Re: [R] Sos! Lines doesn't add plots to an existing plot...

2006-01-31 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi most probably testError has different range then testVar, but only you know if it is true. What says str(testError) and str(testVar) HTH Petr On 30 Jan 2006 at 23:01, Michael wrote: Date sent: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:01:04 -0800 From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] Logistic regression model selection with overdispersed/autocorrelated data

2006-01-31 Thread Renaud Lancelot
If you're not interested in fitting caribou-specific responses, you can use beta-binomial logistic models. There are several package available for this purpose on CRAN, among which aod. Because these models are fitted using maximum-likelihood methods, you can use AIC (or other information

Re: [R] 'all' inconsistent?

2006-01-31 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Seth Falcon wrote: On 29 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Elizabeth Purdom wrote: I came across the following behavior, which seems illogical to me. What did you expect and why? I don't know if it is a bug or if I'm missing something: all(logical(0)) [1] TRUE

Re: [R] match() seq()

2006-01-31 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi ?identical The safe and reliable way to test two objects for being _exactly_ ^ equal. It returns 'TRUE' in this case, 'FALSE' in every other case.

Re: [R] Glossay of available R functions

2006-01-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Patricia J. Hawkins wrote: ASA == Alexandre Santos Aguiar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ASA I am new to R and read this list to learn. It is amazing how ASA frequently new functions pop in messages. Useful and timesaving ASA functions like subset (above) must be documented

[R] warnings in glm (logistic regression)

2006-01-31 Thread Taka Matzmoto
Hello R users I ran more than 100 logistic regression analyses. Some of the analyses gave me this kind warning below. ### Warning messages: 1: algorithm did not converge in: glm.fit(x = X, y = Y, weights = weights, start = start, etastart

Re: [R] Timeliness of precompiled binaries--R-2.2.1 still not available as RPM

2006-01-31 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 18:53 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Gavin Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:38 -0800, Waichler, Scott R wrote: R-2.2.1 is still not available for Redhat Linux as an RPM on CRAN. It is available as an SRPM. Can someone fill me in on why it

Re: [R] How do I normalise a power spectral density analysis?

2006-01-31 Thread Tom C Cameron
Hi Spencer, yes thanks it does help. In short I have resolved the issue. In length, not directly, as I have not found a way to ask R to actually plot frequency vs. period directly, I have scoured the R help pages and Venebles Ripley but the call to R spectrum() or periodogram() generates error

[R] classifier for histograms?

2006-01-31 Thread context grey
Hi, Apology for this question being off the topic (OT) of R, though I expect this list might be the best place on the net to ask this question. In brief, the question is: what classification algorithm can one use if the features are histograms? I have a classification problem, and believe

[R] changing the default repositories

2006-01-31 Thread Assa Yeroslaviz
Hello, Is it possible to change the default repositories? I've already changed the list in the repositories file under etc/ this is how my repositories file under R/etc looks like: row namemenu_nameURLdefaultsourcewin.binary mac.binary CRANCRAN@CRAN@TRUETRUE

Re: [R] lme in R (WinXP) vs. Splus (HP UNIX)

2006-01-31 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Greg Tarpinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R2.2 for WinXP, Splus 6.2.1 for HP 9000 Series, HP-UX 11.0. I am trying to get a handle on why the same lme( ) code gives such different answers. My output makes me wonder if the fact that the UNIX box is 64 bits is the reason. The estimated

Re: [R] Image Processing packages

2006-01-31 Thread Kort, Eric
Nice. May I incorporate these into the collection I am packaging up for redistribution? -Eric -Original Message- From: Vincent Zoonekynd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 1/30/2006 6:48 PM To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kort, Eric; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thomas

[R] Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test on R

2006-01-31 Thread B Dittmann
Hi, just run the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test on R. Is there any detailed documentation available for the options for the KS test, esp. with regard to the hypotheses. The help file is rather thin. Many thanks. Bernd __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

[R] lattice histogram finetuning

2006-01-31 Thread Patrick Kuss
Dear list, I have some difficulties fine-tuning a lattice conditional histogram plot and found little help in the documentation. My dataset consists of plant flowering ages from 3 different altitudes and 3 successional sites at each altitudinal level. My questions are: How do I avoid that

Re: [R] How do I normalise a power spectral density analysis?

2006-01-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What's wrong with z - spec.pgram(ldeaths, plot = FALSE) plot(1/z$freq, z$spec, log=y, xlab=period, ylab=power) ? On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Tom C Cameron wrote: Hi Spencer, yes thanks it does help. In short I have resolved the issue. In length, not directly, as I have not found a way to ask R to

[R] TURF (total unreplicated reach and frequency) Analysis program

2006-01-31 Thread afiwa . kuzeawu
Hi, I am looking for information how to compute TURF-Analysis and with which softwares this can be done. Can you please help me? Thank you in advance. Best regards Afiwa Kuzeawu Project Manager 76 Prozent der Verbraucher suchen bei Textilien und Schuhen gezielt

Re: [R] warnings in glm (logistic regression)

2006-01-31 Thread vito muggeo
Hi, very likely your data exhibit quasi-separation which cause (log)Lik to be monotone and thus ML estimate do not exist. However you can rely on point estimate and use LRT to test for its significance. Or Better: have a look to brlr or logistf packages which bypass the monotone-likelihood

Re: [R] lattice histogram finetuning

2006-01-31 Thread Jacques VESLOT
it looks like a barchart rather than an histogram (?). if it is, you can do something like that: CT.flow$age - factor(CT.flow$age) CT.flow$succession - factor(CT.flow$succession,levels=c(early,mid,late)) ct - expand.grid( succession=levels(CT.flow$succession),

Re: [R] changing the default repositories

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
Assa Yeroslaviz wrote: Hello, Is it possible to change the default repositories? I've already changed the list in the repositories file under etc/ this is how my repositories file under R/etc looks like: row namemenu_nameURLdefaultsourcewin.binary mac.binary CRAN

Re: [R] Type II SS for fixed-effect in mixed model

2006-01-31 Thread Christoph Buser
Dear Julien Have a look at the type argument in ?anova.lme Regards, Christoph Buser -- Christoph Buser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seminar fuer Statistik, LEO C13 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone:

[R] R relative to statistical packages

2006-01-31 Thread Patrick Burns
The comment relating R to Stata, SAS and SPSS is now on the Burns Statistics website at http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_relative_statpack.pdf And also on the UCLA website where the original technical report can be found as well. http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/technicalreports/ Thank you

Re: [R] how calculation degrees freedom

2006-01-31 Thread gabriela escati peñaloza
Dear Dr. Bates, Thank you very much for your response. --- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 1/27/06, gabriela escati peñaloza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I' m having a hard time understanding the computation of degrees of freedom So do I and I'm one of the authors of the

[R] arules and frequent pattern tree

2006-01-31 Thread strinz
Hello, package arules is very well suited for mining association rules, interfacing implementations of apriori and eclat. What is not realised is an implementation of the Frequent Pattern Tree (Han, J., Pei, J. and Yiwen, Y. (2000). There are several free implementations available

[R] vector with specified values construction

2006-01-31 Thread Petr Pikal
Dear all I want to have vector of length 24 which is filled by zeroes except that on position c(8,16,19,20) is 2 and c(3,4,12,24) is 4 instead. I am able to do (1:24)%in%c(8,16,19,20)*2 [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 and (1:24)%in%c(3,4,12,24)*4 [1] 0 0 4 4 0 0 0

Re: [R] vector with specified values construction

2006-01-31 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
consider the following: x - numeric(24) x[c(8,16,19,20)] - 2 x[c(3,4,12,24)] - 4 x I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel:

Re: [R] Glossay of available R functions

2006-01-31 Thread Christos Hatzis
Patricia, If I understand correctly what you need, this is already available through the main help page. If you type help.start() to get to the html help, then follow the link Packages. This will give you an index of all available packages installed on your system (base + contributed).

[R] List of lists???

2006-01-31 Thread Stephane CRUVEILLER
Hi, I would like to perform computations on some variables belonging to the same dataframe. For instance my data frame has the following shape: toto1   toto2   toto3   toto4   toto5 1   1   2   3   4   5 2   6   7   8   9   10 I would like to

Re: [R] Glossay of available R functions

2006-01-31 Thread Jonathan Baron
In addition, the search page at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu can search all functions of all CRAN packages. This is also available through RSiteSearch(string,restrict=functions). See the help page for RSiteSearch. Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Re: [R] RMySQL install

2006-01-31 Thread Michaell Taylor
Received some excellent responses to my query. The problem was with the mysql-devel libraries. I upgraded/installed the mysql client/server/devel libraries to 4.1.16 and issued the well known fixes of : export PKG_LIBS='-L/usr/lib64/mysql -lmysqlclient' export

Re: [R] List of lists???

2006-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Your post seems to be messed up but I will assume you have a 5 column data frame and the questino is how to run f on the first three columns and separately on the last two. I think the easiest is just the following where I have used the builtin iris data set where I have assumed that the

Re: [R] vector with specified values construction

2006-01-31 Thread Petr Pikal
Thanks to all who responded. I definitly need some fresh air to clean my head. :-) Petr On 31 Jan 2006 at 14:56, Petr Pikal wrote: From: Petr Pikal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Date sent: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:56:47 +0100

[R] Multiple xyplots on the same page

2006-01-31 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi, I am using the xyplot function in the lattice package to generate multiple plots, but I would like to have them plotted on the same page. I would like to set something equivalent to the command: par(mfrow=c(2,2)), in order that I can plot 4 xyplots on the same page. How can I do this in

Re: [R] Logistic regression model selection with overdispersed/autocorrelated data

2006-01-31 Thread Jesse . Whittington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating habitat selection models for caribou and other species with data collected from GPS collars. In my current situation the radio-collars recorded the locations of 30 caribou every 6 hours. I am then comparing resources used at caribou locations to

Re: [R] yet another vectorization question

2006-01-31 Thread Adrian DUSA
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 06:55, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 1/30/06, Patricia J. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...snip...] #which generalizes to: bb - matrix(1:50, ncol=10, nrow=5, byrow=TRUE) bv - as.vector(bb) ai - as.vector(aa) + rep((1:nrow(aa)-1)*10, each=3) bv[ai] -

Re: [R] Help with R: functions

2006-01-31 Thread Pryseley Assam
Dear R-users Thanks for all the help/suggestions, they have been most helpful. Best regards Pryseley - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] sudoku

2006-01-31 Thread Brahm, David
sudoku_2.0 is now available on CRAN and mirrors. Thanks to some terrific contributions and suggestions, especially by new co-author Greg Snow, this version has a full GUI interface (native on Windows, or using tkrplot), a puzzle generator, and a function to fetch recently published puzzles. The

Re: [R] Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test on R

2006-01-31 Thread Ben Bolker
B Dittmann herrdittmann at yahoo.co.uk writes: Hi, just run the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test on R. Is there any detailed documentation available for the options for the KS test, esp. with regard to the hypotheses. The help file is rather thin. Many thanks. Bernd Hmmm. Does

[R] Stepwise selection and F-enter anf F-remove values

2006-01-31 Thread Simon Blanchet
Hello, I'm actually using the Step procedure in R for multiple regression analysis. I'm using the stepwise selection which alternates between forward selection and backward elimination (direction both in the step procedure). I would like to know which F-levels R is using to enter and then to

Re: [R] how calculation degrees freedom

2006-01-31 Thread Douglas Bates
On 1/29/06, Søren Højsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In connection with calculating Monte Carlo p-values based on sampled data sets: The calculations involve something like update(lmer.model, data=newdata) where newdata is a simulated dataset comming from simulate(lmer.model). I guess

Re: [R] Stepwise selection and F-enter anf F-remove values

2006-01-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If this is step() (not Step), it does not use tests. Please consult the help page which says step package:stats R Documentation Choose a model by AIC in a Stepwise Algorithm Description: Select a formula-based model by AIC. ... It seems these days we

Re: [R] Multiple xyplots on the same page

2006-01-31 Thread Liaw, Andy
See ?print.trellis. Andy From: Ravi Varadhan Hi, I am using the xyplot function in the lattice package to generate multiple plots, but I would like to have them plotted on the same page. I would like to set something equivalent to the command: par(mfrow=c(2,2)), in order that

[R] Mixed-effects models / heterogeneous covariances

2006-01-31 Thread Lutz Ph. Breitling
Dear R-list, maybe someone can help me with the following mixed-effects models problem, as I am unable to figure it out with the 'nlme-bible'. I would like to fit (in R, obviously) a so-called animal model (google e. g. Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history by Pettay et al.) to

[R] Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test - what are the exact alternative hypotheses?

2006-01-31 Thread B Dittmann
Hi everyone, I have performed the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (ks.test) with R the first time. What I am not sure about is the exact alternative hypotheses (H1) given any H0. According to Conover (1971) Practical Nonparametric Statistics, chapter 6, the following one-sample tests can be

[R] Density estimation with monotonic constaints

2006-01-31 Thread Debayan Datta
Hi All, I have a sample x={x1,x2,..,xn} fom a distribution with density f. I wish to estimate the density. I know a priori that the density is monotonically decreasing. Is there a way to do this in R? Thanks Debayan __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

[R] SVM question

2006-01-31 Thread Georges Orlowski
I'm running SVM from e1071 package on a data with ~150 columns (variables) and 5 lines of data (it takes a bit of time) for radial kernel for different gamma and cost values. I get a very large models with at least 3 vectors and the prediction I get is not the best one. What does it

Re: [R] predict.lme / glmmPQL: non-conformable arguments

2006-01-31 Thread David Reitter
On 30 Jan 2006, at 22:01, David Reitter wrote: I'm trying to use predict with a linear mixed-effects logistic regression model fitted with nlmmPQL from the MASS library. Unfortunately, I'm getting an error non-conformable arguments in predict.lme, and I would like to understand why.

[R] February course *** R/Splus Fundamentals and Programming Techniques

2006-01-31 Thread elvis
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Re: [R] How do I normalise a power spectral density

2006-01-31 Thread Leif Kirschenbaum
I have done a fair bit of spectral analysis, and hadn't finished collecting my thoughts for a reply, so hadn't replied yet. What exactly do you mean by normalize? I have not used the functons periodogram or spectrum, however from the description for periodogram it appears that it returns the

Re: [R] Help! What does this R command mean?

2006-01-31 Thread Ionut Florescu
a:b means - all the element in the vector from a to b a[,-1] means for the matrix a keep all the rows but not the last or first -can't remember column. When in doubt do what I do make a small matrix and apply the command see what it does. After this: a=matrix(c(1:9),3,3) a[,-1] [,1]

Re: [R] How do I normalise a power spectral density

2006-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This post has some details: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/04/10/5581.html On 1/31/06, Leif Kirschenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done a fair bit of spectral analysis, and hadn't finished collecting my thoughts for a reply, so hadn't replied yet. What exactly do you

Re: [R] Help! What does this R command mean?

2006-01-31 Thread Liaw, Andy
: in a formula is not the same as : otherwise! Andy From: Ionut Florescu a:b means - all the element in the vector from a to b a[,-1] means for the matrix a keep all the rows but not the last or first -can't remember column. When in doubt do what I do make a small matrix and apply the

[R] approximation to ln \Phi(x)

2006-01-31 Thread Morey, Richard D \(UMC-Student\)
I am using pnorm() with the log.p=T argument to get approximations to ln \Phi(x) and qnorm with the log.p=T argument to get estimates of \Phi^{-1}(exp(x)). What approximations are used in these two functions (I noticed in the source pnorm.c it doesn't look like Abramowitz and Stegen) and where

[R] Help with boot()

2006-01-31 Thread Doran, Harold
Dear List: I'm trying to use the boot function to estimate some standard errors. I actually programmed a bootstrap using some homebrew code and it worked fine. But, I am trying to use the more efficient boot function. I have placed some sample data for replication of my problem at the bottom of

[R] Word boundaries and gregexpr in R 2.2.1

2006-01-31 Thread Stefan Th. Gries
Hi I have a question concerning how to match word boundaries which I bet has a very simple answer, but I haven't found it with trial and error nor by searching the help archives for the terms in the subject line. The problem is this: I have a vector of two character strings. text-c(This is a

Re: [R] Word boundaries and gregexpr in R 2.2.1

2006-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
When I tried it on Windows XP there was a grinding sound, probably memory being swapped and it just seemed to go on forever and I finally had to kill R. I am using R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20. What did seem to work was this: gregexpr(X, gsub(\\b\\w|\\w\\b, X, text)) where X should be replaced

[R] Removing specific v1:v2 combinations from a formula.

2006-01-31 Thread Pontarelli, Brett
Suppose I have a formula mfTest = (y ~ a + b + c + d1 + d2 + d3); When I update the formula mfTest2nd = update(mfTest, .~.^2); I get all the combinations a:b, a:c, etc. But I don't want the d1:d2, d2:d3, etc. interactions. I've tried mfTest2nd = update(fmTest, .~.^2

[R] calculating goodness-of-fit statistics

2006-01-31 Thread Taka Matzmoto
Hi R users I have a simple data for calculating goodness-of-fit statistics (e.g., X2 by Pearson, G2 by Wilks) # observed-c(424,174,0,402) expected-c(282.7174, 314.2972, 142.3142, 260.6712) 2*sum(observed*log(observed/expected)) # for X2

Re: [R] calculating goodness-of-fit statistics

2006-01-31 Thread Pontarelli, Brett
The trouble is log(0/anything) = log(0) = NaN. If you want them to evaulate to zero you might try zeroing out the values you know will be NaN: X2 = 2*sum(observed*log(observed/expected)); X2[observed==0] = 0; --Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[R] : Model formula question

2006-01-31 Thread maneesh deshpande
Hi, I have a data set with a continuous predictor X, a factor A and a continuous dependent variable Y. I am trying to build a linear model of the form: Y = (b0 + b1*X1)*B(A) where B(A) is a constant for each level of the factor A. I am not quite sure how to formulate the appropriate model

[R] Cauchy distribution limits

2006-01-31 Thread William Asquith
I have question (curiosity) regarding returned values of R's qcauchy () function, for nonexceedance probability (F). It seems the ideal returned range of cauchy distribution should be [-Inf,Inf]. For F=0 qcauchy(0) [1] -Inf but for F=1 qcauchy(1) [1] 8.16562e+15 It seems to me that the

[R] Using a console application from within R

2006-01-31 Thread Jonathan Weeks
I would like to open a console application from within R and then send input to the newly opened console. I can use the following to open the application ... setwd(path) system(paste(path,icl.exe,sep=)) This allows me to type in what want, but I would like to do something like this setwd(path)

Re: [R] Using a console application from within R

2006-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Don't know how you tell if its working but you need to write intern = TRUE in order to get the output back. For example, this works for me: system(findstr [a-m], input = letters, intern = TRUE) On 1/31/06, Jonathan Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to open a console

Re: [R] approximation to ln \Phi(x)

2006-01-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Morey, Richard D (UMC-Student) wrote: I am using pnorm() with the log.p=T argument to get approximations to ln \Phi(x) and qnorm with the log.p=T argument to get estimates of \Phi^{-1}(exp(x)). What approximations are used in these two functions (I noticed in the

Re: [R] SVM question

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
Georges Orlowski wrote: I'm running SVM from e1071 package on a data with ~150 columns (variables) and 5 lines of data (it takes a bit of time) for radial kernel for different gamma and cost values. I get a very large models with at least 3 vectors and the prediction I get is