Re: [R] Cbind warning message

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Paul Lemmens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I'm not grasping why cbind (in the code below) warns that Warning message: number of rows of result is not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: cbind(z, p) when I do sections - function(length, parts) { p - 1:parts

Re: [R] different results depending of variable position.

2003-10-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Ronaldo Reis Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I make an analysis and depending of the order of the variables, the significance change, look. m1 - glm((infec/ntot)~idade+sexo+peso,family=binomial,weights=ntot) anova(m1,test=F) Analysis of Deviance Table Model: binomial, link: logit

Re: [R] mapply() gives seg fault

2003-10-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Robin Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everybody. I've been experimenting with mapply(). Does anyone else have problems with: R mapply(rep,times=1:4, MoreArgs=42) (I get a seg fault). So do I. It's a bug, but I suppose list(42) is what you need. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard

Re: [R] Previous Commands

2003-10-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Philippe Glaziou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rau, Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yesterday I took the R-1.8.0-source file and compiled it on my own. As I am using Linux just for a couple of weeks, it was my first compiling session with ./configure, make, Everything went fine, except

Re: Under dispersion; Was: [R] binomial glm warnings revisited

2003-10-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Tord Snall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Null deviance: 13.1931 on 269 degrees of freedom Residual deviance: 9.9168 on 268 degrees of freedom AIC: 13.917 ... BUT, note the under dispersion. I GUESS it is because I have surveyed a moss on marked trees at three occations (with two years

Re: [R] Indexing Question

2003-10-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Nathan Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an indexing question. I have a data set that looks like this: b [[1]] [1] 22 23 24 25 26 [[2]] [1] 6 7 8 9 NA etc. from [[1]] to [[1000]] Then I need to use the sample function to take two samples from b[[1]] to b[[1000]] each

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear list, I can not understand why the expression in the subject does not work correct: dcrn[which(fn == inve[2])] numeric(0) inve[2] [1] 406.7 dcrn[which(fn == 406.7)] [1] 1.3994e-07 1.3988e-07 1.3953e-07 1.3966e-07 1.3953e-07 1.3968e-07

[R] R-1.8.0 is released

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
I've rolled up R-1.8.0.tgz a short while ago. This is a new version with major changes (see below). Notably, the Macintosh version for OS X has been substantially improved; the old Carbon interface is no longer being supported. Also notice that the underscore will no longer work as an assignment

Re: [R] binomial glm warnings revisited

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This seems to me to be a special case of the general problem of a parameter on a boundary. Umm, no... I have this problem with my data. In a GLM, I have 269 zeroes and only 1 one: I don't think that necessarily gets you a parameter estimate

Re: [R] I need your help....

2003-10-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yair Snir wrote: Hello, I have a problem, I can't install the package 'mgu74av2cdf'. I downloaded the zip file, yet when asked the R console to install it from a zip file, I got the answer: Error in file(file, r) : unable to open

Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault

2003-10-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Laura Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am dealing with a huge matrix in R (20 columns, 54000 rows) and have lots of missing values within the dataset which are currently displayed as the value -999.00 I am trying to create a new matrix (or change the existing one) to display these values as

Re: [R] Still Cannot Install rimage in R-1.7.1 (RH 9.0) Even With fftw Installed

2003-10-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Rick Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still having problems installing rimage - the installation can't find the fftw headers. As suggested, I installed the fftw rpm (for RH 9 from freshrpms). It installed without any errors or warnings. Yet I get exactly the same error message - it

Re: [R] Installing R in Linux 8.0

2003-10-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Javier Arsuaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install R in Linux 8.0 and I downloaded R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm and did rpm -hiv R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm and I am getting the following message: warning: R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e error: Failed dependencies:

Re: [R] foo.RData or foo.r?

2003-10-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Federico Calboli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear All, I suspect this is kind of dumb, but when I was under the thrall of the dark lord (read, using a W2K box), all my work in R files came out as foo.RData. I moved on to GNU/Linux, and all the old .RData files keep on working as they used.

Re: [R] R on fairly large machines

2003-10-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Allan Tingey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, We are considering using R on a large problem that will require four 64 bit cpu's and 64Gb of ram and some flavor of unix. We are just wondering if R is going to be happy in this environment. If have experience with this please let me know.

Re: [R] Search for a text string and write position related data to a file

2003-10-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Karin Gerard Preusting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear all, I just started using R today. What I need to do is find a text string in a (large) text file and than copy the some position related lines (or text) to an other text file. Is this possible with R? It's hardly a typical R

Re: [R] problem downloading Red Hat R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Sam McClatchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: System info: Red Hat 9.0 R Version 1.7.0 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 --- Colleagues At work I've had to migrate from Mandrake 9.1 to Red Hat 9.0 and I'm reinstalling R. I am having a problem downloading from R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm

Re: [R] problem in integrating C routine with R on windows XP

2003-09-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Pingzhao Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, I a C function code, which has been successed in integrating with Splus on Unix. Now I want to move it on windows. So I want to integrate this C function with R on windows XP. I download tools.zip and saved it in c:\bin directory, download

Re: [R] frustration with ave()

2003-09-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas W Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed - You seem to have encountered a bug. I can reproduce Ed's difficulty in a completely artificial example in which there are unused levels : tmp - factor(rep(seq(10), seq(10))) # length(tmp) # [1] 55 ave(seq(50), tmp[-seq(5)])

Re: [R] installation : make fails (R-1.7.1 on RedHat 8.0)

2003-09-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Laurent Faisnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to compile R-1.7.1 from source (on a RedHat 8.0) instead of using the binary version, as it has often been advised. However I don't manage to find a solution to the following error which occurs during the make procedure : gcc

Re: [R] rpmbuild of src.rpm error

2003-09-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Morgan Hough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I received an error trying to build R-1.7.1-src.rpm on RH9.0.93 (Severn) and I was wondering if anybody could tell me what is going on with the manual error. I'd look further up the log for an indication of whether the PDF manuals got built at all. You

Re: [R] Typical R installation problem

2003-09-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Peter, I don't know if this is the proper way to ask for help installing R, but if not, I presume you can pass this on to the appropriate place. I'm trying to install the latest binary on Redhat 9, and keep getting the same error message no

Re: [R] what does the sum of square of Gaussian RVs with differen t variance obey?

2003-09-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a relatively recent article that is somewhat accessible. Jensen, D. R., and Solomon, Herbert (1994), Approximations to joint distributions of definite quadratic forms, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89 , 480-486 It has references to

Re: [R] storing objects (lm results) in an array

2003-09-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Jason Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 05:34, Christoph Lehmann wrote: Hi I have calculated lots (1000) of linear models and would like to store each single result as an element of a 3D matrix or a similar storage: something like glm[i][j][k] = lm(...)

Re: [R] Very small estimated random effect variance (lme)

2003-09-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Remko Duursma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear R-helpers, i get some strange results using a linear mixed-effects model (lme), of the type: lme1 - lme(y ~ x, random=~x|group, ...) For some datasets, i obtain very small standard deviations of the random effects. I compared these to

Re: [R] Saving with tkgetSaveFile

2003-09-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas W Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ruben - Why not simply save(x, file=new.file.name) ? See help(save), help(files). The file name must be quoted, and it must be passed as a named argument to save(). That's not the issue. tclvalue(a) instead of as.character(a) should be

Re: [R] Retrieve ... argument values

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear R users, I want to retrieve ... argument values within a function. Here is a small exmaple: myfunc - function(x, ...) { if (hasArg(ylim)) a - ylim plot(x, ...) } x - rnorm(100) myfunc(x, ylim=c(-0.5, 0.5)) Error in myfunc(x, ylim =

[R] Re: [Rd] R 1.8.0 alpha

2003-09-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
David Brahm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our Sun Ultra-80 running Solaris 2.8 (platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.8) failed to make R-1.8.0alpha_2003-09-15.tar.gz. The tail end of the output follows. Note that we have gcc version 2.95.3, as a recent attempt to upgrade failed miserably. Any ideas?

Re: [R] insert eps into microsft word

2003-09-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Rafael A. Irizarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for word documents submitted to picky journals i usually use seomthing like this: bitmap(plot_1.png,width=6,height=6,res=600,pointsize=12,family=Times) on my computer this resutls in quality just as good (to mu eye) as with postscript. you

Re: [R] How do I coerce numeric factor columns of data frame to vector?

2003-09-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as.numeric (levels (y)[as.numeric (y)]) NaLi [1] 1 3 1 NaLi which is a bit awkward. as.numeric(as.character(y)) ! {in some cases you might consider using as.integer() instead of as.numeric()} Better to convert first and then index:

Re: [R] memory problem in exporting data frame

2003-09-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
array chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get the data frame out by first deleting some other large objects in the directory, and then changing the data frame into matrix by as.matrix(), splitting the matrix into 4 blocks and finally using

Re: [R] data manipulation

2003-09-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Ricardo Pietrobon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IDdatecost 1 2001-01 200.00 1 2001-01 123.94 1 2001-03 100.23 1 2001-04 150.34 2 2001-03 296.34 2 2002-05 156.36 I would like to obtain the median costs and boxplots

Re: [R] Basic Dummy Variable Creation

2003-09-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x - c(1:10) #data to be broken up into dummy variables v - c(3,5,7) #breakpoints p = 1#drop this column to avoid dummy variable trap How can I get a matrix y that has the associated dummy variables for columns?

Re: [R] stack overflow

2003-09-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
William Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am trying to do an ANOVA on a microarray data set consisting of 22690 elements. The ANOVA is fine, but when I try to put the data in a frame in order to exporting it, I get a stack overflow. I have found documentation on dynamic memory in

Re: [R] subtract 2 columns in a data.frame

2003-09-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Ulrich Leopold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear list, could someone point me to the right command to subtract 2 columns in a data.frame. Might be a bit embarrassing question. But I cannot figure out how to do this simple command in R. E.g., mydata$difference - mydata$x - mydata$y --

Re: [R] subtract 2 columns in a data.frame

2003-09-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Ulrich Leopold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: E.g., mydata$difference - mydata$x - mydata$y That's what I thought, but I get the following message: propLSK.STONE.Pox0t30$Pox0t30STONE-propLSK.STONE.Pox0t30$Pox0t30 numeric(0) Does it mean the resulting vector is empty? If yes, what

Re: [R] Another R syntax question

2003-09-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it's clear that it will parse as either (x==y) != z or x == (y!=z) but not which. The rule is that everything is left associative except assignment and exponentiation (and IF, for some reason). If in doubt, just remember that it is the

Re: [R] I don't understand this

2003-09-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Richard A. O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have said that the behavior of (if (cond) names else dim)(x) - 10 is undefined in the S language, along with things like the order of evaluation of the apply functions.

Re: [R] Overlaying graphs

2003-09-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Paul Meagher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am wanting to construct a probability distribution for height and then, hopefully, visually and analytically demonstrate that it is normally distributed. These are the commands I have developed so far: fat - read.table(fat.dat, header=TRUE) mu

Re: [R] lme in R and Splus

2003-09-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Michael Fugate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ## BEGINNING OF CODE ### # a fake dataset to make the bumps with nn - 30 # of data points mm - 7 # number of support sites for x(s) # create sites s ss - seq(1,10,length=nn) # create the data y e1 -

Re: [R] I don't understand this

2003-09-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have said that the behavior of (if (cond) names else dim)(x) - 10 is undefined in the S language, along with things like the order of evaluation of the apply functions. Actually, following Luke's analysis, I think it is pretty squarely an

Re: [R] I don't understand this

2003-09-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Barry Rowlingson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: BTW: If you ever actually need to do something like that, try eval(substitute(foo(x)-10,list(foo=as.name(if (cond) names else dim please no!!! What's wrong with: if(cond){ names(x) - 10 } else

Re: [R] Illegal instruction - R 1.7.1 under RH 9 Intel

2003-09-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
rab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed R 1.7.1 on my intel desktop (RH 9) without any problems. I installed the same binary (R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm) on my Toshiba Satellite 2535cds (RH 9). R starts as usual all the way to how to quit then prints: Illegal instruction and exits to the

Re: [R] difference between - and =

2003-09-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A common, punishing error for me, with DF being a data frame, is the following: if(DF$a = 1) ... where I intended to write if(DF$a == 1) This error first replaces column a of DF with the trivial vector 1 (of length

Re: [R] Problem and Question regarding R

2003-08-31 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernhard Bals) writes: Hi, I'm just about to install the Precompiled Binary Distribution of R from CRAN for SuSE Linux 8.2: R-base-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm My system is SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional Edition on a Pentium 4: # uname -a Linux linux 2.4.20-4GB #1 Mon Mar 17

Re: [R] Newbie graphing questions

2003-08-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas Petzoldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc Schwartz wrote: In general, if you want to leave the existing device open and have a new device open for a new plot, you simply call the device name that you want to open (ie. under Linux you would use X11() ) to open a new plotting device

Re: [R] R-help: beginner question

2003-08-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am a beginner user of R. I have a trivial question – I am almost ashamed I cannot figure it out does not matter how many times I am reading the help. I have a table in .txt format, tab delimited. I can read it with

Re: [R] (no subject)

2003-08-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
giovanni caggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear All, A couple of questions about the nls package. 1. I'm trying to run a nonlinear least squares regression but the routine gives me the following error message: step factor 0.000488281 reduced below `minFactor' of 0.000976563 even

Re: [R] R on Linux/Opteron?

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote: Has anyone tried using R on the the AMD Opteron in either 64- or 32-bit mode? If so, any good/bad experiences, comments, etc? We are considering getting this hardware, and would like

Re: [R] seeking help with with()

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to define a function like: fnx - function(x, by.vars=Month) print(by(x, by.vars, summary)) But this doesn't work (does not find x$Month; unlike other functions, such as subset(), the INDICES argument to by does not look for variables in

Re: [R] Exporting R graphs (review)

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Yesterday I posted my first couple of questions (see bottom of this message) to this forum and I would like to thank you guys for all the useful feedback I got. I just would like

Re: [R] How to test a model with two unkown constants

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Sven Garbade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, suppose I've got a vector y with some data (from a repeated measure design) observed given the conditions in f1 and f2. I've got a model with two unknown fix constants a and b which tries to predict y with respect to the values in f1 and f2.

Re: [R] how to calculate Rsquare

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Battelle Institute surely should have access to a library with such popular and prestigious journals as Biometrika and The American Statistians. If you don't have time for that, you surely should have money to purchase a copy from, e.g.,

Re: [R] Reducing matrix dimension

2003-08-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas W Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: help(Subscript) Or, princomp or factanal, depending on what was meant... I have a 12(cols) by 9(rows) matrix X. I need to reduce this matrix so that it contains 'n' columns (eg. reduce X into a 3 by 9 matrix). What is the best method to do

Re: [R] Altix IA-64 chip

2003-08-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Isaac Neuhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a loan SGI Altix system runing linux with the IA-64 chip. I was wondering if anybody has compiled R in such a system. Seems so...: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=r-basever=1.7.1.cvs.20030814-1arch=ia64stamp=1060920704file=logas=raw --

Re: [R] Substitute in legend

2003-08-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to use substitute in legend as follows: pval - 0.04 plot(0) legend(1,0.5,substitute(hat(theta) == p, list(p = pval))) For some reason the legend is repeated 3 times. Any suggestions or is this a bug? It's a bug. The code is looking at

Re: [R] Substitute in legend

2003-08-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Deepayan Sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: legend(1,0.5,as.expression(substitute(hat(theta) == p, list(p = pval Just out of curiosity: ?legend says legend: a vector of text values or an 'expression' of length = 1 to appear in the legend. Is an object of mode call

Re: [R] A logical comparison between two character strings in R

2003-08-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Lun Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear All, Does anyone know how to compare two character strings in R? For eample, how to compare A-1-B with cc-1 in logical ? Ehhh... Is it this that you want? A-1-B == cc-1 [1] FALSE A-1-B = cc-1 [1] TRUE A-1-B cc-1 [1] FALSE

Re: [R] A logical comparison between two character strings in R

2003-08-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Lun Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. But, my question is: pro.name[1] V1 1 B-29BT3 temp.name[1] V1 1 A-1H if(tem.name[1]==pro.name[1]){cat(ok)} Error in Ops.factor(left, right) : Level sets of factors are different How to compare them? Then they are factors,

Re: [R] logistic regression without intercept

2003-08-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to Thomas Lumley, Spencer Graves, and Steve Sullivan for their advice on and off list to modify the formula with +0 (which I did; it worked) or -1 at the end. ... Also, I noticed that S-Plus but not R has a glim routine that uses maximum

Re: [R] Interlacing two vectors

2003-08-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Murray Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to interlace two vectors. This I can do: x - 1:4 z - x+0.5 as.vector(t(cbind(x,z))) [1] 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 but this seems rather inelegant. Any suggestions? Well, there's as.vector(rbind(x,z)) at least... I don't

Re: [R] R-1.7.1 gets installed without default packages withoutreadline

2003-08-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Laurent Faisnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Trying to install R-1.7.1 on a RedHat 8.0 platform, I have a few problems. R gets installed without default packages (but base and ctest) : make script fails at the end of the procedure (configure is made successfully). This is the

Re: [R] graph for selected lines in stars()

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Tito de Morais Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear listers, The following command (derived from the example in the ?stars help page) works : data(mtcars) stars(mtcars[, 1:7]) But the following gives an error: stars(mtcars[1, 1:7]) Error in s.y[i, ] : incorrect number of dimensions

Re: [R] ginv vs. solve

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why do x-b%*%ginv(A) and x-solve(A,b) give different results?. It seems that I am missing some basic feature of matrix indexing. e.g.: A-matrix(c(0,-4,4,0),nrow=2,ncol=2) b-c(-16,0) x-b%*%ginv(A);x x-solve(A,b);x [ginv() is from MASS, please remember

Re: [R] Manipulating text

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis Fisher wrote: In labeling axes, I want to combine symbols and text/superscripts. Examples include: m2 (m, followed by a superscripted 2) * µg (micrograms) How can I accomplish this in R? See

Re: [R] read.spss doesn't work anymore [more info]

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Hedderik van Rijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some more information about my read.spss issues: on a cleanly installed Debian Woody machine: ~/TMP % R R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.7.1 (2003-06-16) [...] library(foreign); x - read.spss(dataDef.sav)

Re: [R] who to rbind of a list of data.frames

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everybody, could anybody give me a hint, who I can use rbind on a list of data.frames, please? I have a list with a large number of data.frames of the same structure, like: LIST - list(X1=data.frame(a=1,b=2), X2=data.frame(a=3,b=4),

Re: [R] capturing output from Win 98 shell

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter, thanks for quick reply, but I can't drop it: system(dir /b, intern=T, show.output.on.console=T) Error in system(dir /b, intern = T, show.output.on.console = T) : dir not found Oh, dir is a built-in, right?... Better wait for the real

Re: [R] leverage

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jane == jane murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 06 Aug 2003 09:16:48 +0100 writes: jane Hi Can anyone help with the technique of obtaining jane leverages from a conditional logistic regression jane model? The code lm.influence does

Re: [R] capturing output from Win 98 shell

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Prof Brian Ripley writes: If you insist on using a long-obselete OS, please help us continue ot support it by supplying patches and workarounds. I think we (like Microsoft) are going to have to think seriously about withdrawing support from

Re: [R] grep and gsub on backslash and quotes

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following code works, to gsub single quotes to double quotes: line - gsub(', '', line) (that's a single quote within doubles then a double within singles if your viewer's font is not good). But The R Language Manual tells me that Quotes and

Re: [R] big data file geting truncated

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Dibakar Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am very new to R. I was trying to load some publicly available Expression data in to R. I used the following commands mydata-read.table(dataALLAMLtrain.txt, header=TRUE, sep =\t,row.names=NULL) It reads data without any error Now if I use

Re: [R] Timer in R?

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Jim Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Johnathan Williams wrote: Would anyone be so kind as to write a routine to time mouse button presses in R to the nearest millisecond? If R had a timer of this kind and a few basic screen handling routines (to write characters or graphics of

Re: [R] capturing output from Win 98 shell

2003-08-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: system(COMMAND.COM /c dir /b, intern=T, show.output.on.console=T) character(0) print(system(COMMAND.COM /c dir /b, intern=F, show.output.on.console=T)) [1] 0 In both cases here a DOS window opens and lists a couple of hundred files, before giving

Re: [R] Problem with data.frames

2003-08-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter is right, but there is a point here: it would be nice if attach(my.dframe) would do nothing - or at least warn - if my.dframe was already in the search list. Like library(). Attaching twice is almost bound to be an error? The problem is, how can

Re: [R] Problem with data.frames

2003-08-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's one of the many situations in which I would very much like to get a warning or error message, pointing out to me that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Surely that's what warnings are for? For those of us who wonder why our code doesn't do

Re: [R] Problem with data.frames

2003-08-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Andreas Eckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just encountered a problem in R that may easily be fixed: If one uses attach for a data.frame e.g. 1 times and forgets detach, then R gets incredibly slow (less then 10% of the original speed). R also gets incredibly slow if you create

Re: [R] Plotting a function with curve()

2003-07-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Damon Wischik wrote: Why does curve(function(y) y^2, from=0,to=1) not work, whereas myf - function(y) y^2 curve(myf, from=0,to=1) work? Because someone was trying to be too clever in writing curve(). The first

Re: [R] Alignment when rotating text and symbols

2003-07-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, p.b.pynsent wrote: What I had hoped for was what I get with srt=0, rotated as whole so it looked the same but was just rotated to the specified angle. But you got what is documented, and my example addessed that. The docs

Re: [R] nested for() loops for returning a nearest point

2003-07-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Steve Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: neighbor.id - vector(length=length(D1$lat)) dist.geo - vector(length=length(D2$lat)) for(i in 1:length(neighbor.id)){ for(j in 1:length(dist.geo)){ dist.geo[j] - D1$lat[i]-D2$lat[j]} # Yes, I know that isn't the right formula, this is just a test

Re: [R] reverse array indexing

2003-07-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Buchsbaum, Brad (NIH/NIMH) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Suppose I have a multidimensional array: tmp - array(1:8, c(2,2,2)) is there a function out there that, given a one-dimensional array index, will return the separate indices for each array dimension? for instance, tmp[8] is

Re: [R] How to make - generic?

2003-07-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - not evaluating the left side of the operator. This is no problem in principle, since generic functions can have a signature (see ?setGeneric); if the signature omits the first argument, methods can be dispatched without evaluating that argument.

Re: [R] How to make - generic?

2003-07-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Peter Dalgaard BSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are you trying to do with this? Assignment (-) is not a function, and the language grammar does not convert a - b into -(a, b) (as it would with the binary operator functions). You could call

Re: [R] inverse prediction and Poisson regression

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x y 0 28 0.0321 0.1 11 0.3 15 1 5 3 4 10 1 30 0 100 0 Where X is dose and Y is response. the relation is linear for log(response) =

Re: [R] variable name of variable in dataframe

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Hotz, T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Tobias, The trick is Programming on the Language, see e.g. the R Language Manual. Construct the expression you want, and have it explicitly parsed and evaluated. toy - function(b=.95){ toyframe - eval(parse(text=paste(data.frame(lion, b, = c(1,

Re: [R] inverse prediction and Poisson regression

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem with nls is that it is NOT maximum likelihood for the Poisson distribution. For the Poisson, the standard deviation is the square root of the mean, while nls assumes constant standard deviation. That's why I stayed with glm. The answers

Re: [R] Curious warning in R for OS X w/Xwindows

2003-07-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Bear F. Braumoeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm starting R with xterm -sb -rightbar -sl 1000 -bg black -fg blue -title R -e /usr/local/bin/R -- but it also happens if I just start a vanilla terminal and type R. As to the other questions, Sys.getenv(TERM) TERM xterm

Re: [R] Curious warning in R for OS X w/Xwindows

2003-07-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Bear F. Braumoeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently reformatted my TiBook and reinstalled everything from the system up. After installing Apple's version of XWindows and the XWindows version of R 1.7.0, I ran the two and got a strange warning: - R : Copyright 2003, The R

Re: [R] [OT] Modeling strategies

2003-07-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I happened to look up Frank Harrell's book Regression Modeling Strategies on Amazon.com today. I was surprised to see that in addition to the typical links to related books they had sponsored links to sites about How to become a model, Try out for

Re: [R] Contents of R-help digest.-contouring

2003-07-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reference to Venerable and Ripley reminds me that in the late 1940s, George Box worked for Imperial Chemicals Industries, which appeared in at least one brochure I saw as Empirical Chemicals Industries. George invented response surface methods

Re: [R] question about formulating a nls optimization

2003-07-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Adi Humbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear list, I'm migrating a project from Matlab to R, and I'm facing a relatively complicated problem for nls. My objective function is below: objFun - function(yEx,xEx,tEx,gamma,theta,kappa){ yTh - pdfDY(xEx,tEx,gamma,theta,kappa)

Re: [R] lexicographic sort of ordered lists

2003-07-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
J. P. Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to execute the following sort problem in R? Matrix X has positive integer entries, and each column has been sorted in ascending order. The problem is now to order the columns lexicographically. For instance if the matrix X is

Re: [R] Problem indexing into array

2003-07-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[Argh. Forgot to cc: the list again...] Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mu[M[,1:3]] should do what you want, I think. See chapter 1 of S Poetry. Patrick Burns Thanks Patrick (and honoured to hear from the author of S-Poetry!). This doesn't do what I want (I was probably

Re: [R] Formal definitions of R-language.

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[Oops. Accidentally sent only to D.Trainor first time around, even though it was intended mainly for M.Kondrin and the list] Douglas Trainor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uwe Ligges wrote: M.Kondrin wrote: Hello! Some CS-guys (the type who knows what Church formalism is) keep asking me

Re: [R] Formal definitions of R-language.

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Murad Nayal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Sensible stuff, except:] what sort of garbage collector it uses? No garbage collector. uses reference counting to discard objects that are no longer needed. No, R uses garbage collection with a generational scheme which looks more frequently at

Re: [R] dbApply and data.frame

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas W Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Runge - I haven't tried it out, but half a guess says that R might not like using underscore in a variable name. Please try exactly the same command without quotes and without the underscore: fraktil.df -

Re: [R] Looking to maximize a conditional likelihood

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to maximize a conditional likelihood function that is basically logistic conditional on the number of successes within strata. What would be a good starting place for this? A complication is that the denominator includes a term that is the sum

Re: [R] Why two chisq.test p values differ when the contingency

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Shi, Tao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Ted: I guess this problem is platform-dependent. I just tied it on a R 1.6.1 runing on Win2K, it gave me two different p values. But when I tried it on R1.7.0 on a Linux Server, I got the similar result as you did. I have filed a bug-report as Peter

Re: [R] list to data frame

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Jesper Runge Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear R helpers I am trying to convert a list into a data frame but when I try, I get a stack overflow error (Error: protect(): stack overflow). My list contains about 17000 rows and looks like shown at the bottom. The reason that I want to

Re: [R] Why two chisq.test p values differ when the contingency

2003-07-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Shi, Tao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Ted and Dennis: Thanks for your speedy replies! I don't think this happens just randomly, rather, I'm thinking it may be due to the way chisq.test function handles simulation. Here shows why: (Ted, I think there is an error in your code, tx should

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