[R] OT: Predicted probabilities from ordinal regressions

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sorry if this is too off-topic, as we may not implement this in R (although we may do so). A student of mine is looking at some public opinion data in which there appears to be a statistically significant difference between levels of support for a proposal based on which of two question wording

Re: [R] multi-level modeling & R?

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Yes, typically one uses lme4 or nlme to do multilevel modeling in R. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University o

Re: [R] Cohen's Kappa

2007-03-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
Shouldn't that be kappa = rater1 - rater2 / (1-chance) ? Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of No

Re: [R] Hardware for a new Workstation for best performance using R

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
I can speak to some of these issues. I don't know about how much benefit you can get from SMP for *single* instances of R, though. 1.) Multicore will be helpful, at least, if you are running several instances of R at once. So, for example, if you have people running two different models at the

Re: [R] Memory error

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > Andrew Perrin wrote: >> Greetings- >> >> Running R 2.4.0 under Debian Linux, I am getti

[R] Memory error

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Running R 2.4.0 under Debian Linux, I am getting a memory error trying to read a very large file: > library(foreign) > oldgrades.df <- read.spss('Individual grades with AI (Nov 7 > 2006).sav',to.data.frame=TRUE) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 10826 Kb This file is, granted,

Re: [R] NEWBIE: @BOOK help?

2007-02-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's BibTeX source -- used for the BibTeX bibliography management system that integrates with LaTeX. http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/bibtex.html http://www.ctan.org -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.e

Re: [R] Running R

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
At step 5, don't copy the file. Instead, do: make install -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Ca

[R] Status of PostgreSQL using DBI?

2005-12-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings - is there any update on a PostgreSQL driver for the DBI package? If not, what's the currently-preferred method of creating a link from a PostgreSQL database and R? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.

Re: [R] Can I do content analysis by R?

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
What, in particular, do you want to do? Content analysis is a mode of research, not a statistical technique. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAI

Re: [R] SCO & R

2004-05-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Greg Tarpinian wrote: > I apologize if this has been addressed before; > recently > I read an article in Forbes which discussed how SCO > was going after companies that have been using Linux. > The article made the point that the ideas behind GPL > are under attack precisely b

[R] Re: "ghost" image in .eps file

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
Brian Ripley wrote: >I can't see this in your examples: which viewer did you use? I do see it >in phantom.ps. > >However, looking at resources.bygt.eps, the file is corrupt with a load >of bytes after > >%%EOF > >starting with nulls and then some postscript. So I don't think this is an >R problem

[R] "ghost" image in .eps file

2004-05-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- An odd situation has developed. I use the following code to create .eps files of two very similar graphs: postscript(file='resources.bygt.eps', onefile=FALSE, horizontal=TRUE) barplot(resources.bygt.matrix, beside = TRUE, legend.text=c('narrative','doubt'), name

Re: [R] OT: BibTex year-only citation in text?

2003-12-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
Generally, use natbib style and then \citep-> (Anderson 1992) \citet-> Anderson (1992) \citeyearpar -> (1992) \citealt -> Anderson 1992 -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U

Re: [R] intraclass correlation

2003-12-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have been using a little function I wrote myself; look at http://www.unc.edu/home/aperrin/tips/src/icc.R for the code. Not pretty, but it works. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociol

Re: [R] glmmPQL, log-likelihoods issue

2003-11-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Douglas Bates wrote: > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sorry for my ignorance, but could you explain a little further? I'm > > guessing from your response that this makes the log-likelihood that is > > quoted by glmmPQL a p

Re: [R] glmmPQL, log-likelihoods issue

2003-11-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
ood, and what is being quoted is > not a likelihood for the original problem. > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > Greetings- > > > > a reviewer for a paper of mine noted an anomaly in some models I ran using > > glmmPQL (from the MASS package

[R] glmmPQL, log-likelihoods issue

2003-11-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- a reviewer for a paper of mine noted an anomaly in some models I ran using glmmPQL (from the MASS package). Specifically, the models are three-level hierarchical probit models estimated using PQL under R. The anomaly is that the log-likelihoods decrease (or, alternatively -2logLik inc

Re: [R] multilevel (hierarchical) statistical analysis

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
For continuous, see the lme package. For categorical, see glmmPQL in the MASS package, or GLMM in LME4. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL

Re: [R] Book recommendations: Multilevel & longitudinal analysis

2003-08-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Three suggestions: 1.) Raudenbush and Bryk, _Hierarchical Linear Models: Second Edition_ (Sage, 2002) 2.) Pinheiro and Bates, _Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus_ (Springer) 3.) Fox, _An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression_, plus the appendix available via the web on multilevel models

[R] [ibiblio.org #1674] Mirroring request (fwd)

2003-07-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
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Re: [R] if else statements in R

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is untested, so try it first, but my approach would be: W<- function(w) { W[i]<-ifelse(comp[i,1]==1, Wo, (work[i-1,5]work[i-1,13]*/Ef)) } Best, Andy Perrin -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professo

Re: [R] plot() help

2003-06-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
> check up ?mtext() Thanks, but that's not what I'm looking for. I don't want to change the text string but the axis labels themselves. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of N

[R] plot() help

2003-06-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Please forgive my ignorance on grapics. I'm trying to make a relatively simple plot with two line plots, same axes, by mean over a series of dates. I can make the plot well like this: plot(sort(tapply(first.anti.auth.sum,date,mean), partial=1), type="l", col="yellow",ylim=c(0,2.0)) par(new=TRUE) p

Re: [R] NLME Covariates

2003-06-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
I am foggy on this myself, but I *think* it is inferred from the grouping structure in the call to (n)lme or in the groupedData data structure. Have a look at ?groupedData in R for more details. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www

Re: [R] Can't load e1071

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:47:19PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > OK, thanks. Is that the problem with e1071? Any advice on getting it > > loaded? > > [ It is considered impolite to reply to private messages via th

Re: [R] Can't load e1071

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:04:40PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > ii r-base 1.7.0-0.cran.1 GNU R statistical computing language and > > apparently there's not a debian package available? > >

Re: [R] Can't load e1071

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
ib/R/site-library/e1071/libs/e1071.so -rwxr-xr-x1 root staff 109247 Jun 24 15:41 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/e1071/libs/e1071.so > best, > David. > Thanks, Andy > > On 2003.06.24 21:43, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > After upgrading to 1.7.0 under debian linux, I c

[R] Can't load e1071

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
After upgrading to 1.7.0 under debian linux, I can't get e1071 working properly. The first problem I had was that g++-3.0 was the standard compiler but wasn't installed, so I installed it. e1071 then installed correctly, but I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/afshome/papers/authoritarian/R$

Re: [R] Adding a calculated variable to a data frame (fwd)

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all who answered... this is what I was looking for: df$rwa.sum <- df$first.agg+df$first.sub+df$first.agg thanks to the several people who responded. ap __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

[R] Adding a calculated variable to a data frame

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Is there a shortcut way to add a calculated variable to a data frame? For example, I have a data frame with variables first.conv, first.sub, and first.agg. Each cell is -1, 0, or 1. I'd like to generate variables: rwa.sum : sum(first.agg,first.sub,first.conv) rwa.psum : total number (0-3) of vars

Re: [R] Beginner's Question on Linear Regression Models

2003-06-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
John Fox was kind enough to reply, but didn't recommend IMHO the best book on regression models: his own, John Fox, _An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression_, Sage, 2002. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperri

[R] Text analysis question

2003-06-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm grappling with a problem and would appreciate any thoughts on it. I'm revising a paper for resubmission to a journal. For the paper, I've coded each "turn" in a series of conversations with several binary codes. (A turn is one package of statements made by one speaker, starting with the beginn

Re: [R] Error using glmmPQL

2003-05-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
lme does this (and that is from lme) sometimes -- often when the model > does not fit well. > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > Can anyone shed any light on this? > > > > > doubt.demographic.pql<-glmmPQL(random = ~ 1 | groupid/participantid, >

[R] Error using glmmPQL

2003-05-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
Can anyone shed any light on this? > doubt.demographic.pql<-glmmPQL(random = ~ 1 | groupid/participantid, +fixed = r.info.doubt ~ +realage + minority + female + education + income + scenario, +data = fgdata.df[coded.resour

Re: [R] Test for trend?

2003-05-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
I think this depends on what you mean by "trend." What I would mean is "effect of successive trials that is very unlikely to be spurious," which is a good lay definition of statistical significance. Given that these are multiple trials on the same subjects over time, it seems like a mixed-effects

Re: [R] postgres

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
Yes, I do. Here's a code snippet that worked for me: library(RPgSQL) db.connect(dbname='fgdata') fgdata.df<-db.read.table('mlm_data') This assumes you have the RPgSQL library installed, and that you have postgres running on the local machine. There's more documentation in the RPgSQL package. B