Re: [R] Mixed model

2005-06-21 Thread Stephen
Hi Doug and Spencer, Many thanks - Excellent! All worked out nicely Regards Stephen From: Spencer Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 20/06/2005 17:54 To: Stephen Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Mixed model (comments in

Re: [R] how to do the test for a significant difference across group mean vectors

2005-06-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
wu sz wrote: Hello there, how to do the test for a significant difference between two groups mean vectors or across several group means vectors? This is not an R question. You cannot test on mean differences without assumptions re. the variance. Please read a basic textbook on statistics.

Re: [R] memory allocation failures

2005-06-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Most likely your linear model fitting is too large for the amount of memory you have in your Windows box. However, you should check ?Memory and in particular how your maximum RAM usage is set. (I don't know how the `JGR JRI tools' give you access to R's startup settings.) It may be that you

[R] Another Mix Model Question

2005-06-21 Thread Alfonso M Sanchez-Lafuente
Hi again, thank you for your previous answers. Just another question, though ... I get the following variance components after fitting a mixed model. Groups Name Variance Std.Dev. Corr PlantID TreatmCtrl0.51784 0.71961 TreatmNoAccess4.77469 2.18511

Re: [R] Another Mix Model Question

2005-06-21 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
AFAIK the COVTEST option just computes a Wald test! Since you want test for variance components (which is on the boundary of the parameter space), I'd suggest to use a LRT (i.e., anova.lme(model.1, model.2)) and moreover consider the simulate.lme() function of the nlme package. Best,

[R] How to plot circular data in the directions of 0, 0.5pi, pi and 1.5pi

2005-06-21 Thread ecoinfo
Hi R users, I use plot.circular(rad, stack=T,bins=4) and could just obtain the four stacks in the directions of 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees. But I want them in 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees. Is there any parameter or any other function to make it? Thanks for helping a R beginner. -- Xiaohua

[R] nls(): Levenberg-Marquardt, Gauss-Newton, plinear - PI curve fitting

2005-06-21 Thread Christfried Kunath
Hello, i have a problem with the function nls(). This are my data in k: V1V2 [1,]0 0.367 [2,] 85 0.296 [3,] 122 0.260 [4,] 192 0.244 [5,] 275 0.175 [6,] 421 0.140 [7,] 603 0.093 [8,] 831 0.068 [9,] 1140 0.043 With the nls()-function i want to fit following

Re: [R] linking R to goto blas

2005-06-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
OTOH, the Opteron Goto BLAS has no such problems on FC3, so I suspect this is specific to only some of the architectures. I've added a comment in the R-admin manual that says It has been reported that on some RedHat-based Linux systems it is necessary to set @code{OMP_NUM_THREADS=1} in

Re: [R] nls(): Levenberg-Marquardt, Gauss-Newton, plinear - PI curve fitting

2005-06-21 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Chris, CK == Christfried Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CK With the nls()-function i want to fit following formula CK whereas a,b, and c are variables: y~1/(a*x^2+b*x+c) CK [...] CK The algorithm plinear give me following error: The algorithm plinear is inappropriate

[R] Job Openings at WU Wien

2005-06-21 Thread Kurt Hornik
The Department of Statistics and Mathematics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration invites applications for two new faculty positions in computational statistics and quantitative research methodology, to begin in fall 2005. The positions will be at the Assistant

[R] X11, interactive device

2005-06-21 Thread powdersoul
Hey, i'm trying to set up an cgi web-application that produces maps and other graphics with R. for local testing i used my laptop which has an win xp OS. there everything works fine. now i try to move the whole system over on an unix machine, mainly because i want to establish a connection to

Re: [R] nls(): Levenberg-Marquardt, Gauss-Newton, plinear - PI curve fitting

2005-06-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/21/05, Christfried Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have a problem with the function nls(). This are my data in k: V1V2 [1,]0 0.367 [2,] 85 0.296 [3,] 122 0.260 [4,] 192 0.244 [5,] 275 0.175 [6,] 421 0.140 [7,] 603 0.093 [8,] 831 0.068

[R] test for equality of two data sets with multidimensional variables

2005-06-21 Thread wu sz
Hello there, I have two data sets with 14 variables each, and wish to do the test for equality of their covariance matrices and mean vectors. Normally these tests should be done by chi square test (box provided) and Hotelling's T square test respectively. Which R functions could do this kind of

[R] Data.frames with different line's length

2005-06-21 Thread João Mendes Moreira
Hello, I want to create a data.frame with different number of columns per line. What I want is something like: example - NULL begin - 1 while (end nrow(orig.data)) { end - next.day(orig.data,begin) # my own function. It returns the first index from the next day. Each day has a different

Re: [R] nls(): Levenberg-Marquardt, Gauss-Newton, plinear - PI curve fitting

2005-06-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/21/05, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/05, Christfried Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have a problem with the function nls(). This are my data in k: V1V2 [1,]0 0.367 [2,] 85 0.296 [3,] 122 0.260 [4,] 192 0.244 [5,]

Re: [R] sweep() and recycling

2005-06-21 Thread Robin Hankin
On Jun 20, 2005, at 04:58 pm, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: The issue here is that the equivalent command array(1:5, c(6,6)) (to matrix(1:5,6,6)) gives no warning, and sweep uses array(). I am not sure either should: fractional recycling was normally allowed in S3 (S4 tightened up a bit).

Re: [R] How to define S4 methods for '['

2005-06-21 Thread giles . heywood
I have found this a useful correspondence. My own wish is to define a new S4 class which differs from class 'array' only in its default handling of the 'drop' argument i.e. drop=FALSE - not an unusual wish. My solution is the following:

Re: [R] How to define S4 methods for '['

2005-06-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I don't think conversion to a list is necessary, e.g. f - function(x, y, ...) { cl - sys.call() if (missing(y)) cl$y - FALSE cl[[1]] - as.name(cat) cl[[2]] - rev(x) eval(cl) } f(1:4) # 4 3 2 1 FALSE On 6/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [R] sweep() and recycling

2005-06-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
\ Perhaps the signature should be: sweep(...other args go here..., warn=getOption(warn)) so that the name and value of the argument are consistent with the R warn option. On 6/21/05, Robin Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 20, 2005, at 04:58 pm, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: The issue

Re: [R] test for equality of two data sets with multidimensional variables

2005-06-21 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi searching in CRAN homepage for hotelling gave me this response Thanks everyone for your help on this question. I solved the problem by writing a procedure to calculate Hotelling's T^2 for a one-sample, multivariate t-test. Here's how it looks, perhaps it will be useful to others. data

Re: [R] Data.frames with different line's length

2005-06-21 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi from help page Details: A data frame is a list of variables of the same length with unique ^^ row names, given class 'data.frame'. So you need to use a different sructure (e.g.list) or you have to ensure that you rbind

[R] how to count associated factors?

2005-06-21 Thread zhihua li
hi netters Suppose I have a factor X, with 10 elements and 3 levels: A B B C A C B A C C . It is easy to count the number of elements for each level: tapply(X,X,length). Now I have another factor Y, which formed a matrix with X: X| A B B C A C B A C C Y| B B C C C A A A B B I wanna count

Re: [R] how to count associated factors?

2005-06-21 Thread Liaw, Andy
table() is your friend: X - factor(scan(what=)) 1: A B B C A C B A C C 11: Read 10 items Y - factor(scan(what=)) 1: B B C C C A A A B B 11: Read 10 items table(X) X A B C 3 3 4 table(X, Y) Y X A B C A 1 1 1 B 1 1 1 C 1 2 1 Andy From: zhihua li hi netters Suppose I

Re: [R] test for equality of two data sets with multidimensional variables

2005-06-21 Thread wu sz
Hi, I just find another package shapes for solving the Hotelling T^2 test, but what about the R function for the test of covariance equality(chi ^ 2 box's test) between two multidimensional data sets? Shengzhe __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] how to count associated factors?

2005-06-21 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
try this: X - factor(sample(c(A, B, C), 10, TRUE), levels = c(A, B, C)) Y - factor(sample(c(A, B, C), 10, TRUE), levels = c(A, B, C)) # table(X, Y) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic

Re: [R] test for equality of two data sets with multidimensional variables

2005-06-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
wu sz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just find another package shapes for solving the Hotelling T^2 test, but what about the R function for the test of covariance equality(chi ^ 2 box's test) between two multidimensional data sets? Shengzhe Rather than looking for a package, it might

Re: [R] nls(): Levenberg-Marquardt, Gauss-Newton, plinear - PI curve fitting

2005-06-21 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/21/05, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/05, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/05, Christfried Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have a problem with the function nls(). This are my data in k: V1V2 [1,]0 0.367

Re: [R] sweep() and recycling

2005-06-21 Thread Heather Turner
I think the warning condition in Robin's patch is too harsh - the following examples seem reasonable to me, but all produce warnings sweep(array(1:24, dim = c(4,3,2)), 1, 1:2, give.warning = TRUE) sweep(array(1:24, dim = c(4,3,2)), 1, 1:12, give.warning = TRUE) sweep(array(1:24, dim = c(4,3,2)),

[R] Constructing formula using nls

2005-06-21 Thread Bock, Michael
I need to do some simulations based on a nls model. I have been able to use nls to determine the model and I have almost gotten to the point at which I can construct the function. When I get the function done I will use uniroot to solve the function at a specific y value for x. I found an example

Re: [R] sweep() and recycling

2005-06-21 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi On Jun 21, 2005, at 02:33 pm, Heather Turner wrote: I think the warning condition in Robin's patch is too harsh - the following examples seem reasonable to me, but all produce warnings sweep(array(1:24, dim = c(4,3,2)), 1, 1:2, give.warning = TRUE) sweep(array(1:24, dim = c(4,3,2)), 1,

[R] Syntax error with .First.lib

2005-06-21 Thread Phineas Campbell
I am trying to build a package which calls some c code. I want to call the dyn.load function when the package is loaded. To do this I create a .First.lib function in MyConv.R file: .First.lib-function(/home/phineas/R_HOME/R-2.0.1/library/, MyConvolve){ ### Intentionally empty body. To

Re: [R] test for equality of two data sets withmultidimensional variables

2005-06-21 Thread John Fox
Dear Petr and Shengzhe, Also see ?manova. John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [R] nls(): Levenberg-Marquardt, Gauss-Newton, plinear - PI curve fitting

2005-06-21 Thread Manuel Morales
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 06:57 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/21/05, Christfried Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have a problem with the function nls(). This are my data in k: V1V2 [1,]0 0.367 [2,] 85 0.296 [3,] 122 0.260 [4,] 192 0.244

Re: [R] Syntax error with .First.lib

2005-06-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
Phineas Campbell wrote: I am trying to build a package which calls some c code. I want to call the dyn.load function when the package is loaded. To do this I create a .First.lib function in MyConv.R file: .First.lib-function(/home/phineas/R_HOME/R-2.0.1/library/, MyConvolve){ Your

Re: [R] X11, interactive device

2005-06-21 Thread Don MacQueen
As far as I know, your options are (1) run Xvfb on the unix box, or (2) use the bitmap() device instead of jpeg(). Option 2 will require that ghostscript also be installed on the unix box. Strictly speaking, it doesn't have to to be Xvfb. The requirement is that an X server be running. The R

Re: [R] nls(): Levenberg-Marquardt, Gauss-Newton, plinear - PI curve fitting

2005-06-21 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/21/05, Manuel Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 06:57 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/21/05, Christfried Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have a problem with the function nls(). This are my data in k: V1V2 [1,]0 0.367

Re: [R] tapply

2005-06-21 Thread Weiwei Shi
hi i tried all the methods suggested above: ave and rowsum with with function works for my situation. I think the problem might not be due to tapply. My data z comes from z-y[y[[1]] %in% x[[2]], c(1,9)] while z is supposed to have no entries for those non-matched between x and y. however, when I

Re: [R] sweep() and recycling

2005-06-21 Thread Heather Turner
Agreed my examples may be trivial and I'm sure there are more efficient ways to do the same thing, but I disagree that my examples are against the spirit of sweep (). In the first example a vector is swept out from the rows, with one value for odd rows and one value for even rows. In the second

[R] Problem trying to use boot and lme together

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Dewey
The outcome variable in my dataset is cost. I prefer not to transform it as readers will really be interested in pounds, not log(pounds) or sqrt(pounds). I have fitted my model using lme and now wish to use boot on it. I have therefore plagiarised the example in the article in RNews 2/3

Re: [R] tapply

2005-06-21 Thread Liaw, Andy
What does str(z) say? I suspect the second column is a factor, which, after the subsetting, has some empty levels. If so, just drop those levels. Andy From: Weiwei Shi hi i tried all the methods suggested above: ave and rowsum with with function works for my situation. I think the

Re: [R] Problem trying to use boot and lme together

2005-06-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We don't have the structure of your dataset. But it seems pretty clear that your resampling is not preserving the random effects structure: you are always fitting to the same clusters labelled by gp and so missing the major source of variability. You either need to resample clusters, or

Re: [R] Another Mix Model Question

2005-06-21 Thread Spencer Graves
To reinforce, Dimitris' excellent suggestion, I'd like to refer you to sect. 2.4 in Pinheiro and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus (Springer, pp. 92-96). Testing for parameters on a boundary of a parameter space, as, e.g., whether a variance component is zero,

Re: [R] tapply

2005-06-21 Thread Weiwei Shi
Even before I tried, I already realize it must be true when I read this reply! Great job! thanks, Andy. str(z) `data.frame': 235 obs. of 2 variables: $ CLAIMNUM : Factor w/ 1907 levels 0,1001849,..: 1083 1083 1083 1582 1582 1084 1681 1681 1391 1391 ... $ SIU.SAVED: int 475 3000 3000 0

Re: [R] tapply

2005-06-21 Thread Liaw, Andy
Try: (x - factor(1:2, levels=1:5)) [1] 1 2 Levels: 1 2 3 4 5 (x - x[, drop=TRUE]) [1] 1 2 Levels: 1 2 Andy From: Weiwei Shi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Even before I tried, I already realize it must be true when I read this reply! Great job! thanks, Andy. str(z) `data.frame': 235

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[R] How to plot circular data in the directions of 0, 0.5pi, pi and 1.5pi

2005-06-21 Thread ecoinfo
Hi R users, I use plot.circular(rad, stack=T,bins=4) and could just obtain the four stacks in the directions of 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees. But I want them in 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees. Is there any parameter or any other function to make it? Thanks for helping a R beginner. -- Xiaohua

Re: [R] Problem trying to use boot and lme together

2005-06-21 Thread Søren Højsgaard
The problem with simulate.lme is that it only returns logL for a given model fitted to a simulated data set - not the simulated data set itself (which one might have expected a function with that name to do...). It would be nice with that functionality... Søren

Re: [R] Problem trying to use boot and lme together

2005-06-21 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/21/05, Søren Højsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with simulate.lme is that it only returns logL for a given model fitted to a simulated data set - not the simulated data set itself (which one might have expected a function with that name to do...). It would be nice with

Re: [R] Problem trying to use boot and lme together

2005-06-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Douglas Bates wrote: On 6/21/05, Søren Højsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with simulate.lme is that it only returns logL for a given model fitted to a simulated data set - not the simulated data set itself (which one might have expected a function with that

Re: [R] Getting tick positions

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Uwe Ligges wrote: Jim Lemon wrote: Thanks for the answers - I should have been more specific as I had already tried axTicks and pretty. The function in question is gantt.chart() in the latest plotrix package (Thanks to Scott Waichler for the original code). I settled on

[R] R-help

2005-06-21 Thread McClatchie, Sam (PIRSA-SARDI)
Background: OS: Linux Mandrake 10.1 release: R 2.0.0 editor: GNU Emacs 21.3.2 front-end: ESS 5.2.3 - Colleagues Is there a function in R that is an equivalent of zoom in matlab? This is very useful for being able to magnify details in a plot. I have searched the

Re: [R] R-help

2005-06-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/21/05, McClatchie, Sam (PIRSA-SARDI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Background: OS: Linux Mandrake 10.1 release: R 2.0.0 editor: GNU Emacs 21.3.2 front-end: ESS 5.2.3 - Colleagues Is there a function in R that is an equivalent of zoom in matlab? This is

Re: [R] R-help

2005-06-21 Thread Francisco J. Zagmutt
Try RSiteSearch(zoom plot). There are some good suggestions there. Cheers Francisco From: McClatchie, Sam (PIRSA-SARDI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R-Help-Request (E-mail) r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] R-help Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:05:05 +0930 Background: OS: Linux Mandrake 10.1

[R] (slightly off topic, but...) More of a stat design question...

2005-06-21 Thread David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D.
Such a wide range of backgrounds here, I thought I'd toss this out here to get ideas. I've lucked into some clinical trial data where schizophrenic patients were randomly assigned to start on one of three drugs, then were followed naturalistically over a year (or more, depending on when they

[R] PCA and MDS

2005-06-21 Thread Ray Xiong
Dear All, I am not familar with R. I want to use PCA (principal components analysis) and MDS (multidimensional scaling). Can someone tell me which R package I should use for PCA and MDS? I appreciate your help in advance. Ray __

Re: [R] PCA and MDS

2005-06-21 Thread Guohui Ding
prcomp(stats) Principal Components Analysis princomp(stats) Principal Components Analysis scale(base) Scaling and Centering of Matrix-like Objects 2005/6/22, Ray Xiong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear All, I am not familar with R. I want to use PCA (principal components analysis) and MDS