Re: [R] how to plot growth chart like this

2013-02-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 10, 2013, at 11:36 PM, zhu yao wrote: Dear R-users I want to generate a growth chart like this: http://php.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/images/9/9a/WHO-XX_length_birth_to_2_years.png can you give some suggestions about the functions I should use? Looking first at:

Re: [R] how to plot growth chart like this

2013-02-11 Thread zhu yao
Thank you very much for the reference about methodology. I will try the GAMLESS package. *Yao Zhu* *Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Shanghai, China* 2013/2/11 David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net On Feb 10, 2013, at 11:36 PM, zhu yao wrote: Dear R-users I

[R] How to plot doubles series with different location using plotCI

2013-02-11 Thread linde
Dear list members, I would like to create two series of plotted mean values and error bars, yet with different locations along the x-axis. Plotting of first series using plotCI with the standard arguments goes without any problem. However I do not succeed to add the second series in the same

[R] how to make a median line thicker in bwplot (lattice)

2013-02-11 Thread Elaine Kuo
Hello, I am drawing a boxplot using bwplot in lattice. I would like to learn how to draw a thicker median line instead of the default setting. Thank you. Code bwplot(, pch=rep(|,2)) Elaine [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] BRugs Error

2013-02-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 10.02.2013 22:43, David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 10, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.02.2013 21:18, Paul Ossenbruggen wrote: I installed XCode, XQuartz and OpenBUGS on my Mac using WINE. When I tried to test my installation I received the following error. If

[R] Simple frequencies using svy design

2013-02-11 Thread Virgile Capo-Chichi
Hello, excuse me if this is trivial. I have some survey data with the following design MyDesign-(id=ident, weights=~fwgt, fcp=~nval1+nval2, data=hh_data1) I would like to run simple frequency tables such as those provided by the freq() function of rgrs to check the impact of the sampling design

Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour

2013-02-11 Thread e-letter
On 08/02/2013, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: Readers, For a 12 hour time stamp: testtime-(2013-01-01 01:00:01 PM) testtime [1] 2013-01-01 01:00:01 PM testtime24hour-strftime(testtime,'%H:%M:%S') testtime24hour [1] 01:00:01 Have realised that the object is of type 'character'. When

Re: [R] Simple frequencies using svy design

2013-02-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 11 février 2013 à 10:37 +0100, Virgile Capo-Chichi a écrit : Hello, excuse me if this is trivial. I have some survey data with the following design MyDesign-(id=ident, weights=~fwgt, fcp=~nval1+nval2, data=hh_data1) I would like to run simple frequency tables such as those

Re: [R] How to plot doubles series with different location using plotCI

2013-02-11 Thread Jose Iparraguirre
Hi Rosalinde, If you set the argument err equal to x, you'll get horizontal error bars. Hope this helps, José José Iparraguirre Chief Economist Age UK T 020 303 31482 E jose.iparragui...@ageuk.org.uk Twitter @jose.iparraguirre@ageuk Tavis House, 1- 6 Tavistock Square London, WC1H 9NB

[R] Quadratic Active set technique

2013-02-11 Thread Pulkit Mehrotra
Hello everyone, I was going through the optimization techniques implemented in R. I was able to find most of the techniques that have been ported in R leaving a few. Can anyone tell me if a package on quadratic Active set technique has been developed in R as this was one of the requirements of my

Re: [R] How to plot doubles series with different location using plotCI

2013-02-11 Thread Jim Lemon
On 02/11/2013 08:01 PM, linde wrote: Dear list members, I would like to create two series of plotted mean values and error bars, yet with different locations along the x-axis. Plotting of first series using plotCI with the standard arguments goes without any problem. However I do not succeed

Re: [R] assign estimated values

2013-02-11 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Em 11-02-2013 01:26, Pete Brecknock escreveu: malaka wrote Hi, I want to assign the ar1 , ma 1 and the intercept estimated by the following code to three variables a, b and c respectively. Can anyone help me with this please? code: a0 = 0.05; a1 = 0.1; b1 = 0.85 nu = rnorm(2500) epsi

Re: [R] help on plotting series with different x-axis values on a graph with one x-axis

2013-02-11 Thread Jim Lemon
On 02/09/2013 11:52 PM, Eike Marie Thaysen wrote: Hi, I have run into this problem a couple of times now and hope you can help! If I want to plot mulitiple series with differing x-axis values (however, all in the same range) in 1 plot with one common axis R obstruses the plots. E.g. if I

[R] store variables in a for loop using get()

2013-02-11 Thread ivan
Dear R list, I have a problem in assigning values to existing data frames in R. I have a vector x containing the names of the data frames, which I create to store the results for each variable (a1,a2,a3) obtained in time series moving regressions. Thus, say, x=c('a1','a2','a3') Moreover, b is a

Re: [R] store variables in a for loop using get()

2013-02-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-02-11 6:58 AM, ivan wrote: Dear R list, I have a problem in assigning values to existing data frames in R. I have a vector x containing the names of the data frames, which I create to store the results for each variable (a1,a2,a3) obtained in time series moving regressions. Thus, say,

Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour

2013-02-11 Thread e-letter
Readers, Have since tried to plot converted 24 hour data: testtimedataset V1 1 13:01:41 2 13:02:10 3 13:02:38 4 13:03:05 5 13:03259 testdata-seq(1:5) plot(testdata~testtimedataset) Error in function (formula, data = NULL, subset = NULL, na.action = na.fail, : invalid type (list)

Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour

2013-02-11 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, You're trying to plot the df, not the column. Try plot(testdata ~ testtimedataset$V1) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 11-02-2013 13:30, e-letter escreveu: Readers, Have since tried to plot converted 24 hour data: testtimedataset V1 1 13:01:41 2 13:02:10 3 13:02:38 4

Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour

2013-02-11 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of e-letter Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:31 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour Readers, Have since tried to plot converted

Re: [R] impossible to invert a spam-object, but possible when it's a matrix-object

2013-02-11 Thread Camarda, Carlo Giovanni
Dear Uwe, thanks for the response. I knew my matrix was almost singular, but is there any way to implement the algorithm is solve(base) with a spam-matrix? As workaround, I might add a ridge penalty: ApP - A+10^-1*diag.spam(nrow(A)) solve(ApP) but this would completely jeopardize

Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour

2013-02-11 Thread e-letter
On 11/02/2013, PIKAL Petr petr.pi...@precheza.cz wrote: str(testtimedataset) With my real data set, revealed that after conversion, the time series data consists of 'chr' which I guess means character type data, reporting the following error: Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'xlim'

Re: [R] Constrained Optimization in R (alabama)

2013-02-11 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Berend, I had pointed out this solution to Axel already, but he aparently wants to solve more general problems like this, so he wanted a solution from constrained optimimzers. But, if the more general problems have the similarly discrete set of candidate parameter values, using constrained

Re: [R] impossible to invert a spam-object, but possible when it's a matrix-object

2013-02-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 11.02.2013 15:00, Camarda, Carlo Giovanni wrote: Dear Uwe, thanks for the response. I knew my matrix was almost singular, but is there any way to implement the algorithm is solve(base) with a spam-matrix? Not sure, I think you want another threshold for the error. But I do not know if

Re: [R] How to plot doubles series with different location using plotCI

2013-02-11 Thread linde
Thank you very much, indeed I have mixing up the x and y values. Best, Rosalinde   De : Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au Cc : r-help@r-project.org r-help@r-project.org Envoyé le : Lundi 11 février 2013 11h41 Objet : Re: [R] How to plot doubles series

Re: [R] Training with very few positives

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Bolker
James Jong ribonucleico at gmail.com writes: I have a binary classification problem where the fraction of positives is very low, e.g. 20 positives in 10,000 examples (0.2%) What is an appropriate cross validation scheme for training a classifier with very few positives? [snip]

Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour

2013-02-11 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi -Original Message- From: e-letter [mailto:inp...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 3:11 PM To: PIKAL Petr Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] convert 12 time stamp to 24 hour On 11/02/2013, PIKAL Petr petr.pi...@precheza.cz wrote: str(testtimedataset)

[R] Avoid re-building a vignette

2013-02-11 Thread Terry Therneau
I once knew the answer to this, but can't find where I found it. Say I have a vignette that I don't want R to automatically rebuild, perhaps it uses some data I can't share or takes too long to run or whatever. Say it is mypackage/vignettes/charlie.Rnw It can create the pdf from an R

Re: [R] impossible to invert a spam-object, but possible when it's a matrix-object

2013-02-11 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 11-02-2013, at 15:00, Camarda, Carlo Giovanni cama...@demogr.mpg.de wrote: Dear Uwe, thanks for the response. I knew my matrix was almost singular, but is there any way to implement the algorithm is solve(base) with a spam-matrix? As workaround, I might add a ridge penalty:

Re: [R] Avoid re-building a vignette

2013-02-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 11.02.2013 15:44, Terry Therneau wrote: I once knew the answer to this, but can't find where I found it. Say I have a vignette that I don't want R to automatically rebuild, perhaps it uses some data I can't share or takes too long to run or whatever. Say it is

Re: [R] how to make a median line thicker in bwplot (lattice)

2013-02-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:23 AM, Elaine Kuo wrote: Hello, I am drawing a boxplot using bwplot in lattice. I would like to learn how to draw a thicker median line instead of the default setting. Thank you. Code bwplot(, pch=rep(|,2)) At the moment panel.bwplot has code at the end

Re: [R] Count of Histogram Bins using Shingles with lattice

2013-02-11 Thread David L Carlson
You can use the functions in lattice to compute the shingle and display the results, but they do not seem to be stored: set.seed(42) vals - runif(100)*100 ints - co.intervals(vals, number=5, overlap=.25) cts - shingle(vals, ints) cts contains has the original data and the range of each

Re: [R] effect() error: non-conformable arguments

2013-02-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Elisha, It's amazing how informative posting a reproducible example can be: The problem is that your model has aliased coefficients, and effect() can't handle that. Coincidentally, the development version of the effects package on R-Forge *can* handle models with aliased coefficients, so

Re: [R] Count of Histogram Bins using Shingles with lattice

2013-02-11 Thread David L Carlson
To get the counts in a variable: library(lattice) set.seed(42) vals - runif(100)*100 ints - co.intervals(vals, number=5, overlap=.25) shgl - shingle(vals, ints) summary(shgl) Intervals: min max count 1 0.02362834 25.5431425 2 20.76563596 47.4999725 3 39.84827982

[R] FORMAT EDITING

2013-02-11 Thread eliza botto
Dear R users,[IF THE FORMAT OF MY EMAIL IS NOT CLEAR, I HAVE ATTACHED A TEXT FILE FOR A CLEAR VIEW] I would like to use the R output file in Fortran. my file Is exactly in the following format. ELISA/BOTTO wATER INN FROM 1900 11 1 TO 1996 12 31 1901.11. 1 447.000 1901.11. 2

[R] Error in R (ENFA) : Error in eigen(Se) : infinite or missing values in 'x'

2013-02-11 Thread Leandro Abade
Dear all, I am running an Ecological Niche Factor Analysis in R but I am stuck with a problem. As soon as I ask the software to compute the ENFA, I get the following error message: Error in eigen(Se) : infinite or missing values in 'x' Does anyone know what could be wrong. I do not have missing

Re: [R] getTree visualization (randomForest)

2013-02-11 Thread Umang Rathi
Hi, I would like to visualize a tree extracted from a random forest using getTree {randomForest}. I'm wondering if there is any way to do it directly or to convert my tree to any other class of tree repesentation, which then can be plotted? Regards, Umang Rathi

Re: [R] effect() error: non-conformable arguments

2013-02-11 Thread Elisha Sigmon
Sorry about that. Attached is the relevant data and the following is the code and error. Help-read.csv(R-help-effect.csv, sep=,, header=T) Help$WeeksOut-as.factor(Help$WeeksOut) Help$Run-as.factor(Help$Run) GLM-glm(NumberSpecies~Treatment*WeeksOut+Run+Tree., family=poisson (link=log), data=Help)

Re: [R] vegdist Error en double(N * (N - 1)/2) : tama?o del vector especificado es muy grande

2013-02-11 Thread Carolina Bello
Brian thanks for answer me, The idea is to make a hierarchical cluster of 138037 pixels of 1 km^2 from a study area of colombian Andes as a biogeographical regionalization . I have distributions models for 89 species so i have a matrix with the pixels in the rows and is full with

[R] Putting an array from excel into R Studio

2013-02-11 Thread Nick Duncan
Dear All, I have been using RExcel for some time and find two features especially useful: i) The ability to select part of a worksheet and put it into R ii) The way of viewing the code, the output and the alerts in separate panes. The rest of R Excel I don't really use. The major benefit for me

[R] Running a R file at a specific time each day

2013-02-11 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hello again, My query may look quite generic, however at this point of time I just want explain my problem. I am hopeful that somebody can help me. Let say I have a script file 'Script.R'. Now I want R to run this script file each day at a specific time, and store the result (the calculation for

Re: [R] Running a R file at a specific time each day

2013-02-11 Thread Whit Armstrong
man cron or something more robust: http://jenkins-ci.org/ -Whit On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello again, My query may look quite generic, however at this point of time I just want explain my problem. I am hopeful that somebody can

Re: [R] FORMAT EDITING

2013-02-11 Thread arun
Hi Elisa, It seems also that there are spaces between the second '.' and the number (1901.11. 1). You could do something like: Lines1-readLines(textConnection(1901.11. 1 447.000    1901.11. 2 445.000    1901.11. 3 445.000    1924.11. 4 445.000    1924.11. 5 449.000    1924.11. 6 442.000  

[R] Deques in R

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Holt
I've been searching for information on using deques in R for the past couple of days. What little I've found has pointed me towards either the Rcpp package or the cpp project on R-forge (https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/cpp/), but I've had trouble finding working examples. Are these the

Re: [R] Running a R file at a specific time each day

2013-02-11 Thread Bhupendrasinh Thakre
Depends on system you are working. Mac : Automator Windows : save the script in the folder where python is installed and then run it through command prompt. Linux and unix specific : cron jobs. As Mac is unix underneath so cron will work there also but never tried it. Best Regards,

[R] Clean up biplot resulting from princomp()

2013-02-11 Thread mtb954
Dear R-helpers, The vectors in my biplot are completely obscured by the ~1400 labels R is printing on my biplot. I don't really care about the labels. How can I make the biplot without the annoying labels? See attached, if that helps you see my problem. Many thanks, Mark Na

Re: [R] Clean up biplot resulting from princomp()

2013-02-11 Thread David L Carlson
?biplot set.seed(42) pcout - princomp(matrix(rnorm(1000), 100, 10)) biplot(pcout) biplot(pcout, xlabs=rep(., dim(pcout$scores)[1])) # small symbol biplot(pcout, xlabs=rep(, dim(pcout$scores)[1])) # no symbol -- David L Carlson Associate Professor of

Re: [R] Running a R file at a specific time each day

2013-02-11 Thread MacQueen, Don
cron does work just fine on the Mac, and will work the same way as in Linux, except (almost certainly) for the path to R itself. -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 2/11/13 11:16 AM, Bhupendrasinh Thakre

Re: [R] Putting an array from excel into R Studio

2013-02-11 Thread Gene Leynes
This doesn't answer your question, but you may find some of my functions useful: https://github.com/geneorama/geneorama/blob/master/R/clipper.R https://github.com/geneorama/geneorama/blob/master/R/clipped.R You can quickly get stuff from Excel using the clipboard using clipped(). I also added

Re: [R] FORMAT EDITING

2013-02-11 Thread MacQueen, Don
You say, Š use the R output file in Fortran Š I guess that means that R is writing an output file which will then be used as an input file for a fortran program. In that case, you need to go back to how R is writing the output file, find out why it is writing blank lines, and correct it. As far

Re: [R] Deques in R

2013-02-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Michael Holt mh...@terapeak.com wrote: I've been searching for information on using deques in R for the past couple of days. What little I've found has pointed me towards either the Rcpp package or the cpp project on R-forge

Re: [R] Deques in R

2013-02-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: but I can't find it on CRAN now... http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Containers/ so you could hook the code out of the archives and find out if it still works... I just looked at the DESCRIPTION

Re: [R] FORMAT EDITING

2013-02-11 Thread eliza botto
Dear Macqueen,Although this question might be out of context, but just for clarification of my own, i got fortran codes from my colleague who is using MAC OS. Whereas, i am using XP and windows 7 with CVF 6.6. The codes run efficiently on his system but for me it prompts up with an error that

Re: [R] how to make a median line thicker in bwplot (lattice)

2013-02-11 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi I had a similar problem - see http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e9/help/10/03/7129.html DF - data.frame(site = factor(rep(1:5, each = 20)), height = rnorm(100)) bwplot(height~ site,DF, pch = |, panel = function(x, y, ..., horizontal) {

Re: [R] Clean up biplot resulting from princomp()

2013-02-11 Thread mtb954
Thanks David. ?biplot is not exactly verbose on the issue, but in hindsight I can see how I might have figured that out on my own. In any case, I appreciate the time you took to show me how to do that. Best wishes, Mark Na On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:56 PM, David L Carlson dcarl...@tamu.edu

[R] how to change whisker width in bwplot (lattice)

2013-02-11 Thread Elaine Kuo
Hello, I am using lattice to draw boxplots. I would like to make the whisker look shorter than the box width. Please kindly advise how to modify the code. Thank you. Elaine code bwplot(x,y, pch=rep(|,2), box.umbrella = list(col = black, lty = 1)) [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

[R] How do I solve a disk I/O error with RSQLite?

2013-02-11 Thread chen jia
Hi there, I had an error when using RSQLite. My code and the error message are the following: dbGetQuery(sql.dispersion, +create table monthly_data_temp as + select a.*, b.industry + from monthly_data as a left join +siccd_industry_ff49

[R] improving/speeding up a very large, slow simulation

2013-02-11 Thread Benjamin Caldwell
Dear R help; I'll preface this by saying that the example I've provided below is pretty long, turgid, and otherwise a deep dive into a series of functions I wrote for a simulation study. It is, however, reproducible and self-contained. I'm trying to do my first simulation study that's quite big,

Re: [R] improving/speeding up a very large, slow simulation

2013-02-11 Thread Anindya Sankar Dey
Hi, I've just read your intro, not the full code. But one way first divide your input data into parts and make a list where each element of the list is one part of your input data. Rest of code put in a function, which will work on a part of your data. Build the function such that it takes list

Re: [R] improving/speeding up a very large, slow simulation

2013-02-11 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Ben, I appreciate that the example is reproducible, and I understand why you shared the entire project. At the same time, that is an awful lot of code for volunteers to go through and try to optimize. I would try to think of the structure of your task, see what the individual pieces

Re: [R] Deques in R

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Holt
Thanks. I'm more familiar with Java than I am C++ so that might be worth checking out. I also found this code with looks like it could do what I need: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/15541.html I've read some things about possible issues with it but it might work for my use

[R] Changing the order of months within a year

2013-02-11 Thread nick pardikes
I have data that looks like below and I would like to re-order the values within the date column. I would like to have each year organized like so: Sep-71 Oct-71 Nov-71 Dec-71 Jan-71 Feb-71 Mar-71 Apr-71 May-71 Jun-71 Jul-71 Aug-71 Sep-72 Oct-72 etc... Is there any way I can order the column in

[R] Inserting rows of interpolated data

2013-02-11 Thread Benstead, Jonathan
Dear help list - I have light data with 5-min time-stamps. I would like to insert four 1-min time-stamps between each row and interpolate the light data on each new row. To do this I have come up with the following code: lightdata - read.table(Test_light_data.csv, header = TRUE, sep = ,) #

[R] Help with functions as arguments

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Renner
Hi, I am trying to write a function which defines some arguments, then uses those arguments as arguments of other function calls. It's a bit tricky to explain, so a simple example will have to suffice. I imagine this has a simple solution, but perusing through environments and other help lists