[R] Assistance in installing R

2008-05-27 Thread Stan Horwitz
Greetings everyone; I am not an R user; however, I am attempting to install R 2.7.0 on a multi-user server for use by students and faculty in the Statistics department here. I have an old version of R installed on the same server, and it works fine; however, I am running into a problem

[R] Automagic Outlier Dummy Variables

2008-05-27 Thread Idgarad
I am looking for a way to automatically detect outliers greater then X standard devations then (here is the hard part) APPEND those dummy variables to an existing array of regression variables (called cReg). Any suggestions on how to go about this? (source) sample data set that I am modelling:

[R] vignette help

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Roebuck
Could someone please point me to where information about the two entries %\VignetteDepends{} and %\VignettePackage{} are documented? I'm getting an error with %\VignetteDepends{} with my package name in braces. Looking at the vignettes on my system, some include the package name and some don't.

Re: [R] Assistance in installing R

2008-05-27 Thread Stan Horwitz
On May 27, 2008, at 12:45 PM, ctu wrote: Hi, I don't have any problem to install the R 2.7.0 in XP and windows Vista. I download R 2.7.0 from http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ You could try it again. If you still have a problem to install it. You might want to consult with your department PC

Re: [R] Assistance in installing R

2008-05-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Stan Horwitz wrote: On May 27, 2008, at 12:45 PM, ctu wrote: Hi, I don't have any problem to install the R 2.7.0 in XP and windows Vista. I download R 2.7.0 from http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ You could try it again. If you still have a problem to install it. You might

Re: [R] Assistance in installing R

2008-05-27 Thread apjaworski
My Linux is pretty rusty, but I think the error message means what is says: you do not have readline header (*.h) and library files. They usually reside in readline-devel package if I remember correctly. Hope this helps, Andy __ Andy Jaworski 518-1-01 Process

Re: [R] Lattice Cloud()-Plot with the same color for different groups

2008-05-27 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 5/27/08, Charilaos Skiadas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 27, 2008, at 3:10 AM, Hofert Marius wrote: Hi, Consider the following cloud()-plot consisting of two lines: library(lattice) mydata=data.frame(x=rep(1:4,2),y=rep(1:2,each=4),z=c(1,2,3,4,4,3,2,1))

[R] GMM estimation

2008-05-27 Thread Leo Correia
Hello there!!! Sorry to bother you all with such question and difficulties that I have been facing on. Recently I have been searching for packages to run GMM estimatives with R. I have been searching for such packages for a while, but since I am a new user of R system, my quest so far was

[R] lm() output with quantiative predictors not the same as SAS

2008-05-27 Thread alicia . senauer
I am trying to use R lm() with quantitative and qualitative predictors, but am getting different results than those that I get in SAS. In the R ANOVA table documentation I see that Type-II tests corresponds to the tests produced by SAS for analysis-of-variance models, where all of the predictors

Re: [R] Odp: create frequency table

2008-05-27 Thread T.D.Rudolph
This definitely does the trick. I knew there was an easier way! Petr Pikal wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 27.05.2008 09:31:16: Hi Petr My mistake in omitting replace=T in the first part. Unfortunately I oversimplified my problem as I'm not actually dealing with whole numbers

Re: [R] GMM estimation

2008-05-27 Thread Xiaohui Chen
were you meaning Gaussian mixture model? If so, try the mclust package. But you might want to try to learn how to search using R website resourse, try RSiteSearch('GMM') X Correia 写道: Hello there!!! Sorry to bother you all with such question and difficulties that I have been facing on.

Re: [R] Pros and Cons of R

2008-05-27 Thread Trevor Davis
K. Elo wrote: Hi, Monica Pisica wrote: - There is no perfect “beginner” book. How about - Crawley, Michael (2007). The R book, Wiley Sons. - Maindonald, John John Braun (2007): Data Analysis and Graphics Using R (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press. As a political scientist (with

[R] help with simple function

2008-05-27 Thread T.D.Rudolph
I have a matrix of frequency counts from 0-160. x-as.matrix(c(0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1)) I would like to apply a function creating a new column (x[,2])containing values equal to: a) log(x[m,1]) if x[m,1] 0; and b) for all x[m,1]= 0, log(next x[m,1] 0 / count of preceding zero values +1)

Re: [R] Assistance in installing R

2008-05-27 Thread Stan Horwitz
Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea for help, using ... ./configure --with-readline=no worked fine, and finally reading doc/html/R-admin.htm helped. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do

Re: [R] Pros and Cons of R

2008-05-27 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Tue, 27-May-2008 at 06:17AM -0700, DavidM.UK wrote: | | I don't think it's an issue with Linux functionality at all, it's a | case of having your linux machine configured correctly -- which | isn't a straight forward issue. Since configuration has a direct bearing on functionality, we're

Re: [R] GMM estimation

2008-05-27 Thread Horace Tso
Leo, do you mean GMM as in Generalized Method of Moment? If so i've posted a similar question here before and the answer appears to be none at this time. Horace -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leo Correia Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-27 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Tue, 27 May 2008, T.D.Rudolph wrote: I have a matrix of frequency counts from 0-160. x-as.matrix(c(0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1)) I would like to apply a function creating a new column (x[,2])containing values equal to: a) log(x[m,1]) if x[m,1] 0; and b) for all x[m,1]= 0, log(next x[m,1]

[R] Rotated text on a regression line

2008-05-27 Thread Dr. Christoph Scherber
Dear all, I stumbled over a problem recently when trying to use srt with text() on a windows device. What I intended to do was to plot a simple regression line, and to rotate a piece of text such that the text has the same angle as the regression line. However, the text is always plotted in a

Re: [R] Rotated text on a regression line

2008-05-27 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
I think this comment for ?par, meant for both crt and srt, applies: crt A numerical value specifying (in degrees) how single characters should be rotated. It is unwise to expect values other than multiples of 90 to work. Compare with srt which does string rotation. So I would say that

[R] start() in zoo

2008-05-27 Thread Arshavir
Hi, I'm trying to get the beginning of my zoo object's index through start (d) but sometimes get an error: Error in start(d): Unused argument (s) (c(NA, 8.792, 8.725, ...) The data(d) is retrieved from Bloomberg through RBloomberg. I am pulling 6 tickers (which means I'm getting 6

Re: [R] Rotated text on a regression line

2008-05-27 Thread Xiaohui Chen
Note that the scale of x-axis and y-axis is different in your plot. One simple way to avoid this is to keep the data unit in the x direction is equal that in the y direction, by setting asp=1 in calling plot function. X Dr. Christoph Scherber 写道: Dear all, I stumbled over a problem recently

Re: [R] Rotated text on a regression line

2008-05-27 Thread Dr. Christoph Scherber
Thanks to all for the postings so far! I found that setting asp=0.5 and then dividing the slope by 2 seems to do the trick: ## x=1:10 y=x*2-rnorm(1:10) plot(x,y,pch=16,asp=0.5) abline(lm(y~x)) yval=predict(lm(y~x),list(x=rep(2,length(x[1] slope=as.numeric(lm(y~x)[[1]][2])

Re: [R] Rotated text on a regression line

2008-05-27 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Xiaohui Chen wrote: Note that the scale of x-axis and y-axis is different in your plot. One simple way to avoid this is to keep the data unit in the x direction is equal that in the y direction, by setting asp=1 in calling plot function. Or when that is not possible or

Re: [R] start() in zoo

2008-05-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
My best guess at your data based on what you posted works fine: d - zoo(c(NA, 8.792, 8.725)) start(d) [1] 1 packageDescription(zoo)$Version [1] 1.5-3 R.version.string # Vista [1] R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-11 r45672) Try sending me the output of dput(d) along with the version info so

[R] stateful computation for web-based R across HTTP requests

2008-05-27 Thread Hseu-Ming Chen
Hi, A friend just introduced me to R today and I think it is really nice after browsing its web site. I'm eager to cook up some web-based interface to use R at work for more platform-independent access. I plan to implement it in a Python-based framework such as TurboGears or Django on either

Re: [R] stateful computation for web-based R across HTTP requests

2008-05-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out http://www.rpad.org On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Hseu-Ming Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A friend just introduced me to R today and I think it is really nice after browsing its web site. I'm eager to cook up some web-based interface to use R at work for more

Re: [R] perform statistics on an Excel workbook and modify it

2008-05-27 Thread Moshe Olshansky
Hi Werner, One possibility is to use the xlsReadWritePro package which allows to do this quite easily. Regards, Moshe. --- Werner Wernersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an Excel (2000 / 2003) workbook with multiple sheets on which I would like to perform several statistical

[R] function to compute consensus DNA sequence by plurality?

2008-05-27 Thread Kim Milferstedt
Hello, I am looking for a function that computes a consensus DNA sequence by plurality. I found consensus in bio3d which almost does what I need. However, it would be important for me to include ambiguities and not to omit every position that is less than the threshold set in consensus. Is

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-27 Thread T.D.Rudolph
In fact x[4,2] should = log(x[5,1]/2] whereas x[3,2] = log(x[5,1/3]) i.e. The denominator in the log function equals the number of rows between m==0 and m0 (inclusive, hence the +1) Hope this helps!... Charles C. Berry wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008, T.D.Rudolph wrote: I have a matrix

[R] indexing lists, using brobdingnagian

2008-05-27 Thread Redding, Matthew
Dear R-Gurus, I have ended up with a calculation problem where I need to use brobs. I have to work my way through a vector with a for loop to act on each element in a calculation (refering to the previous value in the new vector of results -- so as far as I know I can't use apply) -- this

Re: [R] indexing lists, using brobdingnagian

2008-05-27 Thread Redding, Matthew
Hi all, Sorry about this, my brain finally ticked over. I just need to convert the list of brobs to a numeric vector (which I can do,as the answer to the calculation need not be a brob -- just the terms along the way). so nums-sapply(t,as.numeric) Does the trick in my case, I think.

[R] R as shelll script

2008-05-27 Thread Alexandre Aguiar
Hi, I have devised some applications of R as a scripting shell language and started using it flawlessly a few months ago. Never minded publishing it because it looked so obvious. However, a search in the archives revealed there is no recent easy-to-use method proposed. The latest reference I

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-27 Thread jim holtman
Does this do what you want: x-c(0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1) y - rle(x) result - lapply(seq_along(y$lengths), function(.indx){ + if (y$values[.indx] == 0) log(y$values[.indx+1]/seq(y$lengths[.indx]+1, by=-1, length=y$lengths[.indx])) + else rep(log(y$values[.indx]), y$lengths[.indx]) +

Re: [R] GMM estimation

2008-05-27 Thread Markus Jäntti
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:38 -0700, Horace Tso wrote: Leo, do you mean GMM as in Generalized Method of Moment? If so i've posted a similar question here before and the answer appears to be none at this time. Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is an estimation method that can be applied

Re: [R] R as shelll script

2008-05-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:28:09PM -0300, Alexandre Aguiar wrote: I have devised some applications of R as a scripting shell language and started using it flawlessly a few months ago. Never minded publishing it because it looked so obvious. However, a search in the archives revealed there

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-27 Thread T.D.Rudolph
In fact x[4,2] should = log(x[5,1]/2] whereas x[3,2] = log(x[5,1/3]) i.e. The denominator in the log function equals the number of rows between m==0 and m0 (inclusive, hence the +1) Hope this helps! Charles C. Berry wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008, T.D.Rudolph wrote: I have a matrix of

Re: [R] inquiry on R News

2008-05-27 Thread Rolf Turner
On 28/05/2008, at 1:48 PM, Glenn Howell wrote: Dear R News, I am inquiring whether the articles that are published in the 'R News' have undergone a peer-review/refereeing process, for the purpose of reporting the academics publications here at the University of Sydney to the Australian

[R] rmeta package: metaplot or forestplot of meta-analysis under DSL (ramdon) model

2008-05-27 Thread Shi, Jiajun [BSD] - KNP
Dear all, I could not draw a forest plot for meta-analysis under ramdon models using the rmeta package. The rmeta has a default function for MH (fixed-effect) model. Has the rmeta package been updated for such a function? Or someone revised it and kept a private code? I would appreciate

[R] how to bind lists recursively

2008-05-27 Thread Daniel Yang
Dear all, I want to create a list that contains 0,1,2,3, ..., 1 as its elements. I used the following code, which apparently doesn't work very well. a - 0 for(i in 1:1) { a - list(a, i) } The result is not what I wanted. So how to create the bind lists recursively so that the

Re: [R] how to bind lists recursively

2008-05-27 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On May 27, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Daniel Yang wrote: Dear all, I want to create a list that contains 0,1,2,3, ..., 1 as its elements. I used the following code, which apparently doesn't work very well. a - 0 for(i in 1:1) { a - list(a, i) } The result is not what I wanted. So how

Re: [R] how to bind lists recursively

2008-05-27 Thread Rolf Turner
On 28/05/2008, at 2:43 PM, Daniel Yang wrote: Dear all, I want to create a list that contains 0,1,2,3, ..., 1 as its elements. I used the following code, which apparently doesn't work very well. a - 0 for(i in 1:1) { a - list(a, i) } The result is not what I wanted. So how

Re: [R] how to bind lists recursively

2008-05-27 Thread Bill.Venables
This is somewhat subtle. Rolf's solution (here corrected to...) a - list() for(i in 0:1) a[[i+1]] - i is the best of the loop solutions (or at least the best I know of). The apparently similar a - list(0) for(i in 1:1) a - c(a, list(i)) will take a lot longer, although the result is

Re: [R] how to bind lists recursively

2008-05-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Unfortunately Reduce is just as slow as the slowest of the solutions below: Reduce(c, 0:1, list()) On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is somewhat subtle. Rolf's solution (here corrected to...) a - list() for(i in 0:1) a[[i+1]] - i is the best of the

[R] Linear Programming.

2008-05-27 Thread Marcus Vinicius
Dear all, May anyone explain to me how I run a linear programming or Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA models) into R? Thanks a lot. Best Regards. Marcus Vinicius [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

[R] plot rownames

2008-05-27 Thread T.D.Rudolph
In the following example: x - rnorm(1:100) y - seq(from=-2.5, to=3.5, by=0.5) z - as.matrix(table(cut(x,c(-Inf, y, +Inf ## I wish to transform the values in z j - log(z) ## Yet retain the row names row.names(j)-row.names(z) Now, how can I go about creating a scatterplot with row.names(j)

Re: [R] Assistance in installing R

2008-05-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Stan Horwitz wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea for help, using ... ./configure --with-readline=no worked fine, and finally reading doc/html/R-admin.htm helped. Unless of course you actually wanted the arrow keys to work on the command line. In which case, read R-admin