[R] regular expression help

2007-04-18 Thread Petr PIKAL
Dear all as usual I am again lost in virtues of regular expressions. I have such character vector named vzor: [365] 61A 62C/27 65A/27 66C/29 69A/29 70C/31 73A/31 74C/33 77A/33 81A/35 82C/37 85A/37 86C/39 [378] 89A/39 90C/41 93A/41 94C/43 97A/43 98C/45

Re: [R] regular expression help

2007-04-18 Thread Philippe Grosjean
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Re: [R] R-OSX error: 'memory not mapped'

2007-04-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Atte Tenkanen wrote: I often get a following error with R *** caught segfault *** address 0x78807e00, cause 'memory not mapped' Possible actions: 1: abort (with core dump) 2: normal R exit 3: exit R without saving workspace 4: exit R saving workspace Selection:

Re: [R] Runing R in a bash script

2007-04-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ulrik Stervbo wrote: As I har problems installing the Cairo package, I went for Henriks solution - and it works almost perfect. I would like to have been able to generate transparent png. You cannot do transparency via postscript. I would suggest using pdf() and

Re: [R] value of complexity parameter in ridge regression

2007-04-18 Thread Simon Wood
What is the optimum range to look for a value of lambda while doing ridge regression. Can/ should lambda be greater than 1 ? -- I think it's data dependent, but lambda can certainly be greater than one. For many ridge regression problems you can choose lambda `objectively' by generalized

[R] proxy settings

2007-04-18 Thread Antonio Olinto
Hi all, I used to connect internet via a proxy. Before update packages I wrote in R Sys.putenv(http_proxy=http://proxy3.redegov.sp.gov.br:80/;) Nevertheless the way the connection is done has changed. For example, in the browser the proxy is not indicated and I have to give an username and a

[R] Help me about MADE4

2007-04-18 Thread Nitish Kumar Mishra
Hi, Help me, how I can Install made4(micoarray analysis tool) in R using linux OS. thanking you. -- Nitish Kumar Mishra Junior Research Fellow BIC, IMTECH, Chandigarh, India E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [R] GREP - Choosing values between two borders

2007-04-18 Thread jim holtman
Another way you can do it, if the data has the pattern shown in your sample, it to select all the lines that start with a numeric: input - FILE-CONTENT ## + EXAM NUM:2 + - + EXAM #1 + ASTIG:-2.4D + AXIS:4.8 + START OF HEIGHT DATA + 0 0.0 0. + 0 0.1

Re: [R] proxy settings

2007-04-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Antonio Olinto wrote: Hi all, I used to connect internet via a proxy. Before update packages I wrote in R Sys.putenv(http_proxy=http://proxy3.redegov.sp.gov.br:80/;) Nevertheless the way the connection is done has changed. For example, in the browser the proxy is not

Re: [R] Tcltk

2007-04-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Sorry, but this works under all the circumstances I tried on my Vista system, so there is nothing I can do to debug it. On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I suspect tcl's own version of 'access', but can you please confirm that this still happens under 'Run as Administrator',

Re: [R] R-OSX error: 'memory not mapped'

2007-04-18 Thread Atte Tenkanen
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Atte Tenkanen wrote: I often get a following error with R *** caught segfault *** address 0x78807e00, cause 'memory not mapped' Possible actions: 1: abort (with core dump) 2: normal R exit 3: exit R without saving workspace 4: exit R saving workspace

Re: [R] regular expression help

2007-04-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
A backreference is contained in parentheses and there are no parentheses in your regular expression, hence the error message. Its probably easiest just to remove all non-letters: x - 45x53yy66 gsub([^[:alpha:]], , x) # xyy On 4/18/07, Petr PIKAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all as usual I

Re: [R] Fractals with R

2007-04-18 Thread Atte Tenkanen
Now problems with plot-command... I try to plot Julia set and the algorithm works, if the points are drawn during the loop. But if I want to save the values first to the matrix and then afterwards plot them at once, the picture is distorted. What's wrong with the plot-command? I think the

Re: [R] regular expression help

2007-04-18 Thread Petr PIKAL
Thank you all for your working solutions Petr Pikal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 18.04.2007 13:26:36: A backreference is contained in parentheses and there are no parentheses in your regular expression, hence the error message. Its probably easiest just to remove all

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Thomas Lumley wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: The points that Thomas and Brian have made are certainly correct, if one is truly interested in testing for differences in medians or means. But the Wilcoxon test provides a valid test of x y more generally. The test

[R] Two sample t.test, order of comparions

2007-04-18 Thread Helmut Schütz
Dear group members, I want to compare response variables (logAUC) of two groups (treatment Test, Reference) of a subset (period == 1) in dataframe resp (below): sequence subject period treatment AUC logAUC 1RT 1 1 Reference 44.1 3.786460 2RT 1 2

Re: [R] Two sample t.test, order of comparions

2007-04-18 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On Apr 18, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Helmut Schütz wrote: Dear group members, I want to compare response variables (logAUC) of two groups (treatment Test, Reference) of a subset (period == 1) in dataframe resp (below): [ snip ] The formula method of t.test result - t.test(logAUC ~ treatment,

Re: [R] Two sample t.test, order of comparions

2007-04-18 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/18/07, Helmut Schütz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear group members, I want to compare response variables (logAUC) of two groups (treatment Test, Reference) of a subset (period == 1) in dataframe resp (below): sequence subject period treatment AUC logAUC 1RT 1 1

[R] Changing axis lable text size in plots?

2007-04-18 Thread Martin Hvidberg
Dear list I'm plotting ( boxplot() and plot() ) some data for a publication. The editor would like the text labels on the plots in a larger font. I'm doing something like this: snip jpeg( filename = D:/Martin/Work/CleanPath/RAF1%03d.jpg, width = 1000, height = 600,

Re: [R] Two sample t.test, order of comparions

2007-04-18 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
take a look at ?relevel() 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: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/

[R] R-2.4.1 for MacOS X - languageR, acepack, Hmisc

2007-04-18 Thread Lara Tagliapietra
I updated R to the last 2.4.1 version and unfortunately I can not load languageR any longer. In R-2.4.1, LanguageR requires acepack, but Hmisc doesn't work when acepack is loaded. library(languageR) Loading required package: Design Loading required package: Hmisc

Re: [R] Tcltk

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Sorry, but this works under all the circumstances I tried on my Vista system, so there is nothing I can do to debug it. You (i.e. Sofia) could do some investigation yourself. It may prove informative if you search for init.tcl and check whether it is readable (for

Re: [R] Two sample t.test, order of comparions

2007-04-18 Thread Helmut Schütz
Dear Charilaos! Charilaos Skiadas wrote: Do you know a more elegant way than the clumsy one I have tried? as.numeric(exp(result$estimate[2]-result$estimate[1])) as.numeric(exp(-result$conf.int[2])) as.numeric(exp(-result$conf.int[1])) First off, those three could probably be simplified

Re: [R] Runing R in a bash script

2007-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Horner
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ulrik Stervbo wrote: As I har problems installing the Cairo package, I went for Henriks solution - and it works almost perfect. I would like to have been able to generate transparent png. You cannot do transparency via postscript. I would

[R] division of decimal number

2007-04-18 Thread Schmitt, Corinna
Dear R-Experts, how can I divide the number 0.285 with 2. I need a function. Result: 0.285 / 2 = 0.1425 Thanks, Corinna __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] division of decimal number

2007-04-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Schmitt, Corinna wrote: Dear R-Experts, how can I divide the number 0.285 with 2. I need a function. Result: 0.285 / 2 = 0.1425 Just get the / operator: divide = get(/) divide(0.285,2) [1] 0.1425 Is that what you want? Barry __

Re: [R] Tcltk

2007-04-18 Thread Sofia Wikström
Thanks for the help! I found out that it was a problem with the search path for R. Reinstalling R seems to have solved the problem. Sorry for bothering you before having tested that. Sofia -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 18 april

Re: [R] division of decimal number

2007-04-18 Thread Gabor Csardi
Well, i think half.of.0.285 - function() { 0.1425 } would do the trink. Gabor On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:42:49PM +0200, Schmitt, Corinna wrote: Dear R-Experts, how can I divide the number 0.285 with 2. I need a function. Result: 0.285 / 2 = 0.1425 Thanks, Corinna

[R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Schmitt, Corinna
Dear R-experts, It is a quite stupid question but please help me. I am very confuced. I am able to import normal txt ant mat-files to R but unable to import .xls-file I do not understand the online help. Can please anyone send me the corresponding command lines? The .xls-file is attached. In my

[R] ESS function highlighting

2007-04-18 Thread Federico Calboli
Hi, is there a way of telling Emacs + ESS to show words that are already a function in R (such as 'length') is a different colour/font? Best, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel

[R] Get the: standard deviation and mean value of 3D-measurments

2007-04-18 Thread Felix Wave
Hello, I have got a numeric matrix with three colums of a few measurments. My x and y coordinates are rising numbers. The z coordinate is the measurment. In my matrix if have got ~6000 sorted values for one measurments multiplied with the number of measurments. An example in the end. My aim is

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-18 Thread Cody_Hamilton
Has anyone proposed using a bootstrap for Pedro's problem? What about taking a boostrap sample from x, a boostrap sample from y, take the difference in the medians for these two bootstrap samples, repeat the process 1,000 times and calculate the 95th percentiles of the 1,000 computed

[R] Problem with ?curve

2007-04-18 Thread Ron Michael
Dear all R gurus, I have following syntax: y = c(1:10) chippy - function(x) { y[5] = x sin(cos(t(y)%*%y)*exp(-t(y)%*%y/2)) } curve(chippy, 1, 20, n=200) But I am getting error while executing : Error in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) :

[R] Specifying ANCOVA models in R

2007-04-18 Thread Luke Spadavecchia
Hi all, I am trying to fit an ANOVA model in R using the aov/lm commands. I have a set of observational (i.e. no fixed experimental effects) data, in which I have identified high and low clusters of the response variable. The design is unbalanced, with 773 high cluster observations, and 523 low

Re: [R] Problem with ?curve

2007-04-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Your chipply function is not vectorized. See ?curve and try: curve(Vectorize(chippy)(x), 1, 20, n=200) On 4/18/07, Ron Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all R gurus, I have following syntax: y = c(1:10) chippy - function(x) { y[5] = x

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-18 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone proposed using a bootstrap for Pedro's problem? What about taking a boostrap sample from x, a boostrap sample from y, take the difference in the medians for these two bootstrap samples, repeat the process 1,000 times and calculate the 95th percentiles of

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Corinna Schmitt wrote: It is a quite stupid question but please help me. I am very confuced. I am able to import normal txt ant mat-files to R but unable to import .xls-file I've tried two ways to import excel files, but none of them seems perfect. Method 1: This method uses library

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Hans-Peter
2007/4/18, Schmitt, Corinna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is a quite stupid question but please help me. I am very confuced. I am able to import normal txt ant mat-files to R but unable to import .xls-file Searching for Excel on e.g. http://www.r-project.org/search.html,

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Gabor Csardi
There is also a read.xls command in package gdata, it seems that it uses a perl script called 'xls2csv'. I've have no idea how good this is, never tried it. Btw, xlsReadWrite is Windows-only, so you can use it only if you use windows. Gabor ps. Corinna, to be honest, i've no idea what kind

[R] Error in geweke.diag function of coda package

2007-04-18 Thread gsmatos1
Hi R users, Does anybody knows for the following erro after running geweke.diag(MCMC.sampled, frac1=0.1, frac2=0.5) Erro em glm.fit(x = X, y = Y, weights = weights, start = start, etastart = etastart, : laço interno 1; não é possível corrigir o tamanho do passo Além disso:

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Tucker
I use gdata and it works quite well for me. It's as easy as install.packages(gdata) library(gdata) data = read.xls(mydata.xls,sheet=1) [read.xls() can take other arguments] It requires concurrent installation of Perl, but installing Perl is also simple. For Windows, you can get it here:

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread John C Frain
To avoid complications, save your file as comma separated and use one of the instructions for reading delimited files. If you are using a comma as a decimal point you are probably using ; as a separator. If this is so use read.csv2. Please see the help files for read.table. Best Regards John

Re: [R] Data Manipulation using R

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Tucker
...is this what you're looking for? donedat - subset(data,ID 6000 | ID = 7000) findat - donedat[-unique(rapply(donedat,function(x) which( x 0 ))),,drop=FALSE] the second line looks through each column, and finds the indices of negative values - rapply() returns

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Gabor Csardi wrote: There is also a read.xls command in package gdata, it seems that it uses a perl script called 'xls2csv'. I've have no idea how good this is, never tried it. Btw, xlsReadWrite is Windows-only, so you can use it only if you use windows. Ok, but who would be insane

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Alberto Monteiro
John C Frain wrote: To avoid complications, save your file as comma separated and use one of the instructions for reading delimited files. If you are using a comma as a decimal point you are probably using ; as a separator. If this is so use read.csv2. Please see the help files for

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Soare Marcian-Alin
Hello Everybody, Install the package: install.packages(xlsReadWrite) Load it: library(xlsReadWrite) testfile = read.xls(TesFile.xls) Have Fun! Kind Regards, Soare Marcian-Alin PS: If dont works, then install also the package xtable, but it should work without installing it! 2007/4/18, John C

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Gabor Csardi
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:51:35PM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Gabor Csardi wrote: There is also a read.xls command in package gdata, it seems that it uses a perl script called 'xls2csv'. I've have no idea how good this is, never tried it. Btw, xlsReadWrite is Windows-only, so you

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Snow
For testing, the permutation test may be prefered to the bootstrap (though the bootstrap could be used for a confidence interval). I remember in grad school doing a project on comparing the efficiency of a permutation test on medians compared to the MannWhitney test, but I don't remember the

Re: [R] help comparing two median with R

2007-04-18 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Greg Snow wrote: For testing, the permutation test may be prefered to the bootstrap (though the bootstrap could be used for a confidence interval). I remember in grad school doing a project on comparing the efficiency of a permutation test on medians compared to the

[R] Thick stripes in the barplot() function

2007-04-18 Thread Gael Millot
Dear all, Sorry to bother you, but I didn't find the solution in the R-help archive. I would like to change the thickness of stripes inside the barplot. Is there any solution to do that when using the barplot() fuction and the density option ? Or is there any other function ? Thanks very much

Re: [R] Fractals with R

2007-04-18 Thread Atte Tenkanen
Here is a workable version for the Julia set. I put it also to http://fractalswithr.blogspot.com/ Atte Now problems with plot-command... I try to plot Julia set and the algorithm works, if the points are drawn during the loop. But if I want to save the values first to the matrix and

Re: [R] R-2.4.1 for MacOS X - languageR, acepack, Hmisc

2007-04-18 Thread Constant Depièreux
Hello, Same problem on a MacBook Pro (intel) with RODBC, nortest and gplots. Best regards Le 18-avr.-07 à 21:09, Weiwei Shi a écrit : same problem here. last time I had a similar one when I did library(MASS), I solved that by re-installation of R 2.4.1. However, this time it does not

[R] Memory increase in R

2007-04-18 Thread Hong Su An
Dear All: Pleas help me to increase the memory in R. I am trying to make euclidean distance matrix. The number of low in data is 500,000. Therefore, the dimension of euclidean distance matrix is 500,000*500,000. When I run the data in R. R could not make distance matrix because of memory

Re: [R] Memory increase in R

2007-04-18 Thread jim holtman
You would need 2TB (2,000,000,000,000) to store a single copy of your data. You probably need to rescale your problem. Even if you had the memory, the computation would take a very long time. On 4/18/07, Hong Su An [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All: Pleas help me to increase the memory in R.

[R] Gentleman and Ihaka , 2000 paper question

2007-04-18 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
In their paper, Lexical Scope and Statistical Computing, the authors ( Gentleman and Ihaka ) go to great length explaining why R's use of lexical scoping creates advantages when doing statistical computations. If anyone has or is familiar with this paper, could they provide the main program code

Re: [R] extracting intercept from ppr fit

2007-04-18 Thread Steven McKinney
Hi Vadim, Estimates of the alpha_0 terms in MASS are the $yb component of the object returned by ppr(). As I understand it, the original PPR algorithm assumes the response variable(s) are centered, so the 'alpha_0' term in MASS is just the mean of the response if the user does not center the

[R] Error loading libraries in MAC

2007-04-18 Thread Mayte Suarez-Farinas
Hi I just installed the gmodels package and the installation was successful but when I was trying to load the library I got an error (see below). Interesting, yesterday I wrote to the maintainer of RSQLite apckage because I got the same error. Does somebody knows what is going on ?? thanks,

[R] How do I print a string without the initial [1]?

2007-04-18 Thread steve
If I print a sting I get an initial [1]: xx=a xx [1] a How do I get it to print just a with no [1]? I tried looking this up, but I don't know what the initial [1] is called. Steve __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] How do I print a string without the initial [1]?

2007-04-18 Thread Benilton Carvalho
x=a\n cat(x) a On Apr 18, 2007, at 5:31 PM, steve wrote: If I print a sting I get an initial [1]: xx=a xx [1] a How do I get it to print just a __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

[R] Fwd: importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread John C Frain
-- Forwarded message -- From: John C Frain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 18-Apr-2007 22:35 Subject: Re: [R] importing excel-file To: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] One additional suggestion would be to use gretl. Gretl will read excel files with an option to possibly ignore the

Re: [R] How do I print a string without the initial [1]?

2007-04-18 Thread Soare Marcian-Alin
Hello Steve, You can print strings in R with the method cat() \n . new line \t . tabulator Try: name - c(Steve) age=22 cat(\tHello my name is, name ,and I am, age ,years old.\n) Have Fun! Kind Regards, Soare Marcian-Alin 2007/4/18, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I print a sting I get

[R] Conditional power, predictive power

2007-04-18 Thread francogrex
is there no package/function in R to calculate the conditional power or the bayesian predictive power for trials with binary endpoints? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Conditional-power%2C-predictive-power-tf3603396.html#a10066991 Sent from the R help mailing list

[R] Problems in programming a simple likelihood

2007-04-18 Thread Deepankar Basu
As part of carrying out a complicated maximum likelihood estimation, I am trying to learn to program likelihoods in R. I started with a simple probit model but am unable to get the code to work. Any help or suggestions are most welcome. I give my code below:

Re: [R] Gentleman and Ihaka , 2000 paper question

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Gentleman
not sure just what you want, but here are some snippets newton - function(lfun, est, tol = 1e-7, niter = 500) { cscore - lfun$score(est) if (abs(cscore) tol) return(est) for (i in 1:niter) { new - est - cscore / lfun$d2(est) cscore - lfun$score(new)

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Gregory Warnes
On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:58PM , Gabor Csardi wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:51:35PM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Gabor Csardi wrote: Ok, but who would be insane enough to use Excel in Linux or Mac? :-) The original reason for read.xls() was to allow a web application running computations

[R] Matrix or grid conversion of spatial data

2007-04-18 Thread Marco Visser
Dear Happy R-users experts, I am in need of advice, While working with spatial data (x y coordinates of seed locations) I have come accross the problem that I need to convert my point data into a matrix or grid system. I then need to count how often a point falls into a certain position in

Re: [R] Error loading libraries in MAC

2007-04-18 Thread Gregory Warnes
I have received a number of reports of problems with recent unversal Mac packages from CRAN when used with R 2.4.1. Has something in the build script changed? -G On Apr 18, 2007, at 4:49PM , Mayte Suarez-Farinas wrote: Hi I just installed the gmodels package and the installation was

[R] Computing an ordering on subsets of a data frame

2007-04-18 Thread Lukas Biewald
If I have a data frame X that looks like this: A B - - 1 2 1 3 1 4 2 3 2 1 2 1 3 2 3 1 3 3 and I want to make another column which has the rank of B computed separately for each value of A. I.e. something like: A B C - - - 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 4 3 2 3 3 2 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 3 by(X, X[,1],

Re: [R] importing excel-file

2007-04-18 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
The issue Greg mentions, that most scientists store their experimental data in MS-Excel spreadsheets is the motivation for one of the sessions at the Interface 2007 conference http://sbm.temple.edu/interface07/index.html in Philadelphia, May 23-26, 2007 Erich and Thomas designed the RExcel

Re: [R] Matrix or grid conversion of spatial data

2007-04-18 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Marco Visser wrote: Dear Happy R-users experts, I am in need of advice, While working with spatial data (x y coordinates of seed locations) I have come accross the problem that I need to convert my point data into a matrix or grid system. I then need to count how

[R] erratic behavior of match()?

2007-04-18 Thread Bernhard Klingenberg
Consider the code: x - seq(0,1,0.2) y - seq(0,1,0.01) cbind(match(y,x),y) which, surprisingly, doesn't show a match at 0.6! (It gives correct matches at 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8 and 1, though) In addition, x[4]==y[61] yields FALSE. (but x[5]==y[81], the one for 0.8, yields TRUE) Is this a

Re: [R] erratic behavior of match()?

2007-04-18 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/18/07, Bernhard Klingenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the code: x - seq(0,1,0.2) y - seq(0,1,0.01) cbind(match(y,x),y) which, surprisingly, doesn't show a match at 0.6! (It gives correct matches at 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8 and 1, though) In addition, x[4]==y[61] yields FALSE.

Re: [R] Problems in programming a simple likelihood

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Weigand
Deepankar, Some general advice from a non-expert: Write your likelihoods without a for loop. This is important because the likelihood is evaluated multiple times in the maximization process and you don't want to be looping looping looping ... Always try multiple starting values Sometimes it

Re: [R] Computing an ordering on subsets of a data frame

2007-04-18 Thread jim holtman
Does this do what you want? x - A B + 1 2 + 1 3 + 1 4 + 2 3 + 2 1 + 2 1 + 3 2 + 3 1 + 3 3 x - read.table(textConnection(x), header=TRUE) x$C - ave(x$B, x$A, FUN=rank) x A B C 1 1 2 1.0 2 1 3 2.0 3 1 4 3.0 4 2 3 3.0 5 2 1 1.5 6 2 1 1.5 7 3 2 2.0 8 3 1 1.0 9 3 3 3.0 On 4/18/07, Lukas