[R] question about about the drop1

2005-04-23 Thread ronggui
the data is : table.8.3-data.frame(expand.grid( marijuana=factor(c(Yes,No),levels=c(No,Yes)), cigarette=factor(c(Yes,No),levels=c(No,Yes)), alcohol=factor(c(Yes,No),levels=c(No,Yes))), count=c(911,538,44,456,3,43,2,279)) fit3-glm(count~.^3,poisson,table.8.3) sumary(fit3) ... Residual

[R] start values for nls() that don't yield singular gradients?

2005-04-23 Thread James Salsman
I'm trying to fit a Gompertz sigmoid as follows: x - c(15, 16, 17, 18, 19) # arbitrary example data here; y - c(0.1, 1.8, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9) # actual data is similar gm - nls(y ~ a+b*exp(-exp(-c*(x-d))), start=c(a=?, b=?, c=?, d=?)) I have been unable to properly set the starting value '?'s. All

[R] R-2.1.0 doesn't compile on FreeBSD6-CURRENT

2005-04-23 Thread Rainer Hurling
Dear R-users, is there anyone else with problems to get R-2.1.0 compiled on FreeBSD6-CURRENT? After typing '.configure' and then 'make' I get the following output: - [...snip...] gcc -export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -o R.bin Rmain.o CConverters.o

[R] How to know in which package is a function

2005-04-23 Thread Romain Francois
Hello list, I'd like to know if there is a function that tells in which package is a given function. Something like : which.package(lda) [1] MASS Thank you. Romain -- ~ ~~ Romain FRANCOIS - http://addictedtor.free.fr

RE: [R] question about about the drop1

2005-04-23 Thread Bill.Venables
Ronggui asks: : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronggui : Sent: Saturday, 23 April 2005 5:41 PM : To: r help : Subject: [R] question about about the drop1 : : : the data is : : table.8.3-data.frame(expand.grid( :

[R] RCMD check error windows

2005-04-23 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Dear Lister, I am working with Windows XP and R 2.1.0 and can check and build home-made packages easily (just *.r, *.rmd, *.rda files, no compiled code). However for some reasons, I cannot check or build the package 'foreign' from the source (I took it as an exercise...). After some lines of

Re: [R] Using R to illustrate the Central Limit Theorem

2005-04-23 Thread Matthias Kohl
(Ted Harding) wrote: On 21-Apr-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a bit of a refinement on Ted's first suggestion. [ corrected from runif(M*k), N, k) to runif(N*k), N, k) ] N - 1 graphics.off() par(mfrow = c(1,2), pty = s) for(k in 1:20) { m - (rowMeans(matrix(runif(N*k), N, k)) -

Re: [R] Using R to illustrate the Central Limit Theorem

2005-04-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/23/05, Matthias Kohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here is another idea to illustrate the Central Limit Theorem which is based on our package distr. Thanks to all for your numerous suggestions. Since I am just beginning with R, it will take a while before I can fully digest your help. Have a

RE: [R] Anova - interpretation of the interaction term

2005-04-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Apr-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of : michael watson (IAH-C) : [...] : I have a highly significant interaction term. In the context : of the experiment, this makes sense. I can visualise the data :

Re: [R] start values for nls() that don't yield singular gradients?

2005-04-23 Thread Douglas Bates
James Salsman wrote: I'm trying to fit a Gompertz sigmoid as follows: x - c(15, 16, 17, 18, 19) # arbitrary example data here; y - c(0.1, 1.8, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9) # actual data is similar It is a good practice to plot the data before trying to fit complicated nonlinear models. If you are going

Re: [R] How to override coerion error in 'scan'

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Kittler, Richard wrote: I am using 'read.csv' in V2.0.1 to read in a CSV file with the colClasses option and am getting an error from 'scan' when it encounters a non-numeric value for a 'numeric' column, i.e. ds - read.csv(in_file, nrows=irow, row.names=NULL, colClasses=zclass,

Re: [R] density

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hui Han wrote: Hi, I used the density function in the R package, and got the following results. I just wonder how to explain them. What is Min, 1st Qu, Median, and so on? I could not find an explanation from help(density). The plot doesn't seem to match the x and y value either. Thanks in

Re: [R] How to know in which package is a function

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Romain Francois wrote: Hello list, I'd like to know if there is a function that tells in which package is a given function. Something like : which.package(lda) [1] MASS Thank you. Romain getAnywhere(lda) A single object matching 'lda' was found It was found in the following places

Re: [R] How to know in which package is a function

2005-04-23 Thread Douglas Bates
Romain Francois wrote: Hello list, I'd like to know if there is a function that tells in which package is a given function. Something like : which.package(lda) [1] MASS Thank you. Romain Perhaps easiest is help.search(lda) If you know that the name is recognized in your current session (which

Re: [R] dr ()

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Jessica Higgs wrote: Hi all-- A quick question about the dr () function. I am using this function to reduce the dimensions of a data set I have that involves 14 predictor variables and one predictant or response. The goal is to discover which variables play the most important role in

Re: [R] Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Thanks for your work on this topic, Marc, but the bug has already been fixed by Brian 4 days ago (see below). Uwe r33976 | ripley | 2005-04-19 05:38:51 -0400 (Tue, 19 Apr 2005) | 1 line Changed paths: M /trunk/NEWS M /trunk/src/library/utils/R/menu.R missing braces

[R] Restarting R without quitting R

2005-04-23 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some way of restarting R, without quitting R? In other words, I am looking for something like the commands reset (MuPAD) or restart (Maple). Thanks in advance, Paul __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] RCMD check error windows

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Patrick Giraudoux wrote: Dear Lister, I am working with Windows XP and R 2.1.0 and can check and build home-made packages easily (just *.r, *.rmd, *.rda files, no compiled code). However for some reasons, I cannot check or build the package 'foreign' from the source (I took it as an

Re: [R] Restarting R without quitting R

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of restarting R, without quitting R? In other words, I am looking for something like the commands reset (MuPAD) or restart (Maple). No, but of course you could write a function that fires up a new instance of R and quits the current one after that.

[R] [OT] R-project.Borg?

2005-04-23 Thread Douglas Bates
A few moments ago I used Mozilla Thunderbird to send an email message that contained a forwarded message sent from an R-project.org address. The spell checker flagged this phrase as a potential spelling error and offered the replacement R-project.Borg. If it wasn't that Mozilla is another

[R] select dataframe records

2005-04-23 Thread Pieter Provoost
Hi, I'm reading some data from a file. The code below plots the all records in a barplot. How can I plot only records 5 to 10? chldata - read.table(test3.txt,header=TRUE) barplot(rev(chldata$chlorophyll),horiz=TRUE,names.arg=rev(chldata$depth)) Thanks in advance, Pieter [[alternative

Re: [R] Problem with R-2.1.0: install.packages() doesn't work

2005-04-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 16:14 +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote: Thanks for your work on this topic, Marc, but the bug has already been fixed by Brian 4 days ago (see below). Uwe r33976 | ripley | 2005-04-19 05:38:51 -0400 (Tue, 19 Apr 2005) | 1 line Changed paths: M /trunk/NEWS

Re: [R] [OT] R-project.Borg?

2005-04-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 09:49 -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: A few moments ago I used Mozilla Thunderbird to send an email message that contained a forwarded message sent from an R-project.org address. The spell checker flagged this phrase as a potential spelling error and offered the

Re: [R] select dataframe records

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Pieter Provoost wrote: Hi, I'm reading some data from a file. The code below plots the all records in a barplot. How can I plot only records 5 to 10? By indexing? Please read the psoting guide and the docs. chldata - read.table(test3.txt,header=TRUE)

Re: [R] RCMD check error windows

2005-04-23 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Dear Uwe, Is this a full installation of R (I guess you have not compiled it yourself)? If yes, does gcc, perl and friends work? In the first place, libR.a must be compiled at this point which should happen automatically. But it is really hard to say which of the tools fails exactly. Uwe Ligges

Re: [R] RCMD check error windows

2005-04-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Patrick Giraudoux wrote: Dear Uwe, Is this a full installation of R (I guess you have not compiled it yourself)? If yes, does gcc, perl and friends work? In the first place, libR.a must be compiled at this point which should happen automatically. But it is really hard to say which of the tools

[R] Error when downloading and installing ALL R packages

2005-04-23 Thread Dieter Menne
Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de writes: Bernd Weiss wrote: Error in sprintf(gettext(unable to move temp installation '%d' to '%s'), : use format %s for character objects Maybe your disc is full or a package is already in use and one of its files is locked?

RE: [R] How to know in which package is a function

2005-04-23 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Romain Francois Hello list, I'd like to know if there is a function that tells in which package is a given function. Something like : which.package(lda) [1] MASS getAnywhere(), as Uwe suggested, will find objects that are in attached packages. help.search(), as Doug

Re: [R] RCMD check error windows

2005-04-23 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Ah! See R-2.1.0's version of the manual R Installation and Administration, Sections Installing R under Windows and in particular Appendix E The Windows toolset. Uwe Ligges OK. Got it... When I started packaging home made functions one year ago, I did not use compiled code, and just install

RE: [R] Anova - interpretation of the interaction term

2005-04-23 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 23-Apr-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] [technical setup snipped] contrasts(dat$vac_inf) - ginv(m) gm - aov(y ~ vac_inf, dat) summary(gm) Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(F) vac_inf 3 12.1294 4.0431 7.348 0.04190 Residuals4

[R] optim() non-finite finite-difference value

2005-04-23 Thread Werner Bier
Dear all, I am using the optim() function which it stops with the following error messagge: error in optim(...) non-finite finite-difference value I was wondering if somebody might suggest me a way to fix it please. Thanks in advance to all of you. Kind regards, Tom

[R] Importing subsets of rows into R from a large text data file

2005-04-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
Just an FYI here as I think that this approach sometimes gets overlooked. When one has a very large dataset to read into R from a text file (as opposed to an external database that can be queried) and in actuality only needs a subset of sequential records for subsequent analysis, there are

Re: [R] optim() non-finite finite-difference value

2005-04-23 Thread Spencer Graves
I just encountered that myself using optim in S-Plus 6.1. For a certain set of parameter values, the function I wanted to minimize returned NaN (not a number). To fix this problem, I set a trace with something like options(trace=99) using, I think, method = CG. This printed out all the

[R] extracting selected rows, based on a 'list' of values

2005-04-23 Thread Tim Smith
Hi, I was trying to extract certain rows from a table. For example, if the value in the first column is a, d, k, or z, then I would like to extract these rows. In other words, if the value in the column is also an element in my list (a,d,k,z), then I would like to extract the row. I've

[R] extracting selected rows, based on a 'list' of values

2005-04-23 Thread Tim Smith
Hi, I was trying to extract certain rows from a table. For example, if the value in the first column is a, d, k, or z, then I would like to extract these rows. In other words, if the value in the column is also an element in my list (a,d,k,z), then I would like to extract the row. I've

Re: [R] Restarting R without quitting R

2005-04-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/23/05, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of restarting R, without quitting R? In other words, I am looking for something like the commands reset (MuPAD) or restart (Maple). No, but of course you could write a function that fires up a new instance of R and quits

RE: [R] extracting selected rows, based on a 'list' of values

2005-04-23 Thread Liaw, Andy
[No need to post the same message twice, please.] Try something like: dat - data.frame(a=sample(c(a, b, d, k, z), 30, replace=TRUE), b=runif(30)) subset(dat, a %in% c(a, d, k, z)) Andy From: Tim Smith Hi, I was trying to extract certain rows from a table. For

[R] reading fortran binary file

2005-04-23 Thread simon chou
Hi r-help, I have some troubles reading fortran binary file(from mm5) in R. Here is what I have done. 1. Use a fortran subroutine to read this file in R. The subroutine is as the following. subroutine freadmm5(filenamet,out2d) integer iflag,var1,miy,mjx,mkz,mt,z,t character*4

[R] Spamed? ScanMail has blocked your mail due to an email security policy.

2005-04-23 Thread npnssmtp3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a system-generated notification from Computer Centre Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Our system has received an email sent with your email address. The email has been blocked as it contained a file attachment disallowed under our Email Security Policy. As Internet email

[R] Bootstrap / permutation textbooks

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Soros
Dear R experts, I would like to explore if and to what extent bootstrapping and permutation statistics can help me for my research (functional brain imaging). I am looking for an introductory textbook, rather legible. I have statistical knowledge, but I am definitely no statistical or

Re: [R] data manipulation

2005-04-23 Thread Yoko Nakajima
Hello, may I ask a further question? I have realized that data - matrix(scan(file-name), ncol=29) will read the data differently than I thought, i.e., (4,1) is the first column, (17,1) is the second column, and (1,1) is the third and so on by this code - please see the data below. Therefore,

RE: [R] data manipulation

2005-04-23 Thread Liaw, Andy
You just need to try harder in reading the documentation. Try: data - matrix(scan(file-name), ncol=29, byrow=TRUE) Andy From: Yoko Nakajima Hello, may I ask a further question? I have realized that data - matrix(scan(file-name), ncol=29) will read the data differently than I

[R] Re: an interesting qqnorm question

2005-04-23 Thread Vincent ZOONEKYND
If I understand your problem, you are computing the difference between your data and the quantiles of a standard gaussian variable -- in other words, the difference between the data and the red line, in the following picture. N - 100 # Sample size m - 1# Mean s - 2# dispersion x

[R] Re: density estimation

2005-04-23 Thread Vincent ZOONEKYND
The command help.search(density) which you should have tried if you had read the posting guide, returns, among others, kde2d, in package MASS. -- Vincent On 4/22/05, Bernard Palagos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello sorry for my english I would like estimate density for multivariate

Re: [R] Download advice please!

2005-04-23 Thread Sam Ferguson
Hi - Just for the record - Another option for the less command line orientated is http://downthemall.mozdev.org/ Which is an extension to firefox that allows you to download all or only selected links on a webpage. You can tick or untick whichever links you want. Quite convenient. Cheers --

[R] A question on the library lme4

2005-04-23 Thread Luis Fernando Chaves
Hi, I ran the following model using nlme: model2-lme(log(malrat1)~I(year-1982),random=~1|Continent/Country,data=wbmal10) I'm trying to run a Poisson GlMM to avoid the above transformation but I don't know how to specify the model using lmer in the lme4 library:

RE: [R] A question on the library lme4

2005-04-23 Thread Bill.Venables
Luis Fernando Chaves asks: : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luis : Fernando Chaves : Sent: Sunday, 24 April 2005 11:29 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: [R] A question on the library lme4 : : : Hi, : : I ran the following