[R] Confusion using functions to access the function call stack example section

2007-09-04 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I was going through the example below which is taken from the example section in the R documentation for accessing the function call stack. I am confused and I have 3 questions that I was hoping someone could answer. 1) why is y equal to zero even though the call was done with gg(3) 2) what does

Re: [R] Confusion using functions to access the function call stack example section

2007-09-04 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
To: Leeds, Mark (IED) Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Confusion using functions to access the function call stack example section It is because you have a recursive function call and the value of 'y' when you print is it 0. I have added another statement that might help clarify what you

Re: [R] possible bug in vars package (predict.varest) ???

2007-08-30 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
yes, you can just pulldown the tar.gz file and tar -xvf it and that will give you many directories one of which will contain the source. I've done that with the vars package in the past ( bernhard's code is very nice to read ) and I would just send you the code to predict.varest but I don't think

[R] attempt at making a polygon class failed

2007-08-28 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I was reading a presentation of Professor Peng's and typed the presentation code into R but I changed it to make plot.polygon a separate function instread of defining the function in SetMethod itself as he did. Is that the problem with the code below because plot(p) just gives me zero. Thanks.

Re: [R] data manipulation help

2007-08-28 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
below works on you example but someone will have something more elegant. zeroindices-which(a == 0) rep(1:length(zeroindices),c(diff(zeroindices),(length(a)-zeroindices[len gth(zeroindices)]+1))) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zheng

[R] Turning a logical vector into its indices without losing its length

2007-08-24 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have the code below which gives me what I want for temp based on logvec but I was wondering if there was a shorter way ( i.e : a one liner ) without having to initialize temp to zeros. This is purely for learning purposes. Thanks. logvec - c(TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE,FALSE)

Re: [R] Turning a logical vector into its indices without losing itslength

2007-08-24 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
There's a typo in my previous message. logvec should be invec. sorry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leeds, Mark (IED) Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:12 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Turning a logical vector into its

Re: [R] how do i use the get function to obtain an element from alist...

2007-08-21 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
eval(parse(text=(a$x). You can only use get when it's an object. a$x isn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juan Manuel Barreneche Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:35 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] how do i use the get

Re: [R] [R-SIG-Finance] question on analyzing of correlation structure

2007-08-03 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I don't understand your question but there is a package called VARs that may be helpful to you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of liu lu Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] question on

Re: [R] t-distribution

2007-08-01 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
if you mean the area to the left of the 1.11 point on the x axis of a t dist with 9 degrees of freedom, Then you need to use pt(1.11,9). See ?pt for more info. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nair, Murlidharan T Sent: Wednesday, August

[R] Question about acception rejection sampling - NOT R question

2007-07-13 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
This is not related to R but I was hoping that someone could help me. I am reading the Understanding the Metropolis Hastings Algorithm paper from the American Statistician by Chip and Greenberg, 1995, Vol 49, No 4. Right at the beginning they explain the algorithm for basic acceptance rejection

[R] algebra/moving average question - NOTHING TO DO WITH R

2007-07-06 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with R but I was hoping that someone might know because there are obviously a lot of very bright people on this list. Suppose I had a time series of data and at each point in time t, I was calculating x bar + plus minus sigma where x bar was based on a moving

Re: [R] Question for svm function in e1071

2007-07-05 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
adschai : this isn't particularly helpful but when I am using a function from a package called xxx that I have little knowledge about, I take the source as is and create my own function out of It called my.xxx and then put print statements Inside it to see what's going on. This is probably an

Re: [R] converting list to an array

2007-07-05 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
if by array, you just mean vector, then the following would work . stack(myList) If you want to take off the names of myList that get put in the second column stack(myList)[,-2,drop=FALSE] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aydemir, Zava

Re: [R] EWMA in fMultivar

2007-07-03 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
there is an ewma example in ?filter I think that might be more useful because then you can see better What's happening in terms of the smoothing. Actually, I just looked and it's not there. It must have been in S+. I include my ewma below but you have to modify it because it assumes a zoo object.

[R] Convetring a dataframe so that it just has one column

2007-07-03 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have two dataframes, yendog and datasub as below and I want to do the same thing to both of them, namely convert them so that they retain their dataframeness but stack the columns into 1 column. I don't need names on the results. I did try temp1-do.call(rbind,datasub)

Re: [R] Non-linear constraints under Markowitz

2007-07-03 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I think that problem has a complicated closed form solution but I'm not sure which text it is in. It might be in Ingersoll, Financial Decision Making. I'm sorry that I can't be less vague. It's also possible to derive it using a Langrange Multiplier. I did it once but that was a long time ago.

[R] Evaluating predictive power with no intercept-statistics question - not R question

2007-06-28 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I realize that the following has been talked about on this list many times before in some related way but I am going to ask for help anyway because I still don't know what to do. Suppose I have no intercept models such as the following : Y = B*X_1 + error Y = B*X_2 + error Y = B*X_3 + error Y =

Re: [R] how to use chi-square to test correlation question

2007-06-27 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
someone else might have another viewpoint but I think your categories needs to be score categories ( 60-65, 65-70 etc ) and the data needs to be the number of girls and boys that fall into a category. I've never seen this below a certain value Methodology but maybe it's popular and I just

Re: [R] Imputing missing values in time series

2007-06-22 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have a function that does this type of thing but it works off a pure vector so it wouldn have to be modified. If you make your object a zoo object, the that object has many functions associated with it and na.locf would Do what you need, I think. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[R] Merging two data objects question

2007-05-31 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have two R objects, allDataSubset1 and allDataSubset2 and the str of both of them is shown below ( I don't show all 18 lists for space purposes ). The difference between them is that the times ( and possibly the days ) and the data is different and what I want to do is merge them so that only

[R] Changing sequential regression code to call systemfit

2007-05-23 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I use code ( actually its code from vars package and its directly below ) to do a sequence of lm calls and the data I use from the matrix depends on restrictions. for(i in 1:K){ datares - datasub[, which(x$restrictions[i, ] == 1),drop=FALSE] y - yendog[, i] lmres - lm(y ~ -1

[R] I made some progress on my previous systemfit question but still not quite there

2007-05-23 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
Surprisingly, I played around with some test code and below actually creates equations that look correct. tempmat-matrix(10,nrow=6,ncol=6) restrictmat-diag(6) colnames(tempmat)-c(AUD.l1,CHF.l1,CAD.l1,GBP.l1,EUR.l1,JPY.l 1) rownames(tempmat)-c(AUD,CHF,CAD,GBP,EUR,JPY) eqn-list() for ( i in 1:6

[R] Time series\optimization question not R question

2007-05-22 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
This is a time series\optimization rather than an R question : Suppose I have an ARMA(1,1) with restrictions such that the coefficient on the lagged epsilon_term is related to the coefficient on The lagged z term as below. z_t =[A + beta]*z_t-1 + epsilon_t - A*epsilon_t-1 So, if I don't have a

[R] Sample correlation coefficient question NOT R question

2007-05-20 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
This is a statistics question not an R question. When calculating the sample correlation coefficient cor(x_t,y_t) between say two variables, x_t and y_t t=1,.n ( one can assume that the variables are in time but I don't think this really matters for the question ), does someone know where I

[R] 2 questions about loading packages

2007-05-17 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
My sessioninfo is below and I have two questions about loading packages in R : #=== = R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: C attached base

Re: [R] Split a vector(list) into 3 list

2007-05-17 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
If temp is your vector then split(index(temp),temp) will give you what you want. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Wang Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:15 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Split a vector(list) into 3 list

Re: [R] Problem loading library

2007-05-17 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
it's not really an error but it changes how you call things depending on what you need. If you want to use loadings in stats, you will have to use it by saying stats::loadings because it's masked and then you use loadings from pls by just saying loadings. Other than that, there's no problem I

Re: [R] Split a vector(list) into 3 list

2007-05-17 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
17, 2007 8:44 PM To: Leeds, Mark (IED) Cc: Patrick Wang; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] Split a vector(list) into 3 list Thanks, no index function was defined in R. I try to use the split(order(temp), temp), the number of groups are correct, however the result doesnot seem

[R] statistics/correlation question NOT R question

2007-05-08 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
This is not an R question but if anyone can help me, it's much appreciated. Suppose I have a series ( stationary ) y_t and a series x_t ( stationary )and x_t has variance sigma^2_x and epsilon is normal (0, sigma^2_epsilon ) and the two series have the relation

[R] Looking for a cleaner way to implement a setting certain indices of a matrix to 1 function

2007-05-08 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I wrote an ugly algorithm to set certain elements of a matrix to 1 without looping and below works and you can see what The output is below the code. K-6 lagnum-2 restrictmat-matrix(0,nrow=K,ncol=K*3) restrictmat[((col(restrictmat) - row(restrictmat) = 0 ) (col(restrictmat)-row(restrictmat)) %%

Re: [R] Looking for a cleaner way to implement a setting certainindices of a matrix to 1 function

2007-05-08 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
to be greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (number of cols/number of rows ). Thanks For your advice. -Original Message- From: Bert Gunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:34 PM To: Leeds, Mark (IED); r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] Looking

Re: [R] Looking for a cleaner way to implement a setting certain indices of a matrix to 1 function

2007-05-08 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
thanks anders : that works perfectly. I'll have to study it better to understand but it's much appreciated. -Original Message- From: Anders Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:55 PM To: Leeds, Mark (IED) Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Looking

Re: [R] general question about use of list

2007-04-30 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
it's also not unbiased. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Y G Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:15 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] general question about use of list Hi, is this list only related to R issues or it has a broader

[R] GLS terminology question not related to R

2007-04-25 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
This is a terminology question not related to R. The literature often says that OLS is inefficient relative to GLS if the residuals in the system are correlated ( and the RHS sides of each are not identical ). Does this mean that OLS overestimates residual and coefficient variances ,

[R] Gentleman and Ihaka , 2000 paper question

2007-04-18 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
In their paper, Lexical Scope and Statistical Computing, the authors ( Gentleman and Ihaka ) go to great length explaining why R's use of lexical scoping creates advantages when doing statistical computations. If anyone has or is familiar with this paper, could they provide the main program code

[R] Names in vector occurring in another vector

2007-04-16 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have a vector of character strings such as mainnames-c(CAD,AUD) and another vector say checknames-c(CAD.l1,AUD.l1,JPY.l1,EUR.l1,CAD.l2,AUD.l2,JPY .l2,EUR.l2) I want a new vector of character strings that is just resultnames-c(JPY.l1,EUR.l1,JPY.l2,EUR.l2) Because any time a name occurs in

[R] Problem with predict in systemfit

2007-04-13 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
A friend of mine sent me below so I am posting below. If it is not enough information, please just let me know and I will tell him. Thanks. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:58 PM To: Leeds, Mark (IED) Subject: R question I am using the predict function after I have done

[R] Testing invertibility of an AR model

2007-04-09 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I've looked around but I can't find the method in R for testing whether the resulting estimated coefficients of an AR model imply that the model is invertible. To quote from eric zivot's blue book : the AR(p) is invertible provided the rots of the characteristic equation Phi(z) = 1 - phi_1*z

[R] X11 and linux and plotting and the vertical axis

2007-03-30 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I use R on linux and I go through exceed from a windows machine. Depending on the amount of plots I do on a screen, sometimes the numbers on the vertical axis of the plots don't show up. I tried infinite of combinations of mar and cex but nothing helps. Yet, if instead of shooting the graphic

[R] .duplicate question

2007-03-28 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I am using the vars package and it calls a function causality() which then calls something called .duplicate. I had to modify the causality function slightly for my purposes and I called it my.causality() but now the .duplicate function is no longer known to the my.causality function. I'm fairly

[R] Seemingly Unrelated Regressions question - not R question

2007-03-15 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
Does anyone know where I can find a proof of the fact that when each X matrix in a SUR is the same, then SUR estimation is equivalent to OLS estmation. The proof is supposedly in William Greene's book but that book costs 157.00 an has mixed reviews so I am reluctant to purchase it. Thanks.

[R] Covariance matrix calc method question

2007-03-15 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have been comparing the output of an R package to S+Finmetrics and I notice that the covariance matrix outputted by the two procedures is different. The R package computes the covariance matrix using Method 1 and I think ( but I'm not sure ) that S+Finmetrics computes it using Method 2. I put

Re: [R] estimating an ARIMA model with constraints

2007-03-13 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
are the carats in your notation meant to be time subscripts ? also, I think I know what a and b are meant to be ( the coefficients of the polynomaisl corresponding To the ar part of the model but correct me if I'm wrong ) but is there an ma piece to it also ? And I don't see an error term ? I

[R] covariance question which has nothing to do with R

2007-03-01 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
This is a covariance calculation question so nothing to do with R but maybe someone could help me anyway. Suppose, I have two random variables X and Y whose means are both known to be zero and I want to get an estimate of their covariance. I have n sample pairs (X1,Y1) (X2,Y2) . . . . .

[R] R equivalent of the VAR function in S+Finmetrics

2007-02-22 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I was looking at the systemfit package and it seems like I could use it to solve OLS systems ( which is essentially what VARs are ) but the lag length would have to be known beforehand, I think. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent of the VAR function in Eric Zivot's S+Finmetrics package

[R] Estimating a bivariate VAR(X) and using F-tests

2007-02-21 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I would like to estimate bivariate VAR(X) models where I don't know the optimal lag length X and would also like to use F-tests to determine the granger causality of each of the variables. I'm aware of Achim's econometric packages description but I was wondering if someone could recommend a

[R] xts.dvs function in fCalendar

2007-02-14 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
There is a function in the fCalendar package called xts.dvs but I m unable to see the code inside the function. Is this common with functions in the fCalendar package or maybe there is something else that I have to do first or use the colon colon command in some manner I want to see the function

Re: [R] (no subject)

2007-02-08 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
You're not doing anything wrong. You fit an arima(0,1,2) so it doesn't know the epsilon terms going forward are after the first step so it assumes them to be zero so you get the same forecast every day. I think you would have to re-estimate each day if you want different forecasts every day.

[R] ncdf library

2007-02-07 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
i have been trying to load the package ncdf using the command library(ncdf). below is my hardware information. platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status

[R] formula for test statistics of arima coefficients

2007-02-06 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have an object, ARestopt, that is the result of a call to the arima function. I want to calculate test statistics ( null is coeffs are zero ) for each of the estimated coefficients. My coefficents are in a vector called ARestopt$coef and my covariance matrix is ARestopt$var.coef. I thought

[R] ar function in stats

2007-02-05 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I had a couple of questions about the ar function that i was hoping someone could answer. I have the structure below testSeries-structure(c(-3.88613620955214e-05, 0, -7.77272551011343e-05, 0, -0.000194344573539562, -0.000116624876218163, -3.88779814601281e-05, 0, 3.88779814601281e-05,

Re: [R] Seek general information about time/date storage and functionsin R

2007-01-04 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I think the best explanation of dates and times is in r-news 2.4.1 but 2.4.1 might be off so someone will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Fairbank Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:43 PM To:

[R] ewma help

2007-01-03 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I wrote my own ewma function to deal with the somewhat odd way that filter handles missing values. The function I wrote works as long as the NA isn't first but when it is first I still get a zero in the output. I'm not expert enough to look at filter and undeerstand what it is doing. # 1) THE

Re: [R] Kalman Filter in Control situation.

2006-12-22 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
you have to be really careful because There are two versions of the kalman filter in terms of notation ( even where you don't have exogenous ) Y_t = F_tprime*theta_t-1 + epsilon_t G_t = G_t*theta_t-1 + omega_t - Y_t = F_tprime*theta_t + epsilon_t G_t =

Re: [R] daily time series

2006-12-15 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I think you can fit them using arima() whch I think is part of the base. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santiago Cilintano Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:41 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] daily time series Is there

Re: [R] ifelse question

2006-12-12 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
ifelse is vectorized but there is no way you could know what's happening with that command because you have rnorm(1) for both conditions. I think you mean to have something different in one of them ? Whewn I run your code in my R session, I get 10 values for y1, so there isn't anything wrong

[R] behavior of ewma function

2006-12-11 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have the ewma function as shown below. I think I copied it from an oldSplus help page on filter and then modified it with a lot of help from Achim. ewma-function(x,lambda = 1, init = x[1]) { rval-filter(lambda*coredata(x),filter=(1-lambda),method=recursive,ini t=init)

Re: [R] behavior of ewma function

2006-12-11 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
know how to do that, the help would be appreciated. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leeds, Mark (IED) Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:15 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] behavior of ewma function I have the ewma function

[R] I think this modified ewma function works if anyone is interested

2006-12-11 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I think this modified version of ewma works for anyone who is interested. It gets rid of any NAs, smoothes the resulting series and then puts the NAs back in at their correct spots. The only catch is that the input has to be a zoo object. Sometimes I shock myself. ewmab-function(x,lambda = 1,

[R] any way to make the code more efficient ?

2006-12-08 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
The code bekow works so this is why I didn't include the data to reproduce it. The loops about 500 times and each time, a zoo object with 1400 rows and 4 columns gets created. ( the rows represent minutes so each file is one day worth of data). Inside the loop, I keep rbinding the newly created

Re: [R] any way to make the code more efficient ?

2006-12-08 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
to avoid rbind ? I apologize because I don't think I understand what you are saying. Or maybe it's not possible to avoid rbind ? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Ravi Varadhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 5:21 PM To: Leeds, Mark (IED); r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] Merging two data sets

2006-12-07 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
if you read them in as zoo objects , you can then use merge.zoo but but I need to Send you an example of reading them in as zoo objects. Hold on. I also have your binders on my shelf ready to send. I've just been forgetting/busy. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] stat question - not R question so ignore if not interested

2006-12-05 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
If do a scattrplot of data ( x and y ) and there are two clouds of points. One cloud is in the left bottom corner of the plot and the other cloud is in the upper right. If I fit a regression line to this data ( or equivalently , calculate a correlation ), then obviously, it is going to seem like

[R] problem with indexing a zoo object

2006-11-29 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
My problem is the following : I create 2 zoo objects and then I try to subset one of them using logic. indicesthatpass is a vector of trues and falses but when I send it into bckret, it returns an empty bckret. Obviously it has something to do with bckret being a zoo object and if I do the same

Re: [R] better define: matrix comparison and cbind issue

2006-11-29 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:43 PM To: 'jim holtman'; Leeds, Mark (IED) Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] better define: matrix comparison and cbind issue Ok, so columns are fixed and my apologizes, for the incorrect subscripting. So I have the matching down because I'm matching

Re: [R] Counting zeros in a matrix

2006-11-28 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
temp-apply(A,1,sum(diff(x)) == -1 ) but check it because I haven't tested it and when things are not tested there can often be unforeseen problems. Also, may have to declare sum(diff(x)) == -1 as a separate function and then call it. I'm not sure aobut that. -Original Message-

[R] automatic cleaning of workspace

2006-11-27 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I'm having that problem where I am sometimes using an object that's from a previous workspace when I don't want to be doing that. I was thinking of putting rm(objects=ls()) in my first.R function But, the problem with doing this, is that it doesn't prompt you with are you sure and there could be

Re: [R] data in form of a date

2006-11-22 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
there are probably many other ways but check out read.zoo. I cans end you of read.zoo also if you like. Let me know. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James J. Roper Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:18 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

[R] getting a title in a plot during an lapply

2006-11-16 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
In my code below tempa and tempb are numeric vectors that I combined into a dataframe along with the deciles of tempa. I have an lapply statement that goes through the dataframe and does ten plots according to the appropriate decile. The code is below and it works fine. There are no bugs so I

[R] Correlations not in sync with r2 from regression

2006-11-15 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have two variables, minutereturnsa which can be thought of as my independent variable and minutereturnsb which can be thought of as my dependent variable. When I run correlations on the two variables, depending on which of the three methods I use, I get values of between -.15 through -.19.

Re: [R] Correlations not in sync with r2 from regression

2006-11-15 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
oops, I forgot to square !! Thanks Chuck. I would have spent the rest of the day and then some trying to figure that one out -Original Message- From: Chuck Cleland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:46 AM To: Leeds, Mark (IED) Subject: Re

[R] putting a column name on a zoo object

2006-11-14 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
does anyone know how to put a column name on a zoo object. I think achim and gabor are off line or they have gotten totally tired of me an decided to ignore me ( which is totalyy understandable ). logbidask-log((aggfxdata[,bid] + aggfxdata[,ask])/2.0) logbidask doesn't have a name and I can't

Re: [R] putting a column name on a zoo object

2006-11-14 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
let me try colnames. I thought I tried that earlier and got an error but I've been wrong before. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Horace Tso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:29 PM To: Leeds, Mark (IED); r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] putting

Re: [R] putting a column name on a zoo object

2006-11-14 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
, 1144025100, 1144025160, 1144025220)) -Original Message- From: Leeds, Mark (IED) Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:39 PM To: 'Horace Tso'; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] putting a column name on a zoo object let me try colnames. I thought I tried that earlier and got an error

[R] not sure if this intended behavior in column referencing

2006-11-14 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I made smaller zoo object with one column with the structure below smooththirtylogbidask-structure(c(4.77126598671015, 4.77127449545028, 4.77128569715842, 4.77129917), index = structure(c(1144022520, 1144022580, 1144022640, 1144022700), class = c(POSIXt, POSIXct)), class = zoo) And then I

[R] indexing question

2006-11-13 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have the following set of indices, call it idx, that correspond to the indices of a vector say temp. [1] 31 36 41 61 66 71 91 96 101 121 126 131 151 156 161 181 186 191 211 216 221 241 246 251 271 276 281 301 306 311 331 336 341 361 366 [36] 371 391

Re: [R] indexing question

2006-11-13 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
, November 13, 2006 3:18 PM To: Leeds, Mark (IED) Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] indexing question diff(tmp[idx]) cheers, b On Nov 13, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Leeds, Mark ((IED)) wrote: I have the following set of indices, call it idx, that correspond to the indices of a vector say

Re: [R] Multivariate time-series

2006-11-13 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I think I remember seeing something called sem ? It's listed as on the packages on www.r-project.org and the explanation is what you want. I just can't be sure of the name. There are probably more than just sem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [R] Forcing the intercept

2006-11-13 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
you can just subtract 4.3 from the independent variable and then do through zero. That will Give you a force through 4.3. I don't undersarand the second part of your statement. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heather Maughan Sent:

Re: [R] looking for functions that can test/estimate CAMPM, APT, Fama's factor model, etc.

2006-11-12 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
you should also write to the r-finance special interest group. also, you can do all that stuff yourself using the R tools/functions etc but I don't know of such functions have already been written. joe byers may be able to answer the question. my guess is that, if these sort of things have been

[R] I think a simple question

2006-11-12 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I have index ( of a vector ) values of say tempin-c(1 31 61 91 121 all the way upto 1411) What I want is a function that takes in a number say, x = 5, and gives me an new vector of tempout-1 6 31 36 91 96 121 126 .. 1411 1416 This can't be so hard but I can't get it and

Re: [R] Comparison between GARCH and ARMA

2006-11-07 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
Hi : I'm a R novice but I consider myself reasonably versed in time series related material and I have never heard of an equivalence between Garch(1,1) for volatility and an ARMA(1,1) in the squared returns and I'm almost sure there isn't. There are various problems with what you wrote. 1) r(t)

Re: [R] Comparison between GARCH and ARMA

2006-11-07 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
but not the return squared squared which is what was written previously. . From: Hannu Kahra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:54 PM To: Wensui Liu Cc: Leeds, Mark (IED); r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Megh Dal Subject: Re: [R] Comparison

Re: [R] Correlated ROC curves

2006-11-06 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
one of the newsletters ( about a year ago ) has something about an ROC package but I don't remember which one it is. If you do a search for ROC on the search thing in www.project.org, I'm sure you will find something about it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[R] histogram bin width

2006-11-06 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
hi all : i have the data below and then below that, i call the hist function three times using the Scott method for the widths of the bins. the bin width is different for the three histograms but I would like it to always be 0.05 regfardless of the data set being histogrammed. I'm sure there

[R] plotting question

2006-10-31 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
i have the following code below and at the end there are some plotting statements. it actualy looks quite nice when you run it but there is just one strange thing happening that don't know how to fix. the three things being plotted are aggfxdata[,logbidask] which has its own set of times (

Re: [R] Missing data analysis in R

2006-10-31 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
there is a green book by joe shafer ( I forget the name but it's probsably on amazon ). I also Can't say it's in the same format as faraday's book but I think it's fairly popular for multiple Imputation techniques etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] Odd behaviour of removing 'nothing' from an array or data frame

2006-10-31 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I think I had that similar problem at some point in the way past and got around it by checking the length of dubious records before I Sent it into the expression. If the length is zero don't send it into the expression. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] plotting question

2006-10-31 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
i have the axis line of code below in a plotting command and it works nicely but it puts tick values at every 5 of lt and i would like a tick value at every value of lt. i read about pretty() but that sounded tricky so instead , since i want a tick mark at every value of lt ( it's discrete and

[R] did my searching but still couldn't find anything for bayesian dlm

2006-10-31 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I familarized myelf with kalmanlike and structts which are approaches for building and estimating ( and forecasting ) state space models ( or the equivalent arima models ). back in 2003, gavin simpson wrote an email describing the west and harrison apprach to estimate state space models and asked

Re: [R] plot history

2006-10-30 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I send them all to one postscript file and then bring it up in ghostview but maybe there is another way. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rohini Mulford Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:29 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] plot

[R] as.zoo question

2006-10-30 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
this is probably a question for gabor or achim but maybe someone else can answer it in case they are not around ? Ifr you paste the code below ( again you would need the zoo and chron libraries to be installed ), you should get the error Error in Ops.POSIXt(frequency, freq) : %% not defined

Re: [R] as.zoo question

2006-10-30 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
oops, for the pasting to work, You would have to get rid of the blank line that occurs during the bayesfactor construction. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leeds, Mark (IED) Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:15 PM To: r-help

[R] error when loading a second session of R

2006-10-29 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
Hi : Whenever I try to run R in a second session( but not in the same working directory ) , I get the error below Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library '/u/etlfs/dev/users/leedsmar/res/R/lib/chron/libs/chron.so': /lib/i686/libc.so.6:

[R] labelling of horizontal axis in acf function

2006-10-28 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
this one is not a false alarm like my previous message. i have cut and paste the code below so if anyone could run it would be appreciated. basically, my question is why the horizontal axis of the acf plot is labelled with such huge numbers when the labels should be 1 through 10 since may

Re: [R] Power of test

2006-10-27 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I don't know if there is one but if you use the t.test with df greater than 30, you will Get answers very close to that for the normal because the tables get pretty close after df of 30. I guess to be safe you can use set df to some huge #.

[R] really strange problem - has to be logic but i can't find it

2006-10-27 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
would someone be kind enough to paste the code below into an R session ( ir you can paste it into a file and just source it ) and take a look at it ? I must be doing something wrong but i can't find it. I start out with a zoo object that has 100 elements in it. then, i only want to keep the

[R] update on my weird problem

2006-10-27 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
as jim pointed out ( i think we were figuring this out simultaneously. thanks a lot jim ), it looks it does have something to do with the fact that it's a zoo object because below i consider two cases. in the first case, fxdatab is a zoo object and i get the length of temp to be 1. in the

Re: [R] update on my weird problem

2006-10-27 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
also, i have a typo on the fifth to last line of what is pasted below ( should be fxdatac not fxdatab ) but it doesn't matter. what i said about the results still holds. thanks. From: Leeds, Mark (IED) Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:56 PM To: r-help

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