Re: [R] [External] Amazing AI

2022-12-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Next year one of my R programming assigments will read like this: "Here is some R code written by a multi-million dollar AI system to compute [something]. It doesn't work. Fix the bugs, then ask the AI to write a letter to its creators apologising for how rubbish it is at coding. Collect one

Re: [R] [External] Re: Is there a canonical way to pronounce CRAN?

2022-05-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
If the founders had called it the Big R Archive Network we wouldn't be having this discussion but we'd all be getting our packages from BRAN. Or how about "Big R Internet Archive Network" Or would that be confusing... Barry On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:51 PM Kevin Thorpe wrote: > This email

Re: [R] Greek characters in R studio

2019-04-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
What have you tried? read.table works perfectly for me with no language or encoding arguments. Here's a text file at the Linux command line: $ cat greek.csv α, β 1,2 3,4 I just have to tell it to use comma separators and there is a header line. Here's R: >

Re: [R] getting 21 very different colours

2018-09-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/09/2018 3:34 AM, Federico Calboli wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am plotting a scatterplot of 21 populations, and I am using > rainbow(21)[pops.col] to generate 21 colours for the plot (which works). > Maybe it is because I can really

Re: [R] security using R at work

2018-08-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Jan van der Laan wrote: > You can also inadvertently transmit data to the internet using a package > without being obviously 'stupid', e.g. by using a package that uses an > external service for data processing. For example, some javascript > visualisation libs can

Re: [R] security using R at work

2018-08-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Laurence Clark wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to download R and use it for work purposes. I hope to use it to > analyse very sensitive data from our clients. > > My question is: > > If I install R on my work network computer, will the data ever leave our >

Re: [R] prod(NaN, NA) vs. prod(NA, NaN)

2018-07-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I'm having deja-vu of a similar discussion on R-devel: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-July/076377.html This was the funniest inconsistency I could find: > sum(c(NaN,NA)) [1] NaN > sum(NaN,NA) [1] NA THEY'RE IN THE SAME ORDER!!! The doc in ?NaN has this clause: In R,

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Depending on your application, I'm not sure there's much point in being an "advanced R programmer" these days. Become an adequate R programmer, and learn C++ and Rcpp. Do basic data mashing in R, then do all your intensive stuff in C++ with Rcpp. Eventually you'll probably get to the point where

Re: [R] reading lisp file in R

2018-01-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
The file also has a bunch of email headers stuck in the middle of it: . (QUALITY-OF-LIFE SCALE:1-5 4) (ACADEMIC-EMPHASIS HEALTH-SCIENCE) ) --- --- >From lebow...@cs.columbia.edu Mon Feb 22 20:53:02 1988 Received: from zodiac by meridian (5.52/4.7) Received: from

Re: [R] Vibration signal prediction in R

2017-08-24 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 7:07 AM, David Winsemius wrote: > > > On Aug 23, 2017, at 10:06 PM, Dhivya Narayanasamy > wrote: > > > > I have a vibration signal coming accelerometer. I converted this signal > from* > > m/s^2* to *mm/s*. Now I am supposed

Re: [R] Beginner’s Question

2017-06-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Neil Salkind wrote: > Please excuse the naive question but my first hour with RStudio, resulted in > this… > >> data() >> data(“women”) > Error: unexpected input in "data(�” > > So,that did not work but > >>data(women) > > without the

Re: [R] Whitespace

2017-05-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
That looks like an error from Stan parsing your stan file, but the code you put in the message doesn't look like Stan code, it looks like R code, so maybe you've tried to parse your R code with Stan There's no mention of stan in the code either, like the rstan package, so somehow you've got a

Re: [R] help on readBin in R

2017-04-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
There's very little justification for attaching binary files to a mailing list these days - share it on Dropbox, or Box, or Hubic, or whatever MS or Google's cloud storage is, or simply tell us where it was obtained from originally. And to the original poster - some more context is very useful -

Re: [R] Deploying R on the cloud - Help Please

2017-04-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Axel Urbiz wrote: > Hello, > > I work for a large organization who is looking to productionize (deploy) > models built in R on the cloud. Currently, we were looking into IBM > Bluemix, but I’ve been told only Python is supported for model

Re: [R] commercial license

2016-09-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Why do you want a commercial license? The software is free of charge and free to use anywhere. If you want support of some kind, then you need to spell this out - there are companies and consultants who will support your R work for a price. On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:39 AM,

Re: [R] How to reach the column names in a huge .RData file without loading it

2016-03-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
You *might* be able to get them from the raw file... First, I don't quite know what "colnames" of an .RData file means. "colnames" are the column names of a matrix (or data frame), so I'll assume your .RData file contains exactly one data frame and you want to column names of it. So let's create

Re: [R] divide polygon shapefile into 3 equal areas

2016-02-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
ks!! >> >> I would like to slice it vertically and have 3 distinct areas of equal >> area. So I need to chop it up into 3 areas of equal size essentially. >> >> There is no tool to do it in QGIS!! >> >> Thanks >> >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5

Re: [R] divide polygon shapefile into 3 equal areas

2016-02-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Shane Carey wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to divide a polygon into 3 equal areas using R? Yes, in an infinite number of ways. Want to narrow it down? Specifically, you could slice it vertically, horizontally, or at any angle between. You

Re: [R] Error opening SHP file

2016-01-22 Thread Barry Rowlingson
We can duplicate the error by giving a path to a non-existent shapefile, which is probably the original problem: > require(maptools) Loading required package: maptools Loading required package: sp Checking rgeos availability: TRUE > foo=readShapeSpatial("fnord.shp") Error in getinfo.shape(fn) :

Re: [R] (no subject)

2015-10-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
lists in R can have multiple elements with the same name but if you try and access elements by name you only get the first. For example: > a = list(x=99, x=23, x=456) > a$x [1] 99 Its just the way it is. Note you might find the `str` function useful to see the structure of R objects: >

Re: [R] names in R list's

2015-09-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Witold E Wolski wrote: > What is the access time for R lists given a name of list element, is it > linear, log, or constant? Try it and see? > Than what are to rules for names in R-lists > > That reusing names is possible makes me wonder. >

Re: [R] R command to open a file browser on Windows and Mac?

2015-08-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
And for completeness, on linux: system(paste0(xdg-open ,getwd())) there's a function in a package somewhere that hides the system dependencies of opening things with the appropriate application, and if you pass a folder/directory to it I reckon it will open it in the

Re: [R] API request from R

2015-02-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On 19 Feb 2015 20:11, Robert Baer rb...@atsu.edu wrote: On 2/19/2015 8:06 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mittal Ashra via R-help r-help@r-project.org wrote: Dear All, Apologies for mailing it to the whole crowd. This is Mittal, presently working in a Project

Re: [R] API request from R

2015-02-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mittal Ashra via R-help r-help@r-project.org wrote: Dear All, Apologies for mailing it to the whole crowd. This is Mittal, presently working in a Project where we have build a platform for displaying recommendations and the results are based on the

Re: [R] Interview questions?

2015-01-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Ask if they have a favourite R programmer. This will tell you how much into the R culture they are, and perhaps also tell you if their opinions of a good programmer concur with yours... On 11 Jan 2015 16:49, Keith S Weintraub kw1...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I was wondering if anyone has put

Re: [R] number of individuals where X=0 during all periods (longitudinal data)

2014-12-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
obligatory dplyr solution: library(dplyr) zeroes = Test %% group_by(ID) %% summarise(Zs=all(X==0)) - that gives you a data frame of unique ID and Zs==TRUE if that ID has all zeroes. With that you just sum(zeroes$Zs) to get the total number with all zeroes. Or add %% filter(Zs) %% nrow() to the

Re: [R] Count number of Fridays in a month

2014-10-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Or try this: fridays - function(the_day){ require(lubridate) day(the_day) = 1 the_month = seq(the_day, the_day+months(1)-days(1),1) sum(wday(the_month) == 6) } That returns the number of Fridays in the month of a Date object given as arg: fridays(as.Date(2012-01-01)) [1] 4

Re: [R] Parliament Seats Graph

2014-09-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: I can see how you would plot the points going from right to left (the easy way), by plotting the next point on the arc with the least increase in angle from the last point plotted. If this is the way you have worked out, I

Re: [R] Parliament Seats Graph

2014-09-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
/09/2014, 7:18 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: I can see how you would plot the points going from right to left (the easy way), by plotting the next point on the arc with the least increase in angle from the last point plotted

Re: [R] Parliament Seats Graph

2014-09-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/09/2014, 7:18 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: I can see how you would plot the points going from right to left (the easy way), by plotting the next point on the arc

Re: [R] Operator proposal: %between%

2014-09-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:28 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: If you are accepting feature requests The R issue tracker has a wishlist section:

Re: [R] How to get source code of a package

2014-09-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:01 AM, madhvi.gupta madhvi.gu...@orkash.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to get source code of a package of R? I want to integrate elastic search with R if there is any way please let me know or give me a direction to do that. Which R packages do you want source

Re: [R] loading saved files with objects in same names

2014-08-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Jinsong Zhao jsz...@yeah.net wrote: Hi there, I have several saved data files (e.g., A.RData, B.RData and C.RData). In each file, there are some objects with same names but different contents. Now, I need to compare those objects through plotting. However, I

Re: [R] R License

2014-05-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Juan Ulises Bohorquez Carvajal juan.bohorq...@ecopetrol.com.co wrote: Thanks, could you send to me an official certificate in pdf with this information? Or a certified email to support the information license? And what would be the authority that supplies such

Re: [R] dist like function but where you can configure the method

2014-05-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Witold E Wolski wewol...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Jari, Thanks for your reply... The overhead would be 2 for loops for(i in 1:dim(x)[2]) for(j in i:dim(x)[2]) isn't it? Or are you seeing a different way to implement it? A for loop is pretty expensive in R.

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Ashis Deb ashisde...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all , I have a GUI package , which I want to make it work for a certain period,say-30days ,after which it should be self destructive . Could it be possible ?? Yes. But why

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ashis Deb ashisde...@gmail.com wrote: Well it's the company requirement to do so , and give it on a trial basis to client to check , if they like they will BUY or it will self destruct itself , No, if they like it they will BUY or they will

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote: One company I know installed an S-Plus or R package only on servers, so their customers had to use it on a server. (In this case, the customers had a GUI and may not have known that it was

Re: [R] as.character(quote(x$y) ) = $ x y not x$y?

2014-05-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote: Beware of the is.* functions: * is.object() does not test the usual definition of objects * is.vector() does not test the usual definition of vectors * is.numeric() does not work the same way as is.character() or

Re: [R] R and GML data from the Canadian Goverment

2014-05-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
You want to have a look at the R Spatial Task View for starters... GML files can be read by the rgdal package's readOGR function. But be warned GML is a complex beast. For example, I downloaded canvec_gml_AB_EN.zip from that site, it unzips to a GML (and an xsd) with a lot of layers, some of

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan Greenberg j...@illinois.eduwrote: C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.3 Does R on windows have clipboard support? I can do this on Linux: readLines(file(clipboard)) [1] C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-3.0.3 - that's from a copy of a path with only single slashes in.

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen fr...@vestas.comwrote: I'm a bit surprised about the \\ on a linux OS. I'm also surprised that in a file manager on Windows you can paste e.g. C:/users/frtog/Desktop and it can find its way to the folder. Weird. Well, the clipboard

Re: [R] Data file verification protocol

2014-03-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Wolf, Steven wolfs...@msu.edu wrote: Hi R users, This isn't a R-specific issue, per-se, but I thought that this list would have some helpful input on this topic. First, a bit of background. I am working on a project which is interested in following approx

Re: [R] regular pentagon

2014-03-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Rolf Turner r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: On 08/03/14 10:22, Yuanzhi Li wrote: Hello, everyone, Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular pentagon? Thanks in advance! You can easily do this using the spatstat package. Or

Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help on r.stackexchange.com ? (was: Re: Should there be an R-beginners list?)

2014-02-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: So in the end my proposal is not necessarily for r-help to go to SE, but more for R to have its own QA forum/wiki for helping R users. This could perfectly take the form of setting up its own open-source

Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help on r.stackexchange.com ?

2014-02-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
As one of the original ranters of hey lets move to StackOverflow a few years back (see my UseR! lightning talk from Warwick) I should probably stick my oar in. I don't think the SO model is a good model for all the discussions that go on on R-help. I think SO is a good model for questions that

Re: [R] (no subject)

2014-02-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Rolf Turner r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: On 02/02/14 15:37, mohammad javad Azadchehr wrote: Hi I want R code for bayesian CIF competing risks. best regards I want wealth, wisdom, good looks, and to play full forward for the Sydney Swans. One out of four

Re: [R] plotting points over a map using R

2014-01-31 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Try reading the R Spatial Task View: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html or this brilliant intro, and other files in that github repository: https://github.com/Robinlovelace/Creating-maps-in-R/blob/master/intro-spatial.md or any of the tutorials I've written on the subject! Barry

Re: [R] sourcing scripts

2014-01-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Ahmed M. El-Kenawy ken...@mans.edu.eg wrote: Error in memory.size(min = TRUE) : unused argument (min = TRUE) It looks like you've simply typed 'min=TRUE' instead of 'max=TRUE' somewhere! Somewhere other than the code you sent in the message, which had max=TRUE.

Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2014-01-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:36 AM, David Parkhurst parkh...@imap.iu.edu wrote: Thanks to the three people who saw what I missed. I typed my code in Libre Office as followed by -, and that program converted those two characters into a single left arrow symbol. I copied the commands from Libre

Re: [R] 3D Surface plot

2013-12-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Simon Delay-Fortier simon.delay-fort...@mail.mcgill.ca wrote: Hi everyone, I am a very new user of r (doing most of my previous stuff in vba). I am now mandated to draw a 3-d surface of a mine pit hole. I have all the location points (around 5000 points) of

Re: [R] read.csv interpreting numbers as factors

2013-12-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jeff Newmiller jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote: It is bad netiquette to hijack an existing thread for a new topic. Please start a new email thread when changing topics. If your data really consists of what you show, then read.csv won't behave that way. 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 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 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] Should there be an R-beginners list?

2013-11-25 Thread Barry Rowlingson
If you want a vision of an R-beginners list, it is a boot stamping ITS IN THE DOCUMENTATION into a newbies face - forever. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgeorwe159438.html slight exaggeration perhaps, but most R-beginners would benefit from reading a bit more documentation and

Re: [R] Should there be an R-beginners list?

2013-11-25 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Joran (on StackOverflow chat, funnily enough) has just pointed us to this: http://www.win.tue.nl/~bvasiles/papers/cscw14.pdf How Social QA Sites are Changing Knowledge Sharing in Open Source Software Communities which includes a graph of postings to R-help and questions tagged '[r]' on

Re: [R] quotation marks and scan

2013-11-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:42 PM, R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com michael.weyla...@gmail.com wrote: They're not actually there so don't try too hard to rid yourself of them: x - \' length(x) print(x) cat(x, \n) Did you mean to do 'nchar(x)' to show that \ was one character?

Re: [R] how to derive true surface area from `computeContour3d' (misc3d package) -- follow up

2013-11-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:01 PM, j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com wrote: ps: it of course would still be nice, if the surface area (or a vector containing the individual triangle areas) were returned to the caller as well ... Does the 'surfaceArea' function in the sp package do what

Re: [R] ascii-grid export

2013-11-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Enzo Cocca enzo@gmail.com wrote: yes barry I really need this. I tried to use raster or rgdal but with poor results. I have this function: VGM_PARAM_A3 - gstat(id=bos_bison, formula=combusto~1,locations=~coord_x+coord_y, data=archezoology_table, nmax =

Re: [R] convert one digit numbers to two digits one

2013-11-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
All these suggestions of using 'sprintf' might be right but you might be doing it wrong... If you are working with times, then use the date/time classes and the handy functions for working on them. Which means the lubridate package, most likely. Are these times part of a calendar time, or are

Re: [R] Basic question: why does a scatter plot of a variable against itself works like this?

2013-11-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Interestingly, fitting an LM with x on both sides gives a warning, and then drops it from the RHS, leaving you with just an intercept: lm(x~x,data=d) Call: lm(formula = x ~ x, data = d) Coefficients: (Intercept) 4 Warning messages: 1: In model.matrix.default(mt, mf, contrasts) :

Re: [R] Questions about R

2013-11-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Ye Lin ye...@lbl.gov wrote: You can get details at http://www.r-project.org/ But to answer your question: Yes it is free But there is also a paid version. Send me $1000 and I will send you R on a USB stick, complete with all the source code. Seriously, other

Re: [R] Download CSV Files from EUROSTAT Website

2013-11-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On 4 Nov 2013 19:30, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: Maybe you should use their download facility rather than trying to deparse a complex webpage with lots of special user interaction features: http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/setupDownloads.do That web page depends on

Re: [R] ascii-grid export

2013-11-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Or do you mean you want to write the gridded output of an interpolation you did (perhaps using kriging) in gstat as an ESRI ASCII Grid file for reading into a GIS? If so, you can probably do it with writeGDAL from the rgdal package, or writeRaster from the raster package. I don't really know

Re: [R] Code Book from SPSS Data

2013-10-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Peter Maclean pmaclean2...@yahoo.com wrote: I do not have SPSS and I would like to create a code book in a data frame format using R. #How could I extract a codebook (without Summary statistics for printing)? This isn't that clear because I don't think

Re: [R] May I send a zip attachment to a post?

2013-10-22 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:51 PM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Oct 21, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Hurr wrote: May I send a .zip file attached to a post? No. That's not explicit from the posting guide: No binary attachments except for PS, PDF, and some image and archive formats

Re: [R] What is the difference between Reduce(…) and do.call(…) ?

2013-10-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Asis Hallab asis.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R-Experts, So, what is the difference between Reduce and do.call and when best to use which? From the help: ‘Reduce’ uses a binary function to successively combine the elements of a given vector and a

Re: [R] Importing odf file into R

2013-10-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Peter Maclean pmaclean2...@yahoo.com wrote: Anyone aware of a package or technique to import odf data file into R, I will appreciate his/her help. A quick scan of R-help points me here: http://www.omegahat.org/ROpenOffice/ Reports of that working (or not)

Re: [R] Understanding classes in R

2013-09-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:48 PM, john doe anon.r.u...@gmail.com wrote: I am having trouble understanding how classes in R work. Here is a small reproducable example: x=1 class(x) [1] numeric OK. When a variable is a number, its class is numeric. Does R have multiple types for numbers,

Re: [R] Combining rasters

2013-09-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
[Probably an R-Sig-geo question...] On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:57 PM, philippe massicotte pmassico...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi everyone. I would like to know if it is possible to combine rasters in R to form a collage. For example, I would like to place 2 copies of the R logo side by side.

Re: [R] GO TO function in R

2013-08-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
No. We figured this out in 1968. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=362929.362947 On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:20 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Aug 1, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Peter Maclean wrote: Does R has a GO TO function? For example, I want to run this script at a given

Re: [R] Plotting gps coordinates on Shapefile

2013-06-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:26 AM, L S losedag...@gmail.com wrote: I realized that the coordinates are completely different. The coordinates in my data file (i.e. my csv file) are traditional GPS coordinates (e.g. 39.17 or 76.37). The shapefile however has x,y values such as 1416813.54262877

Re: [R] Loading an .RData file and assigning the loaded objects within a loop

2013-06-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Within lapply load the file and return the value of the thing or things in the file you want. Something like this: files [1] x1.RData x2.RData x3.RData x4.RData lapply(files,function(z){load(z);x}) [[1]] [1] 1 [[2]] [1] 22 [[3]] [1] 333 [[4]] [1] Each of my files contains a single

Re: [R] Execution of larger blocks of pasted code often fails?

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Mark Breman breman.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hello List, When i paste a large block of R code from an editor to the R command line the execution of the code will often fail at some point because it is not pasted as it was copied. This reminds me of the Tommy

Re: [R] Help retrieving only Portuguese words from a file

2013-05-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Rui Barradas ruipbarra...@sapo.pt wrote: Hello, And some words exist in Portuguese, Spanish and English, the three languages of the problem. For instance, animal. I don't think this problem can be solved, but a dictionary search would tell if it is a

Re: [R] spatially analyzing multiple data layers

2013-05-25 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Amy Henry amybethhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I started using R about 3 months ago so please excuse my ignorance. I have two datasets. The first consists of 247 fixed position mosquito traps that were serviced weekly for 23 weeks. The second is dengue incidence

Re: [R] Transform Coordinate System of an ASCII-Grid

2013-05-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:44 AM, jas jacqueline.schwei...@wuestundpartner.com wrote: Dear all, I have an ASCII-Grid for Switzerland in the Swiss National Coordinate System of CH1903. Now for a Webapplication of the ASCII-Grid, I need to deliver the ASCII-Grid in the WGS84 System. Via

Re: [R] peering inside functions in a package?

2013-05-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Seth Myers sjmyers3...@gmail.com wrote: Let's say I would like to look inside the function corBrownian in library (ape). When I type in the function name I get the following, which is not nearly the detail that goes into this function. I am wondering how to

Re: [R] Trouble with reading xml in R

2013-04-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Dorte Klerke dkle...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I have been trying for days now to read the contents of this xml file into R. I tried the simpler solution xmlToDataFrame, which worked on another file, but somehow it doesn't work for this file. How is this

Re: [R] 3D Histograms on a Geographical Map

2013-04-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Lorenzo Isella lorenzo.ise...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I like very much figure 2.a) and 2.b) of this paper http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130410/srep01640/pdf/srep01640.pdf and I probably need a similar visualization. Is anything like that doable in R? I

Re: [R] 10% off Intro R training from RStudio: NYC May 13-14, SF May 20-21

2013-04-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote: Hadley: I don't think this is appropriate. Think of what it would be like if everyone shilled their R training and consulting wares here. Everyone does, don't they? A search on Nabble shows up regular postings from

Re: [R] produce a map in ARCGIS from a GAM output

2013-04-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Lauria, Valentina valentina.lau...@nuigalway.ie wrote: Hi, I am trying to predict the habitat suitability of lobster with GAMs. I need to produce a map in ArcGis of the predicted densities. I did some search and the function predict.gam seems to do the job.

Re: [R] speedometer charts in R

2013-04-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:00 PM, R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com wrote: Look at the R GoogleVis package. Or read what Hadley W had to say on a similar question first: The question would why would you want to? You are trying to understand your data, not driving a race car or

Re: [R] edit.data() read-only?

2013-03-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Ted Harding ted.hard...@wlandres.net wrote: Greetings All. The function edit.data() allows a convenient spreadsheet-like view of a dataframe with too many rows/columns to fit on the screen (especially when there are many columns). Very useful when scanning

Re: [R] Feedback – Regarding R Programming Language Version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) Usage

2013-03-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:11 PM, R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com wrote: Please do not massively cross-post and provide a reproducible example (search stack overflow or other sites for advice on how to do so) I _guarantee_ you R is not broken in this sense. I would put money on

Re: [R] Excel User interface for R

2013-03-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Tammy Ma metal_lical...@live.com wrote: HI, Assume I have the data frame generated from R as the following: Product Price market_share A 10010% B 1109% C 12020% D 90

Re: [R] Commercial or not?

2013-02-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Pancho Mulongeni p.mulong...@namibia.pharmaccess.org wrote: Hi All, Let's say someone uses an R package (prefer to not disclose which) that comes with two different distributions,the commercial and non-commercial license. Now the non commercial license has

Re: [R] Cramer von Mises test for a discrete distribution

2013-02-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Santiago Guallar sgual...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Barry, Following your list order 1) It pops up a window saying R for windows GUI front-end crashed. Below three options: look for on-line solutions; shut down the program; debug the program (I'm translating

Re: [R] Cramer von Mises test for a discrete distribution

2013-02-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Santiago Guallar sgual...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to carry out Cramer von Mises tests between pairs of vectors belonging to a discrete distribution (concretely frequencies from 0 to 200). However, the program crashes in the attempt. The problem seems

Re: [R] Help with functions as arguments

2013-02-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Ian Renner ian_ren...@yahoo.com wrote: Where I am running into trouble is when I want to call function f1 within function f2: f2(x = 3, z = f1(x)) This returns the error: Error in f1(x) : object 'x' not found I'm not sure how to define environments

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] help with creating new variables using a loop

2013-02-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, christel lacaze christellac...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hi there, I've got a set of 10 numeric variables called Mood1 to Mood10 in a dataset called mood. That's where you went wrong in the first place. Don't use variable names for indexing purposes. You should

Re: [R] developing package: dealing with namespaces

2013-02-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/02/2013 12:59 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: I am tweaking an R package for which I have the source; the relevant code is in R not C. I'm making changes to the package code. What is the best workflow for doing

Re: [R] Modify objects in function

2013-01-31 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Simon Zehnder szehn...@uni-bonn.de wrote: Dear R community, I do know, that an R function is constructing a copy of any object passed as argument into a function. I program on a larger S4 project for a package, and I arrived at a point where I have to think

Re: [R] Modify objects in function

2013-01-31 Thread Barry Rowlingson
it lets you do: (a~b~c) = foo() Mistook. should be: (a~b~c) %=% foo() because it defines the %=% operator. Barry __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] Modify objects in function

2013-01-31 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Simon Zehnder szehn...@uni-bonn.de wrote: Hi Barry, this actually a good idea, to put them together! Probably even creating an object containing both of them. Haven't thought about it before. Hadley W asked for implementations of 'unstructuring assignments'

Re: [R] Approximating discrete distribution by continuous distribution

2013-01-22 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Michael Haenlein haenl...@escpeurope.eu wrote: I would like to find a continuous approximation of this discrete distribution in order to estimate the probability that a person is for example 16 years old. Given that people age continuously (and

Re: [R] Access data from URL

2013-01-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:36 PM, R_Antony antony.akk...@ge.com wrote: Hi all, i need a small help that i want to access data from a url. i tried with read.table(URL,header=TRUE) - but getting errors. actually no idea that how can be done. I am in new in this function as well as in R.

Re: [R] How to re-project ease( Equal Area Scalable Earth) grid with a ~25 km cylindrical projection to WGS84 0.25 degree?

2013-01-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jonsson amen.alya...@bordeaux.inra.fr wrote: -raster(C:\\Users\\aalyaari\\Desktop\\SM_RE01_MIR_CLF31D_20100812T00_20100812T235959_246_001_7.nc, varname = Soil_Moisture) d: class : RasterLayer dimensions : 586, 1383, 810438

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