[R] Ideas for a short R course

2014-01-29 Thread Iuri Gavronski
Hi, A colleague invited me to teach a short course in R for Management, Accounting, and Economics PhD students. I would have 5 3-hour classes. Any ideas (datasets, syllabus, teaching strategies, etc.) are welcome. Kind regards, Iuri. _ Dr. Iuri

Re: [R] anova.coxph with subsets of data

2014-01-29 Thread Oscar Rueda
Dear David, Thanks for your reply. I'll try to be more specific: why library(survival) data(ovarian) fit - coxph(Surv(futime, fustat) ~ resid.ds *rx + ecog.ps, data = ovarian, subset=ovarian$age50) anova(fit) fit2 - coxph(Surv(futime, fustat) ~ resid.ds +rx + ecog.ps, data=ovarian,

Re: [R] How do you install cran mac binaries

2014-01-29 Thread Rolf Turner
From the help on getOption(): pkgType: The default type of packages to be downloaded and installed – see install.packages. Possible values are source (the default except under the CRAN OS X build) and mac.binary.. Windows uses win.binary. (mac.binary.leopard and mac.binary.universal are no

[R] sourcing scripts

2014-01-29 Thread Ahmed M. El-Kenawy
Hi I am extensively using R to process large amount of data. I tried to source my scripts to run sequentially in R, instead of running them seperately. However, I always receive an error message related to the memory size although I upgraded my RAM from 8GB to 16GB. i do not think this is the

[R] how to exclude level 1 residuals from multilevel model with lme4

2014-01-29 Thread Elena Wolf
Dear community, I have the following problem: I have a multilevel model with two level 1 nominal predictors. My level one predictors are experimental condition nested in persons. I used the R-package lme4 my data file looks like that: (DV = dependent variable, IV = independent variable)

Re: [R] memory use of copies

2014-01-29 Thread Philippe GROSJEAN
For the last case with the list: x - 1:2; y = list(x)[rep(1, 4)] .Internal(inspect(y)) @102bbe090 19 VECSXP g0c3 [MARK,NAM(2)] (len=4, tl=0) @106119628 13 INTSXP g0c1 [MARK] (len=2, tl=0) 1,2 @106119628 13 INTSXP g0c1 [MARK] (len=2, tl=0) 1,2 @106119628 13 INTSXP g0c1 [MARK] (len=2, tl=0)

Re: [R] sourcing scripts

2014-01-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Ahmed M. El-Kenawy ken...@mans.edu.eg wrote: Error in memory.size(min = TRUE) : unused argument (min = TRUE) It looks like you've simply typed 'min=TRUE' instead of 'max=TRUE' somewhere! Somewhere other than the code you sent in the message, which had max=TRUE.

Re: [R] How do you install cran mac binaries

2014-01-29 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 29-01-2014, at 00:52, ce zadi...@excite.com wrote: Sorry how do access this menu? R-studio? I open an xterm and type R to start R. sessionInfo() R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 (32-bit) locale: [1] C attached base packages: [1] stats

Re: [R] Simplifying matrix computation

2014-01-29 Thread Carlo Giovanni Camarda
Dear David, and R-users, thanks for the response. I'll do my best to describe the context. My data consists in two matrices, D and T. The former provides simple values, the latter is a Boolean matrix. The number of rows in D is equal to the number of columns in T. My aim is to construct a

Re: [R] augPred subsets

2014-01-29 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi for plotting augPred objects lattice graphic is used so you can go through help pages e.g for xyplot. Here are some hints http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Display-Multiple-page-lattice-plots-td826957.html http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-lattice-layout-multiple-pages-td812862.html you could try

[R] vectorization

2014-01-29 Thread Bill
Hi. I saw this example and I cannot begin to figure out how it works. Can anyone give me an idea on this? n = 9e6 df = data.frame(values = rnorm(n), ID = rep(LETTERS[1:3], each = n/3), stringsAsFactors = FALSE) head(df) values ID 1 -0.7355823 A 2 -0.4729925

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14-01-28 11:43 PM, andrewH wrote: Hi Folks! I have been writing a small set of utilities for dealing with files that are hard to open correctly for one reason or another, especially because they are too big for memory, non-rectangular, or contain odd characters or unexpected codings, or

Re: [R] vectorization

2014-01-29 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi everything is written in docs. However this example is a little tricky. Each df$ID matches name of item in translator_vector and [] selects this matched item. It is similar like x-sample(1:3, 10,replace=T) translator_vector[x] Regards Petr -Original Message- From:

Re: [R] vectorization

2014-01-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14-01-29 6:41 AM, Bill wrote: Hi. I saw this example and I cannot begin to figure out how it works. Can anyone give me an idea on this? n = 9e6 df = data.frame(values = rnorm(n), ID = rep(LETTERS[1:3], each = n/3), stringsAsFactors = FALSE) head(df)

[R] Best way to get the prices from these strings?

2014-01-29 Thread Keith S Weintraub
Folks, I got the following prices by scraping a web page just for my own edification: thePrices- c(id=\p0\$69.95/div, id=\p1\$44.95/div, id=\p2\$69.95/div, id=\p3\$59.95/div, id=\p4\$69.95/div, id=\p5\$79.95/div, id=\p6\$89.95/div, id=\p7\$59.95/div, id=\p8\$59.95/div, id=\p9\$79.95/div,

Re: [R] anova.coxph with subsets of data

2014-01-29 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
--- begin included message --- But If I do fit - coxph(Surv(futime, fustat) ~ resid.ds *rx + ecog.ps, data = ovarian, subset=ovarian$age50) anova(fit) fit2 - coxph(Surv(futime, fustat) ~ resid.ds +rx + ecog.ps, data=ovarian, subset=ovarian$age50) anova(fit2,fit) The first p-value

Re: [R] anova.coxph with subsets of data

2014-01-29 Thread Oscar Rueda
Dear Dr. Therneau, Thanks a lot for your answer. I use your survival package often and I find it very useful. Cheers, Oscar Oscar M. Rueda, PhD. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Caldas Lab, Breast Cancer Functional Genomics. University of Cambridge. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Li

Re: [R] Best way to get the prices from these strings?

2014-01-29 Thread dan wang
I am not sure if below ways are better. sub(.*(.*).*,\\1,thePrices) sapply(thePrices, function(x){s=gregexpr(pattern ='\\$',x)[[1]][1];e=gregexpr(pattern ='',x)[[1]][1];return(substr(x,s,e-1))}) On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Keith S Weintraub kw1...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I got the

Re: [R] median survival

2014-01-29 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
Actually, it's worse than you think. Ideal: if the survival curve has a horizontal segment at exactly 50%, report the midpoint of that segment. For uncensored data, this makes the routine agree with the ordinary definition of a median. Reality: The survfit routine tries for this. However,

Re: [R] Best way to get the prices from these strings?

2014-01-29 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi Slight modification to get rid of $ as.numeric(gsub(.*\\$(.*).*,\\1,thePrices)) Petr -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of dan wang Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:55 PM To: Keith S Weintraub Cc:

[R] error message system is computationally singular under mlogit

2014-01-29 Thread Franckx Laurent
Dear all, I am trying to estimate a multinomial logit model with mlogit. The data I use for the estimation have the following format (in the full data set, there are many more explanatory variables, but I omit them here for the sake of simplicity): head(sample) choice cl_vint_com

Re: [R] error message system is computationally singular under mlogit

2014-01-29 Thread Bert Gunter
Advice: I would guess that you are overfitting. Simplify your model. Drop some of the variables.You probably have (near) linear dependencies in your design matrix. -- Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 Data is not information. Information is not

Re: [R] Best way to get the prices from these strings?

2014-01-29 Thread jim holtman
Here is another approach: thePrices- + c(id=\p0\$69.95/div, id=\p1\$44.95/div, id=\p2\$69.95/div, + id=\p3\$59.95/div, id=\p4\$69.95/div, id=\p5\$79.95/div, + id=\p6\$89.95/div, id=\p7\$59.95/div, id=\p8\$59.95/div, + id=\p9\$79.95/div, id=\p10\$79.95/div,

Re: [R] Best way to get the prices from these strings?

2014-01-29 Thread arun
You could use ?gsub() or library(qdap) as.numeric(unlist(genXtract(thePrices,$,))) # [1] 69.95 44.95 69.95 59.95 69.95 79.95 89.95 59.95 59.95 79.95 79.95 89.95 #[13] 89.95 79.95 89.95 79.95 39.95 59.95 69.95 83.95 73.95 83.95 93.95 87.95 #[25] 91.95 99.95 61.95 A.K. On Wednesday, January 29,

[R] generating a rank variable using date in a data.frame: overcoming a date origin error

2014-01-29 Thread Gavin Rudge
I've got a simple data.frame of a facotr variable called 'case' which indicates one subject and a date of an event ('obs'), each row representing an observation. One case can have many (or few) observations over time in the data set. I've created a crude data.frame by way of a clunky but

Re: [R] error message system is computationally singular under mlogit

2014-01-29 Thread Franckx Laurent
Dear Bert In the example below, I use just one variable (apparently I mixed up the formatting in the original mail) : two_carmodel_data - mlogit.data(sample, choice = choice, shape = long, alt.var = cl_vint_com, chid.var = gezinsid ) formula_2cars - mFormula(choice ~ pr_tot ) mod_res -

[R] Controlling font size on code chunk outputs using Knitr

2014-01-29 Thread Jeff Johnson
Hi there, I'm currently using knitr to generate an html file, however the output of my code is in a font size that's larger than I desire. I've been looking through various options for controlling the font size of the code results, such as the knitr manual, opts_chunk, and latex. The actual code

Re: [R] generating a rank variable using date in a data.frame: overcoming a date origin error

2014-01-29 Thread jim holtman
use 'xtfrm' so the ranking: set.seed(66) d-(seq(as.Date(2001/01/01),as.Date(2011/12/31),days)) obs-(as.Date(sample(d,200,replace=TRUE))) obs-as.data.frame(obs) case-(case=(sample(LETTERS[1:8],200,replace=TRUE))) case-as.data.frame(case) df-cbind(case,obs) df$rank-ave(xtfrm(df$obs),df$case,

Re: [R] How do you install cran mac binaries

2014-01-29 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 29-01-2014, at 18:26, ce zadi...@excite.com wrote: Thank you Berend, I will give it another shot to compile then. Please send messages to the R-help list only. I have forwarded this reply to R-help. Berend -Original Message- From: Berend Hasselman [b...@xs4all.nl] Date:

Re: [R] Handling large SAS file in R

2014-01-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 11:51 -0800, Fisher Dennis a écrit : Marc I understand that R is staffed entirely by volunteers and I appreciate the massive efforts that have created this awesome software. My suggestion was aiming to encourage the Core team that one weakness of the present

[R] BioNet::runFastHeinz error

2014-01-29 Thread Kishor Tappita
Dear R-Users, I am trying to perform network analysis using BioNet. I am having issues with the runFastHeinz function. I extracted the sub network and computed the scores and fed to the function. I even tried to run the function from the example data in the help function. I get the same error.

[R] for loop in R - strange behaviour

2014-01-29 Thread Supriya Jain
Hi, I notice the following from a for loop in R, which seems strange to me: When I do this: --- first - 0 nstep - 10 N - 14 while(first N) { print(--- ) last - first + nstep if(last N) last - N #start - first+2 for(i in (first+2):last)# line 11

[R] Problem with plm package

2014-01-29 Thread george brida
Dear friends, I have a csv data entitled GFS in the following path: c:\TEG This data is attached with this mail. When I wrote the following lines: y=read.csv(c:\\TEG\\GFS.csv, header=FALSE, sep=;) purtest(y, pmax = 4, exo = intercept, test = hadri) I obtained the following message: Error in

Re: [R] for loop in R - strange behaviour

2014-01-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/01/2014 11:32 AM, Supriya Jain wrote: Hi, I notice the following from a for loop in R, which seems strange to me: When I do this: --- first - 0 nstep - 10 N - 14 while(first N) { print(--- ) last - first + nstep if(last N) last - N #start - first+2 for(i in

Re: [R] for loop in R - strange behaviour

2014-01-29 Thread Peter Alspach
Tena koe Not really strange: (7+2):11 is 9:11, 7+2:11 is 7+c(2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11); i.e., 9:18 Peter Alspach -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Supriya Jain Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2014 5:32 a.m. To:

Re: [R] how to read data

2014-01-29 Thread Vortex
chke1993 wrote I don't know the meaning of sep=,and don't know where to add the location of the file such as E//... sep= means the data you are reading is separated by a white/blank space. sep=, would mean it is separated by a comma (,). If the file is located in your working directory it

[R] clusterCrit package produces Nan

2014-01-29 Thread Paola Tellaroli
I'm trying to compute the Silhouette value of a clustering partition done with SOM method using the function intCriteria of the clusterCrit package but it returns me a Nan value: somebody knows why? To simplify my case, here there is an example: test [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]

[R] Inconsistent results between first run of Rprof and next runs of Rprof

2014-01-29 Thread Nathan Uyttendaele
Hello, when I run this code in a brand new R session -- ### loading of libraries and other functions Rprof(profiling.out) start.time=proc.time()[3] for(i in 1:50) { main.function() } end.time=proc.time()[3] Rprof()

Re: [R] sourcing scripts

2014-01-29 Thread Ahmed M. El-Kenawy
Hi Barry, I removed the lines related to memory size from other scripts and kept it only in the master script. Now it works. Cheers Ahmed Kenawy From: b.rowling...@gmail.com [b.rowling...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson

[R] FW: sourcing scripts

2014-01-29 Thread Ahmed M. El-Kenawy
Hi Barry, Thanks for your reply. Actually, I tried both max=TRUE and min=TRUE. Neither of them works. Ahmed Kenawy From: b.rowling...@gmail.com [b.rowling...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson [b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [R] how to read data

2014-01-29 Thread William Dunlap
If it is not in your working directory you need to specify the path by something like. file=C:users//documents//R//name.txt No, Windows won't like the missing slash after the C: and using a double forward slash is a bad habit to get into on Windows. Use one of

[R] Creating a R-package in R-Studio

2014-01-29 Thread Kulupp
Dear R-help community, I am creating my first R-package in RStudio and wanted to add datasets to the package. I added an .RData file containing data (a data frame) in the 'data' folder of the package and could load the data as usual by typing in the console: data(xyz). Then I added a .RData

Re: [R] Creating a R-package in R-Studio

2014-01-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/01/2014 2:49 PM, Kulupp wrote: Dear R-help community, I am creating my first R-package in RStudio and wanted to add datasets to the package. I added an .RData file containing data (a data frame) in the 'data' folder of the package and could load the data as usual by typing in the console:

[R] testing xts values in if command?

2014-01-29 Thread ce
Dear all , xts objects give error in if command : Error in if : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed library(quantmod) getSymbols(SPY) SPY[2007-01-03]$SPY.Adjusted SPY[2007-01-04]$SPY.Adjusted [,1] If I use as.numeric function it works : SPY[2007-01-03]$SPY.Adjusted

Re: [R] testing xts values in if command?

2014-01-29 Thread Joshua Ulrich
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:25 PM, ce zadi...@excite.com wrote: Dear all , xts objects give error in if command : Error in if : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed library(quantmod) getSymbols(SPY) SPY[2007-01-03]$SPY.Adjusted SPY[2007-01-04]$SPY.Adjusted [,1] If I use

Re: [R] Problem with plm package

2014-01-29 Thread george brida
Hi Arun you can't open the file? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:23 PM, arun smartpink...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Your attachment didn't came through. A.K. On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:03 PM, george brida george.br...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, I have a csv data entitled GFS in the

Re: [R] Inconsistent results between first run of Rprof and next runs of Rprof

2014-01-29 Thread jim holtman
You should at least post the script so that we see what line 33 is. For example, was it an input statement so that on the second time you ran the data was cached in memory? Did you remove all the objects and do a gc() to clean up memory before trying again (maybe there was some data hanging

Re: [R] Problem with plm package

2014-01-29 Thread george brida
Ah ok. the problem is somewhat great, I can't rewrite it in txt file. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:48 PM, george brida george.br...@gmail.comwrote: Ah ok. the problem is somewhat great, I can't rewrite it in txt file. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:52 PM, arun smartpink...@yahoo.com wrote: HI

[R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread Trevor Davies
I think I have a hole in my understanding of how R uses packages (or at least how it gives functions in packages priority). I thought I would give the new dplyr package a test drive this morning (which is blazingly fast BTW) and I've gone down the rabbit hole. The issue is that I'm unable to use

Re: [R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread Peter Langfelder
In short, use dplyr::summarize or plyr::summarize to select the one you want. HTH, Peter On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Trevor Davies davies.tre...@gmail.com wrote: I think I have a hole in my understanding of how R uses packages (or at least how it gives functions in packages priority). I

Re: [R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Trever, See help(::) and help(detach) Best, Ista On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Trevor Davies davies.tre...@gmail.com wrote: I think I have a hole in my understanding of how R uses packages (or at least how it gives functions in packages priority). I thought I would give the new dplyr

Re: [R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread Trevor Davies
Thanks - that's solves my problems. All the best - Trevor On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Ista Zahn istaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Trever, See help(::) and help(detach) Best, Ista On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Trevor Davies davies.tre...@gmail.com wrote: I think I have a hole in

Re: [R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread Hadley Wickham
If you load plyr first, then dplyr, I think everything should work. dplyr::summarise works similarly enough to plyr::summarise that it shouldn't cause problems. Hadley On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Trevor Davies davies.tre...@gmail.com wrote: I think I have a hole in my understanding of how

Re: [R] Best way to get the prices from these strings?

2014-01-29 Thread Keith S Weintraub
Thanks to Dan Wang, Petr Pikal, Arun, Jim Holtman and Arun for all of your solutions. All the best, KW -- __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread arun
Hi, You can use dplyr:::summarise For e.g. library(plyr) library(dplyr) summarise function (.data, ...)  -- } environment: namespace:plyr library(Lahman)  Batting %.% group_by(playerID) %.% summarise(total=sum(G))%.% head(5) #    total #1 4988101  Batting %.%

Re: [R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread Trevor Davies
Hi Hadley, Thanks for getting back to me - the dplyr package seems really great. The issue I have is that the groupings no longer works when I'm using the plyr::summarise function Here is my code, I think it's pretty obvious what I'm trying to do: data_df - tbl_df(full.data) group_year -

[R] Parsing Complex Text in Single Cell

2014-01-29 Thread Patzelt, Edward
R Experts - We have a complex problem whereby Qualtrics exported our data into a single cell as seen below. We attempted to parse it using scan() without much success. Hoping to get a little nudge here. I've posted the full data set here:

[R] Use function parameter as an unevaluated text string

2014-01-29 Thread John Sorkin
I would like to take a parameter passed to a function as a text string. I don't want the parameter evaluated, I want it uses exactly as passed, doit - function(data) { cat(This function is using values from the data frame ,data,\n) } mydata - data.frame(x = c(1,2,3), y=c(3,2,1)) doit(mydata)

Re: [R] Use function parameter as an unevaluated text string

2014-01-29 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
doit - function(data) { cat(This function is using values from the data frame, deparse(substitute(data)), \n) } On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:48 PM, John Sorkin jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu wrote: I would like to take a parameter passed to a function as a text string. I don't want the parameter

Re: [R] Use function parameter as an unevaluated text string

2014-01-29 Thread William Dunlap
Use substitute(argumentName) to get the literal argument, as a language object, and deparse() to convert that into a character vector. That vector could be quite long (especially what your function is called via do.call) so you may want to truncate it. doit2 - function (data) { dataName

Re: [R] Understanding namespace for plyr / dplyr

2014-01-29 Thread Ista Zahn
On Jan 29, 2014 5:47 PM, Trevor Davies davies.tre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hadley, Thanks for getting back to me - the dplyr package seems really great. The issue I have is that the groupings no longer works when I'm using the plyr::summarise function That is presumably why you should load

Re: [R] clusterCrit package produces Nan

2014-01-29 Thread Pascal Oettli
Hello, Your example is difficult to reproduce. Please 1. use dput() to attach data 2. indicate the package(s) you used. There are at least 3 packages with a som function. It seems you used RSNNS. And when I run your code, there is no unit.classif in datissimi datissimi$unit.classif NULL

Re: [R] Controlling font size on code chunk outputs using Knitr

2014-01-29 Thread Yihui Xie
Please provide a minimal example -- are you using R Markdown or R HTML? Both can produce HTML output: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/minimal/ Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Web: http://yihui.name On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Jeff Johnson mrjeffto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [R] clusterCrit package produces Nan

2014-01-29 Thread Pascal Oettli
Hello, Please also reply to the list. I am not really familiar with this calculation, but it is maybe due to the fact you defined 8 nodes for your SOM, but your original data are only classified within 3 nodes. datissimi = som(test, grid=somgrid(xdim=2, ydim=4, topo='rectangular'), rlen=500,

Re: [R] Controlling font size on code chunk outputs using Knitr

2014-01-29 Thread Jeff Johnson
Thank you Yihui for responding. I'll reply with details when I get in the office tomorrow am. I'm using Rstudio and added the knitr package if that helps. I'll check details and provide an example tomorrow am. I appreciate your help. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Yihui

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Hoerner
Thanks, Duncan! I installed a hex viewer -- did not realize there was also one in R. I found the documentation for the individual showNonASCII and showNonASCIIFile functions, but I could not find the usual package PDF. The tools package does not seem to be listed on cran in the alphabetical list

Re: [R] Assigning a successive set of values to newly created variables

2014-01-29 Thread arun
Also: xNew - x for(i in 1:4){  xNew - xNew+0.5  assign(paste(y,i,sep=),xNew)  } identical(x2,y2) #[1] TRUE  identical(x3,y3) #[1] TRUE A.K. On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:35 PM, arun smartpink...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, May be this helps:  set.seed(24)  x-rnorm(10) vec1 - seq(0.5,2,by=0.5)

Re: [R] Assigning a successive set of values to newly created variables

2014-01-29 Thread arun
Hi, May be this helps:  set.seed(24)  x-rnorm(10) vec1 - seq(0.5,2,by=0.5) for(i in 1:4){  assign(paste(x,i,sep=),x+vec1[i])  } A.K. Hi all, I have been trying to figure this one out but I'm at a dead end. I want to write a loop that automatically create a series of values based on a

Re: [R] vectorization

2014-01-29 Thread Bill
Oh wow, I guess I get it! Thank you. It is pretty tricky but I saw that it works very fast. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.comwrote: On 14-01-29 6:41 AM, Bill wrote: Hi. I saw this example and I cannot begin to figure out how it works. Can anyone give

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:27 PM, Andrew Hoerner wrote: Thanks, Duncan! I installed a hex viewer -- did not realize there was also one in R. I found the documentation for the individual showNonASCII and showNonASCIIFile functions, but I could not find the usual package PDF. The tools package

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
For Census data specifically you might want to look at the acs package. I learned about it from Ray DiGiacomo, Jr. r...@liondatasystems.com I am doing an R-oriented US Census webinar on August 29. See this site for the recording of the webinar. http://liondatasystems.com/rug.html I think you

Re: [R] Inconsistent results between first run of Rprof and next runs of Rprof

2014-01-29 Thread Nathan Uyttendaele
Hello Jim, thanks for the reply! What I'm trying to do: I have a small function that makes use of many other functions, such as the one I called estimate.NAC.structure.of() I'm trying to make run everything faster. Thus I'm using Rprof to perform a line by line profiling to help me decide what