Re: [R] previous business day

for free. timeDate is an Rmetrics package. Go to https://www.rmetrics.org/ebooks to see what is available from Rmetrics. David Scott -Original Message- From: Li, Jing Yi [mailto:jingyi...@credit-suisse.com] Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 9:38 AM To: David Reiner; David Winsemius Cc: r

Re: [R] power spectrum of eeg

*(0:(n-1))) specx - spec.pgram(x, plot = FALSE) spec.pgram(x) spec.pgram(x, xaxt = n, xlab = frequency (Hz), sub = paste(bandwidth = , round(1000*specx$bandwidth,2))) axis(side = 1, at = (0:5)/10, labels = 1000*(0:5)/10) David Scott

Re: [R] cpgram: access data, confidence bands

periodogram (as the name suggests). What did you test? Only a white noise process should stay inside the confidence bands. There is some information about the use of the cumulative periodogram in Venables and Ripley's book for which cpgram was written (but admittedly not a lot). David Scott

Re: [R] How to start default browser on R

On 23/11/10 14:20, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Win7 64 bit IE 64 bit How to start IE on R? TIA B.R. Stephen L ?browseURL -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] How to start default browser on R

can use it to open a local file on your machine as well. I use this all the time with hwriter which writes html reports. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] looking for the RMySQL package for R 2.12.0 under XP

guy to add the MySQL/ODBC connector. The instructions may not be quite up to date but hopefully you can find your way through. Our students generally manage to set it all up on their own computers. David Scott On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:48 PM, PtitBleuptit_b...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hello, I

Re: [R] RGoogleDocs ability to write to spreadsheets broken as of yesterday

code. -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc

Re: [R] Engle Granger Test in R

. David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc

Re: [R] log y 'axis' of histogram

function. There is one (logHist) in my package DistributionUtils on CRAN. You don't need the rest of the package to use it. You could just extract that particular function. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics

Re: [R] log y 'axis' of histogram

in the density correspond to straight lines in the logged y-axis plot. Hope this helps. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142

Re: [R] weird to me interaction between time() and %%, %/%

2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 David Scott On 1/09/2010 11:04 a.m., Alistair Gray wrote: Dear List, I'm getting weird and unexpected behaviour using time and %%, or %/%. It's likely I'm not appreciating the nuances of floating point arithmetic. Or it could

[R] Reproducible research

in particular, and possibly odfWeave. Does anyone have sample documents using any of these approaches which they could let me have? David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] Need help for EM algorithm ASAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

like this in to me to grade. David Scott On 21/09/2010 5:32 p.m., snes1...@hotmail.com wrote: I created a EM algorithm for Generalized hyperbolic distribution. I want to estimate mutheldaplus, sigmatheldaplus, betasigmaplus in my code. After getting use these value , then my iteration have

Re: [R] efficient equivalent to read.csv / write.csv

in .csv format. If the .csv files are similar there shouldn't be too much overhead in defining table formats for the database. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland

Re: [R] Running an ANOVA with a BY

are available for download. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email

Re: [R] histogram

that it will give you the counts you want is just wrong. As others have pointed out if you make things more explicit and don't take the defaults it will do so. Using hist to obtain counts like this is like using a hammer to drive in a screw. David Scott

Re: [R] Frequencies, proportions cumulative proportions

Tabulation with Tests for Factor Independence Description An implementation of a cross-tabulation function with output similar to S-Plus crosstabs() and SAS Proc Freq (or SPSS format) with Chi-square, Fisher and McNemar tests of the independence of all table factors. David Scott

Re: [R] Odp: : Question about correlation between data.

of the violation of the independence assumption. If Antonio does not understand these comments he needs to consult a local statistician. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland

Re: [R] Non-normal residuals.

to fit a (perhaps just a simple linear) model with t-distributed residuals (or residuals of a different distribution)? Package sn has this facility I believe. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics

Re: [R] Non-normal residuals.

Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:25 AM, David Scott d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:06:02 -0400 Ben Bolker bol...@ufl.edu wrote: If transforming your data brings you closer to satisfying the assumptions of your analytic methods

Re: [R] (exact) confidence bounds for lognormal parameters \mu and \sigma

fitdistrplus can do this David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email

Re: [R] R package documentation

_ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz, Fax: +64 9 373 7018 Director of Consulting, Department

Re: [R] R interactive input like C++

is taken from the keyboard (or whatever ‘stdin()’ reads if input is redirected or R is embedded). I think the required function is readline which prompts for user input. ?readline David Scott _ David Scott

Re: [R] R package documentation

_ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz, Fax: +64 9 373

Re: [R] read.table behavior for Dates.

within Excel. Use .csv files created by other software, yes, but not one saved from within Excel. David Scott Nevertheless I got some valuable insight in the topic. What I'm trying to do here is make it easier for people to upload files that might contain dates to my webapp at yeroon.net/ggplot2

Re: [R] interpreting acf plot

specialized and advanced texts also. Off the top of my head, Pfaff, Hyndman, ... David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW

[R] Problem installing RODBC

guessing my MySQL is getting a bit decrepit and needs updating, but welcome any suggestions about sorting this out. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] Problem installing RODBC

Marc Schwartz wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 7:02 PM, David Scott wrote: I have a problem with some missing headers when trying to install RODBC on my linux box. install.packages(RODBC, + lib=/usr/local/david/R) trying URL 'http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz/src/contrib

Re: [R] What is the best way to have R output tables in an MS Word format?

. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc

Re: [R] What is the best way to have R output tables in an MS Word format?

Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz, Fax

Re: [R] Problems plotting date and time column from excel using R

rule these days, when using Windows, I prefer to avoid the .xls or .xlsx to .csv route to getting data into R from Excel and use either RODBC or xlsReadWrite. Getting Excel to write a .csv file is just adding some random noise to the process. David Scott

Re: [R] Path to R script

system.file available, which I presume works across platforms: system.file(RunTests.R,package=DistributionUtils) [1] /usr/local/david/R/DistributionUtils system.file(unitTests/runTests.R,package=DistributionUtils) [1] /usr/local/david/R/DistributionUtils/unitTests/runTests.R David Scott

Re: [R] Path to R script

David Scott wrote: Sharpie wrote: Johannes W. Dietrich wrote: There is certainly a trivial solution for my question, but I can't find the answer in the documentation. I need a platform independent method to obtain the file path of the current R script. My working group uses R on several

Re: [R] summary of arima model in R

Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz, Fax

[R] Bessel function with large index value

with a Gamma function of high order in the denominator. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055

Re: [R] Bessel function with large index value

This is a reply to my own question. I thought I had found an answer but it seems not so (some analysis follows below). Maybe Martin Maechler or Robin Hankin or Duncan Murdoch may have some ideas---I know the question is a bit specialized. David Scott wrote: I am looking for a method

Re: [R] How to interpret the phase spectrum?

the cospectrum looks. That is really the only infallible way of determining what the software is doing. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland

Re: [R] estimate inverse gaussian in R

Gaussian distribution. Its support is the real line and it has 4 parameters. The inverse Gaussian is a special case of the generalized inverse Gaussian. It has support the positive half line and 2 parameters. David Scott On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:48 PM, noclue_ wrote: I have a one-variable data

Re: [R] estimate inverse gaussian in R

David Scott wrote: Jorge Ivan Velez wrote: Hi Tim, Take a look at http://bm2.genes.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/R_current/library/fBasics/man/dist-nigFit.html HTH, Jorge' i don't think this is what the OP wanted. The nig is the normal inverse Gaussian distribution, which is a special case

[R] Stata files

on their website led me to believe Stata 11 couldn't write in Stata 10 format. However Stata 11 can write Excel files in XML, so presumably .xlsx files. Any advice, correction of my misconceptions, etc. gladly received. David Scott

Re: [R] Stata files

in Version 11 of Stata will save a Version 10/11 file in the format that was used by Versions 8 and 9 of Stata. ---JRG On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, David Scott wrote: I have a client who uses Stata 11. Can anyone advise me on ways of transferring data from this version of Stata to R? Reading

Re: [R] Maximum spacing method

estimator...:-( Any help would be great:-) You can see an implementation of mps for the normal inverse Gaussian in fBasics on R-Forge. Have a look at the function .nigFit.mps in the file dist-nigFit.R David Scott -- _ David Scott

Re: [R] Return values in fExtremes package

0.994 ... ..@ title : chr Gumbel Parameter Estimation ..@ description: chr Fri Jan 08 11:12:32 2010 p...@fit$par.ests mu beta 0.03515609 0.99286204 David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics

Re: [R] Installed directory of a package

Ron Burns wrote: Hi all- Is there an R function that returns the directory in which a package has been installed? Thanks Ron ?system.file For example: system.file(package=DistributionUtils) [1] C:/Users/dsco036/R/win-library/2.10/DistributionUtils David Scott

Re: [R] zipped files as a data type

In-memory Compression and Decompression utils::unzipExtract or List Zip Archives utils::zip.file.extract Extract File from a Zip Archive utils::win.version Auxiliary Functions for the Windows Port which seems to provide some leads David Scott

Re: [R] ARIMA order

nuncio m wrote: Hi all, Is there any way in R to select the order of an ARIMA model automatically nuncio Rob Hyndman's package forecast has a function auto.arima which produces an automatic arima fit, including for seasonal models. David Scott

Re: [R] Problem with library(SSPA)

Samuel Okoye wrote: I can't find his email and I have asked the same question to bioconduc...@stat.math.ethz.ch Regards, Samuel So you need the handy function maintainer() added to 2.11.0: require(GeneralizedHyperbolic) maintainer(GeneralizedHyperbolic) [1] David Scott d.sc

[R] Use of .Fortran

to the subroutine) to make this work? David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599

Re: [R] How to install old randomForest?

guide to the build process, have a look at Rob Hyndman's instructions: http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/building-r-packages-for-windows/ David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University

Re: [R] Greek letters on a multi-line plot title

, scientific=F), sep=) title(the_expression) grid() When confronted with this problem, after many failed attempts, I have had to resort to mtext. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics

Re: [R] Yet another question about importing Excel *.xls files

xlsReadWritePro at http://www.swissr.org/ which can write native xls files with multiple sheets. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland

Re: [R] Greek letters on a multi-line plot title

=2.25,cex=1.15) Best wishes David Scott - Original Message From: David Scott d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz To: Jason Rupert jasonkrup...@yahoo.com Cc: R-help@r-project.org R-help@r-project.org Sent: Wed, January 20, 2010 3:49:40 PM Subject: Re: [R] Greek letters on a multi-line plot title

[R] Microsoft SQL Server and R

Microsoft SQL Server. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

questions he should be able to find his way around the help system and other documentation by now. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

is an environment which rewards a bit of exploration and experimentation. Every package has a maintainer whose email is given on CRAN. In the case of the contrast package that is at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/contrast/index.html It ain't that hard. David Scott

Re: [R] how to make R plot under Linux

in the department who can assist. Someone set up the linux machine where R is running, they will know this stuff. David Scott -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] R and TeraData

, but there is an ODBC driver for linux and I have used it to connect it quite successfully (thank you Brian) to access MySQL on a linux box from both Windows and Linux boxes. The installation of the ODBC driver on linux is described in the README file which is part of the RODBC package. David Scott

Re: [R] X11 graphics windows under CMD BATCH

Not sure about answering your original question, but why not write the graphics output to a file, then fire up a viewer? David Scott On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Luke Spadavecchia wrote: Hi there, I am trying to plot some output from a FORTRAN (ifort) program using R (2.5.1) under batch mode

Re: [R] R validation

In regard to validation of R, there are test directories with test code. See for example: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/tests/ and https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/stats/tests/ David Scott _ David Scott

Re: [R] Testing Normal Distributions

There is a whole package to do this: nortest David Scott On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there is an algorithm in R for testing if a data set as a normal destribution. Thank you for your time, Pedro Marques

Re: [R] Generating log transformed random numbers

If you are after the lognormal distribution, I would recommend you use the lognormal functions from R itself. Check them out with ?dlnorm David Scott On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Scionforbai wrote: If what you want is a lognormal distribution of n values you can use the following transformations

Re: [R] histogram plot as step function

yvals - histRes$counts length(xvals) length(yvals) xvals - c(xvals,xvals[length(xvals)]) yvals - c(0,yvals,0) plot(xvals,yvals,type=S) David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University

Re: [R] help

use the uniroot function which is far more efficient than bisection. See ?uniroot David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland

[R] R programming style

I am aware of one (unofficial) guide to style for R programming: http://www1.maths.lth.se/help/R/RCC/ from Henrik Bengtsson. Can anyone provide further pointers to good style? Views on Bengtsson's ideas would interest me as well. David Scott

Re: [R] Transfer Crosstable to Word-Document

the ' characters. Overall, I was reasonably happy with the approach I took. If I have a future need I will have some ready-made functions to work from which will make life easier. I will be interested to try some of the other suggestions in this thread. David Scott

[R] Cygwin and Rtools

would welcome any advice. I had a look at the rtools section in the Administration Manual and the rtools site without gaining sufficient enlightenment to proceed. I am running Windows Vista and R 2.6.2 David Scott _ David Scott

Re: [R] what happened to the xlsReadWrite package

. Pick up the latest version from Hans-Peter Suter's website http://treetron.googlepages.com/ David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142

Re: [R] acf Significance

including underlying C and Fortran are explained in the article by Uwe Ligges: Uwe Ligges. R Help Desk: Accessing the sources. R News, 6(4):43-45, October 2006. This article is essential reading for anyone contemplating much use of R. David Scott

Re: [R] log and Log Histogram

. David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86830 Fax: +64 9 373 7000 Email

Re: [R] Simple (?) subset problem

My guess is that you maybe have some leading or trailing spaces in the direction_ variable. Try a tabulation of the direction_ variable to see exactly what values are in your data set. David Scott On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Farley, Robert wrote: I can't figure out the syntax I need to get

Re: [R] Simple (?) subset problem

) SurveyData$direction_ - temp should do it. You could just replace the direction_ variable without using temp but it is safer this way and you should check the values of temp before replacing your original data. David Scott _ David

Re: [R] Plots spanning columns

. David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86830 Fax: +64 9 373 7000

Re: [R] Compiling date

probably be improved by a regular expression whiz, but works: strngs - c(06/05/08,23/11/2008) sub(([0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/)([0-9][0-9]$),\\120\\2,strngs) [1] 06/05/2008 23/11/2008 David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics

Re: [R] probably easy methods question

really simple. Thanks, Edna Bell getAnywhere(t.test.default) David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW

Re: [R] Plotting curves in lattice panels

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 9/18/08, David Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a data set concerning ferritin levels in blood. There are three relevant columns for this question, ferritin (continuous), score (ordered, from 0 to 8) and gender. There is a good linear

Re: [R] Statistical question re assessing fit of distribution functions.

of a lot else being available. David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86830

Re: [R] How to order some of my columns (not rows) alphabetically

[,sort(names(df))] sortdf a y z 1 3 5 1 2 4 6 2 David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9

Re: [R] Inverting data frame...row wise

k1 k2 z a y 1 1 3 5 7 9 2 2 4 6 8 10 revdf - df[,rev(names(df))] revdf y a z k2 k1 1 9 7 5 3 1 2 10 8 6 4 2 David Scott milicic.marko wrote: Hi, I have the data.frame with 4 columns. I simply want to invert dataset so that last row becomes first... I tried with rev(my_data

Re: [R] Inverting data frame...row wise

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, David Scott wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Julian Burgos wrote: How about something like my.data=my.data[,4:1] Julian This can be tackled in a similar way to the question by Mark Na which I just answered. Using the same data frame construction we have df

Re: [R] Interactive plot

Googling MDI gives a wikipedia entry in the first place which should explain things. David Scott On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 7/24/2008 8:24 AM, Megh Dal wrote: Thanks for this. Can you please explain me what are those MDI and SDI and the diff in laymans language

Re: [R] RODBC to query an Oracle table

the single quote which starts at 'select. (That is you need a ' just before the closing bracket. David scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] change column names of several data frames

think what you are missing is as.name. I think you need (untested) something like: names(as.name(paste(data,i,sep=.))) - y1 David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University

Re: [R] splitting a vector on comma

://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] MLE for noncentral t distribution

QRMlib has routines for fitting t distributions. Have a look at that package. Also sn has routines for skew-t distributions David Scott On Thu, 8 May 2008, kate wrote: I have a data with 236 observations. After plotting the histogram, I found that it looks like non-central t

Re: [R] histogram

the argument plot=FALSE and hist will produce the counts etc for you David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW

Re: [R] [OT] xemacs on windows vista

who uses TeX and R it is an excellent option. I haven't checked John Fox's advice concerning XEmacs lately but in the past it has been the best source of information about XEmacs and R if you do still want to stick with XEmacs. David Scott On Mon, 12 May 2008, Vincent Goulet wrote: Le lun

Re: [R] RJDBC cant find driver class in JDBC jar file

gratitude for a nice piece of work. David Scott On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Dan Montgomery wrote: I would like to set up a Windows XP environment with R and MySQL. This set-up was recommended by a friend who uses this set up, but I have been unable to get RJDBC to work. I have installed all of the software

Re: [R] Connection to Microsoft SQL Server

: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~dscott/779/UsingMySQLAndODBC.pdf David Scott Many thanks for your help! Me. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do

Re: [R] error message re: max(i), but code and output seen O.K.

and in some cases getting an empty vector. x - numeric(0) max(x) [1] -Inf Warning message: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf David Scott Best as I can tell the code is working properly and the output is as expected. I would like some help in understanding why he

Re: [R] postscript problems (landscape orientation)

. David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz

Re: [R] reading Excel file

. -- _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz, Fax: +64 9 373 7018 Graduate Officer, Department

Re: [R] off topic but need your pointers about statistics

The preface to Heyde and Seneta can be seen on Google books and possibly on Amazon and gives a number of recent references. David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] Loc function in R??

. _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142,NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86830 Fax: +64 9 373 7000 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [R] Importing Large Dataset into Excel

truly works in misterious ways. read.csv has an argument fill which should fix this problem. In my case I was actually reading the .csv file into mySQL and the solution was to select the whole of the .xls file and format it as text before writing the .csv file. David SCott

[R] Reading .csv file under linux

with the character encoding. On the linux box I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Any advice would be welcome David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019

Re: [R] Reading .csv file under linux

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote: I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it gives : patients - read.csv(../Patients.csv, header

Re: [R] Reading .csv file under linux

am on. Painful but at least it is system independent. Thanks again David On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote: I have encountered a problem

[R] [OT] Open source archive program on windows

I am looking for a recommendation for an open source competitor to Winzip. I seem to recall Brian Ripley mentioning one in the last year or so, but couldn't find it in the mail archives. (Searching on Ripley there is somehow not terribly useful.) Suggestions? David Scott

Re: [R] B-W stacked area chart with pattern

and Visualizing Data. David Scott On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Greg Snow wrote: I would question if a stacked area chart is really the best way to display information on 12 groups. You can put a lot of information into the plot, but the viewer will probably experience information overload and not be able

Re: [R] read.xls question

on CRAN xlsReadWrite is not currently available. There is an archived version available however. David Scott _ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142

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