[R] conv() example in R-exts

2004-11-08 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi [I'm not sure if this is intelligible to non-programmers or not] R-exts (section 4.2) gives an example of the .C() function whose third argument is as.integer(length(a)), and urges the user to coerce all the arguments to the correct form (on pain of hard-to-catch errors which I now know

Re: [R] conv() example in R-exts

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Robin Hankin wrote: [I'm not sure if this is intelligible to non-programmers or not] Not, I suspect: R-exts is not intended to be. R-exts (section 4.2) gives an example of the .C() function whose third argument is as.integer(length(a)), and urges the user to

Re: [R] rgl on Mac OS

2004-11-08 Thread Jari Oksanen
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 02:54, Saiwing Yeung wrote: It seems like a number of people on this list can install rgl but have problem loading it. I found myself in the same situation too. I have tried the workaround of removing /usr/X11R6/lib from DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it doesn't seem to work

[R] how lambda is computed in smoot.spline given _df_

2004-11-08 Thread Wolski
Hi, I posted some days ago a question concerning the computation of lambda in the smooth.spline function (which I repreat at the bottom of the mail) given _df_ . Unfortunately the documentation is not clear to me. Maybee someone can help to answer in my view the basic question: If the

[R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread John
Hello R-users, When I didn't know about the internal 'choose' function, I made such function, 'my.choose' below. But when I used them instead of choose(6000,20), they didn't give me any answer. What is the difference between 'choose', 'my.choose1', and 'my.choose2' below? That is, what is behind

[R] Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0

2004-11-08 Thread Lindveld, Charles
I am trying to use the Windows COM interface under R 2.0, and have encountered the following difficulties: - the package RDCOMClient installs, loads and works under R 1.9.1, installs under R2.0, but does not load or work under R2.0 - the package SWinTypeLibs does not install or load under

[R] Extension provokes crash in unzReadCurrentFile

2004-11-08 Thread Mark White
I'm doing some work in C with the R_ExternalPointer interface, and having some seg fault problems. I expect the crash is my fault, bad pointer in my code causing a fault later etc, but I'm curious about the point of failure. R almost always falls over in a call to unzReadCurrentFile following a

Re: [R] Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0

2004-11-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Lindveld, Charles k.lindveld at imperial.ac.uk writes: : : I am trying to use the Windows COM interface under R 2.0, and have : encountered the following difficulties: : - the package RDCOMClient installs, loads and works under R 1.9.1, : installs under R2.0, but does not load or work under

Re: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
John wrote: Hello R-users, When I didn't know about the internal 'choose' function, I made such function, 'my.choose' below. But when I used them instead of choose(6000,20), they didn't give me any answer. What is the difference between 'choose', 'my.choose1', and 'my.choose2' below? That is, what

Re: [R] Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0

2004-11-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Lindveld, Charles wrote: I am trying to use the Windows COM interface under R 2.0, and have encountered the following difficulties: - the package RDCOMClient installs, loads and works under R 1.9.1, installs under R2.0, but does not load or work under R2.0 - the package SWinTypeLibs does not

Re: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Try with less ambitious numbers such as my.choose1(60,20). I think it works fine. I think the problem is that gamma(6001) and prod(1:6000) are so large that it gives Inf as the answer. Hence the numerator and denominator approaches Inf and division of two Inf gives NaN. You could use the natural

Re: [R] Problems with DCOM client packages under R 2.0

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Lindveld, Charles wrote: I am trying to use the Windows COM interface under R 2.0, and have encountered the following difficulties: - the package RDCOMClient installs, loads and works under R 1.9.1, installs under R2.0, but does not load or work under R2.0 - the

Re: [R] Extension provokes crash in unzReadCurrentFile

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mark White wrote: I'm doing some work in C with the R_ExternalPointer interface, and having some seg fault problems. I expect the crash is my fault, bad pointer in my code causing a fault later etc, but I'm curious about the point of failure. R almost always falls over

Re: [R] how lambda is computed in smoot.spline given _df_

2004-11-08 Thread Martin Maechler
Eryk == Eryk Wolski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:39:26 +0100 writes: Eryk Hi, Eryk I posted some days ago a question concerning the Eryk computation of lambda in the smooth.spline function Eryk (which I repreat at the bottom of the mail) given _df_. I had

Re: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:58:04 + (GMT), John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : What is the difference between 'choose', 'my.choose1', and 'my.choose2' below? That is, what is behind 'choose' function and what's the problem using 'prod' or 'gamma' function? Thanks a lot. John ##

[R] survSplit

2004-11-08 Thread Danardono
I am just realized that survival has the facility to do survival time splitting survSplit after read some postings about time dependency in the list. Is it survSplit only for the survival data input (time,status) and not for the 'counting process' input (start,stop,status)? I take one

Re: [R] Extension provokes crash in unzReadCurrentFile

2004-11-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mark White wrote: I'm doing some work in C with the R_ExternalPointer interface, and having some seg fault problems. I expect the crash is my fault, bad pointer in my code causing a fault later etc, but I'm curious about

RE: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Nov-04 John wrote: Hello R-users, When I didn't know about the internal 'choose' function, I made such function, 'my.choose' below. But when I used them instead of choose(6000,20), they didn't give me any answer. What is the difference between 'choose', 'my.choose1', and

[R] Nonlinear weighted least squares estimation

2004-11-08 Thread Robert Brown FM CEFAS
Hi there, I'm trying to fit a growth curve to some data and need to use a weighted least squares estimator to account for heteroscedasticity in the data. A weights argument is available in nls that would appear to be appropriate for this purpose, but it is listed as 'not yet implemented'. Is

RE: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Nov-04 Ted Harding wrote: [...] choose(600,31) [1] 1.612899e+300 [...] my.choose3-function(x,y){ if((x==y)||(y==0)) return(1); m - min(y,x-y) prod(seq(x,(x-m+1),by=-1)/(seq(m,1,by=-1))) } when my.choose3(600,31) [1] 1.613121e+300

RE: [R] Nonlinear weighted least squares estimation

2004-11-08 Thread Jesus Frias
Hi Robert You can try gnls() in the nlme package or if that is not suitable, try to follow the example in the nls() help page for weighted regression that has an example of weighted regression from MASS. from the nls help page: ## weighted nonlinear regression Treated -

Re: [R] survSplit

2004-11-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Danardono wrote: I am just realized that survival has the facility to do survival time splitting survSplit after read some postings about time dependency in the list. Is it survSplit only for the survival data input (time,status) and not for the 'counting process' input

RE: [R] Nonlinear weighted least squares estimation

2004-11-08 Thread Liaw, Andy
This question has been asked before on the list, but I'm not sure if the answer were posted. Basically, the trick is to write the formula a bit differently in nls() so that it does weighted least squares. nls() tries to minimize the sum of squared differences between the two sides of ~. If you

RE: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Nov-04 Ted Harding wrote: On 08-Nov-04 Ted Harding wrote: [...] choose(600,31) [1] 1.612899e+300 [...] my.choose3-function(x,y){ if((x==y)||(y==0)) return(1); m - min(y,x-y) prod(seq(x,(x-m+1),by=-1)/(seq(m,1,by=-1))) } when

[R] plotting lm coeficients with their means

2004-11-08 Thread Derek Margetts
I am trying to write a function that will run a linear model and plot the regression coeficients with their corresponding means.  I am having two problems.  I can get the plot with the function below, but I am having trouble labeling the points.   function(y,x1,x2,x3,x4){ outlm-lm(y~x1+x2+x3+x4)

RE: [R] Some Tips about developing an interface.

2004-11-08 Thread Berton Gunter
In addition to John Fox's recommendations, some further hints and resources are: The tools of TCL/TK allow one to develop a comprehensive GUI. Note that the Bioconductor project, http://www.bioconductor.org/ , has some packages (tkWidgets, widgetTools are at least two that I know of) that claim

Re: [R] Calling Other (non-C or Fortran) Programs from R

2004-11-08 Thread Tim F Liao
Thanks to both Duncan Murdoch and Brian Ripley. LEM indeed is the program that Brian referred to in his response, a program for latent class/trait loglinear and event history analysis compiled with Borland Pascal. There's a dos version and a windows version. Not sure the program will

[R] misleading output after ordering data frame

2004-11-08 Thread bogdan romocea
Dear R users, I have a data frame which I create with read.csv and then order by date: d - na.omit(read.csv(...)) d - d[order(as.Date(as.character(d$Date), format=%d-%b-%y), decreasing=F, na.last=F),] My problem is that even though the data frame is ordered as requested, the old row

[R] coxph models with frailty

2004-11-08 Thread Roberto Perrelli
Dear R users: I'm generating the following survival data: set.seed(123) n=200 #sample size x=rbinom(n,size=1,prob=.5) #binomial treatment v=rgamma(n,shape=1,scale=1) #gamma frailty w=rweibull(n,shape=1,scale=1) #Weibull deviates b=-log(2)

Re: [R] misleading output after ordering data frame

2004-11-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, bogdan romocea wrote: My problem is that even though the data frame is ordered as requested, the old row numbers are preserved. For example: * Before sorting: d[1:3,] Date Amt 1 5-Nov-04 87.07 2 4-Nov-04 85.80 3 3-Nov-04 82.90 * After sorting: d[1:3,] Date Amt

[R] Problems with installing Rmpi on x86_64

2004-11-08 Thread Krzysztof Kolanek
Dear All, I am trying to install Rmpi on AMD 64 with Fedora Core 2 for x86_64, but I receive the following error: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.3.3/../../../../lib64/libmpi.a(abort.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Re: [R] misleading output after ordering data frame

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It's your misinterpretion that is misleading, not the output. Data frames have row *names* and not *numbers*. On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, bogdan romocea wrote: Dear R users, I have a data frame which I create with read.csv and then order by date: d - na.omit(read.csv(...)) d -

Re: [R] misleading output after ordering data frame

2004-11-08 Thread Rolf Turner
You wrote: Is there a way to update the row numbers as well? It's not that important, but I find it a bit confusing. They're not actually row numbers, they're row ***names***. These default to row numbers. If they were real-live names you'd want them to be

Re: [R] Problems with installing Rmpi on x86_64

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Krzysztof Kolanek wrote: Dear All, I am trying to install Rmpi on AMD 64 with Fedora Core 2 for x86_64, but I receive the following error: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.3.3/../../../../lib64/libmpi.a(abort.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be

Re: [R] Bug in power.anova.test?

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Two groups with a difference in mean of 20.6 have a between-group variance of 212.18 (as Minitab was given), not 424.36. var(c(0, 20.6)) [1] 212.18 (and the example on the help page shows this *is* what is meant by the variance). On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Peter Levy wrote: I think there is a bug

[R] location of key in panels of trellis plot

2004-11-08 Thread Steven Lacey
Hi, I want to insert a key into each panel of a trellis plot, which I can do with a custom panel function that calles draw.key. The problem arises because I want the top right hand corner of the key to start in the top right hand corner of the panel. If you run my code below, you can see that

[R] location of key in panels of trellis plot

2004-11-08 Thread Steven Lacey
Hi, In my previous posting I forgot my system information. Sorry. It is listed below. I want to insert a key into each panel of a trellis plot, which I can do with a custom panel function that calles draw.key. The problem arises because I want the top right hand corner of the key to start

RE: [R] plotting lm coeficients with their means

2004-11-08 Thread Andy Bunn
How about something like this? my.func - function(y, x1, x2, x3, x4 = NULL){ my.formula - as.formula(y ~ x1 + x2 + x3 + x4) if(is.null(x4)) { my.formula - as.formula(y ~ x1 + x2 + x3) } outlm - lm(my.formula) meanvec-c(mean(x1),mean(x2),mean(x3)) if(is.null(x4) == F) {

[R] small world models?

2004-11-08 Thread mattf
Hi, I've searched the archives for a discussion on the use of R for developing small world or scale-free network models but have been unable to dig anything up. Is anyone working on these types of models using R, and if so, have you found this language amenable to their development? thanks,

[R] Converting strings to date

2004-11-08 Thread João Mendes Moreira
Hello, I have the following problem: test is a data frame with 9 fields. The field test$Date is factorized with dates. The format is dd-mm- (using Oracle notation). I want to convert this to Date in '%Y-%m-%d format. What I am doing is: for (i in 1:nrow(test)) {

Re: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:56:49 - (GMT), (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Further investigation indicates that there is an integer truncation problem with 'choose': print(choose(600,1),digits=20) [1] 60001679906.0 print(my.choose3(600,1),digits=20) [1] 6e+10

[R] bootstrap, lme, random effects

2004-11-08 Thread Andrew Beckerman
Hi there. OSX/R2.0 We are trying to implement a bootstrap of the coeffecients of a mixed effect model. In particular, we are interested in the intercept and slope of the random effects. Following from the basics for a linear model, we construct our lme models and a boot function:

Re: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Nov-04 Duncan Murdoch wrote: On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:56:49 - (GMT), (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Further investigation indicates that there is an integer truncation problem with 'choose': print(choose(600,1),digits=20) [1] 60001679906.0

Re: [R] location of key in panels of trellis plot

2004-11-08 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Here's a modification of your panel function that I think does what you want (comments embedded): tmp.xyplot - function(x,y,subscripts=subscripts,cdata=cdata){ # plot data points panel.xyplot(x,y) # extract parameter values right - as.character(cdata[subscripts,][1,c(4,5,6)])

[R] Availability of Data Sets in Graphical Methods for Data Analysis

2004-11-08 Thread Schmaltz, Stephen
Dear Colleagues, Does anyone know if the data sets used in the book Graphical Methods for Data Analysis by Chambers, Cleveland, Kleiner and Tukey are available on the web? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [R] location of key in panels of trellis plot

2004-11-08 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Steven Lacey wrote: In my previous posting I forgot my system information. Sorry. It is listed below. snip platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major1 minor8.1 year

Re: [R] Converting strings to date

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You want as.Date, not strptime that gives you a *list*. Please do read the help pages before posting, as the the posting guide asks you to. On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, João Mendes Moreira wrote: Hello, I have the following problem: test is a data frame with 9 fields. The field test$Date is

[R] Rd \docType options

2004-11-08 Thread Paul Roebuck
Where would I find a list of valid options for \docType{}? I found the following types using grep: - class - data - genericFunction - methods Are there others? -- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

Re: [R] coxph models with frailty

2004-11-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Roberto Perrelli wrote: Dear R users: I'm generating the following survival data: set.seed(123) n=200 #sample size x=rbinom(n,size=1,prob=.5) #binomial treatment v=rgamma(n,shape=1,scale=1) #gamma frailty w=rweibull(n,shape=1,scale=1)

[R] can one evaluate an expression in a comment? (or insert results into history?)

2004-11-08 Thread davidr
I'd like to insert (for example) the current datetime into a comment so it goes into the history. I can of course cut and paste the results of date() into a comment line, but it would be easier and more powerful to be able to type something like hstamp() and have it go into the history.

Re: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Martin Maechler
Ted == Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:10:55 - (GMT) writes: Ted On 08-Nov-04 Duncan Murdoch wrote: On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:56:49 - (GMT), (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Further investigation indicates that there is an integer

Re: [R] can one evaluate an expression in a comment? (or insert results into history?)

2004-11-08 Thread partha_bagchi
Have you perchance looked at ?paste For example: paste(The current time is , date()) [1] The current time is Mon Nov 08 17:06:25 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/08/2004 04:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:[R] can one

RE: [R] can one evaluate an expression in a comment? (or insert resultsinto history?)

2004-11-08 Thread davidr
But that doesn't put the result into the history buffer, to be written to a file only later when I savehistory(filename). Bert Gunter also suggested ?capture.output and ?textConnection, but I cannot see how to get text into the history buffer as comments, but with evaluated expressions (values).

[R] neater way to create data frame?

2004-11-08 Thread Louize Hill
Hello, I have a large data frame and am aiming to create a summary data frame in order to plot quarterly means by age. However, it seems as though I am taking a very long winded approach to this - can anybody point me in the direction of something neater? #original table is dat2, dat5- tapply

RE: [R] can one evaluate an expression in a comment? (or insert resultsinto history?)

2004-11-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that doesn't put the result into the history buffer, to be written to a file only later when I savehistory(filename). Bert Gunter also suggested ?capture.output and ?textConnection, but I cannot see how to get text into the history buffer as

Re: [R] About 'choose' function

2004-11-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
(Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 08-Nov-04 Duncan Murdoch wrote: Are you sure you're using the standard R choose()? I get different results from you: print(choose(600,1),digits=20) [1] 6e+10 ... Well, that's good to learn! As usual, I'm out of date, but this time

Re: [R] small world models?

2004-11-08 Thread Tomas Aragon
--- mattf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've searched the archives for a discussion on the use of R for developing small world or scale-free network models but have been unable to dig anything up. Is anyone working on these types of models using R, and if so, have you found this

[R] Re: QTL interval mapping in outbred populations

2004-11-08 Thread David Duffy
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an add-on package in R for QTL interval mapping for outbred population, eg. Haley-Knott regression method ? Stella I believe Karl Broman's R/QTL (http://biosun01.biostat.jhsph.edu/~kbroman/software/) and Brian Yandell's bim

[R] Conditional selection of rows

2004-11-08 Thread F Z
Hi, I have a data.frame with several variables and 50,000 observations. i.e. data[1:2,1:7] Iteration Day Production.Type tsUSusc tsASusc tsULat tsALat 1 0 Generic 17965 8833053 0 0 1 1 Generic 17965 8833053 0 0 . .

[R] about p value

2004-11-08 Thread
Hello sir: I am a data analysist of a bio-company. Here's a question about microarray for identifying the differentially expressed genes.Thanks for your help. First,I wanna make sure whether I've grasped the difference between theunadjusted p-value and adjusted p-value. 1.Unadjusted

Re: [R] Conditional selection of rows

2004-11-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
F Z gerifalte28 at hotmail.com writes: : : Hi, : : I have a data.frame with several variables and 50,000 observations. : i.e. : data[1:2,1:7] : Iteration Day Production.Type tsUSusc tsASusc tsULat tsALat : 1 0 Generic 17965 8833053 0 0 : 1 1

[R] no doubt a dumb question, but..

2004-11-08 Thread Dr. John R. Vokey
Yes, I am a newbie at R, but it is not the complex commands in R that have me baffled, but simple data commands. For example, why does something like: plot(Girth ~ Height) *not* work after a command that allegedly loads the data: data(trees) with the error message: Error in eval(expr, envir,

Re: [R] no doubt a dumb question, but..

2004-11-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 21:56, Dr. John R. Vokey wrote: Yes, I am a newbie at R, but it is not the complex commands in R that have me baffled, but simple data commands. For example, why does something like: plot(Girth ~ Height) *not* work after a command that allegedly loads the data:

[R] Running SPLUS scripts in R

2004-11-08 Thread Andy_Donaldson
Hi, I have a number of SPLUS scripts that I wish to run in R. Can you point me to the right FAQ or help area to do this? Cheers Andy Andy Donaldson Head Of Market Risk Institutional Markets Services Bank of New Zealand Phone: +64 4 474 6937 Mob No: +64 29 222 0050 CAUTION - This message

Re: [R] rgl on Mac OS

2004-11-08 Thread Saiwing Yeung
Jari, thanks so much for the advice. I followed your instruction and could install rgl too. It's really fun playing with it. I have written up a more detailed instruction, hopefully this will help less experienced R users. 1) go to apple.com, download Developer Tools and X11. You need to sign

[R] r: neural networks

2004-11-08 Thread UCT Staff Member - Allan
hi all does anyone know of a package that does neural networks? __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] r: neural networks

2004-11-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, UCT Staff Member - Allan wrote: does anyone know of a package that does neural networks? Yes, very many people know. Do please read the posting guide and do your homework. Try help.search(neural net) for example. Or, there is a list of packages in the R FAQ so why not

Re: [R] Running SPLUS scripts in R

2004-11-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a number of SPLUS scripts that I wish to run in R. Can you point me to the right FAQ or help area to do this? What about reading the FAQ and the manual An Introduction to R yourself? If you don't want to read this minimal amount of documentation before asking