[R] Speeding up

2007-07-09 Thread Van Campenhout Bjorn
Hi R-helpers, I am new in programming and R, so this may be basic. I need to speed up a procedure where I minimize some function on different partitions of the data. I can do this with a loop, as for instance in: i-1 meanmin-Inf while (ilength(x)) { ind-xxord[i] if (some

[R] create matrix from comparing two vectors

2007-06-26 Thread Van Campenhout Bjorn
hi all, sorry for this basic question, I think I know I should use ?apply, but it is really confusing me... I want to create a matrix by comparing two vectors. Eg: test-seq(1:10) fac-c(3,6,9) and i want to end up with a 10*3 matrix with a boolean that tests if testfac, so something like: 1

Re: [R] Installing rgl package under Ubuntu

2006-12-15 Thread Van Campenhout Bjorn
Dear Rexperts, lately I'm having troubles installing the rgl package via install.packages(rgl, dependencies=T) in the R 2.4.0 backport running under Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. I get the following error messages, despite having installed libx11-dev (as recommended in a similar post about SUSE

Re: [R] 2 questions

2006-12-12 Thread Van Campenhout Bjorn
Hi! I'm new here. Want to ask two possibly quite basic questions: 1. How can I clear all objects in one stroke? how about rm(ls()) try rm(list=ls()) Bjorn 2. How can I perform a regression with independent variables specified by an object? Äh, no spontaneous idea. Greetings,

Re: [R] Unable to load foreign after upgrade on ubuntu

2006-10-25 Thread Van Campenhout Bjorn
| | But since foreign is part of R, installing a new version of R will | update the standard and recommended packages including foreign. So | this suggests that what is being picked up is another copy of foreign | from another library. Good point. As I recall, Christian always

[R] Unable to load foreign after upgrade on ubuntu

2006-10-24 Thread Van Campenhout Bjorn
I am running R on ubuntu dapper. The version that is in the ubuntu repos is 2.2.1, so I decided to upgrade by adding deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/ to my sources.list, as advised on the web page. After sudo apt-get update and upgrade, I have version 2.3.1. However,

[R] non linear 3SLS with constraints

2006-01-30 Thread Van Campenhout Bjorn
hi, i am new here and wanted to know, before i start learning yet another statistical package: I want to estimate a system of equations that is non linear in the parameters, using 3SLS. However, i will probably have to constrain some of the parameters to be between, say, zero and one. Is