Re: [R] R MySQL (Databases)

Hi! Santosh Srinivas wrote: Dear R-helpers, Considering that a substantial part of analysis is related data manipulation, I'm just wondering if I should do the basic data part in a database server (currently I have the data in .txt file). For this purpose, I am planning to use MySQL. Is MySQL

[R] how to draw a spherical quadrant

Hi, Please, could you tell me if is there a R package that allow to draw spherical quadrants? The value of each point of the quadrant has to represent the power generated by a kite on that point tied to a line located in the center of the quadrant. Please, could you give me any clue?

Re: [R] how to draw a spherical quadrant

Thanks, Jim! Jim Lemon wrote: You may find that the radial.plot function in the plotrix package will do what you want. I think you are looking at the polygon type of plot. It seems to me that I've a lot of things to learn only from plotrix package! With the functions included in this

Re: [R] how to draw a spherical quadrant

Thanks for pointing me on that direction! Extremely feature-rich this, as usual, package! Duncan Murdoch wrote: The rgl package can do general 3D plotting, but I don't know of anyone who has put together what you're looking for, so you'll need to compute the individual line segments or

Re: [R] Again: wget parameters

Hi Christian! Sorry for being late. David Winsemius wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:58 PM, christiaan pauw wrote: Hi Ricardo and everybody In this old post to rhelp you say that the problem was solved but not what the sollution was. I have the same problem now. I want to read a Excel file

Re: [R] Again: wget parameters

Thanks Gavin. Gavin Simpson wrote: Unfortunately, binaries are not available on CRAN for MacOS X and Windows, though Prof. Brian Ripley provides a binary for the later - see the link on the RCurl page on CRAN: Installation of the source worked like charm by using R package installer after

Re: [R] Again: wget parameters

Thanks again, Gavin. Gavin Simpson wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 11:43 +0200, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: Thanks Gavin. Gavin Simpson wrote: Unfortunately, binaries are not available on CRAN for MacOS X and Windows, though Prof. Brian Ripley provides a binary for the later

Re: [R] Again: wget parameters

OK! Gavin Simpson wrote: Sorry, I meant: install.packages(RCurl, type = source) G Here the output. Now, it seems to install without a glitch. I'm afraid I won't learn this time the origin of that message! http://xen.net/txt/installSourceRCurl20100827.txt Thanks for your help,

[R] fun.aggregate=mean in reshape

Hi all, We are facing a problem while introducing ourselves to Reshape package use. Melt seems to work fine, but cast fails when we use mean as fun.aggregate. As you see here, length and sum work fine, but mean throws this same error whatever dataset we use. cast(aqm, month ~ variable,

Re: [R] passing username and password to source()

Peter McMahan wrote: try something like this: username - abc pass - 123 source(paste(http://,username,:,pass,@mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/R/3Dsurface.r,sep=;)) I'm not sure it'll work but it's worth a try. Thanks, Peter. It didn't work. I am guessing it depends

[R] passing username and password to source()

Please, is it possible to pass an username and a password to source() to access code stored in restricted access web server? I know I can use commands like... source(http://mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/R/3Dsurface.r;) but I am not able to find if it is possible to pass

Re: [R] fun.aggregate=mean in reshape

Charilaos Skiadas wrote: It tells you that a call to get was attempted looking for a variable of mode function, and such a variable was not found. The problem is of course that the call tells you the variable is named fun, while you expected it to be named mean. But it alerts to the fact

Re: [R] fun.aggregate=mean in reshape

Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: Do you have an object called 'mean' that's masking the base::mean function? I can replicate your error using the following: HTH, It did! I had a mean object in the current workspace. Once it was deleted, the argument works without a glitch. Sorry for being late

Re: [R] passing username and password to source()

Dieter Menne wrote: One way to handle this is to use Sys.setenv/Sys.getenv to pass parameters by environment. Make sure, however, that this does not violate security, because these parameter could be read by other programs. A quick workaround would be that the receiving program immediately

Re: [R] passing username and password to source()

Phil Spector wrote: Ricardo - The authentication can't be done through environmental variables -- the only way is to send an Authorization header. I believe the environmental variables that Dieter is thinking of are the ones that are created on the server side based on the headers that

Re: [R] passing username and password to source()

Phil Spector wrote: Ricardo - If you use cat to look at the variable request in the getauth function that I sent you previously, you'll see exactly what I'm saying to the server. It's something like this: GET /myfile.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: mycomputer.com Authorization: Basic

[R] running R as a web service

Hi all, As R is gaining space in our research group as language and environment for statistical computing and graphics it will be really helpful to have the option of using R as a web service. We are currently using a collaborative edition wiki tool (XWiki) to develop R code. And we can call

[R] using cat()

Please, could you give me an example about how to use cat() to read the value of a variable in a function? Any other way? I've found how to make it globally available, thus printing it, but I don't know how to read out the value of any variable within the function. Thanks for your help,

Re: [R] using cat()

Thanks, Bill bill.venab...@csiro.au wrote: fn - function(x) { j - x+1 cat(the value of j is , j, \n) j } fn(1:10) It is clear for me now the use of cat(). As Steve pointed out in his mail, I've failed at providing an example, one of the rules of thumb of this list!

Re: [R] using cat()

Thanks, Steve, Steve Lianoglou wrote: It seems like you're asking to use cat() for something it's not meant to do. cat() is generally used to write output, either to the screen or to a file. Sorry for not adding an example to my first post! And yes, I was trying to use it for something it

Re: [R] using cat()

Sorry, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: eval(parse(text=getauth('http://tinyurl.com/ne5bl3',user,pass))) I get NULL. Please, use DummyDummy as user and dummy as pass if you want to try it. Thanks. I think the proposed URL could present some more problems. Please, use this one

[R] wget parameters

Hi, Following an example I've received from Phil Spector, I am trying to get a remote file by using download file. The concerned remote server doesn't username and password passed with the URL, thus this line fails...

Re: [R] wget parameters

Please, accept my apologies for keeping posting in HTML format! Solved! Greetings, Ricardo [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: Hi, Following an example I've received from Phil Spector, I am trying to get a remote file by using download file. The concerned remote server doesn't

[R] rotate bar labels in barplot()

Hi all, It is for sure that I could find more powerful packages to plot my data, but this simple barplot() was doing well so far. My problem now is that I would need to rotate bar labels. Please, is this possible without going to use axis()? I am trying to keep the workflow as simple as

Re: [R] rotate bar labels in barplot()

Thanks Peter, Peter Alspach wrote: Ricardo The las argument will allow rotation of 90 degrees: par(mfrow=c(2,2)) barplot(1:10, names=letters[1:10], las=0) barplot(1:10, names=letters[1:10], las=1) barplot(1:10, names=letters[1:10], las=2) barplot(1:10, names=letters[1:10], las=3) If

Re: [R] [R-SIG-Mac] sizing of quartz

Oops! Sorry! Accept my apologies. I've sent this message to the wrong list. Best regards, Ricardo [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: Those are good news. Prof Brian Ripley wrote: You didn't tell us the version of R. quartz() is different in 2.7.0 alpha

Re: [R] [R-SIG-Mac] sizing of quartz

Those are good news. Prof Brian Ripley wrote: You didn't tell us the version of R. quartz() is different in 2.7.0 alpha, and there the function arguments do work (and the size is really as advertised and not at a notional 72dpi). In fact, it is a much more standard device and interface,

[R] looking for a string

Hi all, I have not been able to find an answer to what is a simple question: conaguaMexicoSub - subset(conagua, unidad == Jalapa, select = c(equipo,X101:X309)) This subset gives me all the rows from conagua where unidad is Jalapa. But, please, how do I get all the rows where unidad contents

Re: [R] looking for a string

Thanks! Here what I get: Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: Try something like this: x[grep(Jalapa, x$unidad),, drop = F] conaguaMexicoSub - subset(conagua, unidad == x[grep(Jalapa, x$unidad),, drop = F], select = c(equipo,X101:X309)) Error en x$unidad : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

Re: [R] looking for a string

Charles C. Berry wrote: You want ?regexpr Something like regexpr(Jalapa, as.character( unidad ) ) != -1 HTH, Chuck Please, look at this... substringJalapa - regexpr(Jalapa, as.character(conagua$unidad ) ) != -1 Hubo 50 o más avisos (use warnings() para ver los primeros

Re: [R] [R-SIG-Mac] language

Thanks. Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Which messages? R.app and R itself handle this differently for their messages. You will find a discussion in the 'R Installation and Administration' manual. You don't give an address, but I suspect you are in a Spanish-speaking locale. I believe the

[R] a question of alphabetical order

Hi all, In Spanish vowels with accent like á, é, ... doesn't affect to the alphabetical order of vector of strings. I mean, a or á don't matter for establishing the alphabetical order. Nevertheless, while working with R order, here is what I get. Given a file transport.txt medio#variable

Re: [R] a question of alphabetical order

Tricky question, this order issue :-( Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. Thus, please, must I conclude that I will have to survive with this ASCII order while working in Mac OS X 10.5.2 until Mac people fix this bug? You spoke about es_ES.ISO8859-15 in Mac. Will it do the trick?

Re: [R] looking for a string

Thanks all, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/04/14 Mon PM 07:43:23 CDT To: Henrique Dallazuanna [EMAIL PROTECTED], r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] looking for a string henrique means to use his command directly

Re: [R] a question of alphabetical order

://mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/images/MexRenderErrors.png Well, the solution seems to be to set order with a locale, and to create the output with the other, is this possible? Thanks! Ricardo [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: Tricky question, this order issue :-( Thank you

Re: [R] looking for a string

Thanks Mark! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/04/15 Tue PM 04:48:12 CDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] looking for a string Hi Ricardo: you can use the idea you found below to apply

Re: [R] a question of alphabetical order

Thanks Hans! Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote: Hi, as already mentioned, sorting could be a pain. My solution to that is to write my own order routine for a given language. The idea is to transform the UTF-8 string into ASCII in such a way that the built-in order routine outputs the desired

Re: [R] looking for a string

Thanks Mark! Mark Leeds wrote: Hi Ricardo: you can look at ?regexpr but I'm pretty sure that below returns a vector of TRUES and FALSES depending on whether the condition ( is Jalapa contained in unidad ) is TRUE. So, wherever the vector is TRUE is where Jalapa was contained in unidad. So,

Re: [R] looking for a string

Charles C. Berry wrote: Like this: conaguaMexicoSub - subset(conagua, regexpr(Jalapa, as.character( unidad ) ) != -1 select = c(equipo,X101:X309)) But it looks like you have to sort out some issues concerning dueling locales first. Chuck Far clear! Thanks! Now, if I

Re: [R] looking for a string

Mark Leeds wrote: Hi Ricardo: I'm glad it helped but check regexpr(Jalapa, as.character( unidad ) ) != -1 because I think it should be regexpr(Jalapa, as.character( DF$unidad ) ) != -1 if unidad is a column of DF. Checked! attach(DF) did the trick! :-) Greetings, Ricardo -- Ricardo

Re: [R] a question of alphabetical order

Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote: Hola, Muchas gracias! This is new to me. I learnt Spanish a bit - well - 20 years ago ;) But this simplifies it. This change happens just 14 years ago! You you are not guilty! Recuerdos Hans Saludos cordiales! Read you in Spanish whenever you want! Ricardo

[R] vector in filename

Hi, I am trying to generate a group of graphics with an iteration. Some thing like this... x=1 y=1 max=10 myfiles - paste(foo, x:max, .png, sep=) while (x = max) { png(file=myfiles, pointsize = 20, width = 600, height = 600, units = px, bg=#eaedd5) plot(x,y)

Re: [R] vector in filename

Hi, Simon Blomberg wrote: How about this: x - 1 y - 1 mmax - 10 my.files - paste(foo, x:mmax, .png, sep=) for (i in my.files) { png(filename=i, pointsize=20, width=600, height=600, units=px, bg=#eaedd5) plot(x, y) dev.off() x - x+1 y - y+1 }

Re: [R] vector in filename

Thanks Hadley, hadley wickham wrote: Have you looked at ?png : filename: the name of the output file. The page number is substituted if a C integer format is included in the character string, as in the default. (The result must be less than 'PATH_MAX'

[R] generic question - Genomics with R

Hi everybody, I am trying to make my mind about the use of R for Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics. I know this is a vaste field: this is the main reason why I am sending this message to this always useful list! Any key/entry point to this field will be extremely welcome!

Re: [R] generic question - Genomics with R

Thank you so much. All the answers lead me to BioConductor and Task Views. Currently, I've not a precise task to solve, but I do need to draw a landscape about this topic. Your messages have helped a lot. I don't know why, but I don't reach BioConductor website by googling or searchmashing.

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Hi John, John Kane wrote: help(%in%) may be of use. However I don't see any overlap in your example. You are right! I've choosen an example where the intersection is 0. But we could consider this other case... endPeriod-as.POSIXlt(2008-09-30) startPeriod-as.POSIXlt(2007-10-01)

Re: [R] time segments intersection

2008-10-05 3 8 2008-10-06 4 9 2008-10-07 5 10 range(time(merge(z1, z2, all = FALSE))) [1] 2008-10-02 2008-10-07 On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:48 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Please, how could I calculate the time that two time segments

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Hi Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi: I don't know if it's the best way but one way is to use an POSIXct object. ( you can convert using as.POSIXct( strptime(datestring)) because then each unit of digit is a second and you can proceed from there. if you explain what you want to do

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Hi, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Try this: install.packages(zoo, dep = TRUE) Here the result. I've tried with a couple of mirrors (Bristol and Spain): install.packages(zoo, dep = TRUE) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: unable to access index for repository

Re: [R] time segments intersection

OK. Please, how do I force the select directory window to pop-up after selecting a given repos and without restarting R? When I submit install.packages(zoo, dep = TRUE) for the first time after R starts, I am required to select a mirror. But this doesn't happen in the next install command at

Re: [R] time segments intersection

PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: Hi Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi: I don't know if it's the best way but one way is to use an POSIXct object. ( you can convert using as.POSIXct( strptime(datestring)) because then each unit of digit is a second and you can proceed from

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Thanks Gabor, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Try: chooseCRANmirror() It works the call to the pop-up window, but it fails now whatever mirror I use with the following message: install.packages(zoo,repos=chooseCRANmirror()) /bin/sh: tar: command not found Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain =

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Thanks Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # MAKE POSIXct OBJECTS FROM CHARACTER STRINGS temp1 - as.POSIXct(strptime(2007-02-02,%Y-%m-%d)) temp2 - as.POSIXct(strptime(2007-02-01,%Y-%m-%d)) # TEMP1 AND TEMP2 ARE SORT OF NUMBERS BUT EACH UNIT IS ONE # SECOND result - difftime(temp1,temp2) # STILL

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Thanks Hadley, hadley wickham wrote: Also ensure that you have an up-to-date version of R. Hadley I think the most recent release... version _ platform i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 arch i386 os

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Thanks Mark! Mark Leeds wrote: Hi Ricardo: My date knowledge is mostly restricted to as.POSIXct so I don't know what else to tell you. Did you ever work out that zoo downloading problem because Gabor's solutions are usually excellent. I've not worked out the problems I am facing while

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Thanks Gabor, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: If those do not work try installing some other packages, e.g. chron, to see if you can install anything. If you still have problems there is something wrong with your installation. Ask on the r-sig-mac list. You are right: something is wrong with

Re: [R] [R-SIG-Mac] /bin/sh: tar: command not found

Thanks, Ben Ben Bolker wrote: Since this is not my package (and I'm still not a Mac user), I think you must think about becoming a Mac person in spite of this problems :-) I really have no idea ... I never heard back from Andrew, don't know if he found a solution or if the problem

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Hi! [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: Thanks Gabor, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: If those do not work try installing some other packages, e.g. chron, to see if you can install anything. If you still have problems there is something wrong with your installation. Ask on the r-sig

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Mark did not post his response so I don't know what it is. This is Mark's proposal. Sorry, I was speaking about it as if posted to the list. # MAKE POSIXct OBJECTS FROM CHARACTER STRINGS temp1 - as.POSIXct(strptime(2007-02-02,%Y-%m-%d)) temp2 -

Re: [R] time segments intersection

Thanks. Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Assuming the first row is the comparison row convert to Date class and calculate: DF[] - lapply(DF, as.Date, format = %Y/%m/%d) pmin(DF[[2]], DF[1, 2]) - pmax(DF[[1]], DF[1,1]) Please be explicit next time in formulating your queries as requested in the last

Re: [R] Creating GUIs for R

Greg Snow wrote: Wade, What type of GUI do you want? Do you want a full GUI that the user runs to do everything (that uses R as the computational engine)? Look at R commander, JGR, and the R plugin for Excel as possible examples. Hi Wade, I am trying to introduce some users to R without

Re: [R] Creating GUIs for R

Greg Snow wrote: http://rcom.univie.ac.at/ Or just install the RExcelInstaller package and run the installRExcel function. A book on the interface will be coming out sometime in Winter. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] Creating GUIs for R

Hi, eugene dalt wrote: Check out R-PLUS 3.3 from XLSolutions Corp. They have a GUI that you can easily expand. www.Experience-Rplus.com Windows only? We are trying to moved out of Windows. The objective is to promote an environment that support us much environments as possible. Linux,

Re: [R] Creating GUIs for R

Thanks Greg, Greg Snow wrote: I am not involved in the RExcel project. I have just had some discussions with the people that are, so you should contact them for specific questions. I believe that this currently only works on windows, there was some mention of possibly expanding it to

Re: [R] Creating GUIs for R

function available to everyone else (none of whom know R). Very happy with it. Good luck, Roger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:05 PM To: Greg Snow Cc

Re: [R] NotePad++ Syntax file

John Kane wrote: No but have you had a look at Tinn-R http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/. Any similar option for Mac OS X? Please, accept my excuses for cross posting, but I think this message could/should also be addressed to the R-SigMAC list. Thanks! Best, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez

Re: [R] NotePad++ Syntax file

Thanks, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team webmas...@xen.net writes: John Kane wrote: No but have you had a look at Tinn-R http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/. Any similar option for Mac OS X? I guess you can use Emacs on Mac OS X. I've downloaded

Re: [R] Best R text editors?

Hi! Corrado wrote: Eclipse + StatET (the R plugin) both on Linux and Windows Please, does it work with Eclipse 3.5 Galileo on a Mac OS X (10.5.8) box? Thanks! -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Has any one tested R 2.9.2 on Snow Leopard?

Hi! Jorgy Porgee wrote: Hi all, not sure if this is the right place to ask this but R not being such a mainstream app, can't find the answer anywhere. I plan to upgrade to Snow asap and just wondering if anyone else has already and has successfully used R on Mac OSX 10.6. If so, what version?

Re: [R] Best R text editors?

Thanks, Corrado. Corrado wrote: I am using 3.4.2 not 3.5, I would not know. But it is worth visiting the STATET mailing list archive and subscribe to the mailing list. FYI, here the available public testing version for Eclipse 3.5

Re: [R] Book on R programming

Hi, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: Most books on R I come across describe running statistical procedures in R. Any suggestions on a good book that teaches *programming* in R? Thanks, Anjan This is being really useful for me... John M. Chambers (2008) Software for Data Analysis. Programming with