[R] Fwd: When modeling with negbin from the aod package...

2009-10-21 Thread alexander russell
-- Forwarded message -- From: alexander russell ssv...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [R] When modeling with negbin from the aod package... To: Matthieu Lesnoff matthieu.lesn...@gmail.com Hello again, It seems that, though we have a simple estimate of

Re: [R] rbind with different columns

2009-10-21 Thread Antje
Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: In article 4addc1d0.2040...@yahoo.de, niederlein-rs...@yahoo.de says... In every list entry is a data.frame but the columns are only partially the same. If I have exactly the same columns, I could do the following command to combine my data: do.call(rbind, myList)

[R] re ferring to data of previous rows

2009-10-21 Thread clion
Dear Rlers, in the following dataset I would like to insert a new column that refers to the data of the previous row. My question is whether the probability of a female (Id) changes if she had given birth to a pup in the previous year. So my dataframe consists of the column Id, year (2003-2007

Re: [R] editors for R

2009-10-21 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Hi Mark, After reviewing the IDE/Script Editors article at sciviews.org, I wanted to pose a quick question here to see if anyone can offer an opinion or commentary about GUI editors that can be installed in a Windoze environment that allow editing/saving of remote .R files and running R

Re: [R] Problem using the source-function within R-functions

2009-10-21 Thread Johan Lassen
Hi Giovanni, Thanks for your reply. I can make the function work after parsing the code directly into R. The problem arise after compiling the function into a package and then calling the function, because the files inside source() seems to be missing. I tried to include the sourced files in the

[R] slope calculation

2009-10-21 Thread ms.com
Dear all I am new R user, and trying to learn more. I am doing linear regression analysis in R with my data. I am trying to find the way to calculate the slope value (coefficient of x) to degree of slope. Please give me idea on this. Thanking you in anticipation Warm regardMS

[R] problems with randomSurvivalForest

2009-10-21 Thread giovanni parrinello
summary(ma.dati2$death.status)- censoring Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.05332 0.0 1.0 39.0 ## summary(ma.dati2$time.death)--- time Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max.NA's

[R] Solved problems with randomSurvivalForest

2009-10-21 Thread giovanni parrinello
Only a confusion with two dataset with similar names... Sorry Giovanni [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] How to create a legend that automatically reads the values from two vectors?

2009-10-21 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/21/2009 01:30 AM, jcano wrote: betav-c(0.78,0.94,0.88,0.41,0.59,4.68) etav-c(235.6,59.5,31.2,8.7,3.2,1174) Hi Javier, Maybe not exactly what you want, but try: addtable2plot(2,8,rbind(betav,etav),bty=o, display.colnames=FALSE,display.rownames=TRUE) using your own x and y

[R] three related time series with different resolutions

2009-10-21 Thread William Simpson
I have three time series, x, y, and z, and I want to analyse the relations between them. However, they have vastly different resolutions. I am writing to ask for advice on how to handle this situation in R. x is a stimulus, and y and z are responses. x is a rectangular pulse 4 sec long. Its

Re: [R] Putting names on a ggplot - fortune candidate?

2009-10-21 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/21/2009 01:59 AM, hadley wickham wrote: It currently works (because I can't figure out how to make it an error) but you really should not do it. Please pardon my nomination, Hadley, but that is just too good to pass up. Jim __

[R] linear regression: Is there a way to get the results of lm as variables

2009-10-21 Thread CE.KA
Hi R users I used R to get the results of a linear regression reg-lm(y~x) here are the results: # Call: # lm(formula = donnees$txi7098 ~ donnees$txs7098) # # Residuals: # Min

Re: [R] Transparent Bands in R

2009-10-21 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/21/2009 09:40 AM, mnstn wrote: Hello All, My question is regarding the attached plot. I would like to have multiple transparent green bands running the length (yaxis) of the plot the width of which is determined by the green lines at y=0 in the plot. Can you suggest a way to do it?

Re: [R] three related time series with different resolutions

2009-10-21 Thread William Simpson
PS I think one way to get the average waveforms I want from the analysis is using cross-correlation, but again the multiple scale problem is present. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM, William Simpson william.a.simp...@gmail.com wrote: I have three time series, x, y, and z, and I want to analyse

[R] Bootstrapping confidence intervals

2009-10-21 Thread Charlotta Rylander
Hello, We are a group of PhD students working in the field of toxicology. Several of us have small data sets with N=10-15. Our research is mainly about the association between an exposure and an effect, so preferrably we would like to use linear regression models. However, most of the time our

[R] ggplot2: Histogram with negative values on x-axis doesn't work

2009-10-21 Thread sebastian . rohrer
I have a dataset that contains numbers between -10 and 0. E.g. x = c(-9.23, -9.56, -1.40, ...) If I no do a qplot(x, geom=histogram) I get the error: Error: position_stack requires non-overlapping x intervals Strangely, the following both work: qplot(x * -1, geom=histogram) qplot(x+100,

[R] problem with pdf in batch mode

2009-10-21 Thread guillaume Le Ray
Hi all R Users, I am using R in batch mode to do an automatic reporting, I'm saving all the picture in wmf. When I'm launching manually the batch file(.bat) it's working but when I'm lauching the batch file from the server I have in the outputfile the following erro message: Error in

[R] eliminate characters of one data.frame col, using another column

2009-10-21 Thread Luis F
Dear Maling list, I have a data.frame with three columns. I want to produce a fourth column which is result of eliminating the characters present in the second and third colum from the first. Example: a b c 1 f f 2 j h 3

[R] Keeping package sources for recompilation with new R version?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I am using Ubuntu Hardy, and I installing many packages from source. I am keeping my R packages fairly up to date. My question is: is there a way, of keeping the source packages, so that when I am installing a new version of R, an update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) will only fetch the packages

[R] Help with time series

2009-10-21 Thread ehxpieterse
Hi there, I am having trouble getting the plotting of multiple time series to work. I have used RBloomberg to download data, which I then convert to a data frame. After I have calculated my new index values, I would like to plot the new index. My problem is that I can't get the plot feature to

[R] How to average subgroups in a dataframe? (not sure how to apply aggregate(..))

2009-10-21 Thread Tony Breyal
Dear all, Lets say I have the following data frame: set.seed(1) col1 - c(rep('happy',9), rep('sad', 9)) col2 - rep(c(rep('alpha', 3), rep('beta', 3), rep('gamma', 3)),2) dates - as.Date(rep(c('2009-10-13', '2009-10-14', '2009-10-15'),6)) score=rnorm(18, 10, 3) df1-data.frame(col1=col1,

Re: [R] ggplot2: Histogram with negative values on x-axis doesn't work

2009-10-21 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
In article OF1D427087.01614A71-ONC1257656.003BFAB8-C1257656.003C88F8 @basf-c-s.be, sebastian.roh...@basf.com says... I have a dataset that contains numbers between -10 and 0. E.g. x = c(-9.23, -9.56, -1.40, ...) If I no do a qplot(x, geom=histogram) I get the error: Error: position_stack

Re: [R] How to average subgroups in a dataframe? (not sure how to apply aggregate(..))

2009-10-21 Thread Benilton Carvalho
aves = aggregate(df1$score, by=list(col1=df1$col1, col2=df1$col2), mean) results = merge(df1, aves) b On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Tony Breyal wrote: Dear all, Lets say I have the following data frame: set.seed(1) col1 - c(rep('happy',9), rep('sad', 9)) col2 - rep(c(rep('alpha', 3),

Re: [R] How to average subgroups in a dataframe? (not sure how to apply aggregate(..))

2009-10-21 Thread Chuck Cleland
On 10/21/2009 7:03 AM, Tony Breyal wrote: Dear all, Lets say I have the following data frame: set.seed(1) col1 - c(rep('happy',9), rep('sad', 9)) col2 - rep(c(rep('alpha', 3), rep('beta', 3), rep('gamma', 3)),2) dates - as.Date(rep(c('2009-10-13', '2009-10-14', '2009-10-15'),6))

Re: [R] How to average subgroups in a dataframe? (not sure how to apply aggregate(..))

2009-10-21 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
In article 800acfc0-2c3c-41f1-af18-3b52f7e43...@jhsph.edu, bcarv...@jhsph.edu says... aves = aggregate(df1$score, by=list(col1=df1$col1, col2=df1$col2), mean) results = merge(df1, aves) Or, with the 'plyr' package, which has a very nice syntax: library(plyr) ddply(df1, .(col1, col2),

Re: [R] Bootstrapping confidence intervals

2009-10-21 Thread Ista Zahn
John Fox has a nice explanation here: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/appendix-bootstrapping.pdf -Ista On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Charlotta Rylander z...@nilu.no wrote: Hello, We are a group of PhD students working in the field of toxicology. Several of us have

[R] SVM probability output variation

2009-10-21 Thread Anders Carlsson
Dear R:ers, I'm using the svm from the e1071 package to train a model with the option probabilities = TRUE. I then use predict with probabilities = TRUE and get the probabilities for the data point belonging to either class. So far all is well. My question is why I get different results

[R] combining multiple 3D graphs

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Ralph M. Abrigo
Hi all! I am a grad stat student and is fairly new in using R. I am doing a regression tree in one of my problem sets. I have already identified the cut-points (using Stata) for the regression. My problem is how to graph the fitted values of z against the independent variables x and y. Basically,

Re: [R] re ferring to data of previous rows

2009-10-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Iff dd is your data frame then: dd$prev - ave(dd$of, dd$Id, FUN = function(x) c(NA, head(x, -1))) On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:55 AM, clion birt...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear Rlers, in the following dataset I would like to insert a new column that refers to the data of the previous row. My

Re: [R] slope calculation

2009-10-21 Thread Eik Vettorazzi
Hi MS, I think it is simple trigonometry: atan(beta) or in degrees instead of radians atan(beta)*360/(2*pi) hth. ms.com schrieb: Dear all I am new R user, and trying to learn more. I am doing linear regression analysis in R with my data. I am trying to find the way to calculate the slope

Re: [R] three related time series with different resolutions

2009-10-21 Thread William Simpson
I wasn't clear: x and z are pulse *trains* with irregular gaps between pulses. x is a rectangular pulse 4 sec long. Its onset and offset are known with sub-millisecond precision. The onset varies irregularly -- it doesn't fall on neat 1/2 sec or sec boundaries for example. y is a sampled

Re: [R] Problem using the source-function within R-functions

2009-10-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/21/2009 3:53 AM, Johan Lassen wrote: Hi Giovanni, Thanks for your reply. I can make the function work after parsing the code directly into R. The problem arise after compiling the function into a package and then calling the function, because the files inside source() seems to be missing.

Re: [R] linear regression: Is there a way to get the results of lm as variables

2009-10-21 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi CE.KA, Take a look at the following: # Data set.seed(123) x - rnorm(100) y - 2 + 1.5*x + rnorm(100) # Regression model reg - lm(y ~ x) # The summary summary(reg) # Objects present in the summary() names(summary(reg)) # Extracting the coefficients summary(reg)$coeff HTH, Jorge On Wed,

Re: [R] How to average subgroups in a dataframe? (not sure how to apply aggregate(..))

2009-10-21 Thread Tony Breyal
Thank you all for your responses, i have now achieved the desired output for my own real data using your suggestions. I will also have to look into this 'plyr' package as i have noticed that it gets mentioned a lot. On 21 Oct, 13:33, Karl Ove Hufthammer k...@huftis.org wrote: In article

Re: [R] combining multiple 3D graphs

2009-10-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/21/2009 9:03 AM, Michael Ralph M. Abrigo wrote: Hi all! I am a grad stat student and is fairly new in using R. I am doing a regression tree in one of my problem sets. I have already identified the cut-points (using Stata) for the regression. My problem is how to graph the fitted values of

[R] Subsetting/modifying a symbolic formula

2009-10-21 Thread Bryan Hanson
Hello All.. Please consider the following: y - rnorm(20, mean = 10) f1 - as.factor(rep(c(A, B, B, A), 5)) f2 - as.factor(rep(c(C, D), 10)) testdata - data.frame(y, f1, f2) testFunc - function(formula, data, ...) { #mf - model.frame(formula, data) kw.res - kruskal.test(formula, data)

[R] formula and model.frame

2009-10-21 Thread Doran, Harold
Suppose I have the following function myFun - function(formula, data){ f - formula(formula) dat - model.frame(f, data) dat } Applying it with this sample data yields a new dataframe: qqq - data.frame(grade = c(3, NA, 3,4,5,5,4,3), score = rnorm(8), idVar =

Re: [R] Subsetting/modifying a symbolic formula

2009-10-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is one way: fo - y ~ f1 * f2 one.x - lapply(all.vars(fo[[3]]), function(x) { fo[[3]] - as.name(x); fo }) one.x [[1]] y ~ f1 [[2]] y ~ f2 On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Bryan Hanson han...@depauw.edu wrote: Hello All.. Please consider the following: y - rnorm(20, mean = 10) f1

[R] Temperature Prediction Model

2009-10-21 Thread Aneeta
Greetings! As part of my research project I am using R to study temperature data collected by a network. Each node (observation point) records temperature of its surroundings throughout the day and generates a dataset. Using the recorded datasets for the past 7 days I need to build a prediction

Re: [R] SVM probability output variation

2009-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Anders, On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Anders Carlsson wrote: Dear R:ers, I'm using the svm from the e1071 package to train a model with the option probabilities = TRUE. I then use predict with probabilities = TRUE and get the probabilities for the data point belonging to either class.

[R] date conversion not as i would have expected

2009-10-21 Thread clair.crossup...@googlemail.com
Good day, i imported some data into R from Excel. By using the edit() function, this is what one of the dates looks like in R: x - structure(1254351600, class = c(POSIXt, POSIXct), tzone = ) [1] 2009-10-01 BST However, when i do the following, the date changes: as.Date(x, formate=%Y-%m-%d )

[R] squared euclidean distance

2009-10-21 Thread Caro B.
Dear R-Help-Team, I would like to cluster my data using the ward-method. In several papers I read (e.g. Bahrenberg) that it is neccesary to use the squared euclidean distance with the ward-method. Unfortunatelly I cannot find this term in r as a method for measuring the distance. Does anybody

Re: [R] Transparent Bands in R

2009-10-21 Thread mnstn
Hello Megha and Jim, Thanks for your comments. The green bands actually correspond to data that looks like: 13 0 42 0 183 0 186 0 187 0 192 0 194 0 and so on. I plotted them using: plot(v[,1],3+v[,2],type=h,col=gray,lwd=5) and the rest of the data using points. The result is here:

Re: [R] Temperature Prediction Model

2009-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Aneeta wrote: Greetings! As part of my research project I am using R to study temperature data collected by a network. Each node (observation point) records temperature of its surroundings throughout the day and generates a dataset. Using the recorded

Re: [R] SVM probability output variation

2009-10-21 Thread Anders Carlsson
Hi again, and thank you Steve for your reply! Hi Anders, On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Anders Carlsson wrote: Dear R:ers, I'm using the svm from the e1071 package to train a model with the option probabilities = TRUE. I then use predict with probabilities = TRUE and get the

[R] Question on mixed effect models with LME

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Flom
Good afternoon Using R 2.9.2 on a machine running Windows XP I have a longitudinal data set, with data on schools and their test scores over a four year period. I have centered year, and run the following m1.mod1 - lme(fixed = math_1 ~ I(year-2007.5)*TFC_, data = long,

[R] How to find the interception point of two linear fitted model in R?

2009-10-21 Thread FMH
Dear All, Let have 10 pair of observations, as shown below. ## x - 1:10 y - c(1,3,2,4,5,10,13,15,19,22) plot(x,y) ## Two fitted  models, with ranges of [1,5] and [5,10], can be easily fitted separately by lm function as shown below:

[R] Missing data and LME models and diagnostic plots

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Flom
Hello Running R2.9.2 on Windows XP I am puzzled by the performance of LME in situations where there are missing data. As I understand it, one of the strengths of this sort of model is how well it deals with missing data, yet lme requires nonmissing data. Thus, m1.mod1 - lme(fixed =

Re: [R] How to find the interception point of two linear fitted model in R?

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, FMH kagba2...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All, Let have 10 pair of observations, as shown below. ## x - 1:10 y - c(1,3,2,4,5,10,13,15,19,22) plot(x,y) ## Two fitted  models, with ranges of [1,5] and [5,10], can be

Re: [R] Subsetting/modifying a symbolic formula

2009-10-21 Thread Bryan Hanson
Thanks Gabor, you taught me two useful things: all.vars, and the fact that a formula object always has length 3. Problem solved. Bryan On 10/21/09 11:57 AM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: Here is one way: fo - y ~ f1 * f2 one.x - lapply(all.vars(fo[[3]]), function(x) {

Re: [R] squared euclidean distance

2009-10-21 Thread Sarah Goslee
You can calculate the Euclidean distance with dist() and then square it. Sarah On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Caro B. carolin.w...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear R-Help-Team, I would like to cluster my data using the ward-method. In several papers I read (e.g. Bahrenberg) that it is

Re: [R] formula and model.frame

2009-10-21 Thread Charles C. Berry
Emulate lm. myFun - function(formula, data, na.action, id, ...){ mf - match.call(expand.dots = FALSE) m - match(c(formula, data, id, na.action), names(mf), 0L) mf - mf[c(1L, m)] mf$drop.unused.levels - TRUE mf[[1L]] - as.name(model.frame) mf - eval(mf,

Re: [R] squared euclidean distance

2009-10-21 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:35 +0200, Caro B. wrote: Dear R-Help-Team, I would like to cluster my data using the ward-method. In several papers I read (e.g. Bahrenberg) that it is neccesary to use the squared euclidean distance with the ward-method. Unfortunatelly I cannot find this term in r

Re: [R] Temperature Prediction Model

2009-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, In order to have more eyes on this, I'm CCing this back to lease (please try to keep further correspondence here, since most mail to *this* address of mine probably gets lost if it's not coming in from a list to begin with) ... I'm not really sure I have much to say about your

Re: [R] SVM probability output variation

2009-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Howdy, On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Anders Carlsson wrote: snip Yes, exactly that. In your example, though, the variation seems to be a lot smaller. I'm guessing that has to with the data. If I instead output the decision values, the whole procedure is fully reproducible, i.e. the exact

[R] reshaping data

2009-10-21 Thread Lo, Ken
Hi all, I have a matrix of correlation values between all pairwise comparison in an experiment. For example, I have 2 time points (1,2) each in triplicate. Thus, I have the following matrix 1-1 1-2 1-3 2-1 2-2 2-3 1-1 NA ... ... ... ... ... 1-2 ... NA ... ... ... ...

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computingand SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
David: Do you mean inappropriate or embarrassing? How would we R-ians know what has happened at REVolution were it not for Ajay's note? Were you planning a press release? Something like, 47% of Revolution summarily fired. Nobody left with more than a year of experience...? Charles Annis,

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Rolf Turner
On 22/10/2009, at 7:20 AM, David M Smith wrote: It is clearly inappropriate for me or anyone else from REvolution to comment on matters pertaining to any employee or ex-employee. I would further add that this is a highly inappropriate use of this list. Oh, I dunno. I have the

Re: [R] Missing data and LME models and diagnostic plots

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Difford
Peter Flom wrote: I am puzzled by the performance of LME in situations where there are missing data. As I understand it, one of the strengths of this sort of model is how well it deals with missing data, yet lme requires nonmissing data. You are confusing missing data with an

[R] random numbers between 0 and 1

2009-10-21 Thread carol white
Hi, To generate random numbers between 0 and 1, do you use rnorm followed by dnrom? for ex, for 10 variables a = rnorm(10) a [1] -0.87640764 -0.95842391 -1.33434559 -0.63844932 -1.69829393 0.80010865 [7] -0.01026882 -0.23887516 2.29912600 -1.38352143 dnorm(a) [1] 0.27171985 0.25202507

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computingand SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/21/2009 3:09 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: David: Do you mean inappropriate or embarrassing? How would we R-ians know what has happened at REVolution were it not for Ajay's note? Were you planning a press release? I think he already did post a note on his blog mentioning that

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread kulwinder banipal
Well I do not think that this is highly inappropriate use of this list. I am sure you new designation of VP makes you feel all more powerful but your authority does not extend to this list. It should continue to rest with Core R team. It seems had this list been under your control (i.e

Re: [R] random numbers between 0 and 1

2009-10-21 Thread Erik Iverson
Uniformly distributed random numbers between 0 and 1? Try ?runif -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of carol white Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:26 PM To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] random numbers

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Rolf Turner
On 22/10/2009, at 8:27 AM, kulwinder banipal wrote: Well I do not think that this is highly inappropriate use of this list. I am sure you new designation of VP makes you feel all more powerful but your authority does not extend to this list. It should continue to rest with Core R team.

Re: [R] random numbers between 0 and 1

2009-10-21 Thread Gábor Csárdi
I would suggest to use the generator at http://submoon.freeshell.org/pix/valium/dilbert_rng.jpg and subtract 8.5. Best, Gabor On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:25 PM, carol white wht_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, To generate random numbers between 0 and 1, do you use rnorm followed by dnrom? for ex, for

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computingand SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com wrote: David: Do you mean inappropriate or embarrassing? How would we R-ians know what has happened at REVolution were it not for Ajay's note?  Were you planning a press release?  Something like,

[R] FW: reshaping data

2009-10-21 Thread Lo, Ken
I apologize for the previous post using HTML. Haven't posted for a while and e-mail client default. Best, Ken Hi all, I have a matrix of correlation values between all pairwise comparison in an experiment.  For example, I have 2 time points (1,2) each in triplicate. Thus, I have the

Re: [R] random numbers between 0 and 1

2009-10-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Gábor Csárdi csa...@rmki.kfki.hu wrote: I would suggest to use the generator at http://submoon.freeshell.org/pix/valium/dilbert_rng.jpg and subtract 8.5. You may laugh (indeed I did) but some medical trials have used (and poss still do) telephone-a-human

Re: [R] random numbers between 0 and 1

2009-10-21 Thread Rolf Turner
On 22/10/2009, at 8:25 AM, carol white wrote: Hi, To generate random numbers between 0 and 1, do you use rnorm followed by dnrom? for ex, for 10 variables a = rnorm(10) a [1] -0.87640764 -0.95842391 -1.33434559 -0.63844932 -1.69829393 0.80010865 [7] -0.01026882 -0.23887516

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computingand SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Rolf Turner
On 22/10/2009, at 8:37 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com wrote: David: Do you mean inappropriate or embarrassing? How would we R-ians know what has happened at REVolution were it not for Ajay's note?

Re: [R] SVM probability output variation

2009-10-21 Thread Anders Carlsson
Hi, snip If I instead output the decision values, the whole procedure is fully reproducible, i.e. the exact same values are returned when I retrain the model. By the decision values, you mean the predict labels, right? The output of decision values can be turned on in the predict.svm,

Re: [R] Temperature Prediction Model

2009-10-21 Thread Aneeta
The data that I use has been collected by a sensor network deployed by Intel. You may take a look at the network at the following website http://db.csail.mit.edu/labdata/labdata.html The main goal of my project is to simulate a physical layer attack on a sensor network and to detect such an

Re: [R] Missing data and LME models and diagnostic plots

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Flom
I wrote I am puzzled by the performance of LME in situations where there are missing data. As I understand it, one of the strengths of this sort of model is how well it deals with missing data, yet lme requires nonmissing data. Mark Difford replied You are confusing missing data with

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Ajay ohri
I am sorry. I will refrain from this in the future (using the list which is a technical resource and not a forum inappropriately). My blog has my views on it -http://decisionstats.com so I wont cut and paste on that. I would like to applaud David's team at REvolution for finally releasing an

Re: [R] date conversion not as i would have expected

2009-10-21 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi This is on WinXP with regional settings as EST (we are now on DST but I run EST) R2.9.2 x - structure(1254351600, class = c(POSIXt, POSIXct), tzone = ) x [1] 2009-10-01 09:00:00 EST as.POSIXlt(x) [1] 2009-10-01 09:00:00 EST as.Date(x, formate=%Y-%m-%d ) [1] 2009-09-30 I had a similar

[R] How do I vectorize this loop....

2009-10-21 Thread chipmaney
Basically I need to use the following data to calculate a squared error for each Sample based on the expected Survival for the zone. Basically, this code has Live/Dead for each sample, and I need to calculate the square error based on the Expected Mean (ie, Survival). The code looks up the

[R] increase size of filled box in a legend

2009-10-21 Thread Janet Choate
Hello R user community, can anyone tell me how to increase the size of a filled box in a legend? thanx, Janet [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

[R] drawing a line indicating extent of each factored data series in multipanel lattice xyplot

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Kortschak
Hi, Am am plotting aggregated frequency data (extracted from an RDBMS) relating to DNA sequence features for each of the human chromosomes as described in the table chromosomes below (the frequency data is in a table 'hits' that has a value (or not) for each of a set of bins across each

[R] sorting table output

2009-10-21 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: Suppose I have the following output: table(xx) xx A C G T 13 12 10 15 I would like to have the output sorted in descending order by height or frequency. But when I do the following: rev(table(xx)) xx T G C A 15 10 12 13 the output is sorted by the names rather than

Re: [R] sorting table output

2009-10-21 Thread Stefan Evert
I would like to have the output sorted in descending order by height or frequency. But when I do the following: rev(table(xx)) xx T G C A 15 10 12 13 Err, I guess you meant to write sort(table(xx)) here? Cheers, Stefan __

Re: [R] sorting table output

2009-10-21 Thread Rolf Turner
On 22/10/2009, at 11:16 AM, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: Suppose I have the following output: table(xx) xx A C G T 13 12 10 15 I would like to have the output sorted in descending order by height or frequency. But when I do the following: rev(table(xx)) xx T G C A 15 10

Re: [R] How do I vectorize this loop....

2009-10-21 Thread William Dunlap
Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of chipmaney Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:58 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How do I vectorize this

[R] Use of the command 'replicate'

2009-10-21 Thread Manny Gomez
Dear R users, I'd like to ask u whether you know how to sort out the following: I'm trying to reproduce a dataset of clusters, and for that I need to build up a cluster index (inside a function) using the command replicate as follows: dataset- function( clusters=100, cluster.size=50,

[R] multiple imputation with mix package

2009-10-21 Thread Kurt Smith
I am running into a problem using 'mix' for multiple imputation (over continuous and categorical variables). For the way I will be using this I would like to create an imputation model on some training data set and then use this model to impute missing values for a different set of individuals

[R] melting columns

2009-10-21 Thread Thibault Grava
Hello, I'm using R to run a acoustic analysis software called Seewave. I ask the code to extract a list of variables from my recording, and the program give ONE table for each of these. The tables consist of a two column data.frame with the time in column 1 and the frequency in column 2.

[R] loop vs. apply(): strange behavior with data frame?

2009-10-21 Thread Roberto Perdisci
Hi everybody, I noticed a strange behavior when using loops versus apply() on a data frame. The example below explicitly computes a distance matrix given a dataset. When the dataset is a matrix, everything works fine. But when the dataset is a data.frame, the dist.for function written using

[R] Calculating Random Effects Coefficients from lmer

2009-10-21 Thread Matthew Schneider
Hello all, I am new to the list serve but hope to contribute what I can. For now, however, I hope to tap into all your knowledge about mixed effects models. Currently, I am running a mixed effects model on a time series panel data. For this model I want to find out the fixed and random effect

[R] Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1)

2009-10-21 Thread Rainier Sabangan
Hi, Below is the code that is giving me this error message: #=== #The code below results in error: Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function #call (arg 1) #===

[R] simulating AR() using a

2009-10-21 Thread CJ Rubio
good day everyone! i have a time series (andong.ts) and fitted and AR() model using the following code andong.ts - ts(read.table(D:/.../andong.csv, header = TRUE), start = c(1966,1), frequency = 1) ar(andong.ts) Call: ar(x = andong) Coefficients: 1 2 3 0.3117 0.0607

[R] help in simulating AR models

2009-10-21 Thread CJ Rubio
good day everyone! i have a time series (andong.ts) and fitted and AR() model using the following code andong.ts - ts(read.table(D:/.../andong.csv, header = TRUE), start = c(1966,1), frequency = 1) ar(andong.ts) Call: ar(x = andong) Coefficients: 1 2

Re: [R] Question on mixed effect models with LME

2009-10-21 Thread Kingsford Jones
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Peter Flom peterflomconsult...@mindspring.com wrote: ... I have a longitudinal data set, with data on schools and their test scores over a four year period.  I have centered year, and run the following m1.mod1 - lme(fixed = math_1 ~ I(year-2007.5)*TFC_,    

[R] Plot log scale

2009-10-21 Thread R_help Help
Hi - a simple question. I know that on plot one can set log=xy to set scale on both axes to log scale. I use this to plot autocorrelation of a slow decaying autocorrelated process. It has some points that are zero or slightly negative and cause this plot to return error. I'm wondering if there is

Re: [R] Missing data and LME models and diagnostic plots

2009-10-21 Thread Kingsford Jones
Mixed models based on likelihood methods can often handle missing observations within subjects, but they not do well with missing individual elements in the design matrices (think unit nonresponse vs item nonresponse in the survey world). Continuing with the example I recently sent to you

Re: [R] loop vs. apply(): strange behavior with data frame?

2009-10-21 Thread Jim Holtman
try running Rprof on the two examples to see what the difference is. what you will probably see is a lot of the time on the dataframe is spent in accessing it like a matrix ('['). Rprof is very helpful to see where time is spent in your scripts. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 21, 2009, at

Re: [R] Missing data and LME models and diagnostic plots

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Peter, See e.g. Hedeker and Gibbons, Longitudinal Data Analysis, which repeatedly stresses that mixed models provide good estimates if the data are missing at random. This may be true. However, one of the real strengths of LME is that it handles unbalanced designs, which is a different