Re: [R] exporting long character vectors to dbf

2006-05-23 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I assume this is (or was) a specification issue. I think write.dbf uses the shapefile library (C not R library) so it applies to the use of shapefiles and just happens to have been included in the foreign package because it has a generic usefullness. (Is that a word?) Since I very rarely care

Re: [R] Converting character strings to numeric

2006-05-19 Thread Mulholland, Tom
ange is that the small example I made up did not use the original data source, but was typed in the same way I did x1 above. However I can't reproduce the error so it may still be a case of finger trouble on my part. Tom > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley

Re: [R] Converting character strings to numeric

2006-05-18 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mulholland, Tom > Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 11:48 AM > To: R-Help (E-mail) > Subject: [R] Converting character strings to numeric > > > I assume that I have missed something fundamental and

[R] Converting character strings to numeric

2006-05-18 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I assume that I have missed something fundamental and that it is there in front of me in "An Introduction to R", but I need someone to point me in the right direction. > x1 <- "1159 1129 1124 -5 -0.44 -1.52" > x2 <- c("1159","1129","1124","-5","-0.44","-1.52") > x3 <- unlist(strsplit(x1," ")) >

Re: [R] importing shapefiles into spatstat

2005-12-29 Thread Mulholland, Tom
You might also consider looking at the R-sig-Geo list which has lots of discussion about issues relating to file formats and the best ways to get data in and out the various packages that are used. Tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: [R] priceIts

2005-09-28 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Well I downloaded the data using the link in your message which suggests that the code is right. I don't have its loaded (I assume it's from the irregular time series package) so I can't test the code as you have it. Have you tried checking to see it it is an issue with the internet (your brow

Re: [R] Reading data from a serial port

2005-09-13 Thread Mulholland, Tom
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2005 8:13 AM > To: vittorio > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Reading data from a serial port > snip > Now all this of course is writt

Re: [R] Document clustering for R

2005-09-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I searched the help for "cosine distance" and this was the first hit http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/3946.html Tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raymond K Pon > Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2005 3:48 AM > To: r-help@st

Re: [R] graphics support in R help files

2005-09-07 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I cannot state this with the certainty that others might, but the Rd format is a text format. If you want to produce something else then you need to choose an alternative method. For instance, 1.4 of "Writing R Extensions" notes that "Documents in 'inst/doc' can be in arbitrary format, however w

Re: [R] The Perils of PowerPoint

2005-09-06 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I incorrectly relied upon my memory ... > and that > John Fox did something > http://ils.unc.edu/~jfox/powerpoint/introduction.html that I > enjoyed reading. The work is that of Jackson Fox Tom __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat

Re: [R] The Perils of PowerPoint

2005-09-05 Thread Mulholland, Tom
For some reason (probably that our organisation has blocked the site) I could not see the original articles that prompted the post. I however immediately assumed that this was precipitated by Tufte and his comments about PowerPoint (I recall seeing a good example of PowerPoint on his site) http

Re: [R] axis label justified

2005-08-18 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I note that the axis help seems to refer to padj. After playing around it is obvious that I don't know what is meant by this argument, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. My practical soultion is plot(1:50,axes = FALSE,ylab = "") axis(2,at = 1:50,labels = rep("",50),las = 2,padj = 0) text(rep(-4

Re: [R] Unexpected behavior in recode{car}

2005-07-28 Thread Mulholland, Tom
require( car ) set.seed(12345) nn <- sample( c( 2, 4 ), size=50, replace=TRUE ) rr <- recode( nn, "2='TWO';4='FOUR'" ) table( rr, exclude=NULL ) ss <- recode( nn, "2='Num2';4='Num4'" ) # Doesn't work as expected table( ss, exclude=NULL ) ss <- recode( nn, "2='Num2';4='Num4'", TRUE ) #? table( ss,

Re: [R] fitting extreme value distribution

2005-07-27 Thread Mulholland, Tom
If this is a question about plotting 2 series on a plot then in general terms you can plot 2 series as per this example in the list http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/5463.html If it is about the use of rgev you should tell us the name of the package. If you read the posting guide

Re: [R] Plot zooming i.e. changing ylim according to xlim

2005-07-26 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Search the archives for zoom and you will find plenty of answers on this question. RSiteSearch("zoom") Tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Henrik Andersson > Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2005 4:16 PM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subjec

Re: [R] Turning off return warning messages.

2005-07-20 Thread Mulholland, Tom
doubleEm <- function(p1,p2,p3,p4){return(p1 *p1,p2 * p2, p3 * p3, p4 * p4)} suppressWarnings(doubleEm(1,2,3,4)) [[1]] [1] 1 [[2]] [1] 4 [[3]] [1] 9 [[4]] [1] 16 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Roebuck > Sent: Wednesday, 20 July

Re: [R] help: how to plot a circle on the scatter plot

2005-07-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
You will find previous discussion about pairs in this list. There are limits on what has been included within the functionality, but you can write your own panel functions. Here's a starting point. x <- runif(100) dim(x) <- c(20,5) panel.cor1 <- function(x,y,...){ mycor<- cor(x,y) if (mycor

Re: [R] How to convert "c:\a\b" to "c:/a/b"?

2005-06-27 Thread Mulholland, Tom
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Henrik Bengtsson > Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2005 2:54 AM > To: Spencer Graves > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Dirk Eddelbuettel > Subject: Re: [R] How to convert "c:\a\b" to "c:/a/b"? > ... snipped > T

Re: [R] A. Mani : colours in Silhouette

2005-06-27 Thread Mulholland, Tom
It's not so much a problem, as not working the way you expected. cluster:::plot.partition is used to do the plotting. If you look at the code for this you can see the difficulty in putting every possible permutation into the code. If for example you want the silhouette plot to be red using col =

RE: [R] May I ask you a question about matrix population models?

2005-06-08 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Have you found the file "Using Rmetasim"? In windows you can access this file by using the help and selecting "browse" directory. There appears to be a reasonable amount of information here. It looks to me as if you need to work your way through these files until you understand what is going on.

RE: [R] Pairs plot

2005-05-31 Thread Mulholland, Tom
It would have been helpful if you had written the code that actually showed the issue you have rather than leaving it to us to try and reproduce. That leaves generic options. If the screen is too small for you then try plotting it to postscript or PDF device and setting the paper size to A3 or

RE: [R] POSIX problem

2005-05-31 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Well I skipped to the end so pardon me if I've missed something. My first reaction was to go and look at the excellent article by Gabor in RNews 2004-1 on dates (p.32 in particular) > as.POSIXct(strptime("7/12/2001 10:32",format = "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M")) [1] "2001-12-07 10:32:00 W. Australia Standard

RE: [R] labels on map

2005-05-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
What makes you think that there is a ylab parameter? > args(map) function (database = "world", regions = ".", exact = FALSE, boundary = TRUE, interior = TRUE, projection = "", parameters = NULL, orientation = NULL, fill = FALSE, col = 1, plot = TRUE, add = FALSE, namesonly = FALSE,

RE: [R] Nomogram

2005-05-29 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I don't think Spencer replied to your message. It wasn't addressed to you. He was replying to a specific post on nomograms. However you might try being less specific as a search on "spatial cluster" gave back [R] mclust - clustering by spatial patterns http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/a

RE: [R] Placing A Legend in Titlle of a Plot

2005-05-25 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Without a small example to see what you are doing it is hard to respond. There are plenty of examples in the help for legend showing placement all over the place. So I am guessing that this might help (The only thing added from the help was the par(xpd = TRUE) x <- 0:64/64 y <- sin(3

RE: [R] How to break an axis?

2005-05-23 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think you may wish to look at the plotrix package, assumming that you have taken care of the issues involved in breaking an axis and that your plots don't result in misleading information. I think to use the axis break you would have to calculate your own labels and rescale the data, as it lo

RE: [R] Call R from Fortran

2005-05-18 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I don't know, but I do know that if you search the mailing list the answer is there. One place to start might be http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/50776.html I found this by searching for "fortran" on the mailing list. You might also read the posting guide. The link above refers

RE: [R] eigenvalues of a circulant matrix

2005-05-03 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Well since I know nothing about this topic I have lurked so far, but here's my two bob's worth. Firstly I tried to make sense of Brian's initial reply. I have got no idea who Bellman is and you have not referenced (his/her) work in a way I can access the issues you refer to. So I assumed that's

RE: [R] shading in line plots

2005-04-28 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I have snippets of code that I have either taken from examples or off of the list. I apologise to those I have stolen it from but I didn't keep the proper references. n <- 100 xx <- c(0:n, n:0) yy <- c(c(0,cumsum(rnorm(n))), rev(c(0,cumsum(rnorm(n) plot (xx, yy, type="n", xlab="Time", yla

RE: [R] shading in line plots

2005-04-28 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Just a little bit of trivia. The 2001 Census in Australia had a significant group of people who responded to the question of religion with the answer Jedi or Jedi Knight. Unfortunately the Australian Bureau of Statistics is a bit fuddy duddy about the issue as they see it as a trivialisation of

RE: [R] lattice plot problem!

2005-04-26 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Lattice is not my forte but here goes. ?panel.bwplot specifically notes that "pch, col, cex: graphical parameters controlling the dot". If you look at the code for panel.bwplot you will see where the colours come from in which case you can probably set up your own colour scheme using trellis.pa

RE: [R] Installing packages from source on WindowsXP

2005-04-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I recall having this problem. I think I had a version that didn't work. Did you download the htmlhelp.exe from http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ . The path does not matter as I have it in a folder on it's own. I think that I also had a path to the version that didn't work and I had to ge

RE: [R] Need help with R date handling and barchart with errorbars

2005-04-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Fristly when you are using a package (in this case date) put it in your email. Dates are stored as numbers and if I recall correctly as.date will be the number of days since sometime in 1960. As with other objects there are generally methods that will ensure that the correct printed format will

RE: [R] Download advice please!

2005-04-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
There's built in FTP in windowsXP, which I assume is what they are likely to have. If they open file explorer there's an entry called "My Network Places". The problem I had seeing if it would work, was that ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/ doesn't want to know me. Not that I was at all sure, tha

RE: [R] Histogram

2005-04-20 Thread Mulholland, Tom
t; -Original Message- > From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:06 AM > To: Mulholland, Tom > Subject: RE: [R] Histogram > > > Have you tried it? hist.factor() as defined would be the > hist method for > the factor class, so

RE: [R] problem with RODBC

2005-04-20 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Well you have not given us anything to go on really. Are there more than 94 columns? Does each column have a valid fieldname? RODBC is not guaranteed to work in every possible scenario. If you have a look through the list you will find there are specific limitations which are not immediately app

RE: [R] Histogram

2005-04-20 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Of course Andy meant hist.factor(f) In particular you should note that Andy uses the table function to "transform ... the data from characters to numbers" Tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Liaw, Andy > Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2005

RE: [R] fSeries Technical Analysis rsiTA problem

2005-04-19 Thread Mulholland, Tom
What does str(tsx) give? So you are feeding in something the function has no idea about. Try rsiTA([EMAIL PROTECTED],14) Tom > -Original Message- > From: Neuro LeSuperHéros [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2005 9:42 AM > To: Mulholland,

RE: [R] fSeries Technical Analysis rsiTA problem

2005-04-19 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Should you be using rsiTA(tsx[,2],14). If you look at the function you will see it is expecting just the values you want in the calculation. If you give it a matrix it treats the whole matrix as being price data. Tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: [R] using imported tables

2005-04-19 Thread Mulholland, Tom
nt it helps when you indicate where you have gleaned your information from and what attempts you have made to solve your problem. Tom * The posting guide explains all of this much better than I do. > -Original Message- > From: Owen Buchner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 1

RE: [R] using imported tables

2005-04-18 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I guess one of the reasons that you have not had a reply is that you have not followed the posting guide. If you give the list something to work with (a small reproducible example) You use the word package which in R is very precise, but which I think you are using to describe the file you are

RE: [R] Barplot and colors for legend

2005-04-18 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Well I don't know how I can live with myself. I guess I can't wait for the site to mirror itself in case someone thinks I'm yesterday's man. ;-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Achim Zeileis > Sent: Monday, 18 April 2005 10:56 PM ... >

RE: [R] Minimum distance

2005-04-17 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Since it is not clear exactly what you require, I have assumed that what you are looking for is the minimum value for each row or column depending upon which is airports and which is the towers. Is this what you are looking for x <- runif(100) dim(x) <- c(5,20) apply(x,1,function(y) which(y ==

RE: [R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)

2005-04-14 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think this might have been my code mapply(paste,strwrap(levels(ncdata$Chapter),18,simplify = FALSE),collapse = "\n") Tom > -Original Message- > From: Jan P. Smit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:15 PM > To: Mulholland, Tom > Cc:

RE: [R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)

2005-04-13 Thread Mulholland, Tom
This may not be the best way but in the past I think I have done something like levels(x) <- paste(strwrap(levels(x),20,prefix = ""),collapse = "\n") Tom > -Original Message- > From: Jan P. Smit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:48 AM > To: r-help@stat.math.eth

RE: [R] Why is 1 a double?

2005-04-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I'm not sure that this answers your questions but maybe they partly help. p. 7 in An introduction to R notes "For most purposes the user will not be concerned if the "numbers" in a numeric vector are integers, reals or even complex. Internally calculations are done as double precision real numb

RE: [R] 2d plotting and colours

2005-03-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 2:36 PM > To: Mulholland, Tom; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: RE: [R] 2d plotting and colours > > > Thank you. > > mycols <- c("brown","orange","tomato") > plot(x,col = mycols

RE: [R] Using kmeans given cluster centroids and data with NAs

2005-03-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Does ?na.omit help x <- kmeans(na.omit(data),centres) of course if you have too many NAs you need to be sure that their removal does not unduly influence the results. Although I am a bit confused as I thought that agnes did not allow NAs. I assume that you are running an alternative clustering

RE: [R] NA's?

2005-03-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
See upper.tri and lower.tri. I think that you might also look for specific packages that function using matrices, from what I have seen these often have the capacity to ignore the diagonal or use just the upper or lower triangle. This is not an area that I use very much, but I have seen various

RE: [R] 2d plotting and colours

2005-03-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
e groups by colors > > That could be done by > > plot(x, col = cl$cluster) > > This means that we need to set the default colours , say col > = cl$cluster = > a set of group numbers say 1...10 should produce 10 distinct > colours points > grouped by colour. &

RE: [R] Re:Plotting to A4 and replacing x-axis with actual years.

2005-03-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think you need to read the posting guide (see the bottom of each post made) and once you have done this take some time to compose your message. The issue is that I have too little information about what you have done. It looks to me as if you are using postscript, but I am not sure if you have

RE: [R] 2d plotting and colours

2005-03-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
And getting back to your question about the palette there are a lot of ways to do this assuming you have just started a session palette() # will give #[1] "black" "red" "green3" "blue""cyan" #[6] "magenta" "yellow" "gray" palette(rainbow(24)) # There's also 'heat.colors' &

RE: [R] font sizes for row.names of dendograms

2005-03-23 Thread Mulholland, Tom
The error message states that you are passing a parameter called cex which has not been used. If you look at ?plclust more closely you will see it does not have cex parameter. However the S3 method for class hclust, plot, does? So does this help? hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave") plot(hc,cex

RE: [R] Problem encounter during graphics device driver

2005-03-22 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Do you have a really good reason to be using 1.9.1. If not then just keep using 1.9.0. Did you check what changes were made in the 1.9 upgrade. Often you will find useful information about this type of issue in the change log. You have not told us anything about the machine you are using and thi

RE: [R] alternative to 'groups' for lattice bwplot()

2005-03-22 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I'm afraid you have lost me. What is it that you want that reordering the formula does not achieve. bwplot(yield ~ year | site, data = barley) has sites next to each other. If the lattice structure is your issue (it appears you wish to remove the structure and replace it with a wider space) the

RE: [R] Tool for update

2005-03-22 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Are you talking about something other than 'update.packages'? as the help notes Description: These functions can be used to automatically compare the version numbers of installed packages with the newest available version on CRAN and update outdated packages on the fly. > -O

RE: [R] Highlighting points in a scatter plot matrix

2005-03-22 Thread Mulholland, Tom
There are two issues here identifying the outliers and highlighting them. I have only a basic grasp of both of these concepts but will give what I have in case it helps. There appears to have been a move in the last 2 decades to improve the concepts of what actually constitutes an outlier, Brian

RE: [R] List of tables rather than an extra dimension in the table or (l)apply(xtabs)

2005-03-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
s) It's not really reuseable. I guess I could pass a formula and work out a better method of subsetting dimensions (where certain factor levels are not used. But maybe someone has an elegant method they could share. Tom > -Original Message- > From: Mulholland, Tom > Sent: Tues

[R] List of tables rather than an extra dimension in the table or (l)apply(xtabs)

2005-03-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I'm not sure how to best explain what I am after but here goes. I have a data frame with 2 geographical factors. One is the major region the other is the component regions. I am trying to process all the regions at the same time without using "for". So I need (think, I do) a list of matrices e

RE: [R] problem in textConnection function

2005-03-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
It seems to me that you are trying to do too much at a time. Firstly I think it would be a good idea to get you code working before you try and make a package. Some possibilities are that you write somethin meaningful rather than the first thing that pops into your head. What sort of output are

RE: [R] Using locator() to digitise

2005-03-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I've used rimage to read in graphics files (jpeg.) If I recall correctly, I think I had to install some libraries. What I can't recall is if it was any faster than pixmap, as I was mainly concerned with the file format and the forensic image processing possibilities. Tom > -Original Messa

RE: [R] NaN

2005-03-20 Thread Mulholland, Tom
type ?NaN and the help will tell you. > -Original Message- > From: Brett Stansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 21 March 2005 12:10 PM > To: R help (E-mail) > Subject: [R] NaN > > > Dear R > What does NaN mean? > I recently did a correlation on a batch of data for some >

RE: [R] (no subject)

2005-03-16 Thread Mulholland, Tom
type ?cor and read the help file In particular read it till you find the entry that tells you how to deal with missing observations. You need to do this because as you get more competent you will undoubdtedly come across other issues, so learning the format of the help and realising why you nee

RE: [R] help for matrix formation.

2005-03-16 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I'm not sure I am answereing your question, but here goes # Create a vector with 2400 items x <- runif(2400) # Create a 600 by 4 matrix y <- matrix(x,ncol = 4) #If you needed the matrix to be done row by row #y <- matrix(x,ncol = 4,byrow = T) # Extract values from a particular part of the matri

RE: [R] howto: plot location, web search

2005-03-10 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Sorry about the wrong link. The archives are at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=rpy-list > -Original Message- > From: Mike R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 11 March 2005 2:44 PM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] howto: plot location, web search >

RE: [R] howto: plot location, web search

2005-03-10 Thread Mulholland, Tom
If it's specifically R that I am looking for I use the following link http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html If I were going to use google I would go to the advanced page and insert finzi.psych.upenn.edu into the "Domain" field so as to restrict the search. As you have found out the letter R

RE: [R] RMySQL installed but not availalable

2005-03-09 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I don't use MySQL but I have seen messages like this before. They often have replies which indicate that you need to follow the instructions more closely. I suggest you search the list for these previous posts as I'm sure there is help there, somewhere! Tom > -Original Message- > From:

RE: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-09 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think I recall seeing a limited capability in the PBSmapping package. Tom > -Original Message- > From: yyan liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 1:20 PM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] from long/lat to UTM > > > Hi: > Is there any function in R

RE: [R] a simple question

2005-02-23 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Does strsplit fit what you want? Tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 24 February 2005 11:46 AM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] a simple question > > > Dear All, > > I need to separate one column which is in a form

RE: [R] Getting tick positions

2005-02-23 Thread Mulholland, Tom
?axis where you will find See Also: 'axTicks' returns the axis tick locations corresponding to 'at=NULL'; 'pretty' is more flexible for computing pretty tick coordinates and does _not_ depend on (nor adapt to) the coordinate system in use. Tom > -Original Message- >

RE: [R] Categories or clusters for univariate data

2005-02-21 Thread Mulholland, Tom
x <- c(1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12,15,16,17,18,19,22,23,24,33,34,35) require(cluster) pam(x,5) Medoids: [,1] [1,]3 [2,] 10 [3,] 17 [4,] 23 [5,] 34 Clustering vector: [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 Objective function: build swap 1.285714 1.047619 Available comp

RE: [R] Barplot - Can't figure it out

2005-02-17 Thread Mulholland, Tom
barplot(matrix(c(x,y),ncol = 2),beside=T) Does this help ?barplot notes height: either a vector or matrix of values describing the bars which make up the plot. If 'height' is a vector, the plot consists of a sequence of rectangular bars with heights given by the

RE: [R] reading a 40kb csv file in R

2005-02-15 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think you may need to check the list for posts relating to "memory", "large datasets", etc http://cran.r-project.org/search.html It would help those on the list, if you gave more details about the machine you are using. Given the vintage of R you areusing is considered quite old, there is th

RE: [R] Contour plot

2005-02-08 Thread Mulholland, Tom
x <- rep(seq(1,10),10) y <- rep(seq(1,10),each = 10) z <- matrix(100 + x*0.5 + y*0.5,ncol=10,byrow=T) contour(z) or back to where you were originally x <- 1:10 y <- 1:10 # z <- 100:110 z <- 1:100 contour(matrix(z,ncol=10)) read the help on contour it states that z: a matrix containing the val

RE: [R] RE: Reading Dates in a csv File

2005-02-07 Thread Mulholland, Tom
My first thought was that all it looked a bit complicated for something that should be straightforward. I created a file called t.txt. I worked out the way I would have done it and then I tested to see which was fastest. One little hiccup is that the two objects are not identical and I though t

RE: [R] Handling large data sets via scan()

2005-02-03 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I'm sure others with more experience will answer this, but for what it is worth my experience suggests that memory issues are more often with the user and not the machine. I don't use Linux so I can't make specific comments about the capacity of your machine. However it appears that there is oft

RE: [R] Displaying a distribution -- was: Combining two histograms

2005-02-02 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I am immediately reminded of something I read which goes "A sufficiently trained statistician can read the vagaries of a Q-Q plot like a sharman can read a chicken's entrails, with a similar recourse to scientific principles. Interpreting Q-Q plots is more a visceral than an intellectual exerci

RE: [R] aggregation with extra columns

2005-02-01 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think Gabor gave you the answer, even if you didn't see it x <- rep(c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92", "02/28/92", "02/01/92"),each = 5) z <- data.frame(Date = strptime(x, "%m/%d/%y")) z$Value <- trunc(runif(25) * 5) + 1 z$State <- c("A","B","C","D","E")[z$Value] z <- z[order(z$Date),] z z[ag

RE: [R] taking data out of a dataframe

2005-02-01 Thread Mulholland, Tom
In general if you are using a package, it helps to identify the package. I assume it is the tree package. Is this what you are after (from the example on the ?tree page) > attr(ir.tr,"ylevels") [1] "setosa" "versicolor" "virginica" Tom > > -Original Message- > From: NICOLAS DEIG [m

RE: [R] RE: aggregating dates

2005-02-01 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I am probably just displaying my ignorance, but I have obviously managed to miss exactly what you are referring to. Firstly I have to thank you for making me look closer at the article. I had done so but I had obviously skipped over the Comparison table, which I would have found useful in the p

RE: [R] aggregating dates

2005-01-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
This seems to work toPOSIX <- function(x){ y <- x - as.numeric(ISOdate(2005,1,1)) z <- ISOdate(2005,1,1) + y return(z) } test <- as.numeric(ISOdate(2005,3,1) ) toPOSIX(test) But whether one should be doing this I don't know. There are certainly functions that play aorund with the POSIX

RE: [R] A "rude" question

2005-01-26 Thread Mulholland, Tom
What makes you trust any software? There are some obvious points. First of all the code is open so if you know enough you can actually read the code and make sure it does what you want. Secondly you can replicate a process using two pieces of software and compare the results. You can check the

RE: [R] agglomerative coefficient in agnes (cluster)

2005-01-26 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Well I am not sure that can call a single figure a cluster. Sure it's not near the others but how can you conceptually measure it's cluster properties. It seems reasonable that there has to be some form of doubt about it. Back to that Google search hit number 3 www.stat.ncu.edu.tw/teacher/ hung

RE: [R] more question

2005-01-25 Thread Mulholland, Tom
The answers to your questions are in the text below. However these questions are generally answered in the base documentation. You might try going through the Keywords by Topic which on the windows system at least) is accessed by going through the html help entry on the help menu. Once your brow

RE: [R] easing out of Excel

2005-01-20 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I hesitate to add this comment since it either completely confuses people or they take to it very quickly. The data that you are using is mostly categorical. I expect that tables will have been used in the past and that to acertain extent the graphics are suppossed to help with getting a quick

RE: [R] Plotting points from two vectors onto the same graph

2005-01-20 Thread Mulholland, Tom
?points has this example plot(-4:4, -4:4, type = "n")# setting up coord. system points(rnorm(200), rnorm(200), col = "red") points(rnorm(100)/2, rnorm(100)/2, col = "blue", cex = 1.5) In general you might want to check out the keyword section of the help, in particular the Graphics section which

RE: [R] font size in console

2005-01-19 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I use windows, so I can't state that the same is true of other operating systems. There is a file which is in the etc folder of the R directory called Rconsole. part of mine looks like ## Font. # Please use only fixed width font. # If font=FixedFont the system fixed font is used; in this case

RE: [R] How to filter information from a table into a new table

2005-01-19 Thread Mulholland, Tom
temp <- table(rpois(100,5),rpois(100,1)) temp temp[temp[,1] > 1,] temp[temp[,1] == 1,] temp[temp[,1] == 2,] temp[temp[,1] == 3,] Of course you have not made it obvious if you are using the term table to mean any output that looks like a table, but in general terms you will find information in th

RE: [R] how to call R in delphi?

2005-01-18 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Try searching this list for delphi. This was the first post I found. You may find it helpful. http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/19154.html Tom > -Original Message- > From: YiYao_Jiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2005 10:12 AM > To: r-help@stat.m

RE: [R] Finding seasonal peaks in a time series....

2005-01-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Sorry I didn't read the question properly. Please disregard, my mind was elsewhere. Tom > -Original Message- > From: Mulholland, Tom > Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2005 10:52 AM > To: Dr Carbon; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: RE: [R] Finding seasonal pe

RE: [R] Please unsubscribe me from you list

2005-01-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
You stand more chance if you do it yourself https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Ita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2005 2:25 AM > To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Please unsubscribe me from you list > > > Plea

RE: [R] Finding seasonal peaks in a time series....

2005-01-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
You might find breakpoints in strucchange helpful Tom > -Original Message- > From: Dr Carbon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2005 6:19 AM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Finding seasonal peaks in a time series > > > I have a seasonal time series

RE: [R] Off Topic: Statistical "philosophy" rant

2005-01-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I have often noted that "statistics can't prove a damn thing, but they can be really useful in disproving something." Having spent most of 80s and half of the 90s with the Australian Bureau of Statistics to find out how you collect these numbers, I am disconcerted at the apparent disregard for m

RE: [R] Changing the ranges for the axis in image()

2005-01-12 Thread Mulholland, Tom
points(y1,z1) image (x,axes = FALSE,xlim =c(-0.25,1.25),ylim = c(-0.25,1.25)) points(y1,z1) rect(0,0.1,0.5,0.9) axis(2,at = seq(-0.25,1.25,length = 5),labels = seq(0,20, length = 5)) Tom -Original Message- From: Costas Vorlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 200

RE: Please use colMeans()! was: Re: [R] Calculate Mean of Column Vectors?

2005-01-11 Thread Mulholland, Tom
There are indeed speed advantages in using colSums etc. However the disadvantage is that the newbie doesn't always find the power inherent in the apply, sapply, tapply and mapply. For many things that I do, the speed is the least of my worries; although I take the point that using apply for mean

RE: [R] problem with fitted probability in glm

2005-01-10 Thread Mulholland, Tom
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/29712.html This was the first message that I came across when searching the archives. From my limited experience I would think that you need to understand what you are doing rather than what R is doing. As the message explains R is flagging issues

RE: [R] Calculate Mean of Column Vectors?

2005-01-10 Thread Mulholland, Tom
apply(y,2,mean) Is this what you are after. If it is I would suggest that you look at the examples not just for this but for what I call the apply family sapply, tapply, mapply. Once you get the hang of these they are really helpful. Tom. > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Hopper [mai

RE: [R] Basic Linear Algebra

2005-01-09 Thread Mulholland, Tom
> From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 7 January 2005 4:46 PM > To: Mulholland, Tom > Cc: R-Help (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [R] Basic Linear Algebra > ... > I can't. 4th element should be just 12. I did indeed transcribe my solution incorre

[R] Basic Linear Algebra

2005-01-06 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I don't normally have to go anywhere near this stuff , but it seems to me that this should be a straight-forward process in R. For the purposes of this enquiry I thought I would use something I can work out on my own. So I have my matrix and the right hand results from that matrix tdata <- ma

RE: [R] scree plot

2005-01-04 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I thought this would be simple enough and in some ways it is, but I don't have an answer I would call easy The manual process would be to use barplot instead of screeplot, so that you could return the x values. The other choice would be to hack the screeplot function to return the values. (see

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