[R] Hessian in constrOptim

2004-04-02 Thread Spyridoula Tsonaka
Dear R-users, In the function constrOptim there is an option to get an approximation to the hessian of the surrogate function R at MLE by declaring hessian=TRUE in the calls to the function optim. I would like to ask if it is advisable to get an approximate hessian for the funcrion f as follows:

Re: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-02 Thread Peter Wolf
Sorting is a wonderful topic! Especially because you can discuss different fundamental ideas like brute force, divide and conquer, and questions of efficiency, tradeoffs of space and time, etc. In this way sort.6 is one of a sequence of sorting algorithms. Each of them demonstrates a specific

[R] marrayNorm package

2004-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm a french student working on cDNA microarrays. I decided to use the bioconductor packages and I have a problem with normalization functions. As everybody who manipulates microarray data know, there are some spots on the slide which are to be removed. In the marrayLayout there is a slot

[R] which on array

2004-04-02 Thread asemeria
Good morning ! Today I found a strange, for my poor knowledge of R, behaviour of 'which' on a matrix: HAL9000 str(cluster.matrix) num [1:227, 1:6300] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ... HAL9000 class(cluster.matrix) [1] matrix HAL9000 ase - cluster.matrix[1:5,1:5] HAL9000 ase [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]

Re: [R] which on array

2004-04-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning ! Today I found a strange, for my poor knowledge of R, behaviour of 'which' on a matrix: HAL9000 str(cluster.matrix) num [1:227, 1:6300] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ... HAL9000 class(cluster.matrix) [1] matrix HAL9000 ase - cluster.matrix[1:5,1:5] HAL9000 ase

[R] GARCH

2004-04-02 Thread Wayne Jones
Hi there fellow R-Users, Can anyone recommend a good book on the theory and practice of applying GARCH models. Also, does any one know of any R related subject material in addition to library(tseries). Regards Wayne Dr Wayne R. Jones Senior Statistician / Research Analyst KSS Limited St

[R] (de)linearizing array indices

2004-04-02 Thread Tamas Papp
Hi, I have a dynamic programming problem with many state variables, let's call them l, n, m, etc. The transition probabilities are originally given in an array form, eg transtition[l,m,n,ll,mm,nn] give the probability of going from l,m,n to ll,mm,nn. However, the numerical solution is best

FW: [R] GARCH

2004-04-02 Thread Pfaff, Bernhard
Hi there fellow R-Users, Can anyone recommend a good book on the theory and practice of applying GARCH models. Hello Wayne, * Campbell, John, Lo, Andrew W., MacKinlay, A. Craig, The Econometrics of Financial Markets, 1996, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Re: [R] Question on Data Simulation

2004-04-02 Thread Göran Broström
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:11:31PM +0200, Rau, Roland wrote: Hello, -Original Message- From: Jingky P. Lozano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[R] Question on Data Simulation Dear mailing list,

[R] tan(mu) link in GLM

2004-04-02 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, I am interested in extending the repertoire of link functions in glm(Y~X, family=binomial(link=...)) to include a tan link: eta = (4/pi)*tan(mu) i.e. this link bears the same relation to the Cauchy distribution as the probit link bears to the Gaussian. I'm interested in sage advice

RE: [R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-02 Thread John Fox
Dear Marc, I may misunderstand your question, so perhaps this answer isn't what you're looking for: A short time ago, Henrik Bengtsson posted a function to r-help (search for plotSymbols in the list archive) that displays all available symbols. I think that it's fair to say that fewer than 25

Re: [R] tan(mu) link in GLM

2004-04-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in extending the repertoire of link functions in glm(Y~X, family=binomial(link=...)) to include a tan link: eta = (4/pi)*tan(mu) i.e. this link bears the same relation to the Cauchy distribution as the probit link bears to

[R] picking out eigenvalues of 1

2004-04-02 Thread Tamas Papp
After making E - eigen( something ) I would like to extract those eigenvectors which have an eigenvalue of 1. If I had an isone() function, I would simply say E$vectors[,which(isone(E))] but the problem is that I have no such thing. I found all.equal, so I could test for all.equal(x, 1), but

[R] Underscore and ESS

2004-04-02 Thread Göran Broström
This is a question that I should have sent to 'ess-help', but I take my chances... In 'NEWS' (1.9.0) I read the good news o Underscore '_' is now allowed in syntactically valid names, and make.names() no longer changes underscores. Very old code ... but when I try it in emacs

[R] Single Factor Anova

2004-04-02 Thread christopher ciotti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all - As I progress in R I am trying to automate functions I would have normally farmed out to Excel, SPSS or Statistica. Single factor anova is one of them. For example, a dataset from NIST StRD

[R] R on Tru64 OSF 5.1

2004-04-02 Thread J Swinton
Has anyone achieved a current successful build of R 1.8 or 1.9 or earlier for HPUX Tru 64 OSF 5.1? There is no binary version of R for HPUX Tru 64 OSF 5.1. The R admin manual mentions that the native make fails on Alpha/OSF (aka Tru 64) and gnu make must be used instead. There are problems

Re: [R] Underscore and ESS

2004-04-02 Thread Martin Maechler
GB == Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:29:00 +0200 writes: GB This is a question that I should have sent to 'ess-help', but I GB take my chances... (yes, you should have..) GB In 'NEWS' (1.9.0) I read the good news GB o Underscore '_' is now

[R] The R Reference Manual - available as a printed book

2004-04-02 Thread Brian Gough
Hello, This message is to announce that the R Reference Manual is now available in book form. There are two volumes, which cover all the commands in the base package. They are available for order from all major bookstores. The R Reference Manual - Base Package (2 volumes) Hardback

RE: [R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, John Fox wrote: I may misunderstand your question, so perhaps this answer isn't what you're looking for: A short time ago, Henrik Bengtsson posted a function to r-help (search for plotSymbols in the list archive) that displays all available symbols. I think that it's

Re: [R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-02 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 05:16 AM 4/2/2004, Carlisle Thacker watched in amazement as electrons turned into magical things called words: Marc, It is very difficult for the eye to distinguish even 25 symbols or 25 colors on the same plot. I find that my brain tends to saturate at 5 of each, and using 5 symbols each

RE: [R] Single Factor Anova

2004-04-02 Thread Liaw, Andy
So what is your question? With R-1.8.1 on WinXPPro, I get: y - scan(clipboard) Read 48 items f - factor(rep(1:2, 24)) fit - aov(y ~ f) print(unclass(sum.fit)[[1]], dig=15) Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(F) f1 3.63834187585414e-09

Re: [R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Marc R. Feldesman feldesmanm at pdx.edu writes: Is there any effective way to get distinct geometric plotting symbols and colors for plots involving more than 25 groups? Not sure if geometric shapes is essential but if not you could plot them with different letters (or LETTERS). The

RE: [R] Single Factor Anova

2004-04-02 Thread Liaw, Andy
Sorry, I apparently left out the line sum.fit - summary(fit) Andy From: Liaw, Andy So what is your question? With R-1.8.1 on WinXPPro, I get: y - scan(clipboard) Read 48 items f - factor(rep(1:2, 24)) fit - aov(y ~ f) print(unclass(sum.fit)[[1]], dig=15) Df

RE: [R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-02 Thread Ken Knoblauch
A rainbow has a continuous distribution of wavelengths. These are not at all the same thing as colors! Quoting Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You would do well to get people to recognize more than a dozen spot colours, too -- we are tuned to recognizing quite large blobs of colour.

Re: [R] Single Factor Anova

2004-04-02 Thread christopher ciotti
Liaw, Andy wrote: So what is your question? With R-1.8.1 on WinXPPro, I get: Obviously I was asking about how one would go about running one. I appreciate your answer. Thanks. -- chris ciotti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP ID: 0xE94BB3B7 __ [EMAIL

Re: [R] (de)linearizing array indices

2004-04-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
R stores its arrays in reverse odometer order where the leftmost array index varies fastest. The result of: matrix(1:4,2) shows this. Your pack and unpack are in odometer order with the rightmost index varying fastest. If you were to move to R's convention then you could move back and forth

[R] How canI convert date-time to Julian date?

2004-04-02 Thread Martina Azaroglu
Hello!! I need some help! I tried everything, but nothing worked! I have a vector c with dates in it, in the format 2004-04-01 and i need to convert it in the form 04/01/2004 or 01/04/2004 ! How can i do that?? Thanks Bye Martina -- __ [EMAIL

[R] convert excell file to text with RODBC package

2004-04-02 Thread solares
Hi, i can convert excell to list in R with package RODBC ()but i don't understand 2 mistake 1) Don't read the last row of the table excell 2) Don' t take the hours My excell file call prueba4.xls and have the following rows: where prueba4.xls was make in excell (office xp) and have one

Re: [R] How canI convert date-time to Julian date?

2004-04-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Martina Azaroglu wrote: I need some help! I tried everything, but nothing worked! I am sure you did not try _everything_, but it would have been helpful to give some idea of what you were trying. I have a vector c with dates in it, in the format 2004-04-01 and i need to

Re: [R] convert excell file to text with RODBC package

2004-04-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the second question is the command odbcFechRows() don't work, That is not a question, that is an assertion! There is no such function, and I presume you mean odbcFetchRows(). for example if write tbl-odbcFetchRows(canal) in place of sqlFetch

Re: [R] How canI convert date-time to Julian date?

2004-04-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Convert your character dates to one of R's date classes (POSIXlt, chron or the new Date class in 1.9.0) and then format the date. The m/d/y format you want is actually the default format in chron: z - c( 2004-01-20, 2004-02-22 ) # test vector # load chron and set default year to 4 digits

[R] Winding Number

2004-04-02 Thread Clint Bowman
I have shapefiles for the state climatic divisions for the United States and read.shape brings them in wonderfully. Now I wish to run through a list of several thousand observation sites to find out in which division each is located. I figure that I can compute the winding number for each site

Re: [R] Winding Number

2004-04-02 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Clint Bowman wrote: I have shapefiles for the state climatic divisions for the United States and read.shape brings them in wonderfully. Now I wish to run through a list of several thousand observation sites to find out in which division each is located. I figure that I

Re: [R] Winding Number

2004-04-02 Thread Clint Bowman
Roger, Thanks for your reference. Since I can get the polygon coordinates (and have the coordinates of my sites, I can cobble together a function that will do the trick. Again, thanks, Clint On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Roger Bivand wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Clint Bowman wrote: I have

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Re: [R] Winding Number

2004-04-02 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Members of this list may be interested in http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm. There is a C++ port asw well by the postgis folks. Tim On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:29, Clint Bowman wrote: Roger, Thanks for your reference. Since I can get the polygon coordinates (and have the

[R] Formulae Construction

2004-04-02 Thread Leonard Assis
Where Can I Have More information about Formulae in R (Nesti8ng, Crossing Factors, Etc). I´ve tried to obtain this information in R Help and that source were a kind of inconclusive for my Doubts. []s Leonard Assis Estatístico CONFE 7439 __ [EMAIL

Re: [R] Formulae Construction

2004-04-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Then you need to look elsewhere, like the reference in ?formula and the books in the R FAQ. I am his co-author, but I still think Bill Venables' account in MASS (Venables Ripley, 1994, 7, 9, 2002) is unequalled. On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Leonard Assis wrote: Where Can I Have More information about

RE: [R] Formulae Construction

2004-04-02 Thread Liaw, Andy
I believe the white book has a chapter on the topic. HTH, Andy From: Leonard Assis Where Can I Have More information about Formulae in R (Nesti8ng, Crossing Factors, Etc). I´ve tried to obtain this information in R Help and that source were a kind of inconclusive for my Doubts. []s

[R] General question on prediction

2004-04-02 Thread gwiggner
Hi, Could you give me your opinions on this idea, please ? Predicting Y from X is similar* to finding the Expectation{Y|X}. The joint probability Pr(X,Y) 'contains' this expectation. If this joint probability follows a 'simple' law, it is easier to estimate it directly than using regression

[R] Doing SQL GROUP BY in R

2004-04-02 Thread JFRI (Jesper Frickmann)
I want a list of the number of times some factor levels appear together, similar to the following SQL statement: SELECT A, B, COUNT(C) FROM TBL GROUP BY A, B How do I do that with a data.frame in R? Thanks, Jesper Frickmann Statistician, Quality Control Novozymes North America Inc. 77 Perry

[R] Extending a vector

2004-04-02 Thread Mark O. Kimball
I believe this should be an easy thing to do... I have a function I repeatably call which takes input parameters and outputs columns to various data frames. I also wish to keep a summary of certain values as I call the function. I though keeping the values in a vector then appending the vector by

[R] cumsum() by subgroup

2004-04-02 Thread Jose A. Hernandez
I need to do a simple cumulative sum by group and add the result to the data. I found an earlier thread in the help files with a few suggestions. Somewhat, one of the suggestions does not work with my data, and I don't really understand why ? The error am getting using the my data below is...

RE: [R] Doing SQL GROUP BY in R

2004-04-02 Thread Vadim Ogranovich
You might want to look at ?table and ?xtab. See also ?tapply for use of general functions (other than just COUNT) with GROUP BY. HTH, Vadim -Original Message- From: JFRI (Jesper Frickmann) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [R] cumsum() by subgroup

2004-04-02 Thread Don MacQueen
If you first look at the output of the inner core of your expression: split(d.1, d.1$v1) you might get a hint. Then make this change. cbind(d.1, v4=c(lapply(split(d.1, d.1$v1), function(x) cumsum(x$v3)), recursive=T)) There is no variable named y in your data frame, so x$y is the wrong

RE: [R] Extending a vector

2004-04-02 Thread Stephen C. Upton
Marko, Looks fine to me. Why do you think the syntax is incorrect? Works for me in 1.8 on Windows. a - 1 a [1] 1 a - c(a,2) a [1] 1 2 a - c(a,2,4,5) a [1] 1 2 2 4 5 steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark O. Kimball Sent:

Re: [R] Doing SQL GROUP BY in R

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre Kleiber
Assuming you have a data.frame, dat, with coluns A and B, I think what you want would be: table(paste(dat$A,dat$B)) JFRI (Jesper Frickmann) wrote: I want a list of the number of times some factor levels appear together, similar to the following SQL statement: SELECT A, B, COUNT(C) FROM TBL

Re: [R] Extending a vector

2004-04-02 Thread Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
Marko, Looks fine to me. Why do you think the syntax is incorrect? Works for me in 1.8 on Windows. I have a function I repeatably call which takes input parameters and outputs columns to various data frames. Looks fine to me although it is not completely clear that your request for column and

Re: [R] Extending a vector

2004-04-02 Thread Mark O. Kimball
On Friday 02 April 2004 04:52 pm, you wrote: I believe this should be an easy thing to do... I have a function I repeatably call which takes input parameters and outputs columns to various data frames. I also wish to keep a summary of certain values as I call the function. I though keeping

Re: [R] R on Tru64 OSF 5.1

2004-04-02 Thread Ray Brownrigg
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=20Swinton?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone achieved a current successful build of R 1.8 or 1.9 or earlier for HPUX Tru 64 OSF 5.1? There is no binary version of R for HPUX Tru 64 OSF 5.1. The R admin manual mentions that the native make fails on Alpha/OSF (aka Tru

[R] Sas code

2004-04-02 Thread Amal Helu
Hi this is my first time and i have no clue how this work do you replay to my e-mail or do u post the asnswer some other place please let me know the other question do u answer questions or give help for questions written in SAS for example i need the help to simulate from Bivariate normal?? so

[R] Seeking help for outomating regression (over columns) and storing selected output

2004-04-02 Thread Greg Blevins
Hello, I have spent considerable time trying to figure out that which I am about to describe. This included searching Help, consulting my various R books, and trail and (always) error. I have been assuming I would need to use a loop (looping over columns) but perhaps and apply function

Re: [R] Sas code

2004-04-02 Thread Tom Blackwell
Amal - Do: library(MASS) help(mvrnorm) for documentation on the function you should use. I found this, even without knowing the function name exactly, by doing help.search(mvnorm). Please read the posting guide and the FAQ. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -