[R] escape character to get " printed in output

2006-11-30 Thread roger bos
I want to use R to run dos commands (either by create batch files or using shell())and I need to write double quotes on the file (or shell command). As an easier example, lets take: > print("hello 'hello' hello") [1] "hello 'hello' hello" Lets say instead of the above, I wanted: "hello "hello" h

[R] how ot replace the diagonal of a matrix

2006-10-03 Thread roger bos
Dear useRs, Trying to replace the diagonal of a matrix is not working for me. I want a matrix with .6 on the diag and .4 elsewhere. The following code looks like it should work--when I lookk at mps and idx they look how I want them too--but it only replaces the first element, not each element on

Re: [R] Running/submitting script files

2006-09-07 Thread roger bos
Using R in batch mode should work on both Windows and Linux: R CMD BATCH (assuming that R.exe is in your path) Even without R's location in your path, you could issue the following command at the prompt (in windows): "c:\Program Files\R\R-2.3.1\bin\R.exe" CMD BATCH --vanilla --slave i:\R_HOME\bat

Re: [R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread roger bos
to the folder where > the rpm is downloaded to, type > rpm -ivh R-2.3.1-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm will try to install and give you > information on whats missing... > > Stefan Grosse > > roger bos schrieb: > > I am looking for help install the x86_64 R Binary onto my FC5 >

[R] installing the x86_64 R Binary on Fedora Core 5

2006-08-24 Thread roger bos
I am looking for help install the x86_64 R Binary onto my FC5 machine. At the risk of subjecting myself to tons of criticism, I must confess that I don't know anything about Linux and I have never compiled R from source. Therefore, I choose FC5 because I see that a 64-bit binary is already availab

[R] left-justified fixed-width format

2006-08-14 Thread roger bos
I need to save data in fixed-width format without headers and reading the help archive leads me to believe that sprintf is pretty much the only way to do this. My question is, is there anyway to change the output so the text in each column is left justified instead of right justified? My code sam

Re: [R] RandomForest vs. bayes & svm classification performance

2006-07-24 Thread roger bos
I can't add much to your question, being a complete novice at classification, but I have tried both randomForest and SVM and I get better results from randomForest than SVM (even after tuning). randomForest is also much, much faster. I just thought randomForest was a much better algorithm, althou

[R] positive semi-definite matrix

2006-07-21 Thread roger bos
I have a covariance matrix that is not positive semi-definite matrix and I need it to be via some sort of adjustment. Is there any R routine or package to help me do this? Thanks, Roger [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.

Re: [R] Rpad Server Installation on Windows XP

2006-07-07 Thread roger bos
Claire, I know you emailed me a question earlier and I just haven't gotten around to answering it. For both perl and rgui.exe (and rterm.exe) your path needs to state the location of these files. (I am not sure about this, but after you change the path you may even need to reboot for the change

Re: [R] R server

2006-06-30 Thread roger bos
Mike, may also want to check out Rpad. Its mainly used to delivery R programs to other users via a web browser, so the other users don't need R installed on their machine. If you make a nice HTML gui, the other users don't even have to know R. Each user gets his own environment, so one person's

[R] Memory available to 32-bit R app on 64-bit machine

2006-06-27 Thread roger bos
I want to get a 64-bit machine/OS system so I can put 16Gb of RAM in it. As first I assumed that I would have to use the 64-bit version of R to make use of the 16Gb of RAM, which would mean that I would use the Linux version of R. But I have heard many posters say they run the 32-bit version of R

[R] HTML masked (due to Rpad?)

2006-06-02 Thread roger bos
With an older verion of R (I think 2.2.0) and an older version of Rpad I used to use HTML(go, collapse=false) where go is list of objects returned by a function and this worked great. Now that I have done some upgrading (to R 2.3.1 and Rpad 1.1.0) its not working right. I also get a warning when

Re: [R] Compiling R to run natively on Windows x64

2006-05-30 Thread roger bos
++ courses 7 years ago--and haven't used it since. I have a better chance of learning how to use Linux. Thanks, Roger On 5/30/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/30/2006 2:18 PM, roger bos wrote: > > I am today where Alastiar was back in August 2005. I

Re: [R] Compiling R to run natively on Windows x64

2006-05-30 Thread roger bos
I am today where Alastiar was back in August 2005. I am considering buying a 64 bit machine with 16GB of memory to run bigger objects in R, which brougt me down the Linux path. The problem is that my company's IT staff doesn't support Linux and this path was getting very bumpy for me, so I am osc

Re: [R] How can you buy R?

2006-05-19 Thread roger bos
These beliefs are very prevelant. The IT person for my group doesn't beleieve in the concept of _free_ software and actually expects me to be arrested some day for using R at work! All I can say is keep the faith. On 5/19/06, J Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 18 May 2006 14:

Re: [R] summary(lm(x~y)) difference between R-2.2.1 and R-2.3.0

2006-04-27 Thread roger bos
y) > > Residuals: > > *** caught bus error *** > address 0x18, cause 'invalid alignment' > > Traceback: > 1: sort(x, partial = unique(c(lo, hi))) > 2: quantile.default(resid) > 3: quantile(resid) > 4: structure(quantile(resid), names = nam) > 5: print.summary

Re: [R] summary(lm(x~y)) difference between R-2.2.1 and R-2.3.0

2006-04-27 Thread roger bos
I don't know if this is causing the error, by in your traceback I saw sort() was used and sort now removes all the attributes when it sorts. I used to use sort() to sort dates in character format and now it turns them into integers and is breaking all my code. The problem with upgrading is your n

Re: [R] www.r-project.org

2006-04-25 Thread roger bos
While there is nothing about the r-project site that I would consider fancy, it is pretty functional. I would be interested to hear more about what you hope to accomplish by re-doing the web site. Fancy graphics may just slow down the experience for those not on broadband. After all, the r-help

Re: [R] there is no "xls" reader in R?

2006-04-20 Thread roger bos
I like to use the RODBC package for doing this. Here is my code sample: xls <- odbcConnectExcel(fname) rawdata.temp <- sqlFetch(xls, "rawdata", max=2800) close(xls) fname is the full path to the file and "rawdata" is the name of the excel sheet I want to import. I trie

Re: [R] installation of package "randomForest" failed

2006-04-19 Thread roger bos
This doesn't really have much to do with randomForest, but I run the following code every few weeks to make sure all my packages are installed and up to date. Then you don't have to fiddle with doing it one by one. In case you haven't seen this; I got this code from someone else on this list. x

Re: [R] pros and cons of "robust regression"? (i.e. rlm vs lm)

2006-04-06 Thread roger bos
I'm asking this question purely for my own benefit, not to try to correct anyone. The procedure you refer to as "normalization" I have always heard referred to as "standardization". Is the former the proper term? Also, you say its not necessary given today's hardware, but isn't it beneficial to

Re: [R] 2nd R console?

2006-03-10 Thread roger bos
gt; regards, > > mark+ \ ucsf > > On Mar 10, 2006, at 5:14 AM, roger bos wrote: > > > I never tried opening more than one instance of Rgui, but when I > > wanted to run two jobs at the same time on one Win XP PC, I would run > > one in Rgui and one in Rterm and I have n

Re: [R] 2nd R console?

2006-03-10 Thread roger bos
I never tried opening more than one instance of Rgui, but when I wanted to run two jobs at the same time on one Win XP PC, I would run one in Rgui and one in Rterm and I have never had a problem with that setup. As above, when I close my R session, I always say no to the save question. HTH, Roge

Re: [R] Debugging a program written in the R language

2006-03-08 Thread roger bos
You could always use notepad, but there are better solutions. There are many text editors which will send the commands to R for you and return the results and also offer syntax highlighting. I like Tinn-R. Xemacs is probably the best, but its hard to learn (IMHO) and I have not taken the time to

Re: [R] Clearing the console?

2006-03-06 Thread roger bos
I hesitate to reply since I don't know if this work in Mac, but on windows Ctrl-L clears the screen, so its worth a try. On 3/5/06, Will Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm an R novice (and I'm making progress!). > > I'm getting sick of looking at all my old commands though! Ca

Re: [R] JGR doesn't launch after updating to R 2.2.1

2006-03-06 Thread roger bos
Where did you get a verion that was supposed to support 2.2.1? On the JGR website it lists the different binaries for the different version of R and the latest one I saw was 2.2.0. http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/JGR/ On 3/6/06, Michael Kubovy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear r-helpers, >

Re: [R] memory managment under Windows XP

2006-02-23 Thread roger bos
And of course using rm(...) to clean up objects you no longer need. No amount of physical memory can save you from grossly inefficient code and large memory leaks. For example, lets say I have a large testMat object that I use time period. I loop though each month using for loops. Even though t

Re: [R] getting probabilities from SVM

2006-02-17 Thread roger bos
broken a lot of code. So I decided to keep the `standard' predict > behavior and to `hide' special predictions in an attribute. If the latter > had been available from the beginning, I probably would have used the `type' > approach. > > Cheers, > David > >

Re: [R] getting probabilities from SVM

2006-02-16 Thread roger bos
Finally figured it out. You have to extract it from the attributes. Tricky. Thanks anyway. > attr(pred, "prob")[1:10,] On 2/16/06, roger bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using SVM to classify categorical data and I would like the > probabilities i

[R] getting probabilities from SVM

2006-02-16 Thread roger bos
I am using SVM to classify categorical data and I would like the probabilities instead of the classification. ?predict.svm says that its only enabled when you train the model with it enabled, so I did that, but it didn't work. I can't even get it to work with iris. The help file shows that proba

Re: [R] R web interfaces for windows IIS

2006-02-15 Thread roger bos
Rpad is supposed to, according to the server notes it comes with. I coundn't get it to work, but that doesn't mean you can't. Do you have to go with IIS? I tried for days to get Rpad to work with IIS and couldn't. So I downloaded Apache and got it working within a few hours. It was the first a

Re: [R] read.table

2006-02-14 Thread roger bos
?scan is much faser. Also, read.table has a colClasses optional argument which can be used to speed up the reading of large files significantly. read.table has a pretty good help section well worth reading. read.table(file, header = FALSE, sep = "", quote = "\"'", dec = ".",

Re: [R] How to handle large dataframes?

2006-02-14 Thread roger bos
Soren's suggestion is the right way to go provided you don't need all the data all the time. Another thing to try is once the data is imported, convert the numeric part of the data frame to a matrix, as calculations on a matrix are much faster than calculations on a data frame. I'm too lazy to co

Re: [R] Tranferring R results to word prosessors

2006-02-09 Thread roger bos
Yeah, but I don't understand LaTeX at all. Can you point me to a good beginners guide? Thanks, Roger On 2/9/06, Barry Rowlingson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: > > I have just started looking at R, and are getting more and more > irritated > > at myself for not having

Re: [R] How to install the server version of rpad

2006-02-08 Thread roger bos
Reza, Yes, you will need Apache and Perl already installed, then follow the install notes you linked to above. I tried for a long time to get it to work with Microsoft IIS and could not for the life of me, but when I tried it with Apache 2.0 it worked pretty easily. I have never set up a web ser

Re: [R] R training courses

2006-02-02 Thread roger bos
Elvis advertises to this list quite regularly. I took an S+ course offered by Insightful once. It was okay, but not great. For the basics, the best thing is just to sit down with a book (S Poetry comes to mind) and follow the examples. For more advanced stuff, learn it as you go. I am. On 2

Re: [R] maximizing available memory under windows XP

2006-01-26 Thread roger bos
ics >Relocations stripped >Executable >Line numbers stripped >Symbols stripped > Application can handle large (>2GB) addresses >32 bit word machine >

[R] maximizing available memory under windows XP

2006-01-26 Thread roger bos
I have always been using ebitbin to set the 3GB switch in the windows binary, but version 2.2.1 has this set as default (which I verified using dumpbin). However, when I generate junk data to fill up my memory and read the memory usage using gc(), it seems that I am not getting as good results wit

Re: [R] exporting dates into Microsoft SQL Server

2006-01-25 Thread roger bos
I haven't been able to figure that one out either, but I have a work around. Lets say I have a table named roger_return that has a column named datadate that is a smalldatetime. I can't get sqlSave to save to that table, so I just save it to a new table, say roger_return2. Then I alter the colum

Re: [R] Is there no definition for global variables in R?

2006-01-25 Thread roger bos
I don't know german, but try z <<- whatever instead of just z <- whatever. ?"<<-" On 1/24/06, Christian Hinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello @all R-Help-User. > > I need a global variable in R. The variable ought to be known for every > functions and subfunctions. It is only to comparison

Re: [R] importing a VERY LARGE database from Microsoft SQL into R

2006-01-25 Thread roger bos
s full and then tells you how much memory was successfully used? I could try writing it, but if someone has already done it, thats all the better! Thanks, Roger On 1/25/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, roger bos wrote: > > > This ques

Re: [R] importing a VERY LARGE database from Microsoft SQL into R

2006-01-24 Thread roger bos
This question comes up a number of times what most people will tell you is that even if you get all you data into R you won't be able to do anything with it. By that I mean, you need about 3 or 4 times as much memory as the size of your data object because R will need to create copies of it. I ca

Re: [R] Easy, Robust and Stable GUI???

2006-01-24 Thread roger bos
This highlights the hurdle we face in increasing R users. People often use in their career software they learned in school and if we can't get the schools to use R (even though it free) it makes it all the more difficult to increase R usage in business and elsewhere. If a business person says he

Re: [R] Selecting data frame components by name - do you know a shorter way?

2006-01-20 Thread roger bos
One idea is to keep the variable names you want in a vector, say 'use' and and get the indices using the match function: match(use, names(df) where use <- c("item1","item2",...) You can then subset the data frame as follows: newdf <- df[, match(use, names(df)] HTH, Roger On 1/20/06, Chuck C

Re: [R] html excel file

2006-01-19 Thread roger bos
Read ?scan very carefully and play with the settings. What makes your file difficult is that it is multi line, meaning that the headings have carriage returns between them instead of being one line separated with spaces or tabs or commas. Can you change the way the file is outputted? If not, you

[R] better way to replace missing values with zero

2006-01-13 Thread roger bos
I would like to replace all missing values (NAs) with zero like below--where ever they may be--but some of the column classes are non-numeric so I get an error: > dim(temp) [1] 699 313 > temp[is.na(temp)] <- 0 Error in as.Date.default(value) : do not know how to convert 'value' to class "D

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] sudoku

2006-01-09 Thread roger bos
As far as generating a sudoku, it can't be too hard because I have a program on my cell phone that does it with a size less than 325K. I don't know the best way to generate these, but one way I was thinking of was starting with a filled up one then randomize the columns and rows. Then make some of

Re: [R] A comment about R:

2006-01-03 Thread roger bos
As others have pointed out, since R is more of a programming language than a statistical package, yes, it is _harder_ to learn. I would say its easier to learn than C++, harder to learn than VBA, and on par with learning Java, but that's all debatable. One thing that makes R slightly more intimid

Re: [R] r: RODBC QUESTION

2006-01-03 Thread roger bos
Clark, I agree with Vitor that working in R might be easier, but it seems that you are working in the excel VBA environment and there may be good reason why you want to do so that we don't know about. If so, why use Rexcel function to read the file into excel when you can use VBA code to open the

[R] intercept term in lda

2005-12-27 Thread roger bos
I am using lda to predict case (success / no success) using about 5 discrete variables. If z is my model, I can get the coefficients of lda using z[[4]] or I can just output the full summary for the model by typing 'z' into the command line, but I don't see where it reports the intercept. In othe

Re: [R] A Quick and (Very) Dirty Intro to Stats in R

2005-11-11 Thread roger bos
John, Your appendix on linear mixed models does look good and I look forward to reading it, but its 24 pages and Jarretts entire guide is less than 8 pages, so my simple I think he meant short! Thanks, Roger On 11/8/05, John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Jarrett, > > > > -Origina

Re: [R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

2005-10-25 Thread roger bos
005-10-25 at 08:51 -0400, roger bos wrote: > > for example: > > > a$tic[1:10] > > [1] "AIR " "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR " "ADCT " "ADEX " > > [7] "ABM " "AFCE " "AG " "ATG &quo

[R] Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a character vector?

2005-10-25 Thread roger bos
for example: > a$tic[1:10] [1] "AIR " "ABCB " "ABXA " "ACMR " "ADCT " "ADEX " [7] "ABM " "AFCE " "AG " "ATG " Can anyone please tell me how to strip the white spaces from a$tic? Thanks, Roger [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@sta

Re: [R] Animation of Mandelbrot Set

2005-10-06 Thread roger bos
t; versions (1.4) of both source and binary. > > Jarek > \ > Jarek Tuszynski, PhD. o / \ > Science Applications International Corporation <\__,| > (703) 676-4192 "> \ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` \ > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

Re: [R] modeling language for optimization problems

2005-10-06 Thread roger bos
er a fairy broad range of the simpler types of optimzation. I mentioned that R can do QPs , LPs, and integer programming, among others. Thanks, Roger On 10/3/05, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, roger bos wrote: > > > As others have alluded,

Re: [R] Animation of Mandelbrot Set

2005-10-06 Thread roger bos
Anyone know why I would get an Error: couldn't find function "write.gif" despite loading library(caTools) with no errors in R 2.1.1 under XP? Thanks, Roger > library(fields) # for tim.colors fields is loaded use help(fields) for an overview of this library > library(caTools) # for write.gif Load

Re: [R] modeling language for optimization problems

2005-10-03 Thread roger bos
Paolo, As others have alluded, R does not have any one package that is as versatile and powerful as NuOpt, but R does have many different optimization packages, so you can do LP, QP, Integer programming, and many more types of optimization, all without having to learn a new language. But being fre

Re: [R] Easy cut & paste from Excel to R?

2005-09-30 Thread roger bos
Thanks Gabor and Petr. It seems that all you have to do is use 'clipboard' and not 'file("clipboard")' as we were doing. The row.names won't copy if you use file. I don't know if that is a bug or a feature, but if you were debugging someones code who already had 'file()' there, it would be hard to

Re: [R] memory issues with large data set

2005-09-29 Thread roger bos
memory.limit may not be the correct command. I use the command 'utils:: memory.size(3*1024)' to increase my memory size after using editbin to modify the header of R to make it LARGEADDRESSAWARE as described in the above FAQ. I am able to read about 2.7Gb into memory that way with 4Gb of ram. Not o

Re: [R] Easy cut & paste from Excel to R?

2005-09-29 Thread roger bos
That's a good point, it doesn't work for me either in R 2.1.1. I can get row.names to copy to excel, but not col.names. In fact if I do the following, write.table(t(a), file("clipboard"), sep="\t") I can get the column names, but I will have to copy and transpose the matrix in excel to get it to

Re: [R] dates are shown as X15.Feb.03

2005-09-27 Thread roger bos
This is a good example of where you did not give us enough information to answer your question. as.Date has a lot of formatting options for working with dates. If you are still having problems, please provide a short example (i.e. reproducable code). Thanks, Roger On 9/26/05, Chris Buddenhagen

Re: [R] error when loading rwinedt

2005-09-21 Thread roger bos
I too have had problems with getting RWinEdt to work, I tried the above command lines and got the following error: > install.packages("RWinEdt") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL ' http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/RWinEdt_1.7-3.zip' Content

Re: [R] seeking advice for manipulating matrices to find the difference

2005-08-30 Thread roger bos
Uwe, Thanks. I have used merge a lot, but I didn't realize you could merge on row names. I got it working now: test <- merge(out.r[1:5, 1:3], out.p[1:5, 1:3], by="row.names", all.x=TRUE) Thanks, Roger On 8/30/05, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > roge

[R] seeking advice for manipulating matrices to find the difference

2005-08-30 Thread roger bos
I have two matrices (see example below) and I want the differences for the matching row numbers, but the row numbers are not identical in the two matrices. There are probably many ways to do this. Anyone know of any easy way to do this? I could loop over them, but you know what they say about fo

Re: [R] Who can help me?

2005-08-30 Thread roger bos
Please provide an example that doesn't work, I made one up quickly just to see what would happend and it worked without errors. > g=c(1,0,2,0) > g [1] 1 0 2 0 > v<-c(5,10,15,20) > dim(v) <- c(2,2) > v [,1] [,2] [1,] 5 15 [2,] 10 20 > solve(v)*g [,1] [,2] [1,] -0.4 0.6 [2,] 0.0 0.0 On 8/30/05,

Re: [R] staying with R, jobs in R

2005-08-29 Thread roger bos
If employers really want someone with R/S skills they usually post the jobs to the lists, so you are probably also looking in the right place. However you really seem to be limiting your search options by doing this. The job I am at didn't use R before I joined. Your better off finding a job you

Re: [R] using paste and "\" to create a valid filename

2005-08-19 Thread roger bos
es as in (used it in all of my courses and never tried "\\" > before): > > rankFile <- paste("R:/New Ranks/SMC/SMC/", rankDate, ".xls", sep="") > > Uwe Ligges > > > roger bos wrote: > > > I was surprise myself that I

Re: [R] using paste and "\" to create a valid filename

2005-08-19 Thread roger bos
ksSMCSMC€50818.xls" > xls <- odbcConnectExcel(rankFile) > xls RODB Connection 15 Details: case=nochange DBQ=R:New RanksSMCSMC€50818.xls DefaultDir=R:\NEW RANKS\SMC Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)} DriverId=790 MaxBufferSize=2048 PageTimeout=5 > On 8/19/05, U

[R] using paste and "\" to create a valid filename

2005-08-19 Thread roger bos
Sometimes even the easy stuff is difficult (for me)... I want to get input from different places to paste together an excel filename (so you know I'm using windows) that I can open with RODBC. I know about using double "\" since its an escape character, but I get either 2 or none, I can't get just

Re: [R] R equivalent to Fortran, GAUSS, or Perl's "goto"

2005-08-10 Thread roger bos
The best thing to do would be to provide an example of how you want to use the goto, then someone can probably suggest a work around or an alternative way of doing the same thing, once we have something concrete to go on. Thanks, Roger On 8/15/05, Warren Lamboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does R

[R] using weighted.mean with tapply()

2005-08-03 Thread roger bos
I am trying to calculate the weighted mean for a of 10 deciles and I get an error: > decile <- tapply(X=mat$trt1m, INDEX=mat$Rank, FUN=weighted.mean, w=mat$mcap) Error in FUN(X[[1]], ...) : 'x' and 'w' must have the same length All three of my inputs have the same length, as shown below, and the w

Re: [R] Running Internet Explorer from Withing R

2005-07-28 Thread roger bos
This might be slightly off topic, but Rpad() is a good library that displays tables in HTML format in a brower very well. You can also use it to easily make a gui for your program/code. HTH, Roger On 7/28/05, Walter R. Paczkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning, > > Is it possible to

Re: [R] CSV file and date. Dates are read as factors!

2005-07-28 Thread roger bos
Working with dates is not easy (for me at least). I always manage to get it done, but the code is somewhat messy. I have not tried using the Hmisc package as Frank suggested, but I will show you my code as an alternate way: w <- unclass((as.Date(as.character(dataMat$fy1_period_end_date), format=

Re: [R] How to read an excel data into R?

2005-06-23 Thread roger bos
This is really great. I use odbc for sql all the time, but I never needed to read in excel files before. I needed to yesterday and I looked at read.xls() from library(gdata) and it took 5-10 minutes to read in the file and odbc did it in 5 seconds! I guess that is the good thing about having dup

Re: [R] Need Help - Urgent

2005-06-03 Thread roger bos
Those sizes are smaller than I thought they would be, but you repeat the variables more than once in expand.grid, so its still large overall. Maybe you can try a simpler example first and then build up to what you really want once you get the simpler one working. The underlying problem is that th

Re: [R] Re: help: reference & book

2005-06-01 Thread roger bos
Your question is kind of broad, but two books I like are "Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in S-Plus" by Rene A. Carmona (Springer) and "Modeling Financial Time Series With S-Plus" by Eric Zivot and Jiahue Wang. The last one is an Insightful publication and is basically the user's guide for

Re: [R] website reference for building R packages

2005-05-25 Thread roger bos
I used this tutorial and completed steps 1-6 without errors, but on step 7 I tried to run R CMD check on my package called 'ram' directory one level above the 'ram' folder and I got the following error? I:\R_HOME>R CMD check ram * checking for working latex ...Error: environment variable TMPDIR no

Re: [R] Basic matematical functions with NAs

2005-05-24 Thread roger bos
Simple, all those functions, such as sum(), colSums(), colMeans(), etc. have an argument called na.rm which you can set to TRUE to remove NAs. so try something like sum(X, na.rm=TRUE) HTH, Roger On 5/24/05, Paulo Brando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I've tried to sum columns --

Re: [R] normality test

2005-04-29 Thread roger bos
I looked carefully at ?shapiro.test and I did not see it state anywhere what the null hypothesis is or what a low p-value means. I understand that I can run the example "shapiro.test(rnorm(100, mean = 5, sd = 3))" and deduce from its p-value of 0.0988 that the null-hypothesis must be normality, bu

Re: [R] Error when downloading and installing ALL R packages

2005-04-22 Thread roger bos
I have no idea how to solve that error, but I use the following bit of code (which I picked up from someone else on this list) to update ALL packages on CRAN and it works on 2.1.0: x <- packageStatus(repositories="http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib";) st <- x$avai["Status"] install.packages(row

Re: Re : Thanks! (Was: Re: [R] R-2.1.0 is released)

2005-04-20 Thread roger bos
Even though R is free, that doesn't mean its not possible to support it financially. There is a provision for useRs to "join" the foundation for a very small annual fee. I stumbled on this a few months ago and immediately joined because I think I benefit tremendously from using R. Check out the

Re: [R] using command line flags with TINN-R

2005-04-07 Thread roger bos
Philippe, I have no idea what "R call-tip server" means, but I will invoke it and see what happens. I will also read the FAQ more. Thanks for your help. Thanks, Roger On Apr 7, 2005 1:53 AM, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > roger bos wrote: > > This is

[R] using command line flags with TINN-R

2005-04-06 Thread roger bos
This is a TINN-R editor question rather than an R question, but can anyone tell me how to use command line flags with TINN-R. There is a space to fill in the path to Rgui, and I have "C:\Program Files\R\rw2001pat\bin\Rgui.exe". If I try to add a command line flag after that, such as " --no-save"

Re: [R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries

2005-04-06 Thread roger bos
We have S+ at our company, but I choose to use R because I like it. There are two observations I have. One is that many people in IT don't seem to like open source software that much because either they don't trust it or they say there is no one who stands behind it. Second, equally important po

Re: [R] Introduce a new function in a package?

2005-04-06 Thread roger bos
I tried making a package on windows and got a "make" error, so I was happy I was able to get source("mystuff.R") to work in .First(). Since my utility functions are pretty simple and few in number, this is good enough for me for now. But I got a curious error. I can submit the command "memory.si

Re: [R] RE: Gmail invitation

2005-03-28 Thread roger bos
I have 50 too, aparently you can't give these things away today. Thanks, Roger On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:01:35 -0400, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is this stuff about' gmail invitation'? > > Kjetil > > > A.J. Rossini wrote: > > >Heck, if anyone cares, I've got

Re: [R] client-server setup for R

2005-03-24 Thread roger bos
; but it seems that S+ have a server version where clients connect from > > their desktop and submit jobs and I was wonder is there is an R > > version. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:47:53 -0500, Huntsinger, Reid > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [R] Unexpected error "subset assignment" (bug?)

2005-03-24 Thread roger bos
I didn't know anything about as.raw(), so I did ?as.raw and it refer to raw vector, so my guess is that it doesn't work with matrix types. The following modified code seems to work, however: b = matrix(0, 8,8) q = 1:8 b[1,] = q b <- as.raw(b) dim(b) <- c(8,8) HTH, Roger On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:

Re: [R] client-server setup for R

2005-03-24 Thread roger bos
untsinger, Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is running R directly on the server machine and displaying via X or Xvnc an > option? > > Reid Huntsinger > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roger bos > Sen

[R] client-server setup for R

2005-03-24 Thread roger bos
I am currently the only use-R at my company, but they are considering buy a more powerful server and letting multiple people use it. They asked me if R supports client-server setups. I know S+ has a server version that does that. I didn't find anything about that on CRAN, but hopefully someone c

Re: [R] RODBC, sqlSave and sqlAppend

2005-03-16 Thread roger bos
x > b) Microarrays (Affymetrix), gene expression, SNPs > c) Linkage, association and allied methods > http://sgdp.iop.kcl.ac.uk/summerschool/ > > -Original Message- > From: roger bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 March 2005 19:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc

Re: [R] RODBC, sqlSave and sqlAppend

2005-03-15 Thread roger bos
I use RODBC all day every day and while I am pretty happy with it, I was never able to make a table separately and append to it using sqlSave. Nevertheless, maybe my observations will help. I always let sqlSave make the table for me. Make sure the table doesn't exist and it will make it. I neve

[R] missing sh.exe file when running "R CMD INSTALL test"

2005-03-15 Thread roger bos
I am trying to learn how to make a simple package that contains no C or Fortran code. I used package.skeleton(...) to make a package called "test". The directory and files look good. I downloaded and installed Rtools (www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/tools.zip). I added the path and from the d

Re: [R] simple if...else causes syntax error

2005-03-07 Thread roger bos
syntax error. Thanks again. Roger On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:36:50 -0800 (PST), Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, roger bos wrote: > > > I am trying to do the simplest thing in the world. The following works: > > > > aaa <- ifelse(aaa==

[R] simple if...else causes syntax error

2005-03-07 Thread roger bos
I am trying to do the simplest thing in the world. The following works: aaa <- ifelse(aaa==5, 6, 7) But if I want to change the if...else syntax instead, it gives errors and assigns 7 to aaa. Here is the problem code: aaa <- 5 if ( aaa==5 ) { aaa <- 6 } else { aa

[R] Rdbi and ODBC

2005-02-22 Thread roger bos
I have been using RODBC for a while with no complaints (R 2.0.1 patched under WinXP), then I saw a link (http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/r_and_dbms.html) showing that Rdbi claims to run a query in 5 seconds that takes RODBC 4.3 minutes. That was hard enough for me to believe that I wanted to try so

Re: [R] lookups and joins

2005-01-25 Thread roger bos
Paul, You don't want to write you own function. merge() will do that for you very quickly and efficiently. Just to elaborate on Mike's reply, here is an example of how to use merge: > test <- merge(out, trt1m, by="gvkey") > names(out) [1] "gvkey""datadate" "Price""FV" "ER" "

[R] how to use do.call("rbind", get(list(mlist)))

2005-01-21 Thread roger bos
I have around 200 data frames I want to rbind in a vectorized way. The object names are: m302 m303 ... m500 So I tried: mlist <- paste("m",302:500,sep="") dat <- do.call("rbind", get(list(mlist))) and I get "Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : invalid first argument" I know "rbind" is va

Re: [R] how to use solve.QP [SOLVED - ANSWER AVAIL]

2005-01-13 Thread roger bos
quot;ts", R dispatches > "portfiolio.optim(x, ...)" to "portfolio.optim.ts(x, ...)". Otherwise, > it is dispatched to "portfolio.optim.default(x,...)". > > hope this helps. > spencer graves > > Achim Zeileis wrote: > > >On

Re: [R] how to use solve.QP

2005-01-13 Thread roger bos
uot;portfolio.optim": > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:58:33 +0100, Achim Zeileis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:44:58 -0500 roger bos wrote: > > > At the risk of ridicule for my deficient linear algebra skills, I ask > > for help using the solve.QP

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