[R] scales argument in lattice plots

2005-02-18 Thread David Parkhurst
argument, but I don't fully understand the description there, about how to treat the x and y axes differently. I'd much appreciate any help. Please reply directly, as I don't subscribe to the list. Thank you. David Parkhurst __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

[R] Black and white lattice plots

2005-02-09 Thread David Parkhurst
How can I get lattice plots (with xyplot, etc.) to be produced in black and white, rather than in color? Im using R 2.0.1 under windows XP. (I'm not subscribed to the list, so would appreciate direct replies.) Thanks for any help. David Parkhurst __ R

[R] Converting yr mo da to dates

2005-01-26 Thread David Parkhurst
I'm using R 2.0.1 in windows XP (and am not currently subscribed to this mailing list). I have a USGS dataset, a text file with fixed width fields, that includes dates as 6-digit integers in the form yrmoda. I could either read them that way, or with yr, mo, and da as separate integers. In

[R] graphsheet substitute in R?

2005-01-26 Thread David Parkhurst
. Is there any way to do the equivalent in R? (Using splom from lattice makes the graphs too small.) Thanks for any help. (I am not subscribed to the news mailing list, so I would appreciate direct replies.) David Parkhurst __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

[R] How to use identify

2005-01-24 Thread David Parkhurst
I can't get identify to work, using R 2.0.1 under windows xp pro, service pack 2. Here's what I enter, and the result: plot((our.frame2$c1),(our.frame2$c9)) # Produces desired plot identify(our.frame2$c1) # Plot comes to forefront, so I select a point warning: no point with 0.25 inches

Re: [R] How to use identify --- Summary

2005-01-24 Thread David Parkhurst
I asked why my call to identify wasnt working. Thanks to Petr Pikal, Tom Mulholland, Gavin Simpson, and Duncan Murdoch for explaining that I had misinterpreted the ?identify help page, and that I needed to feed both the x and y vectors in the plot to identify(). Its working fine for me now.

[R] font size in console

2005-01-19 Thread David Parkhurst
installed the program on the server I use in classes to set it (assuming that can be done)? Thanks for any help. David Parkhurst __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http

[R] graphics device problems

2004-02-29 Thread David Parkhurst
I'm using R 1.8.0 under windows XP. I can't get certain of the graphics devices set up. For example, when I copy this line directly from the postscript help screen, I get the error messages that follow it: postscript(foo.ps) Error in PS(file, old$paper, old$family, old$encoding, old$bg,

[R] rfImpute (for randomForest) crashed

2003-08-26 Thread David Parkhurst
In trying to execute this line in R (Version 1.7.1 (2003-06-16), under windows XP pro), with the randomForest library (about two weeks old) loaded, the program crashed: bost4rf - rfImpute(TargetDensity~.,data=bost4rf0) Specifically, an XP dialog box popped up, saying R for windows GUI front-end

[R] How to reinstall rpart?

2003-08-15 Thread David Parkhurst
After entering library(rpart), I tried to plot an existing rpart tree, and got this error message: Error: couldn't find function plot.rpart. However, ?plot.rpart does bring up the help for the function. The same things occur for text.rpart, although print(my.tree) does work. So, I tried to

[R] problem with download.packages

2003-08-14 Thread David Parkhurst
R Version 1.7.0, under windows XP pro The help page for update.packages says that { `download.packages' takes a list of package names and a destination directory, downloads the newest versions of the package sources and saves them in `destdir'. If the list of available packages is not given as

Re: [R] na.action in randomForest --- Summary

2003-08-06 Thread David Parkhurst
A few days ago I asked whether there were options other than na.action=na.fail for the R port of Breimans randomForest; the functions help page did not say anything about other options. I have since discovered that a pdf document called The randomForest Package and made available by Andy Liaw

[R] na.action in randomForest

2003-08-03 Thread David Parkhurst
The help page for randomForest shows na.action=na.fail as a parameter, and does not describe other possibilities for na.action. I have a regression problem, with about 1000 rows in my data frame, and with an NA in occasional predictor variables, in about 5% of rows. I would like to have all rows

[R] length() misbehaving?

2003-03-14 Thread David Parkhurst
I'm having a weird problem with length(), in R1.6.1 under windows2000. I have a dataframe called byyr, with ten columns, the first of which is named cnd95. summary(byyr) shows that byyr$cnd95 contains the factor level tr 66 times. Also, when I enter byyr$cnd95 at the command line, I can count 66

[R] Summary: length() ain't misbehavin' after all

2003-03-14 Thread David Parkhurst
I asked why length(byyr$cnd95[byyr$cnd95==tr]) was counting NA's as well as trs. Thanks to Brian Ripley, Uwe Ligges, Ott Toomet, Marc Schwartz, and Thomas Lumley for their help. Two solutions were to replace my call with length[byyr$cnd95 %in% tr] or with sum(byyr$cnd95 == tr, na.rm=TRUE) and

[R] trellis.datasets help

2003-02-23 Thread David Parkhurst
I've looked every way I can think of for help on trellis.datasets, but nothing comes up for me. Please help me find information on what is included, and how to get at those data. Thanks. Dave Parkhurst __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[R] read.table(file=clipboard,...) for R?

2003-01-20 Thread David Parkhurst
I use read.table(file=clipboard,...) a lot in s-plus (under windows 2000), but it does not seem to work in R (and is not in the help screen for read.table). Am I missing something? Would this ability be hard to add? Thanks. Dave Parkhurst __ [EMAIL