Re: [R] plot legend: combining filled boxes and lines

2007-09-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/05/16777.html On 9/10/07, Lauri Nikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have difficulties combining boxes and lines in plot legend. I searched previous R-posts and found this (with no solution):

Re: [R] lattice panel.lmline problem

2007-09-10 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
Why not use the more simple xyplot(total.fat~x|variable,groups=Group, data=tmp1,type=c(p,r)) ??? See ?panel.xyplot and especially the type argument of that panel function. Best regards Frede Aakmann Tøgersen Scientist UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Dept. of

Re: [R] plot legend: combining filled boxes and lines

2007-09-10 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
Thanks Gabor, I got it! For example: x1 - rnorm(100) x2 - rnorm(100, 2) hist(x1, main = , col = orange,ylab = density, xlab = x, freq = F, density = 55, xlim = c(-2, 5), ylim = c(0, 0.5)) par(new = T) hist(x2, main = , col = green, ylab = , xlab = ,axes = F, xlim = c(-2, 5), ylim = c(0, 0.5),

Re: [R] Problems with strsplit

2007-09-10 Thread Moshe Olshansky
unlist(strsplit(bA531F16-rep,\\-))[1] [1] bA531F16 --- Carlos Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to know what can I do if I use strplit with a string and I want to use the middle left,I mean I have this: strsplit(bA531F16-rep,\\-) [[1]] [1] bA531F16 rep

Re: [R] command to plot variannce of data (like error bar plot)

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Lemon
Yogesh Tiwari wrote: Hi, How to plot a variance over a data point, something like error bar. Hi Yogesh, The generic method is to use the arrows function, and there are quite a few variations on this theme (in alpha order): brkdn.plot(plotrix) dispbars(plotrix) errbar(Hmisc and sfsmisc)

Re: [R] lattice panel.lmline problem

2007-09-10 Thread Ross Darnell
Thanks Frede I didn't know about the r type. Ross Darnell -Original Message- From: Frede Aakmann Tøgersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 10-Sep-07 4:45 PM To: Ross Darnell; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: SV: [R] lattice panel.lmline problem Why not use the more simple

Re: [R] PCA IN R

2007-09-10 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
prcomp() in stats handles matrices with n p well, IMO. -- Bjørn-Helge Mevik __ 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 and provide

Re: [R] artificial data matrix with 100000 rows

2007-09-10 Thread Martin Maechler
PS == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:17:32 +0100 writes: PS On 9/9/07, kevinchang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to made the matrix with this size by either matrix() or array(). However, there seems to be default limit of number for rows made. I got sort

Re: [R] Help in installing and loading the BradleyTerry add on package in R

2007-09-10 Thread Turner, Heather
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon Sent: 10 September 2007 12:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Help in installing and loading the BradleyTerry add on package in R Kalyan Roy (DEL/MSG) wrote: How do I install and load

Re: [R] artificial data matrix with 100000 rows

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/10/07, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS On 9/9/07, kevinchang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to made the matrix with this size by either matrix() or array(). However, there seems to be default limit of number for rows made. I got sort of error message

Re: [R] Help in installing and loading the BradleyTerry add on package in R

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Lemon
Kalyan Roy (DEL/MSG) wrote: How do I install and load the BradleyTerry add on package in R 2.5.1 in MSWindowsXP environment? Hi Kalyan, If R CMD INSTALL doesn't work, you can use WinZip or Zip Reader to unzip the package to: C:\Program Files\R-2.5.1\library or whatever your path to the

Re: [R] plot legend: combining filled boxes and lines

2007-09-10 Thread Monica Pisica
This is not quite what you want but you can try this: legend(3, 0.45, legend = c(x1, x2, mean(x1), mean(x2)), col = c(orange, green),pch = c(15,15,-1,-1), lty=c(-1,-1,2,2)) Although pch=22 should draw a filled square with a border - but it draws only the border instead Monica

Re: [R] overlay lattice histograms with goodness-of-fit pdfs

2007-09-10 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
The following is one of the examples in the help page for histogram: histogram( ~ height | voice.part, data = singer, xlab = Height (inches), type = density, panel = function(x, ...) { panel.histogram(x, ...)

Re: [R] mode or parameters of readBin

2007-09-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/10/2007 10:26 AM, Sigbert Klinke wrote: Hi, sapply(formals(readBin), mode) con what n sizesignedendian namename numeric logical logicalcall returns for the mode of size logical. But in the documentation is said that size should be

Re: [R] Problems with strsplit

2007-09-10 Thread xavierab
You could directly use strsplit(bA531F16-rep,\\-)[[1]][1] and strsplit(bA531F16-rep,\\-)[[1]][2] Regards Carlos Morales-2 wrote: Hello, I would like to know what can I do if I use strplit with a string and I want to use the middle left,I mean I have this:

Re: [R] ggplot legend consolidation

2007-09-10 Thread hadley wickham
I have recently been introduced to the ggplot package by Hadley Wickham and must say I am quite impressed so far at how easy it is to make attractive plots, but one thing I am struggling over is how to consolidate legends. It's not currently possible to consolidate them (although in the

Re: [R] RWinEdt installation problems with Vista

2007-09-10 Thread Stefan Grosse
Hi, I was trying to install the packageRWinEdt in my computer with Vista OS. O Use Tinn-R it works with Vista although has some minor issues (which are probably system specific). https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinn-r Stefan -=-=- ... Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. (Ford

Re: [R] Are the error messages of ConstrOptim() consisten with each other?

2007-09-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear Friends. I found something very puzzling with constOptim(). When I change the parameters for ConstrOptim, the error messages do not seem to be consistent with each other: constrOptim(c(0.5,0.3,0.5), f=fit.error, gr=fit.error.grr, ui=ui,ci=ci) Error in

Re: [R] Survey package

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, eugen pircalabelu wrote: Good afternoon! I'm trying to use the Survey package for a stratified sample which has 4 criteria on which the stratification is based. I would like to get the corrected weights and for every element i get a weight of 1 E.g: tipping

Re: [R] the survey package

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Tobias Verbeke wrote: eugen pircalabelu wrote: I'm trying to use the survey package to get a better point of view for my data, but i need some piece of advice: i have some data from a survey which has been stratified using 2 criteria: region(7 values), size of

Re: [R] writing complex outputs to table

2007-09-10 Thread Xavier Abulker
Steve, This example works: x-TukeyHSD(fm1, tension, ordered = TRUE) as.table(x$tension) Steve Powers wrote: So I've come across a few cases where complex outputs from functions will not write to tables. The most recent case involves the TukeyHSD function in the stats package. If I save

Re: [R] Are the error messages of ConstrOptim() consisten with each other?

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
The error message about the feasible region comes from constrOptim(), before your function is called. The error message about missing lambda1 comes from calling your function. -thomas On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear Friends. I found something very puzzling with

Re: [R] Survey package

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, eugen pircalabelu wrote: A short example: stratum id weight nh Nh y sex 1 1 3 5 15 23 1 1 2 3 5 15 25 1 1 3 3 5 15 27 2 1 4 3 5 15 21 2 1 5 3 5 15 22 1 2 6

Re: [R] write.csv / string extraction and field limits

2007-09-10 Thread Xavier Abulker
This example works fine: test-matrix(c(1,2,'VOICIUNPETITTES',3),ncol=2,nrow=2) write.csv(test,file='C:/xavier/test.csv') Could you provide the same small example when it doesn't work? kwaj wrote: Hello, I have a peculiar problem which I am hoping I can get help

Re: [R] mode or parameters of readBin

2007-09-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Sigbert Klinke wrote: Hi, sapply(formals(readBin), mode) con what n sizesignedendian namename numeric logical logicalcall returns for the mode of size logical. But in the documentation is said that size should be integer. Does

Re: [R] ggplot legend consolidation

2007-09-10 Thread Te, Kaom
, layout.pos.row = 2)) grid.rect() p.legend - get_legends(p) grid.draw(p.legend) --END CODE -Original Message- From: hadley wickham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 7:58 AM To: Te, Kaom Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re

Re: [R] off-topic: better OS for statistical computing

2007-09-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You want whatever all the people you are working with are using to make it as easy as possible to work together with them. On 9/10/07, Wensui Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, everyone, I am sorry for this off-topic post but think I can get great answer from this list. My question is

Re: [R] finding the minimum positive value of some data

2007-09-10 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: min(diff(sort(x))[diff(sort(x))0]) -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40 S 49° 16' 22 O On 10/09/2007, dxc13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: useRs, I am looking to find the minimum positive value of some data I have. Currently, I am able to find the minimum of

Re: [R] finding the minimum positive value of some data

2007-09-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 11:20 -0700, dxc13 wrote: useRs, I am looking to find the minimum positive value of some data I have. Currently, I am able to find the minimum of data after I apply some other functions to it: x [1] 1 0 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 9 9 10 10

Re: [R] ggplot legend consolidation

2007-09-10 Thread hadley wickham
, Kaom Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] ggplot legend consolidation I have recently been introduced to the ggplot package by Hadley Wickham and must say I am quite impressed so far at how easy it is to make attractive plots, but one thing I am struggling over is how to consolidate

Re: [R] S-Plus resample package and associated functions

2007-09-10 Thread Patrick Burns
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/bootstrap_resampling.html includes a synopsis of R packages that do bootstrapping. It is brief and incomplete, but hopefully useful. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and A Guide for the Unwilling

Re: [R] Too many warnings when updating R

2007-09-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
A Lenzo wrote: Hello friends, I loaded R 2.4.1 onto a Fedora Core 6 Linux box (taking all defaults). Then I ran these commands from within R: options(CRAN=http://cran.stat.ucla.edu;) install.packages(CRAN.packages()[,1]) As a new user of R, I was shocked when I finished loading R and

Re: [R] lattice panel.lmline problem

2007-09-10 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 9/10/07, Ross Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Frede I didn't know about the r type. For the record, this is probably what you wanted: xyplot(... panel = panel.superpose, panel.groups = function(x, y, ...) { panel.xyplot(x, y, ...) if (length(x)

Re: [R] off-topic: better OS for statistical computing

2007-09-10 Thread Rolf Turner
On 11/09/2007, at 4:22 AM, Wensui Liu wrote: Good morning, everyone, I am sorry for this off-topic post but think I can get great answer from this list. My question is what is the best OS on PC (laptop) for statistical computing and why. I really appreciate your insight. Have a nice day.

Re: [R] off-topic: better OS for statistical computing

2007-09-10 Thread Weiwei Shi
Linux! Mac OS is ok to me2. On 9/10/07, Wensui Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, everyone, I am sorry for this off-topic post but think I can get great answer from this list. My question is what is the best OS on PC (laptop) for statistical computing and why. I really appreciate

Re: [R] Are the error messages of ConstrOptim() consisten with each other?

2007-09-10 Thread Yuchen Luo
Dear Professor Murdoch. Thank you for your help! 1. I believe c(0.5,0.3,0.5) satisfies the constrain because I did the following experiment ui=-1*ui ci=-1*ci constrOptim(c(0.5,0.3,0.5), f=fit.error, gr=fit.error.grr, ui=ui,ci=ci) The same error message pops up. Any theta ( in this case,

Re: [R] MLE Function

2007-09-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Terence Broderick wrote: I am just trying to teach myself how to use the mle function in R because it is much better than what is provided in MATLAB. I am following tutorial material from the internet, however, it gives the following errors, does anybody know what is happening to cause such

Re: [R] off-topic: better OS for statistical computing

2007-09-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
My sense is that R users are even split between UNIX and Windows users so either will do in terms of the larger community. Some R packages may not be avaliable on every platform or will be available on one platform before another or there will be certain platform-specific issues. So in the end

Re: [R] Generating Replicate Datasets (using loops or other means)

2007-09-10 Thread Moshe Olshansky
Hi Jonathan, What exactly do you mean by replication? Do you want to keep a1,b1,c1,... unchanged but have 30 different sets of random numbers? Regards, Moshe. --- VTLT1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have searched many help forums, message boards, etc. and I just can't

Re: [R] finding the minimum positive value of some data

2007-09-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here are some solutions each of which 1. has only one line, 2. x only occurs once so you can just plug in a complex expression 3. no temporary variables are left min(sapply(x, function(z) if (z 0) z else Inf)) (function(z) min(ifelse(z 0, z, Inf))) (x) with(list(z = x), min(z[z 0])) local({

Re: [R] what am I missing

2007-09-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Its a FAQ: http://hermes.sdu.dk/Rdoc/faq.html#Why%20does%20outer()%20behave%20strangely%20with%20my%20function%3f On 9/10/07, Jan de Leeuw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x-seq(-1,1,length=10) y-seq(-1,1,length=10) a-matrix(c(1,2,2,1),2,2) b-matrix(c(2,1,1,2),2,2) fv-function(x,y) {

Re: [R] install packages automatically

2007-09-10 Thread Ross Darnell
Try ?update.packages Ross Darnell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wensui Liu Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2007 11:45 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] install packages automatically Dear Listers, I am a little tired of

Re: [R] overlay lattice histograms with goodness-of-fit pdfs

2007-09-10 Thread Brad Christoffersen
Mange tak! FYI, this is the way it is able to run (I was going to attach station.precip.R, but I read that attaching files is not recommended - let me know if you would like it) x - dget(file=C://Documents and Settings/Bradley/My Documents/Arizona/CourseResources/ATMO529/station.precip.R)

Re: [R] finding the minimum positive value of some data

2007-09-10 Thread Moshe Olshansky
Either min(diff(sort(x))[diff(sort(x))0]) or min(diff(sort(unique(x --- dxc13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: useRs, I am looking to find the minimum positive value of some data I have. Currently, I am able to find the minimum of data after I apply some other functions to it: x

Re: [R] using bootstrap for tree selection step in rpart

2007-09-10 Thread Christian Schäfer
Fiona Callaghan wrote: I was wondering if someone could help me with an rpart problem. I can see that cross-validation is the default for tree selection in rpart -- has a bootstrap method been implemented anywhere? I think this is a different thing to 'bagging' or 'boosting' -- I still want

Re: [R] artificial data matrix with 100000 rows

2007-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/9/07, kevinchang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to made the matrix with this size by either matrix() or array(). However, there seems to be default limit of number for rows made. I got sort of error message from R .To be specific, m--matrix(ncol=3,nrow=10) error message:[ reached

Re: [R] Problem in installing packages on linux machine...

2007-09-09 Thread Carsten Jaeger
Your problem is not related to missing file permissions but to a problem with the linker (ld). As you can see from the error message, ld cannot find a compatible libR.so so compilation fails. You did not specify which architecture you're on but in case it is a 64-bit platform, the following thread

Re: [R] What does it mean by initial value not available?

2007-09-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/09/2007 7:01 AM, Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear friends. I use ConstrOptim( ) and got error message initial value not available. My understanding of initial value not available is that one of the following 3 cases happens: 1.The objective function is not well defined at the point of the

Re: [R] Sweave figure aspect ratio

2007-09-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/09/2007 7:24 AM, Werner Wernersen wrote: Hello, using Sweave, is there any option to preserve the original aspect ratio of plots generated from R code? Consider this Sweave chunk: test,echo=F,fig=T,width=2,height=2= x - 1:10 y - sin(x) par(mar=c(4,4,0,4)) plot(x,y, xlab=x

Re: [R] stacking data frames with different variables

2007-09-09 Thread hadley wickham
Have a look at rbind.fill in the reshape package. Hadley On 9/9/07, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, If I need to stack two data frames, I can use rbind, but it requires that all variables exist in both sets. I can make that happen, but other stat packages would

Re: [R] stacking data frames with different variables

2007-09-09 Thread Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
Perfect. Thanks Hadley! -Original Message- From: hadley wickham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:11 AM To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] stacking data frames with different variables Have a look at rbind.fill

Re: [R] confusion matrix - better code?

2007-09-09 Thread Monica Pisica
Wolfgang, This looks great and certainly puts to shame my code . Thanks, Monica Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:04:32 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] confusion matrix - better code? Dear Monica, try this: cm = table(tr

Re: [R] loop execution problem

2007-09-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/09/2007 1:36 PM, kevinchang wrote: This is bizzare. The for loop I set seems to go infinitly because the hourglass cursor never disappers and I never get the result. But when I click on X of the window try to exit R, the execution finishes right after I abort exiting when RGui asks me

Re: [R] fitdistr()

2007-09-09 Thread jim holtman
I assume that you want to do the fitdistr on one of the columns of the dataframe that you have read in. What does 'str(ONES3)' show? If the data is in the first column, try: fitdistr(ONES3[[1]],chi-squared) On 9/9/07, Terence Broderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to fit the

Re: [R] What does it mean by initial value not available?

2007-09-09 Thread Yuchen Luo
Dear Professor Mordoch. Thank you very much for your help! Your time is highly appreciated! I do intend to optimize over 3 parameters and the way I did it is constrOptim(c(0.5,0.3,0.5), fit.error, fit.error.grr, ui=ui,ci=ci). Also, There is a missing value for both sigmae and ss. (The last 3rd

Re: [R] Sweave figure aspect ratio

2007-09-09 Thread Werner Wernersen
Many thanks for the quick reply, Duncan. Now I see that something is going wrong in R already. I overlooked this because the R window was so big. I have to persuade plotViewport() not to create a square area but one which takes the different margins into account. Best regards, Werner ---

Re: [R] NA in AR model residuals

2007-09-09 Thread Nick Chorley
Thanks all! On 09/09/2007, Nick Chorley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This may be a stupid question, but why when creating an AR model, why does R set the first n components of the ar object's resid vector to NA (where n is the order of the model)? Regards, NC [[alternative

Re: [R] SQL like function?

2007-09-08 Thread Takatsugu Kobayashi
Hi Gabor, Wow, this is awesome although I eventually should learn MySQL for integrating it on web-based DB management using PHP or Perl, this is a very helpful tool for me to start with! Thank you very much Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Others have already pointed out %in% but regarding

Re: [R] SQL like function?

2007-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Great. Regarding the web, note that there are actually quite a few R web projects as well: http://www.lmbe.seu.edu.cn/CRAN/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-Web-Interfaces I have used rpad (www.rpad.org) which has an integrated web server right in the R package making setup a non-issue. On 9/8/07,

Re: [R] Lisp-like primitives in R

2007-09-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
François Pinard wrote: [Roland Rau] [François Pinard] I wonder what happened, for R to hide the underlying Scheme so fully, at least at the level of the surface language (despite there are hints). To further foster portability, we chose to write R in ANSI

Re: [R] Plotting lines to sets of points

2007-09-08 Thread Jim Price
# Create a matrix of ball locations # You'd do this using the calls within your points function balls - matrix(c(0,50,25,-150,-100,-50), ncol=2, byrow=F) # Draw a line from the origin to each ball location apply(balls, 1, function(x) lines(c(125, x[1]), c(-210, x[2]), col='red')) A more

Re: [R] enable object name to be called as object (a dataset)

2007-09-08 Thread Jim Price
a - 1:3 b - 11:13 c - 21:23 names - c('a','b','c') do.call(data.frame, list(sapply(names, function(x) get(x runner wrote: What I am trying to do is as follows: - I have listed names of all wanted objects (datasets A,B,C... ) in current workspace as a vector: obj -

Re: [R] FW: variable format

2007-09-08 Thread Martin Becker
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Martin Becker wrote: Dear Cory, I am not familiar with SAS, but is this what you are looking for? divisionTable - matrix(c(1, New England, 2, Middle Atlantic, 3, East North Central, 4,

Re: [R] Matlab's lsqnonlin

2007-09-08 Thread Martin Maechler
KateM == Katharine Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:07:41 +0200 (CEST) writes: KateM The thread you linked to regarding Levenberg-Marquardt's supposed lack of KateM availability is from 2001; it has been possible to get KateM to the MINPACK implementation of

Re: [R] argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/lib/R/library'

2007-09-08 Thread Gabor Csardi
Paul, what is the question? If the question is why you get this warning message, the reason is that the 'lib' argument is missing and install.packages is using '/usr/lib/R/library'. If you want to get rid of the warning supply the 'lib' argument. Gabor On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 11:26:44AM +0100,

Re: [R] R survey package again

2007-09-08 Thread James Reilly
On 7/9/07 11:42 PM, eugen pircalabelu wrote: I have a sample from a survey where household were interviewed. The sample has 4 criteria on which the stratification was based: REGION, SIZE OF HOUSEHOLD, SIZE OF LOCALITY, AGE OF HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD. Since i don't have the whole information in

Re: [R] Matlab's lsqnonlin

2007-09-08 Thread Katharine Mullen
I'm wondering about experiences: Do you know of cases where minpack.lm's nls.lm() solved a (real) problem that nls() would have a problem with ? In short, no. However, I looked at this question in the limited context of fitting the parameters of a linear superposition of 2 exponentials

Re: [R] Help with color coded bar graph

2007-09-08 Thread Jim Lemon
Luis Naver wrote: I have a list of observations that are -1, 1 or 0. I would like to represent them in a horizontal bar color coded based on value like a stacked bar graph. I can achieve this in the form of a png with the following code: A = floor(runif(10)*3) - 1 png(width=100,

Re: [R] argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/lib/R/library'

2007-09-08 Thread Paul Smith
On 9/8/07, Gabor Csardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, what is the question? If the question is why you get this warning message, the reason is that the 'lib' argument is missing and install.packages is using '/usr/lib/R/library'. If you want to get rid of the warning supply the 'lib'

Re: [R] genoud problem

2007-09-08 Thread Jasjeet Singh Sekhon
Hi Shubha, genoud does not return the initial fit value. But you could easily obtain it by passing your starting values to your function directly. Alternatively, one can have genoud print out the entire initial population (or the entire population as is evolves), and one can then decide to

Re: [R] Running a PERL script from R

2007-09-08 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Dear Ken. You could also try and use RSPerl (http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/). It allows one to use R commands in Perl and vice-versa. regards, Paul Pierce, Ken schreef: Is there a way to run a simple perl script from R? Kenneth B. Pierce Jr. Research Ecologist Landscape Ecology,

Re: [R] Lisp-like primitives in R

2007-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/8/07, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: François Pinard wrote: [Roland Rau] [François Pinard] I wonder what happened, for R to hide the underlying Scheme so fully, at least at the level of the surface language (despite there are hints). To further foster

Re: [R] Running a PERL script from R

2007-09-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
will need them to display/capture what is happening. Dirk | -Original Message- | From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 1:11 PM | To: Pierce, Ken | Cc: r-help | Subject: Re: [R] Running a PERL script from R | | On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:15:51PM

Re: [R] confusion matrix - better code?

2007-09-08 Thread Monica Pisica
Michael, Thank you very much. My code is certainly put to shame by yours. I promise to read about factor to see how you use it and why ;-)) I really appreciate your help. Monica Subject: RE: [R] confusion matrix - better code? Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:36:00 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [R] Lisp-like primitives in R

2007-09-08 Thread François Pinard
[Peter Dalgaard] [François Pinard] I meant that R might have implemented a Scheme engine [...] with a surface language [...] which is purposely not Scheme, but could have been. [...] one could dare dreaming that the Scheme engine in R be completed, and Scheme offered as an alternate extension

Re: [R] R first.id last.id function error

2007-09-08 Thread Gerard Smits
Hi Jim, Thanks for going to the trouble of writing the function. I'll copy and try it. Gerard At 06:30 PM 9/7/2007, jim holtman wrote: This function should do it for you: file1 - read.table(textConnection( id rx week dv1 + 1 1 11 1 + 2 1 12 1 + 3 1 13 2 + 4

Re: [R] Suppress 'x' when appending to a csv file

2007-09-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 11:41 -0400, John Kane wrote: Is there any convenient way to supress the x that appears in csv export files? I would like to be able to export a file and add a comment to it yet still be able to read it back into R. I don't see any way to get rid of the x that

Re: [R] Using clustering functions

2007-09-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
uv wrote: Hi. I need to use a few different clustering functions. I managed to run the kmeans() one which is in my stats library, but I can't use any function, such as agnes(), that is in my cluster library. Any idea how to access other libraries? Thanks! Both stats and cluster are

Re: [R] Problem in installing packages on linux machine...

2007-09-08 Thread tkobayas
Hi, I am trying to install RSQLite package on my Fedora workstation. I tried to install other packages as well, but each time I got the same error messages saying compilation error and non zero exit status. Do I have to specify lib=? I never specified the library path before when I was using

Re: [R] Problem in installing packages on linux machine...

2007-09-08 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Hi, try install packages whit 'sudo'. $sudo R -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40 S 49° 16' 22 O On 08/09/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to install RSQLite package on my Fedora workstation. I tried to install other packages as well,

Re: [R] Problem in installing packages on linux machine...

2007-09-08 Thread tkobayas
Hi, Still got the same error message. I did su R when I got the error message for the first time. I have never seen this error message. I will be googling for solutions as well... Thank you. Quoting Henrique Dallazuanna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, try install packages whit 'sudo'. $sudo R

Re: [R] Suppress 'x' when appending to a csv file

2007-09-08 Thread John Kane
Thanks Marc. It works. I had not thought of using col.names = FALSE as I wanted to keep the colnames. I see that I will just have to do another write.table command to do this. Humm, actually it took a a bit of juggling to do the names but it's looking fine now. --- Marc Schwartz [EMAIL

Re: [R] 'initial value not feasible' in constrOptim

2007-09-08 Thread Ingmar Visser
Hi, On Sep 7, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Yuchen Luo wrote: constrOptim(c(0.5,0.3,0.5), fit.error, fit.error.grr, ui=-1*ui,ci=-1*ci) and I am confronted with error message initial value not feasible I plug in the initial value of (0.5,0.3,0.5) to function fit.error and fit.error.grr and have

Re: [R] 'singular gradient matrix? when using nls() and how to make the program skip nls( ) and run on

2007-09-07 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:43:19PM -0700, Yuchen Luo wrote: Dear friends. I use nls() and encounter the following puzzling problem: I have a function f(a,b,c,x), I have a data vector of x and a vectory y of realized value of f. Case1 I tried to estimate c with (a=0.3,

Re: [R] negative value for AIC and BIC

2007-09-07 Thread John Sorkin
Oliver, I am attaching an HTML document in which I have plotted -2Log(x) vs. x. If you examine the plot you will see that -2Log(x) can be negative. Since -2Log(x) is part of AIC and BIC, AIC and BIC can be negative. John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA

Re: [R] Running geeglm unstructured corstr

2007-09-07 Thread Ulrich Halekoh
Dear Niccolo, a) your example program works for me and on a Pentium 4, 3 Ghz, 1GB ram, The model fit uses user system elapsed 146.920.76 143.32 library(geepack) set.seed(299) header - rep.int(seq(1:615),sample(seq(1:19),size=615,replace=T)) inr -

Re: [R] SQL like function?

2007-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Others have already pointed out %in% but regarding your comment about SQL, you can use SQL to manipulate R data frames using the sqldf package which provides an interface to lower level RSQLite (and RMySQL in the future) routines. The following examples use SQLite underneath: DF -

Re: [R] text in boxplots

2007-09-07 Thread Yves Moisan
Hi Greg, Actually, I'm using the scatterplot function in the car namespace. My understanding is that the scatterplot is turned into a boxplot when the x variable is a factor, but I can't see that in the code of the function. I've successfully modified the function to output regression stats

Re: [R] help on replacing values

2007-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Your columns are factors, not character strings. Use as.is = TRUE as an argument to read.table. Also its a bit dangerous to use T although not wrong. Its safer to use TRUE. On 9/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I have a newbie question. I have read in a

Re: [R] variable format

2007-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
A matrix is for situations where every element is of the same class but your columns have different classes so use a data frame: DF - data.frame(a = 11:15, b = letters[1:5], stringsAsFactors = FALSE) subset(DF, a %in% 11:13) subset(DF, a %in% c(0, 11:13)) # same Suggest you review the

Re: [R] Finding convex hull? [Broadcast]

2007-09-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Dong-hyun Oh Dear UseRs, I would like to know which function is the most efficient in finding convex hull of points in 3(or 2)-dimensional case? Functions for finding convex hull is the following: convex.hull (tripack), chull (grDevices), in.chull (sgeostat), convhulln

Re: [R] ploting missing data

2007-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: library(zoo) plot(na.approx(zoo(as.matrix(data[-1]), data[,1])), plot.type = single) See ?na.approx, ?plot.zoo, ?xyplot.zoo and vignette(zoo) On 9/7/07, Markus Schmidberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have this kind of dataframe and have to plot it. data - data.frame(sw=

Re: [R] help on replacing values

2007-09-07 Thread darteta001
Thanks a lot Gabor, that was very helpful. All sorted now! Best David Your columns are factors, not character strings. Use as.is = TRUE as an argument to read.table. Also its a bit dangerous to use T although not wrong. Its safer to use TRUE. On 9/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [R] text in boxplots

2007-09-07 Thread Greg Snow
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yves Moisan Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 5:05 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] text in boxplots Hi Greg, Actually, I'm using the scatterplot function in the car namespace. My understanding is that the scatterplot

Re: [R] ploting missing data

2007-09-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Markus Schmidberger wrote: Hello, I have this kind of dataframe and have to plot it. data - data.frame(sw= c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,15), zehn = c(33.44,20.67,18.20,18.19,17.89,19.65,20.05,19.87,20.55,22.53,NA,NA,NA), zwanzig =

Re: [R] computing distance in miles or km between 2 street

2007-09-07 Thread Monica Pisica
Phil, If you have only a list of addresses and nothing else - i have to recognize i am lost. But if you have more info you can use a GIS software and it will calculate your distance automatically for all your addresses. To have your distance in miles or Km you need to have a projection in

Re: [R] text in boxplots

2007-09-07 Thread Yves Moisan
6. set the reset.par argument to FALSE in calling scatterplot as it states in the documentation for scatterplot. (still look at the help on 'xpd' argment to par if you want to add text to the margins). Hi Greg, That seems to have done it partly. I set it to false once and then I could see

Re: [R] FW: variable format

2007-09-07 Thread Martin Becker
Dear Cory, I am not familiar with SAS, but is this what you are looking for? divisionTable - matrix(c(1, New England, 2, Middle Atlantic, 3, East North Central, 4, West North Central, 5, South

Re: [R] text in boxplots

2007-09-07 Thread Greg Snow
Moisan; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] text in boxplots The posting guide (a link at the bottom of every e-mail from the list) suggests including a small example of what you are trying to do. Without an example, we have to guess at what you are trying to do. I am still guessing

Re: [R] Delete query in sqldf?

2007-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Yes but delete does not return anything so its not useful. In the devel version of sqldf you can pass multiple command so try this using the builtin data frame BOD noting that the record with demand = 8.3 was removed: library(sqldf) Loading required package: RSQLite Loading required package:

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