Re: [R] Slightly OT - use of R

2007-07-30 Thread Neil Shephard
John Logsdon j.logsdon at quantex-research.com writes: I am trying to get a measure of how R compares in usage as a statistical platform compared to other software. I would guess it is the most widely used among statisticians at least by virtue of it being open source. But is there any

Re: [R] problems with character objects and calls to list() [solved]

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Shephard
Thanks to Patrick Burns and Mark Lyman for their suggestions in solving my problem. Patrick suggested creating the list directly (the solution I opted for) On 7/23/07, Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not make the list directly: list.to.convert - vector('list', n) for(x in 1:n)

[R] problems with character objects and calls to list()

2007-07-23 Thread Neil Shephard
Hi All, I have a problem trying to get a set of columns recognised as a list and can't work out how to do it despite trawling through the mailing list archives, and docs. A short example... to.convert - NULL n - 6 for(x in 1:n){ to.convert - paste(to.convert, paste((2 * x) -1, (2 * x),

[R] Re : Combine R2HTML and Rcmd BATCH?

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Shephard
I have an R script that spawns output in the form of an HTML page. This is done by the R2HTML package. Now I want to run the same script using Rcmd BATCH. However, it seems that it is not possible to use R2HTML in this case. My script ends with this error message: #

[R] Re : Half of a heatmap

2007-06-25 Thread Neil Shephard
I am trying to produce a heatmap of pairwise correlations, but since the matrix is symmetric, I only need either the upper or the lower triangle. I have scoured the web and R documentation, but I have not been able to find a way to produce such a figure. Is there a simple way to

Re: [R] Linux Distribution Choice

2006-02-20 Thread Neil Shephard
I thought I'd add my vote for Gentoo, which has been my distro of choice for some time (although Slackware is very good as well, and teaches you a lot about *NIX in general). The main advantage of gentoo is that updating is very easy using the portage system (as pointed out by jon butchar), but

Re: [R] Games-Howell, Gabriel, Hochberg

2005-12-01 Thread Neil Shephard
Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What would be nice would be an R routine that automatically implements this flowchart. I'd recommend learning about p.adjust and the multcomp package *instead* of following the flowchart. Another approach to correcting for multiple testing is

Re: [R] CRAN task view for genetics

2005-06-11 Thread Neil Shephard
. Registration with the author is currently required. Regards Neil -- Neil Shephard Genetics Statistician, ARC Epidemiology Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do

[R] Re: limma, FDR, and p.adjust

2004-12-20 Thread Neil Shephard
section of http://cran.r-project.org/). I don't think it really address' the problems I/O problems originally queried, but thought I would mention it as no one else has. HTH's Neil Neil Shephard Genetics Statistician ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

[R] More info - S-Plus compatability

2003-01-17 Thread Neil Shephard
problems with the read.table() and write.table() functions in the above script file??? Thanks again to all who offered help, and in anticipation of responses to this msg, Regards Neil Neil Shephard Genetics Statistician ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL