Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Rubén Roa
Lower case vignette("Runuran") Sorry, it's this clever email program. R. Dr. Rubén Roa-Ureta AZTI - Tecnalia / Marine Research Unit Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g 48395 Sukarrieta (Bizkaia) SPAIN -Mensaje or

Re: [R] Row-wisely converting a data frame into a list

2010-03-02 Thread Nutter, Benjamin
> as.data.frame(t(df)) For example > x <- as.data.frame(t(mtcars)) > typeof(x) [1] "list" -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Bauer Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:12 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R]

[R] Double Colors in Main

2010-03-02 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, Consider the following trivial code snippet rm(list=ls()) name_vec <- c("color1", "color2") pdf("test_color.pdf") plot(seq(5), seq(5), main=paste(name_vec[1]," and ",name_vec[2], sep="")) dev.off() What I would like to achieve is rather simple to explain, but it is giving me a head

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Rubén Roa
>From what distribution? If the uniform, runif(100,0,2*pi) If another, install package Runuran, and do this ?Runuran Vignette("Runuran") HTH Dr. Rubén Roa-Ureta AZTI - Tecnalia / Marine Research Unit Txatxarram

Re: [R] question to define a matrix with some vectors with different lengths

2010-03-02 Thread jim holtman
This is what you would use a 'list' for. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:29 AM, wrote: > Hi, > I have some vector v1,v2,...,vk, with different  lengths. I want to > consider these vectors as a matrix with k rows. > Can you please guide me how I can do it? > > Regards > khazaei > > _

[R] Row-wisely converting a data frame into a list

2010-03-02 Thread Sebastian Bauer
Hello, is there an elegant way, how I can convert each row of a data frame into distinct elements of a list? In essence, what I'm looking for is something like rows.to.lists <- function( df ) { ll <- NULL for( i in 1:nrow(df) ) ll <- append( ll, list(df[i,]) )

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread jim holtman
> runif(20,0,2*pi) [1] 1.29417642 1.10933879 4.31669186 2.41339484 4.83705630 3.12713657 4.50893007 6.23232980 2.38783146 4.88483239 5.87292617 [12] 1.33293077 4.09458703 0.7593 1.67899698 2.42602639 0.08413394 2.40261439 5.46442874 2.13847582 > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:51 AM, frederik vanha

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:51:39 +0100 frederik vanhaelst wrote: > How could i generate random real numbers between 0 en 2*pi? Ten such numbers from the uniform distribution: 2*pi*runif(10) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list ht

Re: [R] two questions for R beginners

2010-03-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > John Sorkin wrote: >> >> Please take what follows not as an ad hominem statement, but rather as an >> attempt to improve what is already an excellent program, that has been built >> as a result of many, many hours of dedicated work by many, m

[R] simple data transformation question

2010-03-02 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
Hi all, I have a (hopefully) simple newbie-level question.   # I have data like this: dtf <- data.frame(read.table(textConnection("var  value   company  9887.1   company  91117.0   blaah  91.1   etc  11   etc  97111"), header=TRUE))   # I would like to have output like this (the index number may

Re: [R] two questions for R beginner

2010-03-02 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
Hi Brandon,   I just read this book, which I am sure you will be interested in: http://www.amazon.com/SAS-SPSS-Users-Statistics-Computing/dp/0387094172 Cheers!! Albert-Jan ~~ In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to gue

Re: [R] two questions for R beginners

2010-03-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
John Sorkin wrote: Please take what follows not as an ad hominem statement, but rather as an attempt to improve what is already an excellent program, that has been built as a result of many, many hours of dedicated work by many, many unpaid, unsung volunteers. It troubles me a bit that when a

Re: [R] question to define a matrix with some vectors with different lengths

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:29:28 +0100 (CET) khaz...@ceremade.dauphine.fr wrote: > I have some vector v1,v2,...,vk, with different lengths. I want to > consider these vectors as a matrix with k rows. > Can you please guide me how I can do it? What do you want to do with the missing elements? -- Ka

Re: [R] two questions for R beginner

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:31:45 +0100 Brandon Zicha wrote: > Easy. I terms of materials I have been unable to find good books that > introduce users to R from the perspective of someone familiar only > with packages like SPSS or STATA, Have you read these books: R for SAS and SPSS Users http:/

[R] Problem With Pasting (Mac OS X)

2010-03-02 Thread Pete Marchetto
Greetings, fellow travelers. When I paste a series of commands into R, they execute serially, and when I go back through commands by hitting the up key, they show up as a block, rather than as individual lines. Is there any way to change this behavior? I'm running the 32-bit build of R 2.10.1 on M

[R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread frederik vanhaelst
Hi, How could i generate random real numbers between 0 en 2*pi? Thanks, Frederik [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://ww

Re: [R] two questions for R beginner

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Brandon Zicha wrote: What were your biggest misconceptions or stumbling blocks to getting up and running with R? Easy. I terms of materials I have been unable to find good books that introduce users to R from the perspective of someone familiar only with packages like SPSS or STATA, or not f

[R] code for empirical copula

2010-03-02 Thread Roslina Zakaria
Hi,   I hope somebody can give me an idea where can I can find the code for empirical copula. I have a bivariate data.   Thank you so much for your help. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https:

Re: [R] two questions for R beginners

2010-03-02 Thread John Sorkin
Please take what follows not as an ad hominem statement, but rather as an attempt to improve what is already an excellent program, that has been built as a result of many, many hours of dedicated work by many, many unpaid, unsung volunteers. It troubles me a bit that when a confusing aspect of

Re: [R] two questions for R beginner

2010-03-02 Thread Brandon Zicha
What were your biggest misconceptions or stumbling blocks to getting up and running with R? Easy. I terms of materials I have been unable to find good books that introduce users to R from the perspective of someone familiar only with packages like SPSS or STATA, or not familiar with statist

[R] question to define a matrix with some vectors with different lengths

2010-03-02 Thread khazaei
Hi, I have some vector v1,v2,...,vk, with different lengths. I want to consider these vectors as a matrix with k rows. Can you please guide me how I can do it? Regards khazaei __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: [R] bwplot with pch = "|"

2010-03-02 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Duncan Mackay wrote: > Dear All > > Below is a toy example of a modified standard bwplot. > > require(lattice) > DF <- > data.frame(site = rep(1:5, each = 20), >           height = rnorm(100)) > > bwplot(site ~ height,DF, > pch = "|", > par.settings = list(strip.ba

Re: [R] two questions for R beginners

2010-03-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 3/1/10, Keo Ormsby wrote: >>  Perhaps my biggest problem was that I couldn't (and still haven't) seen >> *absolute beginners* documents. >> > there was once a link posted on r-sig-teaching that would probably fit > your needs, but I cann

[R] Problem with package fpc

2010-03-02 Thread Sarah Paul
I am trying to load package fpc in order to use the 'plotcluster' function however everytime I attempt to do so I get the following warning message: > library(fpc) Loading required package: MASS Error: package 'MASS' could not be loaded In addition: Warning messages: 1: pac

Re: [R] Install R 2.10.1 on Windows XP Errors

2010-03-02 Thread mkborregaard
>From CRAN: "2.8 What's the best way to upgrade? That's a matter of taste. For most people the best thing to do is to uninstall R (see the previous Q), install the new version, copy any installed packages to the library folder in the new installation, run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FAL

Re: [R] capturing errors in Sweave

2010-03-02 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Sundar, On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 23:46:55 -0800 Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > Thanks for the input, but I don't want "try" in the Sweave output. I > want the output to look just like it does in the console, as if an > uncaptured error really did occur. I don't think that you will get around using "

Re: [R] Reading sas7bdat files directly

2010-03-02 Thread Chris Long
The dsread output is little-endian, as that's the native format for floats on the Wintel platform. The byte order should stay the same if converting directly to a float, using a data structure like (C/C++): union { char bytes[8]; double value; } If reading the values with a SAS HEX i

Re: [R] Strange behavior with poisosn and glm

2010-03-02 Thread Noah Silverman
Ted, Brilliant explanation (as usual) I'm back in school, just starting on a post-graduate degree in stats so the help is really appreciated. Now, I have a slightly trickier question about the same model. I've seen more than one way to get "values" out of the glm model. i.e. If we're looki

[R] lm.influence on glm objects

2010-03-02 Thread Cipollini Fabrizio
Dear R users Today I discovered that function lm.influence() stops when applied to glm objects with the following error message Error in if (NROW(e) != n) stop("non-NA residual length does not match cases used in fitting") : argument is of length zero After inspecting lm.influence.R (both into

Re: [R] two questions for R beginners

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:07 -0500 Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Suppose X is a dataframe or a matrix. What would you expect to get from > X[1]? What about as.vector(X), or as.numeric(X)? All this of course depends on type of object one is speaking of. There are plenty of surprises available, and

Re: [R] why a text editor?

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:26:37 - (GMT) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: > In vim (to which I'm wedded > for life) it will pick up matching (), {} and []. You can also easily move between matching delimeter by typing '%'. A similar feature should be available in all *good* text editors. --

Re: [R] Thougt I understood factors but??

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:23:04 -0500 Liaw, Andy wrote: > Indeed this is one of the (few, I believe) traps of R, Oh, no; there are many more: http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf :-) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer __ R-help@r-project.org mailing

Re: [R] repeated measures anova, car package

2010-03-02 Thread Kay Cichini
Hello John, As you said, I could also take a means model and test linear hypothesis for the desired effects - would this also be the case for the repeated measure i did in the first place. I copied the model from the car model where you first call: > modx<-lm(cbind(div_h, div_l) ~ site, divrep

Re: [R] capturing errors in Sweave

2010-03-02 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Thanks, Berwin. That works just great! --sundar On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Sundar, > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 23:46:55 -0800 > Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > > > Thanks for the input, but I don't want "try" in the Sweave output. I > > want the output to look just li

Re: [R] Changepoints estimation in a data series

2010-03-02 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, FMH wrote: Dear All, I'm trying to find changepoints in a data series  which only consist of  11 measurements of altitude(x) and temperature(y), respectively, in which the data are as followed: y = 16.3, 16.2, 16.1, 15.6, 14.2, 10, 8.2,  8.0, 7.5, 7.3, 7.2 x = 1,  2,  5,

Re: [R] the predict.lda function

2010-03-02 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:55 -0500, Diana Connett wrote: > Hello. > I just downloaded R onto a new computer, and after entering library(MASS), I > still get the message "Error: could not find function "predict.lda"" when I > try > to use the predict.lda function (even just "predict.lda()") > > Can

Re: [R] Simple Linear Autoregressive Model with R Language

2010-03-02 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Emil Davtyan wrote: Hello - I need to do simple linear autoregressive model with R software for my thesis. I looked into all your documentation and I am not able to find anything too helpful. Can someone help me with the codes? By "all documentation" you mean that you ha

Re: [R] Simple Linear Autoregressive Model with R Language

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Emil Davtyan wrote: Hello - I need to do simple linear autoregressive model with R software for my thesis. I looked into all your documentation and I am not able to find anything too helpful. Can someone help me with the codes? Thanks Emil [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] Strange behavior with poisosn and glm

2010-03-02 Thread Ted Harding
On 02-Mar-10 08:02:27, Noah Silverman wrote: > Hi, > I'm just learning about poison links for the glm function. > > One of the data sets I'm playing with has several of the > variables as factors (i.e. month, group, etc.) > > When I call the glm function with a formula that has a factor > variabl

[R] embedded nuls in 2.10 versus 2.11

2010-03-02 Thread Brandon Whitcher
I have been reading binary files, and parsing the output, for some time now. I have tried to develop a technique that is as robust as possible to all the strange things that appear in text fields, not to mention different global/regional encodings. I have no control over the data generated by use

Re: [R] file reading /problems with encoding

2010-03-02 Thread T . Wunder
Quoting Uwe Ligges : R is not able to re-encode the file to the native encoding. But if you keep it in UTF-8, what is the problem to grep for the specific characters (as grep and friends support the argument useBytes these days)? The Problem with UTF-8 is that I'm not able to cat a valid xml-

Re: [R] two questions for R beginners

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:58:25 +1300 Peter Alspach wrote: > This brings up another confusion for new users. Simply typing the > object name at the command line gives just one view of the object (that > provided by print()). Good point. Any good introduction to R should include a brief discussion

[R] Strange behavior with poisosn and glm

2010-03-02 Thread Noah Silverman
Hi, I'm just learning about poison links for the glm function. One of the data sets I'm playing with has several of the variables as factors (i.e. month, group, etc.) When I call the glm function with a formula that has a factor variable, R automatically converts the variable to a series of

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