[R] A question on lmer() function

2006-12-18 Thread Guojing Yang
Dear R users, We have encountered a slight problem when using the lmer() function: 1. Data description: 11 locations; Nt: monthly mosquito population density from 1994-2005 in each location. 2. Question: to examine the degree of spatial heterogeneity in the system by testing model

Re: [R] Draw a circle on a filled.contour() plot

2006-12-18 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi On 17 Dec 2006 at 10:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Date sent: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:04:37 -0500 From: Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject:Re: [R]

[R] write() gotcha

2006-12-18 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi I used write() the other day to save some results. It seems that write() does not record the full precision of the objects being written: write(pi,file=~/f,ncolumns=1) pi.saved - scan(~/f) Read 1 item dput(pi) 3.14159265358979 dput(pi.saved) 3.141593 pi-pi.saved [1] -3.464102e-07

[R] plot

2006-12-18 Thread XinMeng
Hello sir: a data with 2 columns: id x a 1 b 2 c 3 I wanna get such kind of plot: x: a b c y:1 2 3 But the plot command doesn't permit string character as x. How can I get it ? Thanks a lot ! My best __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] write() gotcha

2006-12-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Robin Hankin wrote: Hi I used write() the other day to save some results. Why not save()? It is the only way to preserve the results exactly. It seems that write() does not record the full precision of the objects being written: write(pi,file=~/f,ncolumns=1)

Re: [R] write() gotcha

2006-12-18 Thread Robin Hankin
On 18 Dec 2006, at 08:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Robin Hankin wrote: Hi I used write() the other day to save some results. Why not save()? It is the only way to preserve the results exactly. It seems that write() does not record the full precision of the objects

Re: [R] write() gotcha

2006-12-18 Thread Brian Ripley
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Robin Hankin wrote: On 18 Dec 2006, at 08:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Robin Hankin wrote: Hi I used write() the other day to save some results. Why not save()? It is the only way to preserve the results exactly. It seems that write()

[R] Aggregate with numerous factors

2006-12-18 Thread Joachim Claudet
Dear list members, I am facing some problems using the aggregate() function. I want to calculate a sum and a mean of one variable over the combination of 12 factors with the aggregate() function to avoid loops but it doesn't work (or the job is far too long, it exceeds 2 hours). It works with

Re: [R] plot

2006-12-18 Thread Chuck Cleland
XinMeng wrote: Hello sir: a data with 2 columns: id x a 1 b 2 c 3 I wanna get such kind of plot: x: a b c y:1 2 3 But the plot command doesn't permit string character as x. How can I get it ? What sort of plot do you want? For a barplot() of x with bars labeled by id you

[R] Memory problem on a linux cluster using a large data set

2006-12-18 Thread Iris Kolder
Hello, I have a large data set 320.000 rows and 1000 columns. All the data has the values 0,1,2. I wrote a script to remove all the rows with more than 46 missing values. This works perfect on a smaller dataset. But the problem arises when I try to run it on the larger data set I get an error

[R] R 2.4.1 is released

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
I've rolled up R-2.4.1.tar.gz a short while ago. This is a maintenance release and fixes a number of mostly minor bugs. 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-2.4.1.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site

Re: [R] Aggregate with numerous factors

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Joachim Claudet wrote: Dear list members, I am facing some problems using the aggregate() function. I want to calculate a sum and a mean of one variable over the combination of 12 factors with the aggregate() function to avoid loops but it doesn't work (or the job is far too long, it

[R] return()

2006-12-18 Thread Timothy . Mak
Dear R Help, Why is it that if you try to return more than one objects using return(), it says it is 'deprecated'? So how do I return more than 1 objects back to the parent function? Thanks, Tim __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Aggregate with numerous factors

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Alternatively, rewrite aggregate() and send us a patch ;-) It is not necessarily all that hard. Here's a rough idea IX - as.data.frame(by) OO - do.call(order,IX) Y - x[OO,] g - cumsum(!duplicated(IX)) FF - unique(IX) cbind(FF, sapply(split(x,g),FUN)) (completely

[R] odfWeave: avoid zip.exe version 2.1 (Windows)

2006-12-18 Thread Meixner, Osiander \(CRT Austria\)
odfWeave: avoid zip.exe version 2.1 on Windows Problem: After weaving with odfWeave the .odt file can not be opened with OpenOfice.org 2.1 Writer. Writer instead launches the Filter Selection but none of the formats offered works. My system: R-2.4.0 odfWeave 0.4.4 package from

Re: [R] return()

2006-12-18 Thread Jonne Zutt
Well, put it in a list and return that list. It's all written in ?return by the way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R Help, Why is it that if you try to return more than one objects using return(), it says it is 'deprecated'? So how do I return more than 1 objects back to the parent

Re: [R] Replacing labels with symbols in biplot

2006-12-18 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi Mat, You can more-or-less do what you want with the xlabs argument to biplot. It only takes characters, rather than the normal plot symbol codes, though. If you need symbols, you can cheat with things like + o x. I usually use letters for the different groups within the data: temp -

[R] Window help files on networked drives may not be visible

2006-12-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Now R 2.4.x defaults to CHM help, you may encounter a problem with a fairly recent Windows security patch described in http://www.helpscribble.com/chmnetwork.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358 This may apply if you have R itself or some library on a networked drive or share. Apart

Re: [R] return()

2006-12-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/18/2006 6:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R Help, Why is it that if you try to return more than one objects using return(), it says it is 'deprecated'? So how do I return more than 1 objects back to the parent function? Put them in a list, e.g. return(a,b) should be coded

Re: [R] plot

2006-12-18 Thread John Kane
--- XinMeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello sir: a data with 2 columns: id x a 1 b 2 c 3 I wanna get such kind of plot: x: a b c y:1 2 3 But the plot command doesn't permit string character as x. How can I get it ? Thanks a lot ! My best It is not clear exactly what

[R] Applying variable labels across a data frame

2006-12-18 Thread Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
Hi All, I'm working on a class example that demonstrates one way to deal with factors and their labels. I create a function called myLabeler and apply it with lapply. It works on the whole data frame when I subscript it as in lapply( myQFvars[ ,myQFnames ], myLabeler ) but does not work if I

Re: [R] Find S4 Generic?

2006-12-18 Thread Spencer Graves
Dear Prof. Ripley: Thanks very much. That works. I got stuck on the help page for dumpMethods and failed to check See Also. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Do you want E (type 'E') or its methods (getMethods(E) works for me)? On Sun, 17 Dec 2006,

Re: [R] Applying variable labels across a data frame

2006-12-18 Thread Gabriel Baud-Bovy
You get a list, not a data.frame. Try, as.data.frame(lapply( myQFvars, myLabeler )) Gabriel At 05:10 PM 12/18/2006, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: Hi All, I'm working on a class example that demonstrates one way to deal with factors and their labels. I create a function called myLabeler and

[R] Distance between x-axis values and title

2006-12-18 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
Dear All, I looked at help(par), but could not figure out which setting controls the distance between the x-axis values and the x-axis title. Any pointer would be appreciated! Thanks in advance, -- Wolfgang Viechtbauer  Department of Methodology and Statistics  University of Maastricht,

Re: [R] Switching labels on a factor

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Andrews
Bob, This is I think exactly what one wants to have happen. The first four observations are still women. Both the labels and the underlying integers should change. (If you want to give all the people sex changes, try Relevel in the Epi package. mydata$afterthechange -

Re: [R] write() gotcha

2006-12-18 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Robin Hankin wrote: Hi I used write() the other day to save some results. It seems that write() does not record the full precision of the objects being written: write(pi,file=~/f,ncolumns=1) pi.saved - scan(~/f) Read 1 item dput(pi) 3.14159265358979

Re: [R] Distance between x-axis values and title

2006-12-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote: Dear All, I looked at help(par), but could not figure out which setting controls the distance between the x-axis values and the x-axis title. Any pointer would be appreciated! mgp: looking at An Introduction to R may help you find

Re: [R] Distance between x-axis values and title

2006-12-18 Thread John Kane
--- Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I looked at help(par), but could not figure out which setting controls the distance between the x-axis values and the x-axis title. Any pointer would be appreciated! Thanks in advance, ?mpg probably Is this what you

Re: [R] Distance between x-axis values and title

2006-12-18 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
Thanks to all who responded so quickly! Yes, I totally overlooked par(mpg). Exactly what I was looking for. -- Wolfgang Viechtbauer  Department of Methodology and Statistics  University of Maastricht, The Netherlands  http://www.wvbauer.com/ -Original Message- From: John Kane

[R] lmer formula

2006-12-18 Thread R Heberto Ghezzo, Dr
Hello, I have some problems trying to write up the formula for lmer. I have 43 subjects ( random factor) which were seen twice ( Visit : repeated measure - fixed). on each visit the patient performed a graded effort exercise ( effort : repeated measures, ordered, fixed 4 levels). So Subject is

[R] Replay recorded plot with new layout

2006-12-18 Thread rork
Folks, Please help with a graphics problem, I am running R2.4.0 on Windows XP. In much earlier version of R (1.3? about December 2001) I could par(mfrow=c(1,1)) plot(1,1,xlab=X,ylab=Y) plot1-recordPlot() plot(2,2,xlab=X2,ylab=Y2) plot2-recordPlot() par(mfrow=c(2,1)) plot1 plot2

Re: [R] Memory problem on a linux cluster using a large data set

2006-12-18 Thread Martin Morgan
Iris -- I hope the following helps; I think you have too much data for a 32-bit machine. Martin Iris Kolder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a large data set 320.000 rows and 1000 columns. All the data has the values 0,1,2. It seems like a single copy of this data set will be at

Re: [R] Memory problem on a linux cluster using a large data set [Broadcast]

2006-12-18 Thread Liaw, Andy
In addition to my off-list reply to Iris (pointing her to an old post of mine that detailed the memory requirement of RF in R), she might consider the following: - Use larger nodesize - Use sampsize to control the size of bootstrap samples Both of these have the effect of reducing sizes of trees

[R] Replacing values

2006-12-18 Thread downunder
Hi all, I have to recode some values in a dataset. for example changing all zeros to . or 999 would be also ok. does anybody know how to do this? thanks in advance. lars -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-R--Replacing-values-tf2841687.html#a7934402 Sent from the R help

[R] Replay recorded plot with new layout

2006-12-18 Thread Ray Souter
Folks, Please help with a graphics problem, I am running R2.4.0 on Windows XP. In much earlier version of R (1.3? about December 2001) I could par(mfrow=c(1,1)) plot(1,1,xlab=X,ylab=Y) plot1-recordPlot() plot(2,2,xlab=X2,ylab=Y2) plot2-recordPlot() par(mfrow=c(2,1)) plot1

Re: [R] Replacing values

2006-12-18 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:58 -0800, downunder wrote: Hi all, I have to recode some values in a dataset. for example changing all zeros to . or 999 would be also ok. does anybody know how to do this? thanks in advance. lars R has its own missing value designator, which is NA. A . or 999

Re: [R] plot

2006-12-18 Thread Rene Braeckman
You can do something like this for a scatter plot: x - c(a,b,c) y - c(1,2,3) xnum - rep(1:length(x)) plot(x=xnum, y=y, xlab=x, xaxt=n) axis(side=1, at=xnum, labels=x) This fakes a numerical axis and suppresses the y-axis labels that you then draw with the axis function the way that you want

[R] Plotting individual survival plots

2006-12-18 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
Using the survival library, it is possible to get a plot of all the subjects in a sample and it is possible to get a plot of all subgroups in the same plot. How does one get a separate plot for each subgroup? plot(survfit(Surv(time,death==1)~group),col=1:10) The above results in a hideous

Re: [R] Plotting individual survival plots

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Farrel Buchinsky wrote: Using the survival library, it is possible to get a plot of all the subjects in a sample and it is possible to get a plot of all subgroups in the same plot. How does one get a separate plot for each subgroup? There is an example in ?survfit of how

Re: [R] Plotting individual survival plots

2006-12-18 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
Yes. Thank you. Worked Brilliantly. Here it is for any future reference: for(i in 1:10)plot(survfit(Surv(time,death==1)~group)[i],xlab=days,main=levels(group)[i]) On 12/18/06, Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Farrel Buchinsky wrote: Using the survival library, it

Re: [R] surface3d grid from xyz dataframe

2006-12-18 Thread Alexander.Herr
Thanks Duncan, yes it is surface3d{rgl} I am trying. Unfortunately your solution doesn't work with the data (I get a subscript out of bounds error, after converting to integer and assigning the matrix to z via z[cbind(data$x, data$y)] - data$z). As outlined previously, I have a dataframe with

[R] unique columns of a matrix

2006-12-18 Thread Roman Akhter Ahmed
Dear all, I have a matrix of repeating columns in R, for example a matrix X is [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 1 1 1 1 [2,] 1 1 2 2 I want to store unique columns of the matrix X in a new matrix Y. Therefore, Y will be [,1] [,2]

Re: [R] unique columns of a matrix

2006-12-18 Thread John Fox
Dear Roman, You can use unique(X, MARGIN=2). See ?unique for details. I hope this helps, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

[R] Random Effects Model

2006-12-18 Thread readams
Hello, I am new to R, and I am trying to figure out how to use it for a random effects model. I am using version 2.4.0, and I also have the book Applied Linear Regression by Sanford Weisberg. I have four variables: Swimmer, Sex, Swim, and Difference. Swimmer identifies the number assigned

Re: [R] Random Effects Model

2006-12-18 Thread Rene Braeckman
If these are the only variables, you are missing Type. Swim and Type are both conditioning variables that you need to provide. Maybe your intention is to use Sex instead of Type. Try: ?xyplot And look under x as the 1st argument for xyplot. Rene -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[R] Problem in Dates

2006-12-18 Thread Shubha Karanth
Hi Experts, I have a problem in Dates. I have a zoo object called 'intra'. And the class of index(intra) is (Chron Dates Time). I need to put the index of this zoo object into a data frame. So I used, idat-data.frame(Datetime=as.POSIXlt(index(intra),GMT)) But I get the values of

[R] FW: Problem in Dates

2006-12-18 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Hi Experts, I have a problem in Dates. I have a zoo object called 'intra'. And the class of index(intra) is (Chron Dates Time). I need to put the index of this zoo object into a data frame. So I used, idat-data.frame(Datetime=as.POSIXlt(index(intra),GMT)) But I get the