Re: [R] Software for kriging

2007-01-04 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi the emulator package of the the BACCO bundle includes kriging as a special case. HTH Robin On 4 Jan 2007, at 04:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R-list members, I wish everyone a happy and successful 2007! Does anyone know of R-based software for optimal spatial prediction

Re: [R] need help with debug package

2007-01-04 Thread Tong Wang
I think I have figured out part of the answer, when I entered a debugger, the calling environment (parent frame) refers to the debugger program, instead of the mainfun( ). But is there anyway to solve this problem ? thanks - Original Message - From: Tong Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] Help re zinb model

2007-01-04 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember that -2 * the difference in the likelihoods between the two models is asymptotically chi-squared distributed, with degrees of freedom equal to the difference in number of parameters between the models. So you can just calculate that for

[R] dashed lines and SVG files devSVG(/folderul/unde/salvez/myplot.svg, width=10, height=10) plot(1:10, 1:10) dev.off()

2007-01-04 Thread Adrian DUSA
Dear helpers, I have a question about the SVG device. It works fine, the SVG file is indeed produced, only the graphic differs from the R window. In the SVG file the dashed line is just a regular plain one. My toy example is: library(RSvgDevice) devSVG(myplot.svg, width=10, height=10) plot(1:10)

Re: [R] Time series plot

2007-01-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out #2 in: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/85801.html and RSiteSearch(axis(4) to find additional examples. On 1/4/07, Arun Kumar Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gabor, Thank you very much for your letter. Actually I got partial solution from your suggestion. Still I

[R] dashed lines and SVG files

2007-01-04 Thread Adrian DUSA
Sorry for duplicating the message, the previous had an unintended subject line... Dear helpers, I have a question about the SVG device. It works fine, the SVG file is indeed produced, only the graphic differs from the R window. In the SVG file the dashed line is just a regular plain one. My toy

[R] pretended size postscript and size of the graphic device window

2007-01-04 Thread mirca heli
Dear list members! I've two questions concerning graphic export: a) I want to export my graphics as PostScript files. in this way I use the postscript() function. The tricky part is that they must have a pretended size (7 x 7 cm) and an absoulte font size (10pt). b) how can i (permanent)

Re: [R] Time series plot

2007-01-04 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi On 4 Jan 2007 at 14:18, Arun Kumar Saha wrote: Date sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:18:11 +0530 From: Arun Kumar Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] pretended size postscript and size of the graphic device window

2007-01-04 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 12:21 +0100, mirca heli wrote: Dear list members! I've two questions concerning graphic export: a) I want to export my graphics as PostScript files. in this way I use the postscript() function. The tricky part is that they must have a pretended size (7 x 7 cm) and an

Re: [R] pretended size postscript and size of the graphic device window

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
mirca heli wrote: Dear list members! I've two questions concerning graphic export: a) I want to export my graphics as PostScript files. in this way I use the postscript() function. The tricky part is that they must have a pretended size (7 x 7 cm) and an absoulte font size (10pt).

Re: [R] pretended size postscript and size of the graphic device window

2007-01-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/4/2007 6:21 AM, mirca heli wrote: Dear list members! I've two questions concerning graphic export: a) I want to export my graphics as PostScript files. in this way I use the postscript() function. The tricky part is that they must have a pretended size (7 x 7 cm) and an absoulte

[R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Shipley
Hello, and Happy New Year. My default working directory is getting very cluttered. I know that I should be using a different working directory for each project (I work in Windows), but do not know how to go about creating different ones and moving back and forth between them. I have read

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
See ?getwd and ?setwd to set the working directory See ?load and ?save to read the workspace. Cheers, Thierry ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Reseach Institute for Nature and Forest

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
The basic command for this is setwd() (for set working directory) You can save your workspace after you use the setwd command, and this will create a .RData file in that directory. In windows you can click on the .RData directory to open R using that particular working directory. You can

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Chuck Cleland
Bill Shipley wrote: Hello, and Happy New Year. My default working directory is getting very cluttered. I know that I should be using a different working directory for each project (I work in Windows), but do not know how to go about creating different ones and moving back and forth between

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread AA
use setwd() and getwd(). see ?setwd or on the shortcut properties tab, set the target directory to your working dir and have as many shortcuts as working directories. working with R commands does it for me. all the best. A. - Original Message From: Bill Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
An additional note for Windows. The directory name needs to be written as C:/Project/Working directory or C:\\Project\\Working directory as opposed to the usual way of referencing directories in Windows. AA wrote: use setwd() and getwd(). see ?setwd or on the shortcut properties tab, set the

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Professor Brian Ripley
Abhijit Dasgupta wrote: An additional note for Windows. The directory name needs to be written as C:/Project/Working directory or C:\\Project\\Working directory as opposed to the usual way of referencing directories in Windows. Which are? Those are the forms given in the Microsoft

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Bill Shipley wrote: Hello, and Happy New Year. My default working directory is getting very cluttered. I know that I should be using a different working directory for each project (I work in Windows), but do not know how to go about creating different ones and moving back and forth between

Re: [R] mcmcsamp and variance ratios

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Bates
On 1/3/07, Martin Henry H. Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have assumed that ratios of variance components (Fst and Qst in population genetics) could be estimated using the output of mcmcsamp (the series on mcmc sample estimates of variance components). What I have started to do

[R] export many plots to one file

2007-01-04 Thread bogdan romocea
Dear useRs, I have a few hundred plots that I'd like to export to one document. pdf() isn't an option, because the file created is prohibitively huge (due to scatter plots with many points). So I have to use png() instead, but then I end up with a lot of files (would prefer just one). 1. Is

[R] get.hist.quote

2007-01-04 Thread BBands
Odd behavior from get.hist.quote this AM. get.hist.quote('sunw') trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=sunwa=0b=02c=1991d=0e=03f=2007g=dq=qy=0z=sunwx=.csv' Content type 'text/csv' length unknown opened URL .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

Re: [R] export many plots to one file

2007-01-04 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
I can think of two options: 1. Use R2HTML and save the html output as PDF 2. Use Sweave and compile the LaTeX file to PDF. Search the mailing list archive on how to save the graphs as png or jpeg (as Sweave will standard generate eps or pdf graphs). Cheers, Thierry

Re: [R] Time series plot

2007-01-04 Thread Don MacQueen
Here's an example illustrating a way to get a second y axis that has a different range: x - 1:10 y1 - 2*x y2 - 100-3*x+rnorm(10) par(mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,4.1)) plot(x,y1) par(new=TRUE) plot(x,y2,xaxt='n',yaxt='n',xlab='',ylab='',pch=3) axis(4) mtext('y2',side=4,line=2.5) -Don At 2:18 PM +0530

Re: [R] get.hist.quote

2007-01-04 Thread BBands
On 1/4/07, BBands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd behavior from get.hist.quote this AM. Now working, must have been a Yahoo! issue. jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning. __

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Earl F. Glynn
Bill, I like to use Windows Explorer to find folders and then launch R with the selected folder as the working directory. I put some notes online about this: http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R/TechNote/WindowsExplorerWorkingDirectory/index.htm efg Bill Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[R] Seek general information about time/date storage and functions in R

2007-01-04 Thread Ben Fairbank
Hello R List - I have to import Excel files (either as .csv files or using RODBC) into R (2.4.1, Windows) and operate on dates and times (e.g. find minutes between times, change dates to days of week or analyze by weeks of year). The help files for format.Date, strptime, as.POSIX,

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/4/2007 9:41 AM, Bill Shipley wrote: Hello, and Happy New Year. My default working directory is getting very cluttered. I know that I should be using a different working directory for each project (I work in Windows), but do not know how to go about creating different ones and moving

Re: [R] Seek general information about time/date storage and functionsin R

2007-01-04 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I think the best explanation of dates and times is in r-news 2.4.1 but 2.4.1 might be off so someone will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Fairbank Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:43 PM To:

Re: [R] Seek general information about time/date storage and functions in R

2007-01-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/4/2007 12:42 PM, Ben Fairbank wrote: Hello R List - I have to import Excel files (either as .csv files or using RODBC) into R (2.4.1, Windows) and operate on dates and times (e.g. find minutes between times, change dates to days of week or analyze by weeks of year). The help

Re: [R] export many plots to one file

2007-01-04 Thread Greg Snow
The approach I would take (possibly due to ignorance of a better option) is to export to the multiple .png files, then use a tool like imagemagick to combine them into a single pdf file. For a quick test I exported 3 graphs from R and called them test1.png, test2.png, and test3.png. The

Re: [R] mcmcsamp and variance ratios

2007-01-04 Thread Martin Henry H. Stevens
On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Douglas Bates wrote: On 1/3/07, Martin Henry H. Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have assumed that ratios of variance components (Fst and Qst in population genetics) could be estimated using the output of mcmcsamp (the series on mcmc sample estimates

Re: [R] Install RMySQL with R 2.4.0

2007-01-04 Thread Joe Byers
All, I am glad all of you have benefited from the posting of the RMySQL 5-10 zip file on my university website. I am asking for some help from the group, I am leaving the university at the end of the semester and I need a place to post this file until I get settled in my new position. Anyone

Re: [R] setting new working directories

2007-01-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/4/2007 12:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 1/4/2007 9:41 AM, Bill Shipley wrote: Hello, and Happy New Year. My default working directory is getting very cluttered. I know that I should be using a different working directory for each project (I work in Windows), but do not know how to go

[R] littler+dget+stdin - segmentation fault

2007-01-04 Thread John Lawrence Aspden
Hi, I'm trying to write a series of pipes using littler, and I get the following behaviour: Sorry if I'm just doing something witless, I'm new to R. I'm using the latest versions from debian testing (2.4.0 and 0.0.8). $ r -e 'a-dget(file=stdin()); print(a)' ?list(a=2) Segmentation fault In R

[R] loess

2007-01-04 Thread Jukka Nyblom
Hi, I have tried for (i in 1:100) L[,i] - loess((i = =(1:100))~I(1:100), span=.5, degree=1)$fit to create a matrix which gives me the smoothing weights (correctly as far as I have experienced), eg. yhat - loess(y~I(1:100), span=.5,degree=1)$fit yhat[30] [1] -0.2131983 L[30,]%*%y

[R] stratified sampling from known population datafile

2007-01-04 Thread Steven Gorlé
Dear R-wizards, I have a population from which I want to draw a stratified sample by region. In Venables and Ripley Modern Applied statistics with S I found some great procedures for Simple Random Sampling (with and without replacement) and for Systematic sampling and it works! For

[R] memory limits in R loading a dataset and using the package tree

2007-01-04 Thread domenico pestalozzi
I think the question is discussed in other thread, but I don't exactly find what I want . I'm working in Windows XP with 2GB of memory and a Pentium 4 - 3.00Ghx. I have the necessity of working with large dataset, generally from 300,000 records to 800,000 (according to the project), and about 300

[R] randomForest and missing data

2007-01-04 Thread Darin A. England
Does anyone know a reason why, in principle, a call to randomForest cannot accept a data frame with missing predictor values? If each individual tree is built using CART, then it seems like this should be possible. (I understand that one may impute missing values using rfImpute or some other

[R] [R-pkgs] RSQLite 0.4-18 sent to CRAN

2007-01-04 Thread Seth Falcon
A new version of RSQLite has been pushed to CRAN. In this version... * Further integration of the manifest type system available since SQLite 3. We now obtain the column type from the DB instead of pulling everything across as a character vector and calling type.convert. This should

[R] Weighting Data

2007-01-04 Thread nalluri pratap
Hi All, Weighting is the procedure to correct the distributions in the sample data to approximate those of the population from which it is drawn. This is partly a matter of expansion and partly a matter of correction or adjustment for both non response and non coverage. It serves the

[R] problem with plot() and POSIXt dates

2007-01-04 Thread COMTE Guillaume
Hy all, I'm plotting graphs using plot() function, they are on X axes POSIX dates: POSIXt oldClass POSIXct POSIXlt I can't figure out why sometimes it prints the month and days and sometimes it prints the unix timestamp. It appens usually when the xlim is short like only some days. xlim is

[R] importing timestamp data into R

2007-01-04 Thread sj
I have a set of timestamp data that I have in a text file that I would like to import into R for analysis. The timestamps are formated as follows: DT_1,DT_2 [2006/08/10 21:12:14 ],[2006/08/10 21:54:00 ] [2006/08/10 20:42:00 ],[2006/08/10 22:48:00 ] [2006/08/10 20:58:00 ],[2006/08/10 21:39:00 ]

Re: [R] randomForest and missing data

2007-01-04 Thread Sicotte, Hugues Ph.D.
I don't know about this module, but a general answer is that if you have missing data, it may affect your model. If your data is missing at random, then you might be lucky in your model building. If however your data was not missing at random (e.g. censoring) , you might build a wrong predictor.

[R] Some Windows code for GUI-izing workspace loading

2007-01-04 Thread Bert Gunter
Folks: Motivated by the recent thread on setting working directories, below are a couple of functions for GUI-izing saving and loading files **in Windows only** that sort of takes care of this automatically. The simple strategy is just to maintain a file consisting of the filenames of recently

Re: [R] randomForest and missing data

2007-01-04 Thread Darin A. England
Yes I completely agree with your statements. As far as a way around it, I would say that CART has some facilities for dealing with missing data. e.g. when an observation is dropped into the tree and encounters a split at which the variable is missing, then one option is to simply not send it

Re: [R] importing timestamp data into R

2007-01-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: Lines - DT_1,DT_2 [2006/08/10 21:12:14 ],[2006/08/10 21:54:00 ] [2006/08/10 20:42:00 ],[2006/08/10 22:48:00 ] [2006/08/10 20:58:00 ],[2006/08/10 21:39:00 ] [2006/08/04 12:15:24 ],[2006/08/04 12:20:00 ] [2006/08/04 12:02:00 ],[2006/08/04 14:20:00 ] Lines2 - gsub(\\[|\\], ,

Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread karl . sommer
Hello, thanks for the advice. I was aware that the version was out of date and your message prompted me to finally upgrade to the latest version 2.4.1. Unfortunately, running R under Emacs ESS, the problem I described earlier persists. I have also tried the Save as option under the standard

[R] A question on REML in R

2007-01-04 Thread Shuangshuang Jin ^_^
Hello, everyone, I'm using R to deal with a REML problem. I found lmer is the right function for this. But I got stuck because I couldn't interpret the result. I'm attaching a short example of my executing log. Please have a look and give me some advice on it. Thanks a lot! Plot Block

Re: [R] littler+dget+stdin - segmentation fault

2007-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Horner
John Lawrence Aspden wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a series of pipes using littler, and I get the following behaviour: Sorry if I'm just doing something witless, I'm new to R. I'm using the latest versions from debian testing (2.4.0 and 0.0.8). $ r -e 'a-dget(file=stdin()); print(a)'

Re: [R] randomForest and missing data

2007-01-04 Thread Weiwei Shi
You can try randomForest in Fortran codes, which has that function doing missing replacement automatically. There are two ways of imputations (one is fast and the other is time-consuming) to do that. I did it long time ago. the link is below. If you have any question, just let me know.

Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
The good news, you don't have to shut down R. Several control-G in the *R* buffer in emacs will recover control. A second attempt in the same GUI graphics device did get the postscript file saved. A workaround for this problem is to use the command line, rather than the GUI menu, to save the

Re: [R] memory limits in R loading a dataset and using the package tree

2007-01-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please read the rw-FAQ Q2.9. There are ways to raise the limit, and you have not told us that you used them (nor the version of R you used, which matters as the limits are version-specific). Beyond that, there are ways to use read.table more efficiently: see its help page and the 'R Data

Re: [R] problem with plot() and POSIXt dates

2007-01-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
As the footer says PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. We can't help you with a problem we cannot reproduce, and random guessing is not going to be productive. On Thu, 4 Jan

[R] color of opposite sign values in filled.contour

2007-01-04 Thread Claudia Tebaldi
Dear R-helpers, I'm plotting geophysical data in the form of contours using filled.contour. The display would be much more effective if the areas with negative values could be color coded by -- say -- cold colors in the range of blue to green, and conversely the areas with positive values got

Re: [R] loess

2007-01-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Jukka Nyblom wrote: Hi, I have tried for (i in 1:100) L[,i] - loess((i = =(1:100))~I(1:100), span=.5, degree=1)$fit to create a matrix which gives me the smoothing weights (correctly as far as I have experienced), eg. yhat - loess(y~I(1:100), span=.5,degree=1)$fit

Re: [R] littler+dget+stdin - segmentation fault

2007-01-04 Thread John Lawrence Aspden
Jeffrey Horner wrote: John Lawrence Aspden wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a series of pipes using littler, and I get the following behaviour: $ r -e 'a-dget(file=stdin()); print(a)' ?list(a=2) Segmentation fault You've found a bug which has been fixed. Expect a new version 0.0.9 of

Re: [R] color of opposite sign values in filled.contour

2007-01-04 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Claudia, It's quite easy to do this using ggplot, although you get exactly the same appearance as filled.contour (hopefully in the next version). Have a look at ggtile and scgradient. Regards, Hadley On 1/4/07, Claudia Tebaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R-helpers, I'm plotting

Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/4/2007 5:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, thanks for the advice. I was aware that the version was out of date and your message prompted me to finally upgrade to the latest version 2.4.1. Unfortunately, running R under Emacs ESS, the problem I described earlier persists. I

Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread ssk2031
Just in case you were not already aware, you could try Tinn-R (http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/) or JGR (http://rosuda.org/JGR/) or one of the editors described at this site (http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/projects/Editors.html) as Emacs alternatives. I love Emacs and miss the speed of using Emacs

[R] coefficients of each local polynomial from loess() or locfit()

2007-01-04 Thread Liu, Delong \(NIH/CIT\) [C]
I want to extract estimated coeffiicents of each local polynomial at given x from loess(), locfit(), or KernSmooth(). Can some experts provide me with suggestions? Thanks. Delong Liu __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

[R] ifelse on data frames

2007-01-04 Thread maj
[Using R 2.2.0 on Windows XP; OK, OK, I will update soon!] I have noticed some undesirable behaviour when applying ifelse to a data frame. Here is my code: A - scan() 1.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.0 0.027702 0.972045 0.000253 0 0.0 A - matrix(A,nrow=2,ncol=5,byrow=T) A == 0

[R] Fwd: Re: R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Can you send ess-bugs some reproducible examples of what isn't working? These are things that are probably easily fixed. Rich Original message Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:02:17 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [R] color of opposite sign values in filled.contour

2007-01-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Get the RColorBrewer package from CRAN Description: The packages provides palettes for drawing nice maps shaded according to a variable. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread karl . sommer
Hello list thanks for that advice Rich. You are right a few control-G allowed me to recover and it had saved an eps file. The dev.copy2eps appears to take exactly what is visible in the graphics window and convert it to an eps file. This does the job for the moment. Opening the eps file in

[R] Fwd: Re: R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
R is actually smarter than that. The bounding box is square. From plot(1:10) dev.copy2eps(file=tmp.eps) The bounding box (which you can see by opening tmp.eps in emacs) is %%BoundingBox: 0 0 517 517 and LaTeX will therefore interpret it correctly. GSview is misleading you since it puts that

Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
An additional note. You can see the bounding box in the GSview display by clicking Options/Show Bounding Box Rich __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

2007-01-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
another note you can clip the GSview to just the bounding box with Options/EPS CCip Rich __ 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

Re: [R] ifelse on data frames

2007-01-04 Thread talepanda
It can be explained. class(A) [1] data.frame length(A) [1] 5 class(A==0) [1] matrix length(A==0) [1] 10 class(-A*log(A)) [1] data.frame length(-A*log(A)) [1] 5 as you can see, the result of A==0 is matrix with length=10, while the result of -A*log(A) is still data.frame with length=5.

Re: [R] importing timestamp data into R

2007-01-04 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
Suppose that you have the timestamps in a comma seperated text file, times.dat then do tid - read.csv(times.dat, header = TRUE, colClasses = character) # Note the colClasses argument! If not used the columns of tid are factors by default. time.conv - function(x) as.POSIXct(strptime(x, format