Re: [R] specify breaks in divergent palette in RColorBrewer: was divergent colors around zero in levelplot()

2013-11-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:02 AM, C. Alina Cansler acans...@uw.edu wrote: Don, This looks helpful: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-March/272361.html Yes, he's a helpful chap. The fundamental problem here is the colour palette. When I was a boy all we had was a pen plotter with

Re: [R] specify breaks in divergent palette in RColorBrewer: was divergent colors around zero in levelplot()

2013-11-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 26/11/2013 08:25, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:02 AM, C. Alina Cansler acans...@uw.edu wrote: Don, This looks helpful: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-March/272361.html Yes, he's a helpful chap. The fundamental problem here is the colour palette. When I

Re: [R] specify breaks in divergent palette in RColorBrewer: was divergent colors around zero in levelplot()

2013-11-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: But the image function (and probably levelplot) doesn't allow that so Mis-information alert! The help says col: a list of colors such as that generated by ‘rainbow’, ‘heat.colors’,

Re: [R] summary many regressions

2013-11-26 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi It is work for split/lapply or sapply approach. ff-function(data) {ss-lm(y~x, data); c(coef(ss), summary(ss)$adj.r.squared)} lapply(split(data[,1:2], data$city), ff) Regards Petr -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On

Re: [R] How to stop Kaplan-Meier curve at a time point

2013-11-26 Thread Göran Broström
The functions 'age.window' and 'cal.window' in the package 'eha' are designed to perform 'rectangular cuts' in the Lexis diagram. So, in your case, require(eha) dat - data.frame(enter = rep(0, length(Survival_days), exit = Survival_days, event = Outcome) dat.1 - age.window(dat, c(0, 2190))

Re: [R] convert data frame: two variables into _one_ binary variable

2013-11-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, Thank you so much for all the replies. The following worked exactly as needed: library(HSAUR2, lib.loc=/home/liv/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0) library(reshape2, lib.loc=/usr/local/lib/R/site-library) data(womensrole) zzz - melt(womensrole,id.var=c(education,gender)) -

[R] freetype 2.5.1 and mono 3.2.5 (was Re: new bugs and new bundles Re: [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.)

2013-11-26 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
The freetype people fixed the 2nd set of issues with system fonts shipped with Mac OS X, and released 2.5.1 almost immediately after that. So there are new bundles under http://sourceforge.net/projects/outmodedbonsai/files/R/ . Just a reminder that the official R binaries for windows/mac OS X

[R] Direct (null) hypothesis testing using GLMMs - possible?

2013-11-26 Thread Tomer Czaczkes
Dear Forumites, Hi, I'm a long time eavesdropper, first time poster, but I simply couldn't find any answer to this perhaps rather naive question: I am trying to see if my data is significantly different from a null hypothesis using GLMMs. I would like to run a GLMM because I have random

[R] error in eval

2013-11-26 Thread philthe1st
Hi there, I am learning to use and understand R but have come up against a problem. I'm sure it is a pretty simple thing, but I can't find a solution. I wonder if anyone could help? I have been using the The R Book by Crawley and working through some of the examples before trying to apply them to

[R] Problem with loop, matrix and data frame

2013-11-26 Thread ANNA SIMEONIDOU
Hi all, I'm sorry, maybe the solution in my problem is easy, but i am still new to R, and any help here is appreciated! I want to create a data frame, or a matrix in which the output of each loop will be stored. Here is the program n-c(10,8,7,5) n_goal-c(8,9,9,4) w-c(0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1)

Re: [R] Aggregating spatial data

2013-11-26 Thread IOANNA
Fantastic. Thanks very much! Is there an easy way to plot the points and the 4 areas? Best, Ioanna -Original Message- From: David Carlson [mailto:dcarl...@tamu.edu] Sent: 25 November 2013 15:21 To: 'IOANNA'; r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] Aggregating spatial data Something

Re: [R] cut2 not binning interval endpoints correctly

2013-11-26 Thread S Ellison
-Original Message- I am attempting to bin a vector of numbers between 0 and 1 into intervals of 0.001 but many values at the endpoints of the intervals are getting binned into the wrong interval. For example, the first 3 rows are binned incorrectly here: From: Jim Holtman FAQ

Re: [R] cut2 not binning interval endpoints correctly

2013-11-26 Thread jim holtman
You need to look at the full accuracy of the number representation: df x cutR 1 0.30800 [0.308,0.309) 2 0.42200 [0.422,0.423) 3 0.17400 [0.173,0.174) 4 0.04709 [0.047,0.048) Vuew(print(df$x, digits = 20)) Error: could not find function Vuew No suitable frames for recover()

Re: [R] error in eval

2013-11-26 Thread peter dalgaard
AFAICT, your code should not be expected to run unless you have an attach(lizards) prior to the glm() call. Either that or you need data=lizards in the call itself. -pd On 26 Nov 2013, at 12:43 , philthe1st philip.br...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Hi there, I am learning to use and understand R but

[R] SVG export - RGB fill

2013-11-26 Thread Igor Ribeiro
Hello all, I have to export the graph to SVG format. I was able to do that. The problem is that I'm using this SVG file in a XML-FO processor that doesn't support percentages for the rgb color, only absolute numbers. Is there any way I can control it from the R code? Thanks! -- Igor.

Re: [R] error in eval

2013-11-26 Thread David Carlson
And in fact attach(lizards) is included on page 560. You must have left it out of your example code. Without it, your first example would not have run either. - David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas AM University College Station, TX 77840-4352

Re: [R] Independent variable dependent on offset in GLMM

2013-11-26 Thread Ben Bolker
Jonas Josefsson jonas.josefsson at slu.se writes: Hi! (I was initially going to say that this question would probably be better on r-sig-mixed-mod...@r-project.org, but now that I've been through it I've changed my mind -- there aren't really any issues here that are specific to mixed

Re: [R] Aggregating spatial data

2013-11-26 Thread David Carlson
The points are easy: plot(y~x, w, pch=., asp=1) The four polygons are just four polygon() calls: polygon(c(.5, .5, 50.5, 50.5), c(.5, 50.5, 50.5, .5)) polygon(c(.5, .5, 50.5, 50.5), c(50.5, 100.5, 100.5, 50.5)) polygon(c(50.5, 50.5, 100.5, 100.5), c(.5, 50.5, 50.5, .5)) polygon(c(50.5, 50.5,

[R] Subscript out of bounds

2013-11-26 Thread Keniajin Wambui
I am using R3.0.2 on a windows 64 bit machine. I building a .rnw file from an .r file. I am using MikTex as the engine for latex. The function dtaStata - read.dta(core2.dta, convert.dates=TRUE) works well in .R but; When I try reading a dta (stata) file I get an error subscript out of bounds. The

Re: [R] How to merge sequences with new sequence insertion

2013-11-26 Thread arun
Hi, Try: Lines1 - readLines(textConnection(contig number 11 tttgctcggaatc contig number 23 gcacttccttattatacaggtaaaccgtatttggat contig number 3 aaagctcggaatt)) seq1 - ncattccattcattaattaattaatgaatgaatgn concatenated_contig -

Re: [R] cannot load pbdMPI package after compilation

2013-11-26 Thread Antoine Migeon
Hello, I solved my problem with new version : - R version 3.0.2 - pbdMPI version 0.2-1 - Intel compiler version 13.1.3 - OpenMPI version 1.6.5 Options for compiling R : export CC=icc export CXX=icpc export F77=ifort export FC=ifort export AR=xiar export LD=xild export IFLAGS=-O3 -fp-model

[R] Generating Frequency Values

2013-11-26 Thread Burhan ul haq
Hi, My problem is as follows: INPUT: Frequency from one column and value of Piglets from another one OUTPUT: Repeat this Piglet value as per the Frequency i.e. Piglet 1, Frequency 3, implies 1,1,1 Piglet 7, Frequency 2, implies 7,7 SOLUTION: This is what I have tried so far: 1. A helper

Re: [R] error in eval

2013-11-26 Thread philthe1st
Thank you for your replies, A massive oversight on my part. I did include it the first time but not later on. Sorry to waste your time with this simple question. Thanks, Phil -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/error-in-eval-tp4681170p4681187.html Sent from the R

[R] Installing quantstrat

2013-11-26 Thread Ira Fuchs
I would like to try to run the quantstrat package (located here: https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=316). However, if I try to load quantstrat, I get a warning that it is not available for R v3.0.1, so perhaps that is the end of it. Does anyone know if it is possible to run quantstrat

Re: [R] Installing quantstrat

2013-11-26 Thread Joshua Ulrich
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Ira Fuchs irafu...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to try to run the quantstrat package (located here: https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=316). However, if I try to load quantstrat, I get a warning that it is not available for R v3.0.1, so perhaps that

Re: [R] Generating Frequency Values

2013-11-26 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi, If I understand the question don't you simply want: with(df.1, rep(Piglets, times=Frequency)) [1] 5 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 [26] 11 12 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 14 14 Sarah On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Burhan ul haq ulh...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [R] specify breaks in divergent palette in RColorBrewer: was divergent colors around zero in levelplot()

2013-11-26 Thread Don McKenzie
Thanks to everyone who weighed in on this. I found a naive solution that was good enough for my needs, and it may take me a bit to get the subtleties of your comments. On Nov 26, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Prof

Re: [R] Installing quantstrat

2013-11-26 Thread Ira Fuchs
Thanks. Since quantstrat showed a Last change date of only 6 days ago and a Build status of Current, I blithely assumed that the command that is shown for installing it would work: install.packages(quantstrat, repos=http://R-Forge.R-project.org;) Installing package into

Re: [R] Installing quantstrat

2013-11-26 Thread Joshua Ulrich
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ira Fuchs irafu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Since quantstrat showed a Last change date of only 6 days ago and a Build status of Current, I blithely assumed that the command that is shown for installing it would work: install.packages(quantstrat,

[R] legend for bar plot ?

2013-11-26 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Hello; I have the following table m V2 V1 V3 1 C/L 0 732179 3 C/S 0 803926 19 D/F 0 724924 17 D/I 0 755841 13 D/L 0 731904 15 D/S 0 798289 11 I/F 0 871670 9 I/I 0 897718 5 I/L 0 2628113 7 I/S 0 2628113 2 C/L 1 1107269 4 C/S 1 1395714 20 D/F 1 1181282 18 D/I 1

Re: [R] Generating Frequency Values

2013-11-26 Thread arun
Hi, Not sure whether this is what you wanted. df.1[rep(1:nrow(df.1),df.1[,2]),] A.K. On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:31 PM, Burhan ul haq ulh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My problem is as follows: INPUT: Frequency from one column and  value of Piglets from another one OUTPUT: Repeat this

Re: [R] Generating Frequency Values

2013-11-26 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 26-11-2013, at 15:59, Burhan ul haq ulh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My problem is as follows: INPUT: Frequency from one column and value of Piglets from another one OUTPUT: Repeat this Piglet value as per the Frequency i.e. Piglet 1, Frequency 3, implies 1,1,1 Piglet 7, Frequency

Re: [R] Subscript out of bounds

2013-11-26 Thread Jeff Newmiller
This is the kind of question where including the output of sessionInfo() is a really good idea. This would, for example, answer the question of whether you are in fact using the x64 version of R. --- Jeff Newmiller

[R] legend for bar plot ?

2013-11-26 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Hello; I have the following table m V2 V1 V3 1 C/L 0 732179 3 C/S 0 803926 19 D/F 0 724924 17 D/I 0 755841 13 D/L 0 731904 15 D/S 0 798289 11 I/F 0 871670 9 I/I 0 897718 5 I/L 0 2628113 7 I/S 0 2628113 2 C/L 1 1107269 4 C/S 1 1395714 20 D/F 1 1181282 18 D/I 1

Re: [R] Installing quantstrat

2013-11-26 Thread Ira Fuchs
Thanks for your help! I got quantstrat working after building it along with the FinancialInstrument and blotter packages (as well as foreach). Ira On Nov 26, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ira Fuchs irafu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Since

Re: [R] Problem with loop, matrix and data frame

2013-11-26 Thread jim holtman
You reused 'i' in the inner 'for' loop. This looks like it give the correct answer: n-c(10,8,7,5) n_goal-c(8,9,9,4) w-c(0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1) matrix-mat.or.vec(6,4) FI-function(n_t) { + (((n_goal[1]-n[1]+W[1]-f[1]+n_t[1])^2)+((n_goal[2]-n[2]+W[2]-f[2]+n_t[2]-n_t[1])^2)+ +

Re: [R] Thoughts for faster indexing

2013-11-26 Thread Noah Silverman
All interesting suggestions. I guess a better example of the code would have been a good idea. So, I'll put a relevant snippet here. Rows are cases. There are multiple cases for each ID, marked with a date. I'm trying to calculate a time recency weighted score for a covariate, added as a new

[R] How do I extract Random Forest Terms and Probabilities?

2013-11-26 Thread Lopez, Dan
Hi R Experts, I need your help with two question regarding randomForest. 1. When I run a Random Forest model how do I extract the formula I used so that I can store it in a character vector in a dataframe? For example the dataframe might look like this if I am running models using the

Re: [R] Thoughts for faster indexing

2013-11-26 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Noah Silverman noahsilver...@ucla.edu wrote: All interesting suggestions. I guess a better example of the code would have been a good idea. So, I'll put a relevant snippet here. Rows are cases. There are multiple cases for each ID, marked with a

[R] Append text to panels of lattice::barchart()

2013-11-26 Thread Tim Sippel
I could use a little help writing a panel function to append text to each panel of a lattice::barchart(). Below is a modified version of the barley dataset to illustrate. data(barley) # add a new variable called samp.size barley$samp.size-round(runif(n=nrow(barley), min=0, max=50),0) # Below is

[R] Coding systems.

2013-11-26 Thread gerald . jean
Hello, I am using R, 2.15.2, on a 64-bit Linux box. I run R through Emacs' ESS. R runs in a French, Canadian-French, locale and lately I got surprising results from functions making factor variables from character variables. Many of the variables in input data.frames are character variables

Re: [R] legend for bar plot ?

2013-11-26 Thread arun
Hi, May be: barplot(m$V3,names.arg=paste(m$V2,m$V1,sep=\n),col=rainbow(10)) #or barplot(m$V3,names.arg=m$V2,col=rainbow(20),legend=m$V1, args.legend = list(x = topright,box.lwd=0,border=FALSE)) A.K. On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:18 PM, Adel ESSAFI adeless...@gmail.com wrote: Hello; I have

Re: [R] Append text to panels of lattice::barchart()

2013-11-26 Thread p_connolly
On 2013-11-27 10:07, Tim Sippel wrote: I could use a little help writing a panel function to append text to each panel of a lattice::barchart(). Below is a modified version of the barley dataset to illustrate. data(barley) # add a new variable called samp.size

Re: [R] Append text to panels of lattice::barchart()

2013-11-26 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi Try barchart(yield ~ variety | site, data = barley, groups = year, layout = c(1,6), stack = TRUE, auto.key = list(space = right), ylab = Barley Yield (bushels/acre), scales = list(x = list(rot = 45)), panel = function(x,y,...){

Re: [R] Plotting multiple trends on one graph

2013-11-26 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi If you want to track the individual fish try turning the graph around. not all is displayed - just a concept graph windows(10,8) xyplot(gspd_mps ~ as.POSIXct(x)|TagID, dat, as.table = TRUE, layout = c(1,14), groups = Station, strip = FALSE, type

Re: [R] Append text to panels of lattice::barchart()

2013-11-26 Thread Tim Sippel
Thanks Duncan, although that helps me learn something new about lattice plots (I never had played with the as.table argument before), I need something a bit more elegant. I need to generate about 10 plots, each with up to 20 panels. So the panel-by-panel approach is a bit cludgier than I am

Re: [R] Direct (null) hypothesis testing using GLMMs - possible?

2013-11-26 Thread Ben Bolker
Tomer Czaczkes Tomer.Czaczkes at biologie.uni-regensburg.de writes: Dear Forumites, Hi, I'm a long time eavesdropper, first time poster, but I simply couldn't find any answer to this perhaps rather naive question: I am trying to see if my data is significantly different from a null

Re: [R] How do I extract Random Forest Terms and Probabilities?

2013-11-26 Thread arun
Hi, For the first part, you could do: fmi2 - fmi attributes(fmi2$terms) - NULL capture.output(fmi2$terms) #[1] Species ~ Sepal.Length + Sepal.Width + Petal.Length + Petal.Width A.k. On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:55 PM, Lopez, Dan lopez...@llnl.gov wrote: Hi R Experts, I need your help

Re: [R] Problems dealing with matrices

2013-11-26 Thread halim10-fes
Hi Arun, Thanks for your help. Sorry for my late response. Take care and stay fine. Regards, Halim On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:45:24 -0800 (PST), arun wrote Hi Halim, I guess this works for you.  Modifying Jeff's solution: volinp-c(0,0.000467,0.002762,0.008621,0.020014,0.038907,0.067094)

Re: [R] Functions in formulae ??

2013-11-26 Thread Jeremy Clark
Dear All, In the following simple case I can't seem to get an improved fit, despite trying all of the control possibilities. As there seem to be no examples anywhere which show use of functions such as dnorm within a formula, and as I am not confident at all that my formula is correctly

Re: [R] Functions in formulae ??

2013-11-26 Thread Jeremy Clark
PLEASE REMOVE THIS MESSAGE AND PREVIOUS COPIES ! - Many thanks Dear All, In the following simple case I can't seem to get an improved fit, despite trying all of the control possibilities. As there seem to be no examples anywhere which show use of functions such as dnorm within a formula, and as

[R] Tukey, Bartlett

2013-11-26 Thread Béatrice Perron
Bonjour, j'ai une série de 18 groupes de données de 20 réplicats chaque à comparer (dont plusieurs controles). Est-ce que je peux faire un test de Tukey pour analyser autant de données? si oui, comment? sinon, quel test je peux faire? J'ai fait un bartlett.test pour vérifier l'égalité des

[R] trouble using mat2listw function to create spatial weights object

2013-11-26 Thread Jacquelyn Pless
Hi all, I am attempting to create a weights object and perform a Moran I test as well. I have a very large spatial weights matrix (roughly 22,000x22,000) that was created in Excel and read into R, and I'm now trying to implement: library(spdep) SW=mat2listw(matrix) I am getting the following

[R] Control the whole margin of a graph(including plot area and title/footnote) in R

2013-11-26 Thread Mina Chen
Hi, I am a novice of R and I have attended the coursea courses for computing for R analysis. Recently I am using both the lattice and ggplots package to create scatterplot in R. when using lattice package, I can contrl the whole graph size(including plot area and title/footnote) with below codes:

[R] roots for two variables.

2013-11-26 Thread Binod Manandhar
I was trying to find root for two non-linear equations.  My equation is similar as follows:  120 – 5* exp(b0+b1*4) / (1+ exp(b0+b1*4) ) = 0  690 – 31* exp(b0+b1*4) / (1+ exp(b0+b1*4) ) =0   How could find value of bo and b1 root values? Thank you in advance.   Saymi

Re: [R] Tukey, Bartlett

2013-11-26 Thread Don McKenzie
On Nov 26, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Béatrice Perron beatrice_per...@hotmail.com wrote: Bonjour, j'ai une série de 18 groupes de données de 20 réplicats chaque à comparer (dont plusieurs controles). Est-ce que je peux faire un test de Tukey pour analyser autant de données? si oui, comment? sinon,

Re: [R] Tukey, Bartlett

2013-11-26 Thread Pascal Oettli
Bonjour, Il serait préférable de poster votre question en anglais. Mais à mon sens, ceci est plutôt une question de statistique générale, sans rapport direct avec R. Please post your question in English, as everybody would be able to understand it. But I would ask a local statistician for

[R] Buse's GLS R2

2013-11-26 Thread Sheri O'Connor
I was wondering if anyone knew of a package that contained a function of Buse's (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2683631 ) GLS R2 equation? If not, I would greatly appreciate any pointers about how I would implement Buse's equation using the results from nlme::gls function! Thanks very much for your

Re: [R] Generating Frequency Values

2013-11-26 Thread Burhan ul haq
Hi, A big thanks to everyone who replied. But special ones to Berend for pointing out my mistakes, that will really help me in future. Cheers ! On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Berend Hasselman b...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 26-11-2013, at 15:59, Burhan ul haq ulh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: [R] Control the whole margin of a graph(including plot area and title/footnote) in R

2013-11-26 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi I do not know what in.data is and I am not familiar with ggplot2 and I am not sure what you mean I think you need to keep things simple and explain what you want and dput a dataset Try this xyplot(test2 ~ test1, data = in.data, groups = SEX, par.settings =

Re: [R] Subscript out of bounds

2013-11-26 Thread Keniajin Wambui
Dear Jeff; Below is the output for sessioninfo() R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United

Re: [R] Buse's GLS R2

2013-11-26 Thread Pascal Oettli
Hello, Using 'sos': library(sos) findFn('buse') Hope this helps, Pascal On 27 November 2013 14:55, Sheri O'Connor socon...@lakeheadu.ca wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a package that contained a function of Buse's (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2683631 ) GLS R2 equation? If not, I

Re: [R] Subscript out of bounds

2013-11-26 Thread Keniajin Wambui
Here is the error am getting Error: chunk 1 Error in tt[[ll[v]]] : subscript out of bounds Error in rle(filenames) : 'x' must be an atomic vector Calls: Anonymous - Anonymous - RweaveTryStop Execution halted On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Keniajin Wambui kiang...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Jeff;

Re: [R] roots for two variables.

2013-11-26 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 27-11-2013, at 05:16, Binod Manandhar gibi...@yahoo.com wrote: I was trying to find root for two non-linear equations. My equation is similar as follows: 120 – 5* exp(b0+b1*4) / (1+ exp(b0+b1*4) ) = 0 690 – 31* exp(b0+b1*4) / (1+ exp(b0+b1*4) ) =0 How could find value of bo and

Re: [R] Coding systems.

2013-11-26 Thread Jan van der Laan
Could it be that your r-script is saved in a different encoding than the one used by R (which will probably be UTF8 since you're working on linux)? -- Jan gerald.j...@dgag.ca schreef: Hello, I am using R, 2.15.2, on a 64-bit Linux box. I run R through Emacs' ESS. R runs in a