Re: [R] randomForest

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Maechler
Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:44:38 -0400 writes: Duncan On 7/7/2005 3:38 PM, Weiwei Shi wrote: Hi there: I have a question on random foresst: recently i helped a friend with her random forest and i came with this problem:

[R] choice of graph

2005-07-11 Thread Navarre Sabine
Hi, It's about 2 weeks that I think about a graph to translate my datas. But I don't have an really idea. I 'm going to expose you my problem: I have a questionnaire with 15 questions and you have more possibilties to answer to these. For example: The trainer is competent: Yes No

[R] validation, calibration and Design

2005-07-11 Thread Williams Scott
Hi R experts, I am trying to do a prognostic model validation study, using cancer survival data. There are 2 data sets - 1500 cases used to develop a nomogram, and another of 800 cases used as an independent validation cohort. I have validated the nomogram in the original data (easy with

Re: [R] time series regression

2005-07-11 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, yyan liu wrote: Hi: I have two time series y(t) and x(t). I want to regress Y on X. Because Y is a time series and may have autocorrelation such as AR(p), so it is not efficient to use OLS directly. The model I am trying to fit is like

Re: [R] choice of graph

2005-07-11 Thread TEMPL Matthias
Hi, It's about 2 weeks that I think about a graph to translate my datas. But I don't have an really idea. I 'm going to expose you my problem: I have a questionnaire with 15 questions and you have more possibilties to answer to these. For example: The trainer is competent:

[R] (no subject)

2005-07-11 Thread Smit, R. \(Robin\)
Hello, The estimate of glm dispersion can be based on the deviance or on the Pearson statistic. I have compared output from R glm() to another statastical package and it appears that R uses the Pearson statistic. I was wondering if it is possible to make use R the deviance instead by modifying

[R] Problems with R on OS X

2005-07-11 Thread Heinz Schild
I used R on OS X 10.3x quite some time with no serious problems. Sometimes R stopped when I tried to execute a bigger program. After updating to OS X to version 10.4 R worked but I still had the problem with bigger programs. Therefore I re-installed R on top of the existing R version. The

[R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread Constant Depièreux
Hello all, I am planning to redeploy my workstation under KUBUNTU. Does any body has any r experience installing/using r on this platform? Best regards. -- Constant Depièreux Managing Director Applied QUality Technologies Europe sprl Rue des Déportés 123, B-4800 Verviers (Tel) +32 87 292175

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Constant Depièreux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I am planning to redeploy my workstation under KUBUNTU. Does any body has any r experience installing/using r on this platform? I don't think it's any different than any other Debian-derived platform. -- O__ Peter

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread ernesto
Constant Depièreux wrote: Hello all, I am planning to redeploy my workstation under KUBUNTU. Does any body has any r experience installing/using r on this platform? Best regards. Hi, I've just moved from SuSE 9.1 to Ubuntu 5.04. The instalation is clean and easy, although you have to

[R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Dan Bebber
Hello, plot(cox.zph(my.ph),var=1,xlab=Year) gives the error: Error in plot.default(range(xx), yr, type = n, xlab = Time, ylab = ylab[i], : formal argument xlab matched by multiple actual arguments How can I customize the xlab and ylab for plots of cox.zph? Thanks, Dan Bebber Department of

[R] estVARXar parameter significance

2005-07-11 Thread Kemp S E \(Comp\)
Hi, Does anyone know how to check the significance (p-values/t-values) of the estimated parameters via the estVARXar function (in the dse package)? Thanks in advance, Sam. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

[R] calculating dispersion formula using deviance ( was Re: (no subject) )

2005-07-11 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Please try to use a meaningful subject line. See below for comments. On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:30 +0200, Smit, R. (Robin) wrote: Hello, The estimate of glm dispersion can be based on the deviance or on the Pearson statistic. I have compared output from R glm() to another statastical

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
I am not sure if there is an easy way around this. An ugly hack is to make a copy the function survival:::plot.cox.zph and make your modified function. But there are others in the list who might know neater solutions. Regards, Adai On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:10 +0100, Dan Bebber wrote: Hello,

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread Lefebure Tristan
No problem at all. If you allow universe packages, many binary R packages are available (from the GNU/Linux Debian sid). On Monday 11 July 2005 11:54, Constant Depièreux wrote: Hello all, I am planning to redeploy my workstation under KUBUNTU. Does any body has any r experience

[R] Sweave and complex numbers

2005-07-11 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi When using Sweave, most of my functions get called with complex arguments. They get typeset in with additions that I don't want; 1+1i appears as 1 + (0 + 1i) and I would rather have plain old 1+1i. Example follows: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \title{A Test File} \author{Robin

[R] polr (MASS) link functions

2005-07-11 Thread I M S White
When we analyse ordered categorical data, with categories II, should we expect an equivalent analysis if the ordering is changed to II ? Not with a cloglog link (see example below). However, I suspect the cloglog analysis on the reordered categories is equivalent to a loglog analysis on

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: I am not sure if there is an easy way around this. An ugly hack is to make a copy the function survival:::plot.cox.zph and make your modified function. But there are others in the list who might know neater solutions. This hack is uglier (and might not work

Re: [R] Sweave and complex numbers

2005-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Robin Hankin wrote: Hi When using Sweave, most of my functions get called with complex arguments. They get typeset in with additions that I don't want; 1+1i appears as 1 + (0 + 1i) and I would rather have plain old 1+1i. Example follows: \documentclass[a4paper]{article}

[R] Misbehaviour of DSE

2005-07-11 Thread Ajay Shah
Folks, I am finding problems with using dse: library(dse1) Loading required package: tframe Error: c(package '%s' required by '%s' could not be found, setRNG, dse1) library(dse2) Loading required package: setRNG Error: package 'setRNG' could not be loaded In addition: Warning message: there

[R] Boxplot philosophy {was Boxplot in R}

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Maechler
AdaiR == Adaikalavan Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:04:44 +0100 writes: AdaiR Just an addendum on the philosophical aspect of doing AdaiR this. By selecting the 5% and 95% quantiles, you are AdaiR always going to get 10% of the data as extreme and AdaiR

[R] class- vs. as()

2005-07-11 Thread stefan . albrecht
Dear all, I would appreciate a lot, if someone could explain to me in a simple way, why the assignment class- is not always working and one has to take as() like in the example below. (v - matrix(1:9, 3)) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,]147 [2,]258 [3,]369

Re: [R] validation, calibration and Design

2005-07-11 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Williams Scott wrote: Hi R experts, I am trying to do a prognostic model validation study, using cancer survival data. There are 2 data sets - 1500 cases used to develop a nomogram, and another of 800 cases used as an independent validation cohort. I have validated the nomogram

[R] Off topic -2 Ln Lambda and Chi square

2005-07-11 Thread Laura Holt
Dear R : Sorry for the off topic question, but does anyone know the reference for the -2 Ln Lambda following a Chi Square distribution, please? Possibly one of Bartlett's? Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Laura Holt mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [R] Sweave and complex numbers

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question: why does \verb=c(1,1+1i)= get printed as \verb=c(1,1 + (0+1i))= ? The R parser only understands pure imaginary constants as complex numbers. It parses 1+1i as the sum of the real constant 1 and the complex constant 0+1i. This

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Duncan, your solution could be simplified using ann=FALSE in the plot fit - coxph( Surv(futime, fustat) ~ age + rx, ovarian) plot( cox.zph(fit), ann=F ) title( xlab=My own label, ylab=A new label, main=A clever title) Now, why did I not think of this before ? Regards, Adai On Mon,

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/11/2005 9:10 AM, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: Duncan, your solution could be simplified using ann=FALSE in the plot fit - coxph( Surv(futime, fustat) ~ age + rx, ovarian) plot( cox.zph(fit), ann=F ) title( xlab=My own label, ylab=A new label, main=A clever title) Now, why did I not

[R] misc3d package

2005-07-11 Thread Mark Edmondson-Jones
Hi, I am trying to install the misc3d package on a Windows (XP) installation of R 2.0.1 using install.packages(misc3d) but with no success. I have used this approach with other packages OK, but for misc3d I get the following output... trying URL

Re: [R] Problems with corARMA

2005-07-11 Thread Constantinos Antoniou
Dear All, I just came across the same error message (running a gnls{nlme} model). [R-2.1.1 on Mac OS 10.4] For a reproducible example, please download the file: http://mit.edu/costas/www/GR.txt and run the following: GR - read.table(GR.txt,header=T) attach(GR) myyear - year-1969

Re: [R] misc3d package

2005-07-11 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Mark Edmondson-Jones wrote: Hi, I am trying to install the misc3d package on a Windows (XP) installation of R 2.0.1 using install.packages(misc3d) but with no success. I have used this approach with other packages OK, but for misc3d I get the following output... Try

Re: [R] misc3d package

2005-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/11/2005 9:57 AM, Mark Edmondson-Jones wrote: Hi, I am trying to install the misc3d package on a Windows (XP) installation of R 2.0.1 using install.packages(misc3d) but with no success. I have used this approach with other packages OK, but for misc3d I get the following output...

Re: [R] misc3d package

2005-07-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
misc3d is a very new package. CRAN's windows binary repository for R-2.0.x is no longer updated, hence does not contain the package. The corresponding ReadMe tells us: Last update: 19.04.2005. Either upgrade to R-2.1.1 and try again, or compile the package from sources yourself. Uwe Ligges

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: I am not sure if there is an easy way around this. An ugly hack is to make a copy the function survival:::plot.cox.zph and make your modified function. But there are others in the list who might know neater solutions. If you then send a patch

Re: [R] class- vs. as()

2005-07-11 Thread Spencer Graves
What do you want? Consider the following: v - matrix(1:9, 3) class(v[1,1]) [1] integer class(as.vector(v)) [1] integer v2 - v dim(v2) - NULL class(v2) [1] integer spencer graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I would appreciate a lot, if someone

Re: [R] randomForest

2005-07-11 Thread Weiwei Shi
Thanks. Many people pointed that out. (It was due to that I only knew lappy by that time :). On 7/11/05, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:44:38 -0400 writes: Duncan On 7/7/2005 3:38 PM, Weiwei Shi wrote:

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread Henrik Andersson
However according to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/math/r-base you will have to live with R version 2.0.1 until the next version of Ubuntu is released. (If I understood the Ubuntu policy...) Or is there some other repository providing more updated binaries for Ubuntu 5.04? Cheers, Henrik

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Dan Bebber
Dear all, I've modified the plot.cox.zph function to allow customized xlab and ylab (see below). Someone might like to confirm that it works. Thanks for all the assistance. Dan ___ plot.cox.zph - function (x, resid = TRUE, se = TRUE, df = 4, nsmo = 40, var,

Re: [R] Problems with R on OS X

2005-07-11 Thread Rob J Goedman
Hi Heinz, Can you send me your version of: '~/Library/Preferences/org.R- project.R.plist'? Most Mac OS questions are posted/answered on R-SIG-Mac. Thanks, Rob On Jul 11, 2005, at 2:42 AM, Heinz Schild wrote: I used R on OS X 10.3x quite some time with no serious problems. Sometimes R

Re: [R] Off topic -2 Ln Lambda and Chi square

2005-07-11 Thread Liaw, Andy
If you meant the lambda as the likelihood ratio test statistic, the asymptotic chi-squared distribution comes from the asymptotic normality of the MLEs. The proof is in a paper by Abraham Wald in 1943. See Stuart Ord (Kendall's Advanced Statistics) for discussion (e.g., vol. 2, 5th edition).

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/11/05, Henrik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However according to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/math/r-base you will have to live with R version 2.0.1 until the next version of Ubuntu is released. (If I understood the Ubuntu policy...) Or is there some other repository

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread Lefebure Tristan
On Monday 11 July 2005 16:44, Henrik Andersson wrote: Or is there some other repository providing more updated binaries for Ubuntu 5.04? I don't think, but I'm fine with R 2.0.1 ... The next ubuntu release, Ubuntu 5.10 (The Breezy Badger), is for October 2005 and will include R 2.1.1

Re: [R] Off topic -2 Ln Lambda and Chi square

2005-07-11 Thread Adelchi Azzalini
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:18:55 -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote: LA If you meant the lambda as the likelihood ratio test statistic, the LA asymptotic chi-squared distribution comes from the asymptotic LA normality of the MLEs. The proof is in a paper by Abraham Wald in LA 1943. See Stuart Ord (Kendall's

[R] Isolating string containing only file name from complete path

2005-07-11 Thread Ken Termiso
Hi all, What I'd like to do is to is to be able to extract a string corresponding to only the file name from a string containing the complete path, i.e. from the following path string: /Users/ken/Desktop/test/runs/file1 I would like to end up with: file1 This would be most ideally done in a

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Dan, I think this works fine now. I think the 'ylab' argument in other plot function take only a single value whereas in the case of plot.cox.zph, it needs a vector. It is especially confusing when this function does plots everything on a single page by default and all you see is the last plot.

Re: [R] Isolating string containing only file name from complete path

2005-07-11 Thread Sebastian Luque
Ken Termiso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What I'd like to do is to is to be able to extract a string corresponding to only the file name from a string containing the complete path, i.e. from the following path string: /Users/ken/Desktop/test/runs/file1 I would like to end up with:

Re: [R] Isolating string containing only file name from complete path

2005-07-11 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
x - /Users/ken/Desktop/test/runs/file1.txt basename(x) [1] file1.txt On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:13 +, Ken Termiso wrote: Hi all, What I'd like to do is to is to be able to extract a string corresponding to only the file name from a string containing the complete path, i.e. from the

[R] small first graph of par(3,2), other 5 are correct

2005-07-11 Thread Scot W McNary
Hi, I'm trying to produce 6 graphs on a single page using code I've borrowed from an example by Paul Murrell: (http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/custombase-xmastree.R). It involves placing 6 horizontal barplots on one page and adding common labels. The problem is the first

[R] exact values for p-values

2005-07-11 Thread S.O. Nyangoma
Hi there, If I do an lm, I get p-vlues as p-value: 2.2e-16 Suppose am interested in exact value such as p-value = 1.6e-16 (note = and not ) How do I go about it? stephen __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

[R] Projection Pursuit

2005-07-11 Thread Oliver Lyttelton
Hello, Just a quick question about ppr in library modreg. I have looked at Ripley and Venables 2002 and it says that projection pursuit works by projecting X in M carefully chosen directions I want to know how it choses the directions? I presume it moves around the high-dimensional space of

[R] exact values for p-values - more information.

2005-07-11 Thread S.O. Nyangoma
Hi there, If I do an lm, I get p-vlues as p-value: 2.2e-16 This is obtained from F =39540 with df1 = 1, df2 = 7025. Suppose am interested in exact value such as p-value = 1.6e-16 (note = and not ) How do I go about it? stephen __

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread ernesto
You can compile the newest version... EJ Henrik Andersson wrote: However according to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/math/r-base you will have to live with R version 2.0.1 until the next version of Ubuntu is released. (If I understood the Ubuntu policy...) Or is there some other

Re: [R] exact values for p-values - more information.

2005-07-11 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, S.O. Nyangoma wrote: Hi there, If I do an lm, I get p-vlues as p-value: 2.2e-16 This is obtained from F =39540 with df1 = 1, df2 = 7025. Suppose am interested in exact value such as p-value = 1.6e-16 (note = and not ) How do I go about it? You can always

Re: [R] demo(scoping)

2005-07-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Why have you sent a message about this, which no indication except the non-English word `entercount'? Note that the message came from within try(), so it was intentional. If you look at the source it says try(ross$withdraw(500)) # no way.. It is helpful to learn how the code being

Re: [R] timezone problems

2005-07-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
For the record, this was covered by an answer to your bug report. The problem is your OS which mishandles a timezone of `GMT', so Sys.getenv(TZ) as `GMT' is not actually setting your OS to GMT. Hence NA is the correct answer. I know no way to set Windows to GMT as distinct from the timezone of

Re: [R] Weighted nls

2005-07-11 Thread Liaw, Andy
Please do your homework, as the posting guide asks you to. 1. From the Example section of ?nls: ## weighted nonlinear regression Treated - Puromycin[Puromycin$state == treated, ] weighted.MM - function(resp, conc, Vm, K) { ## Purpose: exactly as white book p.451 -- RHS for nls() ##

Re: [R] exact values for p-values - more information.

2005-07-11 Thread Spencer Graves
I just checked: pf(39540, 1, 7025, lower.tail=FALSE, log.p=TRUE) [1] -Inf This is not correct. With 7025 denominator degrees of freedom, we might use the chi-square approximation to the F distribution: pchisq(39540, 1, lower.tail=FALSE, log.p=TRUE) [1]

Re: [R] Projection Pursuit

2005-07-11 Thread Liaw, Andy
Google can be helpful. The 10th hit I got from projection pursuit regression is http://www.scs.gmu.edu/~jgentle/csi991/03f/ppreg1024.rtf, which gives some rough outline of the algorithm. If you want more detail, Ripley (1996) PRNN would suffice, I believe. Andy From: Oliver Lyttelton

Re: [R] Weighted nls

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Rundle, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear R Community, I am attempting to perform a weighted non-linear least squares fit. It has already been noted that the weights option is not yet implemented for the nls function, but no one seems to offer any suggestions for getting around this

Re: [R] small first graph of par(3,2), other 5 are correct

2005-07-11 Thread Brahm, David
Scot, Here is your toy example in more condensed form: x11() par(mar=c(0.5, 1, 5, 5)) par(mfrow=c(3,2)) plot(1:10) par(mex) # mex=1.0 here par(cex.axis=1.0, mex=0.5) # Now you change it for (i in 1:5) plot(1:10) When you build your first plot (effectively at the plot.new()

Re: [R] exact values for p-values - more information.

2005-07-11 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Compare the following t.test( 1:100, 101:200 )$p.value t.test( 1:100, 101:200 ) In the latter, the print method truncates to 2.2e-16. You can go as far as (depending on your machine) .Machine$double.xmin [1] 2.225074e-308 before it becomes indistinguishable from zero. But there

[R] indexing into and modifying dendrograms

2005-07-11 Thread Jenny Bryan
I would like to be able to exert certain types of control over the plotting of dendrograms (representing hierarchical clusterings) that I think is best achieved by modifying the dendrogram object prior to plotting. I am using the dendrogram class and associated methods. Define the cluster number

[R] building packages on Windows

2005-07-11 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Hi, all, I just recently upgraded my computer though I'm using the same OS (XP). But now I'm having difficulty building packages and I cannot seem to solve the problem. I'm using R-2.1.1pat on Windows XP. Here is what I tried: D:\Users\sundard\slib\sundar\RR CMD CHECK sundar * checking for

Re: [R] building packages on Windows

2005-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/11/2005 3:21 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: Hi, all, I just recently upgraded my computer though I'm using the same OS (XP). But now I'm having difficulty building packages and I cannot seem to solve the problem. I'm using R-2.1.1pat on Windows XP. Here is what I tried:

Re: [R] building packages on Windows

2005-07-11 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 7/11/2005 3:21 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: Hi, all, I just recently upgraded my computer though I'm using the same OS (XP). But now I'm having difficulty building packages and I cannot seem to solve the problem. I'm using R-2.1.1pat on Windows XP. Here is what

Re: [R] building packages on Windows

2005-07-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 7/11/05, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/2005 3:21 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: Hi, all, I just recently upgraded my computer though I'm using the same OS (XP). But now I'm having difficulty building packages and I cannot seem to solve the problem. I'm using R-2.1.1pat

Re: [R] indexing into and modifying dendrograms

2005-07-11 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Probably not answering your questions here, but have you considered the functions prune.tree and snip.tree from package tree or prune.rpart and snip.rpart from the package rpart ? On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:48 -0700, Jenny Bryan wrote: I would like to be able to exert certain types of control

Re: [R] exact values for p-values - more information.

2005-07-11 Thread S.O. Nyangoma
Hi there, Actually my aim was to compare anumber of extreme values (e.g. 39540) with df1=1, df2=7025 via p-values. Spencer mentions that However, I have also used numbers like exp(-19775.52) to guestimate relative degrees of plausibility for different alternatives. Can someone point to me

Re: [R] Dependence of bundle dse on setRNG (was Misbehaviour of DSE)

2005-07-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
As the posting guide says, there is no R 2.1. The first message suggests this is R 2.1.0, and the posting guide does ask you to use the latest version (and to quote versions accurately). The dse bundle depends on package setRNG, which you have not installed, so you need to do that. Look at

Re: [R] Boxplot philosophy {was Boxplot in R}

2005-07-11 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Jul-05 Martin Maechler wrote: AdaiR == Adaikalavan Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:04:44 +0100 writes: AdaiR Just an addendum on the philosophical aspect of doing AdaiR this. By selecting the 5% and 95% quantiles, you are AdaiR always going to get

Re: [R] R on kubuntu

2005-07-11 Thread Hans Gardfjell
Dear R users, It's possible to install newer versions of R from the Ubuntu depositories, but the new version of R can only be found in 'breezy', the 'unstable' version of Ubuntu. You can however create a mixed system with most of your packages from the old 'hoary' and only some (like R) from the

Re: [R] Boxplot philosophy {was Boxplot in R}

2005-07-11 Thread Berton Gunter
FWIW: I have been an enthusiastic user of boxplots for decades. Of course, the issue of how to handle the whiskers (outliers] is a valid one, and indeed sample size related. Dogma is always dangerous. I got to know John Tukey somewhat (I used to chauffer him to and from meetings with a group of

[R] CIs in predict?

2005-07-11 Thread Guy Forrester
Dear All, I am trying to put some Confidence intervals on some regressions from a linear model with no luck. I can extract the fitted values using 'predict', but am having difficulty in getting at the confidence intervals, or the standard errors. Any suggestions would be welcome Cheers

Re: [R] CIs in predict?

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Guy Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear All, I am trying to put some Confidence intervals on some regressions from a linear model with no luck. I can extract the fitted values using 'predict', but am having difficulty in getting at the confidence intervals, or the standard

Re: [R] CIs in predict?

2005-07-11 Thread Simon Blomberg
At 08:40 AM 12/07/2005, Guy Forrester wrote: Dear All, I am trying to put some Confidence intervals on some regressions from a linear model with no luck. I can extract the fitted values using 'predict', but am having difficulty in getting at the confidence intervals, or the standard errors.

Re: [R] Problems with R on OS X

2005-07-11 Thread Bill Northcott
On 11/07/2005, at 8:00 PM, Heinz Schild wrote: I used R on OS X 10.3x quite some time with no serious problems. Sometimes R stopped when I tried to execute a bigger program. After updating to OS X to version 10.4 R worked but I still had the problem with bigger programs. Therefore I

[R] nlme plot

2005-07-11 Thread R V
Hello, I am running this script from Pinheiro Bates book in R Version 2.1.1 (WinXP). But, I can't plot Figure 2.3. What's wrong? TIA. Rod. - library(nlme) names( Orthodont ) [1] distance age Subject Sex levels( Orthodont$Sex

[R] simulate.lme plot

2005-07-11 Thread R V
Hello, I am running this script from Pinheiro Bates book in R (Version 2.1.1,WinXP). But, I can't plot Figure 2.3. What's wrong? Thanks, Rod. - library(nlme) names( Orthodont ) [1] distance age Subject Sex levels( Orthodont$Sex )

[R] transition matrix and discretized data

2005-07-11 Thread Dimitri Joe
Hi there, I have data on earnings of 12000 individuals at two points in time. I intend to construct a transition matrix, where the typical element, p_ij, gives the probability that an individual ends at the j-th decile of the earnings distribution given that he was was initially at the i-th

Re: [R] nlme plot

2005-07-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/11/05, R V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running this script from Pinheiro Bates book in R Version 2.1.1 (WinXP). But, I can't plot Figure 2.3. What's wrong? There was a change in the way that R handles assignments of names of components and that affected the construction of

Re: [R] exact values for p-values - more information.

2005-07-11 Thread Spencer Graves
I don't have a reference, but you could look under data mining and p values / Bonferroni. spencer graves S.O. Nyangoma wrote: Hi there, Actually my aim was to compare anumber of extreme values (e.g. 39540) with df1=1, df2=7025 via p-values. Spencer mentions that

Re: [R] Boxplot philosophy {was Boxplot in R}

2005-07-11 Thread Spencer Graves
I'll bite: How does one detect bimodalidty from a boxplot? spencer graves Berton Gunter wrote: FWIW: I have been an enthusiastic user of boxplots for decades. Of course, the issue of how to handle the whiskers (outliers] is a valid one, and indeed sample size related.

[R] R CMD INSTALL use differenct c++ compiler

2005-07-11 Thread Luke
Dear R Users, When I installed e1071 use R CMD INSTALL, I got configure: WARNING: g++ 2.96 cannot reliably be used with this package. configure: error: Please use a different C++ compiler. But how to let R CMD INSTALL use a different C++ compiler? and which C++ compiler is good? -Luke

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[R] How to obtain Frequency Tables for Histogram outputs and Frequency Polygons

2005-07-11 Thread Tan Hui Hui Jenny
Couple of questions: 1. How can I obtain the frequency tables for a histogram chart? 2. Is there a short cut to obtain the frequency polygons directly without having to generate the frequency table and doing a line plot? Thanks ina dvance for any reply. j. Example data:

Re: [R] How to obtain Frequency Tables for Histogram outputs and Frequency Polygons

2005-07-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 7/12/05, Tan Hui Hui Jenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couple of questions: 1. How can I obtain the frequency tables for a histogram chart? 2. Is there a short cut to obtain the frequency polygons directly without having to generate the frequency table and doing a line plot? res - hist(x)