[R] backslash c

2007-08-07 Thread Mikkel Grum
How do I get output with \color{blue}, i.e. with only one backslash??? \color{blue} [1] color{blue} Warning messages: 1: '\c' is an unrecognized escape in a character string 2: unrecognized escape removed from \color{blue} \\color{blue} [1] \\color{blue} Any help greatly appreciated.

[R] arrowhead styles

2007-03-17 Thread Mikkel Grum
One way would be to use the grid function arrow(). Paul Murrell's document on Integrating Grid Graphics Output with Base Graphics Output has an example of integrating grid graphics arrows in base graphics. There's also an Arrows() function in the package IDPMisc. Mikkel Hi all, I've been

[R] problem with cut(as.Date(2006-08-14), week)

2006-08-17 Thread Mikkel Grum
When I run cut.Date or cut.POSIXt with argument breaks = weeks, the function gives the first day of that week, unless the date is the first day of the week, in which case it gives an error message as in: cut(as.Date(2006-08-16), week) [1] 2006-08-14 Levels: 2006-08-14 cut(as.Date(2006-08-14),

[R] \r with RSQLite

2006-03-15 Thread Mikkel Grum
sessionInfo() R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, i386-pc-mingw32 attached base packages: [1] methods stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [7] base other attached packages: RSQLite DBI 0.4-1 0.1-10 Mikkel Grum Genetic Diversity International Plant Genetic Resources

Re: [R] \r with RSQLite

2006-03-15 Thread Mikkel Grum
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikkel Grum Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:46 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] \r with RSQLite What am I doing wrong, or is the \r that I'm getting in the example below a bug? a - (1:10) b

[R] substituting an object not found

2006-01-27 Thread Mikkel Grum
Is there any function in R like is.not.found(x, y) meaning if you can't find object x, then use object y?? Mikkel Grum __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http

[R] 7:9, 12:14 in dataframe to c(7:9, 12:14)

2006-01-01 Thread Mikkel Grum
12 B2 12 13 B3 13 14 B4 14 Can it be done? Mikkel Grum __ 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] readline() and Rterm in Windows

2005-11-03 Thread Mikkel Grum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel Grum wrote: Duncan and Prof, thanks for your comments and apologies for not being more specific. I'm not getting the same results you get from the steps you propose. If I write a script foo.R with two lines id - readline(Please enter an ID

Re: [R] readline() and Rterm in Windows

2005-11-03 Thread Mikkel Grum
And that was the only combination I didn't try, duhh. As you say, it works. Excellent! TX! They'll be a number of pleased usres too. --- Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel Grum wrote: I've tried your proposal in a number of ways, and there must be something I'm not understanding

[R] readline() and Rterm in Windows

2005-11-02 Thread Mikkel Grum
I'm running an R script in Rterm and would like the user to be prompted for input as in: id - readline(Please enter ID: ) myfunction(id) . . . etc. This works when I run one line at a time in RGui, but not when I try to run the script in Rterm (I'm working with R 2.2.0 in Windows Server 2003).

Re: [R] readline() and Rterm in Windows

2005-11-02 Thread Mikkel Grum
id - readline(Please enter ID: ) then source(foo.R) Please enter ID: 5 id [1] 5 Please do read the posting guide and explain what you are doing it enough detail for people to reproduce it. On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Mikkel Grum wrote: I'm running an R script in Rterm

Re: [R] xmat[1, 2:3] - NULL

2005-07-08 Thread Mikkel Grum
Thanks for this! This is even simpler than using !is.null(): xmat - as.data.frame(matrix(NA, 2, 3)) try(xmat[i, 2:3] - dbGetQuery(...), silent = TRUE) Best wishes, Mikkel --- Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel Grum wrote: I have a situation where I'm filling out a dataframe

[R] about image() function in R and colors

2005-07-08 Thread Mikkel Grum
Javier, on the image and colors, did you try using the breaks option? You will need 21 breaks to display 20 colors (see ?image). Janek, the option asp = 1 should generally solve your scaling problem (point 2 below). I don't remember where I got that from, but it works unless you use functions

[R] removing factor level represented by less than x rows

2005-07-08 Thread Mikkel Grum
In a number of different situations I'm trying to remove factor levels that are represented by less than a certain number of rows, e.g. if I had the dataset aa below and wanted to remove the species that are represented in less than 2 rows: data(iris) aa - iris[1:101,] In this case, since I can

[R] xmat[1, 2:3] - NULL

2005-07-07 Thread Mikkel Grum
I have a situation where I'm filling out a dataframe from a database. Sometimes the database query doesn't get anything, so I end up trying to place NULL in the dataframe like below. temp - NULL xmat - as.data.frame(matrix(NA, 2, 3)) xmat[1, 2:3] - temp Error in if (m n * p (n * p)%%m)

Re: [R] xmat[1, 2:3] - NULL

2005-07-07 Thread Mikkel Grum
Schwartz (via MN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:20 -0700, Mikkel Grum wrote: I have a situation where I'm filling out a dataframe from a database. Sometimes the database query doesn't get anything, so I end up trying to place NULL in the dataframe like below. temp

[R] Sweave with layout() and loop

2005-06-26 Thread Mikkel Grum
When I try the following code with the Windows graphics window, a new window is opened for each multiple of four images I produce. par(layout(matrix(c(1,2,3,4), 2, 2, byrow = TRUE)), mar = c(2, 3, 2, 3)) for (i in 1:n) { image(... ) } When I try to do the same with Sweave to produce a pdf

[R] plot/lm/abline

2005-06-02 Thread Mikkel Grum
Hi Mathias, Try abline(lm(z2 ~ z1)) Mikkel .. Hi, when I run plot.default(z1, z2, xlab = x, ylab = y, main = , pch = +) abline(lm(z1 ~ z2)) then the plot is plotted perfectly (scatterplot), however, the lm() function doesnt appear on the plot. What

[R] x[x$a==q,,drop=TRUE]

2005-06-01 Thread Mikkel Grum
I'm trying to select a subset of a dataframe while dropping some factors. While the dataset gets smaller all Factor levels remain and I need to get rid of them. Strangely enough, I am almost certain that the same code on the same data worked OK earlier today - and it is not the first time that

[R] Zelig: starting values for negbin

2005-06-01 Thread Mikkel Grum
I'm running a negative binomial model in zelig and it's asking me to supply starting values for the coefficients. How do I supply these? Could I use the coefficients from the poisson model (which runs smoothly)? z.out - zelig(postSpmtsQ ~ (ante62Q + ante08Q + ante29Q + ante16Q) * Trt, model =

[R] image() z-values beyond zlim

2005-03-03 Thread Mikkel Grum
Dear useRs, When plotting with image(), I would like the z-values that extend beyond the upper zlim to be indicated with one colour, or preferably with som sort of hatching, as I'm printing in black and white. By default these values just show up as blank areas in the image. I've tried all

Re: [R] Supressing empty sections with Sweave

2005-01-01 Thread Mikkel Grum
Frank Harrel proposed the following solution: \ifnum\Sexpr{x}=1 \section{} . . . \fi and it works. Amazingly simple! cheers, Mikkel --- Frank E Harrell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel Grum wrote: Dear useRs, I'm writing regular survey reports using Sweave. Each report has

[R] Supressing empty sections with Sweave

2004-12-31 Thread Mikkel Grum
Dear useRs, I'm writing regular survey reports using Sweave. Each report has several sections along the lines of: \section*{Disease X} MapX,fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE= image(vectorx,vectory,matrixz) @ Notes with or without Sexpr{a}. \vfill \pagebreak \section*{Disease Y} MapY,fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE=

[R] scheduling R tasks under windows

2004-12-21 Thread Mikkel Grum
I'm trying to schedule R tasks in Windows Server 2003. I can run the following from the DOS prompt without any difficulty: c:\Reportsc:\r\rw2001\bin\rterm.exe --no-restore --no-save test.R test.out where test.r has two lines: library(tools); Sweave(rlr.Rnw). When I try to run the same from the

[R] RSQLite query error

2004-10-09 Thread Mikkel Grum
Dear R-helpers, I ran the following little test on RSQLite and got the data below from the query. Unless I've made some mistake, the results of both the where and order by statements have problems: library(RSQLite) con-dbConnect(dbDriver(SQLite),dbname=test) data(USArrests)

[R] RODBC query on one line

2004-09-01 Thread Mikkel Grum
Dear R-helpers, When I use sqlQuery in the package RODBC, I cannot break the line, but have to write the entire SQL Query on the same line. Is this expected behaviour? It is definitely workable, but makes the queries a slightly difficult to read and edit. I'm using R 1.9.1 and RODBC 1.0-4 on

Re: [R] RODBC query on one line

2004-09-01 Thread Mikkel Grum
up SQL queries into line-sized chunks, but this is only a convenience and not required. It does improve readability and maintainability, in my opinion. Sean On Sep 1, 2004, at 5:09 AM, Mikkel Grum wrote: Dear R-helpers, When I use sqlQuery in the package RODBC, I cannot break

[R] data files for packages

2004-08-22 Thread Mikkel Grum
Dear R-helpers, This must be really simple and clearly expained somewhere, but I can't find it. I'm writing an R-package and want to create data sets for the examples. How do I save them in the format needed for a package? cheers, Mikkel __ [EMAIL

[R] latitude longitude data

2004-08-22 Thread Mikkel Grum
Dear R-helpers, I get GPS readings with bug counts (bugs meaning insects in this case) made along rows in crop fields and use these to make maps of bug distribution. The GPS readings are not quite accurate enough for my purpose, so since I know what row each reading is made in, I adjust the

[R] vectorized lines

2004-08-08 Thread Mikkel Grum
Hi, I thought that the following code would give me a set of parallel lines on a plot as in the second example. q-c(-2253,-2119,-1985,-1850) p-c(1,2,3,4) a-rep(min(p),4) b-rep(max(p),4) plot(p,q) # example 1 lines(c(a,b),c(q,q)) Now this gives me the lines I really want: # example 2

[R] factor - numeric

2004-06-02 Thread Mikkel Grum
Hi, I'm extracting data from a database with values for different observation types in the same variable (another variable deifnes the observation type). Some of these observation types are factors, so R naturally classifies the entire variable as a factor. I want to select a subset and convert

[R] converting text coordinates to decimal degrees

2004-06-01 Thread Mikkel Grum
I receive GPS readings in a text string such as 0121.6723S 03643.6893E and need the coordinates as decimal degrees in two separate variables: -1.361205 and 36.728155. How do I do this in R? mikkel __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list