Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
[Just one point extracted: Hadley Wickham has answered the random sample one] On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, François Pinard wrote: [Brian Ripley] One problem with Francois Pinard's suggestion (the credit has got lost) is that R's I/O is not line-oriented but stream-oriented. So selecting lines is not

Re: [R] Ordering boxplot factors

2006-01-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:27 -0600, Joseph LeBouton wrote: Hi all, what a great help list! I hope someone can help me with this puzzle... I'm trying to find a simple way to do: boxplot(obs~factor) so that the factors are ordered left-to-right

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Maechler
FrPi == François Pinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:41:21 -0500 writes: FrPi [Brian Ripley] I rather thought that using a DBMS was standard practice in the R community for those using large datasets: it gets discussed rather often. FrPi Indeed. (I

Re: [R] A comment about R - Link to a technical report from ATS, UCLA

2006-01-06 Thread Naji
Hi all, UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Group has just launched a very interesting paper comparing SPSS, SAS Stata as Statistical Packages.. Perhaps the most notable exception to this discussion is R http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/ It's an interesting reading for this thread.

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Martin Maechler wrote: FrPi == François Pinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:41:21 -0500 writes: FrPi [Brian Ripley] I rather thought that using a DBMS was standard practice in the R community for those using large datasets: it gets discussed

Re: [R] ylim problem in barplot

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Maechler
Ben == Ben Bolker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:21:48 + (UTC) writes: Ben Robert Baer rbaer at atsu.edu writes: Well, consider this example: barplot(c(-200,300,-250,350),ylim=c(-99,400)) It seems that barplot uses ylim and pretty to decide things about

Re: [R] A comment about R - Link to a technical report from ATS, UCLA

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Naji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Group has just launched a very interesting paper comparing SPSS, SAS Stata as Statistical Packages.. Perhaps the most notable exception to this discussion is R http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/ It's an

[R] RMySQL/DBI

2006-01-06 Thread Arne.Muller
Hello, does anybody run RMySQL/DBI successfully on SunOS5.8 and MySQL 3.23.53 ? I'll get a segmentation fault whe trying to call dbConnect. We'll soon swtich to MySQL 4, however, I was wondering whether the very ancient mysql version realy is the problem ... RMySQL 0.5-5 DBI 0.1-9 R 2.2.0

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread John Marsland
I agree. In desperation at my inbox being swamped by messages I contacted the R-core team to ask about other solutions. They recommended gmane.org who compile a web-viewable archive of thousands of email lists - it even provides RSS feeds for new topics. Going back to the wiki issue, it might be

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa
John Marsland writes: Trac would have the advantage of pushing questions on the R list back towards the actual source code and allowing all users to participate in the future development of the software. I see that this could be useful for R-devel, but considering the volume of

Re: [R] Use Of makeARIMA

2006-01-06 Thread Spencer Graves
I have not seen a reply to this post, so I will attempt a feeble response. I've been wanting to learn more about these commands and suffering, like you, from the paucity of examples to follow. To get started, after reading the help pages for all the commands you mentioned, I tried

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 01/06/06 13:40, John Marsland wrote: Going back to the wiki issue, it might be wise to this about using Trac http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ which is an open source project that integrates a wiki with the SVN code versioning system (used by R-project) and a replacement for bugzilla's

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread John Marsland
On 1/6/06, John Marsland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see your point. Maybe the answer is to use the list for R-help style questions, but encourage people who answer questions to point the the answers in the wiki - which they might have enhanced if necessary. On 1/6/06, Fernando Henrique Ferraz

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread John Marsland
It isn't so much that users modify the code as they would have to do that in the usual way by checking out the project from the SVN. Rather that extended documentation, features and enhancements etc. can easily locate and quote from the code base and the differencing engine as applied to the code

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Jonathan Baron wrote: And I was thinking of setting up a Wiki with one page per function. (Given that there are now hundreds or thousands of functions, setting this up would have to be automated.) One page per R manual page file would probably suffice. You could do something along the

[R] A comment about R:

2006-01-06 Thread Stefan Eichenberger
I just got into R for most of the Xmas vacations and was about to ask for helping pointer on how to get a hold of R when I came across this thread. I've read through most it and would like to comment from a novice user point of view. I've a strong programming background but limited

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/6/2006 9:15 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: On 01/06/06 13:40, John Marsland wrote: Going back to the wiki issue, it might be wise to this about using Trac http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ which is an open source project that integrates a wiki with the SVN code versioning system (used by

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread Seth Falcon
Regarding systems for presenting documentation and allowing user comments, I recently came across Commentary (see homepage http://pythonpaste.org/commentary/). Haven't used it, but my impression is that comments and the main doc are both stored in svn (and auto-committed for comment changes).

[R] A comment about R:

2006-01-06 Thread Stefan Eichenberger
~~~ ... blame me for not having sent below message initially in plain text format. Sorry! ~~~ I just got into R for most of the Xmas vacations and was about to ask for helping pointer on how to get a hold of R when I came across this thread. I've read through most it

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-06 Thread Wensui Liu
RG, Actually, SQLite provides a solution to read *.csv file directly into db. Just for your consideration. On 1/5/06, ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/1/6, jim holtman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If what you are reading in is numeric data, then it would require (807 * 118519 * 8) 760MB just

[R] lmer p-vales are sometimes too small

2006-01-06 Thread Olof Leimar
This concerns whether p-values from lmer can be trusted. From simulations, it seems that lmer can produce very small, and probably spurious, p-values. I realize that lmer is not yet a finished product. Is it likely that the problem will be fixed in a future release of the lme4 package? Using

[R] inverse prediction intervals for nonlinear least squares

2006-01-06 Thread Brian S Cade
I'm trying to help several of our scientists with constructing inverse prediction intervals for models estimated with nonlinear least squares. So for example, we might estimate mean of y from a 4 parameter logistic function of x [e.g., using SSfpl in nls()], but then want to estimate a

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread Tony Plate
I second Frank's comment! I wonder if questioners who receive a bunch of useful replies could be encouraged to enter a summary of those on a Wiki, in much the same way as users of S-news were expected to post a summary of their answers as a way of giving something back. An existing R Wiki is

[R] help with strip.default

2006-01-06 Thread Steven Lacey
Hi, I am creating a multi-conditioned trellis plot. My data look something like this: Factor AFactor BIVDV X 1 X 2 X 3 X 4 Y 1 Y 2 Y 3 Y 5 Z 1 Z 2 Z 3 Z

Re: [R] [Rd] Multiplication

2006-01-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
[crossed over to r-help since its not a bug and not a devel thing any more] Thomas Lumley wrote: So is -2^2. The precedence of ^ is higher than that of unary minus. It may be surprising, but it *is* documented and has been in S for a long time. And just about every other programming

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread Don MacQueen
I don't have any significant experience with wikis, but I have yet to use any discussion board that was anywhere near as useful to me, or as easy to use, as an email list. Discussion boards have a web browser interface. Typically, they display at most a dozen topics at a time. Scrolling to get

[R] [R-pkgs] sudoku

2006-01-06 Thread Brahm, David
Any doubts about R's big-league status should be put to rest, now that we have a Sudoku Puzzle Solver. Take that, SAS! See package sudoku on CRAN. The package could really use a puzzle generator -- contributors are welcome! -- David Brahm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [[alternative HTML

[R] How to visualise spatial raster data?

2006-01-06 Thread Jan Verbesselt
Dear R help, We are trying to visualise spatial raster data. We have per line, X Y coordinates and Z(data). How could we visualise this type of data? We also would like to add extra data points to this plot based on new X,Y and Z data. We used the following function but would like to use only

[R] distribution maps

2006-01-06 Thread Rogério Rosa da Silva
Dears, I would like to know if there is a R package(s) on CRAN that can generate distribution maps of species. I think that this issue not has been discussed, but I did not search extensively on CRAN or help archives. Best regards Rogério __

Re: [R] A comment about R:

2006-01-06 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi just to difference between matrix and data.frame str(data.frame(mat)) `data.frame': 4 obs. of 5 variables: $ X1: num -0.1940 -0.7629 0.0446 -0.5408 $ X2: num -1.092 -0.040 1.070 0.868 $ X3: num 0.634 0.823 0.693 1.152 $ X4: num 0.0258 -1.6507 1.2052 0.9714 $ X5: num

[R] Can R plot multicolor lines?

2006-01-06 Thread Paul DeBruicker
I have a number of continuous data series I'd like to plot with the first 2/3 or so of each plotted in one color with the last 1/3 plotted in another color. I've thought of plotting 2 lines that abut each other by determining where the first portion ends and attach the second portion. Is there

[R] installation question/problem

2006-01-06 Thread DW
Hello, Can anybody tell me why I am getting the error below when I run make check and if it has any consequences I may regret later? I run: # ./configure --enable-R-shlib # make # make check # make install configure, make and make install all work without errors, and it seems to install

Re: [R] Can R plot multicolor lines?

2006-01-06 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi one way is to use segments x-rnorm(200) plot(1:200, x, type=n) segments(1:199,x[1:199], 2:200, x[2:200], col=c(rep(1,150), rep(2,50))) HTH Petr On 6 Jan 2006 at 12:28, Paul DeBruicker wrote: Date sent: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:28:36 -0500 From: Paul DeBruicker

Re: [R] installation question/problem

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Can anybody tell me why I am getting the error below when I run make check and if it has any consequences I may regret later? I run: # ./configure --enable-R-shlib # make # make check # make install configure, make and make install all work

[R] Problem with Integral of Indicator Function

2006-01-06 Thread Cal Stats
Hi.. i was trying to integrate the indicator funtion but had problems when limits where negative or equal to the indicator condition my function is fun1-function(x){ as.numeric(x=2) } _ which should be

Re: [R] help with strip.default

2006-01-06 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 1/6/06, Berton Gunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve: This is a question for **super Deepayan,** and hopefully he'll respond. However, in the interim, let me give it a shot. Basically, I think what you've asked for falls outside the bounds of what lattice is designed to do. But I think

Re: [R] installation question/problem

2006-01-06 Thread DW
Peter Dalgaard wrote: DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Can anybody tell me why I am getting the error below when I run make check and if it has any consequences I may regret later? I run: # ./configure --enable-R-shlib # make # make check # make install configure, make and make

Re: [R] distribution maps

2006-01-06 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Rogério Rosa da Silva wrote: Dears, I would like to know if there is a R package(s) on CRAN that can generate distribution maps of species. I think that this issue not has been discussed, but I did not search extensively on CRAN or help archives. Could I suggest

[R] Got it--Re:A question on summation of functions

2006-01-06 Thread Liqiu Jiang
Dear Rers, It seems the usual sum function can work. Anyway, I appreciate your time on this. Best wishes, Liqiu Dear Rers, I am trying to do a 2 dimmensional intergration for a function. the function is summation of another function evaluated at a series of vector values. I have

[R] Daylight Savings Time unknown in R-2.2.1

2006-01-06 Thread Brahm, David
Under R-2.2.1, a POSIXlt date created with strptime has an unknown Daylight Savings Time flag: strptime(20051208, %Y%m%d)$isdst [1] -1 This is true on both Linux (details below) and Windows. It did not occur under R-2.1.0. Any ideas? TIA! Sys.getenv(TZ) TZ Version: platform =

[R] Installing Task Views

2006-01-06 Thread Mark Andersen
Hello, I am just beginning to use R, after several years of using S-Plus (with mixed success). I saw a recommendation on another mailing list for the Environmetrics and Spatial Task Views, as a good way for a new user to get started actually using R. The Task Views page at CRAN says: To

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-06 Thread paul sorenson
I am a fan of wiki's and I reckon it would really help with making R more accessible. On one extreme you have this email list and on the other extreme you have RNews and the PDF's on CRAN. A wiki might hit the spot between them and reduce the traffic on the email list. Frank E Harrell Jr

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-06 Thread Wensui Liu
RG, I think .import command in sqlite should work. plus, sqlite browser ( http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net) might do the work as well. On 1/6/06, ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give me some hints? or let me know how to do ? Thank you ! 2006/1/6, Wensui Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [R] LOCFIT help

2006-01-06 Thread Takatsugu Kobayashi
Hi, I have started to learn local regression models so as to identify statistically significant peaks in urban areas, such as population densities and congestion. I successfully ran /locfit/ and got several information on the fit. Now I got stuck. This is a very silly question, but isn't the