Re: [R] Regarding Vista

2007-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please to both of you: check the advice in the R 2.5.0 alpha version of the rw-FAQ. That has worked for everyone else who has reported a problem with installing packages on Vista. I've placed a copy online at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/rw-FAQ.html specifically

Re: [R] Kmeans centers

2007-03-30 Thread Sergio Della Franca
My simple problem is that when i run kmeans this give me different results because if centers is a number, a random set of (distinct) rows in x is chosen as the initial centres. About me the problem is simple. The question i ask you is if it possible that centers could be different from number.

Re: [R] Regarding Vista

2007-03-30 Thread Dieter Menne
gyadav at ccilindia.co.in writes: I am facing the same problem in my case. R 2.4.1 have installed successfully, but when i try to install the packages from a local zip file. It gives the following error message. +++ utils:::menuInstallLocal() Error in

[R] Hmisc summary.formula.reverse export problem

2007-03-30 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
Dear R-users, I'm trying to export object taulu3 from R to a text file (separated with semicolon). Object taulu3 is made with summary.formula in Hmisc package: taulu3 - summary(sp ~ pdg_newtext, data=tr_ekahj, method=reverse, overall=TRUE) class(taulu3) [1] summary.formula.reverse When I try to

Re: [R] Hmisc summary.formula.reverse export problem

2007-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Well, write.table works on 'tables', that is matrix-like objects. An object summary is not matrix-like. You may be looking for capture.output(print(taulu3), file=O:/taulu1.txt) On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: Dear R-users, I'm trying to export object taulu3 from R to a text file

Re: [R] Kmeans centers

2007-03-30 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:07 +0200, Sergio Della Franca wrote: My simple problem is that when i run kmeans this give me different results because if centers is a number, a random set of (distinct) rows in x is chosen as the initial centres. You can stop this and make it reproducible by setting

Re: [R] Kmeans centers

2007-03-30 Thread Sergio Della Franca
Thank you very much Gavin, The set.seed is the correct function i need. Now the kmeans is permanent and doesn't change results every time i run. 2007/3/30, Gavin Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:07 +0200, Sergio Della Franca wrote: My simple problem is that when i run

Re: [R] R equivalent of S+SeqTrial?

2007-03-30 Thread francogrex
Thanks again; It's ok I'm using the ldBands function now, the ld98.exe is just a small file to download into the path. I can calculate the alpha spending function and determine (given the Z statistics of my observations) if at the interim analysis the null hypothesis is to be rejected or not. But

Re: [R] Hmisc summary.formula.reverse export problem

2007-03-30 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
Thanks Brian, I was trying to get that object printed out with columns separated by semicolon. The reason for this is that I'm trying to get it to MS Excel. If this is not possible, I probably should turn into using Latex. -Lauri 2007/3/30, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well,

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Bert Gunter wrote: Question: Many (perhaps most?) questions on the list are easily answerable simply by checking existing R Docs (Help file/man pages, Intro to R, etc.). Why would a Wiki be more effective in deflecting such questions from the mailing list than them? Why would too helpful

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Philippe Grosjean
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[R] substitute NA values

2007-03-30 Thread Sergio Della Franca
Dear R-Helpers, I have the following data set(y): Test_Result #_Test t 10 f 14 f 25 f NA f 40 t45 t44 NA 47 tNA I want

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 5:27 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote: Bert Gunter wrote: Question: Many (perhaps most?) questions on the list are easily answerable simply by checking existing R Docs (Help file/man pages, Intro to R, etc.). Why would a Wiki be more effective in deflecting such questions from the

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Philippe Grosjean wrote: As other have pointed out, the main reason for the lack of success of the R Wiki is that the mailing lists, particularly R-Help, are sooo successful. However, I continue to consider that the mailing list is suboptimal in two cases: (1) when text is not enough to

Re: [R] Regarding Vista

2007-03-30 Thread John Kane
--- Dieter Menne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gyadav at ccilindia.co.in writes: I am facing the same problem in my case. R 2.4.1 have installed successfully, but when i try to install the packages from a local zip file. It gives the following error message.

Re: [R] Regarding Vista

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
John Kane wrote: As a somewhat desperate workaround try installing R on a USB and see if you can run if from there. I have 2.4.1 on a USB and it seems to work fine albeit a bit more slowly than from the hard drive. I love this quote, in http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/02.html, from

[R] Model comparison

2007-03-30 Thread João Fadista
Dear all, I would like to know if I can compare by a significance test 2 models with different kind of parameters. Perhaps I am wrong but I think that we can only compare 2 models if one is a sub model of the other. Med venlig hilsen / Regards João Fadista Ph.d. studerende / Ph.d. student

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 7:34 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: But the wiki doesn't offer a way to ask questions. I'd be just as happy to answer questions there as here, but there are none there to answer (and the advice there is to ask questions here). I don't know how to

Re: [R] Tail area of sum of Chi-square variables

2007-03-30 Thread Klaus Nordhausen
Hi, thanks everyone! pchisqsum() in the survey package does exactly what I was looking for! Best wishes, Klaus Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Von: Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: S Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

[R] Inquiry

2007-03-30 Thread Inmaculada López García
Good morning, I have a question about R, I would like to know how it is possible not to chop the result of an operation. How many decimals it is possible to obtain? Thank you in advance, I. López - Inmaculada López García Dpto. Estadística y

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Duncan Murdoch wrote: But the wiki doesn't offer a way to ask questions. I'd be just as happy to answer questions there as here, but there are none there to answer (and the advice there is to ask questions here). I don't know how to organize a wiki to make it easy to ask and answer

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread hadley wickham
I once tried: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=guides:lmer-tests but I don't think I will do this again on the existing Wiki. I am a frequent Wikipedia-Writer, so I know how it works, but this was discouraging. 1) The structure of the Wiki was and is still

Re: [R] substitute NA values

2007-03-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I assume you are referring to na.roughfix in randomForest. I don't think it works for logical vectors or for factors outside of data frames: library(randomForest) DF - data.frame(a = c(T, F, T, NA, T), b = c(1:3, NA, 5)) na.roughfix(DF) Error in na.roughfix.data.frame(DF) : na.roughfix only

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Romain Francois wrote: Say I don't know (and I can't understand the help) how to use the rnorm function. If I do RSiteSearch(rnorm), I will get too much useless information. OTOH, an ideal wikipedia would have a page http://www.r-wiki.org/rnorm, where I could find examples, learn the theory,

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 9:16 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Romain Francois wrote: Say I don't know (and I can't understand the help) how to use the rnorm function. If I do RSiteSearch(rnorm), I will get too much useless information. OTOH, an ideal wikipedia would have a page http://www.r-wiki.org/rnorm,

[R] math-operations

2007-03-30 Thread Schmitt, Corinna
Hallo R-experts, for a function I need to work with the commands div and mod known from Pascal and Ruby. The only help I know is ceiling() and floor() in R. Do div and mod exist? When yes please send me a little example. In Pascal-Syntax I want: 513 div 100 = 5 513 mod 100 = 13 How can I get

Re: [R] math-operations

2007-03-30 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
513 %/% 100 513 %% 100 check ?%/% for more info. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web:

Re: [R] CLUSTER Package

2007-03-30 Thread Martin Maechler
It seems nobody else was willing to help here (when the original poster did not at all follow the posting guide). In the mean time, someone else has asked me about part of this, so let me answer in public : MM == Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:23:30 +0100 writes:

Re: [R] math-operations

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Murta
On Friday 30 March 2007 14:34, Schmitt, Corinna wrote: Hallo R-experts, for a function I need to work with the commands div and mod known from Pascal and Ruby. The only help I know is ceiling() and floor() in R. Do div and mod exist? When yes please send me a little example. In

[R] Inquiry

2007-03-30 Thread Petr PIKAL
Petr Pikal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Postoupil do Petr PIKAL/CTCAP dne 30.03.2007 15:47 - Petr PIKAL/CTCAP napsal dne 30.03.2007 15:01:58: Hi Do you mean rounding. If yes you can consult ?round, ?floor, ?ceiling. If you want just to print different amount of digits you can look at

[R] R: math-operations

2007-03-30 Thread Guazzetti Stefano
I guess you need %% and %/% try 513 %/% 100 [1] 5 513 %% 100 [1] 13 ?%% Stefano -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] conto di Schmitt, Corinna Inviato: venerdì 30 marzo 2007 15.34 A: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Oggetto: [R] math-operations Hallo

Re: [R] math-operations

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 9:34 AM, Schmitt, Corinna wrote: Hallo R-experts, for a function I need to work with the commands div and mod known from Pascal and Ruby. The only help I know is ceiling() and floor() in R. Do div and mod exist? When yes please send me a little example. In Pascal-Syntax I

Re: [R] math-operations

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Murta
On Friday 30 March 2007 14:46, Alberto Murta wrote: On Friday 30 March 2007 14:34, Schmitt, Corinna wrote: Hallo R-experts, for a function I need to work with the commands div and mod known from Pascal and Ruby. The only help I know is ceiling() and floor() in R. Do div and mod exist?

[R] faster computation of cumulative multinomial distribution

2007-03-30 Thread Theo Borm
Dear list members, I have a series of /unequal/ probabilities [p1,p2,...,pk], describing mutually exclusive events, and a remainder class with a probability p0=1-p1-p2--pk, and need to calculate, for a given number of trials t=k, the combined probability that each of the classes 1...k

Re: [R] math-operations

2007-03-30 Thread Schmitt, Corinna
Thanks, it works. Corinna -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Guazzetti Stefano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 30. März 2007 15:41 An: Schmitt, Corinna; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Betreff: R: [R] math-operations I guess you need %% and %/% try 513 %/% 100 [1] 5 513 %% 100

Re: [R] math-operations and the R-Wiki

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: 513 %/% 100 513 %% 100 Now this is a great opportunity to improve the R-Wiki. What about a Pascal page in the R-Wiki, where a list of Pascal-to-R translations would be available? Alberto Monteiro __

Re: [R] substitute NA values

2007-03-30 Thread Sergio Della Franca
This is that i obtained. There isn't a method to replace the NA values only for character variable? 2007/3/30, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I assume you are referring to na.roughfix in randomForest. I don't think it works for logical vectors or for factors outside of data

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Duncan Murdoch wrote: This works when there's a decent documentation for the function. The functions in the tcltk package, for example, are horribly undocumented, and asking for help only loops to a general help about all (and none) of the functions. I don't remember if you've said which

[R] ANOVA and confidence intervals plot

2007-03-30 Thread Max Manfrin
Dear *, I would like to obtain for each factor of my anova model the response variable vs factor plot with means and 95% Tukey HSD intervals. I would appreciate any information on how to do that. Cheers

Re: [R] Inquiry

2007-03-30 Thread John Kane
I am not sure I understand your question but have a look at ?round and the signif command on that page. --- Inmaculada López García [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, I have a question about R, I would like to know how it is possible not to chop the result of an operation. How

Re: [R] substitute NA values

2007-03-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Not as part of na.roughfix. You could convert your character strings to factors and back again: library(randomForest) DF - data.frame(a = c(T, F, T, NA, T), b = c(1:3, NA, 5), c = c(b, b, NA, d, e), d = factor(c(a, a, NA, d, e)), stringsAsFactors = FALSE) DF$a - factor(DF$a) DF$c -

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Duncan Murdoch wrote: This works when there's a decent documentation for the function. The functions in the tcltk package, for example, are horribly undocumented, and asking for help only loops to a general help about all (and none) of the functions. I don't remember if you've said which

Re: [R] substitute NA values

2007-03-30 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:25 +0200, Sergio Della Franca wrote: This is that i obtained. There isn't a method to replace the NA values only for character variable? This is R, there is always a way (paraphrasing an R-Helper the name of whom I forget just now). If you mean a canned function, not

[R] Testing random effect in logistic mixed model

2007-03-30 Thread Julien
Hi When using linear mixed model, I could test for the effect of the random part of the model using a likelihood ratio test comparing two model with and without the random part. model.lmer=lmer(y~x+(1|r)) model.lm = lm(y~x) anova(model.lmer,model.lm) However, this does not work with a mixed

[R] Using split() several times in a row?

2007-03-30 Thread Sergey Goriatchev
Hi, fellow R users. I have a question about sapply and split combination. I have a big dataframe (4 observations, 21 variables). First variable (factor) is date and it is in format 8.29.97, that is, I have monthly data. Second variable (also factor) has levels 1 to 6 (fractiles 1 to 5 and

Re: [R] Inquiry

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Burns
My interpretation of the question (which of course may be wrong) has an answer that is the opposite of 'round': When a result is printed, it is rounded to a certain number of digits (controlled by the 'digits' argument of 'print'). Just because it is printed like that, doesn't mean the actual

[R] Minimum valid number of observations for rpart

2007-03-30 Thread fjlozl
Hi, I wonder if anyone knows a study dealing with the minimum valid number of observations when using CART?. On top of that, when using RandomForest, is it possible to obtained a interpretable tree model as the graphical output of the analysis, just like in rpart? Thanks a lot in advance Javier

[R] Makeconf on Windows - where?

2007-03-30 Thread Paul Roebuck
Read in the Windows release notes for 2.4.0 that: There is a new file etc/Makeconf that provides an approximation to the Unix version and may help with src/Makefile's. Yet when I look at the CRAN binary I have for 2.4.1patched, there are five files in the $R_HOME/etc directory, but no

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Romain Francois
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Philippe Grosjean wrote: As other have pointed out, the main reason for the lack of success of the R Wiki is that the mailing lists, particularly R-Help, are sooo successful. However, I continue to consider that the mailing list is suboptimal in two cases: (1)

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread hadley wickham
On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philippe Grosjean wrote: As other have pointed out, the main reason for the lack of success of the R Wiki is that the mailing lists, particularly R-Help, are sooo successful. However, I continue to consider that the mailing list is

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread hadley wickham
If entering a new page is really the way to ask a question, then you should write this on the front page, and as a possible way to contribute on the getting-started page. It would also be a good idea to tell people like me how to find those questions. (Recent Edits seems a little too broad,

Re: [R] Makeconf on Windows - where?

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 11:53 AM, Paul Roebuck wrote: Read in the Windows release notes for 2.4.0 that: There is a new file etc/Makeconf that provides an approximation to the Unix version and may help with src/Makefile's. Yet when I look at the CRAN binary I have for 2.4.1patched, there are

Re: [R] Using functions in LAPACK in a C program

2007-03-30 Thread pengp
Many thanks to Brian for his very useful information and help. A quick look at mgcv package already gives me some directions to try. I remember that I tried to use Rlapack.dll instead of R.dll without success, perhaps because I don't know how to build an import library for Rlapack.dll and link

Re: [R] Minimum valid number of observations for rpart

2007-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone knows a study dealing with the minimum valid number of observations when using CART?. I have no idea what you mean by 'valid' here. Could you answer the question for logistic regression to indicate to us what form of answer

Re: [R] Using functions in LAPACK in a C program

2007-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think all these points are answered in the README.packages for R 2.5.0 alpha (and probably for 2.4.1 too). You can use pexports to create Rlapack.exp, for example. On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks to Brian for his very useful information and help. A quick look at

Re: [R] Model comparison

2007-03-30 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Jo?o Fadista wrote: Dear all, I would like to know if I can compare by a significance test 2 models with different kind of parameters. Perhaps I am wrong but I think that we can only compare 2 models if one is a sub model of the other. The literature you seek is on

Re: [R] Minimum valid number of observations for rpart

2007-03-30 Thread David Farrar
Regarding interpretable output, I assume you have looked at the mds plot? regards, Farrar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone knows a study dealing with the minimum valid number of observations when using CART?. On top of that, when using RandomForest, is it

[R] Trouble installing package 'sp' in R 2.4.1

2007-03-30 Thread Gaurav Ghosh
Hi all, I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp' working down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI. The package would not install and I got the following message: quot;trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/sp_0.9-10.zip' Error in

Re: [R] Trouble installing package 'sp' in R 2.4.1

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 2:39 PM, Gaurav Ghosh wrote: Hi all, I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp' working down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI. The package would not install and I got the following message: quot;trying URL

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 3/30/07, Dieter Menne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Bolker bolker at zoo.ufl.edu writes: Well, we do have an R wiki -- http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php -- although it is not as active as I'd like. (We got stuck halfway through porting Paul Johnson's R Tips to it ...) Please

[R] RWiki, tcltk and plot

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
I think I - almost - got the knack for GUI programming using the tcltk library. Maybe I will update the RWiki with this: # # # library(tcltk) # # Create some matrix - nothing about tcltk here # matrix - cbind(rnorm(100), rpois(100, lambda=10),

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Deepayan Sarkar wrote: I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives anyone the right to take someone else's mailing list post and include that in a Wiki? Thinks there were posted to public mailing lists are freely copied and distributed. It's a scary thought; I may

Re: [R] Trouble installing package 'sp' in R 2.4.1

2007-03-30 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 3/30/2007 2:39 PM, Gaurav Ghosh wrote: Hi all, I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp' working down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI. The package would not install and I got the following message:

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Sarah Goslee
On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives anyone the right to take someone else's mailing list post and include that in a Wiki? Thinks there were posted to public mailing lists are

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread hadley wickham
Under US law (the only one I'm familiar with), the author of a mailing list post or any other written work _automatically holds copyright_ to that post (although not to the ideas contained therein, but to that particular description of the ideas). That's true in almost any country - see the

Re: [R] RWiki, tcltk and plot

2007-03-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:28:14PM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: My question: is there any way to integrate the plot part into a tcltk window? Are you aware of the tkrplot package on CRAN ? Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives anyone the right to take someone else's mailing list post and include that in a Wiki?

Re: [R] RWiki, tcltk and plot

2007-03-30 Thread Greg Snow
Look at the tkrplot package. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 1:28

[R] zip.file.extract on Windows

2007-03-30 Thread Gregg Lind
Hello R-help! I just wanted to share a tip might help others of us stuck on R. The documentation for zip.file.extract is rather scant, and a few examples would. When using zip.file.extract, the first argument should be the full (or relative) path and the second the name of the zip file, it

Re: [R] RWiki, tcltk and plot

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: My question: is there any way to integrate the plot part into a tcltk window? Are you aware of the tkrplot package on CRAN ? No. Alberto Monteiro __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
On a related note, one might be interested in checking out citizendium which is spin off wikipedia but 1) has more stringent identity verification and 2) uses a two-tier system of editors and authors. See http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html. Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives anyone the right to take someone else's mailing list

Re: [R] Copyright of messages (was Wikibooks)

2007-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What you agree to _is_ covered in the R posting guide and its references, as well as what is expected of posters in respecting the rights of others. Perhaps time yet again to remind people: PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html On Fri, 30 Mar 2007,

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Clint Bowman
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives anyone the right

Re: [R] faster computation of cumulative multinomial distribution

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Theo Borm wrote: I have a series of /unequal/ probabilities [p1,p2,...,pk], describing mutually exclusive events, and a remainder class with a probability p0=1-p1-p2--pk, and need to calculate, for a given number of trials t=k, the combined probability that each of the classes 1...k

Re: [R] substitute NA values

2007-03-30 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote: This is R, there is always a way (paraphrasing an R-Helper the name of whom I forget just now). Can't resist, it's one of my favorite fortunes ;) That would be Simon 'Yoda' Blomberg: library(fortunes) fortune(109) Haris Skiadas Department

Re: [R] faster computation of cumulative multinomial distribution

2007-03-30 Thread theo borm
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Theo Borm wrote: I have a series of /unequal/ probabilities [p1,p2,...,pk], describing mutually exclusive events, and a remainder class with a probability p0=1-p1-p2--pk, and need to calculate, for a given number of trials t=k, the combined probability that

[R] X11 and linux and plotting and the vertical axis

2007-03-30 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I use R on linux and I go through exceed from a windows machine. Depending on the amount of plots I do on a screen, sometimes the numbers on the vertical axis of the plots don't show up. I tried infinite of combinations of mar and cex but nothing helps. Yet, if instead of shooting the graphic

Re: [R] Wikibooks

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 5:05 PM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives anyone the

Re: [R] Using split() several times in a row?

2007-03-30 Thread Stephen Tucker
Hi Sergey, I believe the code below should get you close to want you want. For dates, I usually store them as POSIXct classes in data frames, but according to Gabor Grothendieck and Thomas Petzoldt's R Help Desk article http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2004-1.pdf, I should probably be

Re: [R] Trouble installing package 'sp' in R 2.4.1

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/30/2007 3:37 PM, Roger Bivand wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 3/30/2007 2:39 PM, Gaurav Ghosh wrote: Hi all, I just installed R 2.4.1 and tried to install the package 'sp' working down from the 'Packages' menu in the R GUI. The package would not install and I

Re: [R] faster computation of cumulative multinomial distribution

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Theo Borm wrote: Think of a sort of power roulette, played with 58 balls simultaneously, with a wheel containing 36 red/black slots of unequal size, and 1 green slot. I need to calculate the probability that each of the 36 red/black slots contains at least one ball. Ah, now we come to a more

[R] Linear model and time series

2007-03-30 Thread Andre Jung
Dear all, I have three timeseries Uts, Vts, Wts. The relation between the time series can be expressed as Uts = x Vts + y Wts + residuals How would I feed this to lm() to evaluate the unknowns x and y? Thanks, andre __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch