Re: [R] Problem Installign Packages

2012-08-17 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 16, 2012, at 8:48 PM, ziad.elmou...@tnsglobal.com wrote: To Whom It May Concern, In attempting to install the e1071 package, I get the message below after selecting the mirror site. And what was the command you issued? -- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---

Re: [R] specific matrix element tranformation

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Inline Em 17-08-2012 04:39, bantex escreveu: Hi guys, After a long while I came up with this : set.seed(2) a-matrix(rnorm(4),ncol=2) abc-function(a) { b=matrix(NA,nrow=3,ncol=3) b[1,1]=a[1,1]+1 b[1,2]=a[2,1]*a[2,2] b[1,3]=a[2,2]+a[1,1] b[2,1]=a[1,1]-5 b[2,2]=sqrt(a[2,2])

Re: [R] specific matrix element tranformation

2012-08-17 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 16, 2012, at 8:39 PM, bantex wrote: Hi guys, After a long while I came up with this : set.seed(2) a-matrix(rnorm(4),ncol=2) abc-function(a) { b=matrix(NA,nrow=3,ncol=3) b[1,1]=a[1,1]+1 b[1,2]=a[2,1]*a[2,2] b[1,3]=a[2,2]+a[1,1] b[2,1]=a[1,1]-5 b[2,2]=sqrt(a[2,2]) b[2,3]=a[1,1]/a[2,2]

Re: [R] r data structures

2012-08-17 Thread Patrick Burns
To slightly correct what's been said: In general lists are linear objects, but a list can have dimension. An example is in Circle 8.1.8 of 'The R Inferno'. http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf Pat On 16/08/2012 21:50, Schumacher, Jay S wrote: are these

[R] impute multilevel data in MICE

2012-08-17 Thread ya
Dear list, I have a question about imputing 2 level data in MICE, could you give me some suggestions please? Thank you very much. The data set contains 35634 cases and 1007 variables, 280 of them are categorical variables, and the rest of them are continuous variables. On the second

Re: [R] specific matrix element tranformation

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, I've made a mistake, it's in the last if/else/if/else. Complete statement below. Em 17-08-2012 06:23, Rui Barradas escreveu: Hello, Inline Em 17-08-2012 04:39, bantex escreveu: Hi guys, After a long while I came up with this : set.seed(2) a-matrix(rnorm(4),ncol=2) abc-function(a)

Re: [R] multiple boxplots on the same figure - reducing space in between

2012-08-17 Thread ziqizh...@hotmail.co.uk
thanks! this solves my problem perfectly -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/multiple-boxplots-on-the-same-figure-reducing-space-in-between-tp4640503p4640570.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [R] no true negative data, need roc curve

2012-08-17 Thread Jessica Streicher
Okay, first of a point in ROC space is spanned by true positive rate and false positive rate. Now you need to decide if you want to plot a curve for each image or maybe a curve for the complete data (add all together). In your case you only have 2 thresholds, so that makes the curves a little

[R] The message headers matched a filter rule

2012-08-17 Thread Jessica Streicher
Pretty much every time i reply to a post in this list i get a bounce saying the above, + waiting for approval. I first thought it was because i didn't send in plain, but now they are and it hasn't become any better. Any other ideas? Is this normal? __

Re: [R] no true negative data, need roc curve

2012-08-17 Thread vjyns
Hi, thanks for the quick response, but as i said in my case due to two different threshold the detected features will differ. Moreover, there is some standard /refined/ formula in calculating the tpr and fpr. herewith i had attached the refined formula from a standard international journal

[R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread Rantony
Hi, Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath - D:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.txt HOW IS POSSIBLE TO GET THE FILE NAME FROM THIS GIVEN PATH ? - thanks in advance Antony. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Get-the-filename-from-the-given-path-tp4640578.html Sent from the

Re: [R] Problem with global variable building a package

2012-08-17 Thread Eva Prieto Castro
Hi, I could build the package, finally, adjusting the path correctly (Rtools folders in front). Regards Eva --- El jue, 16/8/12, Eva Prieto Castro evapcas...@yahoo.es escribió: De: Eva Prieto Castro evapcas...@yahoo.es Asunto: Re: [R] Problem with global variable building a package Para:

[R] How can we compare corresponding values of x and y (first value of x exacly matches with the first value of y)?

2012-08-17 Thread Sri krishna Devarayalu Balanagu
df - data.frame ( RowId = 4:7, x=c(1_1, 2_2, 3_3, 3_3), y=c(1_1, 3_3, 2_2, 3_3) ) How can we compare corresponding values of x and y (first value of x exacly matches with the first value of y)? If they were not matced exactly how can we get the row id? In

Re: [R] Find and install old package to R 2.11 in UNIX

2012-08-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 17.08.2012 02:42, David Winsemius wrote: On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Kevin Goulding wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble installing and using the 'foreign' package in R on a UNIX machine. sessionInfo() R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) sparc-sun-solaris2.10 locale: [1] C

Re: [R] How can we compare corresponding values of x and y (first value of x exacly matches with the first value of y)?

2012-08-17 Thread Jim Lemon
On 08/17/2012 07:48 PM, Sri krishna Devarayalu Balanagu wrote: df- data.frame ( RowId = 4:7, x=c(1_1, 2_2, 3_3, 3_3), y=c(1_1, 3_3, 2_2, 3_3) ) How can we compare corresponding values of x and y (first value of x exacly matches with the first value of

Re: [R] The message headers matched a filter rule

2012-08-17 Thread Pascal Oettli
It happens relatively often to me. Regards Le 17/08/2012 17:19, Jessica Streicher a écrit : Pretty much every time i reply to a post in this list i get a bounce saying the above, + waiting for approval. I first thought it was because i didn't send in plain, but now they are and it hasn't

Re: [R] tikzDevice not available

2012-08-17 Thread nikos giallousis
Hello, many thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I did not mention that my os is Windows 7. I am sorry for that. Some feedback here? install.packages(tikzDevice, repos=http://R-Forge.R-project.org;) Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/N31k/Documents/R/win-library/2.14’ (as ‘lib’ is

[R] Trouble compiling package on Windows (64 bit)

2012-08-17 Thread Fg Nu
I am trying to compile the R package KernGPLM found here: http://www.marlenemueller.de/KernGPLM/KernGPLM_0.65.tar.gz since the binary available is for R 2.4. but the compilation ends with the error message: *** arch-i386 ERROR: compilation failed for the package 'KernGPLM' Here is my session

Re: [R] Reference a variable inside a string and another for object assingments

2012-08-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Kenneth Rose kennethros...@gmail.com wrote: Hi R community I copied a bit of my R code that gets some data from a database. You won't be able to run the code, but I am a beginner so you will probably understand what going on. I would like to make a variable

Re: [R] How can we compare corresponding values of x and y (first value of x exacly matches with the first value of y)?

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, I've changed the name of the data.frame, df is an R function. DF$RowId[ DF$x != DF$y ] Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 17-08-2012 10:48, Sri krishna Devarayalu Balanagu escreveu: df - data.frame ( RowId = 4:7, x=c(1_1, 2_2, 3_3, 3_3), y=c(1_1, 3_3, 2_2, 3_3)

Re: [R] tikzDevice not available

2012-08-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 17.08.2012 12:37, nikos giallousis wrote: Hello, many thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I did not mention that my os is Windows 7. I am sorry for that. Some feedback here? Yes: R-forge seems to support the current release version of R only re. binaries. If you want it for an old

Re: [R] Error in metafor documentation on maximum iterations

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Dewey
At 19:01 16/08/2012, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote: I had noticed this oversight a while ago. In an updated version of the metafor package (hopefully to be released in the near future), the argument will be called maxiter (as intended). Using maxit will then work as well, due to partial

Re: [R] Linear mixed model using R

2012-08-17 Thread li li
Thanks, Bert. 2012/8/17 Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com 1. Post on R-sig-mixed-models, not here. 2. Models 2 and 3 make no sense (to me, anyway). What do you think they mean? (Don't answer here -- explain on the mixed models list). -- Bert On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:13 PM, li li

Re: [R] Trouble compiling package on Windows (64 bit)

2012-08-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 17.08.2012 12:38, Fg Nu wrote: I am trying to compile the R package KernGPLM found here: http://www.marlenemueller.de/KernGPLM/KernGPLM_0.65.tar.gz since the binary available is for R 2.4. but the compilation ends with the error message: *** arch-i386 ERROR: compilation failed for

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Rantony antony.akk...@ge.com wrote: Hi, Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath - D:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.txt HOW IS POSSIBLE TO GET THE FILE NAME FROM THIS GIVEN PATH ? Quite possibly by yelling at it or regular expressions: you know, whatever -

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread Berend Hasselman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Rantony antony.akk...@ge.com wrote: Hi, Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath - D:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.txt HOW IS POSSIBLE TO GET THE FILE NAME FROM THIS GIVEN PATH ? Please don't shout. ?basename Berend

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/08/12 15:04, Berend Hasselman wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Rantony antony.akk...@ge.com wrote: Hi, Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath - D:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.txt HOW IS POSSIBLE TO GET THE FILE NAME FROM THIS GIVEN

[R] Plot multiple variables: label points

2012-08-17 Thread cm256
Hello, I have a data.frame with 10-15 entries which looks like this: group time1 time2 time3 1 F18 4394.500 21043.50 14949.00 2 F25 4678.000 23727.65 15683.12 3 F30 4909.775 23487.60 16724.40 I plot this with: plot(variable[,2:4]) so that a plot with 3 rows and 3

Re: [R] no true negative data, need roc curve

2012-08-17 Thread Jessica Streicher
Above mentioned formula is wrong - maybe a typo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic The false positive rate is the rate of false positives, meaning how many of the total negatives (all in reality negatives(N), that is, all negatives falsely classified as positives(fp)

Re: [R] Reference a variable inside a string and another for object assingments

2012-08-17 Thread Kenneth Rose
I tried these two and testquery2 now does the job :) Somehow the str_c function from the stringr package doesn't work when I run the sqlQuery function even though the testquery string is the same as testquery2 string. Thanks for the pointers! fromdate - c('2005-01-01 00:00:00') testquery -

Re: [R] Reference a variable inside a string and another for object assingments

2012-08-17 Thread Kenneth Rose
Thanks Gabor! This is exactly what I was searching for! --- And it works like a charm. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Kenneth Rose kennethros...@gmail.com wrote: Hi R community I copied a bit of my R code

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, basename(FPath) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 17-08-2012 10:28, Rantony escreveu: Hi, Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath - D:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.txt HOW IS POSSIBLE TO GET THE FILE NAME FROM THIS GIVEN PATH ? - thanks in advance Antony. -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread Rantony
Thanks pramod. From: Pramod [via R] [mailto:ml-node+s789695n4640600...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 5:24 PM To: Akkara, Antony (GE Energy, Non-GE) Subject: Re: Get the filename from the given path x - substr(FPath,13,nchar(FPath)) should give you the desired output.

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 17.08.2012 11:28, Rantony wrote: Hi, Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath - D:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.txt HOW IS POSSIBLE TO GET THE FILE NAME FROM THIS GIVEN PATH ? basename(FPath) Uwe Ligges - thanks in advance Antony. -- View this message in context:

[R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Meyer
Do   splits - strsplit(filePath,file://%22,fixed=true)[[1/]] fileName - splits[length(splits)]) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] Unequal splits from a column

2012-08-17 Thread arun
HI, Try this: dat1-data.frame(slope=c(slope (60/25/15),slope (90/10),slope (40/35/15/10),slope (40/25/25/10) )) dat1$slope-gsub(slope\\s+.*(\\(.*\\)),\\1,dat1$slope)  dat1$slope-gsub(\\((.*)\\),\\1,dat1$slope) dat2-strsplit(dat1$slope,/) dat2[[1]][4]-0 dat2[[2]][3:4]-0

[R] Error: level sets of factors are different?

2012-08-17 Thread Sri krishna Devarayalu Balanagu
Why the error is coming? even though the length of outcome.new$compkey and outcome.new$armkey were exactly same. Can anyone help? setwd(D:/AZ) library(RODBC) cdb_cnct - odbcConnectExcel(AZIF_DC_GVK_NSCLC_MSALL_287papers_02072012_141450_v1_4.xls) outcomes - sqlFetch(cdb_cnct, Outcomes_info)

Re: [R] dimnames in an array(I'll be grateful if this message will be passed to all list users)

2012-08-17 Thread aleksandr shfets
Michael, Thank you for suggestions; it seems to me that there's a fundamental lacuna with respect to names of a three dimensional array: that is, rownames fits dimension 1, colnames fits another dimension(that is, 3, if I read it correctly), but there is no specific name for the third

Re: [R] Plot multiple variables: label points

2012-08-17 Thread Bert Gunter
?text Have you read the Introduction to R tutorial. If not, do so before further posting. If so, re-read section 12.2. -- Bert On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:33 AM, cm256 d-...@gmx.at wrote: Hello, I have a data.frame with 10-15 entries which looks like this: group time1 time2 time3 1

Re: [R] How to join two plotmath type expressions

2012-08-17 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 15, 2012, at 23:17 , Trevor Carey-Smith wrote: On 08/15/2012 10:45 PM, S Ellison wrote: label- 'Temperature' unit- bquote(degree*C) text(5,5,substitute(l~u, list(l=label, u=unit))) Thanks, that's exactly what I was after. A curious application of bquote though. How about using it

Re: [R] dimnames in an array(I'll be grateful if this message will be passed to all list users)

2012-08-17 Thread William Dunlap
Have you showed us how to reproduce your original problem? Have you showed us the output of traceback() after encountering the error? Have you tried setting options(error=recover) before encountering the error and then using recover() to look at the dimensions and dimnames of the array that

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com
On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/08/12 15:04, Berend Hasselman wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Rantony antony.akk...@ge.com wrote: Hi, Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath -

Re: [R] Error: level sets of factors are different?

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Newmiller
The length of a vector of yes/no answers has little to do with the number of possible responses (2). Factors keep both pieces of information. If you only have yes responses in your data set, when converted to factor you would have to tell R that other responses were possible. I prefer to

Re: [R] prevalence of R in publications and institutions

2012-08-17 Thread Douglas Bates
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Travis Perry travis.pe...@furman.edu wrote: Dr. Bates, Our department is considering replacing existing statistical software packages in our curriculum with R, at my request. To better inform this decision we are interested to know the prevalence of

[R] Remove several numbers from a sequence

2012-08-17 Thread penguins
Can anyone tell me how to remove several numbers for a sequence. For example: xx- c(1,5,7,10) yy-seq(1,10,1) how do I get take xx away from yy to get the new sequence 2,3,4,6,8,9 Many thanks in advance -- View this message in context:

[R] RGDAL OGRwrite question

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Duke-Sylvester
I have a quick question: It appears that in rgdal v0.7-12 (R version 2.15.1, OSX 10.6.8) writeOGR will not write a shapefile the the current directory. Is this correct? An earlier version of rgdal must have allowed this because I have a older script that used to work, but doesn't now. So, as an

Re: [R] Error: level sets of factors are different?

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, The message is not about lengths, it's about sets. It means that the two factors, compkey and armkey don't have the same levels, which you can see with levels(compkey) levels(armkey) and test for equality. Also, your post's prologue doesn't have a direct relation with the error,

Re: [R] Plot multiple variables: label points

2012-08-17 Thread cm256
I know about the text function, it works well if I plot just 2 variables - I give the x and the y coordinates, but I doesn't work if i try to do this in this plot whith the multiple variables: *time1 plot plot plot time2 plot plot plot time3* so what would the solution? variable[,2:4] are the

Re: [R] Plot multiple variables: label points

2012-08-17 Thread cm256
The provided solution is: panel.text - function(x, y, text, ...) text (x, y, labels = text) pairs(variable[,2:4], pch=19, text = variable$group, lower.panel = panel.text, upper.panel = panel.text) -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] set working directory to current source directory

2012-08-17 Thread S Ellison
Subject: Re: [R] set working directory to current source directory A windows-centric work-round (assuming .Rdata files are 'associated' with the right R binary n installation) is to save an empty environment in the relevant project directory with the source file you would normally run.

Re: [R] prevalence of R in publications and institutions

2012-08-17 Thread Martin Morgan
On 08/17/2012 09:25 AM, Douglas Bates wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Travis Perry travis.pe...@furman.edu wrote: Dr. Bates, Our department is considering replacing existing statistical software packages in our curriculum with R, at my request. To better inform this decision

Re: [R] Remove several numbers from a sequence

2012-08-17 Thread R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com
Take a look at ?setdiff Michael On Aug 17, 2012, at 12:18 PM, penguins cat...@bas.ac.uk wrote: Can anyone tell me how to remove several numbers for a sequence. For example: xx- c(1,5,7,10) yy-seq(1,10,1) how do I get take xx away from yy to get the new sequence 2,3,4,6,8,9 Many

Re: [R] Plot multiple variables: label points

2012-08-17 Thread David L Carlson
When you call plot with more than two columns, uses the pairs() function. That means you have to write a panel function. Here are a couple of relatively simple examples: pairs(variable[,2:4], panel=function(x, y, ...) text(x, y, variable$group)) pairs(variable[,2:4], panel=function(x, y,

Re: [R] Remove several numbers from a sequence

2012-08-17 Thread arun
HI, Try this:   yy[is.na(match(yy,xx))] #[1] 2 3 4 6 8 9 A.K. - Original Message - From: penguins cat...@bas.ac.uk To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM Subject: [R] Remove several numbers from a sequence Can anyone tell me how to remove several numbers

Re: [R] Remove several numbers from a sequence

2012-08-17 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 17-08-2012, at 18:18, penguins wrote: Can anyone tell me how to remove several numbers for a sequence. For example: xx- c(1,5,7,10) yy-seq(1,10,1) how do I get take xx away from yy to get the new sequence 2,3,4,6,8,9 You can also do this yy[!(yy %in% xx)] Berend

[R] sample from a joint distribution of discrete continuous variables (survival analysis)

2012-08-17 Thread Jie
Dear All, My question is from the simulation of survival time with censoring indicator. Suppose I have a person with: 1. exponential life time, h(t) = lambda* exp(- lambda* t), some known lambda0. 2. a pre-determined event time, constant T; 3. a censoring indicator, delta=0 if the observed life

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread William Dunlap
Q. Here i have a file path, for eg : - FPath - D:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.txt HOW IS POSSIBLE TO GET THE FILE NAME FROM THIS GIVEN PATH ? A. x - substr(FPath,13,nchar(FPath)) should give you the desired output. But this is much like saying x - MyFile.txt will give you the desired output - where

Re: [R] dimnames in an array(I'll be grateful if this message will be passed to all list users)

2012-08-17 Thread R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com
On Aug 17, 2012, at 9:25 AM, aleksandr shfets a_shf...@mail.ru wrote: Michael, Thank you for suggestions; it seems to me that there's a fundamental lacuna with respect to names of a three dimensional array: A lacuna in the English language, not in R: though perhaps Prof Ripley's

Re: [R] Error: level sets of factors are different?

2012-08-17 Thread Noia Raindrops
The cbind method to data.frame is just a wrapper for data.frame(...). So character columns are converted to factors. dat - cbind(data.frame(x = 1:3), a = c(a, b, c), b = c(a, a, c)) str(dat) ## 'data.frame': 3 obs. of 3 variables: ## $ x: int 1 2 3 ## $ a: Factor w/ 3 levels a,b,c: 1 2 3 ##

Re: [R] Remove several numbers from a sequence

2012-08-17 Thread Clint Bowman
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Re: [R] Unequal splits from a column

2012-08-17 Thread David L Carlson
Here's a slightly different approach without regular expressions: dat1-data.frame(slope=c(slope (60/25/15),slope (90/10), slope (40/35/15/10),slope (40/25/25/10) )) tmp - strsplit(as.character(dat1$slope), split=[/()]) tmp2 - sapply(tmp, function(x) as.numeric(x[-1])) maxlen -

[R] mixed model in r

2012-08-17 Thread li li
Dear all, I am really confused with the syntax for mixed model using lmer in lme4 library. My model is Value = Sample + Run (nested with Sample ) Here sample is a fixed effect and Run is a random effect nested with sample. Can anyone give some hint on the correct syntex for this model.

[R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread Bert Gunter
Folks: Over the years, many people -- including some who I would consider real expeRts -- have criticized factors and advocated the use (sometimes exclusively) of character vectors instead. I would just like to point out that, for me, factors provide one feature that I find to be very convenient:

Re: [R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread PIKAL Petr
I second to Bert's opinion, factors can be confusing, but they have quite nice features which can not be easily mimicked by plain character vectors. I find extremelly usefull possibility of manipulating its levels. fac-factor(sample(letters[1:5], 20, replace=TRUE)) fac [1] e e d d e e c e a

Re: [R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Newmiller
I don't know if my recent post on this prompted your post, but I don't see much to argue with in your discussion. I find factors to be useful for managing display and some kinds of analysis. However, I find them mostly a handicap when importing, merging, and handling data QC. Therefore I

Re: [R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Jeff Newmiller jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote: I don't know if my recent post on this prompted your post, but I don't see much to argue with in your discussion. I find factors to be useful for managing display and some kinds of analysis. However, I find

Re: [R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread Bert Gunter
Steve, et. al: Yes, if object.size() is to be believed, you're right: x -sample(c(small,medium,large),1e4,rep=TRUE) y - factor(x) object.size(x) 40120 bytes object.size(y) 40336 bytes I stand (happily) corrected. -- Bert On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Steve Lianoglou

[R] spatial auto-correlation structure in nlme

2012-08-17 Thread Gary Dong
Dear R users, I'm estimating a mixed effects model in which the spatial correlation is controlled for by the corGaus structure. I'm wondering if there is a document or paper that explains how the spatial correlation structure (such as corExp or corGaus) works. Let me use the example and data

Re: [R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, No, factors may use less memory. System dependent? x -sample(c(small,medium,large),1e4,rep=TRUE) y - factor(x) object.size(x) 80184 bytes object.size(y) 40576 bytes sessionInfo() R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1]

Re: [R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Rui Barradas ruipbarra...@sapo.pt wrote: Hello, No, factors may use less memory. System dependent? I think it's a 32-bit vs. 64-bit distinction - I get Rui's results on 64-bit Windows and Linux installation, but Bert's result on a 32-bit Linux machine. Peter

Re: [R] RGDAL OGRwrite question

2012-08-17 Thread MacQueen, Don
Are the output files already there? In that case, try overwrite_layer=TRUE -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 8/17/12 9:28 AM, Scott Duke-Sylvester scottdukesylves...@gmail.com wrote: I have a quick

Re: [R] RGDAL OGRwrite question

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Duke-Sylvester
In the example I gave, the temp.shp, 'temp.bdf, etc ... do not exist in the current working directory (.) before I call: writeOGR(shape, '.', layer='temp', driver='ESRI Shapefile', verbose=TRUE) I should have specified this. Also, the working directory permissions are set to owner

Re: [R] Trouble compiling package on Windows (64 bit)

2012-08-17 Thread Fg Nu
Uwe, I did give you the output from R CMD INSTALL (or at least, what I thought was the relevant part).  Here is the output in toto: * installing to library 'C:/programming/r/revolutions/R-2.14.2/library' * installing *source* package 'KernGPLM' ... ** libs *** arch - i386 ERROR: compilation

Re: [R] prevalence of R in publications and institutions

2012-08-17 Thread Travis Perry
Thank you both for your time and assistance. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Douglas Bates ba...@stat.wisc.edu wrote: ** ** On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Travis Perry travis.pe...@furman.edu wrote: Dr. Bates, Our department is considering replacing existing statistical

[R] Appending many different and separate Excel files using R

2012-08-17 Thread Amir Kasaeian
Dear all, Good day! I have a problem in reading Excel files in R and appending them to each other. Suppose we have several Excel files in a directory with headers and want to use R to append them in a single file with an additional variable in the final file indicating from which files the

Re: [R] prevalence of R in publications and institutions

2012-08-17 Thread David L Carlson
From a blurb I wrote recently: Publishing on R has accelerated over the last few years. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press publish over 50 books on R and has recently issued a call for new submissions. Springer has a growing series called Use R! (38 volumes). Wiley has a series called Statistics Using R

[R] REPOST: Need help interpreting output from rcorrp.cens with Cox regression

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Jepsen
I am reposting my message from April 8th because I never received a response to the original post: Dear R-listers, I am an MD and clinical epidemiologist developing a measure of comorbidity severity for patients with liver disease. Having developed my comorbidity score as the linear

Re: [R] Appending many different and separate Excel files using R

2012-08-17 Thread R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com
On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Amir Kasaeian amir_kasae...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear all, Good day! I have a problem in reading Excel files in R and appending them to each other. Suppose we have several Excel files in a directory with headers and want to use R to append them in a single file

Re: [R] Opinion: Why I find factors convenient to use

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Em 17-08-2012 20:27, Bert Gunter escreveu: ... so it may be just the way object.size() counts in the two cases, right? Or maybe the way character vectors and factors are coded. (64 bit Windows 7 or ubuntu 12.04) 80k for the character vector seems to be 8 * 1e4 for pointers plus room

[R] R utilizing 25% of CPU for Dual core i3 370M processor

2012-08-17 Thread Shantanu MULLICK
Hello Everyone I have a dual-core Intel i3-370M processor and Windows 64 operating system. I have a 3GB RAM and my processor can support a maximum of 8GB RAM. I have virtual memory enabled on my computer. I am running a program in the 64 bit R which implements a MCMC on a large dataset and

Re: [R] Get the filename from the given path

2012-08-17 Thread William Dunlap
Yes, basename(filepath) assumes that filepath represents path to a file on the OS that R is running on. Hence, on Windows we get basename(dir\\path) [1] path basename(dir/path) [1] path because both / and \ are valid separators (and invalid in file names) Linux allows \ in a file name

Re: [R] R utilizing 25% of CPU for Dual core i3 370M processor

2012-08-17 Thread Joshua Wiley
You probably have hyper threading so even though you only have two physical cores, there are 4 logical cores, hence 25%. Google can lead you to how to adjust this, if possible. Cheers, Josh On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Shantanu MULLICK b00295...@essec.edu wrote: Hello Everyone I have a

[R] Making data in R available to Rcmdr

2012-08-17 Thread ToddE
I'm an R newbie. I'm trying to use Rcmdr to make a 3-D scatterplot of data from a two-independent-variable regression and of the regression plane. The object dat in R contains the data: print(dat[1:20,]) y x1 x2 1 431.69 76.40 132.80 Rcmdr knows about dat. If I click Data,

Re: [R] Appending many different and separate Excel files using R

2012-08-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, You need to provide us with a bit more information: Do all the files have the same structure, i.e., tables with the same columns? Are they xls, xlsx or csv files? Do their names share something in common such as a preffix or are they alone in the directory, or...? When you write in the

Re: [R] Making data in R available to Rcmdr

2012-08-17 Thread John Fox
Dear Todd, -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of ToddE Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 5:57 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Making data in R available to Rcmdr I'm an R newbie. I'm trying to use Rcmdr to

[R] Row means of matrix.

2012-08-17 Thread Yingwei Lee
Hi all, I'm just having trouble getting row means of a matrix which contain zero. For example. m=matrix(c(1:4, c(0, 0, 0, 0), c(1, 0, 1, 1)), nc=4, byrow=TRUE) I want to be able to calculate means for non-zero elements for each row. ## what i have is this apply((m[apply(m != 0,

Re: [R] specific matrix element tranformation

2012-08-17 Thread bantex
Thanks David. I have actually 1 more question. How do I assign a name to the output created by this function? Cheers, B -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/specific-matrix-element-tranformation-tp4640550p4640680.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

Re: [R] Row means of matrix.

2012-08-17 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 17, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Yingwei Lee wrote: m=matrix(c(1:4, c(0, 0, 0, 0), c(1, 0, 1, 1)), nc=4, byrow=TRUE) is.na(m) - m==0 rowMeans(m, na.rm=T) #[1] 2.5 NaN 1.0 -- David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] no true negative data, need roc curve

2012-08-17 Thread vjyns
This is not a typo error, in feature detection when it was not able to calculate 'tn' then they are using this formula and there are more papers (referred journal) which quote same formula. In the same manner i had also got the tp, fp and fn. Based on it can some one suggest me to plot the ROC