Re: [R] array indices in synced vectors

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Erich Neuwirth wrote: > > sapply(1:length(xxx),function(x)b[xxx[x],yyy[x]]) > does what I need and produces > [1] 1 2 1 2 1 4 3 4 3 4 > > Is there a function taking xxx,yyy, and b as arguments > producing the same result? b[cbind(xxx,yyy)] > Essentially, I am asking for a vers

Re: [R] Survival model with cross-classified shared frailties

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Shige Song wrote: > Dear All, > > The "coxph" function in the "survival" package allows multiple frailty > terms. Um, no, it doesn't. > In all the examples I saw, however, the frailty terms are nested. > What will happen if I have non-nested (that is, cross-classified) frailt

Re: [R] Prediction with multiple zeros in the dependent variable

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, John Sorkin wrote: > I have a batch of data in each line of data contains three values, > calcium score, age, and sex. I would like to predict calcium scores as a > function of age and sex, i.e. calcium=f(age,sex). Unfortunately the > calcium scorers have a very "ugly distributi

Re: [R] R: optim

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Clark Allan wrote: > > $MLE$message > [1] "ERROR: ABNORMAL_TERMINATION_IN_LNSRCH" > > > WHAT DOES THIS ERROR MESSAGE MEAN??? > Looking at the code in optim() a little, it looks as though this error comes when the optimiser tries to do a line search in the steepest descent di

Re: [R] Survival analysis with COXPH

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
of the usefulness of these frailty models and I don't know how well their properties are known. I wouldn't use them except when I was actually interested in the variance components, and I haven't worked on any problems like that, so I haven't investigated the issue

Re: [R] references in the manual to endnote and spanish versions of everything

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Chris Buddenhagen wrote: > > 1) I have been really pleased with R as a means of doing and learning > statistics. I work in a Spanish speaking country- and I wanted to pass on > the benefits of R to my Spanish speaking colleagues. There are a couple of > introductions to R in Spa

Re: [R] fitting distributions with R

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > However, a related method available for 'optim' is "L-BFGS-B" > "which allows _box constraints_, that is each variable can be > given a lower and/or upper bound. The initial value must satisfy > the constraints." This can be set in a parameter for '

Re: [R] help

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A trap easy to fall into! > So easy, in fact, that it's a FAQ. -thomas __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http:/

Re: [R] survey weights

2005-09-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
ou should know how they were sampled. To drop these observations you could use obsChina <- subset(China, !is.na(psu) & !is.na(strata) & !is.na(weight0x)) and then use obsChina rather than China in the svydesign() function. -thomas > -Bobby &g

Re: [R] survey weights

2005-09-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, A Das wrote: > Thanks, Thomas. >Yes, that's exactly what happened: the warnings > came first after "data(China)", and then after > "dchina<-svydesign..." So the design object isn't > being produced? The dataset is very large, and the > weights were already set in Stata befo

Re: [R] survey weights

2005-09-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, A Das wrote: > Hi all, I've been trying to get a large (12mb) Stata > survey database into R. I managed that, but when I > attach survey weights, something goes wrong. The error > message is: object dchina not found. Here's the > script: If that is the *first* message then som

Re: [R] Inconsistence in specifying action for missing data

2005-09-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, John Sorkin wrote: > A question for R (and perhaps S and SPlus) historians. > > Does anyone know the reason for the inconsistency in the way that the > action that should be taken when data are missing is specified? There > are several variants, na.action, na.omit, "T", TRUE,

Re: [R] Superassignment (<<-) and indexing

2005-09-02 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Spencer Graves wrote: > Permit a mild protest on the word "appropriate" in this context. The > global assignment operator "<<-" provides, for my tastes, excessive > opportunities for problems. If I define "x" someplace else and then > call your function, it may change

Re: [R] Superassignment (<<-) and indexing

2005-09-02 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Brahm, David wrote: > In a clean environment under R-2.1.0 on Linux: >> x <- 1:5 >> x[3] <<- 9 > Error: Object "x" not found > > Isn't that odd? (Note x <<- 9 works just fine.) > Well, yes and no. It is the result of a bug fix a version or two ago that dealt with the case w

Re: [R] LaTeX Notations in R output graphs

2005-08-29 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I'm interested in LaTeX notations in R graphs. For example, I would like to > know > the R code to obtain the graph here, > http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/power.png Here is the code: x<-seq(-10,10,length=400) y1<-dnorm(x) y2<-dnorm(x

Re: [R] stratified Wilcoxon available?

2005-08-28 Thread Thomas Lumley
guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle__ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-

Re: [R] covariance matrix under null

2005-08-26 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Devarajan, Karthik wrote: > > Hello > > I am fitting a Cox PH model using the function coxph(). Does anyone know how > to obtain the estimate of the covariance matrix under the null hypothesis. > The function coxph.detail() does not seem to be useful for this purpose. > You c

Re: [R] Handling dates

2005-08-19 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, [iso-8859-1] G?ran Brostr?m wrote: Similar strange results appear in other date-related functions. I plan to write functions that converts, eg, "1977-01-31" to the real number 1977.084 and back. What function in R does what 'mdy.date' claims to do? Well, mdy.date does (

Re: [R] Handling of tables in R

2005-08-19 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Fredrik Thuring wrote: I have a few questions concerning reading of tables from R to other programs. My main question is if it???s even possible to read a table created in R (with the functions data.frame and save) to Excel (or maybe SAS) and if so how does one do

Re: [R] paste / system mystery

2005-08-15 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear R wizards: > > under R-2.1.0: > > eargs <- 3:5; > line <- paste(c("echo A B", eargs)); > cat("executing from R: '", line, "'\n"); > system(line); > > Oddly, only "A" and "B" are echoed, not the eargs. I had hoped that > line would be one strin

Re: [R] boot error: Error in statistic(data, original, ...) : unused argument(s) ( ...)

2005-08-15 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I suspect you want > > AdjForBase2 <- function (data, inds) > > and to refer to data[inds, 1] and data[inds, 2], but since your code is > completely devoid of spaces and indentation, I have paid it little > attention. http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2005/

Re: [R] Converting strings with internal delimiters into lists

2005-08-11 Thread Thomas Lumley
ropriate functions or a line of code! > > Best, > > Shelby > > __ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http:

Re: [R] Creating new columns inside a loop

2005-08-11 Thread Thomas Lumley
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Re: [R] sub set selection

2005-08-11 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Clark Allan wrote: > hi all > > is there a package that undertakes subset selection but BASED ON AIC or > any other information criteria. > > i've seen the "subselect" and the "leaps" package but i have not played > around with them yet. The leaps package finds a best model o

Re: [R] Exponential, Weibull and log-logistic distributions in glm()

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Gorjanc Gregor wrote: > Dear R-users! > > I would like to fit exponential, Weibull and log-logistic via glm() like > functions. Does anyone know a way to do this? Bellow is a bit longer > description of my problem. I think you want to use survreg(). It will still work when t

Re: [R] clip to keep coordinate system?

2005-08-09 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > dear R wizards: > > plot( 1, 1, ylim=(2,10), xlim=(2,10), type="n"); > rect( -1, -1, 12, 12, col=gray(0.99) ); > > unfortunately wipes out the border axes around the plot. how do I keep > this? I think you meant plot( 1, 1, ylim=c(2,10), xlim=c(

[R] GUIs (was Re: make error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such,,,)

2005-08-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Jake Michaelson wrote: > I use Mac OS X at home and Linux at work, so the R Aqua GUI has spoiled > me. I have not seen its equal so far (on Windows or Linux). The most > important thing to me is how easily accessible the help and > documentation is. I like how when I begin t

Re: [R] Avoiding for loop

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Matt Crawford wrote: > I understand that in R, for loops are not used as often as other > languages, and am trying to learn how to avoid them. I am wondering > if there is a more efficient way to write a certain piece of code, > which right now I can only envision as a for loo

Re: [R] An small suggestion for the R team

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Jose Claudio Faria wrote: I would like to suggest that all R functions/etc like: codes-deprecated grid-internal ns-alt ns-dblcolon ns-hooks ns-internals ns-lowlev ns-reflect.Rd tools-internal ts-defunct utils

Re: [R] color palette

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, array chip wrote: > Hi, I have a matrix with both positive and negative > numbers, I would like to use image() to draw a > heatmap. How can I can design a palette (or is there a > function already available) that treat negative > numbers in a blue gradient and positive numbers

Re: [R] Converting a list from R to Stata

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Vicky Landsman wrote: > > Dear all, > I have a list containing 150 simulated datasets in R. Is there a way to > convert it to the Stata format such that I will be able to apply some Stata > functions on each dataset in the list? For Stata your best best is probably to stack al

Re: [R] can we manage memory usage to increase speed?

2005-08-02 Thread Thomas Lumley
p@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 > > -- > Spencer Graves, PhD > Senior Development Engineer > PDF Solutions, Inc. > 333 West San Carlos Street Su

Re: [R] converting stata's by syntax to R

2005-08-01 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chris Wallace wrote: > I am struggling with migrating some stata code to R. I have a data > frame containing, sometimes, repeat observations (rows) of the same > family. I want to keep only one observation per family, selecting > that observation according to some other varia

Re: [R] Binary outcome with non-absorbing outcome state

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Dieter Menne wrote: > John Sorkin grecc.umaryland.edu> writes: > >> >> I am trying to model data in which subjects are followed through time to >> determine if they fall, or do not fall. Some of the subjects fall once, >> some fall several times. Follow-up time varies from su

Re: [R] Binary outcome with non-absorbing outcome state

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, John Sorkin wrote: > I am trying to model data in which subjects are followed through time to > determine if they fall, or do not fall. Some of the subjects fall once, > some fall several times. Follow-up time varies from subject to subject. > I know how to model time to the f

Re: [R] problem with an IF statement?

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas Lumley
p@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 > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle _

Re: [R] Redirecting Messages and Errors to a file

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote: > > However, the sink() does not seem to be capturing the error messages as > I would have hoped. That is, if the R-script is {print("abc"); > stop("def")}, the print output is captured to the file, the stop error > message is not, and instead sent to th

Re: [R] spss.read factor reversal

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Adaikalavan Ramasamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think it is doing what is supposed to do but I never used read.spss, >> so take this with a pinch of salt. >> >> In R when you use as.integer on a factor, the one with the lowest level >> gets a va

Re: [R] Difficulty getting standard deviation of ALL odds ratios with glm function, logistic regression, need cov of parameters

2005-07-26 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Garrett Fox wrote: > I am trying to do logistic regression with a categorical predictor variable > with the glm() function, family=binomial. Using glm() I would like to be > able to calculate the confidence intervals of all three possible odds ratios > for a factor (the facto

Re: [R] Don't understand plotmath behaviour (bug?)

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Wladimir Eremeev wrote: > Hello, all > > Please, consider the following pieces of code. > > 1. > v<-0.5 > text(x=2,y=2,eval(substitute(expression(bold(S==V)),list(V=formatC(v,format="f",digits=2) > > This plots "S=0.5" in bold. Both "S" and "0.5" are bold. > > 2. > v<-0.5

Re: [R] Mean and variance of the right-censored data

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Petr Mandys wrote: > Thank you! > > I'm using this: > > require(NADA) > > var_sf=survfit(Surv(a, !b)) > var_result=new("cenfit", survfit=var_sf) > > Class cenfit has methods to get mean a variance from survfit result. Is > this correct? > NADA is designed for left censoring.

Re: [R] Question about 'text' (add lm summary to a plot)

2005-07-22 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > I think legend accepts a list argument directly so that could be > simplified to just: > > a<-7 > plot(1) > L <- list(bquote(alpha==.(a)),bquote(alpha^2+1==.(a^2+1))) > legend("topleft",legend=L) Except that it wouldn't then work: the mathemat

Re: [R] Question about 'text' (add lm summary to a plot)

2005-07-22 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Dan Bolser wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> Try as.expression(bquote(...whatever...)) > > Sob, wimper, etc. a<-7 plot(1) legend("topleft",legend=do.call("expression", list(bquote(alpha==.(a)),bquote(alpha^2+1==.(a^2+1

Re: [R] output of variance estimate of random effect from a gamma frailty model using Coxph in R

2005-07-21 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about the output for variance of random effect from a gamma > frailty model using coxph in R. Is it the vairance of frailties themselves or > variance of log frailties? Thanks. > For a Gamma frailty model it is the variance

Re: [R] Clustered standard errors in a panel

2005-07-21 Thread Thomas Lumley
ng-guide.html > > -- > Spencer Graves, PhD > Senior Development Engineer > PDF Solutions, Inc. > 333 West San Carlos Street Suite 700 > San Jose, CA 95110, USA > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.pdf.com <http://www.pdf.com> > Tel: 408-938-4420 > Fax: 408-280-7915 &

Re: [R] integrate fails with errors

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, [iso-8859-1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > beta0,eta0,n are initialized as single integer, temp is a 1 dimension array > containing 9 integer. > > integrate(function(beta) > ((beta/(eta0)^beta)^n)*prod(temp^(1-beta)*exp(-sum(temp^beta)/(eta^beta)))*(1/(sqrt(2*pi))*exp(((beta-

Re: [R] R: expression

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Lumley
= PHI" onto a graphic >> i.e. " hat(phi)=2 " >> how does one do this? >> > > legend(-5, .3, substitute(hat(phi) == PHI, list(PHI = PHI))) > or legend(-5, .3, bquote(hat(phi) == .(PHI))) -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc.

Re: [R] read large amount of data

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Weiwei Shi wrote: > Hi, > I have a dataset with 2194651x135, in which all the numbers are 0,1,2, > and is bar-delimited. > > I used the following approach which can handle 100,000 lines: > t<-scan('fv', sep='|', nlines=10) > t1<-matrix(t, nrow=135, ncol=10) > t2<-t(t1)

Re: [R] Coxph with factors

2005-07-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Thomas Lumley wrote: > > Yes, but you don't need to go via the baseline. The survival curves for > any two covariate vectors z1 and z2 are related by > > S(t; z1)= S(t; z2)^(z1-z2) > Actually S(t; z1)=S(t;z2) ^(beta'(z1-z2))

Re: [R] R: to the power

2005-07-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Bernardo Rangel Tura wrote: > At 10:11 12/7/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> hi all >> >> why does R do this: >> >> (-8)^(1/3)=NaN >> >> the answer should be : -2 > Yes and no. The problem is that the reciprocal of 3 is not exactly representable as a floating point numbe

Re: [R] Coxph with factors

2005-07-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Kylie-Anne Richards wrote: > Thank you for your help. > >> In any case, to specify f.pom You need it to be a factor with the same set >> of levels. You don't say what the lowest level of pom is, but if it is, >> s

Re: [R] Can't get sample function from "An Introduction to R" to work

2005-07-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, David Groos wrote: > Thank you-all very much for your help, your responses and help has been > very encouraging. The following doesn't close the case but it tables > it... > > First I copied Ken's code into my R Console and...it worked great! > That was baffling as it looked

Re: [R] Coxph with factors

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Kylie-Anne Richards wrote: > > FIRST Q: The default uses the mean of 'vo' and mean of 'po', but what is it > using for the factors?? Is it the sum of the coef of the factors divided by > the number of factors?? It uses the mean of each factor variable. The $means component of

[R] DSC 2005 registration

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas Lumley
/dsc2005/program.html -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] memory problem

2005-07-14 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 7/14/2005 7:19 AM, Ginters wrote: >> Why does memory need so much (1.6 GB) space? How can I enlarge it? Is it >> possible to allocate a part of memory used to the hard drive? Or, is the >> trouble only with my script? > > This sounds like a problem w

Re: [R] write.foreign, SPSS on Mac OS X

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, EJ Nikelski wrote: > > Your suggestion that the unprintable characters represent UTF-8 encoded > Unicode left and right double quotes also appears correct. Now, although > the suggested work-around may well help, the foreign package does seem > to be creating a corrupted file.

Re: [R] plot(cox.zph()): customize xlab & ylab

2005-07-11 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: > I am not sure if there is an easy way around this. An ugly hack is to > make a copy the function "survival:::plot.cox.zph" and make your > modified function. But there are others in the list who might know > neater solutions. If you then send a p

Re: [R] exact conditional mantelhaen.test estimate is 0 ?!

2005-07-08 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Florian Hahne wrote: > Dear listers, > > I am trying to compute the exact conditional test given strata margins > of a 2 by 2 by K array using the mantelhaen.test function to get a > common odds ratio estimate. > The estimate for the test on the following data is 0, which in my

Re: [R] Lack of independence in anova()

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas Lumley
hen discovered to my surprise that the chi-square > test for independence of the significance of the F-tests indicated > that they were not independent. I was stumped by this but fortunately > Thomas Lumley came to my rescue with an explanation. There is no > reason why the results of the

Re: [R] write.foreign and SPSS

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Cleland wrote: > > In SPSS, open the syntax file "warpbreaks.sps". This syntax will > read in the data and apply variable and value labels to variables that > were factors in R. I find you often need to edit the syntax file > created by write.foreign just a bit in SPSS

Re: [R] write.foreign and SPSS

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R: > > In the foreign library, there is a function "write.foreign". > > When this is used to write to an SPSS file, there are > actually 2 files as output: a data file and a code file. > > How would you coordinate these to become an SPSS sav file, > p

Re: [R] finding out more about an object, e.g. lm

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Sean O'Riordain wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to use lm(y~x) amongst others in an automated way; I've > gone through the section on indexing in R-lang and I've looked MASS4. > How do I find out more about the structure of the returned object? In > perl I can look at object struc

Re: [R] using index of a loop as a macro variable

2005-07-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, E. Michael Foster wrote: > I'm a long-time STATA user and a R newbie. I'm doing ok, but I'm addicted > to STATA macro variables. Is there something like a macro variable in R? > > Specifically, I'd like to be able to do something like > > for (i in 1:3) { > . >

Re: [R] predict.coxph fitted values for failure times

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Dan Bebber wrote: > I would like to extract predicted failure times from a > coxph model in library(survival). However, none of the > prediction options ("lp", "risk", "expected", "terms") > seem to bear any relationship to failure time. > > Perhaps I am asking the wrong quest

Re: [R] an operator for "contains"

2005-06-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Mike R wrote: > k = c(1:9) > if( length( which(k==3) ) ){ print("contained") }else{ print("not contained") > } > > is therre a simple way to test if a vector/list contains a particular value? value %in% vector > more generally, is the a documentaion page that lists/descri

Re: [R] reading csv-data

2005-06-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Johanna Sundvik wrote: > However, this "Mean1" is categorical when it should be real numbers. > >> Mean1 > [1] 4.4332 8.5113 35.1624 9.1693 2.974 65.1578 43.2241 3.1278 5.3364 > Levels: 2.974 3.1278 35.1624 4.4332 43.2241 5.3364 65.1578 8.5113 9.1693 > > Why R does not un

Re: [R] Survey - Cluster Sampling

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Mark Hempelmann wrote: > Dear WizaRds, > > I am struggling to compute correctly a cluster sampling design. I want > to do one stage clustering with different parametric changes: > > Let M be the total number of clusters in the population, and m the > number sampled. Let

Re: [R] Error using newdata argument in survfit

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
gt;> PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861

Re: [R] Kalman Filtering?

2005-06-15 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Spencer Graves wrote: > 1. The function "KalmanLike" seems to change its inputs AND > PREVIOUSLY MADE copies of the inputs. The strange thing is that it changes its inputs. It would be expected that this also changed previously made copies. The copies will just be

Re: [R] use of gam

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Kerry Bush wrote: > > Suppose I fit the following model: > >> library(gam) > >> fit <- gam(y~x1+x2+s(x3),family=binomial) > > and then I use > >> fitf$coef > x1x2 s(x3) > 4.1947460 2.7967200 0.0788252 > > are the coefficients for x1 and x2 the estimated

Re: [R] New Family object for GLM models...

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Lumley
n, > >linkinv = linkinv, variance = variance, dev.resids = dev.resids, > >aic = aic, mu.eta =mu.eta, initialize = initialize, > >validmu = validmu), class = "family") > } > > Thank you for your kind attention. > Emmanuel > > > EMMANUEL NJI ABATIH &g

Re: [R] assignment of inidividual variables from spss save files

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote: > The key to solving your problem is that read.spss per default > gives you a *list* and not a *dataframe* (can anyone explain this > choice of default?). > The reason for the default is speed. It's possible that the default could be changed to

Re: [R] RCMD Warnings on src directory.

2005-06-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Jagarlamudi, Choudary wrote: > Hi Group, > > I performed the following commands to build my package in R 2.0 under Windows > XP > I got all my tools from Dr. Duncan Mudroch's website. > I did a RCMD build dnal and it built a tar file for me. > I did a RCMD INSTALL dnal and it

Re: [R] Estimate of baseline hazard in survival

2005-06-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Hanke, Alex wrote: > Dear All, > I'm having just a little terminology problem, relating the language used in > the Hosmer and Lemeshow text on Applied Survival Analysis to that of the > help that comes with the survival package. > > I am trying to back out the values for the b

Re: [R] gc() and gc trigger

2005-06-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Pavel Khomski wrote: > hello, > > the question concerning to the memory used and g.c. after having removed > objects. What is wrong? Nothing is wrong. > bevor > --- > > > gc() > used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) > Ncells 31

Re: [R] What is median in survfit

2005-06-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Remigijus Lapinskas wrote: > Dear All, > > A very simple question: > > > library(survival) > > fit <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ x, data=aml) > > survfit(fit) > Call: survfit.coxph(object = fit) > > n events median 0.95LCL 0.95UCL > 23 18 30 18

Re: [R] Subassignments involving NAs in data frames

2005-06-09 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote: I'm seeing some inconsistent behavior when re-assigning values in a data frame. The first assignment turns all of the 0s in my data frame to 2s, the second fails to do so. df1 <- data.frame(a = c(NA, 0, 3, 4)) df2 <- data.frame(a = c(NA, 0, 0, 4)) df1

Re: [R] Prediction in Cox Proportional-Hazard Regression

2005-06-09 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only have an other question: since h(t) = h0(t) exp(B1*X1+ B2*X2 + B3*X3 + B4*X4) represent the hazard at time t. In a linear prediction, what Value = B1*(X1-mean(X1)) + B2*(X2-mean(X2)) + represent? coxph() parametrizes the model so th

Re: [R] Weibull survival modeling with covariate

2005-06-09 Thread Thomas Lumley
ibull has to be parametrized as a location-scale family as described above. -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mai

Re: [R] write.dta limits

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, David Whiting wrote: When I have encountered this error message in the past seems to have resulted from a blank/empty level in a factor or an empty character. For example: I've sent a fixed version to CRAN. The C standard says that the return value of fwrite() is equal to

RE: [R] Functions within functions in R and S-Plus

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote: The easiest way, perhaps, is to assign the internal functions to frame 1: Another easy way is to use the MC() function in section 3.3.1 of the R FAQ, which makes function closures in a way that works in S-PLUS. -thomas

Re: [R] write.dta limits

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
ite.dta(x, file = "temp.dta") : a binary write error occurred My work-around at the time was to go through the data replacing "" with something else that I could then deal with later. -- David Whiting University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Thomas Lumley

Re: [R] write.dta limits

2005-06-06 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jean Eid wrote: Hope everyone id doing great .. Just need some clarification over the limit of write.dta. I have some coauthors that use stata and I need to send them my data in .dta format. the data.frame is 41706x229 and I get the following Error in write.dta(Panel, file

Re: [R] How to 'de-cross' a table?

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Sander Oom wrote: Dear R users, I have received a table in the following format: id a b c1 c2 d1 d2 1 1 1 65 97 78 98 2 1 2 65 97 42 97 3 2 1 65 68 97 98 4 2 2 65 97 97 98 Factors of the design are: a, b, and e, where e has levels c a

Re: [R] Dynamic Dictionary Data Type?

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, hadley wickham wrote: An environment is a hash table, and copying occurs only on modification, when any language would have to copy in this context. Yes, I'm aware that copying only occurs on modification. However, it was my understanding that a <- list(a =1) a$b <- 4 wo

Re: [R] Dynamic Dictionary Data Type?

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, hadley wickham wrote: cache results. Other languages usually offer a dictionary data type which I can use as an efficient way to dynamically cache already calculated results - what's the best way to do this in R? It really depends on what sort of data you want to cache - i

Re: [R] pdf error msg

2005-06-01 Thread Thomas Lumley
not to do that. Now, if you do have write permission for that file and R is just confused we have a different problem, and one that needs more details. Does the problem happen with other filenames or other directories, for example? -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc.

Re: [R] Different versions, different results ?

2005-06-01 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I wrote the following batch script on a iMac, and ran it on a linux mosix cluster. tu <- read.table("cage.mm5.tags.rna_lib.CAA-CAJ.tu-reshape.table") tu_reshaped <- t(reshape(tu[1:50,], direction="wide", timevar="tu", idvar=c("rna","lib"))

Re: [R] FW: why is it numeric(0)?

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, luan_sheng wrote: hello,everyone. I have one question: example 1 x=numeric(0) y=5 print(x+y) numeric(0) example 2 x=numeric(1) y=5 print(x+y) [1] 5 why the print(x+y) is numeric(0) at the first example, but the result is 0 at the second example? numeric(0) is a zer

Re: [R] Shared Frailty in survival package (left truncation, time-dep. covariates)

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Stefan Pohl wrote: Dear list, I want o fit a shared gamma frailty model with the frailty specification in the survival package. I have partly left-truncated data and time-dependent covariates. Is it possible to combine these two things in the frailty function. Or are th

Re: [R] pdf error msg

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Matt McCall wrote: *** malloc[477]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x143cf5c0; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug And this is a double fre

Re: [R] pdf error msg

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Lumley
other hand, does definitely sound like a bug. -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/li

Re: [R] A suggestion to improve ifelse behaviour with vector yes/no arguments

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Mäkinen Jussi wrote: Dear All, I luckily found the following feature (or problem) when tried to apply ifelse-function to an ordered data. test <- c(TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE) ifelse(test, 0, 1:4) [1] 0 0 0 4 1 2 3 As Dim

Re: [R] lars / lasso with glm

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Bliese, Paul D LTC USAMH wrote: We have been using Least Angle Regression (lars) to help identify predictors in models where the outcome is continuous. To do so we have been relying on the lars package. Theoretically, it should be possible to use the lars procedure within

Re: [R] how to invert the matrix with quite small eigenvalues

2005-05-30 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 30 May 2005, huang min wrote:> My intention is to invert the covariance matrix to perform some algorithm which is common in the estimating equations like GEE. In that case there is no benefit in being able to invert very extreme covariance matrices. The asymptotic approximations to the

Re: [R] Incompatibility with VGAM

2005-05-30 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Thomas Yee wrote: Hello, It seems that if glm used a namespace then the conflict would be avoided? No. glm does use a namespace, so this can't be true. Remember that R passes arguments by value, and consider glm(y~x, family=poisson()) The namespace ensures that f

Re: [R] longitudinal survey data

2005-05-27 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 27 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, still confused. If I dont have fpc's ready in my dataset (calculate myself?) that means that R will use the weight of an individual for each of his repeated observations. But is that then still correct? The "cluster" individual is ignored and e

Re: [R] longitudinal survey data

2005-05-27 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 27 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your reply. Does that mean that in order to take in account the repeated measures I denote these as another cluster in R? Yes, but unless you have multistage finite population corrections to put in the design object only the first

Re: [R] longitudinal survey data

2005-05-26 Thread Thomas Lumley
of random effect. -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE d

Re: [R] Survey and Stratification

2005-05-26 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Mark Hempelmann wrote: Dear WizaRds, Working through sampling theory, I tried to comprehend the concept of stratification and apply it with Survey to a small example. My question is more of theoretic nature, so I apologize if this does not fully fit this board's intenti

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