[R] Still avoiding loops

2005-01-26 Thread Jacques VESLOT
Dear all, I have a matrix X with 47 lines and say 500 columns - values are in {0,1}. I'd like to compare lines. For that, I first did: for (i in 1:(dim(X)[1]-1)) for (j in (i+1):dim(X)[1]) { Y - X[i,]+Y[j,] etc. but, since it takes a long time, I would prefer avoding loops; for

RE: [R] Fitting distribution with R: a contribute

2005-01-26 Thread Vito Ricci
Dear Francisco, Many thanks for your attention to my contribute. As regard its translation into English -also other people asked me-, maybe in next months it could take place. When it will be available I inform the R-help mailing list. Best regards, Vito --- F Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:

Re: [R] plot function

2005-01-26 Thread joerg van den hoff
Cuichang Zhao wrote: Hello, how can use change the plot function to change the range of axises. I want my graph from a certain range [a, b], instead of from the min to max of of datas? if i want draw a line instead of dots, should i use both plot and lines function. for example: plot(x, y);

Re: [R] plot function

2005-01-26 Thread Henrik Andersson
Try this, plot(x,y,xlim=c(a,b),ylim=c(c,d)) lines(z,q) will only add lines onto an existing plot, not create a new plot! Have a look at: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#Graphics Cheers, Henrik Cuichang Zhao wrote: Hello, how can use change the plot function to change the range

Re: [R] lme and varFunc()

2005-01-26 Thread Christoph Scherber
Dear all, I am expecting a Poisson error distribution in my lme with weights=varFunc(). The weigths= varPower (form= fitted (.)) doesn´t work due to missing values in the response: Problem in lme.formula(fixed = sqrt(nrmainaxes + 0...: Maximum number of iterations reached without convergence.

Re: [R] r square values for independent variables in multiple linear regr ession model -- newbie

2005-01-26 Thread Christoph Buser
Dear Avneet If you fit a multiple linear regression model your independent variables will not be orthogonal and therefore it is difficult to divide the r square on the different variables with a meaningful interpretation. In a balanced analysis of variance design the situation is somehow

Re: [R] GLM function with poisson distribution

2005-01-26 Thread Göran Broström
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:39:36AM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Florian Menzel wrote: Hello all, I found a weird result of the GLM function that seems to be a bug. No, the problem is that you are using the Wald test

Re: [R] GLM function with poisson distribution

2005-01-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try it with b=c(rep(0,8),rmultinom(1,24,rep(1/8,8))) This is the conditional distribution, given the sufficient statistic. Yes (and that was of course the point). I was surprised that there is a difference at all (between this and rep(3,8) and

[R] string evaluation

2005-01-26 Thread Alex Sanchez
Hello, I would like to be able to compose an expression using some of the arguments I give to a function, that is assuming I have a list such as: my.list-list(A=1:3,B=c(Brave, new, world)) and a function printComponent-function(component){ if (component==A||component==B){

Re: [R] string evaluation

2005-01-26 Thread Uwe Ligges
Alex Sanchez wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to compose an expression using some of the arguments I give to a function, that is assuming I have a list such as: my.list-list(A=1:3,B=c(Brave, new, world)) and a function printComponent-function(component){ if (component==A||component==B){

Re: [R] string evaluation

2005-01-26 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
Hi Alex, you could use something like this: printComponent - function(component, lis){ if(component %in% names(lis)) return(lis[component]) else cat(component, in not an element of, substitute(lis), \n) } ## my.list - list(A=1:3, B=c(Brave, new, world)) printComponent(A, my.list)

[R] NSGA-II implementation?

2005-01-26 Thread Heike Trautmann
Hello, has anyone of you ever implemented (or integrated a C-SourceCode of) a Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm in R, especially the NSGA-II developed by Kalyanmoy Deb? Thank you very much for your help, Heike Trautmann Dr. Heike Trautmann

RE: [R] Zipf random number generation

2005-01-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Jan-05 Weiguang Shi wrote: Sorry. c = sum(1.0 / pow((double) j, alpha)), j=1,2,...,N Understood! Though I think you mean 1/c = sum(1.0 / pow((double) j, alpha)), j=1,2,...,N Anyway, provided alpha 1 the series converges for the infinite sum, but if you limit the range to 1...N

Re: [R] modular in R

2005-01-26 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi If you go to http://www.r-project.org/ there is search section, where you can search not only mailing lists but also R site. My favorite site is Paul Johnson's Rtips (try to search it by Google) Cheers Petr On 25 Jan 2005 at 16:16, Cuichang Zhao wrote: hello, i wonder what command

Re: [R] plot function

2005-01-26 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi first of all do ?plot ?lines and read the help page (especially about parameters xlim and ylim) and/or try to use examples provided. plot(1:100, rnorm(100), xlim=c(1,50), type=l) Cheers Petr On 25 Jan 2005 at 21:34, Cuichang Zhao wrote: Hello, how can use change the plot function

Re: [R] Deleted objects keep coming back

2005-01-26 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
When you start you R session, see if it says [Previously saved workspace restored] immediately before the first command prompt. I think the only way a workspace can be restored automatically is if you used save.image() at some point, in which case it would save all objects as a hidden file

Re: [R] animation without intermediate files?

2005-01-26 Thread Martin Maechler
MM == Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:59:03 +0100 writes: Paul == Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:40:15 +1300 writes: Paul Hi Paul Cari G Kaufman wrote: Hello, Does anyone know how to make movies in R by making a

Re: [R] Still avoiding loops

2005-01-26 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Please give a simple example of the input data and output that you desire. It is difficult to understand from you partial codes what you mean. For example what is Y ? Are you trying to find add values from pairs of rows ? If so, please see my posting pairwise difference operator where I wanted to

[R] error in building help files

2005-01-26 Thread Ingmar Visser
Hi All, I was updating my help pages for a package when all of a sudden I got the following error when using R CMD INSTALL: Building/Updating help pages for package 'depmix' Formats: text html latex example Error in load(zfile, envir = envir) : error reading from connection Removing all

Re: [R] GLM function with poisson distribution

2005-01-26 Thread Göran Broström
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:01:03AM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try it with b=c(rep(0,8),rmultinom(1,24,rep(1/8,8))) This is the conditional distribution, given the sufficient statistic. Yes (and that was of course the point). I was

[R] error in building help files

2005-01-26 Thread Ingmar Visser
Hi All, I was updating my help pages for a package when all of a sudden I got the following error when using R CMD INSTALL: Building/Updating help pages for package 'depmix' Formats: text html latex example Error in load(zfile, envir = envir) : error reading from connection Removing all

Re: [R] GLM function with poisson distribution

2005-01-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:01:03AM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try it with b=c(rep(0,8),rmultinom(1,24,rep(1/8,8))) This is the conditional distribution, given the sufficient statistic.

RE: [R] Still avoiding loops

2005-01-26 Thread Jacques VESLOT
It is part of a function to determine Dice's index in the framewok of AFLP analysis. X is a binary matrix which value for each strain (lines) and each base pair (columns) is 1 where there is a peak and 0 where there is no peak as biologists explained to me. The first step is to compare each

Re: [R] GLM function with poisson distribution

2005-01-26 Thread Göran Broström
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:03:25PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:01:03AM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try it with b=c(rep(0,8),rmultinom(1,24,rep(1/8,8)))

RE: [R] Still avoiding loops

2005-01-26 Thread Liaw, Andy
See if this does what you want: m - matrix(round(runif(24)), 4, 6) # simulate some data m [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,]010101 [2,]011100 [3,]111000 [4,]100010 library(gtools) # Install

[R] networks in R

2005-01-26 Thread Angela Re
Good afternoon, do you know if R provides a special package to make networks ? Thank you, Angela __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

Re: [R] Still avoiding loops

2005-01-26 Thread Robert Kruus
Slight edit? It is rumored that on Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:24:44 -0500 Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See if this does what you want: m - matrix(round(runif(24)), 4, 6) # simulate some data m [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,]010101 [2,]0

[R] how to evaluate the significance of attributes in tree growing

2005-01-26 Thread WeiWei Shi
Hi, there: I am wondering if there is a package in R (doing decison trees) which can provide some methods to evaluate the significance of attributes. I remembered randomForest gives some output like that. Unfortunately my current computing env. cannot handle my datasets if I use randomForest. So,

[R] Source code for extractAIC?

2005-01-26 Thread Yu Shao
Dear R users: I am looking for the source code for the R function extractAIC. Type the function name doesn't help: extractAIC function (fit, scale, k = 2, ...) UseMethod(extractAIC) environment: namespace:stats And when I search it in the R source code, the best I can find is in (R source

Re: [R] networks in R

2005-01-26 Thread Spencer Graves
Angela: Also, have you done a search at www.r-project.org - search - R site search? A search for networks there just now produced 218 hits. Have you reviewed the list of officially contributed packages is available at www.r-project.org - CRAN - (select a local mirror like

RE: [R] Still avoiding loops

2005-01-26 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Robert Kruus Slight edit? Yes. Thank you. Jacques caught that as well... Andy It is rumored that on Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:24:44 -0500 Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See if this does what you want: m - matrix(round(runif(24)), 4, 6) # simulate some data

RE: [R] Source code for extractAIC?

2005-01-26 Thread Liaw, Andy
Isn't this in the FAQ? Try: methods(extractAIC) [1] extractAIC.aov* extractAIC.coxph* extractAIC.glm* extractAIC.lm* [5] extractAIC.negbin* extractAIC.survreg* Non-visible functions are asterisked Then use getAnywhere() or getS3method() to get the particular one you're

Re: [R] some questions about font

2005-01-26 Thread Bobai Li
Dear Paul, Thank you for your help! 1. I know how to use expression(italic(whatever)), but I don't know how to make expression(whatever) to produce italic font. 2. With regard to the CM font, I guess psfrag may be to best way to get around the problem. Indeed, I have been using psfrag since I

RE: [R] apply for nested lists

2005-01-26 Thread Berton Gunter
apply() statements **are** disguised loops and therefore are **not** necessarily more efficient than explicit looping. Their principal advantage is usually code readability. As another readability issue, note that x[[i]][[j]][[k]] can be abbreviated to x[[c(i,j,k]]. I leave to others the

[R] Converting yr mo da to dates

2005-01-26 Thread David Parkhurst
I'm using R 2.0.1 in windows XP (and am not currently subscribed to this mailing list). I have a USGS dataset, a text file with fixed width fields, that includes dates as 6-digit integers in the form yrmoda. I could either read them that way, or with yr, mo, and da as separate integers. In

Re: [R] apply for nested lists

2005-01-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Alexandre Sanchez Pla asanchez at ub.edu writes: : : Hi, : : I am working with lists whose terms are lists whose terms are lists. Although : the real ones contain locuslink identifiers and GO annotations (I work with the : Bioconductor GO) package, I have prepared an simplified example of

Re: [R] apply for nested lists

2005-01-26 Thread Kevin Bartz
Actually, what you want is sapply. sapply(tst.list, [[, VAL) Kevin Alexandre Sanchez Pla wrote: Hi, I am working with lists whose terms are lists whose terms are lists. Although the real ones contain locuslink identifiers and GO annotations (I work with the Bioconductor GO) package, I have

[R] summarizing daily time-series date by month

2005-01-26 Thread Benjamin M. Osborne
Message: 63 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:28:51 + (UTC) From: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] chron: parsing dates into a data frame using a forloop To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Benjamin M.

[R] Linear Trend Analysis?

2005-01-26 Thread Chris Bergstresser
Hi all -- I'm trying to use R for my Analysis of Categorical Data class, but I can't figure out how to do a weighted linear trend analysis. I have a table of categorical data, to which I've assigned weights to the rows and columns. I need to calculate r and M^2, which is apparently done in

[R] graphsheet substitute in R?

2005-01-26 Thread David Parkhurst
I'm using R 2.0.1 in a class I teach, with most students working under windows XP. We have a data frame with the first column containing the factor site, and five water-quality variables at each site. As one part of exploring these data, I'd like the students to run by(ourdata,site,pairs).

Re: [R] summarizing daily time-series date by month

2005-01-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Benjamin M. Osborne Benjamin.Osborne at uvm.edu writes: : : Message: 63 : Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:28:51 + (UTC) : From: Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com : Subject: Re: [R] chron: parsing dates into a data frame using a : forloop : To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch :

Re: [R] animation without intermediate files?

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Martin Maechler wrote: MM == Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:59:03 +0100 writes: Paul == Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:40:15 +1300 writes: Paul Hi Paul Cari G Kaufman wrote: Hello, Does anyone know how to make

Re: [R] reshape (a better way)

2005-01-26 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jean Eid wrote: Hi, I am using the NLSY79 data (longitudinal data from the Bureau of labour stats in the US). The extractor exctracts this data in a wide format and I need to reshape it into a long format. What I am doing right now is to do it in chuncks for each and evry

[R] Changing axis labels in plots of zph objects (survival analysis)

2005-01-26 Thread Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Hi, I am using the Survival package, more precisely the cox.zph function, to plot log(Hazard rate) over time. if I type plot(temp.zph[2]) then I get the plot I want. However, I want to change the label of the y axis that cox.zph prints. plot(temp.zph[2],xlab='Days', ylab='log hazard for

RE: [R] postscript() and levelplot() in a for loop

2005-01-26 Thread Wang, Yan
Dear Thomas, It is very interesting to read FAQ 7.22. I don't see any example of lattice/trellis graphics linked with print() statement. How should I specify print()? Here are the actual codes I used to create the .ps file: x=y=myaa grid=expand.grid(x=x,y=y)

RE: [R] animation without intermediate files?

2005-01-26 Thread bogdan romocea
Here's a different suggestion. Create a bunch of image files, and then use an image browser (GQview is one of the best; if you're on Win look at ACDSee) to view them as a slide show. Good image browsers read images in advance and should not produce flickering. I haven't experimented though with

RE: [R] graphsheet substitute in R?

2005-01-26 Thread Liaw, Andy
You can turn on plot history from the menu in the windows() device. Then whatever plots you make, you can page-up/page-down to navigate through them. (This is specific to Windows.) Andy From: David Parkhurst I'm using R 2.0.1 in a class I teach, with most students working under windows

Re: [R] reshape (a better way)

2005-01-26 Thread Jean Eid
thank you Thomas and Chuck for the helpfull codes. My problem was with the times variable adn chuck's example made that really clear. I just have one more question regarding reshape. when varying are not the same length reshape complains, so I generated the name of the variables that are missing

RE: [R] Zipf random number generation

2005-01-26 Thread Weiguang Shi
Thank you very much again. Your code is really helpful and it demontrates the power of R to a new-comer like me. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Understood! Though I think you mean 1/c = sum(1.0 / pow((double) j, alpha)), j=1,2,...,N You are right. Weiguang

Re: [R] Linear Trend Analysis?

2005-01-26 Thread Tim F Liao
Chris, While there might be certain functions in R that I'm not aware of for such purposes, anything (well, almost) can be done in R if you're willing to write a line or two of code, and that's the beauty of R. In a course I recently taught, I used the following code to generate individual data

[R] Specification of factorial random-effects model

2005-01-26 Thread Nicholas Galwey
I want to specify two factors and their interaction as random effects using the function lme(). This works okay when I specify these terms using the function Error() within the function aov(), but I can't get the same model fitted using lme(). The code below illustrates the problem. a -

RE: [R] Specification of factorial random-effects model

2005-01-26 Thread Berton Gunter
If you read the Help file for lme (!), you'll see that ~1|a*b is certainly incorrect. Briefly, the issue has been discussed before on this list: the current version of lme() follows the original Laird/Ware formulation for **nested** random effects. Specifying **crossed** random effects is

[R] sw

2005-01-26 Thread Mahdi Osman
Hi list, I am just a new user of R. How can I run stepwise regression in R? Is there a graphic user interphase for any of the spatial packages inculded in R, such as gstat, geoR and someothers. I am mainly interested interactive variogram modelling and mapping. Thanks Mahdi --

RE: [R] agglomerative coefficient in agnes (cluster)

2005-01-26 Thread Weiguang Shi
Thanks again Andy. The definition of AC is understood, yet I have trouble picturing the amount of clear clustering structure it measures. To put things into perspective, for two series 1,2,1000,1001 and 1,2,3,1000 agnes(x, method=single) generates ac values of 0.998998 and 0.0.7492477

RE: [R] Linear Trend Analysis?

2005-01-26 Thread Chris Bergstresser
-Original Message- From: Tim F Liao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In a course I recently taught, I used the following code to generate individual data from grouped data, which would give the same results as using fweight=count in Stata.

RE: [R] how to evaluate the significance of attributes in tree gr owing

2005-01-26 Thread Liaw, Andy
FWIW, I wrote a little function to extract variable importance as defined in the CART book a while ago. It's rather limited: Only works for regression problem, and you need to set maxsurrogate=0 and maxcompete=0. It may (or may not) help you: varimp.rpart - function(x) { dev - x$frame[,

[R] (no subject)

2005-01-26 Thread Arthur Andersen
Dear R-help: Is there a way to extract a robust covariance matrix from optim? I am looking for one of the form H V H; where H is the inverse of the Hessian, and V is dLL/dT * dLL/dT’ (LL=Log-likelihood, T=vector of parameters, d is the partial). Optim returns H, which approximates for the

[R] Cluster analysis using EM algorithm

2005-01-26 Thread msck9
Hi, I am looking for a package to do the clustering analysis using the expectation maximization algorithm. Thanks in advance. Ming __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

[R] Relative importance of inputs in nnet

2005-01-26 Thread Victor Robles
Dear R people, I would like to know if it is possible to compute the relative importance of the inputs to a neurol network computed with the function nnet in the nnet package. Thank you so much!!! Victor Robles [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

RE: [R] agglomerative coefficient in agnes (cluster)

2005-01-26 Thread Liaw, Andy
-Original Message- From: Weiguang Shi Thanks again Andy. The definition of AC is understood, yet I have trouble picturing the amount of clear clustering structure it measures. To put things into perspective, for two series 1,2,1000,1001 and 1,2,3,1000 agnes(x,

RE: [R] agglomerative coefficient in agnes (cluster)

2005-01-26 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Well I am not sure that can call a single figure a cluster. Sure it's not near the others but how can you conceptually measure it's cluster properties. It seems reasonable that there has to be some form of doubt about it. Back to that Google search hit number 3 www.stat.ncu.edu.tw/teacher/

[R] getting package version inside .First.lib

2005-01-26 Thread Adrian Baddeley
Greetings - Is it possible, inside .First.lib, to find out the version number of the package that is being loaded? If only one version of the package has been installed, we could scan the DESCRIPTION file, something like .First.lib - function(lib, pkg) { library.dynam(spatstat, pkg, lib)

Re: [R] getting package version inside .First.lib

2005-01-26 Thread Adrian Baddeley
Is it possible, inside .First.lib, to find out the version number of the package that is being loaded? Berwin Turlach kindly informs me that installed.packages() will extract details of all installed packages. So if only one version of package spatstat has been installed, we can

[R] A rude question

2005-01-26 Thread msck9
Dear all, I am beginner using R. I have a question about it. When you use it, since it is written by so many authors, how do you know that the results are trustable?(I don't want to affend anyone, also I trust people). But I think this should be a question. Thanks, Ming

Re: [R] Specification of factorial random-effects model

2005-01-26 Thread Renaud Lancelot
Berton Gunter a écrit : If you read the Help file for lme (!), you'll see that ~1|a*b is certainly incorrect. Briefly, the issue has been discussed before on this list: the current version of lme() follows the original Laird/Ware formulation for **nested** random effects. Specifying **crossed**

Re: [R] Specification of factorial random-effects model

2005-01-26 Thread Renaud Lancelot
Berton Gunter a écrit : If you read the Help file for lme (!), you'll see that ~1|a*b is certainly incorrect. Briefly, the issue has been discussed before on this list: the current version of lme() follows the original Laird/Ware formulation for **nested** random effects. Specifying **crossed**

Re: [R] A rude question

2005-01-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
How do you know that any results from any software package are trustable? I'm not sure that the number of authors has anything to do with it. If you are extremely paranoid, you can reprogram everything you do a few times in a large number of completely different languages written by different

RE: [R] A rude question

2005-01-26 Thread Mulholland, Tom
What makes you trust any software? There are some obvious points. First of all the code is open so if you know enough you can actually read the code and make sure it does what you want. Secondly you can replicate a process using two pieces of software and compare the results. You can check