RE: [R] Sweave not found from MikTeX?

2004-02-20 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, I think about everyone asks the same question as you. A quick and dirty way to fix it is to copy Sweave.sty from$R_HOME/share/texmf/ to the same directory as your Sweave/R/TeX files. BTW: Would it be possible to add a comment about the above in the Sweave() help page and maybe even have an

Re: [R] Obtaining SE from the hessian matrix

2004-02-20 Thread Timur Elzhov
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:22:09AM -0800, Thomas Lumley wrote: So, what is the _right_ way for obtatining SE? Why two those formulas above differ? If you are maximising a likelihood then the covariance matrix of the estimates is (asymptotically) the inverse of the negative of the Hessian.

[R] PNG Problem on Windows 98

2004-02-20 Thread Johannes Schnitzler
Thank you for the reply, i tried it with the devel version 1090 (18.02.2004) but it is still the same problem. Is there any other solution. As said before it works on 1 Windows 98 Computer but not on the other's. I can't change the operating system of the computers. Which files of windows could

Re: [R] Sweave not found from MikTeX?

2004-02-20 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:53:31 +0100 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi, I think about everyone asks the same question as you. A quick and dirty way to fix it is to copy Sweave.sty from$R_HOME/share/texmf/ to the same directory as your Sweave/R/TeX files. BTW: Would it be possible to add a comment

[R] nlme and multiple comparisons

2004-02-20 Thread Pedro J. Aphalo
This is only partly a question about R, as I am not quite sure about the underlying statistical theory either. I have fitted a non-linear mixed-effects model with nlme. In the fixed part of the model I have a factor with three levels as explanatory variable. I would like to use Tukey HSD or a

[R] read.table with spaces

2004-02-20 Thread AGUSTIN PEREZ MARTIN
DeaR useRs: Excuses for my english. I am trying to read a file with my dats and the format is a number, 3 spaces, other number, etc... When I use: a-read.table(file=c:/datos2.dat,sep=) R sais: Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec, : line 3 did not

[R] problem with abline for x.y

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Friendly
I'm trying to do a sunflowerplot of Galton's data, with both regression lines and data ellipses, and I must be doing something wrong, because the lines do not intersect at \bar{x}, \bar{y}. The problem is likely in the line for x.y, but I don't know how to specify that correctly. The data is

[R] Stupid Limma question..

2004-02-20 Thread Joshua McElwee
Hi all. I've got a really dumb question for anyone. How do I write the output of a limma analysis (basically the topTable) to a text file? I want to output the topTable for the entire microarray (not really a topTable anymore I suppose..). Thanks for any advice! -Josh

Re: [R] read.table with spaces

2004-02-20 Thread Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
You should make your missing value indicator something other than your separator indicator: 1. Use a text editor to indicate all missing values as NA or 2. Use a text editor to replace the 3 separator spaces with, for example, a comma or semicolon and use the argument sep=, or sep=; which

Re: [R] problem with abline for x.y

2004-02-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Michael Friendly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The data is read in grouped form( galton), and then ungrouped (galton2): galton - read.table(~/sasuser/data/galton.txt, header=TRUE) # ungroup galton2-galton[rep(1:nrow(galton), galton$frequency), 1:2] attach(galton) sunflowerplot(child,

Re: [R] problem with abline for x.y

2004-02-20 Thread John Fox
Dear Mike, I believe that the following is the problem: For the regression of x on y, you have to move y to the left-hand-side of the equation to plot the line in {x, y}; so if the regression equation from the model x.y is x = a + b y, you need abline(-a/b, 1/b). I hope that this helps, John

RE: [R] Stupid Limma question..

2004-02-20 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, I think this question should asked on the Bioconductor mailing list instead. I know Gordon Smyth is reading that one, but I don't think he's reading this one regularly. If I remember correctly df - topTable() returns a data.frame, which you can write to a file using write.table(df,

[R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Mahmoud K. Okasha
Greetings List, I am conducting some large simulations using R. As a result, I get many plots but I'm having some trouble with including some of them in a Microsoft Word document. Can any one tell me the easiest method of having copies of the R-graphs in the Word documents? Best regards

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 09:54, Mahmoud K. Okasha wrote: Greetings List, I am conducting some large simulations using R. As a result, I get many plots but I'm having some trouble with including some of them in a Microsoft Word document. Can any one tell me the easiest method of having copies

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread uaca
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:54:33PM +0200, Mahmoud K. Okasha wrote: Greetings List, I am conducting some large simulations using R. As a result, I get many plots but I'm having some trouble with including some of them in a Microsoft Word document. Can any one tell me the easiest method of

RE: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Right click on the plot and choose copy as metafile. Copying it as a metafile copies it as a vector graphic rather than as a bitmapped graphic so the elements of the graphic (e.g. axis labels, points on the plot) stay intact allowing later editing in Word. In your Word document move to the

Re: [R] piece wise application of functions

2004-02-20 Thread Tom Blackwell
Itay - If it were my problem, I would re-structure the task around the existing capabilities of lapply(). In particular, I would concatenate the three lists of functions, then write a wrapper function which takes three arguments: an index, a list of functions and a data set. Then I would

[R] passing object names in a vector to save?

2004-02-20 Thread wolski
Hi! Like to write quite a lot (ca 100) of objects from my envirovment with save. The names of the objects are in a list nam. nam-dir() nam-grep(E,nam,value=T) length(nam) 20 for(x in nam) { #reads the objects and assigns the names. assign(x,simFromEmboss(Simmatrix(),x))

[R] Re: R for economists

2004-02-20 Thread Paul Gilbert
Ajay Shah wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:26:55PM +0100, Arne Henningsen wrote: Hi, I did not find any web page about using R in economics and econometrics so far. However, this does not mean that there is none (searching with google for R and economics gives many pages about economics

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread John Fox
Dear Mahmoud, There are several ways to do this. I find the following the simplest: Right click on the graphics-device window in R and select Copy as metafile from the pop-up menu. Then right-click in the Word document where you want the graph to appear and select Paste. Perhaps if you could

[R] A question on lme in R

2004-02-20 Thread Zonghui Hu
Hi, everyone, I have a question on using lme on a mixed effects model with nested error structure. After applying lme to the data, and put the outcome in, say TR.lme. I can extract the fixed effects by TR.lme$coef$fixed. However, when I use TR.lme$coef$random.effects, it does not give the

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:08:00 -0600 Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 09:54, Mahmoud K. Okasha wrote: Greetings List, I am conducting some large simulations using R. As a result, I get many plots but I'm having some trouble with including some of them in a

Re: R for economists (was: [R] Almost Ideal Demand System)

2004-02-20 Thread Ajay Shah
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:40:13PM -, Simon Cullen wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:06:08 +0530, Ajay Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip R for economists Okay, I made a start, with http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/more.html Tell me what should go into it. :-) I think the

RE: [R] passing object names in a vector to save?

2004-02-20 Thread Wolski
Hallo! Thanks a lot! Its exactly what I was looking for. Sincerely Eryk *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/20/2004 at 12:57 PM Liaw, Andy wrote: Is the `list=' argument for save() what you're looking for? Andy Hi! Like to write quite a lot (ca 100) of objects from my

Re: [R] A question on lme in R

2004-02-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Zonghui Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question on using lme on a mixed effects model with nested error structure. After applying lme to the data, and put the outcome in, say TR.lme. I can extract the fixed effects by TR.lme$coef$fixed. However, when I use TR.lme$coef$random.effects,

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Don MacQueen
At 11:08 AM -0600 2/20/04, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 09:54, Mahmoud K. Okasha wrote: Greetings List, I am conducting some large simulations using R. As a result, I get many plots but I'm having some trouble with including some of them in a Microsoft Word document. Can any one

Re: [R] passing object names in a vector to save?

2004-02-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, wolski wrote: for(x in nam) { #reads the objects and assigns the names. assign(x,simFromEmboss(Simmatrix(),x)) nnam-paste(x,.rda,sep=) print(nnam) save(x,file=nnam) } I knew that it fails. (It saves object x containing a char.) There

[R] Installing OmegaHat OOP package

2004-02-20 Thread Samuel Kemp
Hi, I am trying to install the OOP package (v0.4-2) from Omega Hat using the R CMD INSTALL (I have also tried untarring the package an using R INSTALL) but no joy. Here is the following error... $] R CMD INSTALL OOP_* * Installing *source* package 'OOP' ... ** libs gcc

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
However, 1. the editing of .ps files once they have been inserted into Word seems to be limited compared to using Windows metafiles. 2. R on Windows does not provide the capability to do right click copy with a .ps file so you have to right click save the file and then insert it into Word

[R] ezmlm response

2004-02-20 Thread vim-return-
Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This is a generic help message. The message I received wasn't sent to any of my command addresses. --- Administrative commands for the vim list --- I can handle administrative requests automatically. Please do not

[R] strptime() behaviour

2004-02-20 Thread Hanke, Alex
Is it normal behaviour for strptime(29-Jan-01,%d-%b-%y)$mon to return a value of 0? strptime(29-Jan-01,%d-%b-%y)$year #works ok 101 strptime(29-Jan-01,%d-%b-%y)$mday #works ok 29 Regards, Alex Alex Hanke Department of Fisheries and Oceans St. Andrews Biological Station 531 Brandy Cove Road St.

[R] setting options when using eval

2004-02-20 Thread Dominic Barraclough
Hi All, I'm using a call to eval to evaluate a linear model, however, I have found that despite calling options (contrasts=c(contr.sum, contr.poly)) prior to evaluation, my model factors are coded using the indicator coding associated with the contr.treatment contrast option As an inelegant

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
I have wrestled with this problem a lot. I use Linux, coauthors use Windows, and the eps files I make from R don't work with MS Word. Well, the don't ever have previews and they sometimes won't print at all when I use CrossOver Office with MS Office 2000 in Linux. My coauthor says he can

[R] Re: R for economists

2004-02-20 Thread A.J. Rossini
Ajay Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you could produce a table with Econometrics to R translations that would be immensely helpful, as a start. I know someone suggested creating a facility for 'aliasing' econometrics-speak to R functions, but this got shot down for being unwieldy

RE: [R] strptime() behaviour

2004-02-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Yes, its normal. See ?DateTimeClasses --- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:43:55 -0400 From: Hanke, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Add to Address Book | Block Address | Report as Spam ] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] strptime() behaviour Is it normal behaviour for

Re: [R] 1024GB max memory on R for Windows XP?

2004-02-20 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Does UNIX R have a similar command, or does it just take as much memory as it needs? On a related note, does the memory have to be contiguous on either type of system? I am not hitting my max memory even with the 2gb max mem set (I'm not even hitting 1.5gb) -- it is giving me errors such as:

[R] run R BATCH job in PHP

2004-02-20 Thread Dongmei Liu
Hello, Does anyone know how to run R BATCH job in PHP? I tried the PHP function exec(), shell_exec, passthru() to run R script, however, none of them worked. If someone ever had experince to run R in PHP, could I ask for an example code? Thanks a lot! Dongmei

[R] (no subject)

2004-02-20 Thread Wen, Wanqing
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[R] BATCH files

2004-02-20 Thread Christian Landry
Could someone tell me where I could find some instructions for running R in BATCH mode? Especially regarding the format of the program or command file, Thanks a lot __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [R] run R BATCH job in PHP

2004-02-20 Thread Liaw, Andy
The bottom of every post to this list says: PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html which, among other things, tells you to search in the archive. If you do that, you will see that this question has been asked numerous times, and had been answered. The

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:47:51 -0600 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wrestled with this problem a lot. I use Linux, coauthors use Windows, and the eps files I make from R don't work with MS Word. Well, the don't ever have previews and they sometimes won't print at all when I

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Mahmoud K. Okasha
Hello, I first would like to thank all of you for your great ideas. However, I agree with Paul particularly in that the answer is more complicated than other people make it seem when you have many graphs. I am trying all the ideas. It seems that all of them work but with some difficulties. I have

RE: [R] BATCH files

2004-02-20 Thread Liaw, Andy
RTFM: see ?BATCH, or in case you are using Windoze, Help - FAQ on R for Windows, click on Q 2.10. Andy From: Christian Landry Could someone tell me where I could find some instructions for running R in BATCH mode? Especially regarding the format of the program or command file,

[R] M-Plots in R

2004-02-20 Thread Jason . L . Higbee
R: I am starting to do LOESS regressions and was wondering if anyone has written code to create M-Plots (Cleveland and Devlin 1988). The M-Plot allows a method for choosing the smoothing parameter that produces the smallest variance subject to not generating a statistically significant bias

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Perhaps some additional explanation is in order. There are two basic classes of format: - vector graphics such as windows metafile (wmf) and svg where the actual structure of the drawing is stored.Editing these can be done with no loss of resolution and you can access the individual

Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document

2004-02-20 Thread Mahmoud K. Okasha
Greetings, Thank you Gabor for your great explanation. I feel ok with it. Best regards.. Mahmoud . - Original Message - From: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [R] R:

Solved: [R] piece wise application of functions

2004-02-20 Thread Itay Furman
Thanks! Especially for pointing out the usage of a 'wrapper' function in conjunction to lapply. In addition, data re-organization was important, too, as you pointed out. My final solution was slightly different than your proposition. See below. Thanks again, Itay On Fri, 20

[R] Data Analyst Intern position in San Francisco

2004-02-20 Thread Jim Porzak
We've sent this position out to SF Bay Area schools. Since we have standardized on R as our preferred analytics platform it seemed appropriate to post here. We also have a full time Data Analyst position open. Search for Loyalty Matrix on [1]www.craigslist.org= for details. Jim

[R] Stratified random sampling in R?

2004-02-20 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Is there an easy way to do a stratified random sampling based on a factor column in R? E.g. I want to extract a random 10% of the data from dataset for each class (so each class may have a different number of entries, depending on its size). On a related note, if this is easily doable, is there

RE: [R] Stratified random sampling in R?

2004-02-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this. ptrain and ptest and proportions in the training and test samples. The next line generates a random test vector of factors, f, for testing purposes. ptrain - 0.3; ptest - 0.2 set.seed(1); f - cut(runif(100),3,lab=F) first - function(x, p) x[seq( ceiling(p * length(x) ) )] perms -