Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread jwd
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:33:12 -0800 Hasan Diwan wrote: > There exists a fine line between being unintentionally rude, but > helpful and purposely putting someone down. -- H The line is really not "fine" at all since it lies in that word "purposely." Also, you've

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread jwd
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:06:35 -0500 Oliver Keyes wrote: > +1. And frankly I would like to suggest that there is another obvious > solution here; pairing a set of guidelines around expected user > behaviour with removing people from the mailing list, or moderating > them, if

Re: [R] Regular R freezes

2015-12-22 Thread jwd
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:13:07 +0100 Tim Richter-Heitmann wrote: > Dear List, > > some days ago my R started to regularily freezes, especially during > these operations: > > mso(,permutations=999), package vegan > anova.cca(), package vegan > forward.sel(), package

Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

2015-12-16 Thread jwd
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:34:20 -0600 Hadley Wickham wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler > wrote: > > > > > >[] > > > > > You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot() > > > command. Just finish

Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

2015-12-16 Thread jwd
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:16:21 -0800 John Kane wrote: ... > > I have lived next door to the USA for most of my life and never > realized that American usage is 'brackets' for [ ] . I would use > the term brackets in normal use for ( ) and "square brackets for [ ]. > ...

Re: [R] CRAN - Package "activity" - how do you convert time (hh:mm) into radians in R 3.1.2 on Windows 7 OS 64bit

2015-11-04 Thread jwd
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:02:46 +0100 Martin Maechler wrote: > > Bert Gunter > > on Tue, 3 Nov 2015 14:54:46 -0800 writes: > > > ... should have said: with a 24 hour "clock". > > -- Bert > > Bert Gunter > > Hmm, thank

Re: [R] Unable to run RcmdrPlugin.survival using 3.2.2 with Windows 10

2015-09-04 Thread jwd
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:07:19 +1000 "Joyaa Antares" wrote: > Dear John, > > Very many thanks. Your hypothesis was completely correct - I did > save the workspace, and this is what created the problem. As a > newbie, being part way through an "exercise", saving

Re: [R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?

2015-07-05 Thread jwd
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 11:09:54 +0300 Federico Calboli federico.calb...@helsinki.fi wrote: Hi All, I am upgrading a package for CRAN, and I get this note: checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Malformed Description field: should contain one or more complete sentences. This is

Re: [R] not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file

2015-03-20 Thread jwd
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:00:18 -0400 Nicole Ford nicole.f...@me.com wrote: Hello, I recently updated to the newest version of R and I am encountering issues. Please find my error and session info below. My data are attached. I have tried the readstata13 package just in case to no avail.

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread jwd
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:22:56 -0500 Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.ca wrote: Could someone kindly enlighten me whether there are currently advantages to use R Studio vs. the normal R GUI? On the Mac I can't seem to find anything compelling, on Windows (which I don't use myself) I noticed

Re: [R] Can not save files

2015-01-02 Thread jwd
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:29:05 -0500 John Sorkin jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu wrote: When I try to save a file, I get Permission denied. Can someone let me know why this happens? I am running under Windows 7, Rstudio save(TheResults,file=c:\\data) You are explicitly attempting to

Re: [R] Rose Diagrams for Geology

2014-11-21 Thread jwd
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:06:03 -0600 David Doyle kydaviddo...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you to David and David for their help. The code below generated what I needed. library(circular) mydata - read.table(http://doylesdartden.com/R/Joints.csv;, header=TRUE, sep=,,) x -

Re: [R] R/Ubuntu, “package ‘stats’ in options(”defaultPackages“) was not found”

2014-09-19 Thread jwd
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:28:42 -0400 davide.chi...@gmail.com davide.chi...@gmail.com wrote: I tried with a different mirror, but nothing changed... Any other idea? Thanks anyway -- Davide What is the output of library()? JWDougherty __

Re: [R] Why does debugging print() change output of function?

2014-09-06 Thread jwd
On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:31:49 -0700 David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: The only other difference I see is a missing semicolon in the second example, which, in the first precedes your print() instruction. JWDougherty __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] converting dataframe into multiple time series

2014-08-24 Thread jwd
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:52:35 +0900 Bill william...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Can someone suggest how to do this: for (i in 2:length(colnames(allvar.df))) { var=colnames(allvar.df)[i] timeSeriesName = paste(var,.time.series) varRef=paste(var,.df$,var) varDate=paste(var,.df$date)

Re: [R] Installation of R version 3.1.0

2014-08-14 Thread jwd
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:15:58 -0400 VG gupta567va...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I am currently using *R version 3.0.0 RC (2013-03-28 r62434) -- Masked Marvel* I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS- the Lucid Lynx. I downloaded the tar.gz of R 3.1.0 under my Downloads folder. I changed my

[R] Update fail

2014-07-14 Thread jwd
I've been getting of an R-patched update, but running the process results in the following: File './x86_64/R-patched-devel-3.1.1-4.1.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/patched/openSUSE_13.1/' The system is opensuse 13.1, Linux

Re: [R] Paper on Analytics using R

2014-07-11 Thread jwd
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:17:23 +0800 Katherine Gobin katherine_go...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear R Forum, I am looking for some write-up or paper on Use of R for Analytics or why R should be preferred over others for Analytics purpose. Tried google but got some info about some commercial vendors

Re: [R] C: drive memory full

2014-06-17 Thread jwd
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:48:54 + Hiyoshi, Ayako ayako.hiyoshi...@alumni.ucl.ac.uk wrote: Dear Martyn and Professor Ripley, Thank you so much for your help. I used Window's large file search (it was useful! thank you), but there is no big files detected in C: drive . Perhaps I will have to

Re: [R] distance by sea

2014-06-08 Thread jwd
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 14:58:11 +0200 Giulia Fassio giuliafas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, someone know if it is possible to use R to calculate distance by sea between two geographic coordinates? I have many points in the sea and I want to create a matrix using R of the length of trajectories

Re: [R] Saving the ouput data

2014-05-18 Thread jwd
Or you can try help(sink). JWDougherty __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained,

Re: [R] dev-lang/R-3.1.0: biocLite(vsn) removes all files in /

2014-05-18 Thread jwd
On Sun, 18 May 2014 07:16:46 +0200 Juergen Rose r...@rz.uni-potsdam.de wrote: What disappeared are links and three files. The links are recreatable, although they would be better placed in user space rather than under /. Of the three files, the *bz2 appears to be part of a Gentoo release, the

Re: [R] how to replace NA values

2014-01-20 Thread jwd
to treat the data in that field, you may have a better idea of how to handle the missing data. JWD __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go

2014-01-02 Thread jwd
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:42:53 -0500 David Parkhurst parkh...@indiana.edu wrote: I have several variables in a data frame that aren't listed by ls() after I attach that data frame. Where did they go, and how can I stop the hidden ones from masking the local ones? Thanks for any help. David

Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2014-01-02 Thread jwd
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:51:06 -0500 Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: ... The assignment operator is TWO characters: a less than sign immediately followed by a minus sign. Try copying and pasting this: x - 3 x Actually, you can use the = sign as well. X = 3 works the

Re: [R] Help with removing extra legend elements in ggplot

2013-11-24 Thread jwd
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:44:11 -0700 Matthew Van Scoyoc sco...@gmail.com wrote: You want to consider this as a programming bug in your code. Executing each line sequentially shows that the problem appears in the second line: nmds.fig + geom_point(aes(color = VegType, shape = VegType, size = 10))

Re: [R] Bar Graph

2013-11-12 Thread jwd
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:02:19 +0300 Keniajin Wambui kiang...@gmail.com wrote: I am using R 3.0.2 on a 64 bit machine I have a data set from 1989-2002. The data has four variables serialno, date, admission ward, temperature and bcg scar. serialno admin_ward date_admn bcg_scar temp_axilla yr

Re: [R] Help on error (Error: could not find function kernelUD)

2013-11-06 Thread jwd
On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:22:26 -0700 Angela Dwyer angela.dw...@rmbo.org wrote: You didn't forget to load the library did you? The bit of output you provide doesn't show a library(adehabitat) line. That needs to be run before the function can be found. JWDougherty

Re: [R] pie graphs in log scale axis

2013-10-28 Thread jwd
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:40:51 + Ortiz, John ort...@si.edu wrote: Dear list users, I'm doing a plot integrating Grid output with Base Graphics output (gridBase, Murrell 2012). My goal is to produce a xy plot where each point is represented by a pie. I could get it using the attach

Re: [R] pie graphs in log scale axis

2013-10-28 Thread jwd
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:03:36 -0700 jwd j...@surewest.net wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:40:51 + Ortiz, John ort...@si.edu wrote: ... It is not clear what you want. Why is there an 'x = log' term in plot()? If you want to plot log(x) try using: Got that backward typing, should be log

Re: [R] Code Book from SPSS Data

2013-10-27 Thread jwd
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Peter Maclean pmaclean2...@yahoo.com wrote: It's not fully clear what you need, but, as I very vaguely recall, the code book in SPSS provided labels for what are called levels in factors in R, which are categorical variables. Try: ??categorical at the

Re: [R] Quick advice on loading packages

2013-10-22 Thread jwd
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:32:17 -0400 Data Analytics Corp. w...@dataanalyticscorp.com wrote: Hi, I need some quick advice/help on loading packages. I want to write a simple function to load a number of packages I intend to use at a conference presentation. I'm thinking of something like:

Re: [R] error installing ggm package

2013-08-27 Thread jwd
Lianne, graph can be found here: http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/ You will need to read the bioconductor instructions. If you visit the R Project CRAN site, you can find packages there. Each package will have an associated description and a list of depends which are other packages

Re: [R] data import: strange experience

2013-08-22 Thread jwd
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:35:53 -0400 SH empti...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like your problem has already been answered, however, as a rule of thumb anytime you see a peculiarity like this you should look for minor variations between what you expected to export and what Excel really exported as

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread jwd
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 02:56:56 -0500 Paul Bernal paulberna...@gmail.com wrote: Paul, I would suggest acquiring at least a small library of of books about R and reading them. I would recommend An Introduction to R and R Data Import/Export (both available online on the R Project Site in both pdf

Re: [R] Windows 7 (Swedish): 'Rcmd INSTALL' fails (SOLVED)

2013-07-21 Thread jwd
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:16:54 +1200 Rolf Turner rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz wrote: ... C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library ? This is of course a very minor problem, since I never do anything useful on Windows machines. Fortune candidate? Seconded. JWDougherty

Re: [R] Fwd: Problem with ODBC connection

2013-06-10 Thread jwd
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:19:14 +0545 Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christo...@gmail.com wrote: Any real answer would be contingent on a reader being provided a reproducible example. Since you don't provide that, there's not a lot of point to an answer. However, to tilt at a windmill, depending on the