Re: [R] CFD Plots in R and Other Things

2006-07-17 Thread vincent
Lorenzo Isella a écrit : Tipically, these sets of data are plotted in 2D with r and z as axis and the velocity field represented by using colours explained by a legenda. Can R do anything like this? ?image hih __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

Re: [R] Excel to R

2006-07-17 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi based on your output qw is not a factor. What does say str(data) If your file is coded 1,2,9 it was imported as numeric and changing 9 to NA inside R does not change its nature to factor. You has to explicitly convert qw to factor e.g. data$qwas.factor(data$qw) HTH Petr On 15 Jul 2006

Re: [R] Find peaks in histograms / Analysis of cumulative frequency

2006-07-17 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi There are some mail archives about peaks eg. http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/33097.html HTH Petr On 15 Jul 2006 at 13:55, Ulrik Stervbo wrote: Date sent: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:55:26 +0200 From: Ulrik Stervbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [R] Correlation Mapping

2006-07-17 Thread vincent
justin rapp a écrit : On the cover of Zivot and Wang's Modeling Financial Time Series with S Plus, there is a correlation plot that seems to indicate the strength of correlation with color-coded squares, so that more highly correlated stocks appear darker red. If anybody out there is

Re: [R] Questions concerning function 'svm' in e1071 package (solved)

2006-07-17 Thread Van Kerckhoven, Johan
Greetings everyone, The problem has been solved. A faulty evaluation of the decision Function was the culprit. Signed, Johan Van Kerckhoven Greetings everyone, I have the following problem (illustrating R-code at bottom of mail): Given a training sample with binary outcomes (-1/+1), I

Re: [R] put R on a web server

2006-07-17 Thread Dieter Menne
Erin Hodgess hodgess at gator.dt.uh.edu writes: Has anyone put R on a web server any time, recently, please? (Red Hat Linux) The University of Montana put a version up in 2003, but I was wondering if anyone had done so, please? Also, where would I find information on such an

Re: [R] Trailing on r-help messages

2006-07-17 Thread hadley wickham
I think that is likely true but it would at least mean that they had seen it repeatedly and there would really be no excuse for not following it (unlike the current situation where one needs to take action to follow the posting guide link and then read a lengthy page). Logically, that makes

Re: [R] put R on a web server

2006-07-17 Thread Elio Mineo
Maybe R-php? See the URL: http://dssm.unipa.it/R-php/ Dieter Menne wrote: Erin Hodgess hodgess at gator.dt.uh.edu writes: Has anyone put R on a web server any time, recently, please? (Red Hat Linux) The University of Montana put a version up in 2003, but I was wondering if anyone had done

Re: [R] install.packages for local zip files

2006-07-17 Thread Muhammad Subianto
On 7/16/06, Daniel Gatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O/S: Linux R version : 2.2.1 The R server doesn't have http internet access. And the sys admins will not install the R libraries that I requested. So I have downloaded the packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home

[R] information about a function

2006-07-17 Thread Holger Flick
Hi people, I am new in this list and could not find a FAQ for it in particular, furthermore I could not find my question answered in the official R FAQ or docs. I have simply something like this: f-approxfun(data[,1],data[,2]) and f is: f function (v) .C(R_approx, as.double(x),

Re: [R] information about a function

2006-07-17 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi seems to me like you are looking for lm or nls. If not you shall be more specific. HTH Petr On 17 Jul 2006 at 13:05, Holger Flick wrote: Date sent: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:05:37 +0200 From: Holger Flick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [R] install.packages from local .tar.gz (was 'for local zip') files

2006-07-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Muhammad Subianto wrote: On 7/16/06, Daniel Gatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O/S: Linux R version : 2.2.1 ^ That appears to be the problem. As the posting guide asked you to (***before posting***), please update. And I presume we really are talking

Re: [R] information about a function

2006-07-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Holger Flick wrote: Hi people, I am new in this list and could not find a FAQ for it in particular, furthermore I could not find my question answered in the official R FAQ or docs. I have simply something like this: f-approxfun(data[,1],data[,2]) and f is:

Re: [R] information about a function

2006-07-17 Thread Rolf Turner
It's not clear to me what you want; the on-line help states that approxfun() does linear or constant interpolation (the default is linear). It is trivial to write down a ``mathematical representation'' of the resulting function --- but why would you want to? The function f() you created does

Re: [R] AICc vs AIC for model selection

2006-07-17 Thread Sachin J
Hi Spencer, I did go through the previous postings in the mailing list. But couldn't find satisfactory answer to my question. I am dealing with univariate time series. I suspect that my data may contain some trend and seasonal components. Hence, rather than just fitting just AR(1) model,

Re: [R] break axis using plotrix

2006-07-17 Thread Jim Lemon
Henrik Parn wrote: ... As you can see, I have problems adding the larger y-values - they end up in the wrong place in the graph. I suppose Jim's warning 'just be careful that the ylim= and labels= arguments match up' is relevant here, but I don't manage to fix it... Can anyone help me

Re: [R] Correlation Mapping

2006-07-17 Thread Jim Lemon
justin rapp wrote: On the cover of Zivot and Wang's Modeling Financial Time Series with S Plus, there is a correlation plot that seems to indicate the strength of correlation with color-coded squares, so that more highly correlated stocks appear darker red. If anybody out there is

Re: [R] Handshake exception in Rserve [Broadcast]

2006-07-17 Thread Wiener, Matthew
We had something similar, and as far as I recall the problem turned out to be that we had not set the config file to allow remote connections. This would probably be better put on the Rosuda mailing list: http://mailman.rz.uni-augsburg.de/mailman/listinfo/stats-rosuda-devel Hope this helps,

Re: [R] Hmisc xYplot

2006-07-17 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Erin Berryman wrote: Dear R community, I am having trouble with a particular plot that I am trying to produce using Hmisc's xYplot function. I've been using primarily lattice and Hmisc packages for my plotting needs for the past few years, with great success. However, what I want to do

Re: [R] party - ctree() - terminal nodes reference for every obs

2006-07-17 Thread Torsten Hothorn
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Daniele Medri wrote: Dear R.Users, using ctree() (from party library) on a data.frame, I want to append a column with the references for the groups/segments detected. While these nodes are easy readable in output, I need a vector for my obs. Daniele, do you mean a

Re: [R] Excel to R

2006-07-17 Thread Michael A. Miller
Bernardo == Bernardo Rangel tura [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I use this scripts to import the database require(RODBC) channel - odbcConnectExcel(f:/teste.xls) data - sqlFetch(channel, Sheet1) Just convert qw to a factor: require(RODBC) channel -

[R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global)
I'm trying to write a simple function that does the following: [command] xify(5.2) [output] XXX.XX [command] xify(3) [output] XXX Any simple solutions (without using python/perl/unix script/...)? Thanks, Saghir - Legal Notice:

Re: [R] ts and stl functions - still a problem

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel sutcliffe
I am still having a problem with my coercing my data frame (tkr) into a time series using ts to use the stl function. When I read the data into R and do dim tkr the result is 132 1, when I type class I get (data.frame). I have tried several methods so far to to coerce it into a a

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Christos Hatzis
See ?formatC You might need to write a simple wrapper function to implement the interface that you want. -Christos -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global) Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:07 AM To: '[EMAIL

Re: [R] Cluster Analysis with flexible beta linkage method

2006-07-17 Thread Martin Maechler
Wade == Wade Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:10:11 -0400 writes: Wade I am trying to run a cluster analysis using Sorenson Wade (Bray-Curtis) distance measure with flexible beta Wade linkage method. However, I can't seem to find Wade flexible beta in any of

[R] Quantreg error

2006-07-17 Thread ricardosilva
Dear User, I got the following error running a regression quantile: rq1-rq(dep ~ ., model=TRUE, data=exo, tau=0.5 ); summary(rq1) Erro em rq.fit.fnb(x, y, tau = tau + h) : Error info = 75 in stepy: singular design Any hint about the problem? Thanks a lot,

Re: [R] storing the estimates from lmer

2006-07-17 Thread Dieter Menne
Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu writes: . I encourage users of lmer who wish to determine the precision of the estimates of the variance components to create a Markov chain Monte Carlo sample of the parameters and evaluate the HPDintervals. sm1 - mcmcsamp(fm1, 5)

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global)
Thanks. I should have been clearer. The output is the string XXX.XX and XXX. So xify(4.1) should produce XXX.X as character string. Any pointers? Or did I miss something with formatC? -Original Message- From: Christos Hatzis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 16:21

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global)
Thanks! I tried something similar but I had sep= instead of collapse= for the X part. I realise the error now. Thanks again Saghir -Original Message- From: Christos Hatzis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 16:39 To: Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global); [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Christos Hatzis
Ok. You needed the format string. xify(4.1) would be equivalent to the following: paste(paste(rep(X,4),collapse=),paste(rep(X,1),collapse=),sep=.) It should be straightforward to write the wrapper function for this. HTH. -Christos _ From: Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global)

Re: [R] Trailing on r-help messages

2006-07-17 Thread Martin Maechler
Thanks to Gabor, Spencer, and Hadley, for the constructive propositions. hadley == hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:39:36 +0100 writes: I think that is likely true but it would at least mean that they had seen it repeatedly and there would really be no

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
xify - function(number) { fn - format(number) fn3 - unlist(strsplit(fn, \\.)) if (length(fn3) == 1) paste(rep(X, as.numeric(fn3)), collapse=) else paste(paste(rep(X, as.numeric(fn3)[1]-as.numeric(fn3)[2]), collapse=), paste(rep(X, as.numeric(fn3)[2]), collapse=), sep=.) }

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 16:07 +0200, Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global) wrote: I'm trying to write a simple function that does the following: [command] xify(5.2) [output] XXX.XX [command] xify(3) [output] XXX Any simple solutions (without using python/perl/unix script/...)? Thanks,

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global)
THANKS! Exactly what I needed. Saghir -Original Message- From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 16:42 To: Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting xify - function(number) { fn -

Re: [R] Quantreg error

2006-07-17 Thread roger koenker
As I have already told you once, and as the posting guide suggests, If the question relates to a contributed package , e.g., one downloaded from CRAN, try contacting the package maintainer first. You can also use find(functionname) and packageDescription (packagename) to find this

Re: [R] Quantreg error

2006-07-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear User, I got the following error running a regression quantile: rq1-rq(dep ~ ., model=TRUE, data=exo, tau=0.5 ); summary(rq1) Erro em rq.fit.fnb(x, y, tau = tau + h) : Error info = 75 in stepy: singular design Any hint about the problem? Well,

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
First we define repx(n) to produce n X's. This simple function is used subsequently. f is a function that takes 4 strings which represent the entire string and the three backreferenced substrings in the subsequent gsub pattern and does the paste. x1 will represent the part before the dot and x3

Re: [R] String manipulation and formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In thinking about this some more it can be substantially simplified. We don't need f at all -- we can just use repx and we don't need any backreferences either since we can repeatedly apply the numeric pattern. This reduces it to a two line body: library(gsubfn) xify - function(fmt) { repx -

Re: [R] Getting rid of for loops

2006-07-17 Thread Adrian DUSA
Hi Kevin, Regarding your first question, try this: library(combinat) all.pairs - combn2(5:40) marker1 - as.matrix(names(qtl)[all.pairs[, 1]]) marker1 - as.matrix(names(qtl)[all.pairs[, 2]]) myfun - function(idx) { summary(aov(qtl$CPP ~ qtl[,idx[1]] * qtl[,idx[2]]))[[1]]$Pr(F)[3]) }

Re: [R] AICc vs AIC for model selection

2006-07-17 Thread Spencer Graves
I understand that you have only 26 observations. Model identification always requires more observations than estimating a model you already think you know. If it were my problem, I think I'd first plot the data over time and make a normal probability plot of the data. Then I'd

Re: [R] Getting rid of for loops

2006-07-17 Thread Adrian DUSA
Hi again, There is a slight error there, it should have been marker2 at the fourth line: all.pairs - combn2(5:40) marker1 - names(qtl)[all.pairs[, 1]] marker2 - names(qtl)[all.pairs[, 2]] myfun - function(idx) {     summary(aov(qtl$CPP ~ qtl[,idx[1]] * qtl[,idx[2]]))[[1]]$Pr(F)[3])     }

Re: [R] Getting rid of for loops

2006-07-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 7/17/06, Adrian DUSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, There is a slight error there, it should have been marker2 at the fourth line: all.pairs - combn2(5:40) marker1 - names(qtl)[all.pairs[, 1]] marker2 - names(qtl)[all.pairs[, 2]] myfun - function(idx) { summary(aov(qtl$CPP ~

Re: [R] Trailing on r-help messages

2006-07-17 Thread hadley wickham
- The inscription page is dynamically generated by mailman, i.e., typically python scripts. If any of you are interested in patching Mailman's sources in a reasonable way (i.e. easily reproducible for the next version of mailman), I'd consider a change there; otherwise not. The other

[R] R and DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange)

2006-07-17 Thread vincent
R and DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) Dear Rusers, I run an application (not mine) which acts as a DDE server. I would like to use R to get data from this application, say once per minute, and do some processing on it. I didn't find much info on the R DDE abilities, apart the tcltk2 package in which

[R] glmmPQL help

2006-07-17 Thread Zython
I need to use the glmmPQL function for an assignment, but when I call for the summary of the function, it gives the AIC a value of NA. How do I get R to give me the AIC value? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/glmmPQL-help-tf1955675.html#a5363876 Sent from the R help forum

Re: [R] Trailing on r-help messages

2006-07-17 Thread Spencer Graves
see in line hadley wickham wrote: I think that is likely true but it would at least mean that they had seen it repeatedly and there would really be no excuse for not following it (unlike the current situation where one needs to take action to follow the posting guide link and then read a

[R] Variance functions in package nlme

2006-07-17 Thread Thilo Kellermann
Dear R-help, I am trying to set up linear mixed effects models in R using the (recommended) nlme package (R version 2.3.1 on a Linux platform). When trying to reproduce an example from Jose Pinheiro Douglas Bates (2000, p 210) I get the following error message (code to produce message pasted

Re: [R] glmmPQL help

2006-07-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Zython wrote: I need to use the glmmPQL function for an assignment, but when I call for the summary of the function, it gives the AIC a value of NA. How do I get R to give me the AIC value? You did! Hint: have you read the reference of which this is part of the support

[R] Auto update package scripts

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Byers
I am trying to set up my home, office, and a server to auto update my R packages once a week. I have a cron job on the server and a scheduled task on the other two pc's that are scripts. The batch script is rem #!/bin/bash rem cron job for updating R weekly rem #options(echo = FALSE)

Re: [R] ols/gls or systemfit (OLS, WLS, SUR) give identical results

2006-07-17 Thread Mihai Nica
I should have not send the post to the list, and I apologize. The problem was on my part, and easily solvable. Thanks for your concern, I really appreciate it, and thanks to the list for patience. This is really a great resource and should not be abused :-) mihai Spencer Graves [EMAIL

Re: [R] Variance functions in package nlme

2006-07-17 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:r-help- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thilo Kellermann Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:57 AM To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Variance functions in package nlme Dear R-help, I am trying to set up linear mixed effects

Re: [R] planned comparisons for ANOVA

2006-07-17 Thread Darren Weber
On 7/16/06, Simon Blomberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Weber wrote: [snip] Our planned comparisons are: 1. test the group mean difference for S1 vs S2 (in the absence of S3) 2. test the group mean difference for S2 vs S3 (in the absence of S1) This is the current form of the

Re: [R] storing the estimates from lmer

2006-07-17 Thread Göran Broström
On 7/15/06, Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Spencer, [] rant Some software, notably SAS PROC MIXED, does produce standard errors for the estimates of variances and covariances of random effects. In my opinion this is more harmful than helpful. The only use I can imagine for

[R] Weibull distribution

2006-07-17 Thread Leaf Sun
Hi all, By its definition, the mean and variance of two-par. Weibull distribution are: (www.wikipedia.org) I was wondering, if given mean and sd. could we parameterize the distribution? I tried this in R. gamma.fun - function(mu,sd,start=100) { f.fn - function(alpha)

Re: [R] planned comparisons for ANOVA

2006-07-17 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
It looks to me like you are asking for the split= argument to the summary.aov method. Look at ?summary.aov and the # Cochran and Cox (1957, p.164) example. I have more examples in my book Statistical Analysis and Data Display Richard M. Heiberger and Burt Holland

Re: [R] put R on a web server

2006-07-17 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Indeed, security is a real issue. The CGIwithR package is another, relatively simple way to use R scripts as a CGI tool. D Dieter Menne wrote: Erin Hodgess hodgess at gator.dt.uh.edu writes: Has anyone put R on a web server any time,

[R] sem: negative parameter variances

2006-07-17 Thread Denis Fomchenko
Dear Spencer and Prof. Fox, Thank you for your replies. I'll very appreciate, if you have any ideas concerning the problem described below. First, I'd like to describe the model in brief. In general I consider a model with three equations. First one is for annual GRP growth - in

[R] Large datasets in R

2006-07-17 Thread Deepankar Basu
Hi! I am a student of economics and currently do most of my statistical work using STATA. For various reasons (not least of which is an aversion for proprietary software), I am thinking of shifting to R. At the current juncture my concern is the following: would I be able to work on relatively

Re: [R] Large datasets in R

2006-07-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You may or may not have problems. R keeps its data in memory so you will have to have sufficient memory to hold the data plus all derived data and code. Since R is free you can try it out. If your problems are too large you can always get more memory or use S-Plus which can handle larger

Re: [R] Large datasets in R

2006-07-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Deepankar Basu wrote: Hi! I am a student of economics and currently do most of my statistical work using STATA. For various reasons (not least of which is an aversion for proprietary software), I am thinking of shifting to R. At the current juncture my concern is the

Re: [R] storing the estimates from lmer

2006-07-17 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/17/06, Göran Broström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/06, Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] rant Some software, notably SAS PROC MIXED, does produce standard errors for the estimates of variances and covariances of random effects. In my opinion this is more harmful

Re: [R] sem: negative parameter variances

2006-07-17 Thread John Fox
Dear Denis, I'm not in a position to comment on the spatial and time-series aspects of the data, though I'd be concerned about treating the observations as independent. (I understand that you have some way of accounting for spatial and temporal dependence.) Except for the allowance that you've

[R] Nested functions

2006-07-17 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Hi there, I'm having myself a hard time writing an algorithm for finding patterns within a given melody. In a vector I'd like to find ALL sequences that occur at least twice, without having to check all possible patterns via pattern matching. I finally found a solution in a style that I'm used

Re: [R] dpss.taper for spectral estimation

2006-07-17 Thread Karim Rahim
Hi Rouyer, You can redefine dpss.taper as follows dpss.taper.2 - function (n, k, nw = 4, nmax = 2^(ceiling(log(n, 2 { if (n nmax) stop(length of taper is greater than nmax) w - nw/n if (w 0.5) stop(half-bandwidth parameter (w) is greater than 1/2) if

Re: [R] Nested functions

2006-07-17 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Thanks for your response! Am Montag, den 17.07.2006, 17:36 -0400 schrieb jim holtman: It would help if you could provide the calling script and the data that you are using. The code I sent is included in .Rprofile. One of my data vectors would be v = c(1, 1, 1, 5, 6, 1, 1, 1, 1, 6, 1, 1, 6,

Re: [R] Keep value lables with data frame manipulation

2006-07-17 Thread Heinz Tuechler
At 20:39 14.07.2006 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Heinz Tuechler wrote: At 11:02 13.07.2006 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Heinz Tuechler wrote: At 08:11 13.07.2006 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Heinz Tuechler wrote: At 13:14 12.07.2006 -0500, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: On Wed,

Re: [R] planned comparisons for ANOVA

2006-07-17 Thread Darren Weber
On 7/17/06, Richard M. Heiberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks to me like you are asking for the split= argument to the summary.aov method. Look at ?summary.aov and the # Cochran and Cox (1957, p.164) example. I have more examples in my book Statistical Analysis and Data

[R] use factor for categorical covariate in Cox PH model

2006-07-17 Thread Linda Lei
Hi All, I'm learning the R codes for Cox PH modeling. Could I ask you what the function of factor in modeling? Thank you! When dealing with the categorical covariates (for example 3 groups), it will come out different results if we add the command factor in front of the categorical

Re: [R] Keep value lables with data frame manipulation

2006-07-17 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Heinz Tuechler wrote: At 20:39 14.07.2006 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Heinz Tuechler wrote: At 11:02 13.07.2006 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Heinz Tuechler wrote: At 08:11 13.07.2006 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Heinz Tuechler wrote: At 13:14 12.07.2006 -0500, Marc Schwartz

Re: [R] optim()

2006-07-17 Thread Spencer Graves
I had good luck translating constrained into unconstrained problems and then optimizing the unconstrained problem. Have you tried something like the following: Define: z = c(z1, z2, z3), where p1=1/(1+exp(-z1), etc. This translates the constraints on the p's to