[R] Help!!

2004-06-30 Thread Sankalp Chaturvedi
Hello, I am a Second year PhD student in Dept of Management and Organization from NUS Business School, Singapore. Presently I am doing a multilevel analysis for a small research project with my supervisor. While surfing the web, I found your website on multilevel analysis. These are very

Re: [R] nls fitting problems (singularity)

2004-06-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Have a look at optim (which supports a number of different algorithms via the method= arg) and segmented in package segmented which does segmented regression. For example, ss - function(par) { b - par[1]; c1 - par[2]; c2 - par[3]; d - par[4] x - df1$x; y - df1$y sum((y -

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu writes: : If you are routinely working with very large data sets it would be : worthwhile learning to use a relational database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, : even Access) to store the data and then access it from R with RODBC or : one of the specialized database

Re: [R] anti-R vitriol

2004-06-30 Thread TEMPL Matthias
Hi, I wonder, why SAS should be better in time for reading a data in the system. I have an example, that shows that R is (sometimes?, always?) faster. - Data with 14432 observations and 120 variables. Time for reading the data: SAS 8e: data testt; set l1.lse01;run; real

[R] Large addresses (Rgui.exe editing)

2004-06-30 Thread Franck Siclon
I'm running R under a 32-bit Win2003 Server with 24 Go RAM ... I read the FAQ and found that I have to edit my boot.ini file with the /PAE switch; Done. I noticed also that I have to set the R image header with the flag /LARGEADDRESSAWARE, but to do this I need Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0

[R] GLM problem

2004-06-30 Thread Varrin muriel
HI, I am a studient, so don't be surprise if my question seems so simple for you... I have a dataframe with 6 qualitative variables divided in 33 modalities, 2 qualitatives variables and 78 lines. I use a glm to know wich variables have interactions... I would like to know if its normal that one

Re: [R] Large addresses (Rgui.exe editing)

2004-06-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It's undesirable to need Visual Studio (I suspect later versions than 6 also work), and Duncan Murdoch wrote some standalone code to do this which he may be willing to share (but he is away until next week). Meanwhile I have put edited .exe's for rw1091 at

Re: [R] GLM problem

2004-06-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Varrin muriel wrote: HI, I am a studient, so don't be surprise if my question seems so simple for you... I have a dataframe with 6 qualitative variables divided in 33 modalities, 2 qualitatives variables and 78 lines. I use a glm to know wich variables have

Re: [R] GLM problem

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and don't call the result `glm' (or call your data, `data'). Also, this is not a question about GLMs with that family but about linear models, so why not use lm. summary(glm) anova(glm, test=Chisq) * And shouldn't

[R] Question about mesurating time

2004-06-30 Thread zze-PELAY Nicolas FTRD/DMR/BEL
Hello , Is there any function to mesurate the duration of a procedure (like tic and toc in matlab) ? Tic Source(procedure.R) Toc (toc is the duration between the execution of tic and the execution of toc) Thank you nicolas [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] Question about mesurating time

2004-06-30 Thread Wolski
?system.time *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 30.06.2004 at 10:59 zze-PELAY Nicolas FTRD/DMR/BEL wrote: Hello , Is there any function to mesurate the duration of a procedure (like tic and toc in matlab) ? Tic Source(procedure.R) Toc (toc is the duration between the execution of

Re: [R] Question about mesurating time

2004-06-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
help.search(time) gives proc.time(base) Running Time of R system.time(base) CPU Time Used both of which could be used. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, zze-PELAY Nicolas FTRD/DMR/BEL wrote: Is there any function to mesurate the duration of a procedure (like tic and toc in matlab) ? Tic

Re: [R] Help!!

2004-06-30 Thread Karl Knoblick
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[R] Installation of R-1.9.1.tgz

2004-06-30 Thread Frank.Muehlau
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Re: [R] rgl installation problems

2004-06-30 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 00:52, E GCP wrote: Thanks for your replies. I do not HTML-ize my mail, but free email accounts do that and there is not a switch to turn it off. I apologize in advance. I installed R from the redhat package provided by Martyn Plummer. It installed fine and without

Re: [R] rgl installation problems

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Martyn Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 00:52, E GCP wrote: Thanks for your replies. I do not HTML-ize my mail, but free email accounts do that and there is not a switch to turn it off. I apologize in advance. I installed R from the redhat package provided by

Re: [R] anti-R vitriol

2004-06-30 Thread John Maindonald
I am curious. What were the dimensions of this data set? Did this person know use read.table(), or scan(). Did they know about the possibility of reading the data one part at a time? The way that SAS processes the data row by row limits what can be done. It is often possible with scant

[R] pca with missing values

2004-06-30 Thread Angel Lopez
I need to perform a principal components analysis on a matrix with missing values. I've searched the R web site but didn't manage to find anything. Any pointers/guidelines are much appreciatted. Angel __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [R] pca with missing values

2004-06-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Angel Lopez wrote: I need to perform a principal components analysis on a matrix with missing values. I've searched the R web site but didn't manage to find anything. ?princomp has a description of an na.action argument, and help.search(missing values) comes

Re: [R] nls fitting problems (singularity)

2004-06-30 Thread Douglas Bates
Often when nls doesn't converge there is a good reason for it. I'm on a very slow internet connection these days and will not be able to look at the data myself but I ask you to bear in mind that, when dealing with nonlinear models, there are model/data set combinations for which there are no

Re: [R] MacOS X binaries won't install

2004-06-30 Thread Ulises Mora Alvarez
Hi! I'm afraid we need some more bits of information. Do you have administrative privileges?, which version of R are you trying to install?, Have you read the RMacOSX FAQ? On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Ruben Solis wrote: I've tried installing the MacOS X binaries for R available at:

Re: [R] nls fitting problems (singularity)

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Often when nls doesn't converge there is a good reason for it. I'm on a very slow internet connection these days and will not be able to look at the data myself but I ask you to bear in mind that, when dealing with nonlinear models, there are

[R] formatting

2004-06-30 Thread rivin
I could not figure this out from the documentation: is there a way to send formatted non-graphical data to a fancy output device (eg, latex, pdf...) For example, if I want to include the summary of a linear model in a document, I might want to have it automatically texified. Thanks! Igor

Re: [R] formatting

2004-06-30 Thread tobias . verbeke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/06/2004 16:05:15: I could not figure this out from the documentation: is there a way to send formatted non-graphical data to a fancy output device (eg, latex, pdf...) For example, if I want to include the summary of a linear model in a document, I might

[R] Principal Surface function help

2004-06-30 Thread Fred
Dear All Do you know some functions that can perform the PRINCIPAL SURFACE estimation? Please give me a hint. Thanks for your help in advance. Fred [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[R] outlier tests

2004-06-30 Thread Greg Tarpinian
I have been learning about some outlier tests -- Dixon and Grubb, specifically -- for small data sets. When I try help.start() and search for outlier tests, the only response I manage to find is the Bonferroni test avaiable from the CAR package... are there any other packages the offer outlier

Re: [R] outlier tests

2004-06-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I thought outlier tests were mainly superseded two decades ago by the use of robust methods -- they certainly were in analytical chemistry, for example. All outlier tests are bad in the sense that outliers will damage the results long before they are detected. See e.g. @Article{AMC.89a,

Re: [R] camberra distance?

2004-06-30 Thread Angel Lopez
From Legendre Legendre Numerical Ecology I read: The Australians Lance Williams (1967a) give several variants of the Manhattan metric including their Canberra metric (Lance Williams 1966c) Lance Williams (1967a) Mixed-data classificatory programs I.Agglomerative systems. Aust.

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread Tony Plate
As far as I know, read.table() in S-plus performs similarly to read.table() in R with respect to speed. So, I wouldn't put high hopes in finding much satisfaction there. I do frequently read large tables in S-plus, and with a considerable amount of work was able to speed things up

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Tony Plate tplate at blackmesacapital.com writes: I get the best read performance out of S-plus by using a homegrown binary file format with each column stored in a contiguous block of memory and meta data (i.e., column types and dimensions) stored at the start of the file. The S-plus

[R] Question about plotting related to roll-up

2004-06-30 Thread Coburn Watson
Hello R'ers, I have a large set of data which has many y samples for each unit x. The data might look like: Seconds Response_time -- 0 0.150 0 0.202 0 0.065 1 0.110 1

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread Igor Rivin
Thank you! It's interesting about S-Plus, since they apparently try to support work with much larger data sets by writing everything out to disk (thus getting around the, eg, address space limitations, I guess), so it is a little surprising that they did not tweak the I/O more... Thanks

[R] Mac OS X 10.2.8 versus 10.3.4 package load failure

2004-06-30 Thread Ingmar Visser
Hello All, I have built a package depmix and build a source package file from it for distribution. I have done all this on the following platform: platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 arch powerpc os darwin6.8 system powerpc, darwin6.8 status major1 minor

Re: [R] Question about plotting related to roll-up

2004-06-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
boxplot(Response_time ~ seconds, data = my.data.frame) Coburn Watson cpwww at comcast.net writes: : : Hello R'ers, : : I have a large set of data which has many y samples for each unit x. The data : might look like: : : Seconds Response_time : -- : 0

Re: [R] Mac OS X 10.2.8 versus 10.3.4 package load failure

2004-06-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The problem is that you compiled the code with wide characters, and on your 10.2.8 the support functions are not compiled into the R binary (which is what I would expect). As to why you are getting wide chars, I suggest you ask on the R-SIG-Mac list

Re: [R] MacOS X binaries won't install

2004-06-30 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Ruben Solis wrote: I've tried installing the MacOS X binaries for R available at: http://www.bioconductor.org/CRAN/ I'm running MacOS X version 10.2.8. I get a message indicating the installation is successful, but when I double-click on the R icon that shows up in my

Re: [R] Question about plotting related to roll-up

2004-06-30 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
grp - rep(1:5, each=3) resp - rnorm(15) mu - tapply(resp, grp, mean) s - tapply(resp, grp, sd) stopifnot( identical( names(mu), names(s) ) ) LCL - mu - 2*s # lower confidence limit UCL - mu + 2*s Here I choose 2 as we expect 95% of the data to fall under 4 sd. # Type 1 plot(names(mu), mu,

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread Tony Plate
To be careful, there's lots more to I/O than the functions read.table() scan() -- I was only commenting on those, and no inference should be made about other aspects of S-plus I/O based on those comments! I suspect that what has happened is that memory, CPU speed, and I/O speed have evolved

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread rivin
I suspect that what has happened is that memory, CPU speed, and I/O speed have evolved at different rates, so what used to be acceptable code in read.table() (in both R and S-plus) is now showing its limitations and has reached the point where it can take half an hour to read in, on a

[R] memory utilization question

2004-06-30 Thread Tae-Hoon Chung
Hi, all; I have a question on memory utilization of R. Does R use only RAM memory or can I make it use virtual memory? Currently, I am using Mac OS X 10.3.3 with 1.5 GB RAM. However, I need more memory for some large size problem right now. Thanks in advance, Tae-Hoon Chung, Ph.D Post-doctoral

[R] interval regression

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Ribarits
Hi, does anyone have a quick answer to the question of how to carry out interval regression in R. I have found ordered logit and ordered probit as well as multinomial logit etc. The thing is, though, that I want to apply logit/probit to interval-coded data and I know the cell limits which are

[R] Developing functions

2004-06-30 Thread daniel
Hi, I´m new in R. I´m working with similarity coefficients for clustering items. I created one function (coef), to calculate the coefficients from two pairs of vectors and then, as an example, the function simple_matching, taking a data.frame(X) and using coef in a for cicle. It works, but I

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did not use R ten years ago, but reasonable RAM amounts have multiplied by roughly a factor of 10 (from 128Mb to 1Gb), CPU speeds have gone up by a factor of 30 (from 90Mhz to 3Ghz), and disk space availabilty has gone up probably by a factor of 10. So, unless the

Re: [R] interval regression

2004-06-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I believe from your description that this is interval-censored survival and can be handled by survreg. It would also be very easy to amend polr to do this. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Thomas Ribarits wrote: does anyone have a quick answer to the question of how to carry out interval regression in R.

Re: [R] pca with missing values

2004-06-30 Thread Angel Lopez
Thanks for the pointers. I've read them with care but I don't seem capable of making it work. For example, if I do: data(USArrests) USArrests2-USArrests USArrests2[1,1]-NA princomp(USArrests2, cor = TRUE, na.action = na.omit) I get the error message: Error in cov.wt(z) : x must contain finite

Re: [R] MacOS X binaries won't install

2004-06-30 Thread Jeff Gentry
Sorry, I missed the original message, so piggybacking off of a reply. On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Ruben Solis wrote: I've tried installing the MacOS X binaries for R available at: http://www.bioconductor.org/CRAN/ I'm running MacOS X version 10.2.8. Since this is coming out of our mirror

[R] spam warning

2004-06-30 Thread ivo_welch-Rstat
hi chaps: I just found out that this R post list is actively harvested by some spammers. I used this account exclusively for r-help posts, and promptly received a nice email with links to nigeria, india, and china. this is not a good thing. can we obfuscate the email addresses of posters,

RE: [R] Developing functions

2004-06-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Without trying to understand your code in detail let me just assume you are trying to create a matrix, ret, whose i,j-th entry is some function, f, of row i of X and row j of X. In that case this should do it: apply(X,1,function(x)apply(X,1,function(y)f(x,y))) Date: Wed, 30 Jun

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread rivin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did not use R ten years ago, but reasonable RAM amounts have multiplied by roughly a factor of 10 (from 128Mb to 1Gb), CPU speeds have gone up by a factor of 30 (from 90Mhz to 3Ghz), and disk space availabilty has gone up probably by a factor of 10. So, unless the

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-30 Thread james . holtman
It is amazing the amount of time that has been spent on this issue. In most cases, if you do some timing studies using 'scan', you will find that you can read some quite large data structures in a reasonable time. If you initial concern was having to wait 10 minutes to have your data read

Re: [R] rgl installation problems

2004-06-30 Thread E GCP
Thanks. Adding the -shared to the Makeconf file fixed the problem. I installed R from R-1.9.1-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm , but for some reason the flag to share libraries was never set in SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS. rgl_0.64-13.tar.gz now installed without problems. Thanks again, Enrique On Wed, 2004-06-30

[R] linear models and colinear variables...

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Gaffney
Hi! I'm having some issues on both conceptual and technical levels for selecting the right combination of variables for this model I'm working on. The basic, all inclusive form looks like lm(mic ~ B * D * S * U * V * ICU) Where mic, U, V, and ICU are numeric values and B D and S are factors

[R] R can find some functions in assist package

2004-06-30 Thread Michael Axelrod
I am a new user to R. I installed and loaded the smoothing spline package called assist. The function ssr seems to work, but predict.ssr and some others don't seem to be available, I get a can't find message. But they appear in the extensions folder, c:program

Re: [R] linear models and colinear variables...

2004-06-30 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 06/30/04 16:32, Peter Gaffney wrote: Hi! I'm having some issues on both conceptual and technical levels for selecting the right combination of variables for this model I'm working on. The basic, all inclusive form looks like lm(mic ~ B * D * S * U * V * ICU) When you do this, you are

[R] help with tclVar

2004-06-30 Thread solares
Hi, I can' t load a variable tcltk declared with tclVar, why is this?, the exmple above explain me ,Thanks Ruben a-tclVar(init=) f-function(){ + a-pipo + } f() a [1] pipo tclvalue(a) Error in structure(.External(dotTcl, ..., PACKAGE = tcltk), class = tclObj) : [tcl] can't read pipo: no

[R] R can't find some functions in assist package

2004-06-30 Thread Michael Axelrod
Oh yes. The load package under the packages menu in the Windows version does that. To check I typed library(assist) after starting R. Same behavior, ssr is found, but others like predict.ssr, and plot.ssr, give a not found message. Thanks for the suggestion. Mike

[R] MS OLAP -- RODBC to SQL Server Slice Server pass-through query to MS OLAP

2004-06-30 Thread James . Callahan
Olivier Collignon wrote: I have been doing data analysis/modeling in R, connecting to SQL databases with RODBC (winXP client with R1.9.0 and win2k SQL server 2000). I am now trying to leverage some of the OLAP features to keep the data intensive tasks on the DB server side and only keep

Re: [R] R can't find some functions in assist package

2004-06-30 Thread Jason Turner
Oh yes. The load package under the packages menu in the Windows version does that. To check I typed library(assist) after starting R. Same behavior, ssr is found, but others like predict.ssr, and plot.ssr, give a not found message. Short answer: Try using predict instead of predict.ssr. I

RE: [R] R can't find some functions in assist package

2004-06-30 Thread Liaw, Andy
That's because `assist' has a namespace: library(assist) Loading required package: nlme predict.ssr Error: Object predict.ssr not found methods(predict) [1] predict.ar*predict.Arima* [3] predict.arima0*predict.glm [5] predict.gls*

Re: [R] R can't find some functions in assist package

2004-06-30 Thread roger koenker
An R-News or J. of Statistical Software note titled, Getting to the Source of the Problem detailing the basic strategies for these adventures in the new world of S4 methods and namespaces would be very useful. url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~rogerRoger Koenker email [EMAIL

RE: [R] Developing functions

2004-06-30 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I´m new in R. I´m working with similarity coefficients for clustering items. I created one function (coef), to calculate the coefficients from two pairs of vectors and then, as an example, the function simple_matching, taking a data.frame(X) and using coef in

[R] failure notice

2004-06-30 Thread pierson5
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rejected for the following Virus Virus Name: Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 User Rejected Message (#5.1.1) --- Below this line is a copy of the message headers. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 30 22:26:39 2004 Received: from fairfieldi.com (68-233-97-39.ironoh.adelphia.net

[R] .Net Mono language news: C, C++, C#, Java, Python Perl

2004-06-30 Thread James . Callahan
For those interested in experimenting with (compiling / developing) a version of R for the Common Language Runtime (CLR) environment (Microsoft .Net, Novell Ximan Mono DotGNU) -- a few links to some free compliers: C DotGNU (the official GNU project) http://dotgnu.org/

[R] how to drop rows from a data.frame

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Wilkinson
here is a snippet of data where I would like to drop all rows that have zeros across them, and keep the rest of the rows while maintaining the row names (1,2,3, ...10). The idea here is that a row of zeros is an indication that the row must be dropped. There will never be the case where there

Re: [R] how to drop rows from a data.frame

2004-06-30 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Wed, 30-Jun-2004 at 11:57PM -0400, Peter Wilkinson wrote: | here is a snippet of data where I would like to drop all rows that have | zeros across them, and keep the rest of the rows while maintaining the row | names (1,2,3, ...10). The idea here is that a row of zeros is an indication |

Re: [R] how to drop rows from a data.frame

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Wilkinson
You right its a matrix (I ran an is.matrix() on my object). Thanks, Peter At 12:13 AM 7/1/2004, Patrick Connolly wrote: On Wed, 30-Jun-2004 at 11:57PM -0400, Peter Wilkinson wrote: | here is a snippet of data where I would like to drop all rows that have | zeros across them, and keep the rest of

Re: [R] how to drop rows from a data.frame

2004-06-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Assuming all the entries are non-negative and non-NA this will do it: DF[rowSums(DF) 0,] Peter Wilkinson pwilkinson at videotron.ca writes: : : here is a snippet of data where I would like to drop all rows that have : zeros across them, and keep the rest of the rows while maintaining

Re: [R] drop rows

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Wilkinson
his ... h looks like your working with microarray data as well The actual matrix that I am working with is 19000 x 340 Thanks for the help, that was perfect. I am still getting used to the R language way of doing things.I will look into the apply function as you have written it.

Re: [R] how to drop rows from a data.frame

2004-06-30 Thread Peter Wilkinson
Thanks for everyone's help, there seems to be many ways of solving the problem that work well. Peter At 12:36 AM 7/1/2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Assuming all the entries are non-negative and non-NA this will do it: DF[rowSums(DF) 0,] Peter Wilkinson pwilkinson at videotron.ca writes: :

[R] RGL on Mac OS X

2004-06-30 Thread Matthew Cohen
Scanning various lists for R, I've noticed that a few people have raised the question of getting the rgl package to run in R on the Mac operating system. As far as I can tell (and I must admit to being a novice here), the problem has to do with the inclusion of the /usr/X11R6/lib in R's