Re: [R] Q

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The problem is that relatively few DBMSes come even close to conformance with SQL (and Laurent Valdes did not tell us his DBMS even in his reply). ANSI SQL says single quotes are used for literals, and double quotes for identifiers (e.g. table and column names). Literals are only relevant to

Re: [R] RODBC, sqlQuery with NA:s

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
In my attempts to reproduce this both approaches worked. There seems to be something going on we cannot see (and I don't believe NULL in the database is being mapped to ). For example, might there be non-breaking spaces (character A0 in Windows 1252, your most likely character set) in the

Re: [R] Compiling C codes in Windows

2007-04-03 Thread Tong Wang
Thank you all for the help . It seems I only need to change the back slash to forward slash to get things work . As to using Cygwin as the shell, I couldn't find an instruction dedicated to Cygwin, should I just follow the Installing R under Unix-alikes ? Is there an easier way, like making

Re: [R] RODBC, sqlQuery with NA:s

2007-04-03 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
Thanks Prof Ripley for your answer. In fact, there is no NULL's in these varchar variables, that is because one of the software's we use do not accept NULL's (that is strange, isn't it?). So, for instance, when I type select * from table1 where var1='' I get all those rows where the cells of

Re: [R] substitute values

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Wardle
Sergio Della Franca wrote: Dear R-Helpers, I have the following data set(y): Years Products 1 10 2 25 3 40 4 NA 5 35 NA 23 6 NA 7 67 8 NA I want to create a new column into my dataset(y) under the following

Re: [R] RODBC, sqlQuery with NA:s

2007-04-03 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
Thanks again, There is still going on something strange, because na.strings= in sqlQuery clause didn't help. I'm helpless but thanks anyway... -Lauri 2007/4/3, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: Thanks Prof Ripley for your answer. In fact, there

[R] Referencing function name from within function

2007-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, For verbose coding I'd like to do something like: myfunction - function(x){ if (a){ stop(paste(myfunction_name_here,requires xyz!) } Is that possible? Thanks for any hints, Joh __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] How to choose the df when using GAM function?

2007-04-03 Thread Simon Wood
When using GAM function in R, we need to specify the degree of freedom for the smooth function (i.e. s=(x, df=#)). I am wondering how to choose an appropriate df. --- you could use the gam function in package mgcv. It will select the effective degrees of freedom for you automatically using

Re: [R] (Newbie)Basic Basic global vs. local variables

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Wardle
projection83 wrote: My R code has got too complex to have a non-modular approach. Ive done some coding in other languages before, but I somehow cant figure out R's general rules for global and local variables. I have put a simple code below, if anyone can show me what i need to add to make

Re: [R] RODBC, sqlQuery with NA:s

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: Thanks Prof Ripley for your answer. In fact, there is no NULL's in these varchar variables, that is because one of the software's we use do not accept NULL's (that is strange, isn't it?). It's not uncommon. (Be grateful you are not on MacOS, where it

Re: [R] substitute values

2007-04-03 Thread Sergio Della Franca
I have much more problem in the following case: Years Products New Column 1 10 0 2 25 0 3 40 0 4 NA 0 5 35 0 NA23 1 6 NA 0 7 670 8

Re: [R] RODBC, sqlQuery with NA:s

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Wardle
Lauri Nikkinen wrote: Thanks Prof Ripley for your answer. In fact, there is no NULL's in these varchar variables, that is because one of the software's we use do not accept NULL's (that is strange, isn't it?). So, for instance, when I type select * from table1 where var1='' I get all

[R] Testing additive nonparametric model

2007-04-03 Thread Donal O'Neill
I have estimated a multiple nonparametric regression using the loess command in R. I have also estimated an additive version of the model using the gam function. Is there a way of using the output of these two models to test the restrictions imposed by the additive model?

[R] converting a list to a data.frame

2007-04-03 Thread Biscarini, Filippo
Hello, I have a list with n numerical components of different length (3, 4 or 5 values in each component of the list); I need to export this as a text file where each component of the list will be a row and where missing values should fill in the blanks due to the different lengths of the

Re: [R] Testing additive nonparametric model

2007-04-03 Thread vito muggeo
You can use the LRT (although I think that it assumes the df to be fixed). For instance the package mgcv by Simon Wood has an anova method to compare models fitted by the relevant gam() function, and the print.summary() itself returns such information.. best, vito set.seed(123) n-100 sig-2 x0

Re: [R] bivariate interpolation

2007-04-03 Thread Adelchi Azzalini
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:26:06 -0400, eric lee wrote: EL Hi. I'm trying to take a data set with two independent and one dependent EL variable and enter a x,y value to predict the dependent with a EL nonparametric technique. I've been using interpp in the akima package, EL (windows xp, R 2.4.1),

Re: [R] bivariate interpolation

2007-04-03 Thread Adelchi Azzalini
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:43:55 +0200, Adelchi Azzalini wrote: AA On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:26:06 -0400, eric lee wrote: AA AA EL Hi. I'm trying to take a data set with two independent and one AA EL dependent variable and enter a x,y value to predict the dependent AA EL with a nonparametric technique.

[R] Coding for contrasts in unbalanced designs

2007-04-03 Thread Guillaume Brutel
Dear list members, I want to use a GLM with an unbalanced factor and continuous variables. My factor F has 12 unbalanced levels: F=as.factor(c('A','B','C','C','C','C','D','D','D','D','D','D','E','E','E','E','E','E','F','G','G','H','I','I','J','J','J','K','L','L','L')) summary(F) A B C D E F G H

Re: [R] substitute values

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Wardle
Sergio Della Franca wrote: I have much more problem in the following case: Years Products New Column 1 10 0 2 25 0 3 40 0 4 NA 0 5 35 0 NA23 1 6 NA 0

[R] Odp: converting a list to a data.frame

2007-04-03 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi do.call(cbind, your.list) # or rbind gives you rectangular matrix, however shorter items in list are recycled as necessary. Problem is that you need to specify how shall be shorter items handeled as it is not obvious. One possibility could be add NAs to positions where you want them, what

Re: [R] substitute values

2007-04-03 Thread Sergio Della Franca
Ok, this procedure, ifelse( is.na(year) !is.na(products) products20,1,0) , run correctly. Thank you very much. Best. 2007/4/3, Mark Wardle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sergio Della Franca wrote: I have much more problem in the following case: Years Products New Column 1 10

[R] the numimum number of fixed factors lme package can deal with

2007-04-03 Thread Fang, Yongxiang
Hello, In my study, mixed effects model is required and the number of fixed effects is very large. When lme package is employed, a model error is displayed once the number of fixed factors in the formula reaches 200. Is this the maximum number of fixed factors can be handled by lme package? If

Re: [R] converting a list to a data.frame

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Wardle
Biscarini, Filippo wrote: Dear Mark, If you have time you can try directly into R this excerpt from my list. This is horrible code, and I should be shot! I would appreciate any better ways of doing this, but I think this works! l = list(c(1,2,4),c(4,5,2,1),c(3,4,6,3),c(3,1,76,4,2))

Re: [R] Referencing function name from within function

2007-04-03 Thread rolf
I dunno much about such things, but a wee experiment seems to indicate that the following structure does what you want: myfunction - function(x){ nm - as.character(match.call())[1] a - TRUE if (a){

Re: [R] Referencing function name from within function

2007-04-03 Thread jim holtman
Try this: myfunction - function(){ + # some calculations + # now get my name + .caller - sys.call() + cat(paste(as.character(.caller[[length(.caller)]]),needs 'xyz'\n)) + } myfunction() myfunction needs 'xyz' On 4/3/07, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,

Re: [R] converting a list to a data.frame

2007-04-03 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
try something like this: lis - list(c(1,2,4), c(4,5,2,1), c(3,4,6,3), c(3,1,76,4,2)) ## n.max - max(sapply(lis, length)) val - NA # what to fill in fill - function(x) c(x, rep(val, n.max - length(x))) as.data.frame(do.call(rbind, lapply(lis, fill))) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris

[R] controling omitted category in factor()

2007-04-03 Thread toby909
Hi All How can I specify which category R should omit when running a linear model with categorical predictors? I saw it omits the first category by default, but I like to have the 3rd category omitted. Thanks for your hints. Toby __

[R] help: protein class prediction in bioinformatics

2007-04-03 Thread Bing Xiong
Dear R members: Sorry, this question is not tightly related to R software, but I usually use R to do this type thing. So please if you can help me out! I want to predict a protein function, by through sequence alignment, I get several low identity sequences(say 100) in several

Re: [R] converting a list to a data.frame

2007-04-03 Thread Stephen Tucker
You can concatenate a series of NA's to match the length of your longest element. (1) exampDat is example data (2) max(rapply(exampDat,length)) is length of longest element (3) function(x,m) will do the concatenation (4) sapply() will return each list element as a column of a data frame (5) t()

[R] approx with ties = 'ordered'

2007-04-03 Thread Vadim Ogranovich
Hi, I am a bit surprised how approx resolves ties when ties = 'ordered'. In the following two examples I'd expect the first expression to return 1 (not 2). The documentation reads that that 'f=0' is right-continuous and 'f=1' is left-continuous so one would expect the argument to matter when

Re: [R] Referencing function name from within function

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This presumes a function is always called by name. Try lapply(1:10, myfunction) Error in FUN(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)[[1]], ...) : FUN requires xyz! to see a (simple case of) the problem. On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno much about such things, but a wee

[R] confine a dataframe with a polygon

2007-04-03 Thread temiz
hello how can I confine a dataframe with a known polygon that is part of whole data ? regards -- Ahmet Temiz -- This message has been scanned for viruses and\ dangerous con...{{dropped}} __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] controling omitted category in factor()

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
model.matrix() does this following the instructions you give it (ultimately via options(contrasts) about how to encode a factor variable (and this is also nothing to do with 'factor()', and factors have 'levels' not 'categories', a completely different concept in S but not used nowadays in R).

[R] Coding for contrasts in unbalanced designs

2007-04-03 Thread Guillaume Brutel
Sorry for possible cross posting but it seems that my previous message was send as HTML and then scrubbed. Dear list members, I want to use a GLM with an unbalanced factor and continuous variables. My factor F has 12 unbalanced levels:

Re: [R] Calculating DIC from MCMC output

2007-04-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 4/2/2007 10:07 PM, Kyle Edwards wrote: Greetings all, I'm a newcomer to Bayesian stats, and I'm trying to calculate the Deviance Information Criterion by hand from some MCMC output. However, having consulted several sources, I am left confused as to the exact terms to use. The most

Re: [R] Coding for contrasts in unbalanced designs

2007-04-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Guillaume Brutel wrote: Sorry for possible cross posting but it seems that my previous message was send as HTML and then scrubbed. Dear list members, I want to use a GLM with an unbalanced factor and continuous variables. My factor F has 12 unbalanced levels:

[R] two-way anova nested fix effects issues

2007-04-03 Thread Hufkens Koen
Hi list, I have some anova issues... I have a dataset comprised of two factor values and a dependent value. The factors are patchiness and within patchiness I have 4 treatments. So factor treatment is nested within factor patchiness. The dependent variable is a lenght. If I'm not mistaken my

[R] Coding for contrasts in unbalanced designs

2007-04-03 Thread Guillaume Brutel
In fact I want to test for the effects of multiple continuous and categorical variables (with GLMs) which are nested in the factor levels on a single continuous variable. Since the design is unbalanced, I though I had to specify it in the glm formula. Guillaume Brutel wrote: Sorry for

Re: [R] Referencing function name from within function

2007-04-03 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jim Holtman wrote: myfunction - function(){ + # some calculations + # now get my name + .caller - sys.call() + cat(paste(as.character(.caller[[length(.caller)]]),needs 'xyz'\n)) + } myfunction() myfunction needs 'xyz' I like this! It's even possible to know _which_

[R] Strange labels on plot with dates

2007-04-03 Thread Henrik Andersson
Hello fellow R people, I don't understand the default behavior of the axis labeling when plotting dates. I would expect something like 2001, 2002 or possibly Jan 01, Jan 02...Jan 06, but instead I only see Jan 01, Jan 01, Jan 01 See the following example startdate -

Re: [R] Referencing function name from within function

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Wardle
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jim Holtman wrote: myfunction - function(){ + # some calculations + # now get my name + .caller - sys.call() + cat(paste(as.character(.caller[[length(.caller)]]),needs 'xyz'\n)) + } myfunction() myfunction needs 'xyz' I like this! It's even

Re: [R] Strange labels on plot with dates

2007-04-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
What version of R are you using? When I copy and paste that into R 2.4.1 on Windows XP I get 2001, 2002, ..., 2007 On 4/3/07, Henrik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow R people, I don't understand the default behavior of the axis labeling when plotting dates. I would expect

Re: [R] Strange labels on plot with dates

2007-04-03 Thread Henrik Andersson
Hmm, I'm running 2.4.0 under linux sessionInfo() R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: C attached base packages: [1] methods stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [7] base ++ pdf(strange.pdf) startdate -

Re: [R] Strange labels on plot with dates

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
PLEASE do read the posting guide and give us the ouput it asks for. Current R (2.5.0 alpha) does give 2001, 2002, ..., so you did not follow the request to update your R, I suspect. On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Henrik Andersson wrote: Hello fellow R people, I don't understand the default behavior of

Re: [R] strange fisher.test result

2007-04-03 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the above, the marginal totals for his 2x2 table a b = 168 c d 15 24 are (rows then columns) 24,39,31,32 These fixed marginals mean that the whole table is determined by the value of a. The following function P.FX()

[R] which points within an ellipsoid? Sorting data in 3d

2007-04-03 Thread Kim Milferstedt
Hello, in a three dimensional coordinate system, I'd like to find all my experimental data points that fall within an ellipsoid around a fixed coordinate. The fixed point is defined by (x.coord.point, y.coord.point, z.coord.point). The coordinates of the ellipsoid are given by the three

Re: [R] confine a dataframe with a polygon

2007-04-03 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, temiz wrote: hello how can I confine a dataframe with a known polygon that is part of whole data ? Could I suggest following up this question on the R-sig-geo list? It is not clear what you want to do - are the rows in the data frame points which may lie inside or

Re: [R] Generate a serie of new vars that correlate with existing var

2007-04-03 Thread Greg Snow
Here is one way to do it: # create the initial x variable x1 - rnorm(100, 15, 5) # x2, x3, and x4 in a matrix, these will be modified to meet the criteria x234 - scale(matrix( rnorm(300), ncol=3 )) # put all into 1 matrix for simplicity x1234 - cbind(scale(x1),x234) # find the current

Re: [R] which points within an ellipsoid? Sorting data in 3d

2007-04-03 Thread Greg Snow
I don't understand how the x,y,z vectors define the ellipsoid, but one approach would be: Find a 3x3 matrix that represents the ellipsoid as a variance matrix (some of the code in the ellipse package may be informative for this). Subtract x.coord.point, y.coord.point, and z.coord.point from your

Re: [R] strange fisher.test result

2007-04-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Thomas Lumley wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the above, the marginal totals for his 2x2 table a b = 168 c d 15 24 are (rows then columns) 24,39,31,32 These fixed marginals mean that the whole table is determined by the value of

Re: [R] Referencing function name from within function

2007-04-03 Thread rolf
Wott about this then? myfunction - function(x){ temp - sys.calls()[[1]] nm - temp[length(temp)] a - TRUE if (a){ stop(paste(nm,requires xyz!)) } } myfunction() Error in myfunction() : myfunction requires xyz! lapply(1:10,myfunction)

[R] treenet

2007-04-03 Thread HelponR
Hi, Anybody used treenet here? I downloaded a demo but don't know how to start with. Does R has something like treenet? Thanks, [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Testing additive nonparametric model

2007-04-03 Thread Donal O'Neill
Dear Vito, Thank you for your prompt reply. Perhaps I am missing something but as I understand it the procedure you suggest would allow me to test for nonlinearities in one of the control variables. However my objective is to nonparametrically test whether the nature of the

Re: [R] the numimum number of fixed factors lme package can deal with

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/3/07, Fang, Yongxiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my study, mixed effects model is required and the number of fixed effects is very large. When lme package is employed, a model error is displayed once the number of fixed factors in the formula reaches 200. Is this the maximum number of

Re: [R] lmer, CHOLMOD warning: matrix not positive definite

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/2/07, Seyed Reza Jafarzadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting a warning message when I am fitting a generalized linear mixed model (m1.2 below). CHOLMOD warning: matrix not positive definite Error in objective(.par, ...) : Cholmod error `matrix not positive definite' at

Re: [R] Coding for contrasts in unbalanced designs

2007-04-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Guillaume Brutel wrote: In fact I want to test for the effects of multiple continuous and categorical variables (with GLMs) which are nested in the factor levels on a single continuous variable. Since the design is unbalanced, I though I had to specify it in the glm formula. That

[R] Testing random effect in logistic mixed model

2007-04-03 Thread Julien
Hi When using linear mixed model, I could test for the effect of the random part of the model using a likelihood ratio test comparing two model with and without the random part. model.lmer=lmer(y~x+(1|r)) model.lm = lm(y~x) anova(model.lmer,model.lm) However, this does not work with a mixed

Re: [R] treenet

2007-04-03 Thread Weiwei Shi
gbm package if I am right. On 4/3/07, HelponR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anybody used treenet here? I downloaded a demo but don't know how to start with. Does R has something like treenet? Thanks, [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

[R] problems with residuals of an arima model

2007-04-03 Thread Katharina Vedovelli
Hi all! I want to fit a time series with 17376 values by using the arima() function. If I extract the residuals from the fitted model there are values for the residuals 1 to 710 but the residuals 711 to 17376 have the value NA. Does anybody know what the problem could be? Is the function arima()

Re: [R] lmer, CHOLMOD warning: matrix not positive definite

2007-04-03 Thread Seyed Reza Jafarzadeh
Dear Douglas Bates, Thanks for your attention. Please see the warnings with additional control argument for the models that failed. m1.2 - lmer(o ~ pv1o + pv2o + pv1toa + pv2toa + sesblf + (pv1o | prov) + (1 | pm), data = mydata[1:1392,], family = quasipoisson, control = list(msVerbose =

Re: [R] Generate a serie of new vars that correlate with existing var

2007-04-03 Thread Nguyen Dinh Nguyen
Dear Greg, Thanks million! As good as it gets :) All the best Nguyen -Original Message- From: Greg Snow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:46 AM To: Nguyen Dinh Nguyen; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] Generate a serie of new vars that correlate with

[R] Optimization and simulation

2007-04-03 Thread Jin Huang
Dear all, I would need to maximize a self-defined 'target' function(see below) with respect to theta, where v follows a log-normal distribution with mean 'mu(x)' and a constant variance. For each v drawn from its distribution, one maximized value and optimal theta are produced. I'd like

[R] REPLACE and REMOVE fns

2007-04-03 Thread Tina Robles
I want to use the replace function on R_Jeter_04_post (see attached) so that S=1, D=1, T=1, HR=1, O=0, K=0, E=0, FC=0, and W,IW,and HP are removed, so that i have a simple list of 1's and 0's. I understand that I need to use the command replace(x,list,values) and rm() but I'm having trouble

Re: [R] (Newbie)Basic Basic global vs. local variables

2007-04-03 Thread projection83
Thank you, I will give this a good think Mark Wardle wrote: projection83 wrote: My R code has got too complex to have a non-modular approach. Ive done some coding in other languages before, but I somehow cant figure out R's general rules for global and local variables. I have put a

Re: [R] Reading user input

2007-04-03 Thread projection83
I dont know if thats what i want (its not working like i want). I would like to have R pause, wait for a user input of a number, then store that number as a variable to use in the next calculation it does... Or should the below do that? jim holtman wrote: what you want is:

[R] Newbie: Simple loops: complex troubles

2007-04-03 Thread projection83
I am used to java (well, i dont remember it really well, but anyway) I have having a really difficult time making simple loops to work. I got the following to work: ## ##Creates objects Ux1, Ux2, Ux2 etc. that all contain n numbers in a random distribution ##

[R] gnomeGUI under KDE

2007-04-03 Thread Luis Lopez Oliveros
Dear all, Recently, I installed the KDE desktop under my Linux system, but Included also the Gnome desktop (actually, I installed everything that comes in the openSUSE cd). My question about R is the following. I would like to run some kind of console under Linux. I was reading and first I found

Re: [R] HPDinterval problem

2007-04-03 Thread Seyed Reza Jafarzadeh
Hi, I am providing more examples where HPDinterval failed. It seems to be working OK for (generalized linear mixed) models without crossed random-effects (m1.17, m1.18, m1.19, m1.20, m1.21, m1.22, and m1.24 below). Thank you, Reza m1.1 - lmer(o ~ pv1o + pv2o + pv1toa + pv2toa + sesblf + (1 |

Re: [R] converting a list to a data.frame

2007-04-03 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Tue, 03-Apr-2007 at 01:55PM +0200, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: | try something like this: | | lis - list(c(1,2,4), c(4,5,2,1), c(3,4,6,3), c(3,1,76,4,2)) | ## | n.max - max(sapply(lis, length)) | val - NA # what to fill in | fill - function(x) c(x, rep(val, n.max - length(x))) |

[R] time zone problems

2007-04-03 Thread Marc Fischer
Folks, I'm having trouble with how datetime objects with time zones are set and plotted. This may be the result of my running R (2.4.0) on a Windoze XP box. Perhaps not. Here are two example problems I need advise on if you have time: 1) I collect data with dates (often as a fractional

Re: [R] Reading user input

2007-04-03 Thread Petr Klasterecky
??? The code below is correct and does exactly what you described - just check the value of ANSWER. R is paused and the user-specified valued is assigned to ANSWER when you call your function, not inside. In your former code ANSWER was a local variable which 'died' when your function finished.

Re: [R] Newbie: Simple loops: complex troubles

2007-04-03 Thread Petr Klasterecky
Not sure whether this is exactly and everything you want, but at least it may give you some ideas how to proceed. You do not need loops at all: Let's try a simplified example with 3 samples, each of length 10 (just for printing purposes): m - c(1,2,3) v - c(1,4,9) n - 10 means - rep(m,each=n)

Re: [R] gnomeGUI under KDE

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Luis Lopez Oliveros wrote: Dear all, Recently, I installed the KDE desktop under my Linux system, but Included also the Gnome desktop (actually, I installed everything that comes in the openSUSE cd). My question about R is the following. I would like to run some kind of