[R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Daniel Ezra Johnson
I am fitting models to the responses to a questionnaire that has seven yes/no questions (Item). For each combination of Subject and Item, the variable Response is coded as 0 or 1. I want to include random effects for both Subject and Item. While I understand that the datasets are fairly

Re: [R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Daniel Ezra Johnson johnson4 at babel.ling.upenn.edu writes: ... If one compares the random effect estimates, in fact, one sees that they are in the correct proportion, with the expected signs. They are just approximately eight orders of magnitude too small. Is this a bug? ... BLUPs are

Re: [R] rimage package broken with fedora upgrade

2006-12-31 Thread Jonathan Baron
Responding to the original post, which I did not save. On 31/12/06, John Kornak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R list members I would be grateful if anyone could guide me to a solution for fixing my rimage package problem described below. I recently upgraded my machine from fedora

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2006-12-31 Thread hadley wickham
nr.attempts -aggregate(RawSeq$GENOTYPE_ID,list(sample=RawSeq$SAMPLE_ID,assay=RawSeq$ASSAY_ID),length) This was simply to figure out how many times the same piece of information had been obtained. I ran out of patience. It took beyond forever and tapply did not perform much better. The reshape

Re: [R] OT: any recommendation for scripting language

2006-12-31 Thread Doran, Harold
I'm a bit new with python, but have found it extremely easy to learn and use. I have been using it to pre-process some text files that we often deal with and need to be formatted in a certain way before they can be used for statistical analysis in another software program. I suppose there is one

[R] Which programming paradigm does R

2006-12-31 Thread Ricardo Rios
Hi wizards, I have a question. Which programming paradigm does R handle? . Iam looking for this information but I didn't found nothing. Thanks in advance. personal web site: http://www.geocities.com/ricardo_rios_sv/index.html -- personal web site:

Re: [R] Which programming paradigm does R

2006-12-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Its object oriented inspired by the Dylan language and Scheme. Some additional information is available in this thread: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-July/036437.html There are also a number of packages which layer other programming language models on top of R: - R.oo provides for

[R] (no subject)

2006-12-31 Thread Daniel Ezra Johnson
If one compares the random effect estimates, in fact, one sees that they are in the correct proportion, with the expected signs. They are just approximately eight orders of magnitude too small. Is this a bug? BLUPs are essentially shrinkage estimates, where shrinkage is determined with

Re: [R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Daniel Ezra Johnson
If one compares the random effect estimates, in fact, one sees that they are in the correct proportion, with the expected signs. They are just approximately eight orders of magnitude too small. Is this a bug? BLUPs are essentially shrinkage estimates, where shrinkage is determined with

[R] tabulate: switching columns and rows

2006-12-31 Thread Ricardo Rodríguez
Hi all, Please, is there any way of controlling factors in row/columns when using ftable/xtabs? As far as I can see, the last cross-clasifing variable in the formula will appear in columns. The previous ones, in rows. For instance, is it possible to make tension and replicate appear in

Re: [R] tabulate: switching columns and rows

2006-12-31 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Ricardo, Please, is there any way of controlling factors in row/columns when using ftable/xtabs? As far as I can see, the last cross-clasifing variable in the formula will appear in columns. The previous ones, in rows. For instance, is it possible to make tension and replicate appear

Re: [R] tabulate: switching columns and rows

2006-12-31 Thread Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team
hadley wickham[EMAIL PROTECTED] 31/12/2006 19:33 Hi Ricardo, You might want to have a look at the reshape package, http://had.co.nz/reshape, which provides a more general and flexible framework for reshaping data in R. The version of warpbreaks I have doesn't have the replicate variable, so

Re: [R] tabulate: switching columns and rows

2006-12-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Add the argument col.vars = 2:3 to your ftable call. See ?ftable On 12/31/06, Ricardo Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Please, is there any way of controlling factors in row/columns when using ftable/xtabs? As far as I can see, the last cross-clasifing variable in the formula

[R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Daniel Ezra Johnson
I've found a way to make this problem, if it's not a bug, more clear. I've taken my original data set A and simply doubled it with AA-rbind(A,A). Doing so, instead of this: Random effects: # A Groups NameVariance Std.Dev. Subject (Intercept) 1.63e+00 1.28e+00 Item(Intercept)

Re: [R] tabulate: switching columns and rows

2006-12-31 Thread hadley wickham
Thanks, Hadley, My fault: I've not provided the line concerning replicate variable. It is included in ?xtabs: warpbreaks$replicate - rep(1:9, len = 54) It will be great to have an example with these given data. Anyway, I will have a look to reshape at the given site. Thanks a lot!

Re: [R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Andrew Robinson
I'm not sure that shrinkage is the answer, in this case. I observed a similar problem with the gamma distribution, which I mentioned here: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/12/6903.html Since there hasn't been any discussion, I'm starting to think that it is a bug. Andrew On Sun,

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2006-12-31 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
I converted the whole data frame to character by using as.matrix And then using a posting that explained how to get the naming conventions back (which had been lost when converting to matrix) Anything that I did not list with the id's it insisted in including them with the measured variables.

Re: [R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Daniel Ezra Johnson johnson4 at babel.ling.upenn.edu writes: ... More broadly, is it hopeless to analyze this data in this manner, or else, what should I try doing differently? It would be very useful to be able to have reliable estimates of random effect sizes, even when they are rather

Re: [R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Daniel Ezra Johnson johnson4 at babel.ling.upenn.edu writes: If one compares the random effect estimates, in fact, one sees that they are in the correct proportion, with the expected signs. They are just approximately eight orders of magnitude too small. Is this a bug? BLUPs are

Re: [R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2006-12-31 Thread Daniel Ezra Johnson
Gregor, Thanks for your replies. 1) Yes, I have tweaked the data to show as clearly as I can that this is a bug, that a tiny change in initial conditions causes the collapse of a reasonable 'parameter' estimate. 2) mcmcsamp() does not work (currently) for binomial fitted models. 3) This is

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2006-12-31 Thread hadley wickham
I converted the whole data frame to character by using as.matrix You shouldn't need to do that. And then using a posting that explained how to get the naming conventions back (which had been lost when converting to matrix) Anything that I did not list with the id's it insisted in including

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2006-12-31 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
The reason that I used the as.matrix is because I understood that everything in the data.frame had to be either numeric or character. Most of mine were factors. Thank you so much for finding my elusive spelling mistake. I removed the offending d from measured and now it works. However, I have run

[R] Subset by using multiple values

2006-12-31 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
I have a vector containg about 20 unique values. It is called rejectrs$rs. It is a factor I have a data frame with about 10 rows. I want to exclude all rows where in variable rs the value is one of the 20 on the exclude list. I thought this would work but none did.

Re: [R] Subset by using multiple values

2006-12-31 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
I found a solution to my problem. I thought I would post it here. That will help me in 3 months when I have forgotten it or some other poor soul who stumbles across the same problem. RawSeqBig-RawSeqBig[RawSeqBig$ASSAY_ID %in% rejectrs$rs==FALSE,] Farrel Buchinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2006-12-31 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Farrel Buchinsky wrote: I have hundreds of humans who have undergone SNP genotyping at hundreds of loci. Some have even undergone the procedure twice or thrice (kind of an internal control). So obviously I need to find those replications, and confirm that the results

[R] if ... problem with compound instructions

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Rowe
I am having problems with the 'if' syntax. I have an n x 4 matrix, X say. The first two columns hold x, y values and I am attempting to fill the second two columns with the quadrant in which the datapoint (x, y) is and with the heading angle. So I have two problems 1) how to do this elegantly

Re: [R] if ... problem with compound instructions

2006-12-31 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/31/2006 9:35 PM, Richard Rowe wrote: I am having problems with the 'if' syntax. I have an n x 4 matrix, X say. The first two columns hold x, y values and I am attempting to fill the second two columns with the quadrant in which the datapoint (x, y) is and with the heading angle.

[R] New to R

2006-12-31 Thread Obinna Duru
Hey, I am very new to R and I need to use it (and the ACEPACK package) to do some statistical analysis. I have installed acepack but efforts to get started has been unsuccessful. I can't seem to be able to load my data files because I am yet to figure the syntax to use. Is there a work

Re: [R] New to R

2006-12-31 Thread Wensui Liu
what is the format of your data files, txt/csv/mdb/xls? the syntax is very different. could you please give more info? thanks. On 12/31/06, Obinna Duru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I am very new to R and I need to use it (and the ACEPACK package) to do some statistical analysis. I have

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2006-12-31 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Charles C. Berry wrote: On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Farrel Buchinsky wrote: I have hundreds of humans who have undergone SNP genotyping at hundreds of loci. Some have even undergone the procedure twice or thrice (kind of an internal control). So obviously I need to find

Re: [R] if ... problem with compound instructions

2006-12-31 Thread Bill.Venables
Step 1: quadrant - 1 + (X[, 1] 0) + 2*(X[, 2] 0) This is not the usual labelling of the quadrants as '3' and '4' are interchanged. If you want to be picky about it quadrant - ifelse(quadrant 2, 7 - quadrant, quadrant) Step 2: angle - atan2(X[,2], X[,1]) %% (2*pi) # I think this is what