[R] Binaries for ROracle and V 1.8. needed

2003-11-04 Thread Claus Gwiggner
Sorry for re-posting this message; the first one was lost in another thread. Hi, there is no Oracle Client on my machine (Redhat Linux 9.0/686i, R1.8.0). I cannot thus compile the ROracle package. I read the readme.client file and did: I unziped the package ROracle and copied it into the

Re: [R] hclust doesn't return merge details [Solved]

2003-11-04 Thread Arne Neumann
Thanks to Andy and Thomas, Reading help(hclust) more carefully would have done it but sometimes you do not see the wood for the trees... So hc$merge does exactly what I want. I have never been aware of the command str to get the structure of an R-object. It seems pretty useful to me.

Re: [R] Binaries for ROracle and V 1.8. needed

2003-11-04 Thread Michael Mader
Hi Claus Gwiggner wrote: there is no Oracle Client on my machine (Redhat Linux 9.0/686i, R1.8.0). I cannot thus compile the ROracle package. You can in principle: Copy libs and the tnsconfig from the Oracle server manually (no fun, but at least for Ora8i I managed this in some 30 min).

[R] interfacing C into R and R packages

2003-11-04 Thread Peyrard Nathalie
Hi, I would like to interface a C code into R. Is it possible to use in the C code, functions from a R package (for instance, to use pmvnorm within loops in the C code and to call the result in a R function)? Nathalie __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [R] problem building MS-Windows package under linux

2003-11-04 Thread Mathieu Ros
thanks to Paulo Justiniano, I saved an error but still can't build R (make -k repeat the same error on each package) : ** snip -- Making package base adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION installing

Re: [R] interfacing C into R and R packages

2003-11-04 Thread Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
I think Writing R Extensions may help you with that... On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Peyrard Nathalie wrote: Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:19:00 +0100 From: Peyrard Nathalie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] interfacing C into R and R packages Hi, I would like to interface a C

[R] Error in edit.data.frame

2003-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Todd Lins
I recently attempted to read a .txt file using both read.table( ,header=TRUE) andread.delim( ,header=TRUE)and received the following message Error in edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), ...) : symbol print-name too long I am able to also create a variable

Re: [R] interfacing C into R and R packages

2003-11-04 Thread Kurt sys
Hello, I'm not sure, but if I understand your question well, we have had such questions already plenty of times. I guess, Google/STFW/RTFM/writing R extensions. It's easy, it's well-explained, ... Kurt. Peyrard Nathalie wrote: Hi, I would like to interface a C code into R. Is it possible to

[R] line breaks in recode

2003-11-04 Thread Bernd Weiss
Dear all, it seems to be that 'recode' can't handle any line breaks in its code. The following command causes no problem: datameta$smpid.r - recode(datameta$smpid,c(101,25,167,45,75)=25;c(104,51)=51) But if I type ... datameta$smpid.r -recode(datameta$smpid, c(101,25,167,45,75)=25;

Re: [R] USA map

2003-11-04 Thread kjetil
On 3 Nov 2003 at 15:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe in R you need library(maps) before using usa(). Of course, the library has to be installed first. Yes, I new that. When I did help.search(usa) I HAD maps attached. It dosen't have any function usa(). R is more international

Re: [R] Error in edit.data.frame

2003-11-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Todd Lins wrote: I recently attempted to read a .txt file using both read.table( ,header=TRUE) and read.delim( ,header=TRUE) and received the following message Not from those commands, though. Error in edit.data.frame(get(subx, envir = parent), ...) :

Re: [R] line breaks in recode

2003-11-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Nothing to do with recode: you cannot have line breaks inside quoted strings. c(101,25,167,45,75)=25; Error: syntax error c(104,51)=51 Error: syntax error On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Bernd Weiss wrote: Dear all, it seems to be that 'recode' can't handle any line breaks in its code.

Re: [R] USA map

2003-11-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Nov 2003 at 15:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe in R you need library(maps) before using usa(). Of course, the library has to be installed first. Yes, I new that. When I did help.search(usa) I HAD maps attached. It

[R] Re: C code in R

2003-11-04 Thread ucgamdo
I strongly encourage you tho check this book: The basics of S and S-Plus / Andreas Krause, Melvin Olson It has a very detailed and easy to follow info on how to link C code with S (which is nearly identical to R). The R documentation is certainly very complete, but it is written for people that

Re: [R] line breaks in recode

2003-11-04 Thread John Fox
Dear Bernd, As Brian Ripley points out, the problem is that you can't break a quoted string over input lines. It is nevertheless awkward that you have to provide the recode directives in one long line. I'll think about alternatives for the next version of the car package. One simple

[R] lang2(...) with two and more arguments

2003-11-04 Thread Timur Elzhov
On Tue, Nov 03, 2003 at 17:06:37 +0100, you wrote: REAL(x)[0] = 10; REAL(y)[0] = 20; SETCADR(R_fcall, x); SETCADR(R_fcall, y); ... .Call(f, c, new.env()) returns `.Primitive(c)(20)' Hmmm. This is definitely not right: SETCADR(R_fcall, x);

[R] R function help arranged in categorical order ?

2003-11-04 Thread Neil Osborne
Hi, I'm new to R and I'm finding it quite a chore trawling through the R documentation to find a function to carry out simple atomic tasks. Is any one aware of R help documentation that is aranged in functional categories for e.g.: String manipulation File I/O Dataframe, List manipulation

[R] Handling memory

2003-11-04 Thread Kenneth Cabrera
Dear R-Users: Which is the best way to fee memory inside a function to make room for some other process that uses most of the RAM available and latter retrive this data again to finish the function? Thank you very much for your help Kenneth Cabrera --

Re: [R] R function help arranged in categorical order ?

2003-11-04 Thread Roger D. Peng
That's usually what help.search() is for. For example, help.search(file, package = base) -roger Neil Osborne wrote: Hi, I'm new to R and I'm finding it quite a chore trawling through the R documentation to find a function to carry out simple atomic tasks. Is any one aware of R help

Re: [R] lang2(...) with two and more arguments

2003-11-04 Thread Douglas Bates
Timur Elzhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 03, 2003 at 17:06:37 +0100, you wrote: REAL(x)[0] = 10; REAL(y)[0] = 20; SETCADR(R_fcall, x); SETCADR(R_fcall, y); ... .Call(f, c, new.env()) returns `.Primitive(c)(20)' Hmmm. This is definitely not

[R] help with lme()

2003-11-04 Thread Bill Shipley
Hello. I am trying to determine whether I should be using ML or REML methods to estimate a linear mixed model. In the book by Pinheiro Bates (Mixed-effects models in S and S-PLUS, page 76) they state that one difference between REML and ML is that « LME models with different fixed-effects

AW: [R] R function help arranged in categorical order ?

2003-11-04 Thread RINNER Heinrich
There is a very nice Search Engine, with Keywords arranged by topic, that comes with R. If you are under Windows (and have Html help installed), you can find this in the Help menu, under Html help. (The relevant file can also be found as ...\doc\html\search\SearchEngine.html.) Maybe this helps,

R: [R] help with lme()

2003-11-04 Thread Vito Muggeo
Dear Bill, I am not a lme-expert, but I believe the PinheiroBates' book is rather clear here. However you know that a lme model is, for instance fixed= y~x1+x2 and random=y~x1|group and you can fit it by ML or REML. If you are interested in testing for x2 by means the LRT (namely by comparing

Re: AW: [R] R function help arranged in categorical order ?

2003-11-04 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Neil - Maybe also the Function and variable index, pages 94-96, and the Concept index, pages 97-98 in An Introduction to R, cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, RINNER Heinrich wrote: There is

Fw: [R] Cigarettes $20.95 per carton S/H

2003-11-04 Thread DAWN CORVIN
I am still waitting to hear from someone are you still in buissness when i access the web site it says account susspended. looking for payless4smokes.com i am a faithful costomer i would like to know what is going on . thanks dawn corvin- Original Message - From: DAWN CORVIN To:

Re: [R] interfacing C into R and R packages

2003-11-04 Thread Torsten Hothorn
Hi, I would like to interface a C code into R. Is it possible to use in the C code, functions from a R package (for instance, to use pmvnorm within loops in the C code and to call the result in a R function)? Probably the most easiest way is copying the C-sources from the original

Re: [R] Beginner: Homogenity of Variances

2003-11-04 Thread Markus Koesters
For independent samples there is a simple technique described by Larsen, Am. Stat, May 1992 for turning summary statistics back into a data set with an equivalent ANOVA summary. This is implemented and described in my STAT2DAT macro, http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/sasmac/stat2dat.html

[R] real eigenvectors

2003-11-04 Thread Stephane DRAY
Hello list, Sorry, these questions are not directly linked to R. If I consider an indefinte real matrix, I would like to know if the symmetry of the matrix is sufficient to say that their eigenvectors are real ? And what is the conditions to ensure that eigenvectors are real in the case of an

Re: [R] USA map

2003-11-04 Thread Ray Brownrigg
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Nov 2003 at 15:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe in R you need library(maps) before using usa(). Of course, the library has to be installed first. Yes, I new

Re: [R] Architecting an optimization with external calls

2003-11-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Look into external pointers. That is how we have tackled this, e.g. in the ts package. On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: I have a likelihood I would like to compute using C++ and then optimize. It has data that need to persist across individual calls to the likelihood. I'd appreciate

Re: [R] help with lme()

2003-11-04 Thread Douglas Bates
Bill Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I am trying to determine whether I should be using ML or REML methods to estimate a linear mixed model. In the book by Pinheiro Bates (Mixed-effects models in S and S-PLUS, page 76) they state that one difference between REML and ML is that LME

Re: [R] real eigenvectors

2003-11-04 Thread kjetil
On 4 Nov 2003 at 13:14, Stephane DRAY wrote: That the matrix is symmetric is sufficient to guarantee real eigenvalues (proof is easy). I don't know about any general conditions for asymmetric matrices, and doubt there are. But in many structured situation you could be able to show similarity

Re: [R] USA map

2003-11-04 Thread kjetil
On 5 Nov 2003 at 8:21, Ray Brownrigg wrote: Except the Bolivia map must be a local one (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]); it is not in library(mapdata). Ray Brownrigg Sorry, I should have typed library(maps) library(mapdata) map(worldHires,bolivia) which indeed shows a correctly-looking map.

Re: [R] USA map

2003-11-04 Thread Ray Brownrigg
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 5 11:31:52 2003 but I cannot find any function to find the avalable region names in a map database They are in the .N file for the appropriate map. Try: library(maps) data(worldMapEnv) file.show(paste(Sys.getenv(worldMapEnv), world.N, sep=/)) These ASCII

[R] How to define a function to be smooth?

2003-11-04 Thread Feng Zhang
Hey, R-listers When we say a function f(t) is smooth, does this mean that f has infinite differentials with respect to t? Or any other formal definition on this? Thanks for your points. Fred [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL

[R] Cointegration

2003-11-04 Thread Erin Hodgess
Do any packages exist for cointegration, please? Do we need them, if the answer to the previous is no, please? Thanks, Erin mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

[R] more barplot presentation questions

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Sorenson
Thanks to those who pointed me at the solutions to the legend overprinting the bars. I took the easy way of rescaling the y axis, picking the scaling factor for stacked bars is somewhat problematic but sufficient for my application. I have another couple of barplot questions: - Can I

Re: [R] How to define a function to be smooth?

2003-11-04 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Is this a homework assignment ? - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Feng Zhang wrote: Hey, R-listers When we say a function f(t) is smooth, does this mean that f has infinite differentials with respect to t? Or any other formal definition

RE: [R] Cointegration

2003-11-04 Thread Manoj - Hachibushu Capital
In tseries, look for ?adf.test ?pp.test. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Cointegration Do any packages exist for cointegration, please? Do we

[R] help with nomogram function

2003-11-04 Thread Ross Darnell
I have fitted a logistic regression model failed.lr2$call lrm(formula = failed ~ Age + task2 + Age:task2, data = time.long, na.action = na.omit) using the Design package functions and would like to generate a nomogram from this model. the datadist information is generated and stored in

[R] read.spss Error reading system-file header

2003-11-04 Thread Jacob Wegelin
Is there any documentation on what kind of SPSS file can and cannot be read by read.spss? Alternatively, how can one modify or clean an SPSS file to make it readable by read.spss? What properties must a *.sav file before read.spss can read it? The file in this example is 270KB, with 5 rows and

Re: [R] read.spss Error reading system-file header

2003-11-04 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Jake - The error message and warnign message shown below say something is wrong with this file's SPSS system-file header. If you are really able to open this one in SPSS, do so, change maybe a column name or row name or two, and save it again under a different file name. See if read.spss()

[R] Re: [S] LME - fixed effects model and missing values

2003-11-04 Thread Jacob Wegelin
Here is an answer to a 1999 post. I didn't find a direct answer anywhere on the Web, perhaps because it is obvious once one sees it. Suppose you have data from a longitudinal study, where each subject was measured *up to* four times, with missing measurements, so that the data look like this:

[R] objects inside curly braces

2003-11-04 Thread Hiromoto, Scott
Hello, I am running a program in r that calls a function, which calls another function, which calls another etc. These functions are of the form: example- function(x,y,z) {x, y, and z are defined within curly braces like this} Here's my question. To start the main function, I input as an

Re: [R] read.spss Error reading system-file header

2003-11-04 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Jake - Very puzzling that a freshly-written copy of the file gives the same problem. As to your second question, my recollection is that read.spss() will be in package 'foreign'. The absolute reference is the source code itself, and this is often quite readable, whether it's commented or not.

[R] using LSODA in R

2003-11-04 Thread Ivan Kautter
R help list subscribers, I am a new user of R. I am attempting to use R to explore a set of equations specifying the dynamics of a three trophic level food chain. I have put together this code for the function that is to be evaluted by LSODA. My equations Rprime, Cprime, and Pprime are

RE: [R] read.spss Error reading system-file header

2003-11-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
David Baird has created a free data conversion utility called dataload. See http://www.vsn-intl.com/genstat/downloads/dataload.htm It can translate SPSS files into other formats including several that are readable by R (including csv and rda). I don't use SPSS myself but I have used

[R] Estimate hazard function from right-censored data only

2003-11-04 Thread Monica L. Parra Torrado
Dear All, I would like to ask if it is possible to estimate a hazard function using the muhaz command when all the data is right-censored. My data has information of the number of weeks people has been unemployed but all of them are unemployed at the date of the survey, that is, I cannot

Re: [R] read.spss Error reading system-file header

2003-11-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jacob Wegelin wrote: Is there any documentation on what kind of SPSS file can and cannot be read by read.spss? Alternatively, how can one modify or clean an SPSS file to make it readable by read.spss? What properties must a *.sav file before read.spss can read it? I

RE: [R] Contrast

2003-11-04 Thread Simon Blomberg
see ?fit.contrast in library gregmisc. Cheers, Simon. Simon Blomberg, PhD Depression Anxiety Consumer Research Unit Centre for Mental Health Research Australian National University http://www.anu.edu.au/cmhr/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (2) 6125 3379 -Original Message- From: Igor

Re: [R] read.spss Error reading system-file header

2003-11-04 Thread Jacob Wegelin
Thank you for your responses. Here's the workaround. In SPSS, I saved the file EXvideo.sav as Excel. Still in SPSS, I read in this Excel file, and saved it under a new name, EXvideo-SPSStoExceltoSPSS.sav, as an SPSS file. This file I was able to read into R with no problem, using read.spss.

[R] R 1.8 and MacOS X 10.3

2003-11-04 Thread Norm Gall
It would seem that R 1.8 doesn't like the version of libiconv that Panther has installed. Can we compile this for Aqua ourselves or will there be a binary for we who upgrade sooner rather than later? [ludwig:~] gall% R dyld: mkdir version mismatch for library: /usr/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib

Re: [R] objects inside curly braces

2003-11-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:19:44 -0800 , you wrote: Hello, I am running a program in r that calls a function, which calls another function, which calls another etc. These functions are of the form: example- function(x,y,z) {x, y, and z are defined within curly braces like this} Here's my

Re: [R] help with nomogram function

2003-11-04 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:22:34 +1000 Ross Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have fitted a logistic regression model failed.lr2$call lrm(formula = failed ~ Age + task2 + Age:task2, data = time.long, na.action = na.omit) Use Age*task2 and omit na.action as na.omit is the default

Re: [R] Architecting an optimization with external calls

2003-11-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:12, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Look into external pointers. That is how we have tackled this, e.g. in the ts package. I got the following to work. Any comments? I indicated some areas of uncertainty in the comments. I'm also unsure about the differences, if any,

Re: [R] Estimate hazard function from right-censored data only

2003-11-04 Thread John Fox
Dear Monica, I'm not sure what the muhaz function is (it's not in the survival package), but regardless, unless I'm seriously mistaken, there's no information to estimate the hazard function if you haven't observed any events. I hope that this helps, John At 08:10 PM 11/4/2003 -0500, Monica

Re: [R] Estimate hazard function from right-censored data only

2003-11-04 Thread Spencer Graves
If you are willing to assume an exponential distribution, then you can get a one-sided confidence bound on the exponential parameter. The likelihood is the probability of what you observe. Write that down and figure it out. I'm sorry I don't have time to say more right now, but I've done it

Re: [R] Estimate hazard function from right-censored data only

2003-11-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Nov-03 John Fox wrote: Dear Monica, I'm not sure what the muhaz function is (it's not in the survival package), but regardless, unless I'm seriously mistaken, there's no information to estimate the hazard function if you haven't observed any events. I hope that this helps, John

Re: [R] more barplot presentation questions

2003-11-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 17:15, Paul Sorenson wrote: Thanks to those who pointed me at the solutions to the legend overprinting the bars. I took the easy way of rescaling the y axis, picking the scaling factor for stacked bars is somewhat problematic but sufficient for my application. I have

RE: [R] read.spss Error reading system-file header

2003-11-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Sorry, but there was an error in the link that I posted below. It should have been http://www.vsn-intl.com/genstat/downloads/datald.htm --- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:54:06 -0500 From: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] Estimate hazard function from right-censored data only

2003-11-04 Thread John Fox
Dear Ted, Yes, that makes sense, and I hadn't thought of it -- I was thinking in terms of a nonparametric estimate of the hazard function. Spencer Graves makes a similar point. Andy Liaw was kind enough to point out to me that the muhaz function is in the muhaz package. As it turns out, muhaz