Re: [R] ScieViews installer

2005-05-08 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2005, Erich Neuwirth wrote: Thank you for your help. The library directory contained some very strangely named subdirectories, file3132 and similarly. After removing these and vereything related to SciViews I was able to install SciViews. Looking back I seem

Re: [R] Test on mu with multivariate normal distribution

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Telse Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear WizaRds, I am sorry to bother you with a newbie question, but although I tried to solve my problem using the various .pdf files (Introduction, help pages etc.), I have come to a complete stop. Please be so kind as to guide me a little bit

Re: [R] General Question re R vs S-Plus

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My preference is to learn the language and the windows interface doesn't really do the trick. My question is, if one uses the windows interface for some functions, is there a way to see what the equivalent code would be? I have checked the manuals,

Re: [R] General Question re R vs S-Plus

2005-05-08 Thread Jonathan Q.
thanks, that does the trick On 08 May 2005 10:11:47 +0200, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My preference is to learn the language and the windows interface doesn't really do the trick. My question is, if one uses the windows interface for

[R] Need a factor level even though there are no observations

2005-05-08 Thread Ajay Narottam Shah
I'm in this situation: factorlabels - c(School, College, Beyond) with data for 8 families: education.man - c(1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) # Note : no 3 values education.wife - c(1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2) # 1,2,3 are all present. My goal is to create this table:

RE: [R] Need a factor level even though there are no observations

2005-05-08 Thread falissard
Hello, Does this work? m - as.factor(education.man) levels(m)[1:3] - factorlabels table(m) Bruno Bruno Falissard INSERM U669, PSIGIAM Paris Sud Innovation Group in Adolescent Mental Health Maison de Solenn 97 Boulevard

[R] Extract just some fields from XML

2005-05-08 Thread Gorjanc Gregor
Hello! I am trying to get specific fields from an XML document and I am totally puzzled. I hope someone can help me. # URL URL-http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmedid=11877539,11822933,11871444retmode=xmlrettype=citation; # download a XML file tmp - xmlTreeParse(URL,

Re: [R] General Question re R vs S-Plus

2005-05-08 Thread Spencer Graves
Unfortunately, many of the S-Plus GUI functions are NOT written in S. For example, S-Plus 6.2 put the following into History while executing the GUI equivalent of plot(1:3): guiPlot( PlotType = Scatter, AxisType = Linear) guiModify( LinePlot, Name = GS1$1$1, DataSet = 1:3) One

Re: [R] General Question re R vs S-Plus

2005-05-08 Thread Jonathan Q.
so if I read all the answers to my post correctly, the best is to just use the command letter in S-Plus or better yet use R. thanks to all. On 5/8/05, Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, many of the S-Plus GUI functions are NOT written in S. For example, S-Plus 6.2

[R] what is a good learning book for R?

2005-05-08 Thread Jonathan Q.
Aside from An Introduction to R by W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith (the PDF is free), what would people recommend as a good starter book? I was thinking of introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard. Any thoughts?? My knowledge of Stats is stale and the primary use of R is for time series

Re: [R] Need a factor level even though there are no observations

2005-05-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Set levels not labels in the factor call. E.g. factor(School, levels = factorlabels) On Sun, 8 May 2005, Ajay Narottam Shah wrote: I'm in this situation: factorlabels - c(School, College, Beyond) with data for 8 families: education.man - c(1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) # Note : no 3 values

[R] Maximum # of predictors?

2005-05-08 Thread Jim BRINDLE
Hello, Is there anyway one can have more than 11 independent variables in a regression model? To hopefully illustrate: with 13 predictors in my model, the last 2 coefficient estimates are NA. When I view the summary, it indicates that 2 coefficients are not defined because of singularities.

Re: [R] Maximum # of predictors?

2005-05-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
Your data won't support it. It has nothing to do with R or any other decent linear regression fitting software. I've seen up to 60 indep variables, with a data set for which it almost made sense. best, -tony On 5/8/05, Jim BRINDLE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there anyway one can

Re: [R] Maximum # of predictors?

2005-05-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Jim BRINDLE wrote: Hello, Is there anyway one can have more than 11 independent variables in a regression model? To hopefully illustrate: with 13 predictors in my model, the last 2 coefficient estimates are NA. When I view the summary, it indicates that 2 coefficients are not defined because

Re: [R] what is a good learning book for R?

2005-05-08 Thread Stephen D. Weigand
On May 8, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Q. wrote: Aside from An Introduction to R by W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith (the PDF is free), what would people recommend as a good starter book? I was thinking of introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard. Any thoughts?? My knowledge of Stats is stale

[R] working with CGIwithR

2005-05-08 Thread Chris Evans
headlineShort question/headline: Do people have advice on debugging R programs running after CGIwithR inputting of data from forms? Is there a way of setting up fast local versions if your local machine has to be a windoze (2k) machine (R 2.1.0) and your server is a Debian, ssh shell only set

Re: [R] what is a good learning book for R?

2005-05-08 Thread Spencer Graves
I would endorse Stephen's suggestions and add a couple of my own: I find that the examples on the help pages are often quite useful. If you are on Windows, you might also check ~\R\Rw2010pat\library for specific packages, including \demo files. There are many different packages that

[R] Monotonic regression

2005-05-08 Thread Scott Briggs
Hi, I'm trying to find an implementation of monotonic regression in R and I haven't been able to find anything that's really related to this. isoMDS in the MASS package uses monotonic regression, however, I was wondering if there is any standalone function for monotonic regression? Basically

RE: [R] Monotonic regression

2005-05-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-May-05 Scott Briggs wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find an implementation of monotonic regression in R and I haven't been able to find anything that's really related to this. isoMDS in the MASS package uses monotonic regression, however, I was wondering if there is any standalone function for

[R] Implementing an ARMA filter

2005-05-08 Thread Jingzhao Ou
Dear all, I am new to R. I need to implement an ARMA filter, some thing like: y(n) = a0*x(n) + a1*x(n-1) + b1*y(n-1) + b2*y(n-2) I checked out the filter manual page. It doesn't seem that the filter function can do this job for me. Can any one help me out? Thanks a lot! Best regards,

[R] z limits

2005-05-08 Thread Jennifer Skene
Hello, I am using R to run a program called GRASP - Generalized Regression Analysis and Spatial Prediction. I am trying to draw a figure using GRASP, and I get the following error message in R: Error in image.default(map, col = heat.colors(12)) : invalid z limits What are z limits?

[R] mutilvariate density estimation

2005-05-08 Thread Anna Oganyan
I would appreciate it if anyone could share or point me to an R implementation of mutilvariate density estimation (6 or higher dimensions). Many thanks. Anna __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] Extract just some fields from XML

2005-05-08 Thread Sean Davis
Gregor, I'm not answering your question directly, but have you looked at the bioconductor package annotate? I bet it does much of what you are trying to do http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.5/package/html/index.html List of functions:

Re: [R] z limits

2005-05-08 Thread John Dougherty
On Sunday 08 May 2005 16:32, Jennifer Skene wrote: Hello, I am using R to run a program called GRASP - Generalized Regression Analysis and Spatial Prediction. I am trying to draw a figure using GRASP, and I get the following error message in R: Error in image.default(map, col =

Re: [R] Implementing an ARMA filter

2005-05-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Jingzhao Ou wrote: I am new to R. I need to implement an ARMA filter, some thing like: y(n) = a0*x(n) + a1*x(n-1) + b1*y(n-1) + b2*y(n-2) I checked out the filter manual page. It doesn't seem that the filter function can do this job for me. Can any one help me out? You can help

RE: [R] Extract just some fields from XML

2005-05-08 Thread Gorjanc Gregor
-Original Message- From: Sean Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: pon 2005-05-09 02:38 To: Gorjanc Gregor; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Extract just some fields from XML Gregor, I'm not answering your question directly, but have you looked at the bioconductor package