Re: [R] Speed up R

2007-06-20 Thread Michael Prager
Matthew Keller wrote: So Mike, let me ask you a question. If R runs out of RAM, does it begin to use virtual RAM, and hence begin to swap from the hard drive? If so, I could see how a faster hard drive would speed R up when you don't have enough RAM... Yes. Virtual memory management is done

[R] TCL/TK and R documentation?

2007-01-10 Thread Michael Prager
I am hoping something has changed since I last asked about this. Is there any good source of documentation, including examples, of using tcl/tk as a gui for R applications? __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Matrix dimnames

2006-11-01 Thread Michael Prager
Daniel Gatti wrote: How does one assign names to the columns of a matrix so that the columns can be accesses using the '$' operator? It seem that x$c1 below should return column 1. x = matrix(1:4,2) dimnames(x) = list(c(r1, r2), c(c1, c2)) x c1 c2 r1 1 3 r2 2 4 x$c1

Re: [R] Saving a function

2006-11-01 Thread Michael Prager
Matt, patopatasfrias wrote: Hey, I'm a real novice... how do I go about saving a function that I created eg. If I created this function: Fun-function(x1,X2) {..}, how can I store it so that the next time I use R I can load it and not have to type it out again If you search the

[R] Package development on Windows - latest guidance?

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Prager
I would like to start building R packages under Windows XP. I have programming experience and a minimal but working knowlege of many Unix (-like) programming tools. The package functions (for now) will be from R source, not C or Fortran. I've installed Rtools, Perl, the MS hhc, and so on. I am

Re: [R] Package development on Windows - latest guidance?

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Prager
Thanks to Gabor G., Duncan M., and Hong O. for helpful replies. I've made some progress, but have two questions. Can anyone explain *how* R CMD searches for latex? I have provided a batch file (shell script) and and alias (I use a Windows command shell with aliasing) that each provide the

Re: [R] Package development on Windows - latest guidance?

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Prager
Thanks again to D. M. and G. G. for help. I have built a small package successfully, although latex is not working quite right. I might be able to get it working, but I'm unclear what the latex compiler is used for when building a package. Otherwise, I'll just install MikTeX and treat it as a

Re: [R] Command equivalent of rgui File, Save to File?

2006-09-12 Thread Michael Prager
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 9/11/2006 3:57 PM, Michael Prager wrote: R 2.3.1 on Windows XP Professional. I am writing some scripts to generate examples. The Rgui menu item File, Save to File is helpful. Is there perhaps an equivalent R function that can be incorporated into a script

[R] Command equivalent of rgui File, Save to File?

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Prager
R 2.3.1 on Windows XP Professional. I am writing some scripts to generate examples. The Rgui menu item File, Save to File is helpful. Is there perhaps an equivalent R function that can be incorporated into a script? Mike Prager Southeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Beaufort, North Carolina

Re: [R] Successive Graphs

2006-09-11 Thread Michael Prager
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have written an R script on a Windows platform where I calculate eight result matrices I plot using matplot. I would like to display the resulting plots successively, rather than simultaneously, and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Prager
Here is one user's perspective on this, with no pretense of being definitive. In the S (R) world, the expression computing on the language is used to encompass what I would call the tasks of macro programming. This involves uses of various S (R) expressions that convert between names of

Re: [R] warning messages

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Prager
You might consider passing the output file name to the function as an argument. Matthew Bridgman wrote on 6/25/2006 10:49 AM: I want to put warning messages into some of my functions to remind myself to change the output file names each time I run them. Is there a way to do this that will

Re: [R] how to make a series with decimal increment

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Prager
Gavin Simpson wrote on 6/14/2006 12:44 PM: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 05:24 +, anil kumar rohilla wrote: Hi List, I am new to this Rsoftware, i want to make a sereis for example which is having values like this, s- 0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,1 [...] Hi Anil, see ?seq for the

[R] Variable number of arguments to function

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Prager
Dear R List, I have used ... to pass a varying number of arguments to a function. The function takes parts of specialized data objects (they happen to be lists) and makes comparative graphs and analyses. The code shell looks like this: models.compare - function(...) { ## Get the data

Re: [R] Contour plot overlayed with line plot

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Prager
It seems you have figured out a solution; for another example, you could look here: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=90 Mike Jonathan Greenberg wrote on 5/10/2006 7:46 PM: I apologize for what may be a newbie question: I have two sets of data, one is X,Y,Z data

Re: [R] GUI font size

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Prager
Erin, I was able to set it larger by making the change manually in the Rconsole file. For details of Rgui (Windows) configuration, try ?Rconsole from the prompt. MHP Erin Hodgess wrote on 4/24/2006 6:44 PM: Dear R People: On the Edit menu, there is a GUI preference tab. On the Font

Re: [R] is there a formatted output in R? [User functions]

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Prager
There is a slightly easier way to make your own functions available. 1. Set up a directory for your R configuration. I use d:\r\mhp. Copy .Rprofile, Rconsole, Rdevga there. 2. Set up a Windows environment variable R_USER pointing to that directory. For example: R_USER=d:\r\mhp The point of

Re: [R] 2nd R console?

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Prager
On Windows, I often have more than one R console (instance of Rgui.exe) open at the same time. Unless by mistake, each instance is open on a unique working directory. MHP mark garey wrote on 3/9/2006 8:05 PM: hello all, i'm forwarding this question for a colleague. Is it possible to open a

Re: [R] Optimal platform for R

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Prager
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 3/9/2006 4:47 PM: I'm looking to buy a new desktop which will primarily be used for analyses of large datasets (100s of MB). I've seen postings from several years back re the 'optimal' platform for running R, but nothing more recently. Specifically, I want to

Re: [R] R and Power Point

2006-02-14 Thread Michael Prager
Erin, From an Rgui graphics window (windows() device), Ctrl-W will save the current graph to the clipboard as a metafile; Ctrl-C will save as a bitmap. In PPt, Ctrl-V will paste either into a blank spot on a slide. The metafile is a Windows vector spec that will be sharper and smaller.

Re: [R] Plotting contour filled.contour in one graph

2006-02-12 Thread Michael Prager
Besides the answers you already have, you might look at my 4D graph example (with code) on the R Graphics Gallery: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=90 I think it does exactly what you are asking, and therefore it might fit your needs with only slight code

Re: [R] Plotting contour filled.contour in one graph

2006-02-12 Thread Michael Prager
that graph is showing? On 2/12/06, Michael Prager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides the answers you already have, you might look at my 4D graph example (with code) on the R Graphics Gallery: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=90 I think it does exactly what you

Re: [R] A comment about R: (sort.data.frame)

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Prager
Gabor Grothendieck wrote on 1/3/2006 2:37 PM: Looking at the first few queries, see how easy it is to take the top few in Stata whereas in R one would have a complex use of order. Its not hard in R to write a function that would make it just as easy but its not available off the top of one's

Re: [R] copy contributed packages from R 2.2.0 to 2.2.1

2005-12-23 Thread Michael Prager
When I asked this question, I got some good answers. Based on them, I wrote a pair of functions to accomplish this. I have tested them in exactly ONE installation, and they worked. Of course these are not needed by R gurus, but I attach them (with many more comment lines than actual source)

Re: [R] Writing a list to a file !

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Prager
Here is a function I use to send lists to ASCII files. list2ascii - function(x,file=paste(deparse(substitute(x)),.txt,sep=)) { # MHP July 7, 2004 # R or S function to write an R list to an ASCII file. # This can be used to create files for those who want to use # a spreadsheet or

[R] Tip: Working directory in titlebar

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Prager
I hope others may find this useful. I use R in many different directories. By adding the following line to the .Rprofile file: utils:::setWindowTitle(paste(-,getwd())) the titlebar of each R instance shows the directory from which it was started. I have tested this with rterm.exe and

Re: [R] Calling R from fortran

2005-07-12 Thread Michael Prager
Simon, An hour's worth of contour plots (12) should be able to be saved in far less than 1 Gb, depending on the detail desired. Here is one way to do your task. There are other, and probably better, ones. At each time step (5 mins), you could have the Fortran program write a data file and then

Re: [R] inserting R code in a latex document

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Prager
Thibaut Jombart wrote: I'm trying to insert R source code (functions) in an appendix of a latex document. I guess the easiest way to do so is to use the package Sweaved (file : Sweaved.sty) I have had very good results with the LaTeX package listings. It is easy to use, and it does the job.

Re: [R] Graphics file to disk

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Prager
If you want to write directly to file, ?Devices will get you more information Guy Forrester wrote on 5/11/2005 7:08 PM: Dear All, I have some code that works in S-Plus for writing saving a graphics file to disk :- [...] -- Michael H. Prager, Ph.D. Population Dynamics Team NOAA Center for Coastal

Re: [R] Producing Editable Graphs for PowerPoint

2004-12-20 Thread Michael Prager
Paul-- It is hard to fight the tide, even when it contains sewage, but (you probably agree) this is an idiotic requirement. Not only does this journal want to change your work (which journals do much too much), they also want you to help them use of low-class tools to do so. You could try