Re: [R] Problem with package development

2011-06-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Sarah Goslee sarah.gos...@gmail.com wrote: If you don't recognize the official r-project.org R-admin manual as a legitimate link then I'm afraid I also can't help you any further since there is nothing more legitimate than the official documentation. Except

Re: [R] Value of 'pi'

2011-05-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
 For an engineer, assuming that pi = 3.142 will  probably enable him to build a very satisfactory  bridge. Assuming that pi = 3.14159265358979323844  will give the circumference of the Earth's orbit  to one millionth of a millimetre. And just a few more decimal places will get you the

Re: [R] Changing the name of the R process in top

2011-05-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Matthew Keller mckellerc...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps this is more of a unix question, but I'll give it a try here. I am running 9 different R processes at the same time (called from a shell script using R CMD BATCH).  When I use the top program to monitor how

Re: [R] useR! 2011 T-shirt competition

2011-05-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Albyn Jones jo...@reed.edu wrote: Me too, or three! The compo page says: Every submitted design must be the property of the submitter, who grants permission to the useR! 2011 conference to use the design on the front of T-shirts distributed to conference

Re: [R] Get contour of a map

2011-05-24 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-05-23 5:55 AM, Pierre Bruyer wrote: I think writing that would be hard, but you can fake it.  Find the range of z first to work out the contour levels you want, then put very large values around the outside

Re: [R] identical function names from 2 packages

2011-05-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Janko Thyson janko.thyson.rst...@googlemail.com wrote: Yet, IMHO there will be more and more problems regarding this in the future as the number of contributed packages keeps growing. I personally would not mind at all to get used to typing 'thePackage::foo()'

Re: [R] Building Custom GUIs for R

2011-05-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:52 AM, vioravis viora...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any tools currently available that enable us build GUIs??? (MATLAB has a GUI builder that enables the users build custom GUIs). Another option nobody has mentioned yet is to make it a web-based system, and generate

Re: [R] Converting the graphics window to a data matrix

2011-05-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Beutel, Terry S terry.beu...@deedi.qld.gov.au wrote: I'm wondering if anyone is aware of a way to take what is visible in the R graphics window, pixelate it, and express that pixellation in a numeric matrix. For example, I am using the following command to

Re: [R] Powerful PC to run R

2011-05-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michael Haenlein haenl...@escpeurope.eu wrote: I'm now thinking about buying a more powerful desktop PC or laptop. Can anybody advise me on the best configuration to run R as fast as possible? I will use this PC exclusively for R so any other factors are of

Re: [R] vector file

2011-05-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:08 AM, azam jaafari azamjaaf...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All I want to import the vector file (   .shp) to R. I could import the file by rgdal package before, by following: geology-readOGR('C:/geology//saga/geo.geom','finalgeology') but now there is an error: Error

Re: [R] setting options only inside functions

2011-04-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
but it's a little clumsy, because with_connection(file(myfile.txt), {do stuff...}) isn't very useful because you have no way to reference the connection that you're using. Ruby's blocks have arguments which would require big changes to R's syntax.  One option would to use pronouns:

Re: [R] How to program with colleagues

2011-04-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Alaios ala...@yahoo.com wrote: b. Could you please suggest me an easy way to exchange the R code with my colleagues. I know about these version systems but unfortunately they look pretty bizarre to me. Nothing looks more bizarre than a project that isn't

Re: [R] URL Scan

2011-04-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:56 PM, jmsc michaelfp...@gmail.com wrote: The site does not require a login/password. Another way to access the first site would be to go to the second site, click Connecticut, click Canterbury, CT, enter the online database, click search under Query by Location with

Re: [R] URL Scan

2011-04-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:40 PM, jmsc michaelfp...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering why when I try to input data from the first site listed below into R using the scan() function, a different page is read in instead (the second site listed):

Re: [R] R plots pdf() does not allow spotcolors?

2011-04-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2011/4/13 Matthieu Stigler matthieu.stig...@gmail.com: Jim Thanks for your feedback! The problem is that the people those responsible for layout are us... We are doing the book in Latex, and till now did not need any other software. But I am scared we will need use kind of Indesign co

Re: [R] R plots pdf() does not allow spotcolors?

2011-04-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Jeremy Hetzel jthet...@gmail.com wrote: Scribus claims to be able to convert RGB/CMYK colors to spot colors: http://documentation.scribus.net/index.php/Spot_Colors I've never used Scribus, but it's floss. Scribus can import output from R's svg driver (with at

Re: [R] nndist R vs. ArcGIS

2011-04-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:49 PM, smoluka smol...@geo.oregonstate.edu wrote: Can anyone tell me why I would get different average nearest neighbor values for the same set of coordinates between ArcGIS 10 and R? Sometimes the difference in distance is over 1.3 km. Edge correction? In a spatial

Re: [R] best practice(s) for retrieving a local variable from a closure

2011-04-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Benjamin Tyner bty...@gmail.com wrote: The above feels a bit like snooping where I wasn't invited. You could do something like  mq - function(a) {     force(a)     list(getA = function()a,          setA = function(newA) a - newA,          fun =

Re: [R] MySql Versus R

2011-04-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Henri Mone henrim...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R Users, I use for my data crunching a combination of MySQL and GNU R. I have to handle huge/ middle seized data which is stored in a MySql database, R executes a SQL command to fetch the data and does the plotting

Re: [R] colour palette for positive/negative range

2011-03-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Frank Schwach f...@sanger.ac.uk wrote: Hi, I'm plotting a heatmap with values ranging from -10 to +10 and I would like the negative values to show up in shades of blue and the positive ones in shadea of red. Basically, I want exactly what the RColorBrewer

Re: [R] Why doesn't this work ?

2011-03-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:54 AM, bill.venab...@csiro.au wrote: It doesn't work (in R) because it is not written in R.  It's written in some other language that looks a bit like R. It parses in R, so I would say it was written in R. To paraphrase Obi-wan, it's just not the R you are looking

Re: [R] Does R have a const object?

2011-03-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: That would defeat the purpose.  Unlocking things in base may be useful for experimenting or debugging but it is not a good idea otherwise. You are making experimenting in R more awkward? Then I'm throwing That would defeat the

Re: [R] Make R 'Beep'

2011-03-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Alaios ala...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear all, I would like to ask you if R can produce any kind of sound. It would be useful when code execution stops R to notify me by playing some sound. Is that possible in R? If you search for 'audio' or 'sound' on CRAN's

Re: [R] Writing R packages in an easier way?

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Dr. Michael Wolf m-w...@muenster.de wrote: Dear R colleagues, is there an easier way to write R packages for the own use - without RTools and TeX? There are simpler ways of maintaining R source code than building packages. I bashed out a quick way of keeping

Re: [R] Writing R packages in an easier way?

2011-02-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote: Dear Dr. Wolf:      I understand your concern that the mechanics of writing an R package can be difficult.  It was hard for me when I started. I should add that although I did write that

Re: [R] testing randomness of random number generators with student t-test?

2011-02-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Carl Witthoft c...@witthoft.com wrote: Hi, subject more or less says it all. I freely admit to not having bothered to find some of the online papers about method of testing the quality of random number generators -- but in an idle moment I wondered what to

Re: [R] Unable to require installed package

2011-01-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:57 AM, 刘力平 liping.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I write a package in Linux and ready to distribute, and I can install it in linux and run it. However, when I have install it in my Windows' R. I can not 'require' it. is.element(grt, installed.packages()[,1]) [1]

Re: [R] Movie Question

2011-01-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matt Curcio matt.curcio...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings all, I am wondering if anyone is aware of any studies that draw a relationship between an actor and their box office gross for a movie. In other words, is anybody aware of any databases that contain box

Re: [R] Converting Fortran or C++ etc to R

2011-01-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:33 AM, lcn lcn...@gmail.com wrote: As for your actual requirement to do the convertion, I guess there'd not exist any quick ways. You have to be both familiar with R and the other language to make the rewrite work. To make the rewrite work _well_ is the bigger

Re: [R] real time R

2011-01-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Marcelo Barbudas nos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're using R in an application where asking for a probability of an event takes about 130ms. What could we do to take that down to 30ms-40ms? The query code uses randomforest, knn. That's a fairly vague

Re: [R] problem installing R on ubuntu

2010-12-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Horace Tso horace@pgn.com wrote: Following the official instructions to install R on ubuntu 10.04, I issued this command on the prompt, sudo apt-get install r-base The following packages have unmet dependencies:  r-base: Depends: r-base-core (=

Re: [R] problem installing R on ubuntu

2010-12-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Horace Tso horace@pgn.com wrote: Barry, my reporting error, my ubuntu is 10.04, which is Hardy I believe. It was a straight build from the source. No funny stuff done on it. My lsb_release says my 10.04 is Lucid. # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are

Re: [R] how to pass object members in functions

2010-12-22 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Paul Rigor pr...@ucla.edu wrote: Hello, This is an R-syntax question when attempting to manipulate/access objects when passed to a function. I have a function attempting to just print values attached to an argument object. For example, printThis -

[R] Colours for 3-way probabilities

2010-12-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Are there any R functions for creating palettes for three-way data? For example, election maps for three parties where pure red, blue, and green show 100% for the Red, Blue, and Green parties respectively, magenta shows a 50-50 Red-Blue split with 0 for the Greens, cyan a 50-50 Blue/Green split

Re: [R] Drawing Maps of detailed Australian regions

2010-12-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Wang, Kevin (SYD) kevinw...@kpmg.com.au wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to draw a bubble plot over a map -- where the map shows local government areas (LGA) in Australia (or other structures under the Australian Standard Geographical Classification), but am not

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Steve Sidney sbsid...@mweb.co.za wrote: Oh dear oh dear!!! another arrogant statistician/scientist One asks for help and instead one gets an ear full!!! So much for the much vaunted helpful R community. But thanks anyway, I guess you were trying

Re: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:21 AM, mathijsdevaan mathijsdev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a dataset (CSV) with some counts of firms located around the globe. Each count is assigned to the longitude and latitude of the specific location. Now I want to plot these counts on a world map using

Re: [R] Remove 100 years from a date object

2010-12-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Daniel Brewer daniel.bre...@icr.ac.uk wrote: Hello, I have some data that has dates in the form 27.02.37.  I convert them to a date object as follows: as.Date(data$date,format=%d.%m.%y) But this gives me years such as 2037 when I would like them to be 1937.

Re: [R] Plotting 3d surfaces

2010-12-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Uwe Wolfram u...@in-chemnitz.de wrote: Dear Subscribers, I am using R for quite a while nowadays on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I a using R for doing my statistics. Furthermore I am using it as a tool to generate the graphics for my publications. I am currently working

Re: [R] GIS Help: distance calculation based on ZIP Code

2010-12-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:18 PM, XINLI LI lihaw...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much, I will look into it. If it really is only 200 then I'd start typing them into Google's direction finder and typing in the distance/time given. Even if you only do one per minute they'll all be done in half a

Re: [R] Generating kml lines output

2010-11-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:03 PM, fbielejec fbiele...@gmail.com wrote: Dear, I would like to generate kml file with lines (LineString) of different style (definitely color, but width would also be nice to see). However with kmlLine from maptools package I am able only to output the single

Re: [R] How to call web service in R

2010-11-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM, 夏高 xiagao1...@gmail.com wrote: Actually RCurl is not for calling web service. But thank you all the same. Does anybody know how to call web service in R? Thanks! Use RCurl. It can be used for calling web services. A web service is just an HTTP endpoint that

Re: [R] extracted residuals as single column

2010-11-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Jennifer Dodd j.d...@bio.gla.ac.uk wrote: Dear list, I am looking for some help with the format of extracted residual values output from: residuals (model1) [1]  0.74140534 0.72464895 0.74873373 0.78313611 0.78836470 0.76934676 0.77448847

[R] Function call on every prompt

2010-11-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Someone on stackoverflow.com was wondering how to display the current time in the R prompt. I could have swore there was a mechanism for hooking a function into R such that it is was called before the prompt was given, but no amount of searching in R's docs, R's source, or RSiteSearch can find

Re: [R] Function call on every prompt

2010-11-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: Barry was probably remembering SweaveHook. The key is the taskCallbackManager. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Doesn't come up with any of my search strings! Hopefully now this is in R-help it'll come up

Re: [R] Looking up the directory a file is located in

2010-11-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Cliff Clive cliffcl...@gmail.com wrote: Basically I'm just looking for a command that can look up the name of the directory of the script that is running.  If I move or copy the script to another directory, it should be able to read the name of the new

Re: [R] Looking up the directory a file is located in

2010-11-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Cliff Clive cliffcl...@gmail.com wrote: So it sounds like the best we can do in R is to keep track of the script in a sort of master file that runs the script, and set the working directory in the master.  Is that accurate? Errr no. Maybe. What? Your script

Re: [R] Problem downloading and opening netcdf file

2010-11-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, D Kelly O'Day ko...@processtrends.com wrote: I am trying to download and open an on-line netcdf file. I'm using Windows XP and R 2.11.1 Here's my script  library(ncdf)  link - http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SeaLevelRise/slr/slr_sla_gbl_free_all_66.nc;  

Re: [R] Fetching data

2010-11-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Feng Mai maif...@gmail.com wrote: IMO it is not possible. The code behind aspx page queries data from a database server and display it on the webpage. That doesn't make it possible. Your web browser is sending a request to the web server, and whatever happens

Re: [R] Adding meta-data when creating objects. e.g: changing - so to (for example) add creation time - how-to and pros/cons?

2010-11-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Barry, With regards to the identical == FALSE, it didn't occur to me - great point, thank you. So question: how did you end up changing the -, so to enable the creation of the .metadata object? I haven't done that

Re: [R] Adding meta-data when creating objects. e.g: changing - so to (for example) add creation time - how-to and pros/cons?

2010-11-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: 4) My real intention is to somehow change the - operator (not simply the assign).  I am unsure as to how to do that. 5) Are there any major pros/cons to the adding of such meta-data to objects? (for example, excessive

Re: [R] Installing R and an editor on a USB drive

2010-11-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Hannu Kahra hka...@gmail.com wrote: (setq inferior-R-program-name G:/r-2.12.0/bin/i386/rterm.exe) since R is installed on the G drive. Everything works if R is on G, but when changing the computer, R is usually on another drive and Emacs cannot find it. Is

Re: [R] Centre of gravity of a mountain

2010-11-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Peter Langfelder peter.langfel...@gmail.com wrote: If you also need the z coordinate, it simply the mean of the matrix Z. zCenter = mean(Z) How can that be right? Suppose your mountain is very flat, so that your mountain is effectively a cube. The Z values are

Re: [R] Plotting a grid of directly specified colours

2010-11-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Peter Davenport pwdavenp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R-help, Could any of you direct me to a function for plotting a grid of colours, directly specified by a matrix of hex colour codes?  In other words I'm looking for a heatmap() or image()-like function to which

Re: [R] Drawing circles on a chart

2010-11-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Santosh Srinivas santosh.srini...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Group, Inside each cell there should be a circle (sphere preferable) with radius of mod(data value). The color should be either red or green depending on -ve or +ve and the intensity should be based on the

Re: [R] Recoding -- test whether number begins with a certain number

2010-11-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Marcel Gerds marcel.ge...@gmx.de wrote:  Dear R community, I have a question concerning recoding of a variable. I have a data set in which there is a variable devoted to the ISCO code describing the occupation of this certain individual

Re: [R] '=' vs '-'

2010-11-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, km srikrishnamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, can we use '=' instead of '-' operator for assignment in R programs? Yes, mostly, you can also use 'help' to ask such questions: help(=) The operators ‘-’ and ‘=’ assign into the environment in which they

Re: [R] programming questions

2010-11-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:17 PM, ivo welch ivo.we...@gmail.com wrote: yikes.  this is all my fault.  it was the first thing that I ever defined when I started using R.   is.defined - function(name) exists(as.character(substitute(name))) I presume there is something much better... You didn't

Re: [R] Plots inside a Plot

2010-11-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: Not in R base graphics, but you can do easily with the grid package. You can do anything in R base graphics! Sometimes it's been done for you, sometimes you just have to draw the whole thing yourself using

Re: [R] Recursive algorithm

2010-11-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Megh Dal megh700...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear friend, I have to construct some recursive algorithm for which I used some for loop like: res - vector(length=1) res[1] = 0 for (i in 2:(1+1)) res[i] - res[i-1]*some function I have noticed that

Re: [R] overloading the generic primitive functions + and [

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Mark Heckmann mark.heckm...@gmx.de wrote: How can I add a new method to the generic function [ or + I want to create a S3 and S4 class that will use the [ and + method in a different way. How can I overload the generic primitive [ or + so the method dispatch

Re: [R] overloading the generic primitive functions + and [

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Martin Morgan mtmor...@fhcrc.org wrote: Not so hard, eh? Though then like your S3 implementation this makes all 'Ops' (see ?Ops) Except you have to re-run the set* things every R session: setClass(SS, character) setMethod(Ops, c(SS, SS), function(e1, e2)

Re: [R] overloading the generic primitive functions + and [

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Barry, this is really interesting. However I could not understand this line: Ops.ss=function(e1,e2){paste(e1,e2)} Where you have told R to behave + function differently when it faces ss class? What

Re: [R] Recovering x/y coordinates from a scatterplot image

2010-10-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Rob James aetiolo...@gmail.com wrote: Do I recall correctly that there is an R package that can take an image, and help one estimate the x/y coordinates?  I can't find the package, thought it was an R-tool, but would appreciate any leads. Thanks, I dont know

Re: [R] Create Arrays

2010-10-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:55 AM, dpender d.pen...@civil.gla.ac.uk wrote: Hi, For this example: O - c(0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0) I want to create an array every time O[i] 0.  The array should be in the form; R[j] - array(-1, dim=c(2,O[i])) i.e. if O[i] 0 4 times I want 4 R arrays. Does

Re: [R] exponentiate elements of a whole matrix

2010-10-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Maas James Dr (MED) j.m...@uea.ac.uk wrote: I've tried hard to find a way to exponentiate each element of a whole matrix such that if I start with A A = [ 2   3      2   4] I can get back B B = [ 7.38   20.08      7.38   54.60] I've tried B - exp(A)

Re: [R] Pointing to a specific place on the x-axis with an arrow

2010-10-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Josh B josh...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to do something simple, but which is deviling me. I want to add an up-arrow to the x-axis, pointing to a specific location on the axis. I want the arrow to be as large as possible. Here is where I'm at

Re: [R] Pointing to a specific place on the x-axis with an arrow

2010-10-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Michael Bedward michael.bedw...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 October 2010 20:51, Ivan Calandra ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de wrote: Moreover, Josh wanted the arrow to be really big. Is it possible to make it bigger? I would be interested too! Sorry - missed that

Re: [R] Pointing to a specific place on the x-axis with an arrow

2010-10-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ivan Calandra ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de wrote:  Hi again, Just one little question. I don't understand what clipping is. Probably a problem with English... Therefore the par(xpd=NA) is not really clear for me; nor is the clip() function. And I don't see

Re: [R] is there a way to avoid traveling grid?

2010-10-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com wrote: my.data$date I wouldn't use grid - it suggests you try abline, so something like: abline(v=my.data$date,lty=2) - to put vertical lines at your data points. For the horizontal grid lines, we can just

Re: [R] A problem with plotting a long expression in ylab ?

2010-09-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, It seems that there is a problem when plotting an expression in the ylab of a plot in case it is too long. Example: plot(1) title(ylab = test

Re: [R] A problem with plotting a long expression in ylab ?

2010-09-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: My point is that in regular text, ylab plots it where it then goes outside the borders. With the use of expressions - the text just doesn't show up. Originally I thought it was because of my miss-use of expressions,

Re: [R] Output Graphics GIF

2010-09-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Nilza BARROS nilzabar...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R users, How could I managed graphics in GIF  format? What I have been doing is graphics in *.ps or *.eps and after I convert them using CONVERT (from ImageMagick) but the output quality is not good.  Since these

Re: [R] Reading in .aux (ESRI raster files) into R

2010-09-25 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:21 PM, JoH jh...@york.ac.uk wrote: Error in readAsciiGrid(F:/GIS.LandcoverEuropeForRisk/Sept10kmmaps/Sp10KPointID.aux) :  object 'cellsize' not found My original data in Arc GIS is have a cell size an i'mm curious as to how to make sure all the details are

Re: [R] Colorramp in Maptools, how to choose min and max values for the fg= argument

2010-09-22 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, schaber kscha...@ipp.mpg.de wrote: Hi Jannis, thanks a lot for your reply. Unfortunately the solution you proposed does not work. Maybe the reason is, that plot.Map only accepts hsv colours and I do not know to convert the rgb colours to the right colour

Re: [R] diagnosing download.file() problems

2010-09-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:39 AM, steven mosher mosherste...@gmail.com wrote: I'm accessing around 95 tar files on an FTP server ranging in size between 10 and 40MB a piece. while certainly can click on them and download them outside of R, I'd like to have my script do it. Retrieving the ftp

Re: [R] HOW to create image like this?

2010-09-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:58 AM, zcrself zcrs...@gmail.com wrote: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n2548152/25jfmyx.jpg HOW to create image like this? **tp://i55.tinypic.com/25jfmyx.jpg[/IMG] My first response is On an empty stomach, with a handy supply of anti-migraine tablets. I don't

Re: [R] Simple question, name of the variable as string.

2010-09-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:54 AM, C.H. chainsawti...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R users, I have a very simple question and I've tried to search for the answer. (But failed.) there should be a function (func) that work like abc - c(1,2,3,4) func(abc) abc I would like to know the name of that

Re: [R] a reliable way to check the latest version of R on CRAN?

2010-09-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: Hi all, We know old.packages() can check for updates of add-on packages, but is there a way to check updates of R itself? go to R homepage is a way, of course, but I hope this can be done by R. I'm not sure about the reliable

Re: [R] SF-36 questionnaire scoring for R?

2010-09-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Dieter Menne dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de wrote: Dear useRs from the physiology department, Does someone know of an implementation of the SF-36 questionnaire scoring in R? I only found SAS and STATA versions, e.g

Re: [R] Need to have more control on cat()

2010-09-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, here is my small piece of codes: fn1 - function(x = 4) {    y - 0    if(y == 0) cat(y value                    is zero\n) # I intentionally created 2nd line here    return(4) } If I run this

Re: [R] Need to have more control on cat()

2010-09-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Barry, I agree it will work. But this approach destroys the indent in the program body therefore entire body of program looks messy, for example cat(Here I        put indent) obviously looks

[R] difference of two RData files/environments

2010-09-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I just wrote up some code for differencing two .RData files or environments (or one of each). Available from source here: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/Ediff/ In its handiest form, running: ediff() will tell you the difference between your working environment and the .RData file

Re: [R] optimized value worse than starting Value

2010-09-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Michael Bernsteiner dethl...@hotmail.com wrote: @Barry: Yes it is the Rosenbrock Function. I'm trying out some thing I found here: http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/n2003/PowellMethodMod.html @Ravi: Thanks for your help. I will have a closer look at the BB

Re: [R] modulo operation

2010-09-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2010/9/9 José M. Blanco Moreno jmbla...@ub.edu:  Dear R-users, May be there is something that I am not understanding, missed or else... Why do these operations yield these results? 25%/%0.2 [1] 124 25%%0.2 [1] 0.2 I would expect (although I know that what I do expect and what is really

Re: [R] Passing aruments with source

2010-09-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Joel joda2...@student.uu.se wrote: Hi. Im writing a small test program just to see how passing arguments work with R. From the command line everything works as expected but from inside R using source(test.R) i dont know where and how to send in the arguments

Re: [R] Passing aruments with source

2010-09-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Joel joda2...@student.uu.se wrote: That is true but then I (or anyone else using the script) most know exactly what the name in the script is to be able to set it correctly and so on. Therefor it would be much better to be able to just send in the value and

Re: [R] optimized value worse than starting Value

2010-09-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Michael Bernsteiner dethl...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm optimizing a relatively simple function. Using optimize the optimized parameter value is worse than the starting. why? f-function(delta,P,U){    minimiz-P+delta*U    x-minimiz[1]    

Re: [R] saving heatmaps in graphical format that can be edited in graphic editor tool

2010-09-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:32 PM, BD bhakti.dwiv...@gmail.com wrote: I generated a heatmap in R using the following commands: mydata - read.csv(file=Data.csv, header=TRUE, sep=,) mydata - mydata[rowSums(mydata[,-1]^2) 0, ] rownames(mydata)=mydata$Name mydata - mydata[,2:253] mydatamatrix -

Re: [R] queue implementation?

2010-09-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:11 AM, raje...@cse.iitm.ac.in raje...@cse.iitm.ac.in wrote: Hi, is there a queue implementation in R? Tried RSiteSearch(queue)? There's one in the filehash package that uses on-disk databases, which means it's probably fast and can handle massive data sets.

Re: [R] queue implementation?

2010-09-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote:       I don't know what you mean by a queue implementation, but consider the following: A queue is a FIFO data structure - the basic operations are to add an item to the queue and to remove an item

Re: [R] queue implementation?

2010-09-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
If anyone still wants a queue implementation, I've tidied up my code and added some docs in the file. Info here: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/Queue/ Not a package, but a single R file with a few functions in it. If anyone wants to put it in a package, go ahead. Barry

Re: [R] Aggregate certain rows in a matrix

2010-09-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Kennedy henrik.aldb...@gmail.com wrote: I want to reduce the matrix according to the following: If the values of the two first columns are the same in two or more rows the values in the third column of the corresponding rows should be added and only one of the

Re: [R] How to generate integers from uniform distribution with fixed mean

2010-09-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Yi liuyi.fe...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I forgot to talk about the range. But as an example, range (17,23) works. In your codes, mean is not exactly 20 and the samples are not integer. The samples *are* integers. sample(17:23,1,TRUE) returns integers.

Re: [R] return from .Call()

2010-09-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:17 AM, raje...@cse.iitm.ac.in raje...@cse.iitm.ac.in wrote: Hi, I have a .Call in my R function in a loop that repeats a certain number of times. Each time, the .Call returns a list. So, when I say something like, y-func() would y be a list of lists?(as many as

Re: [R] How to generate integers from uniform distribution with fixed mean

2010-09-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Yi liuyi.fe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, folks, runif (n,min,max) is the typical code for generate R.V from uniform dist. But what if we need to fix the mean as 20, and we want the values to be integers only? It's not clear what you want. Uniformly random

Re: [R] Remove Loading required package message

2010-08-31 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Allan Engelhardt all...@cybaea.com wrote: On 27/08/10 10:19, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Sébastien Moretti sebastien.more...@unil.ch  wrote:   [...]  require it quietly: require(sp,quietly=TRUE) Doesn't work for me

Re: [R] Include local files when running R remotely

2010-08-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Erik Shilts erik.shi...@opower.com wrote: I run R on a remote UNIX server where the data are stored that I ssh into through Emacs, while I store my R scripts on local Windows network drives. So far this arrangement hasn't been a problem, though now I'd like to

Re: [R] Saving plot to tiff, with high resolution for publication ?

2010-08-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all. A Journal we are sending an article to is asking for the following:  To ensure the best reproduction quality of your figures we would appreciate high resolution files. All figures should preferably be in TIFF

Re: [R] Remove Loading required package message

2010-08-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Sébastien Moretti sebastien.more...@unil.ch wrote: Hi I use --vanilla --quiet --slave options on command line but I always get    Loading required package: ... in stderr. How to remove this line ? Thanks require it quietly: require(sp,quietly=TRUE)

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