Re: [R] question about cumulating random effects in lmer

2006-04-24 Thread Dieter Menne
zhongmiao wang zhongmiao at gmail.com writes: I am studying the effect of schools on student achievement growth over time. School effect is random. The effects of schools in prior years are assumed to be persistent till the current year. Thus, the total school effect in the second year is

Re: [R] How to set up starting values in lme

2006-04-24 Thread Dieter Menne
zhongmiao wang zhongmiao at gmail.com writes: I keep getting the error message Error in lme.formula(fixed = Score ~ factor(time) - 1, data = ldata, random = list(dumid = mat), : iteration limit reached without convergence (9) Is there a way to set up starting values, especially the

[R] plot control

2006-04-24 Thread Alexander Nervedi
Dear R gurus, I'd like to plot a distribution with the tickmarks always at the quantiles of the y-axis, as opposed to the quantiles of the distribution I am plotting. plot seems to place these ticks based on some calculations that I cant see (?plot doesnt show the innards of plot). Below is

Re: [R] Missing values detected when there are no missing values

2006-04-24 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi On 22 Apr 2006 at 23:29, Bob Green wrote: Date sent: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:29:02 +1000 To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch From: Bob Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[R] Missing values detected when there are no missing values I am

Re: [R] bivariate weighted kernel density estimator

2006-04-24 Thread Adelchi Azzalini
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:13:35 +0200, Erich Neuwirth wrote: EN Is there code for bivariate kernel density estimation? EN For bivariate kernels there is EN kde2d in MASS EN kde2d.g in GRASS EN KernSur in GenKern EN (list probably incomplete) EN but none of them seems to accept a weight parameter EN

Re: [R] garch warning

2006-04-24 Thread Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo
What package are you using? If you're using tseries, NA's are not allowed in the time series, so you have to trim out your first missing with a command like: x1 - na.remove(x) made available by tseries itself. But I'm note sure is the first NA your problem... You should provide reproducible

[R] boxplots instead of a scatterplot

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Graber
Dear R list, I am a newbie to R and programming itself, so my question may be easy to answer for you. I wanted to create a scatterplot and i used the following code: par(mar=c(10, 4.1,4.1,2.1)) plot(q$location,q$points, , las=2, cex.axis=0.5,xlab=, ylab= ) #location are character strings,

Re: [R] plot control

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Dondrup
Hi, it's not quite clear to me, what you are trying to accomplish with this. You are referring to quantiles (you means quartiles in your case?, see ?quantile ). So, are you trying to compare theoretical quantiles of a distribution to the empirical quantiles? Or are you just trying to split the

[R] Problem with data frame

2006-04-24 Thread Arun Kumar Saha
Dear r-users, suppose I have n normal distributions with parameter N(0,i) i=1,2,...,n respectively. Now I want to generate 500 random number for each distribution. And want to put all 500*n random numbers in a single data frame. I tried with following code: n=20 random = data.frame(n) for

[R] arrange data for simple regression analysis

2006-04-24 Thread Tomás Revilla
Hello, I want to arrange data from a table to perform a simple regression. All the examples I saw deal with paired data, e.g. 'x' and 'y' have the same dimensions (e.g. 5 values for x and 5 for y). But I have more than one 'y' for each 'x' value, e.g. the data file has a x = 0, 30, 60, and 120

Re: [R] Problem with data frame

2006-04-24 Thread Rich
Try this ... rDf - data.frame(sapply(1:20, rnorm, n=500, mean=0)) Rich. S R Training Consulting mangosolutions Tel+44 1249 467 467 Fax +44 1249 467 468 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arun Kumar Saha Sent: 24 April 2006 10:15

Re: [R] Problem with data frame

2006-04-24 Thread Jacques Veslot
as.data.frame(replicate(20, rnorm(500))) Arun Kumar Saha a écrit : Dear r-users, suppose I have n normal distributions with parameter N(0,i) i=1,2,...,n respectively. Now I want to generate 500 random number for each distribution. And want to put all 500*n random numbers in a

Re: [R] distribution of the product of two correlated normal

2006-04-24 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Yu, Xuesong writes: Does anyone know what the distribution for the product of two correlated normal? Say I have X~N(a, \sigma1^2) and Y~N(b, \sigma2^2), and the \rou(X,Y) is not equal to 0, I want to know the pdf or cdf of XY. Thanks a lot in advance. There is no closed-form expression

Re: [R] Problem with data frame

2006-04-24 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 14:45 +0530, Arun Kumar Saha wrote: I tried with following code: n=20 random = data.frame(n) for ( i in 2: length) { random[,i] = random(500,mean=0,sd=i) } but while executing this I am getting errors. Did you check what you'd done above, or is what

Re: [R] boxplots instead of a scatterplot

2006-04-24 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi On 24 Apr 2006 at 10:40, Michael Graber wrote: Date sent: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:40:42 +0200 From: Michael Graber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R-Mailingliste r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject:[R] boxplots instead of a scatterplot Dear

Re: [R] arrange data for simple regression analysis

2006-04-24 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi not sure what do you want to do but what about y-colMeans(your.data) x-c(0,30,60,120) fit-lm(y~x) Is this what you want? Better to use advice suggested in posting guide and to show some reproducible example. HTH Petr On 24 Apr 2006 at 5:15, Tomás Revilla wrote: Date sent:

Re: [R] boxplots instead of a scatterplot

2006-04-24 Thread Jim Lemon
Michael Graber wrote: Dear R list, I am a newbie to R and programming itself, so my question may be easy to answer for you. I wanted to create a scatterplot and i used the following code: par(mar=c(10, 4.1,4.1,2.1)) plot(q$location,q$points, , las=2, cex.axis=0.5,xlab=, ylab= )

Re: [R] arrange data for simple regression analysis

2006-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here are a couple of possibilities using the builtin iris data set. Note that although the coefficients come out the same, the degrees of freedom, etc., would differ: n - rep(1:3, 50) lm(Petal.Length ~ Petal.Width, iris, weight = n) Call: lm(formula = Petal.Length ~ Petal.Width, data = iris,

[R] R help

2006-04-24 Thread Erez
Hello, I'm trying to create a large matrix and it's extends the limit boundaries. The matrix is 100,000x2874 and R is throwing me out, what shall i do? Thanks Erez __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] R help

2006-04-24 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi more memory new comp new OS think about possibility to reformulate the problem with help of database and loading/processing data in chunks. Couple of similar questions were answered not long ago so check archives. HTH Petr On 24 Apr 2006 at 13:06, Erez wrote: Date sent:

[R] R help

2006-04-24 Thread Erez
Hi, There is anyway to run R script on c++? Erez __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

[R] Coefficients for aliased models

2006-04-24 Thread Ross Darnell
I find the reporting of aliased terms in class lm objects as little inconsistent. The best way to show this is to give an example. X - mvrnorm(10,c(0,0),Sigma=matrix(c(1,0.5,0.5,1),nrow=2)) Xnew - as.data.frame(cbind(X,X[,2])) # make copy of X[,2] names(Xnew) - c(y,X,Xcopy) model -

[R] R 2.3.0 is released

2006-04-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
I've rolled up R-2.3.0.tar.gz a short while ago. This version contains several changes and additions, mostly incremental. See the full list of changes below. You can get it (in a short while) from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.3.0.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site

[R] Re : bivariate weighted kernel density estimator

2006-04-24 Thread justin bem
Have you try the KernSmooth package ? - Message d'origine De : Adrian Baddeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé le : Lundi, 24 Avril 2006, 2h39mn 13s Objet : [R] bivariate weighted kernel density estimator Erich Neuwirth writes: Is

[R] trellis.par.get without opening a device?

2006-04-24 Thread Dieter Menne
I am using the Deepayan's Sweave trick to set graphics parameters for all graphs: ltheme = canonical.theme(color=TRUE) sup = trellis.par.get(superpose.line) ltheme$superpose.line$col = c('black',red,blue,#e3,green, gray) Works perfectly, there is only a minor nuissance that

Re: [R] rcorrp.cens

2006-04-24 Thread Stefano Mazzuco
Thank you Frank for your prompt reply You're definitely right, it seems that comparing rank concordance is a quite inefficient way to test the predictive power of a covariable. Thus LR test works better. Stefano On 4/21/06, Frank E Harrell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefano Mazzuco wrote:

[R] pnorm2

2006-04-24 Thread Tolga Uzuner
Hi, Has pnorm2 been dropped from sn ? Have some code using it which seems to failt with a new sn update... Thanks, Tolga __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

[R] Problem with the cluster package

2006-04-24 Thread Rouyer Tristan
Hi everybody, I want to use the cluster package (Cluster Analysis Extended Rousseeuw et al.). I downloaded it from the CRAN and installed it on my linux system (fedora core 4). All seemed to be allright. But when trying to launch examples, I obtained the following message : library(cluster)

[R] Sending an ESC command to the console from wihtin a script

2006-04-24 Thread Tolga Uzuner
Hi, Is there a way to send an ESC command to the console from within a script window, without using the mouse ? Thanks, Tolga __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

Re: [R] Sending an ESC command to the console from wihtin a script

2006-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
RSiteSearch(clear screen) will locate Windows code to send a ctrl-L to the screen that you can modify. On 4/24/06, Tolga Uzuner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to send an ESC command to the console from within a script window, without using the mouse ? Thanks, Tolga

Re: [R] Sending an ESC command to the console from wihtin a script

2006-04-24 Thread Tolga Uzuner
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: RSiteSearch(clear screen) will locate Windows code to send a ctrl-L to the screen that you can modify. On 4/24/06, Tolga Uzuner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to send an ESC command to the console from within a script window, without using the mouse ?

[R] Modelling heteroskedasticity in a multilevel model

2006-04-24 Thread Antonio Revilla
Dear list members, I am facing a 3-level model, for which my research hypotheses suggest that the variance of both level-1 and level-2 residuals may be a function of a level-3 variable. To be a bit more clear: I am fitting a longitudinal model for a panel of companies grouped in industries. I

[R] omitting coefficients in summary.lm()

2006-04-24 Thread Dimitri Szerman
Hi, I'm running a regression using lm(), in which one of the right-hand side variables is factor with many levels (say, 80). I am not intersted in the estimates of the resulting dummies, but I have to include them in my regression equation. So, I don't want the estimates associated with theses

[R] the 'copula' package

2006-04-24 Thread Casey Quinn
Is anybody using the Copula package in R? The particular problem I'm facing is that R is not acknowledging the fitCopula command/function when I load the package and (try to) run something very simple: fit1 - fitCopula(x1 = list(u11,u12,u13,u14,u15,u16,u17,u18), tCopula, optim.control =

[R] regression modeling

2006-04-24 Thread Weiwei Shi
Hi, there: I am looking for a regression modeling (like regression trees) approach for a large-scale industry dataset. Any suggestion on a package from R or from other sources which has a decent accuracy and scalability? Any recommendation from experience is highly appreciated. Thanks, Weiwei

Re: [R] omitting coefficients in summary.lm()

2006-04-24 Thread P Ehlers
Dimitri, coef(summary(your model)) pulls out the matrix of coefs/SEs/etc. You could subset that. Peter Ehlers Dimitri Szerman wrote: Hi, I'm running a regression using lm(), in which one of the right-hand side variables is factor with many levels (say, 80). I am not intersted in the

[R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Sachin J
Hi, I have a dataset consisting of 350,000 rows and 266 columns. Out of 266 columns 250 are dummy variable columns. I am trying to read this data set into R dataframe object but unable to do it due to memory size limitations (object size created is too large to handle in R). Is there a

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread roger koenker
You can read chunks of it at a time and store it in sparse matrix form using the packages SparseM or Matrix, but then you need to think about what you want to do with it least squares sorts of things are ok, but other options are somewhat limited... url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger

[R] layout and image.plot

2006-04-24 Thread Cal Stats
Hi.. i was using image.plot from the library fields along with layout i had the follwoing commands: layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,3,4,5),ncol=2,nrow=3,byrow=TRUE)) followed by 5 image plots. i wanted image 1 on the top row followed by the 4 images on the next two rows. it

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Sachin J
Hi Roger, I want to carry out regression analysis on this dataset. So I believe I can't read the dataset in chunks. Any other solution? TIA Sachin roger koenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can read chunks of it at a time and store it in sparse matrix form using the packages

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You just need the much smaller cross product matrix X'X and vector X'Y so you can build those up as you read the data in in chunks. On 4/24/06, Sachin J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a dataset consisting of 350,000 rows and 266 columns. Out of 266 columns 250 are dummy variable

Re: [R] the 'copula' package

2006-04-24 Thread Roger D. Peng
What is the error message that you get? -roger Casey Quinn wrote: Is anybody using the Copula package in R? The particular problem I'm facing is that R is not acknowledging the fitCopula command/function when I load the package and (try to) run something very simple: fit1 - fitCopula(x1

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Where is the excess size being identified? Is it the read? or in the lm(). If it is in the reading of the data, then why are you reading the dummy variables? Would it make sense to read a single column of a factor instead of 80 columns of dummy variables?

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Sachin J
Hi Richard: Even if I dont read the dummy var columns, i.e. just read the original dataset with 350,000 rows and 16 columns, when I try to run the regression - using lm(y ~ c1 + factor(c2) + factor(c3) ) ; where c2, c3 are dummy variables, The procedure fails saying not enough

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Sachin J
Gabor: Can you elaborate more. Thanx Sachin Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just need the much smaller cross product matrix X'X and vector X'Y so you can build those up as you read the data in in chunks. On 4/24/06, Sachin J wrote: Hi, I have a dataset

[R] Modeling inverse relationship with copula

2006-04-24 Thread Horace Tso
Dear r list, I posted this on the S list last week since i'm using some of the FinMetrics functions on copula. Knowing there is a copula package in R, I figure this would be an appropriate forum to ask this question. I want to model inverse relationship between two (non-normal, non-symmetric)

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Liaw, Andy
Instead of reading the entire data in at once, you read a chunk at a time, and compute X'X and X'y on that chunk, and accumulate (i.e., add) them. There are examples in S Programming, taken from independent replies by the two authors to a post on S-news, if I remember correctly. Andy From:

Re: [R] Sending an ESC command to the console from wihtin a script

2006-04-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Tolga Uzuner wrote: Hi, Is there a way to send an ESC command to the console from within a script window, without using the mouse ? What OS is this? If Windows, ESC interrupts a running command, and is not itself a command: rather it generates a software interrupt. I

[R] rmeta: forest plot problem

2006-04-24 Thread Andrej Kastrin
Der useRs, I'm working on meta analysis using rmeta package. Using code below I plot the forest plot: library(rmeta) data (catheter) a-meta.MH (n.trt, n.ctrl, col.trt, col.ctrl, data=catheter, names=Name, subset=c(13,6,5,3,7,12,4,11,1,8,10,2)) summary(a) # odds ratio values and confidence

[R] Store results of for loop

2006-04-24 Thread Doran, Harold
I have what I'm sure will turn out to be straightforward. I want to store the results of a loop for some operations from a patterned vector. For example, the following doesn't give what I would hope for ss - c(2,3,9) results - numeric(length(ss)) for (i in seq(along=ss)){ results[i] - i + 1

Re: [R] rmeta: forest plot problem

2006-04-24 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Andrej Kastrin wrote: Der useRs, I'm working on meta analysis using rmeta package. Using code below I plot the forest plot: library(rmeta) data (catheter) a-meta.MH (n.trt, n.ctrl, col.trt, col.ctrl, data=catheter, names=Name, subset=c(13,6,5,3,7,12,4,11,1,8,10,2))

Re: [R] Store results of for loop

2006-04-24 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Doran, Harold wrote: I have what I'm sure will turn out to be straightforward. I want to store the results of a loop for some operations from a patterned vector. For example, the following doesn't give what I would hope for ss - c(2,3,9) results - numeric(length(ss))

Re: [R] Store results of for loop

2006-04-24 Thread Christos Hatzis
It is not very clear how you want to index your results vector. If ss contains the indices of the results vector that you are trying to change, this implies that you have a vector of length 9. In this case results - numeric(max(ss)) results[ss] - ss + 1 will do the trick. Or in case that ss

Re: [R] Store results of for loop

2006-04-24 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:31 -0400, Doran, Harold wrote: I have what I'm sure will turn out to be straightforward. I want to store the results of a loop for some operations from a patterned vector. For example, the following doesn't give what I would hope for ss - c(2,3,9) results -

Re: [R] bivariate weighted kernel density estimator

2006-04-24 Thread Erich Neuwirth
Dear Roger, thanks for the suggestion. That is the solution, just modifying kde2d. I did it slightly differently. Since I have up to 20 points, diag(Z) from your code becomes too large. But since t(matrix(dnorm(ay),n,nx)) only needs to be multiplied with the weights rowwise and * applied to

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe

2006-04-24 Thread Sachin J
Hi Andy: I searched through R-archive to find out how to handle large data set using readLines and other related R functions. I couldn't find any single post which elaborates the process. Can you provide me with an example or any pointers to the postings elaborating the process.

[R] String substitution on package install?

2006-04-24 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... I was working with some older code today that started throwing errors I'd never seen before. The source appears to be some sort of substition of the text of the code on install time, I was hoping that someone might be able to point me to what I'm doing wrong. If I take the following

Re: [R] the 'copula' package

2006-04-24 Thread jun yan
Here is an example that works: mycop - tCopula(param=0.5, dim=8, dispstr=ex, df=5) x - rcopula(mycop, 1000) myfit - fitCopula(x, mycop, c(0.6, 10), optim.control=list(trace=1), method=Nelder-Mead) myfit The ML estimation is based on 1000 observations. Estimate Std. Error z value

[R] Change the language of the labels in a graph

2006-04-24 Thread Lapointe, Pierre
Hello, How do you change the language of the labels in a graph. In this example, I want to get French labels by changing Sys.putenv. I should get Mai instead of May. Sys.putenv(LANGUAGE=fr) x - as.Date(c(1jan1960, 2jan1960, 31mar1960, 30jul1960), %d%b%Y) y -1:4 plot(x,y) Regards, Pierre

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe [Broadcast]

2006-04-24 Thread Liaw, Andy
Here's a skeletal example. Embellish as needed: p - 5 n - 300 set.seed(1) dat - cbind(rnorm(n), matrix(runif(n * p), n, p)) write.table(dat, file=c:/temp/big.txt, row=FALSE, col=FALSE) xtx - matrix(0, p + 1, p + 1) xty - numeric(p + 1) f - file(c:/temp/big.txt, open=r) for (i in 1:3) { x

[R] [O/T] undergrads and R

2006-04-24 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: Are your undergraduate students receptive to learning R, as a rule? Most of the time, mine really like it. But this semester, they act as though they are being eaten by rats when learning R. They are not trying at all. Any similar experiences? If anyone has any good ideas, I

Re: [R] number of matches when using Match()

2006-04-24 Thread Brian Quinif
Speaking of standard errors, when correcting for heteroscedasticity, how many matches do you use (this is the Var.cal option). It seems to me that it might make sense to use the same number of matches as above, but that's just a guess... These are related but separate issues. The

[R] GUI font size

2006-04-24 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: On the Edit menu, there is a GUI preference tab. On the Font option, the highest value is 18. Has anyone ever had the font size set larger than that will any success, please? Thanks, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of

Re: [R] [O/T] undergrads and R

2006-04-24 Thread John Fox
Dear Erin, I wrote the Rcmdr package because my undergrad intro stats students are much more comfortable with point-and-click interfaces. You're in a computer and math department, however, while I'm in sociology -- I would have thought that your students wouldn't have trouble with command-driven

Re: [R] GUI font size

2006-04-24 Thread John Fox
Dear Erin, This is, I guess, under Windows. You can set the point size to a larger value by editing the Rconsole file in R's \etc directory. I hope this helps, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4

Re: [R] [O/T] undergrads and R

2006-04-24 Thread Clint Bowman
It wasn't R but I've had a similar experience where a class came together to cause an uncharacteristic reaction to material which had been welcomed by previous classes (and also by later ones.) I'd say just put it down to a statistical fluctuation. Clint Clint Bowman

Re: [R] GUI font size

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Prager
Erin, I was able to set it larger by making the change manually in the Rconsole file. For details of Rgui (Windows) configuration, try ?Rconsole from the prompt. MHP Erin Hodgess wrote on 4/24/2006 6:44 PM: Dear R People: On the Edit menu, there is a GUI preference tab. On the Font

[R] JGR problem

2006-04-24 Thread Fernando Saldanha
I just installed JGR version 1.3 and I am having a problem. When I try to load the library RQuantLib I get an error message. The same program runs perfectly well when I just run rgui.exe. I have pasted the screen below. The version of R I am using is 2.2.1. Thanks for any help. FS

Re: [R] GUI font size

2006-04-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 4/24/2006 6:44 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: On the Edit menu, there is a GUI preference tab. On the Font option, the highest value is 18. Has anyone ever had the font size set larger than that will any success, please? This actually looks like a bug in the low level code

Re: [R] Change the language of the labels in a graph

2006-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This works for me on my Windows XP system: Sys.putenv(LANGUAGE=FR); Sys.setlocale(LC_ALL,FR) On 4/24/06, Lapointe, Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How do you change the language of the labels in a graph. In this example, I want to get French labels by changing Sys.putenv. I should

Re: [R] [O/T] undergrads and R

2006-04-24 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
This semester for the first time I have been using the combination of R, R Commander (John Fox's package providing a menu-driven interface to R), and RExcel (Erich Neuwirth's package for interfacing R with Excel). The audience is the introductory Statistics class for Business undergradutes. The

[R] Overlapping assignment

2006-04-24 Thread Rob Steele
Is it valid to assign a slice of an array or vector to an overlapping slice of the same object? R seems to do the right thing but I can't find anything where it promises to. a - 1:12 a[4:12] - a[1:9] a [1] 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 b - 1:12 b[1:9] - b[4:12] b [1] 4 5 6 7 8

[R] Help needed

2006-04-24 Thread Anamika Chaudhuri
Hi, I am trying to change a SAS macro to R. here is my code. I get an error at the last line. attach(fram) dset1-cbind(AGE,BMI,DEATH) BMIGRP-cut(BMI,breaks=3,right=TRUE) AGEGRP-floor(AGE/10)-2 dset-cbind(AGEGRP,BMIGRP,DEATH) maxage-max(dset[,1]) minage-min(dset[,1])

Re: [R] Handling large dataset dataframe [Broadcast]

2006-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The other thing you could try after doing this is to sample some rows from your data and see if the subset gives nearly the same answer as the entire data set. On 4/24/06, Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a skeletal example. Embellish as needed: p - 5 n - 300 set.seed(1) dat -

Re: [R] Help needed

2006-04-24 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
The lines #maxcls-dset[,2] #mincls-dset[,2] which you have shown commented out select a full column. You probably want the min and max of that column. With your definitions, mincls:maxlcs has the same type of behavior as (1:3):(1:3) __