Re: [R] MacOS X and vectorized files (emf, wmf,...)

2005-01-31 Thread Jari Oksanen
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:06 +0100, Patrick Giraudoux H wrote: Dear Listers, We are organising practical trainings for students with R 2.0.1 under MacOS X. I am used with R 2.0.1 under Windows XP and thus has been surprised not to find functions in the MacOS X version of R providing

Re: [R] type of list elements in .Call

2005-01-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please ask programming-related questions on the R-devel list -- see the advice in the posting guide. On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, Here is something I do not understand. Consider * foo.cc

Re: [R] MacOS X and vectorized files (emf, wmf,...)

2005-01-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Patrick Giraudoux H wrote: Dear Listers, We are organising practical trainings for students with R 2.0.1 under MacOS X. I am used with R 2.0.1 under Windows XP and thus has been surprised not to find functions in the MacOS X version of R providing vectorized chart outputs

[R] Extracting a numeric prefix from a string

2005-01-31 Thread Mike White
Hi Does anyone know if there is a function similar to as.numeric that will extract a numeric prefix from a string as in the following examples? x-c(3, abc, 5.67, 2.4a, 6a, 6b, 2.4.a, 3, 4.2a) df.x-data.frame(Code=x) x.str-levels(df.x[,1]) # required function result 2.40 3.00 4.20 5.67 6.00 NA

Re: [R] Extracting a numeric prefix from a string

2005-01-31 Thread R user
You could use something like y - gsub('([0-9]+(.[0-9]+)?)?.*','\\1',x) as.numeric(y) But maybe there's a much nicer way. Jonne. On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:51 +, Mike White wrote: Hi Does anyone know if there is a function similar to as.numeric that will extract a numeric prefix from a

[R] Propositions to fit a 2 pieces function

2005-01-31 Thread Eric Rodriguez
Hi, I would like to have some advices about how to fit such function: f(x) = a.x^b if x = t c.x - c.t + a.t^b otherwise I have to minimize the least-squares error knowing x and f(x). Do you have any propositions of what should I use to achieve it ?

Re: [R] Propositions to fit a 2 pieces function

2005-01-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
Eric Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I would like to have some advices about how to fit such function: f(x) = a.x^b if x = t c.x - c.t + a.t^b otherwise I have to minimize the least-squares error knowing x and f(x). Do you have any propositions of what should I use to

[R] Re: Begginer with R

2005-01-31 Thread Vito Ricci
Hi, see this web page: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~vos/DataMining.html you'll find something about classification with examples: 4. Classification Decision theory, Linear discriminant analysis, Quadratic discriminant analysis, Fisher's LDA, Logistic discrimination, Non-parametric classification

[R] Postgraduate distance learning courses for MSc in Statistics

2005-01-31 Thread CG Pettersson
30 Januari, Tilo Blenk wrote: Does anybody has experience with postgraduate distance learning courses resulting in a MSc in Statistics? I am thinking about such a course to ... snip ... Sorry for posting something only distantly related to R but I hope there some people reading this mailing

[R] Re: [Rd] Typo in 'R Language Definition'

2005-01-31 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Paul Roebuck wrote: Section 3.5.3 The call stack (pg 23 of R-lang.pdf) ...the computation the the currently active environment... ^^^ Which version of R is this? I think it has been corrected a while

Re: [R] Bootstrapped eigenvector

2005-01-31 Thread Jari Oksanen
Jérôme, On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:14 -0500, Jérôme Lemaître wrote: Hello alls, I found in the literature a technique that has been evaluated as one of the more robust to assess statistically the significance of the loadings in a PCA: bootstrapping the eigenvector (Jackson, Ecology 1993, 74:

[R] consultation

2005-01-31 Thread Lic. Adrián Cecotto - FACEA
R people, I need to know if is possible to make data mining with R. If so, is there any manual or somewhere/one to consult about that. Thank you very much Adrián __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] consultation

2005-01-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
Lic. Adrián Cecotto - FACEA wrote: R people, I need to know if is possible to make data mining with R. If so, is Almost sure, depends on your definition of data mining. There are several manuals and books, see CRAN. Uwe Ligges there any manual or somewhere/one to consult about that. Thank you

Re: [R] aggregating dates

2005-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Paul Sorenson Paul.Sorenson at vision-bio.com writes: : : I have a frame which contains 3 columns: : : date defectnum state : : And I want to get the most recent state change for a given defect number. date is POSIXct. : : I have tried: : aggregate(ev$date, by=list(ev$defectnum), max)

[R] Re: consultation

2005-01-31 Thread Vito Ricci
Hi, see these papers or books (some are available on the web): Diego Kuonen, Introduction au data mining avec R : vers la reconqu?te du `knowledge discovery in databases' par les statisticiens. Bulletin of the Swiss Statistical Society, 40:3-7, 2001.

Re: [R] Postgraduate distance learning courses for MSc in Statistics

2005-01-31 Thread Min-Han Tan
There are several institutions here which offer distance learning. http://programs.gradschools.com/distance/statistics.html Min-Han Tan On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:13:38 +0100, CG Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 30 Januari, Tilo Blenk wrote: Does anybody has experience with postgraduate

Re: [R] Extracting a numeric prefix from a string

2005-01-31 Thread Ted Harding
On 31-Jan-05 R user wrote: You could use something like y - gsub('([0-9]+(.[0-9]+)?)?.*','\\1',x) as.numeric(y) But maybe there's a much nicer way. Jonne. I doubt it -- full marks for neat regexp footwork! To comply fully with Mike's request, I'd wrap it in sort():

[R] help with vector operation

2005-01-31 Thread eesteves
Dear All, I'm trying to calculate the following: g.rate-(SL-int)/NO where SL and NO are individual length and counts for the same subject, and the int value is a day-specific value i.e. for each DAY=88, 101..., 172 I'd like to use a different values of int=9.32, 8.43, ..., 9.81. All variables

Re: [R] changing the time base in a ts

2005-01-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dr Carbon wrote: I'm probably apporaching this all wrong to start but Suppose I have a monthly time series and I want to compute the mean of months 6,7, and 8. I want to plot the original time series and the seasonal time series, one above the other. When I do that as below the time series

Re: [R] changing the time base in a ts

2005-01-31 Thread Dr Carbon
Sorry, what I meant was that I want dat.sub[1] to line up with dat[7], dat.sub[2] to line up with dat[19], dat.sub[3] with dat[12+12+7], etc... On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:34:55 +0100, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr Carbon wrote: I'm probably apporaching this all wrong to start but

Re: [R] help with vector operation

2005-01-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I'm trying to calculate the following: Select the rows of the data.frame and just calculate what you already have written: g.rate-(SL-int)/NO For the lines you cited this means, e.g.: X - data.frame(CODE = c(123:125, 234), SL = c(12.5,

Re: [R] changing the time base in a ts

2005-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Dr Carbon drcarbon at gmail.com writes: : : I'm probably apporaching this all wrong to start but : : Suppose I have a monthly time series and I want to compute the mean of : months 6,7, and 8. I want to plot the original time series and the : seasonal time series, one above the other. When

Re: [R] changing the time base in a ts

2005-01-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dr Carbon wrote: Sorry, what I meant was that I want dat.sub[1] to line up with dat[7], dat.sub[2] to line up with dat[19], dat.sub[3] with dat[12+12+7], etc... Sorry, I haven't read your mail carefully enough: plot(dat) plot(x = time(dat.sub, offset = 0.5), y = dat.sub, type = b,

[R] installing R on Mac OS X

2005-01-31 Thread silvia simoni
I have a problem in installing R-2.0.1, downloaded from the R web site, on mac o sx version 10.3.7. when i launch the command ./configure i get the following error message: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables i've aleady

Re: [R] installing R on Mac OS X

2005-01-31 Thread Sean Davis
Silvia You may want to use the disk image instead. It is here (for italy): http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/bin/macosx/R-2.0.1.dmg Sean On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:52 PM, silvia simoni wrote: I have a problem in installing R-2.0.1, downloaded from the R web site, on mac o sx version 10.3.7. when i

[R] Help about time series

2005-01-31 Thread Ferrari Nicolas
Hello, When I create a ts object, I would like to get a particular value of this time serie according to the date and not the rank. However, it seems necessary to use the rank as if it were a simple vector. I would be very grateful if you could help out of this. I thank you in advance, Nicolas

RE: [R] Help about time series

2005-01-31 Thread abunn
?time dat - ts(rnorm(10), start = c(1900), frequency = 1) dat[time(dat) == 1905] HTH, Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ferrari Nicolas Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 2:26 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [R] Help about time

[R] Special paper for postscript

2005-01-31 Thread Tae-Hoon Chung
Hi, All; When I generate a special paper postscript image larger than a4 or letter using R, I can only see one-page portion of all image, of course. What will be the simple solution for this? Is there any way I can set the bounding box information on the image? Or any other suggestions? Thanks

[R] coercing a list to a data frame, lists in foreloops

2005-01-31 Thread Benjamin M. Osborne
I have a set of time-series climate data with missing entries. I need to add rows for these missing entries to this data set. The only way I know to do this is unsing a foreloop, but this won't work on a list. I've tried to convert the list to a data frame, but that won't happen, either. I

[R] naming list elements

2005-01-31 Thread Michael Wolosin
All - Each time through a loop I create a new dataset, which I would like to append to a list object. Each item of the list should be the data matrix created in that step of the loop; I would like the NAME (or tag) of that list item to be assigned the value of a character string: I've tried

[R] How to simulate quadratic phase couplilng

2005-01-31 Thread Peter Yang
Hi, I need to simulate the following two time series, 1. X=cos(omega1*t+phi1)+cos(omega2*t+phi2)+cos(omega3+phi3) 2. Y=cos(omega1*t+phi1)+cos(omega2*t+phi2)+cos(omega3+phi1+phi2) where omega3=omega1+omega2 and phi1, phi2, phi3 are independent uniform random variables from 0 to 2pi. Question 1:

[R] ML-Fit for truncated distributions

2005-01-31 Thread Carsten Steinhoff
Hello, maybe that my Question is a beginner-Question, but up to now, my research didn't bring any useful result. I'm trying to fit a distribution (e.g. lognormal) to a given set of data (ML-Estimation). I KNOW about my data that there is a truncation for all data below a well known

Re: [R] naming list elements

2005-01-31 Thread Pierre Kleiber
Will the following work for you? Cheers, Pierre junk - list() for(i in 1:5) junk[[paste(Item,i,sep=)]] - runif(4) str(junk) List of 5 $ Item1: num [1:4] 0.687 0.508 0.734 0.704 $ Item2: num [1:4] 0.5497 0.1777 0.4081 0.0129 $ Item3: num [1:4] 0.768 0.808 0.592 0.697 $ Item4: num [1:4]

[R] Automatically Extracting F- and P- vals from ANOVA

2005-01-31 Thread Uri
Dear R community, I'm currently using R to analyze functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data. Each analysis involves running ~120,000 repeated-measures ANOVAs. I would like to know if there is any automatic way to access the F- and P-value data that are associated with each of these 120,000

[R] how to move x-axis labels down

2005-01-31 Thread Wittner, Ben
Hi, In the code below, the labels I put on the x-axis are too high (they cross the axis). Can anyone tell me how to move them down? I've tried adj=, padj=, mar=, and various other things, but cannot move them down. Thanks. -Ben labs - paste('sample', 1:10) plot(1:10, xaxt='n', xlab='') axis(1,

RE: [R] how to move x-axis labels down

2005-01-31 Thread Liaw, Andy
I guess setting par(mgp) would help. Andy From: Wittner, Ben Hi, In the code below, the labels I put on the x-axis are too high (they cross the axis). Can anyone tell me how to move them down? I've tried adj=, padj=, mar=, and various other things, but cannot move them down.

RE: [R] Evaluating code in a sandbox

2005-01-31 Thread McGehee, Robert
Why not just save your current global environment and reload it after running the offending code? See ?save.image to save, then rm(list = ls()) to clear the global environment. If a program tries to get or assign something to a global environment, then either you rewrite the program to do

RE: [R] how to move x-axis labels down

2005-01-31 Thread Wittner, Ben
Bert, Your question below prompted me to run the same code to the postscript device and sure enough, the file created displays perfectly. So I guess the problem is specific to my system and I should not try to fix it by changing my code. My system is as follows: platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch

RE: [R] Automatically Extracting F- and P- vals from ANOVA

2005-01-31 Thread John Fox
Dear Uri, You can save the object produced by summary() (i.e., assign it to a variable, not print it and dump it to a file) and extract what you want from that. You can use str() to see the structure of the object. I hope this helps, John John Fox Department of

Re: [R] Special paper for postscript

2005-01-31 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:42 -0700, Tae-Hoon Chung wrote: Hi, All; When I generate a special paper postscript image larger than a4 or letter using R, I can only see one-page portion of all image, of course. What will be the simple solution for this? Is there any way I can set the bounding

Re: [R] Box-Cox / data transformation question

2005-01-31 Thread Spencer Graves
What R commands were used to produce this estimate of the required transformation? Did the command used produce a confidence interval for the power transformation, as, e.g., boxcox in library(MASS) described by Venables and Ripley (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S, 4th ed.

Re: [R] coercing a list to a data frame, lists in foreloops

2005-01-31 Thread Spencer Graves
A data.frame is a list, which may be why mode(mansNew) was list. Have you tried something like the following: tstList - list(a=1:3, b=c(NA, 4, 6)) DF - as.data.frame(tstList) mode(DF) [1] list class(DF) [1] data.frame DF a b 1 1 NA 2 2 4 3 3 6 DF2 - DF[c(1,1:3),] DF2[2,] -

Re: [R] Extracting a numeric prefix from a string

2005-01-31 Thread Peter Dalgaard
(Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 31-Jan-05 R user wrote: You could use something like y - gsub('([0-9]+(.[0-9]+)?)?.*','\\1',x) as.numeric(y) But maybe there's a much nicer way. Jonne. I doubt it -- full marks for neat regexp footwork! Hmm, I'd have to deduct a

Re: [R] ML-Fit for truncated distributions

2005-01-31 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Carsten Steinhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, maybe that my Question is a beginner-Question, but up to now, my research didn't bring any useful result. I'm trying to fit a distribution (e.g. lognormal) to a given set of data (ML-Estimation). I KNOW about my data that there

RE: [R] Extracting a numeric prefix from a string

2005-01-31 Thread McGehee, Robert
Perhaps an easier way would be to throw away the offending text at the end of the strings, rather than matching all possible numeric formulations at the beginning of the string, that is: sub(\\.*[[:alpha:]]+$, , x) Easier to read, if nothing else, and it allows for 2e-7 as a valid number. This

[R] RE: aggregating dates

2005-01-31 Thread Paul Sorenson
The solution I came up with myself was simply to coerce the integer back to POSIXct: class(ev$date) = POSIXct Can't say it is the right way to do it but it seem to work. A second related problem I haven't been able to solve as yet is how to include incidents columns (those not in 'x'

Re: [R] an R script editor for Mac

2005-01-31 Thread Simon Blomberg
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Alpha. It has highlighting, indenting, parenthesis matching, excellent integration with R (or that other commercial version of R). There are versions for Classic (Alpha8), OS X (Alphax), as well as *NIX and Windows (AlphatTk). Alpha is shareware, based on the

Re: [R] coercing a list to a data frame, lists in foreloops

2005-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Benjamin M. Osborne Benjamin.Osborne at uvm.edu writes: : : I have a set of time-series climate data with missing entries. I need to add : rows for these missing entries to this data set. The only way I know to do : this is unsing a foreloop, but this won't work on a list. I've tried to :

Re: [R] RE: aggregating dates

2005-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Paul Sorenson Paul.Sorenson at vision-bio.com writes: : : The solution I came up with myself was simply to coerce the integer back to POSIXct: : : class(ev$date) = POSIXct : : Can't say it is the right way to do it but it seem to work. That is not entirely correct, although it many