[R] aggregate factor

2007-09-07 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
Hi, I am using aggregate to compute means for later plotting. There are two factors involved and the problem is that the values of the second factor ( Age ) in the means are not in the right order because 10 comes inbetween 1 and 2 What I really want is the numeric value of Age but as.numeric

Re: [R] RODBC

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
I have now read the README file which I should have done before. :-[ Sorry. To summarize: - Install the odbc connector driver (3.51) - Set up the dsn in the file .odbc.ini - It works beautifully and RODBC is super! Prof Brian Ripley wrote: yOn Mon, 28 May 2007, Bill Szkotnicki wrote

[R] RODBC

2007-05-28 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
Hello, I have installed R2.5.0 from sources ( x86_64 ) and added the package RODBC and now I am trying to connect to a mysql database In windows R after installing the 3.51 driver and creating the dsn by specifying server, user, and password it is easy to connect with channel - odbcConnect(dsn)

[R] RODBC sqlQuery insert slow

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
Hello, I am trying to insert a lot of data into a table using windows R (2.3.1) and a mysql database via RODBC. First I read a file with read.csv and then form sql insert statements for each row and execute the insert query one row at a time. See the loop below. This turns out to be very slow.

Re: [R] RODBC sqlQuery insert slow

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
sure the time is stored correctly in mysql names(dat)=c(time,v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6,v7,v8,v9,v10) sqlSave(channel,dat,logger,rownames=F,append=T) # very fast. # Jerome Asselin wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:09 -0400, Bill Szkotnicki wrote: Hello, I am trying to insert a lot of data

[R] predict.lm

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
I have a model with a few correlated explanatory variables. i.e. m1=lm(y~x1+x2+x3+x4,protdata) and I have used predict as follows: x=data.frame(x=1:36) yp=predict(m1,x,se.fit=T) tprot=sum(yp$fit) # add up the predictions tprot tprot is the sum of the 36 predicted values and I would

Re: [R] predict.lm

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
way? Bill -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:54 PM To: Christos Hatzis Cc: 'Bill Szkotnicki'; 'R-Help help' Subject: Re: [R] predict.lm On Tue, 2 May 2006, Christos Hatzis wrote: I think you got it right. The mean

[R] statistical modelling SAS vs R

2006-02-03 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
Hello, Recently I have been reading a lot of material about statistical modeling using R. There seems to be conflicting opinions about what the best approach is between the SAS community and the R community. 1) In R one might start with a model that has all possible effects of interest in it and