Re: [R] Differential Equations

2004-06-08 Thread Wolski
Hi! Suspicion Breeds Confidence! --Brazil Take a look at the packages listed on cran.r-project.org or on the r prompt (if all R-packages installed type) help.search(differential equations) Help files with alias or concept or title matching 'differential equations' using fuzzy

Re: [R] AR models

2004-06-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Laura Holt wrote: Dear R People: Is it possible to fit an AR model such as: y_t = fee_1 y_t-1 + fee_2 y_t-9 + a_t, please? I know that we can fit an AR(9) model, but I was wondering if we could do a partial as described. Yes. See ?arima, and especially the

Re: [R] Load a dll

2004-06-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Rui wrote: Hi folks, I have a question about how to load a dll. First, I use the command dyn.load(lassofu.dll); then, I got the message below NULL Warning message: DLL attempted to change FPU control word from 9001f to 90003; See ?dyn.load. This message should make you a little bit worried

[R] How do I sort data containts character

2004-06-08 Thread Unung Istopo Hartanto
Sorry, it's simple question: example : data.test label value 1 one21.35746 2 two22.07592 3 three20.74098 I would like the return : label value 3 three20.74098 1 one21.35746 2 two22.07592 Anyone can help it? Thanks,

Re: [R] How do I sort data containts character

2004-06-08 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
try to use: data.test[order(data.test[,2]),] I hope this helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Doctoral Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/16/396887 Fax: +32/16/337015 Web:

Re: [R] GLMM(..., family=binomial(link=cloglog))?

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Data: DF log-likelihood: -55.8861 Random effects: Groups NameVariance Std.Dev. smpl (Intercept) 1.7500e-12 1.3229e-06 Estimated scale (compare to 1) 3.280753 Fixed effects: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(|z|)

RE: [R] Recoding a multiple response question into a series of 1, 0 variables

2004-06-08 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, Here is a slightly more sophisticate and fully vectorized, answer. RecodeChoices - function(mat) { # Make sure mat is a matrix (in case it is a data.frame) mat - as.matrix(mat) # Get dimensions of the matrix Dim - dim(mat) Nr - Dim[1] Nc -

Re: [R] Censboot Warning and Error Messages

2004-06-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Jingky Lozano wrote: Good day R help list!!! I've been trying to do Bootstrap in R on Censored data. I encountered WARNING/ERROR messages which I could not find explanation. I've been searching on the literature for two days now and still can't find answers. I hope

[R] (no subject)

2004-06-08 Thread PJARES
Hi!! I am a new user of R (just trying to analysis microarrays with some packages from the bioconductor project). I would like to import a text-delimeted file containing 20 columns and 22200 rows. I have tried read.table; scan(file=) matrix(scan(file, n=20*200,20,200, byrow=TRUE)); Doesn't

Re: [R] Reading in Files (was: no subject)

2004-06-08 Thread Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Please use a more appropriate subject! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:25 PM Subject: [R] (no subject) Hi!! I am a new user of R (just trying to analysis microarrays with some packages from the bioconductor project).

Re: [R] (no subject)

2004-06-08 Thread Wolski
Hi! The message means that R does not find the file. Under windows (if you are using windows) you must escape the backslash with a backslash \. or give us an example how you provide the path to the file. Or use: file.choose() or. library(tkWidgets) fileBrowser() both functions will

RE: [R] [Q] raw - gpr in aroma package

2004-06-08 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi. First, I think you should address questions about aroma directly to me (the author) instead of the r-help list since it is not a core R package. To answer you question, you can not make a GenePixData object out of a RawData object because the latter contains much less information than a

Re: [R] error during make of R-patched on Fedora core 2

2004-06-08 Thread Gavin Simpson
Marc Schwartz wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:51, Gavin Simpson wrote: snip Thanks Roger and Marc, for suggesting I use ./tools/rsync-recommended from within the R-patched directory. This seems to have done the trick as make completed without errors this time round. The Recommended directory

[R] Downloading of packages

2004-06-08 Thread eobudho
Hi, I have been trying to download BradleyTerry and brlr software but in vain. Can you help me please. I already have R installed in my computer. Thank you in advance. Elias Obudho. - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay

[R] Little question

2004-06-08 Thread zze-PELAY Nicolas FTRD/DMR/BEL
Here I got a function : f-function(x){ res-list() res$bool=(x=0) res$tot=x return(res) } I want that a=res$bool and b=res$tot I know that a possible solution is : Result=f(x) a=Result$bool b=Result$tot But I don't want to use the variable Result. I'd like to write directly something like

Re: [R] msm capabilities

2004-06-08 Thread Chris Jackson
russell wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has used the msm package to compute the steady state probabilities for a Markov model? There's no built-in function in msm to do this, but this would be a useful feature. For discrete time Markov chains this is a matter of finding the eigenvector

Re: [R] Little question

2004-06-08 Thread Jason Turner
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:44, zze-PELAY Nicolas FTRD/DMR/BEL wrote: Here I got a function : f-function(x){ res-list() res$bool=(x=0) res$tot=x return(res) } I want that a=res$bool and b=res$tot I know that a possible solution is : Like foo - function(x,...){

Re: [R] Downloading of packages

2004-06-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been trying to download BradleyTerry and brlr software but in These are packages. vain. Can you help me please. I already have R installed in my computer. Thank you in advance. Version of R? Operating system and its version? What was the error message after

[R] level assignment

2004-06-08 Thread Christian Schulz
Hi, i would like recocde some numeric variables in one step, but hanging unexpected in a level asignment problem? for(i in 2:length(msegmente)) { msegmente[,i] - as.factor(msegmente[,i]) } Problem is that not every level is in every variable, so the asignment is necessary!?

Re: [R] error during make of R-patched on Fedora core 2

2004-06-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Gavin Simpson wrote: Marc Schwartz wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:51, Gavin Simpson wrote: snip Thanks Roger and Marc, for suggesting I use ./tools/rsync-recommended from within the R-patched directory. This seems to have done the trick as make completed

Re: [R] level assignment

2004-06-08 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:09:25 +0200 Christian Schulz wrote: Hi, i would like recocde some numeric variables in one step, but hanging unexpected in a level asignment problem? for(i in 2:length(msegmente)) { msegmente[,i] - as.factor(msegmente[,i]) } Problem is that not every level is

RE: [R] Average R-squared of model1 to model n

2004-06-08 Thread kan Liu
Hi, Thanks for your message. I tried to prove that the R-squared of the averaged model is always greater than or equals to the average R-squared of individual models (supposed m=2), Please see the attached r2.pdf. I hope this can be generalized to general case (m 2). Any comment would be very

[R] counting number of objects in a list

2004-06-08 Thread Vumani Dlamini
Dear R-users; I am interested in getting the number of objects in a list, and have thus far been unsuccessful. Can you please help. Thank you. Vumani __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

Re: [R] counting number of objects in a list

2004-06-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Vumani Dlamini wrote: Dear R-users; I am interested in getting the number of objects in a list, and have thus far been unsuccessful. Can you please help. Thank you. Vumani __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [R] counting number of objects in a list

2004-06-08 Thread Liaw, Andy
Lists in the S language are like vectors, so length(mylist) would tell you how many components there are in mylist. Beware, though, that lists can well be nested... Andy From: Vumani Dlamini Dear R-users; I am interested in getting the number of objects in a list, and have thus far

Re: [R] level assignment

2004-06-08 Thread Christian Schulz
many thanks! christian I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to do, but does replacing as.factor(msegmente[,i]) by factor(msegmente[,i], levels = c(1, 3, 10, 29, 32, 38, 52, 53, 59), labels = c(AK,GC,OC,AM,IA,ACH,ZBA,A9L,EHK)) yield the desired result? hth,

Re: [R] Printing Lattice Graphs from Windows

2004-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:13:59 -0400, Charles and Kimberly Maner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hello. I have researched this topic and have found no answers. I am running R 1.9.0 and am trying to print a lattice graph, (e.g., xyplot(1~1)), using mouse right click - print. It produces a blank page.

[R] Computting statistics on a matrix with 2 factor column

2004-06-08 Thread Marc Mamin
Hello, I suppose this is a basic question but couldn't find a solution.: I have a large matrix with let say 3 columns: V1 V2 V3 a x 2 a x 4 a y 8 b z 16 and I want to compute some statistics based on the levels resulting form the

Re: [R] Computting statistics on a matrix with 2 factor column

2004-06-08 Thread Chuck Cleland
?tapply ?aggregate You probably have a data frame, not a matrix. Marc Mamin wrote: I suppose this is a basic question but couldn't find a solution.: I have a large matrix with let say 3 columns: V1 V2 V3 a x 2 a x 4 a y 8 b z 16 and I

Re: [R] Computting statistics on a matrix with 2 factor column

2004-06-08 Thread Gavin Simpson
Marc Mamin wrote: Hello, I suppose this is a basic question but couldn't find a solution.: I have a large matrix with let say 3 columns: V1 V2 V3 a x 2 a x 4 a y 8 b z 16 and I want to compute some statistics based on the levels resulting

Re: [R] error during make of R-patched on Fedora core 2

2004-06-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 06:23, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Gavin Simpson wrote: Marc Schwartz wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:51, Gavin Simpson wrote: snip snip Perhaps I am being dense, but in reviewing the two documents (R Admin and the CRAN sources

Re: [R] GLMM(..., family=binomial(link=cloglog))?

2004-06-08 Thread Douglas Bates
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another GLMM/glmm problem: I simulate rbinom(N, 100, pz), where logit(pz) = rnorm(N). I'd like to estimate the mean and standard deviation of logit(pz). I've tried GLMM{lme4}, glmmPQL{MASS}, and glmm{Jim Lindsey's

[R] Problems compiling Rd-Files

2004-06-08 Thread Bernd Weiss
Dear all, there has been a thread on missing Rd.sty, when converting Rd-files to DVI-files, see http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03b/8179.html. This problem could be solved by editing Rd2div.sh manually, but then I got the following error message:

Re: [R] GLMM(..., family=binomial(link=cloglog))?

2004-06-08 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Peter: Thanks. The help page on GLMM in lme4 0.6-1 2004/05/31 mentions GLMM(formula, family, data, random, ...) with additional arguments subset, method, na.action, control, and model, x logicals. I may try reading the source code. On the other hand, my need is sufficiently

Re: [R] GLMM(..., family=binomial(link=cloglog))?

2004-06-08 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Doug: Thanks. I'll try the things you suggests. The observed proportions ranged from roughly 0.2 to 0.8 in 100 binomial random samples where sigma is at most 0.05. Jim Lindsey's glmm does Gauss-Hermite quadrature, but I don't know if it bothers with the adaptive step. With it,

[R] George Box quote.

2004-06-08 Thread Rolf Turner
Doug Bates wrote: As George Box would tell us, You have a big approximation and a small approximation. The big approximation is your approximation to the problem you want to solve. The small approximation is involved in getting the solution to the approximate problem. I asked Prof.

[R] SJAVA error

2004-06-08 Thread $BLpLn(B $B=g;R(B
Hi (B (BI'm trying to use SJava and I have troubles. (BI try to run examples from "Calling R from Java" (Bbut,I have an error that (B"fatal error: enable to open the base package" (B (BI heard SJAVA bug, (Bso,could you send me your compiled SJava package with the modified (BREmbed.c

[R] Is there an R-version of rayplot

2004-06-08 Thread richard . kittler
I need to make plots similar to those produced by the s-plus rayplot function but can't seem to find it in R. These 'vector maps' plot a ray or vector at each specified location. Is there something similar in R ? --Rich Richard Kittler AMD TDG 408-749-4099

[R] interaction plot with intervals based on TukeyHSD

2004-06-08 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
Hi, The problem is that I would like to do an interaction plot with intervals based on Tukey's honestly significant difference (HSD) procedure, but I do not know how to do it in R. I have 3 factors A, B and C and a response variable response. I would like to study a model where there are main

[R] clustalw

2004-06-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm using the function clustalw in packages dna, but every time i have a segmentation fault! In your opinion What is the problem?Memory? Please help me Daniela __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [R] clustalw

2004-06-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
Might be a compilation problem, or change of system libraries. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm using the function clustalw in packages dna, but every time i have a segmentation fault! In your opinion What is the problem?Memory? Please help me Daniela

Re: [R] clustalw

2004-06-08 Thread Wolski
Hi Daniela! From where you got this package? I even havent found it at cran. It is not a bioconductor package either. and search.help(clustalW) In any case it is better to contact the package provider directly. Sincerely Eryk *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/8/2004 at 6:38 PM

Re: [R] How to Describe R to Finance People

2004-06-08 Thread Tony Plate
At Monday 07:58 PM 6/7/2004, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: [snip] There are three perspectives on programming languages like the S/R family: (1) The programming language perspective. I am sorry to tell you that the only excuse for R is S. R is *weird*. It combines error-prone C-like syntax

[R] bootstrap: stratified resampling

2004-06-08 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear All, I was writing a small wrapper to bootstrap a classification algorithm, but if we generate the indices in the usual way as: bootindex - sample(index, N, replace = TRUE) there is a non-zero probability that all the samples belong to only one class, thus leading to problems in the

[R] off topic publication question

2004-06-08 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: Please excuse the off topic question, but I know that I'll get a good answer here. If a single author is writing a journal article, should she use We performed a test or I performed a test, please? I had learned to use we without regard to the number of authors. Is that true,

Re: [R] clustalw

2004-06-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
It's on Jim Lindsey's WWW site. It's a nice package. We've got an extension that is somewhat incomplete that incorporates BLAST results (from NCBI, though could config for local use) in a package called BioSeq1 on Bioconductor's dev site -- I don't think that the CVS viewer is available, but I

[R] scoping rules

2004-06-08 Thread joerg van den hoff
is there a good way to get the following fragment to work when calling it as wrapper(1) ? # cut here== wrapper - function (choose=0) { x - seq(0,2*pi,len=100) y - sin(1.5*x); y - rnorm(y,y,.1*max(y)) if (choose==0) { rm(fifu,pos=1) fifu - function(w,x)

[R] binary data

2004-06-08 Thread Moises Hassan
What's the preferred way in R for handling samples with binary data (like chemical fingerprints encoded as hexadecimal strings with 0's and 1's indicating the absence or presence of chemical features) in methods such as clustering and MDS. Do you always have to expand the fingerprint data into

[R] Comparing two pairs of non-normal datasets in R?

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I'm using R to analyze some research and I'm not sure which test would be appropriate for my data. I was hoping someone here might be able to help. Short version: Evaluate null hypothesis that change A1-A2 is similar to change C1-C2, for continuous, non-normal datasets. Long

Re: [R] error during make of R-patched on Fedora core 2

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A*.gz -nd -P src/library/Recommended http://www.cran.mirrors.pair.com/src/contrib/1.9.1/Recommended The above _should_ be one one line, but of course will wrap here. There should be a space between the two lines. Kids these

Re: [R] error during make of R-patched on Fedora core 2

2004-06-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:40, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A*.gz -nd -P src/library/Recommended http://www.cran.mirrors.pair.com/src/contrib/1.9.1/Recommended The above _should_ be one one line, but of course will wrap here.

[R] overlaying text() onto image() or filled.contour()

2004-06-08 Thread Laura Quinn
I am trying to add some markers onto a contour map image I have created, by using the text() function when I have already produced the map using either image() or filled.contour(). For some reason the points appear to be shifted considerably to the right of where they should be appearing, despite

Re: [R] Comparing two pairs of non-normal datasets in R?

2004-06-08 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you considered qqplot(A1, A2) and qqplot(C1, C2)? If A2, A2, C1, C2 are more like Poisson, I might try qqplot(sqrt(A1), sqrt(A2)), etc.: Without the sqrt, the image might be excessively distorted by largest values, at least in my experience. hope this helps. spencer graves

Re: [R] Lazy Evaluation?

2004-06-08 Thread John Chambers
No, not lazy evaluation. The explanation has to do with environments and how callGeneric works. It's an interesting (if obscure) example. Here's the essence of it, embedded in some comments on debugging and on style. (This will be a fairly long discussion, I'm afraid.) A useful starting

Re: [R] Comparing two pairs of non-normal datasets in R?

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:43 am, you wrote: If I understand you correctly, you have two set of ***paired*** data, one set from the A population, and one from the C population. Form the pairwise differences: A.diff - A1 - A2 C.diff - C1 - C2 Alas, they are not paired. A1 and

[R] vardiag Package and nlregb

2004-06-08 Thread jferrer
Hi everyone, I'm interested in the analysis of spatial data, and I'm trying out several R-packages. Today I was attempting to use the package vardiag (version 0.1): library(vardiag) rs4.vo - varobj(rs4[,2:4],trace=2) [1] 1 Error: couldn't find function nlregb so far I know nlregb is a S-plus

[R] fast mkChar

2004-06-08 Thread Vadim Ogranovich
Hi, To speed up reading of large (few million lines) CSV files I am writing custom read functions (in C). By timing various approaches I figured out that one of the bottlenecks in reading character fields is the mkChar() function which on each call incurs a lot of garbage-collection-related

Re: [R] Comparing two pairs of non-normal datasets in R?

2004-06-08 Thread Spencer Graves
It looks like ks.test might help, but it seems to me you need to make parsimonious models of the change in distributions, so you estimate a few parameters for the distributions of each of your 4 data sets with standard errors for all the parameters you estimate. Then you can test if the

RE: [R] off topic publication question

2004-06-08 Thread Phineas Campbell
I had assumed that the use of we in articles was either due to formality, like the distinction between tu and vous in French. The English monarch never refer to themselves in the singular. Or we as in both the author and the reader. However a sample of size 4 of articles to hand suggests that

[R] a doubt

2004-06-08 Thread Martínez Ovando Juan Carlos
Hello all, I'm working with different models that where implemented in DOS system each one, but for doing comparisons between them I require to put some of the results in an unified data form for all the models. I wonder if some of you have the knowledge of one function in R that enable me

Re: [R] overlaying text() onto image() or filled.contour()

2004-06-08 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Laura Quinn wrote: I am trying to add some markers onto a contour map image I have created, by using the text() function when I have already produced the map using either image() or filled.contour(). For some reason the points appear to be shifted considerably to the right of where they should

Re: [R] a doubt

2004-06-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
?system ?shell (under Windows, which we must guess you are using if `DOS' means MS-DOS). Please use an informative subject line. On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Martínez Ovando Juan Carlos wrote: I'm working with different models that where implemented in DOS system each one, but for doing comparisons

Re: [R] fast mkChar

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Vadim Ogranovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, To speed up reading of large (few million lines) CSV files I am writing custom read functions (in C). By timing various approaches I figured out that one of the bottlenecks in reading character fields is the mkChar() function which on each

Re: [R] fast mkChar

2004-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:23:58 -0700, Vadim Ogranovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi, To speed up reading of large (few million lines) CSV files I am writing custom read functions (in C). By timing various approaches I figured out that one of the bottlenecks in reading character fields is the

[R] (no subject)

2004-06-08 Thread Martínez Ovando Juan Carlos
Hello again, In a previous message I request your help, but I don't have been clear in my problem. Specifically, I'm trying to create an interface in R for the X-12-ARIMA and TRAMO SEATS, for the versions that run in MS-DOS. This problem awake in me the interest for make interfaces to

[R] a doubt

2004-06-08 Thread Martínez Ovando Juan Carlos
Hello again, In a previous message I request your help, but I don't have been clear in my problem. Specifically, I'm trying to create an interface in R for the X-12-ARIMA and TRAMO SEATS, for the versions that run in MS-DOS. This problem awake in me the interest for make interfaces to

Re: [R] (no subject)

2004-06-08 Thread Jeff Gentry
implemented in MS-DOS to. The question for you is if you know about the existence of an R function that allows me to run -in Windows- executable files in MS-DOS from the R command window. Does system() do what you're looking for? __ [EMAIL

[R] data.frame size limit

2004-06-08 Thread Philip Sobolik
Is there a limit to the number of columns that a data.frame can have? For example, can I read.csv() a file that has 1000 columns and 10,000 rows, will it break or is it limited by available memory. ... Philip

Re: [R] a doubt

2004-06-08 Thread Spencer Graves
All of R is available in source from www.r-project.org. This includes software for ARIMA, etc. PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html;; it describes several things you can do that will get you closer to what you want and will help you formulate a

RE: [R] fast mkChar

2004-06-08 Thread Vadim Ogranovich
I am no expert in memory management in R so it's hard for me to tell what is and what is not doable. From reading the code of allocVector() in memory.c I think that the critical part is to vectorize CLASS_GET_FREE_NODE and use the vectorized version along the lines of the code fragment below

[R] fighting with ps.options and xlim/ylim

2004-06-08 Thread ivo welch
sorry to impose again. At the default point size, R seems very good in selecting nice xlim/ylim parameters, and leaving a little bit of space at the edges of its xlim/ylim. alas, I now need to create ps graphics that can only occupy a quarter of a page, so I need to blow up the text for

Re: [R] fast mkChar

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Vadim Ogranovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am no expert in memory management in R so it's hard for me to tell what is and what is not doable. From reading the code of allocVector() in memory.c I think that the critical part is to vectorize CLASS_GET_FREE_NODE and use the vectorized version

Re: [R] off topic publication question

2004-06-08 Thread Jason Turner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:11, Erin Hodgess wrote: If a single author is writing a journal article, should she use We performed a test or I performed a test, please? Does the particular journal specify a style manual or style sheet? The Chicago Manual of Style \cite{Chicago2003}, p160, says

Re: [R] off topic publication question

2004-06-08 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Tue, 08-Jun-2004 at 08:56PM +0100, Phineas Campbell wrote: | I had assumed that the use of we in articles was either due to | formality, like the distinction between tu and vous in French. The | English monarch never refer to themselves in the singular. Hence the use of the term The Royal

Re: [R] fighting with ps.options and xlim/ylim

2004-06-08 Thread ivo welch
thank you, marc. I will play around with these parameters tomorrow at my real computer. yes, the idea is to just create an .eps and .pdf file, which is then \includegraphics[0.25\textwidth]{} in pdflatex. I need to tweak with the parameter ps.options(pointsize) because otherwise, I end up

[R] more obvious contribution mechanism?

2004-06-08 Thread ivo welch
can we put a how to donate money to R on the R webpage? perhaps with a paypal button? even better, because I would like to donate some funds from my research budget, could the R-project possibly sell some trinkets for a high price for support? it is difficult to explain to a non-profit org

Re: [R] fighting with ps.options and xlim/ylim

2004-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:18:34 -0400, ivo welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And once I do this, I need different R parameter defaults on the axes. With the advice I have gotten, I think I am all set now. However, I am a little bit surprised that noone has written a package around this

Re: [R] fighting with ps.options and xlim/ylim

2004-06-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 20:18, ivo welch wrote: thank you, marc. I will play around with these parameters tomorrow at my real computer. yes, the idea is to just create an .eps and .pdf file, which is then \includegraphics[0.25\textwidth]{} in pdflatex. I need to tweak with the parameter

Re: [R] fighting with ps.options and xlim/ylim

2004-06-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:02, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:18:34 -0400, ivo welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And once I do this, I need different R parameter defaults on the axes. With the advice I have gotten, I think I am all set now. However, I am a little bit surprised

Re: [R] more obvious contribution mechanism?

2004-06-08 Thread Jason Turner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:22, ivo welch wrote: can we put a how to donate money to R on the R webpage? perhaps with a paypal button? Does the R Foundation link meet this need? http://www.r-project.org/foundation/main.html Cheers Jason __ [EMAIL

Re: [R] How to Describe R to Finance People

2004-06-08 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
I wrote: The scope rules (certainly the scope rules for S) were obviously designed by someone who had a fanatical hatred of compilers and wanted to ensure that the language could never be usefully compiled. Drat! I forgot the semi-smiley! Tony Plate [EMAIL