from summer time. What happens in those cases is OS-specific. You could try working out

[R] Rterm.exe stops responding to keyboard input

2009-02-10 Thread CB
I've been trying to use Rterm.exe, mainly because of Rgui.exe's lack of support for incremental history searching. But on my system (Win XP, SP3), it (rterm from R-2.8.1) frequently just stops responding to keyboard input. This happens often (enough to make it unusable), and generally after a

Re: [R] R on Mobile Devices (Android)

2009-02-10 Thread Warren Young
Harsh wrote: At the cost of sounding far-fetched and almost incredulous, I would like to know if any R user is remotely considering the use of R on Mobile devices, and Android in particular. In addition to the other objections in the other replies, I add this one: the assignment operator and

Re: [R] R running as a server on windows?

2009-02-10 Thread Bio7
Yes you can run the Rserve application on a remote computer in e.g network and then you can connect it from your Desktop computer. I've done this already with a remote Linux computer (Rserve is running very stable on a Linux computer). For example i clustered an R,G,B image on a linux computer

Re: [R] Rterm.exe stops responding to keyboard input

2009-02-10 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, this sounds awfully similar to what I reported in r-help thread '[R] Windows Vista, Rterm LeftAlt + Tab issue' on Aug 21, 2008, cf. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-August/171548.html At least we are not alone ;) ...and I though it was an issue with Windows Vista only, because

[R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors

2009-02-10 Thread kayj
Hi , Does any one know how to split a character vector , I have a vector X that looks like this and each row has 3 characters X ASK DGH ASG AUJ FRT I would like to split the vector into 3 vectors that look like this X1 X2 X3 A S K D G H A S G A

[R] forestplot

2009-02-10 Thread Marino, Mark
Dear R users, Is there any way to control the size of the box around the mean when creating a Forest plot using the forestplot function? regards Mark Mark T. Marino, MD VP, Early Clinical Development Mannkind Corp. 61 S. Paramus Road Paramus, NJ 07652 201-983-5238 Office

Re: [R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors

2009-02-10 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear kayj, Try this: X-c(ASK, DGH, ASG, AUJ, FRT) res-data.frame(do.call(rbind,strsplit(X,))) colnames(res)-paste(X,1:ncol(res),sep=) res HTH, Jorge On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:50 PM, kayj kjaj...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi , Does any one know how to split a character vector , I have a vector X

Re: [R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors

2009-02-10 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
See ?strsplit Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org

Re: [R] cwhmisc package requests update all the time!

2009-02-10 Thread Ben Bolker
Nguyen Dinh Nguyen n.nguyen at garvan.org.au writes: Dear Christian, Every single time check update package, “cwhmisc” always requests updating. I’m aware that the package was latest updated in CRAN on 20Nov2008. Is there anything wrong with my R library or somethingelse? I use R 2.8.1 on

Re: [R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors

2009-02-10 Thread jdeisenberg
kayj wrote: Hi , Does any one know how to split a character vector , I have a vector X that looks like this and each row has 3 characters X ASK DGH ASG AUJ FRT I would like to split the vector into 3 vectors that look like this X1X2 X3 A S K D G

Re: [R] How to split a character vector into 3 vectors

2009-02-10 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Another option is: read.table(textConnection(gsub((\\w), \\1;, X)), sep = ;) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:50 PM, kayj kjaj...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi , Does any one know how to split a character vector , I have a vector X that looks like this and each row has 3 characters X ASK DGH ASG

Re: [R] loglik and arima()

2009-02-10 Thread markleeds
hi: maybe it's minimizing the negative of the likeihood rather than maximizing the likelihood ? other than that, i don't see that being possible because of what you said. see what happens if you estimate an arima(1,1,3) ? On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Stephen Collins wrote: All - I

Re: [R] Rterm.exe stops responding to keyboard input

2009-02-10 Thread CB
Henrik, Ah, I did briefly search the list archive, but hadn't come across your earlier post, sorry. I can confirm the conditions you outlined back then (ie. it's L-ALT+TAB, and only that, that causes the problem, that on return to rterm I can use ctrl-C to interrupt a running R call but then no

[R] rscript write function

2009-02-10 Thread Applejus
Hi, I have this very simple two-line script : test.r: print (abc); write(def,test.txt); When run with rscript.exe --vanilla test.r (or just rscript.exe test.r), I get the abc output in the shell but no file is created in the directory I noticed that the only time the test.txt

Re: [R] rscript write function

2009-02-10 Thread Applejus
OK, obviously that was a silly question... SOLUTION: just specify the path in the write function...! Sorry ! Applejus wrote: Hi, I have this very simple two-line script : test.r: print (abc); write(def,test.txt); When run with rscript.exe --vanilla test.r (or just

Re: [R] forestplot

2009-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
Marino, Mark wrote: Dear R users, Is there any way to control the size of the box around the mean when creating a Forest plot using the forestplot function? H, forestplot Error: object 'forestplot' not found PLEASE do read the posting guide

[R] Mixed ANCOVA with between-Ss covariate?

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Lawrence
Hi all, I have data from an experiment with 3 independent variables, 2 are within and 1 is between. In addition to the dependent variable, I have a covariate that is a single measure per subject. Below I provide an example generated data set and my approach to implementing the ANCOVA. However the

[R] Putting values and axis X labels on the charts based on allEffects

2009-02-10 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Dear everybody! Need help with graphics. I am runnig a simple lm and then using allEffects from 'effects' package: require(effects) model-lm(Y~A+B, data=mydataframe) I am trying to build (for each predictor - A and then B) a plot of means on Y. I was successful doing it like this - in one swoop:

[R] OT: A test with dependent samples.

2009-02-10 Thread Rolf Turner
I am appealing to the general collective wisdom of this list in respect of a statistics (rather than R) question. This question comes to me from a friend who is a veterinary oncologist. In a study that she is writing up there were 73 cats who were treated with a drug called piroxicam. None

[R] [ANN] ggplot2 + rggobi course. July 30-31, Washington DC

2009-02-10 Thread hadley wickham
Hi everyone, We're very pleased to offer a two-day looking-at-data course. July 30-31 Washington DC Day one: static graphics with ggplot2 Day two: interactive graphics with rggobi and GGobi. You can attend one day (for $295) or both days (for $550). Student discounts are available. All

Re: [R] OT: A test with dependent samples.

2009-02-10 Thread David Winsemius
In the biomedical arena, at least as I learned from Rosner's introductory text, the usual approach to analyzing paired 2 x 2 tables is McNemar's test. ?mcnemar.test mcnemar.test(matrix(c(73,0,61,12),2,2)) McNemar's Chi-squared test with continuity correction data: matrix(c(73,

[R] ifelse()

2009-02-10 Thread kayj
I have a problem with ifelse(), I do not understand how it works. X-c(2,2,1,1,0,0) str(X) num [1:6] 2 2 1 1 0 0 Y-ifelse(X0,1,0) Y [1] 1 1 1 1 0 0 Can some one explain what is going on, I do not understand what ifelse is doing in this case. Can someone explain the output Y. Thanks --

[R] ifelse()

2009-02-10 Thread kayj
I have a problem with ifelse(), I do not understand how it works. X-c(2,2,1,1,0,0) str(X) num [1:6] 2 2 1 1 0 0 Y-ifelse(X0,1,0) Y [1] 1 1 1 1 0 0 Can some one explain what is going on, I do not understand what ifelse is doing in this case. Can someone explain the output Y. Thanks --

[R] tcltk, tcltk2, Rcmdr, Mac OS X

2009-02-10 Thread Lawrence Hanser
Dear Colleagues, When I try to install Rcmdr the following happens: -- library(Rcmdr) Error in structure(.External(dotTclObjv, objv, PACKAGE = tcltk), class = tclObj) : [tcl] invalid command name font. Error : .onAttach failed in 'attachNamespace' Error:

Re: [R] ifelse()

2009-02-10 Thread David Winsemius
It is checking the series of values of X and returning a series of 1 and 0's; 1 if it meets your condition (X0) and 0 if it doesn't. What did you expect? A more complex invocation might look like this: ifelse( X 0, 1:3, -1:-2) [1] 1 2 3 1 -1 -2 Note the recycling of the elements

Re: [R] ifelse()

2009-02-10 Thread Aiste Aistike
Hello, ifelse checks condition whether X (or, ina fact every value in X) is greater than 0. If it is 1 is assigned and if it isn't then 0. 2 and 1 are greater than 0, therefore the first four values of Y are 1. 0 isn't greater than 0, therefore the last two values of Y are 0. 2009/2/10 kayj

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