Re: [R] R-1.8.0 memory.limit()

2003-10-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
James MacDonald wrote: Thanks Uwe, What is the theoretical limit for 32 bit Windows anyway? BTW, --max-mem-size=2000M works (although maybe not all usable?) I don't know the usable amount exactly, one has to look into Microsoft's docs. It must be a bit smaller than 2GB (differently from the

Re: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: I am puzzled by the advice to use is.na(x) - TRUE instead of x - NA. ?NA says Function `is.na-' may provide a safer way to set missingness. It behaves differently for factors, for example. However, MAY provide is a bit scary, and it doesn't say WHAT the

Re: [R] SIMCA algorithm implementation

2003-10-08 Thread Mike White
Dear All Is there a SIMCA (Soft Independent Modelling Class Analogy) implementation on R or does anyone know if is it possible to replicate the SIMCA algorithm using existing R functions? Thanks Mike White __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[R] plotting results from leaps library

2003-10-08 Thread Anne Piotet
Hi In trying to fit a linear model , I use the leaps() function to determine wich predictors I should include in my model. I would like to plot the Mallow's Cp criteria against p with the indexes of selected model variates as points labels Is there already such a function? (I could not find it)

[R] Generating automatic plots

2003-10-08 Thread Xavier Fernández i Marín
Hello, I have been trying to write a small program to generate automatic plots. What I want is to draw boxplots for some variables in my data frame, contrasting with a variable called 'missing' that has value 1 if some variable in a concrete case has at least one missing value, in order to

RE: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Simon Fear
Note this behaviour: a-a a-NA mode(a) [1] logical a-a is.na(a) - T mode(a) [1] character However after either way of assigning NA to a, is.na(a) is true, and it prints as NA, so I can't see it's ever likely to matter. [Why do I say these things? Expect usual flood of examples where it

Re: [R] plotting results from leaps library

2003-10-08 Thread Gavin Simpson
Anne Piotet wrote: Hi In trying to fit a linear model , I use the leaps() function to determine wich predictors I should include in my model. I would like to plot the Mallow's Cp criteria against p with the indexes of selected model variates as points labels Is there already such a function?

Re: [R] Generating automatic plots

2003-10-08 Thread Jason Turner
Xavier Fernández i Marín wrote: ... varlist - c(var1, var2, var3, var4, ...) Instead of a character vector with the names, it'd make life easier if you had a list of the vectors... # make sure you use the naming - makes life easier later. mylist - list(var1=var1, var2=var2, var3=var3, var4=var4)

RE: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Simon Fear wrote: Note this behaviour: a-a a-NA mode(a) [1] logical a-a is.na(a) - T mode(a) [1] character However after either way of assigning NA to a, is.na(a) is true, and it prints as NA, so I can't see it's ever likely to matter. [Why do I say these

[R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Thomas Bock
Dear list, I can not understand why the expression in the subject does not work correct: dcrn[which(fn == inve[2])] numeric(0) inve[2] [1] 406.7 dcrn[which(fn == 406.7)] [1] 1.3994e-07 1.3988e-07 1.3953e-07 1.3966e-07 1.3953e-07 1.3968e-07 Is this a kick self problem or an bug? Thaks very

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 11:27, Thomas Bock wrote: Dear list, I can not understand why the expression in the subject does not work correct: dcrn[which(fn == inve[2])] numeric(0) inve[2] [1] 406.7 dcrn[which(fn == 406.7)] [1] 1.3994e-07 1.3988e-07 1.3953e-07 1.3966e-07

RE: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Simon Fear
Well, that's a convincing argument, but maybe it's the name that's worrying some of us. Maybe it would be more intuitive if called set.na (sorry, I mean setNA). Also is.na- cannot be used to create a new variable of NAs, so is not a universal method, which is a shame for its advocates. I

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Thomas Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear list, I can not understand why the expression in the subject does not work correct: dcrn[which(fn == inve[2])] numeric(0) inve[2] [1] 406.7 dcrn[which(fn == 406.7)] [1] 1.3994e-07 1.3988e-07 1.3953e-07 1.3966e-07 1.3953e-07 1.3968e-07

Re: [R] fitdistr, mle's and gamma distribution

2003-10-08 Thread Lourens Olivier Walters
Thanks, your advice worked. I don't have much experience with maths, and therefore tried to stay away from dealing with optimization, but going down to this level opens a lot of possibilities. For the record, the code I used, as you suggested: ### shape - mean(data)^2/var(data) scale

[R] Contrast specified with C() - R vs S-Plus problem

2003-10-08 Thread Pascal A. Niklaus
Hi, For a n-level factor, I'd like to specify the first contrast and have the remaining n-2 constructed automatically so that the set is orthogonal. I then test the contrasts with summary.lm(anova-object). In S-Plus, the following works: y.anova - aov( y ~ C(CO2,c(1,0,-1)) )

Re: [R] Contrast specified with C() - R vs S-Plus problem

2003-10-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Pascal A. Niklaus wrote: Hi, For a n-level factor, I'd like to specify the first contrast and have the remaining n-2 constructed automatically so that the set is orthogonal. I then test the contrasts with summary.lm(anova-object). In S-Plus, the following works:

Re: [R] fitdistr, mle's and gamma distribution

2003-10-08 Thread Spencer Graves
I'm sorry, but I don't have time to read all your code. However, I saw that you tested for x alpha in your Pareto distribution example. Have you considered reparameterizing to estimate log.del = log(alpha-min(x))? Pass log.del as part of the vector of parameters to estimate, then

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Maechler
Your question has been answered by Achim and Peter Dalgaard (at least). Just a note: Using a[which(logic)] looks like a clumsy and inefficient way of writing a[ logic ] and I think you shouldn't propagate its use ... Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] New R - recompiling all packages

2003-10-08 Thread Arne.Muller
Hi All, I'm running R 1.7.1, and I've installed some additional packages such a Bioconductor. Do I've to re-install all the additional packages when ugrading to R 1.8.0 (i.e. are there compile in dependencies)? thanks for your help, Arne

[R] R-1.8.0 is released

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
I've rolled up R-1.8.0.tgz a short while ago. This is a new version with major changes (see below). Notably, the Macintosh version for OS X has been substantially improved; the old Carbon interface is no longer being supported. Also notice that the underscore will no longer work as an assignment

Re: [R] Contrast specified with C() - R vs S-Plus problem

2003-10-08 Thread Pascal A. Niklaus
Thanks for the reply. Below is the solution and the S-Plus and R code that does the same (for documentation). I can't reproduce that in S-PLUS 6.1, and it is not as documented: In S-Plus 2000, C() complements the contrast matrix with orthogonal contrasts if only the first is given. CO2 -

Re: [R] New R - recompiling all packages

2003-10-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Most packages do not need to be re-installed, but R 1.8.0 has some nicer formatting of help pages so you may want to do so, and I am reinstalling all packages that make use of the methods package and so have saved images. For Bioconductor you need to ask on their list, but my understanding is

Re: [R] fitdistr, mle's and gamma distribution

2003-10-08 Thread Lourens Olivier Walters
Thanks for the help, the wrapper function was very useful. I managed to solve the problem using Spencer Graves' suggestion. I am analyzing the interarrival times between HTTP packets on a campus network. The dataset actually has more than 14 Million entries! It represents the traffic generated by

[R] Bootstrap Question

2003-10-08 Thread Nuzzo Art-CINT116
I have a question regarding bootstrap coverage. I am trying to understand the benefits of using the bootstrap for small sample sets. To do this I created a normal population and then picked 10 from the populations and applied both traditional statistical methods and the Bootstrap (bcanon,

[R] updating via CRAN and http

2003-10-08 Thread Arne.Muller
Hello, thanks for the tips on updating packages for 1.8.0. The updating is a real problem for me, since I've to do it sort of manually using my web-browser or wget. I'm behind a firewall that requires http/ftp authentification (username and passwd) for every request it sends to a server outside

Re: [R] Contrast specified with C() - R vs S-Plus problem

2003-10-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Pascal A. Niklaus wrote: Thanks for the reply. Below is the solution and the S-Plus and R code that does the same (for documentation). I can't reproduce that in S-PLUS 6.1, and it is not as documented: In S-Plus 2000, C() complements the contrast matrix with

[R] Rdinfo verbosity increased in 1.8.0?

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Mader
Hi, my out-of-the-box installation of R-1.8.0 on Tru64 (OSFv5.1) results in an tremendously increased verbosity of Rdinfo. Is it really intended that Rdinfo complaints about minor mistakes like missing empty lines at the end given the very variable quality of Rd-pages? Is there a way to

RE: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Also, presumably is.na- could be redefined by the user for particular classes so if you got in the habit of setting NAs that way it would generalize better. --- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:49:29 +0100 (BST) From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think it can ever `go wrong', but it

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Tony Plate
At Wednesday 03:06 PM 10/8/2003 +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: Your question has been answered by Achim and Peter Dalgaard (at least). Just a note: Using a[which(logic)] looks like a clumsy and inefficient way of writing a[ logic ] and I think you shouldn't propagate its use ...

Re: [R] fitdistr, mle's and gamma distribution

2003-10-08 Thread Spencer Graves
Are you interested in turning that into a monitor, processing each day's data sequentially or even each entry as it arrived? If yes, you may wish to evaluate the Foundations of Monitoring documents downloadable from www.prodsyse.com. If you have any questions about that, I might be able

RE: [R] updating via CRAN and http

2003-10-08 Thread Arne.Muller
Sorry, I didn' mean it the nasty way. I wouldn't have been surprised if the R-team had told me the authentification with the firewall is my problem (i.e. a special case that cannot be dealt with by th R-team). Yess, and off course I should have had a much closer lookk into the docu. Thanks again

Re: [R] updating via CRAN and http

2003-10-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, thanks for the tips on updating packages for 1.8.0. The updating is a real problem for me, since I've to do it sort of manually using my web-browser or wget. I'm behind a firewall that requires http/ftp authentification (username and

[R] using split.screen() in Sweave

2003-10-08 Thread Christoph Lehmann
Dear R and sweave users A further problem, which I couldn't resolve, using the manual: In R I use the split.screen command to put e.g. two timecourses one above the other into one plot: split.screen(c(2,1)) screen(1) plot(stick,type='h', col=red,lwd=2) screen(2)

[R] Lattice cloud() funtion bug in R1.8.0beta

2003-10-08 Thread Mark Marques
Cloud() function does not display anything with R1.8.0beta in WindowsXP ... Does any one noticed this ? others functions from lattice seem working properly. does it work in the final 1.8.0 for windows ? __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [R] updating via CRAN and http

2003-10-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:25:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, thanks for the tips on updating packages for 1.8.0. The updating is a real problem for me, since I've to do it sort of manually using my web-browser or wget. I'm behind a firewall that requires http/ftp

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here are some different ways of doing this. Don't know whether any could be considered superior to the others. # y[x==5] regarding NAs in x as not matching x - c(5, NA, 7, 5, NA, 3) y - c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) subset(y,x==5) y[x %in% 5] y[x %in% c(5)] y[which(x==5)] --- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003

[R] Installing GLMMGibbs problems

2003-10-08 Thread Yang, Richard
Dear all; Installing the GLMMGibbs package to my Solaris Unix box, I got an compiling error: ars.c:497:10: missing terminating character ars.c: In function `dump_arse': ars.c:498: error: parse error before mylesj . The

Re: [R] using split.screen() in Sweave

2003-10-08 Thread Jason Turner
Christoph Lehmann wrote: Dear R and sweave users A further problem, which I couldn't resolve, using the manual: In R I use the split.screen command to put e.g. two timecourses one above the other into one plot: split.screen(c(2,1)) screen(1) plot(stick,type='h', col=red,lwd=2) screen(2)

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Jason Turner
Achim Zeileis wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 11:27, Thomas Bock wrote: ... I can not understand why the expression in the subject does not work correct: dcrn[which(fn == inve[2])] numeric(0) inve[2] [1] 406.7 ... 1.) `==' comparisons have a certain tolerance 2.) the print output is

Re: [R] binomial glm warnings revisited

2003-10-08 Thread Spencer Graves
This seems to me to be a special case of the general problem of a parameter on a boundary. Another example is the case of a variance component that is zero. For this latter problem, Pinhiero and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus (Springer, sec. 2.4.1) present simulation

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Jason Turner
Whoops. Hit send too quickly. Jason Turner wrote: tol - sqrt(.Machine$double.eps) dcrn[(fn - inve[2]) tol] that should be dcrn[abs(fn - inve[2]) tol] -- Indigo Industrial Controls Ltd. http://www.indigoindustrial.co.nz 64-21-343-545 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] 2 questions regarding base-n and identifing digits

2003-10-08 Thread Andrej Kveder
Dear listers, I have two questions: (1) Is there a way in R to change the base-n of the calculations. I wnat to run some calculations either in binary (base-2) or base-4. Is there a way to specify that in R - to chnage from the decimal? (2) I also want to extract the digits from a larger number

Re: [R] binomial glm warnings revisited

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This seems to me to be a special case of the general problem of a parameter on a boundary. Umm, no... I have this problem with my data. In a GLM, I have 269 zeroes and only 1 one: I don't think that necessarily gets you a parameter estimate

Re: [R] binomial glm warnings revisited

2003-10-08 Thread Spencer Graves
Thanks, Peter: You are absolutely correct. Thanks again for the correction. Spencer Graves Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This seems to me to be a special case of the general problem of a parameter on a boundary. Umm, no... I have this

[R] winedt or another editor for linux

2003-10-08 Thread Christian Schulz
Have got anybody experience using winedt and R in Linux - perhaps with wine Or exist another editor with the ability to parse r code into R in Linux, because k-edit etc. using only syntax-highlithing ??? many thanks, christian [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] winedt or another editor for linux

2003-10-08 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 22:02, Christian Schulz wrote: Have got anybody experience using winedt and R in Linux - perhaps with wine Or exist another editor with the ability to parse r code into R in Linux, because k-edit etc. using only syntax-highlithing ??? I guess you have looked at

RE: [R] 2 questions regarding base-n and identifing digits

2003-10-08 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Andrej Kveder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear listers, I have two questions: (1) Is there a way in R to change the base-n of the calculations. I wnat to run some calculations either in binary (base-2) or base-4. Is there a way to specify that in R - to chnage from the decimal?

RE: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Simon Fear [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested that a-a a-NA mode(a) [1] logical a-a is.na(a) - T mode(a) [1] character might be a relevant difference between assigning NA and using is.na. But the analogy is flawed: is.na(x) -

RE: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Concerning x[i] - NA vs is.na(x[i]) - TRUE Brian Ripley wrote: I don't think it can ever `go wrong', but it can do things other than the user intends. If the user writes x[i] - NA, the user has clearly indicated his intention that the i element(s) of x should become NA. There

[R] (no subject)

2003-10-08 Thread Sheetz, Michael
Good afternoon, We currently have R installed on our HP Superdome. However, we are getting ready to migrate from RISC to Itanium 2 chips running HP-UX (not Linux). Does the latest version of R run on HP-UX Itanium 2? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Michael

Re: [R] Why does a[which(b == c[d])] not work?

2003-10-08 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Achim Zeileis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R x - 406.7 + 1e-20 R x [1] 406.7 R x == 406.7 [1] TRUE that is 1.) `==' comparisons have a certain tolerance No, all.equal() supports tolerance, == does not. Consider

[R] Sorry! Previous subject was cell means model in LME

2003-10-08 Thread Francisco Vergara
Hi everybody I want to specify the contrasts to build a cell means model on LME (each coefficient is the mean value of the independent variable for the specific category of a factor variable) when there are several factors as fixed effect in the model and also interactions between them. Can

Re: is.na(v)-b (was: Re: [R] Beginner's query - segmentation fault)

2003-10-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Tongue in cheek But surely is.na(x) - is.na(x) is clearer than x[is.na(x)] - NA (neither of which is a no-op). /Tongue in cheek __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

RE: [R] R-1.8.0 is released

2003-10-08 Thread Simon Blomberg
I'd just like to thank the R-Core team for the new version (all OS's), and especially Stefano Iacus for his work on the old Carbon MacOS port and his continuing work on the OS X port. Cheers, Simon. Simon Blomberg, PhD Depression Anxiety Consumer Research Unit Centre for Mental Health

[R] Re: Mixed effects with nlme

2003-10-08 Thread Manuel Ato Garcia
Hi, R-users: Last week I send a request for help to this list. I have receive until now two kindly responses from Spencer Graves and Renauld Lancelot. They both point interesting things to fit an adequate model to my data but unfortunately it persists without a satisfactory solution. I

RE: [R] 2 questions regarding base-n and identifing digits

2003-10-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Oct-03 Liaw, Andy wrote: From: Andrej Kveder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have two questions: (1) Is there a way in R to change the base-n of the calculations. I wnat to run some calculations either in binary (base-2) or base-4. Is there a way to specify that in R - to chnage from

[R] Scoping rules

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Alspach
Dear List members: I'm using R1.7.1 (Windows 2000) and having difficulty with scoping. I've studied the FAQ and on-line manuals and think I have identified the source of my difficulty, but cannot work out the solution. For the purposes of illustration. I have three functions as defined below:

RE: [R] 2 questions regarding base-n and identifing digits

2003-10-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out: http://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~wolf/software/R-wtools/decodeencode/decodeencode.rev --- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:39:50 +0200 From: Andrej Kveder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear listers, I have two questions: (1) Is there a way in R to change the base-n of the calculations. I wnat

Re: [R] Scoping rules

2003-10-08 Thread Roger D. Peng
It seems like you want in fnB get(AA$first, envir = parent.frame(1)) but I'm entirely clear on why your original function doesn't work. My understanding was that get() should search through the parent frames. -roger Peter Alspach wrote: Dear List members: I'm using R1.7.1 (Windows 2000) and

[R] double precision

2003-10-08 Thread christoff pale
Hi, I am new to R, but have extensive experience in matlab. I have searched on the web and in Venabels Ripley book but I was unable to find the equivalent of the eps function in matlab. eps returns the Floating point relative accuracy. thanks __

Re: [R] double precision

2003-10-08 Thread Roger D. Peng
Check out ?.Machine -roger christoff pale wrote: Hi, I am new to R, but have extensive experience in matlab. I have searched on the web and in Venabels Ripley book but I was unable to find the equivalent of the eps function in matlab. eps returns the Floating point relative accuracy. thanks

[R] Debian packages of 1.8.0 available

2003-10-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Debian packages of R 1.8.0 were uploaded earlier for i386. Binaries for alpha, ia64, hppa and powerpc are already in the package pool; the arm, mipsel and s390 architecture have their built completled and will be added to the pool shortly while the remaining architecures should follow over the

Re: [R] Scoping rules

2003-10-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote: It seems like you want in fnB get(AA$first, envir = parent.frame(1)) but I'm entirely clear on why your original function doesn't work. My understanding was that get() should search through the parent frames. No, get() searches through the

Re: [R] Scoping rules

2003-10-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote: It seems like you want in fnB get(AA$first, envir = parent.frame(1)) but I'm entirely clear on why your original function doesn't work. My understanding was that get() should search through the parent frames. Where did you get that idea from?

Re: [R] Scoping rules

2003-10-08 Thread Roger D. Peng
I think I misinterpreted this section of the help file for get(): If `inherits' is `FALSE', only the first frame of the specified environment is inspected. If `inherits' is `TRUE', the search is continued up through the parent frames until a bound value of the right mode is

[R] nlme lme for complex mixed ANOVAs

2003-10-08 Thread David Airey
Dear List, I downloaded R for the first time yesterday, in the hopes that I might deal more effectively with a complex repeated measures experimental design involving inbred strains of laboratory mice. The design below, somewhat simplified, cannot be computed with standard ANOVA, because

[R] residual lag scatter plot

2003-10-08 Thread Jean Eid
Dear all, I am looking for a function that can scatter plot the residuals obtained from a longitudinal model i.e. plot e_{i,j} e_{i,k} for all j k = 1,..n ( I have 7 observations for each subject). something similar to the pairs() function. I can do it the long way by constructing a residual

[R] run R under unix

2003-10-08 Thread Zhen Pang
Dear I used to use R under windows. I always save my code in a txt file. When I want to run something, I just copy and paste to the windows. I recently need to do a big simulation work which will cost 5 or 6 days. I am afraid the memory of windows can not cope with this situation. I now want

Re: [R] run R under unix

2003-10-08 Thread Jason Turner
Zhen Pang wrote: ... I now want to run the code under unix. However, I do not know how to run this code in txt file under unix. I just log in to the unix and enter the R, what should I do next? One more question is: if I log off my computer when R is running under unix (i.e., disconnect my