[R] clustering distributions

2003-11-07 Thread Murad Nayal
Hi, I have a dataset where each case is characterized by a histogram. I would like to cluster these cases using a sensible distance measure, possibly relative entropy? Is there a way I can use R facilities to do this (hclust etc.). I couldn't find an alternative to dist that would compute

[R] opposite function of strsplit() ?

2003-11-07 Thread Ragnhild Sørum
Hi, I what to solve this problem: alfab - ABCEDFG#[1] ABCEDFG chara - strsplit(alfab, )#[1] A B C E D F G Then I do some changes before I want the character together again, say, remove two letters. Now, chara is A B E D G. Is there any opposite

Re: [R] opposite function of strsplit() ?

2003-11-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
Ragnhild Sørum wrote: Hi, I what to solve this problem: alfab - ABCEDFG#[1] ABCEDFG chara - strsplit(alfab, )#[1] A B C E D F G Then I do some changes before I want the character together again, say, remove two letters. Now, chara is A B E D G.

Re: [R] opposite function of strsplit() ?

2003-11-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
?paste On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Ragnhild Sørum wrote: I what to solve this problem: alfab - ABCEDFG#[1] ABCEDFG chara - strsplit(alfab, )#[1] A B C E D F G Then I do some changes before I want the character together again, say, remove two

[R] precision in operations

2003-11-07 Thread javier garcia - CEBAS
Hi all; could you remind me what is the function to change the precision of the operations done in R? I can't remember nor find it. Best regards Javier __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: Summary: [R] How to represent pure linefeeds chr(10) under R for Windows

2003-11-07 Thread Martin Maechler
Gabor == Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:33:04 -0500 (EST) writes: Gabor Its also possible to avoid these intricacies by not Gabor using an intermediate text representation, i.e. csv, Gabor in the first place. Gabor The following R code uses the

Re: [R] Hierarchical glm - Followup

2003-11-07 Thread Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure how to correctly analyse the following data with glm, and hope for some advice from this list, ideally showing how to specify the model in R and perform the tests, and also for suggestions of literature. The data structure is like this: - 20

Re: [R] precision in operations

2003-11-07 Thread Jason Turner
javier garcia - CEBAS wrote: Hi all; could you remind me what is the function to change the precision of the operations done in R? I can't remember nor find it. There isn't one. R does all its calculations with system defined double-precision or integers (on most platforms where R is used,

[R] Electronic copy of Ihaka and Gentleman (1996)?

2003-11-07 Thread Stephen Eglen
Hi, The R FAQ suggests that we can cite Ihaka and Gentleman (1996) in publications. Does anyone have an electronic copy of this that could be (legally) made publically available -- my library here doesn't take this journal (Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics). Otherwise, I can

[R] summary.nlme

2003-11-07 Thread Simon.Bond
Hi, I'm trying to work out how the nlme function estimates the variances of the fixed effects parameters, so I tried to look at the code for these functions: summary.nlme, summary.lme, MEestimate. MEestimate Error: Object MEestimate not found summary.nlme Error: Object summary.nlme not found

Re: [R] summary.nlme

2003-11-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What's going on? Namespaces. See `Writing R Extensions'. ?getS3method ?getAnywhere will show these to you. It is probably easier to read the source code for the package, though. On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Simon.Bond wrote: Hi, I'm trying to work out how the nlme function estimates the

Re: Summary: [R] How to represent pure linefeeds chr(10) under R for Windows

2003-11-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:32:44 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: 1) dataload is *not* free software in the sense of the Free Software Foundation (which has existed for a much longer time than MS windows!): Actually they're contemporaneous. MS Windows version 1.0 came out in 1985, the same

Re: Summary: [R] How to represent pure linefeeds chr(10) under R for Windows

2003-11-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
While I don't disagree with what you say, the purpose of this is to interface to Excel which is even less free (you have to pay for Excel but not for dataload) so perhaps the status of the glue used between R and Excel is not as important. From an expediency viewpoint, I found that

[R] Non-standard axis plotting

2003-11-07 Thread Laura Quinn
I am trying to plot positions on a grid where the x and y axis equate to longitudinal and latitudinal co-prdinates respectively. As these co-ordinates are southings and westings, i need the origin of my graph to contain the two highest values of each co0ordinate, with the values decreasing in both

RE: [R] R input file scanning

2003-11-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Assuming the start tag contains the word start and the end tag contains the word end you could do this: lines - readLines( input.txt )# lines is a vector of lines g - grep( start|end, lines ) # positions of tags lines - lines[ seq( g[1]+1, g[2]-1 ) ] mydata - read.table(

Re: [R] precision in operations

2003-11-07 Thread Douglas Bates
Jason Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: javier garcia - CEBAS wrote: Hi all; could you remind me what is the function to change the precision of the operations done in R? I can't remember nor find it. There isn't one. R does all its calculations with system defined

Re: [R] summary.nlme

2003-11-07 Thread Douglas Bates
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's going on? Namespaces. See `Writing R Extensions'. ?getS3method ?getAnywhere will show these to you. It is probably easier to read the source code for the package, though. When reading the source code for the nlme package is the

Re: [R] precision in operations

2003-11-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 04:40, Jason Turner wrote: javier garcia - CEBAS wrote: Hi all; could you remind me what is the function to change the precision of the operations done in R? I can't remember nor find it. There isn't one. R does all its calculations with system defined

[R] R humour: Early versions

2003-11-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I didn't realise version 1 of the R programming language was quite so old: http://www.jbum.com/idt/r.html Does anyone still have hardware that runs it? http://www.jbum.com/idt/hyperboreans.html Baz __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Christoph Bier
Hi, I use a little script¹ to make a chi-square-test on 162 factors (it makes no difference if I take the numeric variant of the factors). At factor nr. 4 is stops with an error: [1] v1= V7.KARTM v11= V7.KAR1M Error in chisq.test(d1, d2) : x and y must have at least 2 levels But x and y /have/

RE: [R] xyplot

2003-11-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
Need to wrap the xyplot() in print(), as in print(xyplot(...)) Andy From: Dr. Peter Schlattmann Dear all, I am trying to use xyplot inside a function plotme-function(dataframe) { xyplot(x~y|z,data=dataframe) } x,y,z are members of the data frame. When calling function

Re: [R] R humour: Early versions

2003-11-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:54, Barry Rowlingson wrote: I didn't realise version 1 of the R programming language was quite so old: http://www.jbum.com/idt/r.html Does anyone still have hardware that runs it? http://www.jbum.com/idt/hyperboreans.html Baz I think that you just answered

Re: [R] Non-standard axis plotting

2003-11-07 Thread Giovanni Petris
If you want to preserve the aspect ratio of x and y axis, use asp=1 within the plot function. To reverse the direction of the x and y axes, if I understand correctly what you are trying to do, I am not sure. There may be more efficient ways. What I would do is something along the following

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Christoph Bier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I use a little script¹ to make a chi-square-test on 162 factors (it makes no difference if I take the numeric variant of the factors). At factor nr. 4 is stops with an error: [1] v1= V7.KARTM v11= V7.KAR1M Error in chisq.test(d1, d2) : x and

Re: [R] R humour: Early versions

2003-11-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:54, Barry Rowlingson wrote: I didn't realise version 1 of the R programming language was quite so old: http://www.jbum.com/idt/r.html Does anyone still have hardware that runs it?

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, Christoph Bier wrote: Hi, I use a little script to make a chi-square-test on 162 factors (it makes no difference if I take the numeric variant of the factors). At factor nr. 4 is stops with an error: [1] v1= V7.KARTM v11= V7.KAR1M Error in chisq.test(d1,

[R] Bug in cor.test - Spearman

2003-11-07 Thread Steve Roberts
Greetings. There seems to be a problem with the P-value computation in the cor.test with method=spearman. In R1.8.0 (MS Windows) I seem to be getting intermittently nonsense P-values, but the rho's are OK. I can get this reproducibly with the toy example attached where the first use is OK

[R] SOM function with missig values

2003-11-07 Thread Eric ESPOSITO
Hi, I found two sorts of functions to use the SOM algorithm, one in the package som and the other one in the package class, but none of them deal with the missing values. The som function in package som gives results with option init=random, but the value of the code vector has missing values

Re: [R] Bug in cor.test - Spearman

2003-11-07 Thread Giovanni Petris
It works fine for me, on a Sun. x-1:100 y-rep(c(2,3,4,5),25) cor.test(x,y,m=p) Pearson's product-moment correlation data: x and y t = 0.3837, df = 98, p-value = 0.702 alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0 95 percent confidence interval: -0.1588952 0.2333745

Re: [R] Bug in cor.test - Spearman

2003-11-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:45, Steve Roberts wrote: Greetings. There seems to be a problem with the P-value computation in the cor.test with method=spearman. In R1.8.0 (MS Windows) I seem to be getting intermittently nonsense P-values, but the rho's are OK. I can get this reproducibly

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Spencer Graves
As Peter said, the standard chi-square for a 2x2 table won't work for your data. However, if you tabulate the numbers first and then ask for the chi-square, you get a warning, not an error: contable - array(c(42, 0,0,0), dim=c(2,2)) chisq.test(contable) Pearson's Chi-squared test

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Christoph Bier
Marc Schwartz wrote: [answer to my problem] Thanks! BTW to the german speaking readers: What's the R pendant to or translation for Konfigurationsfrequenzanalyse (KFA)? I am not a German speaker, however: Analysis of Configuration Frequencies (CFA)? Sounds reasonable ;-). There is a

[R] CircStats bug? (circ.plot)

2003-11-07 Thread John J. Christie
I am trying to work through CircStats (R 1.8, CircStats just downloaded last week). circ.plot just does not work. I am plotting about 800 points and they come out very different (and apparently correct) in rose.diag, but circ.plot does not work (high angles or low negative angles are not

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Christoph Bier
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Well, the error message might be slightly beside the point, but the issue would seem to be that there are no ja's inside either vector. I.e. it first reduces each factor to those levels that are actually present, then checks whether there are at least two levels. Thanks for

[R] Barplots

2003-11-07 Thread Suzanne E. Blatt
Hello, Can anyone tell me how to label individual bars on a barplot? I want to put an * or letter ABOVE the bar to denote statistical significance. Is this possible and how? Thanks, Suzanne __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Christoph Bier
Spencer Graves wrote: As Peter said, the standard chi-square for a 2x2 table won't work for your data. However, if you tabulate the numbers first and then ask for the chi-square, you get a warning, not an error: Thanks for the solution of my problem! Best regards, Christoph

Re: [R] Barplots

2003-11-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:46, Suzanne E. Blatt wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me how to label individual bars on a barplot? I want to put an * or letter ABOVE the bar to denote statistical significance. Is this possible and how? Thanks, Suzanne You might want to take a look at the most

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Christoph Bier wrote: Peter Dalgaard wrote: Well, the error message might be slightly beside the point, but the issue would seem to be that there are no ja's inside either vector. I.e. it first reduces each factor to those levels that are actually present, then

Re: [R] Barplots

2003-11-07 Thread Philipp Pagel
Hi! On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:46:27AM -0500, Suzanne E. Blatt wrote: Can anyone tell me how to label individual bars on a barplot? I want to put an * or letter ABOVE the bar to denote statistical significance. Is this possible and how? You can use text() to put arbitrary strings in

[R] Two Y-axises and One X-axis

2003-11-07 Thread umeno
Hi, I would like to know if anyone knows how to draw a plot with two Y-axises and one X-axis? When you have two sets of y values that do not have the same scale, but correspond to the same x value, I would like to plot them on one graph. Could you please help me? Thank you Soyoko

Re: [R] Re: using LSODA in R

2003-11-07 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Stephen Ellner schrieb: I think an additional problem is that the derivatives function must be 'told' where to 'look' in y for the values of R, C, and P that are used to compute Rprime,Cprime, Pprime - it has no way of 'knowing' that the model's state vector y consists of the variables (R,C,P).

[R] Annoteting graphs using text

2003-11-07 Thread Craig H. Ziegler
Dear All, I am new to R and am trying to learn how to create functions using R. Below is code which calculates Lin's Concordance Coefficient. After I calculate the coefficient I want to create a scatter plot which annotates the coefficient along with preceding text onto the plot. The below code

RE: [R] Annoteting graphs using text

2003-11-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
You want to use paste() inside text(), not cat(). Andy From: Craig H. Ziegler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All, I am new to R and am trying to learn how to create functions using R. Below is code which calculates Lin's Concordance Coefficient. After I calculate the coefficient I

Re: [R] Annoteting graphs using text

2003-11-07 Thread Don MacQueen
Try using paste() instead of cat() in text(20,60,cat(Lin's Concordance Coefficient = ,lincc)) The last expression in your function will be returned as the value of the function; that is the best way to get results out of a function and available for use outside the function.

Re: [R] Two Y-axises and One X-axis

2003-11-07 Thread Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Hi, On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, umeno wrote: I would like to know if anyone knows how to draw a plot with two Y-axises and one X-axis? When you have two sets of y values that do not have the same scale, but correspond to the same x value, I would like to plot them on one graph. I think both

Re: [R] Two Y-axises and One X-axis

2003-11-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
umeno wrote: Hi, I would like to know if anyone knows how to draw a plot with two Y-axises and one X-axis? When you have two sets of y values that do not have the same scale, but correspond to the same x value, I would like to plot them on one graph. Could you please help me? Please look

[R] y label after axis (4)

2003-11-07 Thread umeno
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to lable the second y-axis after the following codes: plot(x, y, xlab=time, ylab=pay1 ) par(new=TRUE) plot(x,y2, ann=FALSE, xaxt=n, yaxt=n, pch=7 ) axis(4) Then, I want to label the second y axis

[R] average of y at each level of x?

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Simpson
I have x,y data and would like to compute the average of y at each level of x. x [1] 0.006110 0.007027 0.007027 0.007027 0.008081 0.008081 0.008081 0.008081 [9] 0.008081 0.008081 0.008081 0.009293 0.009293 0.009293 0.009293 0.009293 [17] 0.009293 0.009293 0.009293 0.010686 0.010686 0.010686

RE: [R] average of y at each level of x?

2003-11-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
Try (untested): p1 - tapply(y, x, function(z) mean(z == 0)) HTH, Andy From: Bill Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have x,y data and would like to compute the average of y at each level of x. x [1] 0.006110 0.007027 0.007027 0.007027 0.008081 0.008081 0.008081 0.008081 [9]

Re: [R] y label after axis (4)

2003-11-07 Thread Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Hi, On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, umeno wrote: Then, I want to label the second y axis pay2. I tried title(ylab=pay2), but it put this lable on the first y-axis. Does anyone know how to move this to the second y-axis? ?mtext will do what you want. For example, here is a few codes from Venables

Re: [R] precision in operations

2003-11-07 Thread Jason Turner
Douglas Bates wrote: Jason Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... There isn't one. R does all its calculations with system defined double-precision or integers (on most platforms where R is used, these are both 32 bits). See help(is.single) Usually the double-precision representation is 64 bits

Re: [R] Barplots

2003-11-07 Thread Suzanne E. Blatt
Hello, Thanks for the suggestion below. I did one of my figures and it worked perfectly. I tried it on my second figure and got double-labelling on the first bar. I used the same code to create both figures, and the same code to label. I've attached the code for one of the plots (there

Re: [R] average of y at each level of x?

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Simpson
one way that works is: sapply(split(y,x), mean) Bill __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

[R] barplot(names.arg) versus axis(labels)

2003-11-07 Thread Siddique, Amer
Should I be able to use axis() on a barplot? i have a data.frame, the first 3 values of which are: c[1:3,] median mean A156.5 58.5 A61 73.0 73.0 A62 63.0 63.0 str(c) `data.frame': 19 obs. of 2 variables: $ median: num 56.5 73 63 161 51 55 44.5 22 54 49 ...

Re: [R] Barplots

2003-11-07 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 03:16:13PM -0500, Suzanne E. Blatt wrote: Thanks for the suggestion below. I did one of my figures and it worked perfectly. I tried it on my second figure and got double-labelling on the first bar. I used the same code to create both figures, and the same code to

Re: [R] barplot(names.arg) versus axis(labels)

2003-11-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:29, Siddique, Amer wrote: Should I be able to use axis() on a barplot? i have a data.frame, the first 3 values of which are: c[1:3,] median mean A156.5 58.5 A61 73.0 73.0 A62 63.0 63.0 str(c) `data.frame': 19 obs. of 2

Re: [R] Barplots (THANK YOU!!)

2003-11-07 Thread Suzanne E. Blatt
Thanks! That did it!! Suzanne Philipp Pagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 03:16:13PM -0500, Suzanne E. Blatt wrote: Thanks for the suggestion below. I did one of my figures and it worked perfectly. I tried it on my second figure and got double-labelling on the first

[R] Copula functions in R?

2003-11-07 Thread Thomas Holm
Hello I am writing to you regarding your interest in Copula/copulae and it´s usage. I am currently studying Copula for my Master thesis and also therefore have a large interest in it. Now I am looking for information regarding copula as well as Copula and R. Code, information how to calculate

[R] stack overflow and predict()

2003-11-07 Thread Ji Zhu
Dear R users, I'm trying to use rpart() to build a classification tree on a big dataset. The number of samples is n=100 and the number of variables is p=1. At first I stored all the data in a data.frame and got a stack overflow error; then I changed the data into a matrix and the problem

RE: [R] stack overflow and predict()

2003-11-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
Try something like this (suppose x is the matrix of predictors in the training set, and xtest is the same for the test set): my.rp - rpart(y ~ x, ...) test.pred - predict(my.rp, newdata=data.frame(x=I(xtest))) Make sure the name of the variable in the data frame given to newdata matches the name

[R] [Fwd: Sun Solaris 8 compile problem.]

2003-11-07 Thread Jack Matthews
Original Message Subject: Sun Solaris 8 compile problem. Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 23:03:36 -0700 From: Jack Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am new to the list was wondering if anyone can help me find the reason and remedy for compiling R on an ultrasparc 60

Re: [R] [Fwd: Sun Solaris 8 compile problem.]

2003-11-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 06:19:26PM -0700, Jack Matthews wrote: I am new to the list was wondering if anyone can help me find the reason and remedy for compiling R on an ultrasparc 60 solaris 8 with gcc 3.2.2 in 64 bit mode? Fails in checking for a fortran library. RTFM, in this case the

Re: [R] chisq.test error: x and y must have at least 2 levels

2003-11-07 Thread kjetil
On 7 Nov 2003 at 8:19, Thomas Lumley wrote: Just to make the point more clear: fisher.test( matrix(c(42,0,0,0),2,2)) Fisher's Exact Test for Count Data data: matrix(c(42, 0, 0, 0), 2, 2) p-value = 1 alternative hypothesis: true odds ratio is not equal to 1 95 percent confidence

Re: [R] average of y at each level of x?

2003-11-07 Thread kjetil
On 7 Nov 2003 at 9:47, Bill Simpson wrote: Since your y is 0-1 the following works: tapply(x, y ,mean) aggregate(x, y, mean) gives the output in a different format. Kjetil Halvorsen I have x,y data and would like to compute the average of y at each level of x. x [1] 0.006110 0.007027

Re: [R] stack overflow and predict()

2003-11-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
That's not a sensible thing to do. Supply predict.rpart with a data frame that contains just the variables rpart selected. R does have limits, and attempting to use 10,000 variables is hitting them, But surely any statistician is aware of the dangers of selecting from 1 variables on just

Re: [R] [Fwd: Sun Solaris 8 compile problem.]

2003-11-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Actually not, 3.2.2 works in 64-bit mode (although I would recommend a later version of gcc). The issue seems more basic: the environment does not have a working compiler. A likely reason is the the 64-bit shared libraries are not in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or not high enough up it. That