[R] Lost in substitute: nlsList and nlme with dynamic formula

2007-08-23 Thread Dieter Menne
DeaR I am trying to use a dynamically create formula with nlsList and nlme, but I cannot get the environment of the string-generated formal to work similarly to the manually entered one. Any idea? Dieter #- library(nlme) # Pinheiro/Bates p 280 fm1Indom.lis =

Re: [R] Newbie Question: Using R with PHP and MySQL

2007-08-23 Thread Dieter Menne
MASFERFC Team masferfc at gmail.com writes: I'm currently running MySQL 5 queries with PHP 5.2.3 and returning results to the end-user in web-page tables of ca. 50 rows by 5 columns. I'd like to (more or less) simultaneously return to the browser a couple of canned charts and graphs based on

Re: [R] R graphics display window

2007-08-17 Thread Dieter Menne
Felipe Carrillo mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com writes: How can the R graphics window be customized programmatically? Either minimized,maximized or change the size of the default that ships with R. Assuming Windows as OS (which you forgot to mention) windows(width = 2, height = 2, pointsize =

Re: [R] for plots

2007-08-17 Thread Dieter Menne
jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com writes: Turn 'Recording on for the plots. windows(record=TRUE) or select from the GUI. I mean if the object has several plots how can I get those? gam.object - gam(y ~ s(x,6) + z,data=gam.data) plot(gam.object,se=TRUE) Or use something like

Re: [R] to combine bwplot + srt option?

2007-08-16 Thread Dieter Menne
KOITA Lassana - STAC/ACE lassana.koita at aviation-civile.gouv.fr writes: Could someone help me to combine bwplot and srt option (exemple srt = 45 degree or srt 90 degree)? My graphic contains 146 boxplots, I would like to label all of them. As you know, labels are not readable. You

Re: [R] lmer coefficient distributions and p values

2007-08-16 Thread Dieter Menne
Daniel Lakeland dlakelan at street-artists.org writes: We have used the lmer package to fit various models for the various experiments that she has done (random effects from multiple measurements for each animal or each trial, and fixed effects from developmental stage, and genotype etc).

Re: [R] Problem with

2007-08-14 Thread Dieter Menne
Daniel Stahl daniel_stahl at operamail.com writes: I would like to do a large number of e.g. 1000 paired ttest using the by-function. Technical stuff aside: do you really want to do 1000 paired t-tests? Followed by a *** pick-nic? Mmm... Dieter

Re: [R] Using sunflowerplot to add points in a xyplot panel

2007-08-14 Thread Dieter Menne
Ronaldo Reis Junior chrysopa at gmail.com writes: Hi, I use panel.points to add points to a xyplot graphic. But I like to use the sunflowerplot to plot my points because this is very superimposed. It is possible to use this? I try but it dont work directly. It may be need to put this

Re: [R] Import of Access data via RODBC changes column name (NO to Expr1014) and the content of t he column

2007-08-14 Thread Dieter Menne
Maciej Hoffman-Wecker Maciej.Hoffman-Wecker at bioskin.de writes: ... But I succeeded in developing a tiny example, that reproduces the bug (wherever it is). I generated a small Access data base test2.mdb with one table Tab1 and following columns: . library(RODBC) .con -

Re: [R] p value statistic for lm object

2007-08-13 Thread Dieter Menne
Arjun Bhandari arb.em at adia.ae writes: I conduct a univariate regression with lm function. I would like to get the p value for the regression. Is there a method that would enable me to extract the p value into a variable. # From lm docs (Sorry, Annette, for misusing your data) ctl -

Re: [R] bayesm - question about 'rscaleUsage function'

2007-08-07 Thread Dieter Menne
paulandpen at optusnet.com.au writes: I get this part of the code, it all makes sense. ## if(nchar(Sys.getenv(LONG_TEST)) != 0) {R=1000} else {R=5} { data(customerSat) surveydat = list(k=10,x=as.matrix(customerSat)) Mcmc1 = list(R=R) set.seed(66)

Re: [R] Invert Likert-Scale Values

2007-08-04 Thread Dieter Menne
Alexis Delevett adelevet at yahoo.com writes: I am using R to process some community survey data. Several item responses are recorded via a 7-point Likert-Scale. As I have coded the responses, 1 represents high agreement, and 7 high disagreement. This of course impacts the coefficients in a

Re: [R] multiple nls - next fit even after convergence problem

2007-08-04 Thread Dieter Menne
GOUACHE David D.GOUACHE at arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr writes: ... This is my original function : comp.fit.2-function(tab) { fit.log-nls(surf.vert.tot ~ 100/(1+exp(((log(81))/a)*(sum.T.levee-b))), start=list( ... I've thought of just storing the 3 model results in a list, and then

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] new package plotAndPlayGTK

2007-08-02 Thread Dieter Menne
Felix Andrews felix at nfrac.org writes: Package plotAndPlayGTK provides a graphical user interface for R . This package is based on RGtk2, and so requires the GTK+ libraries. Warning for Windows users: When I installed GTK+ from

Re: [R] Fitting exponential curve to data points

2007-07-24 Thread Dieter Menne
Andrew Clegg andrew.clegg at gmail.com writes: ... If I want to demonstrate that a non-linear curve fits better than an exponential, what's the best measure for that? Given that neither of nls() or optim() provide R-squared. To supplement Karl's comment, try Douglas Bates' (author of nls)

Re: [R] custom point shapes

2007-07-20 Thread Dieter Menne
baptiste Auguié ba208 at exeter.ac.uk writes: I'm new to R, but a search through the list didn't quite solve this problem: I want to draw a few ellipses (or any custom shape for that matter) at given locations in a graph. I know how to plot points from my data, set the point type pch to

[R] What is parameter display (windows/grDevices)

2007-07-03 Thread Dieter Menne
In the docs of window/grDevices: All these devices are implemented as windows devices, the _display_ parameter selects which is actually used. What is the display parameter? Dieter Menne __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

[R] Print grid/ggplot to a metafile

2007-06-29 Thread Dieter Menne
Dear UseRs called Hadley, or Paul, I am trying to print an edited ggplot2/grid graphics to a metafile. With the commented line below it works, but when I edit the plot by uncommenting the line, it fails, because it's illegal to have 2 graphics in a metafile. It works with pdf, but even then I get

[R] eps in odfWeave

2007-06-25 Thread Dieter Menne
Dear Weavers, Does someone have an example of using eps or any other vector graphics with odfWeave? It tried the example below (and commented variants) with simple.odt in the examples directory, and got an error. Dieter #--- library(odfWeave) plotInfo - getImageDefs() plotInfo$type = eps

Re: [R] eps in odfWeave

2007-06-25 Thread Dieter Menne
Kuhn, Max Max.Kuhn at pfizer.com writes: Thanks, Max. What is the version of odfWeave? If you use those specifications in the current version (0.5.9): Yes, version 0.5.9 (it was further below in my message, I forgot to put the odfWeave flag before it. I had tried your horizontal...

Re: [R] eps in odfWeave

2007-06-25 Thread Dieter Menne
Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de writes: library(odfWeave) plotInfo - getImageDefs() plotInfo$type = eps plotInfo$plotWidth = 4 plotInfo$plotHeight = 4 plotInfo$device = postscript plotInfo$args = list( horizontal = FALSE,onefile = FALSE, paper = special) setImageDefs

[R] latex of ftable (Hmisc?)

2007-06-23 Thread Dieter Menne
Dear latexRs, I tried to make a latex printout of a simple categorial ftable. It should look like the output of print.ftable. Any ideas how to get the syntax of summary.formula right. Or some alternative? As far I see, xtable does not have method for ftable. Dieter library(Hmisc) n=500 sex -

Re: [R] latex of ftable (Hmisc?)

2007-06-23 Thread Dieter Menne
Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net writes: How about a Sweave approach? Something like this in the *.Rnw file: \documentclass[letter]{article} ... ftable(symptom ~ treatment + sex) at \end{document} Then Sweave() the *.Rnw file to produce a *.tex file in the working

Re: [R] Setting up a blank table with column names in the hard drive

2007-06-23 Thread Dieter Menne
Yuchen Luo realityrandom at gmail.com writes: This should be a very common operation and I believe there should be a nice way in R to handle it. I couldn't find it in the manual or by searching on line. I am wondering if I could ask for some help in this community. I am trying to record

[R] User Defined R Functions in Sweave/Latex

2007-06-21 Thread Dieter Menne
M. Jankowski mjankowski at gmail.com writes: My Sweave code is intended to make lots of plots and create a *.pdf document. Sweave is perfect for this. The only problem is that I find myself using the same R code, within my Sweave input file over an over. This is the R function:

Re: [R] Linear Mixed Models with nlme, more than one random effect

2007-06-21 Thread Dieter Menne
joris.dewolf at cropdesign.com writes: Have a look at Rnew volume 5/1 (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/) where Doug Bates explains this nicely. Consider using lme4 for your purpose. But be aware of http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/76742.html if you currently want to use

Re: [R] How to draw several ROC curves on a common graph

2007-06-20 Thread Dieter Menne
Tirthadeep sabya231 at gmail.com writes: library(ROCR) plot(roc1) plot(roc2) gives two plots on two different graph. Now i want to merge on a single graph. plot(roc1) points(roc2) Use parameter add=TRUE in all but the first call Dieter

[R] Stacked barchart color

2007-06-12 Thread Dieter Menne
Dear Latticer, I want to give individual colors to all elements in a simple stacked barchart. I know why the example below does not work (and it is a excellent default), but is there any workaround for this? Dieter # This only colors red and green, but I want blue and gray for Peatland.

Re: [R] Stacked barchart color

2007-06-12 Thread Dieter Menne
hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com writes: On 6/12/07, Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de wrote: Dear Latticer, I want to give individual colors to all elements in a simple stacked barchart. I know why the example below does not work (and it is a excellent default

Re: [R] how to ignore error messages?

2007-06-11 Thread Dieter Menne
Jianping Jin jjin at email.unc.edu writes: ... I wrote a code to iterate a non-linear fit with a set of data. The entire process didn't implemented to the end because an error message, singular gradient. I knew that some sub-sets (columns) do not fit my formula well and may result in

Re: [R] Standard errors of the predicted values from a lme (or lmer)

2007-06-04 Thread Dieter Menne
Fränzi Korner fraenzi.korner at oikostat.ch writes: sorry for not being more specific. I would like to use R to get a prediction (with standard error) of the response in a mixed model at selected values of the fixed-effects factors. Hence, in a mixed model, say, for response body size with,

Re: [R] Standard errors of the predicted values from a lme (or lmer)-object

2007-06-01 Thread Dieter Menne
Fränzi Korner fraenzi.korner at oikostat.ch writes: how do I obtain standard errors of the predicted values from a lme (or lmer)-object? Not totally clear what you mean. intervals(lmeresult) gives the confidence intervals for the coefficients. Otherwise, you can do some calculations with

Re: [R] Function to Sort and test AIC for mixed model lme?

2007-05-24 Thread Dieter Menne
Ken Nussear knussear at mac.com writes: I'm running a series of mixed models using lme, and I wonder if there is a way to sort them by AIC prior to testing using anova (lme1,lme2,lme3,lme7) other than by hand. You can try something like the following. However, also consider using

Re: [R] RColorBrewer Package Color index

2007-05-23 Thread Dieter Menne
W. Katy linlicc at hotmail.com writes: Can anyone kindly help me with the interpretation of colors in the RColorBrewer Package (brewer.pal) ? For example, in brewer.pal command, when picking up the RdBu palette, does red means larger or smaller value? Conventionally, the redder colors

Re: [R] Multivariate Outlier Detection - Robust

2007-05-14 Thread Dieter Menne
Fiona Sammut fiona.sammut at um.edu.mt writes: Whilst reading a book on robust statistics, in particular a section on multivariate outlier detection, I came across the functions outmve, outmgv and outpro. I tried the help.search command to try and find documentation on these 3 commands in

Re: [R] Need an working examples

2007-05-09 Thread Dieter Menne
Aurel Razvan Duica AurelRazvan.Duica at amdocs.com writes: Can you please provide me with an working example of clustering in R (not very complicated) and with an example of survey in R. We would appreciate this very much. We need them as soon as possible. Sooner is not possible: there are

Re: [R] Multiple trellis plots without intervening space

2007-04-26 Thread Dieter Menne
David Lindelof lindelof at ieee.org writes: I'm trying to create a 10x7 rectangular grid of individual plots, each of which is a contour plot that shows a slice from a three-dimensional matrix. The problem is that you construct individual plots, and then try to glue these together. This is a

Re: [R] SweaveInput and absolute paths

2007-04-26 Thread Dieter Menne
Kevin R. Coombes krc at mdacc.tmc.edu writes: Is there a way to turn off the automatic inclusion of ./ at the beginning of a path specified in an \SweaveInput{} instruction? Giving a full file path name works for me (Windows, R 2.4.1) \SweaveInput{C:/tmp/MyTitle.rnw} Note the if the

Re: [R] ANOVA results in R conflicting with results in ot her software packages

2007-04-26 Thread Dieter Menne
Simon Blomberg s.blomberg1 at uq.edu.au writes: . I won't discuss the dangers of types of sums of squares and different contrast codings. That would be tempting the wrath of the gods. See section 7.18 in the R FAQ. John Fox's Companion book also has a brief discussion (p. 140). And

Re: [R] xyplot source file only work with echo=TRUE

2007-04-24 Thread Dieter Menne
work without echo=T? It is possible to write a source that dont need echo=T on source command? Most likely another variant of http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.r.generalfollowup=83924 See: Why do lattice/trellis graphics not work? Dieter Menne

Re: [R] Regarding Vista

2007-03-30 Thread Dieter Menne
gyadav at ccilindia.co.in writes: I am facing the same problem in my case. R 2.4.1 have installed successfully, but when i try to install the packages from a local zip file. It gives the following error message. +++ utils:::menuInstallLocal() Error in

Re: [R] tcltk crashing R after the (ab)use of tkwait

2007-03-29 Thread Dieter Menne
Alberto Monteiro albmont at centroin.com.br writes: library(tcltk) tt - tktoplevel() done - tclVar(0) but - tkbutton(tt, text=OK, command=function() tclvalue(done) - 1) tkpack(but) tkwait.variable(done) works as fine as long as I click the OK. However, if I close the window (by clicking

Re: [R] equivalent datatypes

2007-03-29 Thread Dieter Menne
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: On 3/29/2007 6:45 AM, Schmitt, Corinna wrote: - cell array I don't know what a cell is in C. This is MathLabish. Dieter __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Regarding Vista

2007-03-29 Thread Dieter Menne
christian.ritter at shell.com writes: The Vista issue is not innocent as it threatens the life of R within large corporations. So any posts on how R runs under Vista and what has to be done to make it work and what cannot be done etc will be very useful. Main problem seems to be the

Re: [R] logistic regression on contingency table

2007-03-05 Thread Dieter Menne
be specified as a factor (when the first level denotes failure and all others success) or as a two-column matrix with the columns giving the numbers of successes and failures. Dieter Menne __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

[R] LD50 contrasts with lmer/lme4

2007-02-26 Thread Dieter Menne
Dear R-list, I have a data set from 20 pigs, each of which is tested at crossed 9 doses (logdose -4:4) and 3 skin treatment substances when exposed to a standard polluted environment. So there are 27 patches on each pig. The response is irritation=yes/no. I want to determine equally effective

Re: [R] Google, hard disc drives and R

2007-02-19 Thread Dieter Menne
Tim Churches tchur at optushome.com.au writes: A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not cited in the approved manner): http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf ... For all of you

[R] fit.contrast (package gmodels) and lmer

2007-02-17 Thread Dieter Menne
Friends of lme, following the documentation of fit.contrast in package gmodels, it should be possible to use it with lmer. At least with sim.lmer=TRUE and lmer(not 2), because the latter has no mcmcsamp yet. I could not get this to work. UseR error? -- library(gmodels)

Re: [R] Suppresing default text in pairs.lmList() in package = nlme

2007-02-11 Thread Dieter Menne
Michael Kubovy kubovy at virginia.edu writes: I would like to suppress the text 'Scatter Plot Matrix' that appears under the plot. Could someone please suggest how? Must be as special Virginia Brand of lmList. That Test does not turn up in my output, and the only place I found it in the

Re: [R] Near function?

2007-02-10 Thread Dieter Menne
Bart Joosen bartjoosen at hotmail.com writes: Hi, I have an integer which is extracted from a dataframe, which is sorted by another column of the dataframe. Now I would like to remove some elements of the integer, which are near to others by their value. For example: integer: c(1,20,2,21)

Re: [R] lme in R and Splus-7

2007-02-06 Thread Dieter Menne
yyan liu zhliur at yahoo.com writes: I used the function lme in R and Splus-7. With the same dataset and same argument for the function, I got quite different estimation results from these two software. Anyone has this experience before? From the FAQ: R by default uses treatment contrasts

Re: [R] coefficients of each local polynomial from loess() or locfit()

2007-01-08 Thread Dieter Menne
Liu, Delong (NIH/CIT) [C] liud2 at mail.nih.gov writes: Instead, I am more interested in obtaining the coefficient estimates of local polynomial from loess(). Is it straightforward to modify loess() so that the coefficient estimates can be put into the return list of loess()? No need to

Re: [R] coefficients of each local polynomial from loess() or locfit()

2007-01-05 Thread Dieter Menne
Liu, Delong (NIH/CIT) [C] liud2 at mail.nih.gov writes: I want to extract estimated coeffiicents of each local polynomial at given x from loess(), locfit(), or KernSmooth(). Can some experts provide me with suggestions? Thanks. Try cars.lo - loess(dist ~ speed, cars) str(cars.lo) List

Re: [R] coefficients of each local polynomial from loess() or locfit()

2007-01-05 Thread Dieter Menne
Liu, Delong (NIH/CIT) [C] liud2 at mail.nih.gov writes: I want to extract estimated coeffiicents of each local polynomial at given x from loess(), locfit(), or KernSmooth(). Can some experts provide me with suggestions? Thanks. Before you start on your own, also note Brian Ripleys recent

Re: [R] Help with filled.contour()

2007-01-02 Thread Dieter Menne
Michael Kubovy kubovy at virginia.edu writes: I tried and it gave a strange result. See http://people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/mySite/twoGaussian.R and http://people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/mySite/twoGaussian.pdf * Session Info *

Re: [R] Types of objects?

2007-01-01 Thread Dieter Menne
Raymond Balise iteachtyping at gmail.com writes: Is there a list of object types used by R? Is there a function that I can use to tell the type of an object? typeof() Dieter __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] zero random effect sizes with binomial lmer

2007-01-01 Thread Dieter Menne
Daniel Ezra Johnson johnson4 at babel.ling.upenn.edu writes: I am fitting models to the responses to a questionnaire that has seven yes/no questions (Item). For each combination of Subject and Item, the variable Response is coded as 0 or 1. I want to include random effects for both

Re: [R] Help with filled.contour()

2007-01-01 Thread Dieter Menne
Michael Kubovy kubovy at virginia.edu writes: The following plot is a first approximation to what I need: .. see below *** It has four drawbacks. I would like: (1) to remove the white grid; (2) to remove the white contours; (3) its appearance to be

Re: [R] Crosstab from sql dump

2006-12-30 Thread Dieter Menne
Alan Gibson alan.gibson at gmail.com writes: Im looking for a simple function to produce a crosstab from a dumped sql query result. xtabs in stats is a simple solution, but package reshape is much more flexible and comes with a good introduction.pdf. Dieter

Re: [R] how to do muliple comparisons in linear mixed models

2006-12-20 Thread Dieter Menne
liu, jcheng liujcheng at gmail.com writes: i want to compare the several main effects in a linear model. i wonder how to do the multiple comparisons for less confident intervals. Package multcomp by Torsten Hothorn. Dieter __

Re: [R] exporting a table to latex

2006-12-13 Thread Dieter Menne
Rainer M Krug RKrug at sun.ac.za writes: I am using the latex() command from the Hmisc package to export table to latex. For formating of the values, I use the format() function. But I don't manage to get the format of the values right: I don't want scientific notation, but if I say

Re: [R] Switch and integer

2006-12-11 Thread Dieter Menne
Knut Krueger Knut-krueger at einthal.de writes: Switch is working with character , with integer, but not in the third example ... # not working test = c(3,9,3,9,3,9,8,9,8,9,8,9,3,9,3,9,5,9,3,9,1,2,7,9,3,9,1,1, 2,2,3,9,2,1,2,5, 9,8,9,1,2) count1 - 0 for (i in 1:length(test))

Re: [R] solving non linear system of eq

2006-12-11 Thread Dieter Menne
Paulino Perez Rodriguez perpdgo at colpos.mx writes: How can I solve a non linear system of equations using R? Have your tried to enter nonlinear equations into http://search.r-project.org? Dieter __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] What training algorithm does nnet package use?

2006-11-22 Thread Dieter Menne
Wee-Jin Goh wjgoh at brookes.ac.uk writes: Just to add to this, I also need to know what language is the nnet package written in? Is it in pure R or is it a wrapper for a C library. As usual, you can download the full source to find out what you want, but it's a bit hidden. Simply

Re: [R] error in format.df when using dec

2006-11-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Rainer M Krug RKrug at sun.ac.za writes: When using format.df with dec, the formating does not work (see code below). format.df(x, dec=2) a b m 1 m 2 1 1.120 3 5 7 2 2.230 4 6 8 This is the same bug introduced in the latest version

Re: [R] Hmisc, latex cdec not as expected - again

2006-11-06 Thread Dieter Menne
Henrik Frederik Thomsen HFTH at DCE.AU.DK writes: I have encountered at problem when using the Hmisc package to generate latex-tabels. I can't seem to control the number of digits in the latex-file. I have used the Design and Hmisc packages for a while without this problem, but after

Re: [R] Compare linear regressios for significant differenc es of the slopes

2006-11-03 Thread Dieter Menne
Rainer M Krug wrote: I have (8 measures * 96 groups) = 768 datasets for which I did linear regressions using lm(). Now I want to compare the slopes for each of the 8 measures in each of the 96 groups. As I understand , I can not use anova(lm1, ..., lm8) as the lm1 ... lm8 are

Re: [R] Prediction intervals for predict.gls

2006-11-03 Thread Dieter Menne
Spencer Jones ssj1364 at gmail.com writes: I am using R 2.3.0, Is there a way to get prediction intervals using predict.gls? A r-project site search (alway recommended) would have given you http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/42932.html Dieter

Re: [R] Rank transformation and the linear mixed model

2006-11-03 Thread Dieter Menne
Bruno L. Giordano bruno.giordano at music.mcgill.ca writes: I am looking for references about mixed models built on rank transformed data. To complement Frank H: Try lrm in package Design. Dieter __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Using a deriv function in nlme

2006-11-03 Thread Dieter Menne
by a similar problem as in http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/4555.html Dieter Menne __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] Lmer, heteroscedasticity and permutation, need help please

2006-10-24 Thread Dieter Menne
is under development an does not support this argument YET. Dieter Menne __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented

[R] toggleDoc: clutter reduction mainly for S4 documentation files

2006-10-23 Thread Dieter Menne
The following perl-script is available from http://www.menne-biomed.de/download/toggleDoc.zip After it is tested on other systems (currently only Windows), I plan to upload it to http://cran.mirroring.de/other-software.html toggleDoc.pl: Clutter reduction for S4-R documentation files.

Re: [R] creating bins for a plot

2006-10-19 Thread Dieter Menne
Jeffrey Stratford stratja at auburn.edu writes: I'm trying to plot the ratio of used versus unused bird houses (coded 1 or 0) versus a continuous environmental gradient (proportion of urban cover [purban2]) that I would like to convert into bins (0 - 0.25, 0.26 - 0.5, 0.51 - 0.75, 0.76 -

Re: [R] Nested source() errors

2006-10-19 Thread Dieter Menne
Pierce, Ken ken.pierce at oregonstate.edu writes: Does anyone know of any issues with nesting source() calls within multiple scripts? I have at least one script which always finds errors when I source it but runs fine when run on its own. It containd source() calls to other scripts and it

Re: [R] Adding locfit confidence intervals in trelis xyplot

2006-10-19 Thread Dieter Menne
Deepayan Sarkar deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com writes: On 10/18/06, juan f poyatos jpoyatos at cnio.es wrote: Dear all, I am trying to include confidence intervals in a xyplot. ... Well, panel.locfit doesn't have any options to draw confidence bands, so you'll have to write a panel

Re: [R] write data to pdf

2006-10-19 Thread Dieter Menne
Franco Mendolia franco.mendolia at gmx.de writes: Is there a possibility in R to save data in pdf-format? I do not want to save a plot but some lines of simple text. I remember that about 4 years ago there was a thread on the subject, but I could not find it any more. But, maybe, it's

Re: [R] sqlSave, fast=F option, bug?

2006-10-18 Thread Dieter Menne
to be a problem with SQLServer. The following example with Access works correctly for me, even if I close the connection in between. (Win2k, R 2.4.0) Dieter Menne - library(RODBC) channel - odbcConnectAccess(db1.mdb) df - data.frame(T=1, S=10) sqlSave(channel, df, test, rownames=F) #odbcClose

Re: [R] if statement error

2006-10-17 Thread Dieter Menne
Jenny Stadt jennystadt at yahoo.ca writes: if(length(real.d)=30 length(real.b)=30 beta1*beta2*theta1*theta20 ) { r - 1; corr - 1; } real.d and real.b are two vectors, beta1,beta2,theta1,and theta2 are constants. The error occurred like this: Error in if (length(real.d) = 30

[R] Transcript of Conservative ANOVA tables

2006-10-09 Thread Dieter Menne
quotes. Creating the text there was not much fun, waiting times are simply unacceptable and the Wiki only give an empty page when syntax errors (for example from quotes) are detected. Dieter Menne __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https

Re: [R] syntax of nlme

2006-10-09 Thread Dieter Menne
Thomas Wutzler twutz at bgc-jena.mpg.de writes: without grouped data (athough I recommend using grouped data after reading the book), the call can be formulated as: Well, this is probably the only point where I disagree with Douglas Bates. I found using grouped data introduces a level of

Re: [R] Transcript of Conservative ANOVA tables

2006-10-09 Thread Dieter Menne
Marc Schwartz (via MN mschwartz at mn.rr.com writes: If the content of this particular transcript is likely to be static, consider an alternative of making it available in a PDF document that is linked on that page. Then others can perhaps contribute by providing other relevant content in

Re: [R] latex and anova.lme problem

2006-10-08 Thread Dieter Menne
Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu writes: As far as I know, no one has implemented a latex method for anova.lme objects. Well, I have, based on your latex/Hmisc, but it's a bit to my private taste, so I won't upload it to CRAN. Also has latex.glm, .lme, .summary.lme.

Re: [R] Estimate in Wilcox_test vs wilcox.exact

2006-10-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Jue.Wang2 at sanofi-aventis.com writes: Does any one know why wilcox.exact sometimes doesn't agree with wilcox_test on the estimate of the difference of medians in two levels ? Example removed See: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/85893.html Dieter

Re: [R] Fitting a cumulative gaussian

2006-10-06 Thread Dieter Menne
Gamer, Matthias gamer at uni-mainz.de writes: Specifically, I have data from a psychometric function relating the frequency a subject's binary response (stimulus present / absent) to the strength of a physical stimulus. Such data is often modeled using a cumulative gaussian function.

Re: [R] which command

2006-10-06 Thread Dieter Menne
AgusSusanto gusanto at gmail.com writes: I obtained error messages when I run these commands in UNIX, but I obtained correct result when I run these command in WINDOWS. Can somebody point out the problem and give the solution. Thanks. dt-read.table(file=Fall.dat) dim(dt) [1] 1941

Re: [R] plotting

2006-10-01 Thread Dieter Menne
Anupam Tyagi AnupTyagi at yahoo.com writes: Is there something in R that will display both observed values and their influence on calculated statistics? In general : yes. You may give the example in the lm documentation a first try, and then rephrase your question. Dieter

[R] S4 documentation - Was: exact Wilcoxon signed rank test

2006-08-27 Thread Dieter Menne
files to mark those parts that should only be included in the full documentation. (For fear of being rip...ed into pieces, going off for vacation now). Dieter Menne __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] xyplot tick marks and line thickness

2006-08-25 Thread Dieter Menne
Deepayan Sarkar deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com writes: Right. the grid call shouldn't be necessary, axis.line controls the panel borders. And tck can be a vector, to get rid of the ugly bumps on top: xyplot(x ~ x | g, type = l, lwd = lwd, scales = list(tck = c(-1, 0)),

Re: [R] Finney's fiducial confidence intervals of LD50

2006-08-21 Thread Dieter Menne
carlos riveira carlos.riveira at yahoo.com writes: I am working with Probit regression (I cannot switch to logit) can anybody help me in finding out how to obtain with R Finney's fiducial confidence intervals for the levels of the predictor (Dose) needed to produce a proportion of 50% of

Re: [R] nls convergence problem

2006-08-17 Thread Dieter Menne
nls not converging for zero-noise cases Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov writes: No doubt Doug Bates would gladly accept patches ... . The zero-noise case is irrlevant in practice, but quite often I have uttered /(!! (vituperation filter on) when nls did not converge with real data. The

Re: [R] nls convergence problem

2006-08-17 Thread Dieter Menne
Yours truly dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de writes: ... Recently, a colleague fitted gastric emptying curves using GraphPad, with 100% success, and nls failed for one third of these. When we checked GraphPads output more closely, some of the coefficients looked like 2.1 with a confidence

Re: [R] nls convergence problem

2006-08-16 Thread Dieter Menne
Earl F. Glynn efg at stowers-institute.org writes: It's not clear to me why this problem cannot be fixed somehow. You You might try optim instead of nls, which always (well, as far I used it) converges. However, resulting coefficients may be totally off, and you should use profiling to check

Re: [R] A model for possibly periodic data with varying amp litude [repost, much edited]

2006-08-16 Thread Dieter Menne
Andrew Robinson A.Robinson at ms.unimelb.edu.au writes: I have up to 12 measures of a protein for each of 6 patients, taken every two or three days. The pattern of the protein looks periodic, but the height of the peaks is highly variable. I'm testing for periodicity using a Monte Carlo

Re: [R] Presentation of multiple models in one table using xtable

2006-08-16 Thread Dieter Menne
Ajay Narottam Shah ajayshah at mayin.org writes: Consider this situation: x1 - runif(100); x2 - runif(100); y - 2 + 3*x1 - 4*x2 + rnorm(100) m1 - summary(lm(y ~ x1)) m2 - summary(lm(y ~ x2)) m3 - summary(lm(y ~ x1 + x2)) Now you have estimated 3 different competing models, and

Re: [R] nls convergence problem

2006-08-15 Thread Dieter Menne
(maxiter=15, tol=0.01), # nothing makes sense here +trace=TRUE) This toy problem is exactly what the warning is for: Warning Do not use nls on artificial zero-residual data. Add some noise and try again. Dieter Menne __ R-help

Re: [R] How to reply to a thread if receiving R-help mails in digest form

2006-08-13 Thread Dieter Menne
Dirk Enzmann dirk.enzmann at uni-hamburg.de writes: I receive R-help messages in digest form that makes it difficult to answer a post. I noticed that my answer is not added to the thread (instead, a new thread is started) although I use the same subject line (starting with Re: ) as the

Re: [R] How to order or sort a data.frame

2006-08-13 Thread Dieter Menne
John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca writes: I have a dataframe where I would like to order first by variable, year, and then within that variable by month. http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/r/faq/sort.htm and http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=misc:rtips-status Dieter

Re: [R] removing intercept from lm() results in oddly high Rsquared

2006-08-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Joseph LeBouton lebouton at msu.edu writes: Can anyone help me understand why an lm model summary would return an r.squared of ~0.18 with an intercept term, and an r.squared of ~0.98 without the intercept? The fit is NOT that much better, according to plot.lm: residuals are similar

Re: [R] Combination (a large numbers)

2006-08-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Xin jasonshi510 at hotmail.com writes: I try to list all of combination among (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k) Check function combinations in gtools. Dieter __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] Help with short time series

2006-08-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Simone Vincenzi simone.vincenzi at nemo.unipr.it writes: Dear R-list, I have a statistical problem with the comparison of two short time-series of density data in an ecological framework. I have to compare two short time series (5 years, one value for each year) of species density data

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