Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Tim Churches wrote: Finny Kuruvilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help for improving graphic quality.

[R] Legend

2007-09-26 Thread stat stat
I have following syntax for putting a legend : legend(bottom, fill=c(red,blue), legend=expression(p==0.30, p==0.50), bty=n) However what I want is that : the value 0.30 should be a value of a variable instead of a constant, so that I can put the name of this variable and in legend it's value

Re: [R] truehist?

2007-09-26 Thread Carlos Guâno Grohmann
Oh yes. I did searched for help, but Ijust didn't read carefully, I read MAAS, instead of MASS.. Carlos On 9/25/07, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlos Guâno Grohmann wrote: Hello, After a long time, I needed the truehist function, but my system couldn't found it. I tried to

Re: [R] Who uses R?

2007-09-26 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
(Ted Harding) wrote: Pat Altham (now retired) developed extensive teaching (and other) materials in R at the Cambridge University Statistical Laboratory. From her personal web page: Some of the computer languages I have had to try to learn since graduating in 1964: Cambridge autocode,

[R] Q: confidence intervals plotMeans, how do i discard NA's

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Willems
Dear R ussers, I noticed a small problem when ussing for example the function plotMeamns under Rcmdr. In this case a graph will be ploted, giving the means on the Y-axis, by a factor on the X-axis. All is correct when doing this, ussing 'sd' for error bars. The problem occures when ussing

Re: [R] Calling R function from Java

2007-09-26 Thread Bio7
Hello, I've created an application (IDE for ecological modelling) on the basis of Eclipse which uses Rserve http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/ http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/ to archieve this. I also implemented a small api to send or access data from or to R and Java. The transfer is very fast.

Re: [R] Legend

2007-09-26 Thread P Ehlers
How about a - .33 b - .55 legend(bottom, fill=c(red,blue), legend=c(bquote(p == .(a)), bquote(p == .(b))), bty=n) or look at ?substitute - Peter Ehlers stat stat wrote: I have following syntax for putting a legend : legend(bottom, fill=c(red,blue), legend=expression(p==0.30, p==0.50),

Re: [R] RODBC problem

2007-09-26 Thread amor Gandhi
Hello, I wrote setwd(D:/) dd - read.table(file=test.txt,header=TRUE) attach(dd) boxplot(x) outlier - function(y){ + out - boxplot(y, range = 1)$out + outliers - which(y == out) + dev.off() + return(out,outliers) + } outlier(x) $out [1] 1.950208 2.082025 4.768637

Re: [R] RODBC problem

2007-09-26 Thread Wayne.W.Jones
Not sure which of the questions yo want answered in your email. However, if its the one regarding the boxplot try: dd - read.table(test.txt,header=T) attach(dd) boxplot(x) outlier - function(y){ out - boxplot(y, range = 1)$out outliers - which(y %in% out)

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-26 Thread elw
http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg If you run Eric Lecoutre's code to produce the graphic, available at http://www.r-project.org/misc/acpclust.R, unchanged except for the addition of these lines: library(Cairo) Cairo(600,400,file=Rlogo_swiss.png,type=png,bg=white) then you

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-26 Thread Finny Kuruvilla
So I applied my corrected margins to Tim's Cairo trick and voila: http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rlogo_swiss.png This is hands-down the best version, in my opinion! Best, Finny On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:35:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg

Re: [R] finding a stable cluster for kmeans

2007-09-26 Thread Friedrich Leisch
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:16:05 -0400, Wiebke Timm (WT) wrote: You might want to check if there is a neural gas algorithm in R. kmeans generally has a high variance since it is very dependent on the initialization. Neural gas overcomes this problem by using a ranked list of

Re: [R] finding a stable cluster for kmeans

2007-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Friedrich Leisch wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:16:05 -0400, Wiebke Timm (WT) wrote: You might want to check if there is a neural gas algorithm in R. kmeans generally has a high variance since it is very dependent on the initialization. Neural gas overcomes this

[R] wordReport

2007-09-26 Thread Alberto Monteiro
?wordReport gives a lot of information, but I think it makes us wish for more :-) Where can I find all the ways to write Word documents using R? Namely: (1) is there any way to open a new document and save it automatically? The sequence: WordOpen(new_file.doc); WordInsertText(R rulez!\n);

Re: [R] finding a stable cluster for kmeans

2007-09-26 Thread Wiebke Timm
On 26.09.2007, at 09:54, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Friedrich Leisch wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:16:05 -0400, Wiebke Timm (WT) wrote: You might want to check if there is a neural gas algorithm in R. kmeans generally has a high variance since it is very dependent

[R] examples of use of snow package

2007-09-26 Thread Luke Tierney
We have been asked to write a paper on the snow package for parallel computing in R for a parallel computing journal and would like to include some references to examples of the use of snow in practice beyond our own use. If you think you have a good example we would like to hear from you.

[R] AIC questions

2007-09-26 Thread Joe Yarmus
In accordance with Venables and Ripley, SAS documentation and other sources AIC with sigma^2 unknown is calculated as: AIC = -2LL + 2* #parameters = n log(RSS/n) + 2p For the fitness data: (http://support.sas.com/ctx/samples/index.jsp?sid=927), SAS gets an AIC of 64.534 with model oxygen =

[R] Scientific Notation

2007-09-26 Thread Jacques Wagnor
Dear List: Below is how I specify an axis: axis(2, at=c(0.5, 0.0005)) R displays the numbers in scientific notation. What argument/parameter should I use to tell R to display the numbers as specified rather than in scientific notation? version _ platform

Re: [R] Scientific Notation

2007-09-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/26/2007 11:24 AM, Jacques Wagnor wrote: Dear List: Below is how I specify an axis: axis(2, at=c(0.5, 0.0005)) R displays the numbers in scientific notation. What argument/parameter should I use to tell R to display the numbers as specified rather than in scientific notation?

Re: [R] AIC questions

2007-09-26 Thread Wensui Liu
joe, some procs in SAs calculates log likelihood differently than what it is supposed to be. try using proc nlmixed and specifying the LL explicitly. in your case, I has stronger faith in R result instead of SAS result. On 9/26/07, Joe Yarmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In accordance with Venables

[R] rpart error: Error in dimnames(X)

2007-09-26 Thread Juned Siddique
I'm using rpart to fit a tree using a large dataset: 7000 observations, 4651 variables. All but one of the variables (age) are binary. When I run the code: fit1 - rpart(lowergi ~ ., data=dset,method=class) I get the error: Error in dimnames(X) -list(dn[1L]], unlist(collabs, use.names=FALSE)) :

Re: [R] wordReport

2007-09-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/26/07, Wensui Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RDCOMClient and rcom are great. but I can't find much manual or tutorial about them. They both have home pages that will lead you to whatever information exists on them: http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/rcom/ http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMClient/

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-26 Thread elw
So I applied my corrected margins to Tim's Cairo trick and voila: http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rlogo_swiss.png This is hands-down the best version, in my opinion! Yes, it is definitely much nicer than the version on www.r-project.org now. :-) --e

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Stubben
Transition matrices are Markov transition matrices among different life stages of organisms -- in the simplest case (Leslie matrices, Ben, Thanks for your clear explanation and plot examples. I like the dotplots alot and added a few modifications below. Since I often compare rows and

Re: [R] Constraining Predicted Values to be Greater Than 0

2007-09-26 Thread Wensui Liu
if your regression under gaussian assumption, then you can't constraint your predicted to be positive. I don't know much about your dep in the model. but given more appropriate distribution assumption, the constraint is doable. One possibility that I can think of is poisson. On 9/25/07, Westley

Re: [R] Constraining Predicted Values to be Greater Than 0

2007-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You seem to be assuming that 'regression' has to do with 'gaussian assumption'. However, I presume WLS stands for 'weighted least squares', and 'regression' is historically associated with fitting linear models by least squares. I don't see why even in the model-based framework you assert

Re: [R] rpart error: Error in dimnames(X)

2007-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Juned Siddique wrote: I'm using rpart to fit a tree using a large dataset: 7000 observations, 4651 variables. All but one of the variables (age) are binary. When I run the code: fit1 - rpart(lowergi ~ ., data=dset,method=class) I get the error: Error in dimnames(X)

Re: [R] Scientific Notation

2007-09-26 Thread Francisco J. Zagmutt
I believe the argument to format is scientific i.e. axis(2, at=at, labels=format(at, scientific=FALSE)) Best regards, Francisco Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 9/26/2007 11:24 AM, Jacques Wagnor wrote: Dear List: Below is how I specify an axis: axis(2, at=c(0.5, 0.0005)) R displays the

Re: [R] plot rows of matrix against a vector on one graph

2007-09-26 Thread Wiebke Timm
On 26.09.2007, at 13:46, Olena Morozova wrote: I am very new to R and statistical analysis in general. I am trying to plot a matrix of several hundred rows against a vector of 4 values. This all has to be on the same graph with different rows represented by different color. This

Re: [R] Constraining Predicted Values to be Greater Than 0

2007-09-26 Thread Westley Ritz
Thank you Wensui and Professor Ripley for your responses. Prof. Ripley, your assumptions regarding the context in which I'm using 'WLS' and 'regression' are correct. The function solve.QP in the quadprog package sounds like a great way to go. Thank you, and I will try this method. Westley A.

[R] Area of overlap between polygon and circle

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Archer
R-listers, Given a polygon and a circle defined by its center coordinates and a radius, I would like to calculate the area of overlap. I know that I can create a polygon from the circle and then use available packages to get the area of the intersection. However, because the polygon is of a

[R] Accessing the fixed- and random-effects variance-covariance matrices of an nlme model

2007-09-26 Thread Rob Forsyth
I would appreciate confirmation that the function vcov(model.nlme) gives the var-cov matrix of the fixed effects in an nlme model. Presumably the random-effects var-cov matrix is given by cov(ranef (model.nlme)? Rob Forsyth __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] rpart error: Error in dimnames(X)

2007-09-26 Thread Juned Siddique
Prof Ripley, Thank you for your post. Below is the output of traceback(). I'm still not sure what the problem is. Thank you. 4: as.matrix.data.frame(frame) 3: as.matrix(frame) 2: rpart.matrix(m) 1: rpart(lowergi ~ ., data=dset, method=class) On 9/26/07, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] date

2007-09-26 Thread Don MacQueen
At 7:25 AM -0700 9/26/07, Samuel Okoye wrote: Hello, I have got the following problem: setwd(C:/temp) library(xlsReadWrite) MyData - read.xls(file=Mappe1.xls, colNames = TRUE,dateTimeAs = isodatetime) attach(MyData) MyData name value times 1 A1 2

Re: [R] wordReport

2007-09-26 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Monteiro wrote: ?wordReport gives a lot of information, but I think it makes us wish for more :-) Where can I find all the ways to write Word documents using R? Using either of the R/DCOM client packages (rcom and RDCOMClient) you

Re: [R] Scientific Notation

2007-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Francisco J. Zagmutt wrote: I believe the argument to format is scientific i.e. axis(2, at=at, labels=format(at, scientific=FALSE)) Yes, but abbreviations of argument names are allowed. Here setting a small positive value of options(scipen) (e.g. 2) gives floating-point

[R] generate fourth vector based on known correlations

2007-09-26 Thread bkelcey
I am trying to generate a fourth vector,z, given three known and fixed vectors, x1,x2,x3 with corresponding known and fixed correlations with themeselves and with z. That is, all correlations are known and prespecified. How can I do this? Thank you, ben

[R] Getting group-wise standard scores of a vector

2007-09-26 Thread Matthew Dubins
Hi, I want to be able to create a vector of z-scores from a vector of continuous data, conditional on a group membership vector. Say you have 20 numbers distributed normally with a mean of 50 and an sd of 10: x - rnorm(20, 50, 10) Then you have a vector that delineates 2 groups within x:

Re: [R] Password-protect script files

2007-09-26 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:18 -0500, Jacques Wagnor wrote: Dear List, Is there any way to password-protect script files (either within R or otherwise)? You might want to review this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/94290/ which covers perhaps a similar concern.

Re: [R] generate fourth vector based on known correlations

2007-09-26 Thread Greg Snow
Here is one approach (someone with better linear algebra skills may be able to shorten this, some steps could be combined, but I wanted to show each step): # create x1-x3 x1 - rnorm(100, 50, 3) x2 - rnorm(100) + x1/5 x3 - rnorm(100) + x2/5 # find current correlations cor1 - cor(

[R] Repeated tests against baseline

2007-09-26 Thread Cody Hamilton
I came across a post by Karl Knoblick regarding the modeling of longitudinal data (see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-May/132137.html). I am often asked by physicians to perform what Karl refers to in his post as option 1: to perform paired t-tests against baseline at each follow

Re: [R] Getting group-wise standard scores of a vector

2007-09-26 Thread Erik Iverson
Hello - First, I doubt you really want to cbind() those two vectors within the data.frame() function call. test.data - data.frame(x, group) is probably what you want. That may be the source of your trouble. If you really want a vector returned, the following should work given your

[R] Arrows Pointing to Curve

2007-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, I hope this is not a FAQ, but my online research was not fruitful. Consider a standard 2D plot generated with the plot command. I would like to introduce inside the graph some text with an arrow pointing to a specific position of the plotted function. Is this doable in R? Can anyone

[R] Découvrez la France et ses sites grandioses !

2007-09-26 Thread redaction
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Re: [R] Connecting R to PostgreSQL via RODBC, on Windows

2007-09-26 Thread elw
I feel like I must be missing something rather plain, but I don't get it. how is one supposed to use R as a PgSQL client on Windows? Assume my windows desktop is on the same network as a PgSQL server, and I just need to use R to connect and pull down some data. The thing that is

[R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Sgouros
Hello all: A question from a new user. I have data on a geo-referenced curvilinear grid. This is a grid with 75 rows and 51 columns, is not aligned north-south, and the rows and columns are not straight. (And the coordinates are in meters.) I want to make image plots of this data, but where

Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-26 Thread hadley wickham
You might be able to do this with the ggplot2 package - see for example http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/coord_map.html, which shows plots on map coordinate systems. Because the design of ggplot2 means the coordinate system and geom (eg. points vs tiles) operate independently, you can draw image plots

Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-26 Thread tom sgouros
hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be able to do this with the ggplot2 package - see for example http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/coord_map.html, which shows plots on map coordinate systems. Because the design of ggplot2 means the coordinate system and geom (eg. points vs tiles)

Re: [R] Connecting R to PostgreSQL via RODBC, on Windows

2007-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, mfrumin wrote: hey all, I feel like I must be missing something rather plain, but I don't get it. how is one supposed to use R as a PgSQL client on Windows? Assume my windows desktop is on the same network as a PgSQL server, and I just need to use R to connect and