Re: [R] derivative of atan(x) and similar functions

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Maechler
Timur == Timur Elzhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:54:58 +0300 writes: Timur Dear R experts. 'D()' function recognizes some of Timur the analitical functions, such as sin, cos, etc. But Timur I'd like to take analytical derivatives from asin, Timur atan etc.

Re: [R] lattice: adding text between grouped panels?

2004-01-22 Thread Wolfram Fischer
--- In reply to Deepayan Sarkar: --- Date:20.01.04 10:40 (-0600) Thank you again for your very helpful and inspiring answer! Some additional questions will follow below. On Tuesday 20 January 2004 04:14, Wolfram Fischer wrote: How one can add a text (e.g. the labels of an axis) in a

Re: [R] matrix exponential: M^0

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Maechler
PD == Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 21 Jan 2004 19:08:38 +0100 writes: PD Martyn Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Calculating the matrix exponential is harder than it looks (I'm sure Peter knows this). In fact there is a classic paper by Moler and Van Loan from the

Re: [R] silhoutte.default bugs

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Maechler
Murad == Murad Nayal [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:19:28 -0500 writes: Murad This might have been fixed in later versions (I am Murad using R1.7.0), yes, the bug has been fixed long ago, from my ChangeLog (!), it was 2003-07-18. Murad r-help archive contains

[R] Packages debug and mvbutils

2004-01-22 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Hi, The article Debugging Without (Too Many) Tears (Rnews 3/3) describes the packages debug and mvbutils but it has no reference to where one can find those packages and they are not in CRAN. I've searched google but I can not find it :( A reference will be welcome. Thanks EJ

[R] Packages debug and mvbutils

2004-01-22 Thread Henning Rust
Hi, I read about packages debug and mvbutils in the R news but I cannot find them on CRAN in the Package Sources. Does anyone know where to look? Thanks, Henning -- Henning Rust Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Dept. Integrated Systems Analysis Tel.: #49/331/288-2596 Fax.:

[R] queing theory and R

2004-01-22 Thread Christian Schulz
Hi, have got anybody experience with queing theory and R or exist some material. Searching in archive i found nothing. For first i search a function (..or have mysellf to write) which calculates the frequency of parallel events. I have the starting time and duartion_time of the events. Many

[R] problem fitting linear mixed models

2004-01-22 Thread Joan Valls
Hello, I'm fitting linear mixed models to gene-expression data from microarrays, in a data set where 4608 genes are studied. For a sample of 5 subjects and for each gene we observe the expression level (Intensity) in four different tissues: N, Tp, Tx and M. I want to test whether the expression

Re: [R] Packages debug and mvbutils

2004-01-22 Thread Simon Wood
I read about packages debug and mvbutils in the R news but I cannot find them on CRAN in the Package Sources. Does anyone know where to look? Since it's the middle of the night in Tasmania I asked Mark yesterday and he said they'd be on CRAN in the next day or two.

[R] File permissions and packages, openVignette

2004-01-22 Thread Crispin Miller
Hi, I've got a quick question about file permissions and packages... I'm creating my own package, and am having problems with its vignette not being seen when I install it into R... As I understand it, the permissions of the source tree should be as follows: o Directories - drwxrwxr-- o

[R] Calculation of normalised red and green intensities

2004-01-22 Thread Binita Dutta
Dear Sir/Madam, I could succesfully normalise my microarray data using marrayNorm package. However, i have not been able to get normalised red and green channel intensities through R package. Is there a possibility to write a formula to calculate back the red and green channel intensities

RE: [R] Calculation of normalised red and green intensities

2004-01-22 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, here's the calculations M = log2(R/G) = [log rules] = log2(R)-log2(G) (1) A = 1/2*log2(R*G) = [log rules] = (log2(R)+log2(G))/2 (2) where log2(x) is the logarithm of x with base 2. If R,G 0, there is a one-to-one relationship between (A,M) and (G,R) as follows R =

[R] Re: matrix exponential: M0

2004-01-22 Thread Vicente Canto Casasola
H i, all! First of all, I'd like to apologize for my poor English. It's for years I don't use it. This is a R-version of a function I wrote a long ago for my HP48 calculator. It works with the binary expression of the power and just need to duplicate the mem used by X. Hope this helps.

[R] customising installed libraries

2004-01-22 Thread Stephen Henderson
hello I am returning to some libraries that I had previously customised by amongst other things adding additional functions. I had simply typed these new functions into the file in library/R/thelibrary. These however do not seem to be loaded now as they previously were under older versions of R.

Re: [R] customising installed libraries

2004-01-22 Thread Wolski
Have you executed first detach(package:library) before loading the library again? Eryk *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/22/2004 at 1:47 PM Stephen Henderson wrote: hello I am returning to some libraries that I had previously customised by amongst other things adding additional

Réf. : [R] Packages debug and mvbutils

2004-01-22 Thread gerald . jean
If you want to access these utilities before M.Bravington post them on CRAN they are available on his site: (ftp://ftp.marine.csiro.au/software/bravington/) Gérald Jean Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat télephone: (418) 835-4900 poste (7639) télecopieur : (418)

RE: [R] customising installed libraries

2004-01-22 Thread Stephen Henderson
I had quit q() R, reloaded and loaded ipred anew. Trying detach(package:ipred) makes no difference. I added a few pointless lines to one existing function and can see these when I call the function, passing no parameters. thats why i was assuming it was an R thing. is this just some mysterious

RE: [R] customising installed libraries

2004-01-22 Thread Wolski
There are the concept of private and public functions in the new version. There are a file in the root directory of the lib where public functions can be entered. I by myself do not know much more. There are more info in the R-ext.pdf (R extensions). Probably you have to add your new function

RE: [R] customising installed libraries

2004-01-22 Thread Stephen Henderson
ha ha ha ha..hmmm. Well although I don't follow the developments and deprecations of R religiously that doesn't mean I'm innumerate. Thanks for the advice nonetheless-- its working now. -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley To: Stephen Henderson Cc: ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' Sent:

RE: [R] customising installed libraries

2004-01-22 Thread Liaw, Andy
The ipred package has a namespace. Do follow the instruction in the R-exts manual if you want functions available via a package. Andy From: Stephen Henderson I had quit q() R, reloaded and loaded ipred anew. Trying detach(package:ipred) makes no difference. I added a few pointless lines

RE: [R] customising installed libraries

2004-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
ipred has a NAMESPACE: you cannot do this to packages that have namespaces without changing the NAMESPACE file (and from the next release, you will need to reinstall as well). You can read about this in `Writing R Extensions', but is it a good idea to be altering a package that uses concepts

Re: [R] derivative of atan(x) and similar functions

2004-01-22 Thread Kasper Kristensen
I have added the differentiation rules for asin, acos and atan to the file deriv.c. Please let me know where to send it. Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:05:39 +0100 From: Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] derivative of atan(x) and similar functions To: Timur Elzhov [EMAIL

[R] Please help with \usage{} for [.S3Class in Rd-Format

2004-01-22 Thread Jens Oehlschlägel
Dear all, I try to submit a library to CRAN but can't overcome the last R CMD CHECK. Can someone enlighten me how to put the \usage{} section for an S3-Method extractor defined as args(get([.refdata)) function (x, i = NULL, j = NULL, drop = FALSE, ref = FALSE) NULL I read the Writing R

[R] Re: matrix __power__ (was exponential)

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Maechler
Vicente == Vicente Canto Casasola [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:34:01 +0100 writes: Vicente H i, all! First of all, I'd like to apologize for Vicente my poor English. It's for years I don't use it. no problem at all. Vicente This is a R-version of a function I

Re: [R] Please help with \usage{} for [.S3Class in Rd-Format

2004-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think you may be trying too hard. Look at Extract.data.frame.Rd and Extract.factor.Rd. I would just have an Extract.refdata.Rd. You only need the \methods{generic}{class} notation when you want to document a generic and a method, or more than one method, in the same help file. And at

Re: [R] File permissions and packages, openVignette

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Maechler
Crispin == Crispin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:08:01 - writes: Crispin Hi, Crispin I've got a quick question about file permissions and packages... Crispin I'm creating my own package, and am having problems Crispin with its vignette not being seen

[R] spectrum

2004-01-22 Thread Andreas Pauling
Dear R users I have two questions about estimating the spectral power of a time series: 1) I came across a funny thing with the following code: data(co2) par(mfrow=c(2,1)) co2.sp1-spectrum(co2,detrend=T,demean=T,span=3) co2.sp2-spectrum(co2[1:468],detrend=T,demean=T,span=3) The first plot

Re: [R] storage.mode and argument duplication

2004-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
In R, storage.mode- is an interpreted function that calls as.double (in your case) and copies attributes across so it is definitely worse than the second. Is x$one usually double? If so then .Fortran(foo, if(is.double(x$one)) x$one else as.double(x$one), ...) would save a copy. Does your

Re: [R] matrix exponential: M^0

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The update is actually available online from http://epubs.siam.org/sam-bin/dbq/article/41801 with the extended title , 25 Years Later . To some, that is. I can download it to the work machine, but if I do it from home, all I get is a ...

[R] adding mean to boxplot

2004-01-22 Thread Johannes Ullrich
I am a new and unexperienced user of R and got so far as to know how to produce boxplots. I have no experience of messing with function code, so presently I do not know how to create a boxplot with group means instead of group medians. If somebody could help me either replace the median with

Re: [R] silhoutte.default bugs

2004-01-22 Thread Murad Nayal
Martin Maechler wrote: Murad == Murad Nayal [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:19:28 -0500 writes: Murad This might have been fixed in later versions (I am Murad using R1.7.0), yes, the bug has been fixed long ago, from my ChangeLog (!), it was 2003-07-18. sorry

RE: [R] adding mean to boxplot

2004-01-22 Thread Andy Bunn
This will add triangles at the mean value. To change the behavior of boxplot() to draw means instead of medians would involve rewriting the bxp() code I believe. You could change the points in the code below to segments. See ?segments. The archives have quite a few examples of people modifying the

[R] Axes Ticks

2004-01-22 Thread ivo welch
Apologies, basic question on plot. y - c(-4,3,-2,1); x - c(time 1, time 2, time 3, time 4); plot(x,y, type=b); of course fails. x - 1:4 makes it succeed, but then I have too many ticks on my X axis. I want exactly 4 tickmarks. It would also be nicer if I could name the

Re: [R] adding mean to boxplot

2004-01-22 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:11, Johannes Ullrich wrote: I am a new and unexperienced user of R and got so far as to know how to produce boxplots. I have no experience of messing with function code, so presently I do not know how to create a boxplot with group means instead of group medians. If

Re: [R] adding mean to boxplot

2004-01-22 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:11:08 +0100 Johannes Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new and unexperienced user of R and got so far as to know how to produce boxplots. I have no experience of messing with function code, so presently I do not know how to create a boxplot with group means instead

Re: [R] Axes Ticks

2004-01-22 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:32, ivo welch wrote: Apologies, basic question on plot. y - c(-4,3,-2,1); x - c(time 1, time 2, time 3, time 4); plot(x,y, type=b); of course fails. x - 1:4 makes it succeed, but then I have too many ticks on my X axis. I want exactly

Re: [R] Axes Ticks

2004-01-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:32:29PM -0500, ivo welch wrote: Apologies, basic question on plot. y - c(-4,3,-2,1); x - c(time 1, time 2, time 3, time 4); plot(x,y, type=b); of course fails. x - 1:4 makes it succeed, but then I have too many ticks on my X axis. I

RE: [R] Axes Ticks

2004-01-22 Thread Andy Bunn
You need to look at ?axis. Try this: y - c(-4,3,-2,1) x - c(time 1, time 2, time 3, time 4) plot(seq(1,length(x), by = 1), y, type = b, axes = FALSE, xlab = Times, ylab = Stuff) axis(1, at = seq(1,length(x), by = 1), labels = x) axis(2) HTH, Andy __

[R] wavelet toolbox

2004-01-22 Thread hagric
Is there a wavelet toolbox in R available that can be compared to the Matlab toolbox for wavelets. Does this toolbox offer the possibility to calculated approximations with different wavelets such as Daubechies 2, Daubechies 3, etc, Symmlet 3, Symmlets 5, etc, Coiflets and so on. I have tried

[R] Bug in termplot?

2004-01-22 Thread Simon Wotherspoon
Hi, Is this a bug in termplot, or (once again) do I just not understand what R is really doing? I am using termplot to contruct partial residual plots, 1. For all terms at once 2. One term at a time but I get different results from these two methods. To give a concrete example, I

[R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Greg Riddick
I'm reading a file into a list by: PDF = scan(file,what=character,sep=\10) \10 is the newline character in this file, also tried \n originally On lines that are ended by \13\10, both are dropped from the list entry I want scan to keep the \13 in the list entry. Is this a bug or just a strange

[R] lm function

2004-01-22 Thread jenny smith
Hi, How can I extract the standard deviation of the coefficients when using the lm function. I know $coefficient gives me the individual betas. thank you - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL

[R] Fitting compartmental model with nls and lsoda?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael A. Miller
A while back I started looking into using R to fit kinetic models and I'm finally getting back to it. It was suggested that I use lsoda (thanks Peter Dalgaard). So I've tried that, even though Peter warned me that it'd be tricky. I've put the following example together from the lsoda help

Re: [R] lm function

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, jenny smith wrote: Hi, How can I extract the standard deviation of the coefficients when using the lm function. I know $coefficient gives me the individual betas. thank you $coefficient is not the recommended way to get the coefficients. use coef(your.model) for

[R] Graphical Windows

2004-01-22 Thread Sebastien Durand
Hello, Here is my problem. I am trying to run and learn R trough the terminal application of my Mac (it runs on Panther). So here it goes I just recently installed R, in unix mode (terminal) by following the attached web page. The trouble is when I try to run either demo(graphics),

Re: [R] help repeated measures factoial design

2004-01-22 Thread M. M. Palhoto N. Rodrigues
If you are interested in study each response isolated and because you have a temporal time-series it could be a possibility for your study to modelize that time-serie with ARMA or GARCH process. For that you have ts and tseries packages. Palhoto. Dear All, A few weeks ago I posted a

Re: [R] lm function

2004-01-22 Thread David Firth
If the model is called mymodel, you could do summary(mymodel)$coefficients[,2] or sqrt(diag(vcov(mymodel))) This gives the estimated standard errors of the coefficients, which I think is what you wanted. David On Thursday, Jan 22, 2004, at 20:35 Europe/London, jenny smith wrote: Hi,

Re: [R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Greg Riddick wrote: I'm reading a file into a list by: PDF = scan(file,what=character,sep=\10) \10 is the newline character in this file, also tried \n originally On lines that are ended by \13\10, both are dropped from the list entry I want scan to keep the \13 in

Re: [R] Fitting compartmental model with nls and lsoda?

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Miller) writes: A while back I started looking into using R to fit kinetic models and I'm finally getting back to it. It was suggested that I use lsoda (thanks Peter Dalgaard). So I've tried that, even though Peter warned me that it'd be tricky. I've put the

[R] help on rgdal package

2004-01-22 Thread Hana Sevcikova
I started to use the rgdal package in order to work with DEM files. Since these files are based on non-rectangular quads, there are lots of NA-values in the corresponding datasets. Does anybody know how to remove the NA-values from an object of class GDALDataset in order to get a rectangular

Re: [R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Greg Riddick
Thanks, Right, I can see why sep=\n might grab the entire \13\10 but it seems like sep=\10 should not strip the \13 also. I need to read in this file (PDF file) and create a list of lines defined by the \10 delimiter. Any suggestions how I could use ReadBin to do that? Not a strange

Re: [R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Greg Riddick wrote: Thanks, Right, I can see why sep=\n might grab the entire \13\10 but it seems like sep=\10 should not strip the \13 also. Why do you claim so? Text mode is *documented* to use any of CR, CRLF or LF as the line delimiter. Please don't keep telling

FW: Réf. : [R] Packages debug and mvbutils

2004-01-22 Thread Mark.Bravington
Please use the CRAN versions, not the ftp versions which are now out-of-date. Both packages are on base CRAN now, but may not have propagated to all mirrors yet. (But thanks to Gerald for responding-- I had de-subscribed from R-help.) For anyone using the HANDY package (a Windows-specific

[R] data.entry question

2004-01-22 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: When I use data.entry for a new variable, the first entry is a NA The function works all right, but then I get a Warning message: data.entry(xb,Modes=numeric) Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion Since the function works acceptably, should I just ignore the warning

Re: [R] Graphical Windows

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Sebastien Durand wrote: Hello, Here is my problem. I am trying to run and learn R trough the terminal application of my Mac (it runs on Panther). So here it goes I just recently installed R, in unix mode (terminal) by following the attached web page. The trouble is

Re: [R] Fitting compartmental model with nls and lsoda?

2004-01-22 Thread DivineSAAM
Dear Colleagues, Our group is also working on implementing the use of R for pharmacokinetic compartmental analysis. Perhaps I have missed something, but fit - nls(noisy ~ lsoda(xstart, time, one.compartment.model, c(K1=0.5, k2=0.5)), +data=C1.lsoda, +start=list(K1=0.3,

[R] getting confidence intervals after lm fitting

2004-01-22 Thread Yun-Fang Juan
Hi, After fitting with lm, I want to get the 95 % confidence intervals of the expected predicted value. I know in S-plus I can use pointwise() to get the confidence intervals . But in R, I couldn't find such a function. Is there any R package available for such functionalities. Please advise.

[R] Turnbull estimate

2004-01-22 Thread Denise
Hi everyone, I've been looking for a function that calculates the Turnbull estimate for left, right and interval censored data. None of the data that I am using has exact failure times. The only function I seem to find can handle data that has no left censoring. It seems that I will have to

[R] cmptl_analy.R

2004-01-22 Thread Oscar Linares
Dear Michael, One key is adjustment of nls optimizer tolerance. I notice it has to be higher than usual, but, I recovered your noisy known parameter values with an error of K1 (-7%) and k1 (-6%): Miller problem with Dalgaard modifications ## Linares 1/22/2004 ## Solution 1 nls(noisy ~

[R] confidence intervals

2004-01-22 Thread Erin Hodgess
Hi Yun Fan! Have you looked at predict.lm? It can give you confidence and prediction intervals. Hope this helps! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [R] Bug in termplot?

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Simon Wotherspoon wrote: Hi, Is this a bug in termplot, or (once again) do I just not understand what R is really doing? Yes, it's a bug. The lower right plot has the partial residuals for x1 not for x2. The fitted line is correct. -thomas I am using

[R] how to take derivatives of a step function

2004-01-22 Thread Eugene Salinas (R)
Hi, I have estimated a step function and need to take the derivatives of this function at all points in the range. Does anyone know of any clever ways to do this? (I have already tried to fit a polynomial through the points in order to obtain a smooth representation and then take derivatives

RE: [R] how to take derivatives of a step function

2004-01-22 Thread Bill . Venables
It might be helpful to know just why you want to do this. Just because one function is a smooth approximation to another doesn't imply anything about the derivatives approximating each other, (well, not much). The GENERALIZED derivative of a step function can be written down explicitly as the