[R] Column order in stacking/unstacking

2011-03-12 Thread Matthew Carroll
Dear R users, I'm having some problems with the stack() and unstack() functions, and wondered if you could help. I have a large data frame (400 rows x 2000 columns), which I need to reduce to a single column of values (and therefore 80 rows), so that I can use it in other operations

Re: [R] Passing a character argument onto a function

2011-03-12 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: One answer is eval(substitute(...)): [Note: it's a good idea NOT to use the same name on different objects - R is pretty good about distinguishing TEST the function from TEST the data frame, but you could be playing with fire if both objects have the same class but have different contents.

Re: [R] Column order in stacking/unstacking

2011-03-12 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: It would help if you named your variables such that alphanumeric ordering doesn't disturb your variable ordering. Having been burned by this a few times, I've learned the basics of sprintf() :) Here's your example revisited, along with an alternative stacking/unstacking display with package

Re: [R] Kendall Theil line as fit?

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2011-03-11 17:10, jonbfish wrote: Thanks again. I guess I have been fitting in splus gui and in R Commander, not really calling it myself. I was thinking maybe there was a way to define it as a class or something. I will have to look at segments. Any thoughts if this might be easy to use

[R] Identifying unique pairs

2011-03-12 Thread Vincy Pyne
Dear R helpers Suppose I have a data frame as given below mydat = data.frame(x = c(1,1,1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6), y = c(10, 10, 10, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 2, 2, 4)) mydat     x y 1  1 10 2  1 10 3  1 10 4  2   8 5  2   8 6  2   8 7  2  

Re: [R] Column order in stacking/unstacking

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2011-03-12 02:01, Dennis Murphy wrote: Hi: It would help if you named your variables such that alphanumeric ordering doesn't disturb your variable ordering. Having been burned by this a few times, I've learned the basics of sprintf() :) Here's your example revisited, along with an

Re: [R] Column order in stacking/unstacking

2011-03-12 Thread Matthew Carroll
Dear Dennis and Peter, Thank you for the suggestions - they work very well with my example data. I *think* I've got it up and running using my real data (with 2000 columns) too, with: sprintf(%s%04d, X, c(1:2000)) then the stacking/unstacking operations. Thanks again for the help Best wishes,

Re: [R] No response after click the show Rules button on Tab Associate.

2011-03-12 Thread Graham Williams
On 10 March 2011 02:07, Xiaobo Gu guxiaobo1...@gmail.com wrote: set transactions ...[35 item(s), 8 transaction(s)] done [0.00s]. That does not look right? I think it's because there are to few sample records, so all the rules are with 100% confidence Sorry - I think you might have

Re: [R] Identifying unique pairs

2011-03-12 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: This problem came up the other day - see http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/7884/fast-ways-in-r-to-get-the-first-row-of-a-data-frame-grouped-by-an-identifier/7985#7985 Dennis On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Vincy Pyne vincy_p...@yahoo.ca wrote: Dear R helpers Suppose I have a

[R] betareg help

2011-03-12 Thread Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
Dear R users, I'm trying to do betareg on my dataset. Dependent variable is not normally distributed and is proportion (of condom use (0,1)). But I'm having problems: gyl-betareg(cond ~ alcoh + drug, data=results) Error in optim(par = start, fn = loglikfun, gr = gradfun, method = method, :

Re: [R] betareg help

2011-03-12 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote: Dear R users, I'm trying to do betareg on my dataset. Dependent variable is not normally distributed and is proportion (of condom use (0,1)). But I'm having problems: gyl-betareg(cond ~ alcoh + drug, data=results) Error in optim(par = start,

Re: [R] betareg help

2011-03-12 Thread Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
Maybe I should include data: results$cond [1] 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 [13] 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 [25] 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 [37] 0.001 0.001 0.020

Re: [R] Identifying unique pairs

2011-03-12 Thread Vincy Pyne
Thanks sir for your reply. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out the solution. Vincy --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Dennis Murphy djmu...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dennis Murphy djmu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] Identifying unique pairs To: Vincy Pyne vincy_p...@yahoo.ca Cc: r-help@r-project.org Received:

[R] how to use melt cast commands in R in window7

2011-03-12 Thread Deepika
Hi, I have installed R on my computer with windows 7 . I also installed reshape software, but I am not being able to work with melt cast commands . I have chjecked the commands.It is not working. Thankyou, Deepika [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

[R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread Allan Kamau
I would like to draw a circle on a graph I am plotting in R and use the current plot's coordinate system. The most basic functionality I am looking for is the ability to plot a circle on an already existing graph by simply providing the xy coordinates for it's centre and the radius. I am also

[R] plot generates graph with coordinantes written over it

2011-03-12 Thread derek
Hello R users, Im having this strange problem. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3350024/bad2.png I have txt file of this format (X.X, Y.Y - random numbers, ...) with data points: nm A nm A nm A X.X Y.Y X.X XX X.X X.X Y.Y Y.Y Y.Y Y.Y My script looks like this: require(graphics)

[R] Gnuplot fit function in R

2011-03-12 Thread Stefan
Hi there, I'm new to R, coming from gnuplot for the plotting facility... I'm just wondering if there is a equivalent to the fit function of gnuplot in R? If not, s there any good resource on fitting gaussians into a curve? greetings, Stefan __

Re: [R] plot generates graph with coordinantes written over it

2011-03-12 Thread derek
Solution: main=HMF - main=HMF -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/plot-generates-graph-with-coordinantes-written-over-it-tp3350024p3350163.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] plot generates graph with coordinantes written over it

2011-03-12 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: The value of your title is a(n attached) data frame - perhaps you meant 'HMF' instead... HTH, Dennis On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM, derek jan.kac...@gmail.com wrote: Hello R users, Im having this strange problem. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3350024/bad2.png I have txt file of

[R] creating list of lists

2011-03-12 Thread Maas James Dr (MED)
Question 1: I have a long list of variable names such as first - c(one,two,three) and what I want to do is create a list of lists ... where the names of each of overall lists components are one,two, and three. This is the same result as second - list(one=list(),two=list(),three=list()) Is

Re: [R] creating list of lists

2011-03-12 Thread Ben Tupper
Hello, On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Maas James Dr (MED) wrote: Question 1: I have a long list of variable names such as first - c(one,two,three) and what I want to do is create a list of lists ... where the names of each of overall lists components are one,two, and three. This is the

Re: [R] Identifying unique pairs

2011-03-12 Thread Petr Savicky
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:20:01AM -0800, Vincy Pyne wrote: Dear R helpers Suppose I have a data frame as given below mydat = data.frame(x = c(1,1,1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6), y = c(10, 10, 10, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 2, 2, 4)) [...] unique(mydat$x) will give me 1, 2, 5, 6? i.e. 4 values and

Re: [R] how to use melt cast commands in R in window7

2011-03-12 Thread Ista Zahn
Please read the posting guide. It is not working doesn't give us any clues. Tell us what you did and what happened. Best, Ista On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Deepika deepikaoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have installed R on my computer with windows 7 . I also installed reshape software, but

[R] Ran out of iterations and did not converge

2011-03-12 Thread aydan
Hello R users, I'm trying to do simulations for comparing cox and weibull I have come across this problem: Warning messages: 1: In survreg.fit(X, Y, weights, offset, init = init, controlvals = control, : Ran out of iterations and did not converge 2: In survreg.fit(X, Y, weights, offset, init

Re: [R] Identifying unique pairs

2011-03-12 Thread Vincy Pyne
Dear sir, Thanks a lot for the solution. It was such a simple solution, but people like me close their minds and don't think of data.frame as a whole and keep on thinking about vector elements only. I also almost got the solution when I tried qq = unique(pp) (qq - sub( .*,, qq)) but this was

Re: [R] how to use melt cast commands in R in window7

2011-03-12 Thread John Kane
It may be a stupid question but have you loaded reshape? library(reshape) ?melt --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Deepika deepikaoma...@gmail.com wrote: From: Deepika deepikaoma...@gmail.com Subject: [R] how to use melt cast commands in R in window7 To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Saturday, March

Re: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread John Kane
Is this of any use? http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/04/25821.html --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com wrote: From: Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com Subject: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph. To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Saturday, March 12, 2011,

Re: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to draw a circle on a graph I am plotting in R and use the current plot's coordinate system. The most basic functionality I am looking for is the ability to plot a circle on an already existing graph by

[R] string evaluation

2011-03-12 Thread Wensui Liu
Good morning, dear listers I am wondering how to do string evaluation such that model - glm(Y ~ [STRING], data = mydata) where STRING - x1 + x2 + x3 It is very doable in other language such as SAS. Thank you so much for your insight! __

Re: [R] Is there an exact binomial k-sample test of equivalence?

2011-03-12 Thread Łukasz Ręcławowicz
2011/3/11 Albyn Jones jo...@reed.edu but presumably what you really want would be based on a joint confidence region for all the proportions. I've had read On Exact Methods for Testing Equality of Binomial Proportions by Akihito Matsuo, but still, this concept is for me unclear and I got

Re: [R] string evaluation

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 12, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Wensui Liu wrote: Good morning, dear listers I am wondering how to do string evaluation such that model - glm(Y ~ [STRING], data = mydata) where STRING - x1 + x2 + x3 It is very doable in other language such as SAS. Also very doable in R. You need to

Re: [R] betareg help

2011-03-12 Thread Ben Bolker
Vlatka Matkovic Puljic v.matkovic.puljic at gmail.com writes: Maybe I should include data: results$cond [1] 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 [snip] [205] 0.950 0.960 0.980 0.980 0.999 2011/3/12 Vlatka Matkovic Puljic v.matkovic.puljic at gmail.com

Re: [R] string evaluation

2011-03-12 Thread Wensui Liu
Thank you so much, David. Your solution exactly suits my need. formula() seems the key. appreciate your help! On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:22 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Mar 12, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Wensui Liu wrote: Good morning, dear listers I am wondering how to do

Re: [R] betareg help

2011-03-12 Thread Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
That was also my first thought. But I guess it has something to do with W and phihat (which I'm struggling to check?) 2011/3/12 Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com Vlatka Matkovic Puljic v.matkovic.puljic at gmail.com writes: My first guess would have been that you had zeros and ones in

Re: [R] betareg help

2011-03-12 Thread Ben Bolker
Vlatka Matkovic Puljic v.matkovic.puljic at gmail.com writes: That was also my first thought. But I guess it has something to do with W and phihat (which I'm struggling to check Again, it would help to post a reproducible example ... hard to debug/diagnose by remote control. If you

Re: [R] rodbc error

2011-03-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
So we'd had to debug either your code (which we do not have) or your database server (or its connection). Hence we cannot so very much without the code or reproducible examples. Please also tell us the warnings you got when saying warnings(). Uwe Ligges On 10.03.2011 16:51, Dr. Alireza

Re: [R] Gnuplot fit function in R

2011-03-12 Thread Greg Snow
The nls function does nonlinear least squares fits. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Stefan

Re: [R] Passing a character argument onto a function

2011-03-12 Thread William Dunlap
I would avoid eval(substitute(...)) in the function. It makes the function hard to use in more general cases (and hard to understand and subject to giving incorrect answers in some cases). Instead quote (or 'quote') the literal string that you pass into the function. When you pass blue into the

[R] Cut off end of string [and some chemotherapy staff]

2011-03-12 Thread Denis Kazakiewicz
У Срд, 09/03/2011 у 23:29 -0800, Dennis Murphy піша: Hi: Here's one approach, although I imagine there are more efficient ways. # A function to strip spaces and return the first three non-blank elements of a string keyset - function(x) substr(gsub(' ', '', x)[1], 1, 3) Hello to everybody

Re: [R] Gnuplot fit function in R

2011-03-12 Thread Ben Bolker
Stefan jobmensa at me.com writes: [snip] I'm just wondering if there is a equivalent to the fit function of gnuplot in R? If not, s there any good resource on fitting gaussians into a curve? Try ?nls ?predict.nls __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread Allan Kamau
--- On Sat, 3/12/11, Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com wrote: From: Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com Subject: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph. To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 3:08 AM I would like to draw a circle on a graph I am plotting in R and use

[R] how to label lines

2011-03-12 Thread derek
Hello R I can not figure out, how to add text string or number to lines like on this image: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3350452/graph.png I have some data series in text file. My script: require(graphics) require(stats) graf=read.table(file,header =FALSE,sep = , dec = ,,fileEncoding = ,

Re: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 12, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Allan Kamau wrote: --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com wrote: From: Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com Subject: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph. To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 3:08 AM I would like to draw a

Re: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread Allan Kamau
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:22 PM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Mar 12, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Allan Kamau wrote: --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com wrote: From: Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com Subject: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph. To:

Re: [R] how to label lines

2011-03-12 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Since you didn't provide any data, you're stuck with my example instead. # Generate three sine curves on (0, 2*pi) x - seq(0, 2 * pi, length = 200) df - data.frame(x, y1 = sin(x), y2 = sin(2 * x), y3 = sin(4 * x)) # Create a small function to type (n), where n is a number to be input mytext

[R] Behavior of assignment within system.time()

2011-03-12 Thread Giles Crane
There are instances when assignment should be indicated by - rather than =. One example is the function Sys.time(). sytem.time( x=1:1) # x is interpreted as an argument and is an error here. system.time( x-1:1000) # times the creation of x with numbers 1 to 1 However, grouping the

[R] pass character vector in instrument field of get.hist.quote function

2011-03-12 Thread algotr8der
I am new to R so I apologize if my question is trivial. I have not been able to figure out whether what I want to do is even possible. I have a data frame of stock ticker symbols which I store into R space from a txt file as follows: tickers - read.csv(stocks.txt, header=FALSE, sep=,) tickers -

[R] Merge data under conditions

2011-03-12 Thread flymer
Dear All, Debuting in R, I'm facing a problem. I have 2 vectors, say 'a' et 'b', and I'd like to merge them according to the proximity of their variable 'time'. How to do to keep elements which satisfy (for example) 'a$time-b$time0.5'? For example : a time x 1 1.0 4 2 2.2 5 3 5.2 6 b

Re: [R] pass character vector in instrument field of get.hist.quote function

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 12, 2011, at 3:08 PM, algotr8der wrote: I am new to R so I apologize if my question is trivial. I have not been able to figure out whether what I want to do is even possible. I have a data frame of stock ticker symbols which I store into R space from a txt file as follows:

Re: [R] Merge data under conditions

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 12, 2011, at 4:14 PM, flymer wrote: Dear All, Debuting in R, I'm facing a problem. I have 2 vectors, say 'a' et 'b', and I'd like to merge them according to the proximity of their variable 'time'. How to do to keep elements which satisfy (for example) 'a$time-b $time0.5'? For

Re: [R] how to label lines

2011-03-12 Thread derek
Thank you for reply. I think, in script you posted, I have to manually add coordinates for label. I don't want do it manually. I would like to add labels at the points, where the lines are maximally separated. (points of maximum separation). Graphic representation of my data looks very similar to

[R] Repeated measures in nlme vs SAS Proc Mixed with AR1 correlation structure

2011-03-12 Thread simontbate
Hi all, I don't know if anyone has any thoughts on this. I have been trying to move from SAS Proc Mixed to R nlme and have an unusual result. I have several subjects measured at four timepoints. I want to model the within-subject correlation using an autoregressive structure. I've attached the R

Re: [R] how to label lines

2011-03-12 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Please look at the labcurve function in the Hmisc package. Here is one line from the documentation of ?labcurve For automatic positioning of labels or keys, a curve is labeled at a point that is maximally separated from all of the other curves. As you, the documentation uses the same words

Re: [R] how to label lines

2011-03-12 Thread derek
Problem solved: require(graphics) require(stats) require(hmisc) HBA=read.table(file,header =FALSE,sep = , dec = ,,fileEncoding = , encoding = unknown, skip=60,nrows=210) attach(HBA) labcurve( list( One= list( V1,V2), Two= list( V3,V4), Three=list( V5,V6), Four= list( V7,V8), Five= list(

Re: [R] how to label lines

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 12, 2011, at 6:35 PM, derek wrote: Problem solved: require(graphics) require(stats) require(hmisc) HBA=read.table(file,header =FALSE,sep = , dec = ,,fileEncoding = , encoding = unknown, skip=60,nrows=210) attach(HBA) labcurve( list( One= list( V1,V2), Two= list( V3,V4),

Re: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread John Kane
Sorry Alan but it's not my function. I just was looking for something similar a while ago and googled to find The ost whose url I sent you will have the name of the creator. Actually I think I ended up just using symbols for my graph. --- On Sat, 3/12/11, Allan Kamau kamaual...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [R] Merge data under conditions

2011-03-12 Thread jim holtman
use the sqldf package: require(sqldf) a time x 1 1.0 4 2 2.2 5 3 5.2 6 b time y 10 1 21 3 32 5 44 7 55 9 sqldf( + select a.time, a.x, b.y + from a, b + where abs(a.time - b.time) 0.5 + ) time x y 1 1.0 4 3 2 2.2 5 5 3 5.2 6 9 On Sat,

Re: [R] how to label lines

2011-03-12 Thread D Kelly O'Day
Here is a working example that allows you to interactively label curves where you want: x - c(200,210,230) y1 - c(0.1, 0.13, 0.1) y2 - c(0.11, 0.15,0.1) y3 - c(0.12,0.17,0.12) df - data.frame(x, y1,y2,y3) lab - c(0.1 mg/l,0.2 mg/l,0.3 mg/l) plot(df$x, df$y1, type=l, col=blue, xlab=,

[R] Plotting symbols and colors based upon data values

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Linderman
I am new to R and am sure this is simple, but I been unable to find a solution. I have 5 columns of data labeled X, Y, A,B,C. I can easily xyplot(Y ~ X | A) but I want the colors of the symbols to be based upon the values of B and the shape of the symbols to be determined by C. There are

Re: [R] Plotting symbols and colors based upon data values

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 12, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Mark Linderman wrote: I am new to R and am sure this is simple, but I been unable to find a solution. I have 5 columns of data labeled X, Y, A,B,C. I can easily xyplot(Y ~ X | A) but I want the colors of the symbols to be based upon the values of B and the

Re: [R] Drawing a circle on an existing graph.

2011-03-12 Thread Greg Snow
If you are always using asp=1 then you can just do something like: x - rnorm(100, 1, 5) y - rnorm(100, 3, 4) plot( x,y, asp=1) r=2 nseg=360 x.cent - 5 y.cent - 7 xx - x.cent + r*cos( seq(0,2*pi, length.out=nseg) ) yy - y.cent + r*sin( seq(0,2*pi, length.out=nseg) ) lines(xx,yy, col='red')

Re: [R] pass character vector in instrument field of get.hist.quote function

2011-03-12 Thread algotr8der
Thanks David for the reply. I just tried the following with the same result: library(tseries) tickers - read.csv(testticker.txt, header=FALSE, sep=,) tickers - tickers[1] V1 1 XOM 2 COP 3 PBR-A 4 FFIV 5SU 6 PBR-B tickers$V1 - as.character(tickers$V1) tickers$V1 [1] XOM COP

Re: [R] confirmatory factor analysis in R

2011-03-12 Thread rvohen
thank you! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/confirmatory-factor-analysis-in-R-tp3347618p3351230.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

[R] Reg : Using R in Web

2011-03-12 Thread Vikram
Hi everyone . I would like to integrate R with Microsoft Silverlight . I would like to know whether we can connect R through any other software . If possible how ? Could anyone help me with this Thanks -- Regards, Vikram Selvaraju Graduate Student The University of Texas at Dallas

[R] Binning data

2011-03-12 Thread johnbeamer
Hello I have a large series of data value -- effectivly say the point across the x-axis where a pitch crosses home plate. What I want to do is find the % of ground balls at various distances across home plate. I therefore need to 'bin' the two data sets I have - plate location for ground balls

Re: [R] pass character vector in instrument field of get.hist.quote function

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 13, 2011, at 12:18 AM, algotr8der wrote: Thanks David for the reply. I just tried the following with the same result: library(tseries) tickers - read.csv(testticker.txt, header=FALSE, sep=,) tickers - tickers[1] V1 1 XOM 2 COP 3 PBR-A 4 FFIV 5SU 6 PBR-B tickers$V1 -

Re: [R] Binning data

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 12, 2011, at 11:35 PM, johnbeamer wrote: Hello I have a large series of data value -- effectivly say the point across the x-axis where a pitch crosses home plate. What I want to do is find the % of ground balls at various distances across home plate. I therefore need to 'bin' the

Re: [R] pass character vector in instrument field of get.hist.quote function

2011-03-12 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: (1) The first argument to get.hist.quote() is instrument, not instruments. I concur with David that get.hist.quote() takes a single character string as an argument. (2) I tried running this with lapply() but got a download error on the last one: getStockData(PBR-B) trying URL '

Re: [R] pass character vector in instrument field of get.hist.quote function

2011-03-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 13, 2011, at 1:28 AM, Dennis Murphy wrote: Hi: (1) The first argument to get.hist.quote() is instrument, not instruments. I concur with David that get.hist.quote() takes a single character string as an argument. (2) I tried running this with lapply() but got a download error

[R] How to draw different series for different groups in xyplot

2011-03-12 Thread Jie Liu
Hi guys, I got a problem when I was trying to use lattice to do some plot. Below is one working example which can generate one curve for A and one curve for B in each subplot. However, I would like to just show the points for B, not connecting the dots. As for A, I still want a curve (dots are