[R] Sweave special characters problem

Dear all, I use Sweave to create my reports. Unfortunately my script crashes whenever I my R code contains special characters like umlauts. Is there a way to to escape special characters in Sweave... This is the line that crashes Sweave: gl_bybranch = ddply(new_wans,.(period,Branchen),

Re: [R] Sweave special characters problem

[utf8x]{inputenc} \begin{document} test,echo=TRUE= x - data.frame(Geschäftslage=1:10) summary(x) @ \end{document} ---[END: umlaut.Rnw]--- $ R CMD Sweave umlaut.Rnw $ R CMD pdflatex umlaut.tex $ gnome-open umlaut.pdf Allan On 22/07/10 13:19, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Dear all

Re: [R] Sweave special characters problem

in advance matt On 22.07.2010, at 16:11, David Winsemius wrote: On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Sorry all, for not posting a minimal example. I am running R on Mac OS X snow leopard with Komodo edit / Sciviews-R. The problem is that the code does

Re: [R] Sweave special characters problem

{document} ---[END: umlaut.Rnw]--- $ R CMD Sweave umlaut.Rnw $ R CMD pdflatex umlaut.tex $ gnome-open umlaut.pdf Allan On 22/07/10 13:19, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Dear all, I use Sweave to create my reports. Unfortunately my script crashes whenever I my R code contains special

[R] discrete (binary) choice panel data

Dear all, I haven´t used R for panel data analysis so far, but now I am looking for a package respectively some starting point for binary choice panel data analysis in R. For starters most of my effects are individual and my dependent variable is just binary. Thanks for any suggestions in

[R] set x11 as default plot

Dear all, I am looking for a a way to set x11 as a default plotting engine instead of quartz, which I had some troubles with. If I just called it, like x11() an x11 window pops up and plots every graph that is called since then. Though I do not want to invoke it manually. I mean I do not

Re: [R] SciViews-K / Komodo as editor on the Mac [was: StatET plot problem]

) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( (Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems ) ) ) ) ) Mons University, Belgium ( ( ( ( ( .. On 05/06/10 18:54, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Philippe, now I tried to run the SciViews-K / Komodo combo on my Mac. It did work and I like

Re: [R] StatET plot problem

highlighting and auto-complete / command+t stuff is really an advantage over the standard editor on a mac and it´s well worth the hustle. best matt On 04.06.2010, at 11:13, Philippe Grosjean wrote: On 04/06/10 10:37, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Dear all, after trying several suggestions

[R] StatET plot problem

Dear all, after trying several suggestions from the list for a nice R-Editor / IDE for MacOS X and really trying some of those that needed to be configured a little more (such as emacs, aquamacs and StatET / Eclipse), I prefer StatET at the moment. I found more experienced like John

Re: [R] lapply with functions with changing parameters

Henrique, thx, your suggestion worked perfectly fine for me. On 01.06.2010, at 23:01, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: lapply(mydf[-6], ccf, y = mydf[6]) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

[R] lapply with functions with changing parameters

Dear all, I am trying to avoid a for loop here and wonder if the following is possible: I have a data.frame with 6 columns and i want to get a cross-correlogram (by using ccf) . Obivously ccf only accepts two columns at once and then returms a list. In fact, with a for loop i´d do the

[R] how to get components / factors in factanal / princomp not loadings

Dear all, i wonder if there´s a command to obtain the actual values of a principal component or a factor (not as.factor, but factanal) . test=princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE) summary(test) just outputs, standard deviation, Prop of Variance and cumulative proportion of variance.

Re: [R] operator problem within function

lol. you´re right, the is special. On 29.04.2010, at 18:34, David Winsemius wrote: That was copied from the help page the comes up with: ?$ It is rather special. -- David. On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Nice, thx. Which manual do you use

Re: [R] operator problem within function

Sorry for that offlist post, did not mean to do it intentionally. just hit the wrong button. Unfortunately this disadvantage is not written next to $ in the manual. On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:34 AM, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: David, With your help i finally got it. THX! sorry

Re: [R] operator problem within function

Nice, thx. Which manual do you use ? an introduction to R ? Or something special ? matt On 29.04.2010, at 15:25, David Winsemius wrote: On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Sorry for that offlist post, did not mean to do it intentionally. just hit the wrong

[R] operator problem within function

Dear all, i have a problem with processing dataframes within a function using the $. Here´s my code: recode_items = function(dataframe,number,medium=2){ # this works q-paste(columna,number,sep=) # this does not work, particularly because dataframe is not

[R] two scales for one plot

Dear all, i am looking for a possibility to use two lines in the same plot with different scales. i.e the standard y-axis should represent the line created by vector x and the vertical line vice versa should be used as a second y-axis for the plot of vector y. I´ve seen that often,

Re: [R] two scales for one plot

://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-December/182374.html Best regards, Christian Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrotes: Dear all, i am looking for a possibility to use two lines in the same plot with different scales. i.e the standard y-axis should represent the line created by vector x and the vertical

[R] plm package index

Dear all, i just wonder if there´s a way to use a two column time index field in plm package. the manual says the following concerning data indexing: a character vector of length two containing the names of the individual and the time index, What would y´all do with a quarterly dataset

[R] match problem

Hi all, I dont know if match is the right approach here. I´d like to match to data.frames. One big dataframe and one small dataframe. In SQL, what i want to do what only be simple relation. The first consists of two columns a) some value b) some key that is explained in the other dataframe.

[R] lapply , mapply questions

Dear all, i have a programming problem that should be simple, though i am stuck with it. Please note that this is not a specific geonames problem, though i use it as an example - it´s just a basic problem with lapply. I use the geonames webservices with the R geonames packages which works

[R] tseries to csv or xls

Hi all, is there a common way to write time series objects generated by ts() to some .csv or .xls. write.table does not work by default since it expects a data.frame which a ts object is not. Therefore write.table creates a data.frame which basically ignores the rows and columns of ts

Re: [R] tseries to csv or xls

1960,417,391,419,461,472,535,622,606,508,461,390,432 On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Bunny, lautloscrew.com bu...@lautloscrew.com wrote: Hi all, is there a common way to write time series objects generated by ts() to some .csv or .xls. write.table does not work by default since it expects

[R] R/PL : cannot build PL/R

Dear all, i am trying to get PL / R running on Mac OS X. PostgreSQL is already running and connects just smoothly to R via DBI / RPostgreSQL . Despite finding a couple of posts of people with the same problem (i.e. error message) i could not get it done for me. I use Mac OS 10.5.7 and

[R] some irritation with heteroskedasticity testing

Dear all, Trying to test for heteroskedasticity I tried several test from the car package respectively lmtest. Now that they produce rather different results i am somewhat clueless how to deal with it. Here is what I did: 1. I plotted fitted.values vs residuals and somewhat intuitively

[R] how to add data to some ts

Dear all, Finally, I made it, my RPostgreSQL works. After working through some tutorials, i was able to plot, get and replace several timeseries. Still I miss the opportunity (syntax) to add data. Most tutorials are about: Download some SP data from Yahoo and play around a little. What I

[R] extending an existing ts object

Dear all, somehow i am still stuck trying to add data to some existing ts data. If some new periodical becomes available, i´d like to add these data to my existing ts object respectively my database. I just want to add some new data at the end of my ts. But how can I do this? Dont know why

[R] RPostgreSQL libpq problem

Dear all, I am stuck trying to get RPostgreSQL running on my Mac. PostgreSQL itself does work fine as it is able to connect with various other apps. Unfortunately the RPostgreSQL package is not available as a binary for MAC OS. Thus I´ve been trying to compile the source for quite some

Re: [R] RPostgreSQL libpq problem

...@stat.berkeley.edu On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: Dear all, I am stuck trying to get RPostgreSQL running on my Mac. PostgreSQL itself does work fine as it is able to connect with various other apps. Unfortunately the RPostgreSQL package is not available as a binary for MAC

[R] indexing question

Hi all, i have a pretty easy indexing question, at least i believe so. The main reason i post it here, is that brackets and $ are hard to google. How do I index correctly, if i just want to display the whole dataset conditioned on the fact that some particular column equals one. I know i

Re: [R] indexing question

a given body of data. ~ John Tukey -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- project.org] Namens Bunny, lautloscrew.com Verzonden: dinsdag 13 januari 2009 10:26 Aan: r-help@r-project.org Onderwerp: [R] indexing question Hi all, i have a pretty easy

[R] editor for MacOS X

Hi all, just wondered again, if there is some R editor for Mac OS X comparable to TINN-R on windows. thx in advance.. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

[R] basic information defining functions

Hi all, i am looking from some insights to define own R functions. so far i found most basics in documentations that are around on the web. except for one thing: I´d like to define some function, say: #assume my data matrix contains vectors like data$myColumn1,data $myColumn2 etc.

Re: [R] basic information defining functions

PROTECTED] project.org] On Behalf Of Bunny, lautloscrew.com Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:18 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] basic information defining functions Hi all, i am looking from some insights to define own R functions. so far i found most basics in documentations that are around

[R] adjusted t-test with unequal variance

Hi all, right now i am simply comparing means. obviously this can be done by the simple t.test respectively the welch test, if var.equal is set to FALSE. just like this t.test( Y ~ group) t.test( Y ~ group, var.equal = FALSE) now that i need to compare weighted means i am using the lm

[R] odds ratio: how to create reference

HI there, i know this is a basic question, though i need some help because this is somewhat away from my current issue, but nevertheless interesting to me... Lets assume i have some estimated probabilities, say estimated by a logit model. i know i can also state them as an odds ratio.

[R] propensity score adjustment using R

Hi all, i am looking to built a simple example of a very basic propensity score adjustment, just using the estimated propensity scores as inverse probability weights (respectively 1-estimated weights for the non-treated). As far as i understood, MLE predictions of a logit model can

[R] t-test between percentages

Hi all, though i know this is a simple question, i really hope someone could. I am just trying to compare percents respectively the difference in percents by a simple test. t.test usually compares means and is working like it is supposed to be. Now i wonder how i can use a test in R to

[R] selection bias adjustment via propensity score

Hi all, i am wondering if there´s any other method to adjust for selection related bias of estimates except propensity scoring and heckit / mills ratio approach? i also read documentation of Match and twang package so far, so i don´t speak of any ATE / ATT related methods, respectively

[R] shapiro wilk normality test

Hi everybody, somehow i dont get the shapiro wilk test for normality. i just can´t find what the H0 is . i tried : shapiro.test(rnorm(5000)) Shapiro-Wilk normality test data: rnorm(5000) W = 0.9997, p-value = 0.6205 If normality is the H0, the test says it´s probably not

Re: [R] shapiro wilk normality test

- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Bunny, lautloscrew.com Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:30 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] shapiro wilk normality test Hi everybody, somehow i dont get the shapiro wilk test for normality. i just can´t find what the H0

[R] *** significance with xtable

Hello everybody, i used xtable to get some latex output, which worked pretty well with my latex document. But somewhere i missed the part where they explain how to get these nice significance indicating *** into my latex table. it just stops right after Pr( |t|) thanks in advance

[R] get formatted regression output

Hi everybody, I have a simple regression summary created by summary.lm and I wonder how i can export it to another file format which can be used on the web. .pdf would be possible, a html table would be nicer than your momma on your birthday. any suggestions ? thx so much in advance

[R] clusteranalysis dendrogram

Dear all, i have a little trouble with cutting an understanding the handling of dendrogram and hclust. plotting clusters does work and it delivers a dendrogram. the problem is that the dendrogram shows lots of pretty small clusters and only some larger ones. i know that this has to do with

[R] plotting help needed

Dear all, i need some help with plotting. the specific problem is the following: #FYI a=100 b=95 d=94.5 e=70 all=c(a,b) all2=c(d,e) plot(all,type=b,col=blue,xlim=c(1,4),ylim=c(20,150)) lines(all2,type=o,col=yellow) this does work so far, but ... i´d like to have 4 intersects, just named by

[R] plotting help request II

Dear all, meanwhile i found out how to handle the coordinate thing and plot the lines like i like. the remaining problem is, i need something like names.arg does in barplot for my plot. my plot connects several dots with several lines. and now i like characters as the names of the

[R] run setwd at the launch of R

Dear all, my R files (and the .csv files as well) are saved somewhere pretty deep down my hard disk. i have to chage to working directory therefore everytime i run R (i run it on powerPC mac), which is disgusting. using the setwd command at the beginning of an R script doesnt really help

[R] run setwd at the launch of R

Thanks folks fo all the help. i just missed the part where to set the initial starting directory. i ´ll try Rprofile. thanks so much __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide