Re: [R] Sloppy argument checking for named arguments

2004-06-03 Thread Wolski
Hi Gabor, Christian, R users! I asked several days ago how to provide a signature in S4 for an existing function of the type which gabor proposes. There are already some functions in the base package which are using the syntax sugested by you. e.g: rbind - function (..., deparse.level = 1)

Re: [R] returning strings to R from C functions

2004-06-03 Thread Wolski
Hallo! There is a package called BioSeq1 at bioconductor. It Is using the .C interface and was doing a lot of string manipulation. Should have tons of examples. The simplest way to do it is. You my alloc fist the char in R. mychar-paste(rep( ,1000),collapse=) tmp-.C( as.character(mychar)

Re: [R] returning strings to R from C functions

2004-06-03 Thread Martin Maechler
Fernando == Fernando Pineda [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:22:22 -0400 writes: Fernando I'm using .C() and .External() and have no Fernando problems sending integers, reals or strings from R Fernando to C. Nor do I have problems sending integers or Fernando reals

[R] Re: Problem with mgcv PACKAGES file format?

2004-06-03 Thread Robert King
Problem solved. This is a bad interaction of packages installed from debian with the R update.packages() system. Moral of the story is don't try to update.packges() for any of the packages installed as r-cran-package.name.here debian packages. Robert. On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Robert King wrote:

[R] bug in installed.packages {was Problem... mgcv PACKAGES file..}

2004-06-03 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi Robert, Robert == Robert King [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:58:16 +1000 (EST) writes: Robert Hello All, I'm getting this error (Version: 1.9.0-1 Robert on a debian system) update.packages(mgcv) Robert trying URL Robert

Re: [R] bug in installed.packages...

2004-06-03 Thread Martin Maechler
MM == Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:36:36 +0200 writes: [things about a bug in installed.packages() ] . MM It also seems to me that the value of lib.loc (namely MM sfsmisc) at that moment is wrong as well - which would MM

[R] Thanks

2004-06-03 Thread Samuel Kemp (Comp)
Hi, Thank you all for your helpful comments on the available R/S programming books. Kind regards, Sam. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

[R] Problem with par(usr)

2004-06-03 Thread Nicolas STRANSKY
Hi, I'm trying to use the usr argument but I see no effect of this option on my plots. For example: par(usr=c(0,4,0,4)) plot(1,1) This plots one point fine, but the coordinates of the plotting region are not those that I specified using par()... I can check this with par(usr) [1] 0.568 1.432

RE: [R] Problem with par(usr)

2004-06-03 Thread Christophe Declercq
Bonjour, Nicolas par('usr') is read-only (see '?par') That makes sense: user coordinates come from what you have plotted. Would you show us an example of what exactly you want to do? Christophe -- Christophe Declercq, MD Observatoire régional de la santé Nord-Pas-de-Calais 13, rue Faidherbe

[R] cameraa rotation graphics

2004-06-03 Thread Jean Eid
Dear all, Is there a camera rotation for 3d graphics in R. I have seen it in a conference one time and thought it is pretty neat. the presenter was able to rotate the 3d graph with dragging the mouse up down left right. If not in R is there something that is open source that does this. Thank

RE: [R] cameraa rotation graphics

2004-06-03 Thread Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, Is there a camera rotation for 3d graphics in R. I have seen it in a conference one time and thought it is pretty neat. the presenter was able to rotate the 3d graph with dragging the mouse up down left right. If not in R

Re: [R] use of split.screen() with postscript device

2004-06-03 Thread Wolski
Hi! par(mfrow=c(2,1)) splits the plot in two parts for example. For more information about graphics read introduction to R provided with your R installation. if par(mfrow ... par(mfcol is not flexible enough for you you can examine the documentation for ?layout If you need even more flexibility

[R] Re: Problem with par(usr)

2004-06-03 Thread Nicolas STRANSKY
Christophe Declercq wrote: Bonjour, Nicolas Bonjour, par('usr') is read-only (see '?par') This part of the manual is a bit unclear to me because 'mfrow' doesn't seem to be read-only, unlike 'usr'... That makes sense: user coordinates come from what you have plotted. Ok, fine. Would you show us

[R] catching the warnings

2004-06-03 Thread Marc Mamin
Hello, I'd like to catch the warnings in a variable in order to evaluate them, but... tt-warnings() Warning messages: 1: XML Parsing Error: test.xml:2: xmlParseStartTag: invalid element name 2: XML Parsing Error: test.xml:3: Extra content at the end of the document tt NULL is there a way to

Re: [R] Problem with mgcv PACKAGES file format?

2004-06-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:58:16PM +1000, Robert King wrote: Hello All, I'm getting this error (Version: 1.9.0-1 on a debian system) update.packages(mgcv) [... snip ...] Try $ apt-get -t unstable install r-cran-mgcv as mgcv is (obviously, given its 'recommend' status) one of the CRAN

Re: [R] Re: Problem with mgcv PACKAGES file format?

2004-06-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:27:48PM +1000, Robert King wrote: Problem solved. This is a bad interaction of packages installed from debian with the R update.packages() system. Moral of the story is don't try to update.packges() for any of the packages installed as r-cran-package.name.here

[R] Dr. Carmona's

2004-06-03 Thread Ignacio Pérez
I am reading Dr. Carmona’s book “Statistical Analysis of Financial Data using S-PLUS”. Does anybody know where can I download the data used on the book?. I have downloaded the files form Dr. Carmona’s site but I can’t manage to extract the data out of them. Thanks in advance Ignacio Perez

Re: [R] catching the warnings

2004-06-03 Thread Roger D. Peng
The warnings are stored in a variable `last.warning' in the workspace. warnings() simply prints this variable. -roger Marc Mamin wrote: Hello, I'd like to catch the warnings in a variable in order to evaluate them, but... tt-warnings() Warning messages: 1: XML Parsing Error: test.xml:2:

Re: [R] labRow/labCol options in heatmap()

2004-06-03 Thread Martin Maechler
{I'm vading through old todo e-mails...} Anja == Anja von Heydebreck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:41:13 +0100 writes: Anja The function heatmap() allows to specify row/column labels Anja via the options labRow/labCol. From the code of heatmap(), Anja I understand

Re: [R] labRow/labCol options in heatmap()

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Davis
Anja, Not meant as a plug, but heatmap.2 in the gregmisc package has the correct behavior and a few other options. Sean On 6/3/04 9:01 AM, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: {I'm vading through old todo e-mails...} Anja == Anja von Heydebreck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 16 Feb

[R] RMySQL question

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Davis
In perl DBI, there is a method for preparing sql commands with wildcards and then executing them with parameter bindings. Is there a way to do this within RMySQL? I would like to be able to look up values in a table based on a key supplied from R. Thanks, Sean

Re: [R] labRow/labCol options in heatmap()

2004-06-03 Thread Wolski
Hi! ?paste works fine for me. Sincerely Eryk *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/3/2004 at 9:04 AM Sean Davis wrote: Anja, Not meant as a plug, but heatmap.2 in the gregmisc package has the correct behavior and a few other options. Sean On 6/3/04 9:01 AM, Martin Maechler [EMAIL

Re: [R] RMySQL question

2004-06-03 Thread Wolski
Hi! ?paste works fine for me. Sincerely Eryk *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/3/2004 at 9:32 AM Sean Davis wrote: In perl DBI, there is a method for preparing sql commands with wildcards and then executing them with parameter bindings. Is there a way to do this within RMySQL?

Re: [R] RMySQL question

2004-06-03 Thread David James
Prepared statements are not yet in the production 4.0 release of MySQL, only in the development or alpha version 4.1. I hope to add prepared statements and data.frame bindings by the time 4.1 becomes the production release. The API for working with prepared statements and bindings from R will be

[R] dropterm and frailty

2004-06-03 Thread Göran Broström
Is it meaningful to use 'dropterm' (MASS) on a fitted coxph (survival) model with a frailty term? Trying to do so gives results that do not look meaningful (to me), so my guess is that the answer to my question is 'No'. So, what is the recommended way of comparing nested mixed-effects models in

Re: [R] RMySQL question

2004-06-03 Thread Aaron J. Mackey
Yes, of course paste() works; the question is about getting more efficient query execution by preparing statements with placeholders in advance (as opposed to paste()-ing together a new SQL statement for every single statement execution, and requiring the database to reinterpret/recompile it

Re: [R] Distributed computing with R

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Gilbert
Tony Thanks, this categorization has cleared up a few things I have found confusing. But should I read this to mean that SNOW would not run on a system or kernel level parallel setup? Thanks, Paul Gilbert A.J. Rossini wrote: Also see SNOW (which simplifies parallel programming, sits on top

[R] a question regarding apply

2004-06-03 Thread Rajarshi Guha
Hi, I have a matrix, m, over whose rows I want to apply a function. I also have a vector, r, whose length is equal to the rows of m. The obvious way is: result - apply( m, c(1), fun ) However the function call requires the row from m and the corresponding element of r. So, I want to pass

Re: [R] privileged slots,

2004-06-03 Thread Tony Plate
At Tuesday 03:44 AM 6/1/2004, Jari Oksanen wrote: [snip] There are several other things that were fully documented and still were removed. One of the latest cases was print.coefmat which was abruptly made Defunct without warning or grace period: code written for 1.8* didn't work in 1.9.0 and if

Re: [R] a question regarding apply

2004-06-03 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Rajarshi Guha wrote: Hi, I have a matrix, m, over whose rows I want to apply a function. I also have a vector, r, whose length is equal to the rows of m. The obvious way is: result - apply( m, c(1), fun ) However the function call requires the row from m and the

Re: [R] Distributed computing with R

2004-06-03 Thread Roger D. Peng
snow works well on an openMosix system, and is actually quite convenient since you don't have to worry about which process is going to which computer. The kernel migrates the processes automatically (usually). -roger Paul Gilbert wrote: Tony Thanks, this categorization has cleared up a few

[R] Confidence intervals for predicted values in nls

2004-06-03 Thread Cristina Silva
Dear all I have tried to estimate the confidence intervals for predicted values of a nonlinear model fitted with nls. The function predict gives the predicted values and the lower and upper limits of the prediction, when the class of the object is lm or glm. When the object is derived from nls,

Re: [R] Importing binary data

2004-06-03 Thread Tony Plate
Probably the simplest way to improve the speed of your code would be to write the data so that all the data in a column is contiguous. Then you'll be able to read each column with a single call to readBin(). hope this helps, Tony Plate At Tuesday 04:02 AM 6/1/2004, Uli Tuerk wrote: Hi

Re: [R] S4 classes?

2004-06-03 Thread Spencer Graves
Thanks to Eryk Wolski, Martin Maechler, Dimitris Rizopoulos and Uwe Ligges: I uninstalled my apparently corrupted R 1.9.0pat and installed R 1.9.1 alpha, and at least this simple example now works. Best Wishes, spencer graves Uwe Ligges wrote: Spencer Graves wrote: The

[R] printing tabular data nicely

2004-06-03 Thread wwsprague
Hi R-heplers, I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. Is there a way to do this? I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste. But I am not sure of a good combination of these in order to get a nice

Re: [R] printing tabular data nicely

2004-06-03 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi R-heplers, I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. Is there a way to do this? I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste. But I am not sure of a good combination of

[R] ecdf plots, lines, and y values

2004-06-03 Thread Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy
Hi, I have a question for the group, perhaps someone can help me figure this out. I've already looked in the help files and they were no help to me. I have a vector of values and I am plotting an ecdf graph. 1. How can i draw a continuous line through the ecdf points? (lines and type for

[R] GAM question

2004-06-03 Thread HILLARY ROBISON
I am trying to use R to do a weighted GAM with PA (presence/random) as the response variable (Y, which is a 0 or a 1) and ASPECT (values go from 0-3340), DEM (from 1500-3300), HLI (from 0-5566), PLAN (from -3 to 3), PROF (from -3 to 3), SLOPE (from 100-500) and TRI (from 0-51) as predictor

Re: [R] privileged slots,

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Gilbert
Tony Plate wrote: At Tuesday 03:44 AM 6/1/2004, Jari Oksanen wrote: [snip] Anything can change in R without warning, and your code may be broken anytime. Just be prepared. [snip] One very helpful tool to deal with software updates is automated testing. I highly recommend it. R comes with a

Re: [R] printing tabular data nicely

2004-06-03 Thread Roger D. Peng
The print method for xtable can send the output to a file. -roger Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi R-heplers, I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. Is there a way to do this? I

Re: [R] printing tabular data nicely

2004-06-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:19:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi R-heplers, I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. Is there a way to do this? I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste. But I am

Re: [R] ecdf plots, lines, and y values

2004-06-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy wrote: Hi, I have a question for the group, perhaps someone can help me figure this out. I've already looked in the help files and they were no help to me. I have a vector of values and I am plotting an ecdf graph. 1. How can i draw a continuous line through the

[R] [OFF] program to estimate the best fit

2004-06-03 Thread Ronaldo Reis Jr.
Hi, exist in R or any other program for linux that estimate the best fit for data using severals functions? Somethink like tablecurve Thanks Ronaldo -- Um menino-prodigio e uma crianca cujos pais tem muita imaginacao. -- Jean Costeau -- | // | \\

[R] Simulating a landscape (matrix) in R

2004-06-03 Thread Brian Davenhall
I'm trying to figure out how one might go about simulating a landscape (matrix) in R. For example if one wanted to generate a simulated landscape of precipitation values for some area (say a 100 X 100 matrix) they could generate 10,000 numbers using a random normal distribution with a mean and

Re: [R] Confidence intervals for predicted values in nls

2004-06-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Cristina Silva wrote: I have tried to estimate the confidence intervals for predicted values of a nonlinear model fitted with nls. The function predict gives the predicted values and the lower and upper limits of the prediction, when the class of the object is lm or glm.

Re: [R] Simulating a landscape (matrix) in R

2004-06-03 Thread Victor Gravenholt
You could try something like this. Simulating with a large number of grid cells is however very RAM expensive. library(MASS) library(spatial) x - expand.grid(1:30, 1:30) distances - as.matrix(dist(x, diag=T, upper=T)) Sigma - expcov(r=distances, d=10, se=1) z - mvrnorm(n = 1, mu=rep(0,900),

[R] conditionals with String variables

2004-06-03 Thread Vishwanath, Rahul
I was wondering how to create an if-then statement that compares two strings. I tried an == : if (a[i,1] == c[j,1]){ results[k,1] - a[i,1] where a, c, and results are [3,3] matrices of string values. If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. R

Re: [R] prcomp help

2004-06-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
That's because R-devel and R-patched have a workaround for a bug in the latest gcc: see the NEWS file. On Sun, 30 May 2004, Al Piszcz wrote: I downloaded and built the development version of R dated 30 May. make check, and prcomp were successful. On Sun, 30 May 2004, Uwe Ligges

Re: [R] prcomp help

2004-06-03 Thread Al Piszcz
Thanks. This is now OBE, I downloaded the R-Patched version from 30 May, added the VR bundle and am all set for now. On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:01:08 +0100 (BST) From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Uwe Ligges

warnings and tryCatch() (Was: RE: [R] catching the warnings)

2004-06-03 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Seeing this question I was thinking of using tryCatch() to catch warnings. Here is an example: doWarn - function() { a - 1 warning(Wow!) a - 2 } lastError - lastWarning - NULL tryCatch({ x - 2 doWarn() x - 3 stop(Oops.) x - 4 }, warning = function(warn) { lastWarning - warn

Re: [R] printing tabular data nicely

2004-06-03 Thread Marcus Davy
Hi, If you choose to use LaTeX and xtable, you can also enhance the visual presentation of the output tables using the booktab LaTeX package. Have a look at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~srg/softwaretools/document/start/booktabs.pdf You can change the horizontal line tags \hline to \toprule,

Re: [R] printing tabular data nicely

2004-06-03 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Marcus Davy wrote: Hi, If you choose to use LaTeX and xtable, you can also enhance the visual presentation of the output tables using the booktab LaTeX package. Have a look at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~srg/softwaretools/document/start/booktabs.pdf You can change the horizontal line tags \hline

RE: [R] [OFF] program to estimate the best fit

2004-06-03 Thread Liaw, Andy
None that I know of, but having seen what Tablecurve could do (on DOS) more than 11 years ago (when `data-mining' was still a dirty word), I don't think that sort of analysis should be encouraged at all... Andy From: Ronaldo Reis Jr. Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:29 PM To: R-Help Subject:

Re: warnings and tryCatch() (Was: RE: [R] catching the warnings)

2004-06-03 Thread Luke Tierney
The bits you need for collecting warnings are described on the `warning' help page, though rather tersely. The implementation of suppressWarnings provides an example: suppressWarnings function (expr) { withCallingHandlers(expr,