Re: [R] encoding accentsand tildes in R Macosx

2008-08-10 Thread Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres
Hi Carlos: I think you got a encoding problem. Maybe is esier to convert it. I don't know how to convert in Mac OS, but in linux you can use "iconv" that converts many codes to other. Is the original file form a windos$ OS system? Maybe the encoding is in windows-1256 and you need to convert to

[R] encoding accentsand tildes in R Macosx

2008-08-10 Thread Carlos Cuartas
Hello, In R under Mac OS X 10.5.4 I've had problems when I've tried to read a data.frame with characters including tildes and accents. For instance Floreña is changed to Flore\x96a and Ranchería is changed to Rancher\x92a In the code: section<-read.table('Sectiondic.txt',sep='\t',header=T,str

[R] help on model selection - step()

2008-08-10 Thread Rodrigo Gazaffi
dears R-users, I'm interested in model selection problem, and i have faced some problems that i would like to ask for help. well, this is a very small example with 4 variable (just one var. is the response - z) with 100 individuals i would like to do a stepwise search, for the "best" model, and a

Re: [R] Basic data structures

2008-08-10 Thread Satoshi Takahama
Suppose I want to have a regexp match against a string, and return all the matching substrings in a vector of strings. regexp <- "[ab]+" strlist <- c( "abc", "dbabddadd", "aaa" ) matches <- gregexpr(regexp,strlist) With this input, I'd want to return list( list("ab"), list("ab", "a"), li

[R] how to add "arial" font in bitmap output?

2008-08-10 Thread Hyunchul Kim
Hi all, I want to specify "arial" font in bitmap output but I found that the default is "helvetica" and "arial" is not supported. How can I add "arial" in my bitmap output file? Thanks, Hyunchul [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help

[R] frequency of labels in a barplot

2008-08-10 Thread R_Learner
I'm trying to control the number of labels in the x-axis of my plot. My code is the following: graph1<-barplot(total_skew) axis(1,at = graph1,labels=raw_date[1:length(total_skew)], las=2) however, the length of my "total_skew" parameter is a few thousand elements, and all the labels on the x-ax

[R] How to specify the type and size of font in bitmap format output?

2008-08-10 Thread Hyunchul Kim
Hi, all I need to specify a font (for example, type=helvetica and size=10) in bitmap output (for example, dev.print(bitmap, 'test.png'). How can I do this? Thanks. Hyunchul [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing

[R] how to add "arial" font in bitmap output?

2008-08-10 Thread Hyunchul Kim
Hi all, I want to specify "arial" font in bitmap output but I found that the default is "helvetica" and "arial" is not supported. How can I add "arial" in my bitmap output file? Thanks, Hyunchul [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help

[R] How to specify the type and size of font in bitmap format output?

2008-08-10 Thread Hyunchul Kim
Hi, all I need to specify a font (for example, type=helvetica and size=10) in bitmap output (for example, dev.print(bitmap, 'test.png'). How can I do this? Thanks. Hyunchul [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing

Re: [R] Basic data structures

2008-08-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: regexp <- "[ab]+" strlist <- c( "abc", "dbabddadd", "aaa" ) library(gsubfn) s <- strapply(strlist, regexp) s # compactly show 1st few in ea component str(s) See gsubfn home page at http://gsubfn.googlecode.com On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Stavros Macrakis <[EMAIL

[R] R-PLus by XLSolutions Corp

2008-08-10 Thread eugene dalt
by the way if you are interested in beta testing R-PLus, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sun, 8/10/08, S Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: S Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] RPro > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 12:53 P

[R] R-PLus by XLSolutions Corp

2008-08-10 Thread eugene dalt
by the way if you are interested in testing R-PLus, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sun, 8/10/08, S Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: S Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] RPro > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 12:53 PM > >>

Re: [R] RPro vs R-Plus

2008-08-10 Thread eugene dalt
I am a beta tester for R-PLus from XLSolutions Corp and it's pretty cool. I understand R-PLus will be free but let's see - --- On Sun, 8/10/08, S Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: S Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] RPro > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: r-help@r-project.

Re: [R] Reshape set operations?

2008-08-10 Thread rkevinburton
Because of machine memory restrictions I think I need to go with a vector by vector approach. When I concatenate I get: > m <- melt(t, id.var=c("DayOfYear","Category","SubCategory","Sku"), > measure.var=c("Quantity")) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 7.8 Mb Kevin hadley wickham <[EMA

[R] ANOVA help

2008-08-10 Thread Gareth Campbell
Hi, I'm doing anova on a matrix of multivariate data where I want to assess the effect of each column (element). My matrix is 86 rows x 31 columns. I've created a grouping factor of length 86 containing group assignments of 6 types. Then I run: x<- aov(matrix~grouping.factor) summary(aov.fit.r

Re: [R] Box.test degrees of freedom

2008-08-10 Thread David Stoffer
I stand corrected. I thought I checked this a long time ago, but apparently not. tsdiag.Arima DOES NOT use the fact that the series it is testing (or diagnosing, if you will) are residuals from an ARIMA fit. I keep a list of R time series bloopers here: http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa2/R

[R] (Un-)intentional change in drop1() "Chisq" behaviour?

2008-08-10 Thread Lutz Ph. Breitling
Dear List, recently tried to reproduce the results of some custom model selection function after updating R, which unfortunately failed. However, I ultimately found the issue to be that testing with pchisq() in drop1() seems to have changed. In the below example, earlier versions (e.g. R 2.4.1) pro

Re: [R] gridBase and new.page() / grid.newpage()

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Peter Cowan wrote: > Paul, > > The real case is a function where I'd want to allow end users to pass > an arbitrary plotting function to be a sub plot within a larger plot > (e.g. the code that does the density plots would actually be passed as > a parameter. I adapted my example to reflect

Re: [R] grid layout scaling viewport width based solely on height

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Peter Cowan wrote: > Paul, > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Paul Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm trying to write a function that produces a main plotting region >>> with several square plots along the right side. Ideally the size of >>> right side plots will scale only with the

Re: [R] gridBase and new.page() / grid.newpage()

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Peter Cowan wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to write a function using the gridBase package. I'd like > to push several base subplots to a larger plot constructed with grid. > However, I'm having trouble getting consistent results when running > the function when the plotting window (quart

Re: [R] using IF command

2008-08-10 Thread Dan Davison
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:23:19AM +1200, Gareth Campbell wrote: > Hey team, > > If I have a matrix: > > 1, 2, > 3, 4, > 4, 0, > 1, 3, > 0, 3 > > 2 columns. > > I want to write an if command that looks at (in this case) row 3 and looks > to see if either [3,1] or [3,2] has a zero in it. IF it

[R] Basic data structures

2008-08-10 Thread Stavros Macrakis
I'm new to R and very excited about its possibilities. But I'm struggling with some very simple things, probably because I haven't found the correct documentation. Here's a simple example which illustrates several of my problems. Suppose I want to have a regexp match against a string, and return

Re: [R] gridBase and new.page() / grid.newpage()

2008-08-10 Thread Peter Cowan
Paul, The real case is a function where I'd want to allow end users to pass an arbitrary plotting function to be a sub plot within a larger plot (e.g. the code that does the density plots would actually be passed as a parameter. I adapted my example to reflect this. I expect most of my end user

[R] detect if data is normal or skewed (without a boxplot)

2008-08-10 Thread Felipe Carrillo
Hello all: Is there a way to detect in R if a dataset is normally distributed or skewed without graphically seeing it? The reason I want to be able to do this is because I have developed and application with Visual Basic where Word,Access and Excel "talk" to each other and I want to integrate R

Re: [R] grid layout scaling viewport width based solely on height

2008-08-10 Thread Peter Cowan
Paul, That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Peter On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Paul Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > Peter Cowan wrote: >> Paul, >> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Paul Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to write a function that p

[R] using IF command

2008-08-10 Thread Gareth Campbell
Hey team, If I have a matrix: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 0, 1, 3, 0, 3 2 columns. I want to write an if command that looks at (in this case) row 3 and looks to see if either [3,1] or [3,2] has a zero in it. IF it does have a zero I want the zero to be placed in another matrix in the same position. I know

Re: [R] Reshape set operations?

2008-08-10 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Kevin, I think easiest way would be to create a single dataset with both years in, and then work from that: t2008$year <- 2008 t2007$year <- 2007 tall <- rbind(t2007, t2008) mall <- melt(tall, id.var=c("DayOfYear","Category","SubCategory","Sku", "year"), measure.var=c("Quantity") cast(mall,

[R] R 2,7.2 is scheduled for August 25

2008-08-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.7.2 on Monday, August 25, 2008. Release procedures start Friday August 15 (when we get back from useR). The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build troubles) and the tarballs can be picked up at http://cran.r-project.or

Re: [R] Converting nested "for" loops to an "apply" function(s)

2008-08-10 Thread Kurt Newman
Dan, Thank you very much for your comments and function definition code!! Responses like yours make the r-help community amazing!! Kurt > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:08:42 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: r-help@r-project

Re: [R] RPro

2008-08-10 Thread S Ellison
>>> Stephan Kolassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/10/08 8:41 PM >>> >I like RSeek: >http://www.rseek.org/ The burning question is why an audio compay would be running a web search engine for an open source statistics package...??! *** This

Re: [R] RPro

2008-08-10 Thread Stephan Kolassa
Hi, I like RSeek: http://www.rseek.org/ And of course searching the R-help list archives, e.g., via http://www.nabble.com/R-f13819.html Good hunting! Stephan Carl Witthoft schrieb: One thing I'll say: it's going to be much easier to Google for references to "Rstat" than to "R" . I've been t

[R] Differential Equations there use in R (population modeling)

2008-08-10 Thread stephen sefick
e1 <- function(x,b,t){ d<-(x)*(b^t) plot(d) } e1(2, 2,seq(from=0, to=6, by=1)) Is there a way to do this with a change in time. I would like to use differential equations. I am trying to model a population with an initial value, fecundity per time step, and a death rate. The ab

Re: [R] Again question about filter()

2008-08-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The first three values are: > filter <- c(0.1, 0.5, 1, 0.5) > init <- 1:4 > filter %*% init + 1 [,1] [1,] 7.1 > filter %*% c(7.1, init[1:3]) + 2 [,1] [1,] 6.71 > filter %*% c(6.71, 7.1, init[1:2]) + 3 [,1] [1,] 9.221 On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Sergey Goriatchev <[EMAIL PR

Re: [R] help using outer function

2008-08-10 Thread warthog29
Thanks Dan. You did much more than just answer my question. Sincerely, Dan Davison wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:00:21PM +0100, Dan Davison wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:02:59AM -0700, warthog29 wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > I would like to use the R's outer function on y below s

Re: [R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

2008-08-10 Thread Jörg Groß
Am 10.08.2008 um 18:53 schrieb stephen sefick: the xaxt="n" needs to be inside of the plot command otherwise you can never plot the x axis- I think. Ah, ok, thanks! Now it works fine. Here a complete example of what I wanted to plot: par(bty="n", mar=c(10, 10, 3, 3)) plot(c(1,2), c(50,60),

Re: [R] help using outer function

2008-08-10 Thread Dan Davison
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:00:21PM +0100, Dan Davison wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:02:59AM -0700, warthog29 wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I would like to use the R's outer function on y below so that I can subtract > > elements from each other. The resulting dataframe is symmetric, save for the >

Re: [R] RPro

2008-08-10 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 08/10/08 12:57, Carl Witthoft wrote: > One thing I'll say: it's going to be much easier to Google for > references to "Rstat" than to "R" . > I've been tempted to start a movement to rename "R" something like > "Ratistics" (or "RatStatPack" :-) ) just so it's locatable via search > engines.

Re: [R] help using outer function

2008-08-10 Thread Dan Davison
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:02:59AM -0700, warthog29 wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to use the R's outer function on y below so that I can subtract > elements from each other. The resulting dataframe is symmetric, save for the ^^ outer() returns a matri

Re: [R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

2008-08-10 Thread stephen sefick
the xaxt="n" needs to be inside of the plot command otherwise you can never plot the x axis- I think. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:51 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > j = c(5,6) > f = c(1,2) > plot(f,j, xaxt="n") > axis(1, at=c(1,2), labels=c("group1", "group2")) > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2

Re: [R] RPro

2008-08-10 Thread Carl Witthoft
One thing I'll say: it's going to be much easier to Google for references to "Rstat" than to "R" . I've been tempted to start a movement to rename "R" something like "Ratistics" (or "RatStatPack" :-) ) just so it's locatable via search engines. That said, does anyone have any techniques for G

Re: [R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

2008-08-10 Thread stephen sefick
j = c(5,6) f = c(1,2) plot(f,j, xaxt="n") axis(1, at=c(1,2), labels=c("group1", "group2")) On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Jörg Groß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 10.08.2008 um 17:46 schrieb stephen sefick: > >> Would you provide reproducible code because form your example it looks >> like y

[R] Again question about filter()

2008-08-10 Thread Sergey Goriatchev
Hello, I thought I understood filter() with the help from Prof. Grothendieck, but I guess I did not. For example, how does this work: filter(1:10, c(0.1, 0.5, 1, 0.5), "recursive", init=c(1,2,3,4)) Time Series: Start = 1 End = 10 Frequency = 1 [1] 7.1 6.71000 9.22100 15.87710 21.458

[R] help using outer function

2008-08-10 Thread warthog29
Hi, I would like to use the R's outer function on y below so that I can subtract elements from each other. The resulting dataframe is symmetric, save for the negative signs on the other half of the numbers. I would like to get only half of the dataframe. Here is the code I wrote (it is returning o

Re: [R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

2008-08-10 Thread Jörg Groß
Am 10.08.2008 um 17:46 schrieb stephen sefick: Would you provide reproducible code because form your example it looks like you are trying to label a scatterplot with just two lables - this is your boxplot from yesterday? If so look into the ?boxplot and it will tell you some answers No, what

Re: [R] ANOVA

2008-08-10 Thread Chuck Cleland
On 8/10/2008 11:35 AM, Angelo Scozzarella wrote: Hi, How can I make an ANOVA if I haven't got all data set but I know the numbers of subjects for each group, the mean and di standard deviation for each group? See anova.mean() in the HH package: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/HH/

Re: [R] R function, sink() and empty file

2008-08-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is what Rscript and R CMD BATCH are for. Your problem is that you forgot to print the objects in your function: auto-printing only occurs at the top level. On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Laura Poggio wrote: Dear all, I wrote a simple script in order to put together some functions and method to be

Re: [R] What is filter() function doing?

2008-08-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
For each time point is sums the value prior to it, the value at the time point itself and the value at the next time point. For the first timepoint there is no prior value so its NA. For the second timepoint we have 1+2+3=6. For the third timepoint we have 2+3+4=9 and so on. > filter(1:10, c(

Re: [R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

2008-08-10 Thread stephen sefick
Would you provide reproducible code because form your example it looks like you are trying to label a scatterplot with just two lables - this is your boxplot from yesterday? If so look into the ?boxplot and it will tell you some answers On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Jörg Groß <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [R] ANOVA

2008-08-10 Thread stephen sefick
I don't know of a way to do it without the data On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Angelo Scozzarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make an ANOVA if I haven't got all data set but I know the > numbers of subjects for each group, the mean and di standard deviation for > each group

[R] ANOVA

2008-08-10 Thread Angelo Scozzarella
Hi, How can I make an ANOVA if I haven't got all data set but I know the numbers of subjects for each group, the mean and di standard deviation for each group? Thanks Angelo Scozzarella __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.c

[R] What is filter() function doing?

2008-08-10 Thread Sergey Goriatchev
Hello, I cannot understand what filter() function in package stat is doing. For example, what does filter(1:100, c(1,1,1)) mean? Could someone please explain? Help file is not enough for me. Thanks in advance. Sergey __ R-help@r-project.org mailing lis

[R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

2008-08-10 Thread Jörg Groß
Hi, I want to customize the x-axis. I tried that: par(bty="n", xaxt="n") so that the x-axis is supressed. then I tried to plot two variables and add a customized x-axis: plot(x, y) axis(1, at=c(1,2), labels=c("group1", "group2")) but the axis is not added to the plot. I don't understand why..

Re: [R] [lme4]Coef output with binomial lmer

2008-08-10 Thread Doran, Harold
I don't think the %in% works at all. It's non-standard and I think an incorrect model specification. Here is an example where we can see that the transpose of the model matrix for the random effects is different when we compare what would be the same model if it "worked". I don't think there is a

Re: [R] RPro

2008-08-10 Thread Ajay ohri
and I think the WPS to R bridge is doing quite well, and the SAS to R bridge is likely to debut very very soon. Phil Rack from www.minequest.com is leading this. WPS is an ideal mix for R because it is great for data mining ,cleaning and manipulation thus leaving R for the cleaned, data for the st

[R] R function, sink() and empty file

2008-08-10 Thread Laura Poggio
Dear all, I wrote a simple script in order to put together some functions and method to be executed on various files I am trying to have to possibility to call the script changing few parameters in order to use the different files. I succeeded partly using the function method. However in my script

[R] predicted survival curves from a Cox time dep model

2008-08-10 Thread phguardiol
Dear R users, is there a way to plot "predicted" curves from a Cox model with a time dependent covariates using "predict", in which other significant covariates are included with specific values ? I use cluster(id) in this time-dep. Cox model for rows belonging to the same patient, and this

Re: [R] print data frames without row names (within a list)

2008-08-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Try auto-printing, e.g. three [[1]] a b 1 x 2 y 3 z [[2]] a b 4 q 5 r 6 s or change print.data.frame *in the base namespace* by fixInNamespace. When you said you 'reloaded that function' I suspect that in fact you source()-d it into a different place, your workspace. On Sun, 10 A

[R] print data frames without row names (within a list)

2008-08-10 Thread Daniel Ezra Johnson
This should be an easy one, but I could not find the answer in the obvious places. one <- data.frame(a=c(1,2,3),b=c("x","y","z")) two <- data.frame(a=c(4,5,6),b=c("q","r","s")) > print(one) a b 1 1 x 2 2 y 3 3 z > print(one,row.names=F) a b 1 x 2 y 3 z So far, so good, but how do I do this

Re: [R] Converting nested "for" loops to an "apply" function(s)

2008-08-10 Thread Dan Davison
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 08:53:00PM -0400, Kurt Newman wrote: > > Resending. Previous message was truncated. Sorry for possible confusion. > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:25:47 -0400 > > Subject: [

Re: [R] Scripting - query

2008-08-10 Thread Dan Davison
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 02:44:00PM +1200, Gareth Campbell wrote: > I have a vector: > alleles.present<-c("D3", "D16", ... ) > > The alleles present changes given the case I'm dealing with - i.e. either > all of the alleles I use for my calculations are present, or some of them. > > Depending on w

Re: [R] effective matrix subset

2008-08-10 Thread jgarcia
Patrick, you have misundertood me, I mean that Dan's solution (which is also your solution) are both: a) more clear and elegant b) more time efficient. I've checked it with my working 1*3000 element matrixes. The improvement in speed with your solution is evident. I do not advise at all to use

Re: [R] mean-plot (add residuals)

2008-08-10 Thread glaporta
Try with plotmeans in gplots Regards, Gianandrea Jörg Groß wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to plot the mean of a variable and add the standard deviation > as a line going above and below the mean (like the whiskers in a > boxplot) but I don't know how to add these residual-lines. > > Is there a

Re: [R] effective matrix subset

2008-08-10 Thread Patrick Burns
That may be a better solution, but I don't think it is clearly a better solution. I presume you mean that your computation is the most time efficient. That seems believable to me. It is not the most human efficient -- it will take some one reading the code non-trivial effort to understand it. W