[R] plot portion of a line

2007-01-16 Thread BBands
Dear HelpeRs, Given: x - rnorm(50) y - rnorm(50) plot(x,y) abline(lm(x ~ y)) Is there a way to plot just a portion of the line? Say for values of x 2.0 or x -2.0 and x 4.0. (Still fitting all the points.) Thank you, jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance

Re: [R] R editor vs. Tinn-R

2007-01-12 Thread BBands
On 1/12/07, Martin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depending on which button you press in Tinn-R, the clipboard is used to transfer the commands to R, so sometimes you can't rely on the previous contents of the clipboard while using Tinn-R. If you use the (source)-versions of the buttons, the

[R] get.hist.quote

2007-01-04 Thread BBands
Odd behavior from get.hist.quote this AM. get.hist.quote('sunw') trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=sunwa=0b=02c=1991d=0e=03f=2007g=dq=qy=0z=sunwx=.csv' Content type 'text/csv' length unknown opened URL .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

Re: [R] get.hist.quote

2007-01-04 Thread BBands
On 1/4/07, BBands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd behavior from get.hist.quote this AM. Now working, must have been a Yahoo! issue. jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning. __ R

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2007-01-02 Thread BBands
On 1/1/07, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it works perfectly well with RODBC, so you don't need yet another package. RODBC even comes with SQLite examples. Thanks, I hadn't thought of that and it should simplify things as we are already using RODBC for MySQL. BTW, 'fast' is

Re: [R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

2007-01-01 Thread BBands
On 12/30/06, Farrel Buchinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead I used RODBC sqlSave(channel,RawSeq) to push the table into a Microsoft Access database Then a sql query, courtesy of the Microsoft Access Query Wizard a la design mode. If SQL does prove to be part of your approach you might

Re: [R] OT: any recommendation for scripting language

2006-12-30 Thread BBands
On 12/30/06, Wensui Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Experts, Thank you so much for your opinions. I probably will go with python. Following your suggestion, I started reading some tutorials but have a quick question. In the sense of statistical computing, is there anything that can be

Re: [R] how to suppress a loading required package: ... message

2006-12-27 Thread BBands
On 12/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how to suppress a loading required package:... message? require(package, quiet=TRUE) jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning.

Re: [R] stacked plots

2006-12-27 Thread BBands
On 12/27/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you remember the bollingerBands example we worked on a few years ago and that is still at Romain's incredible R Graph Gallery at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=65 It uses layout, you can also use

Re: [R] OT: any recommendation for scripting language

2006-12-24 Thread BBands
On 12/23/06, Wensui Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you recommend one, I will really appreciate it if you could point out a good source for learning as well. We have found Python to be the perfect choice for our work. Python is a high-level, cross-platform language that is easy to learn/write

Re: [R] Install R in Linux

2006-12-14 Thread BBands
On 12/13/06, lu kan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to install R in a linux box (Debian) without being a root. I know I can compile the R source code, but there is no F77 compiler on the box. So is it possible to install binary R without being a root? If you can get the F77

Re: [R] Book recommendation for newbie to stats and R?

2006-10-17 Thread BBands
On 10/17/06, Zembower, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work for an organization that analyses behavior change communication programs regarding HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. A typical question we're trying to answer is, Watching which television programs in South Africa is related to an

Re: [R] cluster in R

2006-10-17 Thread BBands
On 10/17/06, Weiwei Shi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there some good summary on clustering methods in R? It seems there are many packages involving it. Gabor provided this very useful link a couple of days back. http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/Cluster.html jab -- John

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-09 Thread BBands
Apparently misunderstanding me, On 10/8/06, Richard A. O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amongst other things, it should NOT acquire misfeatures in order to support editors that happen not to support comment-region. ... One can only comment from one's experience. We have found the concept of

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread BBands
And of course vim, emacs, nedit, tinn-r... Should R be editor specific? Or should it be editor neutral? In my view blocks comments are a desirable, editor-neutral approach. Note that most of the more recent languages have some form of block comment capability.

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-05 Thread BBands
+1 for Python style comments. your comments here and some more ... and some related info jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] a decimal aligned column

2006-09-30 Thread BBands
As requested: The alignment problem came from calling format many times. Marc Schwartz suggested a solution of putting my results in a vector and then formatting. As I understand it the problem is that fixed-width fields are only available from sprintf, while comma delineation is only available

Re: [R] a decimal aligned column

2006-09-29 Thread BBands
Many thanks to Marc Schwartz who helped me work through this problem in a series of off list exchanges. jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

[R] a decimal aligned column

2006-09-28 Thread BBands
Hello, For numbers in the range 100 to 100,000,000 I'd like to decimal align a right-justified comma-delineated column of numbers, but I haven't been able to work out the proper format statement. format(num, justify=right, width=15, big.mark=,) gets me close, but numbers larger than 1,000,000

Re: [R] Command area in SciViews 0.8.9 - second try

2006-09-21 Thread BBands
On 9/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (i) the command area at the bottom cannot be found (ii) the regular R window cannot be minimized/maximized anymore. I cannot duplicate these problems with R 2.3.1, SciViews 0.8-9, Win XP(current). jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT

Re: [R] plot correlation matrix

2006-09-21 Thread BBands
On 9/21/06, Earl F. Glynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which function was used to produce this plot? library(ellipse) ?plotcorr Look at the third example for the color plot. That's pretty nice. I have been using symnum(). Are there any other neat visualisations for correlation matrices?

Re: [R] currency or stock trading strategy

2006-09-19 Thread BBands
On 9/17/06, Darren Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, are there any good charting and analysis tools for use with currencies, stocks, etc. in R? I have some tools to download currency data from the NYFRB using python and XML. Can we get and parse an XML download using R? Can we have

Re: [R] Connecting to R using Perl?

2006-09-08 Thread BBands
On 9/8/06, Ffenics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Can anyone tell me please if I can access R though a perl script? http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/ And there is always: http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you

Re: [R] Connecting to a SQLBASE database with R

2006-09-08 Thread BBands
for RODBC you must make a connection SQLBASE first: For XP: control panel Admin tools Data sources Add... You may have to install the SQLBASE ODBC driver first if it is not on the list. The rest should be easy just supply the connection name and details to RODBC. jab -- John Bollinger,

Re: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

2006-08-30 Thread BBands
On 8/30/06, Rolf Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze. I wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up. The docs on .Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home directory''. ``An Introduction to R'' observes

Re: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

2006-08-30 Thread BBands
And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an .Rprofile to whatever directory you name in the Start in: field of the shortcut. This allows one to have many profiles. jab -- John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you arrive at the

[R] passing namees

2006-08-29 Thread BBands
R 2.3.1 I wrote a little script to do some cross correlations. The symbols are in a text file like so: symbols.txt ibm dd csco require(tseries) symbols - scan(symbols.txt, what = 'character') for(line in 1:(length(symbols)-1)) { assign(symbols[line], get.hist.quote(instrument =