Re: [R] negative value for AIC and BIC

2007-09-07 Thread Mike Meredith
Sure -2*log(x) can be negative, and it can outweigh the k*npar term. Just do: curve(-2*log(x)+2, 0.1, 10) # for AIC with npar = 1 abline(h=0, v=exp(1), lty=3) However, that only happens for x exp(1) or even bigger if npar 1. I think Olivier's real question is: do we believe in likelihoods 1

Re: [R] Does anyone.... worth a warning?!? No warning at all

2007-08-20 Thread Mike Meredith
It's always seemed to me that 'mean' behaved as expected, and 'max' et al were peculiar. If you passed 2 or more vectors to a function would you really expect it to concatenate them before doing it's proper job? I'd rather expect it to behave like 'pmax' and compare them element by element.

Re: [R] Values in horizontal versus vertical position on 'y' axe

2007-08-13 Thread Mike Meredith
? par# then scroll down to look at 'las' You probably want par(las=1) HTH, Mike. akki wrote: hi, When I do a graph. the values on y axe are vertical position. How can I put the values in horizontal position? thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] Error in using nlevels in apply function

2007-08-06 Thread Mike Meredith
apply(mydata,2,nelem,... passes the columns of mydata _one_by_one_ to nelem, so nelem only sees a vector, and complains if it's expecting a 2d object. Try this: nelem-function(x) nlevels(factor(x)) apply(mydata[,mycol.index],2,nelem) HTH, Mike. Sébastien-18 wrote: Dear R users, I am

Re: [R] Error when using the cat function

2007-07-28 Thread Mike Meredith
Your problem is with ifelse, not with cat. First clue is that ifelse(TRUE,{print(yes)},{print(no)}) # results in yes being printed TWICE. Try this: tmp - ifelse(TRUE,{print(yes)},{print(no)}) # one yes tmp # another yes Try: print(print(yes)) # prints yes and returns yes invisibly. This

Re: [R] maths characters in labels ylab padding

2007-07-23 Thread Mike Meredith
Help on this is in ?plotmath You can use ylab = expression(Y Label(m^2)) Use par(mar..) to increase the margin width, and then mtext to place y axis label: y - 1:10 x - rnorm(10,5,2000) par(mar = c(5,6,4,2) + 0.1) plot(x ~ y, ylab = , las = 1, type = n, bty = n )

Re: [R] binned column in a data.frame

2007-07-20 Thread Mike Meredith
Try something like this: x - c(1,2,6,8,13,0,5,10, runif(10) * 100) tmp - x %/% 5 + 1 bin.names - paste((0:19) * 5, (1:20) * 5, sep=-) data.frame(Start = x, Binned_Start = bin.names[tmp]) This assumes you want (eg.) 5 in the 5-10 bin, not the 0-5 bin. You may also want to make Binned_Start into

Re: [R] HELP FOR BUGS

2007-07-15 Thread Mike Meredith
You might find the 'arm' package useful. For a good introduction to heirarchical modeling, using 'arm' and also WinBUGS and R2WinBUGS, read Gelman, A; J Hill 2007. Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models. Cambridge University Press. Cheers, Mike. Ali raza-4 wrote:

Re: [R] Me again, about the horrible documentation of tcltk

2007-07-06 Thread Mike Meredith
I think it would help if the tcl/tk manuals were added to the RGui Help menu. Why google when they are on your hard drive already? Cheers, Mike Mike Prager wrote: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How on Earth can I know what are the arguments of any of the functions of the

Re: [R] using self-written functions

2007-06-29 Thread Mike Meredith
I use something like Gavin's solution for functions which are not used too often. The problem with using 'source' is that the user environment gets cluttered. I 'save' the most useful functions to a single file (MMmisc.Rda), put it in the HOMEPATH directory (use Sys.getenv(HOMEPATH) to find

Re: [R] warning in a loop

2007-06-24 Thread Mike Meredith
You can investigate what's gone wrong after the loop has failed by looking at the values of i, k, p, and t. Although d[(d[,(i+1)]%in%1),1] produces a vector, k has only one element. Same with p. Should then be obvious why the t.test produces an error. The problem is with the [i] index for k and

Re: [R] how to ave this?

2007-06-23 Thread Mike Meredith
The simplest solution in this case would be: (x[[1]] + x[[2]])/2 But that approach would get messy with 2 matrices in your list. Maybe change your list to an array, then use 'apply': n - length(x) y - array(unlist(x), c(3,2,n)) apply(y, 1:2, mean) HTH, Mike Weiwei Shi wrote: one of my

Re: [R] Data consistency checks in functions

2007-06-23 Thread Mike Meredith
Take a look at Help Manuals (in PDF) An Introduction to R, section 10.3. R will recognise the 2nd argument as 'values' iff you define your function as: myfun - function(theta, values, X) You can use if(missing(values)) { values - some.expression(X) } to deal with cases where the user

Re: [R] merge

2007-06-22 Thread Mike Meredith
Looking at the data, maybe what you need is an array: array(c(A, B), c(5,6,2), dimnames=list(rownames(A), colnames(A), c(obs,pred))) This allows you to keep the names and 'supernames'. This will work if A and B are matrices, not data frames, so you may have to use 'as.matrix' first. HTH,

Re: [R] Getting names of objects passed with ...

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Meredith
Thanks, Henrik, but 'foo' doesn't do what I want: x - some stuff second - more stuff foo(first=x, second) [1] first Brian's right: ...he wants the argument name if there is one otherwise the deparsed argument value, but clarification would be helpful. The function using this compares

Re: [R] Getting names of objects passed with ...

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Meredith
Thanks very much to all of you. It looks like 'match.call' is the key, and both Brian's and Gabor's solutions work fine. --- Mike. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-names-of-objects-passed-with-%22...%22-tf3850318.html#a10913978 Sent from the R help mailing list

Re: [R] Getting names of objects passed with ...

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Meredith
Sorry, I responded a bit too hastily last night, without testing the two functions properly. Brian's is shorter but I think the one in my post is a bit more robust: Indeed! 'f1' only works if at least one of the arguments is named. Otherwise 'nm' is NULL and 'nchar(nm[i])' fails. 'f2' seems to

[R] Getting names of objects passed with ...

2007-05-31 Thread Mike Meredith
Is there a tidy way to get the names of objects passed to a function via the ... argument? rbind/cbind does what I want: test.func1 - function(...) { nms - rownames(rbind(..., deparse.level=1)) print(nms) } x - some stuff second - more stuff test.func1(first=x, second) [1] first second

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

2007-05-26 Thread Mike Meredith
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 in the X), R enters into an infinite loop and