[R] logical 'or' on list of vectors

2007-06-08 Thread Tim Bergsma
Suppose I have a list of logicals, such as returned by lapply: Theoph$Dose[1] - NA Theoph$Time[2] - NA Theoph$conc[3] - NA lapply(Theoph,is.na) Is there a direct way to execute logical or across all vectors? The following gives the desired result, but seems unnecessarily complex.

Re: [R] logical 'or' on list of vectors

2007-06-08 Thread Tim Bergsma
/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm - Original Message - From: Tim Bergsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 2:57 PM Subject: [R] logical 'or' on list of vectors Suppose

[R] test for nested factors

2007-06-04 Thread Tim Bergsma
Is there a conventional way to test for nested factors? I.e., if 'a' and 'b' are lists of same-length factors, does each level specified by 'a' correspond to exactly one level specified by 'b'? The function below seems to suffice, but I'd be happy to know of a more succinct solution, if it

[R] Extent of time zone vulerability for POSIX date and time classes

2007-04-05 Thread Tim Bergsma
, and never use Sys.time(), the vulnerabilities do not pertain. To the point: if I'm merely converting to and from character data that does not represent time zones, is there still a time zone vulnerability with strftime() and strptime()? Thanks in advance, Tim Bergsma, PhD Metrum Research Group, LLC

Re: [R] Extent of time zone vulerability for POSIX date and time classes

2007-04-05 Thread Tim Bergsma
. On 4/5/07, Tim Bergsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I frequently convert date and time data to and from character representations. I'm frustrated with chron, because 'seconds' are required to create a time object (my input data never has seconds). You could use paste: times(paste

Re: [R] Extent of time zone vulerability for POSIX date and time classes

2007-04-05 Thread Tim Bergsma
- chron(1:5, out.format = out.fmt) x On 4/5/07, Tim Bergsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabor, thanks for the feedback. I like the idea of coercing the system time zone, and sticking with strptime/strftime. The balance would probably tip in favor of chron, however, if I could get the format

[R] fitting the gamma cumulative distribution function

2007-02-27 Thread Tim Bergsma
Hi. I have a vector of quantiles and a vector of probabilites that, when plotted, look very like the gamma cumulative distribution function. I can guess some shape and scale parameters that give a similar result, but I'd rather let the parameters be estimated. Is there a direct way to do

[R] S4 newbie - extending S3 classes

2006-12-04 Thread Tim Bergsma
I tried recently to extend data.frame using S4, with depressing results. Someone asked about this back in January, and was referred to the Register or Convert advice. Putting the pieces together, I'm guessing that to extend data.frame usefully in S4, one would actually have to write it

[R] extending data.frame with S4 class

2006-11-30 Thread Tim Bergsma
Hi. When I extend numeric with S4 and create an instance, I get something that looks and acts like a numeric. When I extend data.frame and create an instance, I get a NULL 'core'. Why is this, and can it be fixed? setOldClass(), prototype=, and initialize() don't seem to help. Thanks, Tim