Re: [R] The W statistic in wilcox.exact

2006-10-06 Thread Torsten Hothorn
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Christos Hatzis wrote: Jue, On a second look, it appears that wilcox.test does report the offset-adjusted statistic U, as also mentioned in the help page. wilcox.test returns W=6 (instead of 12 as your example showed, unless wilcox_test is a different function).

Re: [R] hist plot

2006-10-06 Thread David Barron
This is taken from the help for the hist function: Typical plots with vertical bars are not histograms. Consider barplot or plot(*, type = h) for such bar plots. For example: x - rchisq(100, df = 4) op-hist(x, freq = FALSE, ylim = c(0, 0.2)) plot(op$mids,op$counts,type=h) On 06/10/06,

Re: [R] convert day of week from number to character and include in lm

2006-10-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Ferdinand Alimadhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lm(dep ~ as.factor(WKDY) but if you want WKDYs as character you can make the appropriate changes in your dataset days-c(mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun) for(i in 1:7) + D$WKDY[D$WKDY==i]-days[[i]] suppossing that D is your dataframe

[R] Relative constraint using constrOptim?

2006-10-06 Thread Felix Eggers
I am trying to optimize a likelihood function using constrOptim. I know from prior research that, e.g. x1x2. Is there a way to include that constraint into the optimization routine, i.e. the ci constraint? The examples I found only use absolute numeric values for the constraint and not

[R] back to back barplot

2006-10-06 Thread Domenico Vistocco
Dear all, someone knows if there is an already implemented function for drawing a back to back barplot (something similar to histbackback of the Hmisc package but for categorical data)? Thanks in advance, domenico vistocco Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!

Re: [R] any package can visualize original affymetrix data?

2006-10-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
See the Bioconductor project, http://www.bioconductor.org Uwe Ligges Baoqiang Cao wrote: Dear All, I'm thinking of visualizing the original binary data from affymetrix. Would you recommend any package? Not necessarily limited to R packages. Thanks! Best, -Cao

[R] factor levels with umlauts

2006-10-06 Thread Christian Bieli
Hi all I have to generate some test data for import in an sql database. The database is meant for web-based data entry in a study taking place in a german speaking region, so factor levels of the variables include umlauts. The variables in the dataframe t.muster are generated e.g. like this:

Re: [R] Multivariate AR - prediction

2006-10-06 Thread Pfaff, Bernhard Dr.
Hello Alexander, try package CRAN package 'vars'. Best, Bernhard Hi, does anybody know how to predict a multivariate AR within R? If I just estimate a multi AR-object and plug it into predict I get an error from the aperm - just works for univariates. thx alex

Re: [R] sparklines in lattice

2006-10-06 Thread Mark Difford
Dear R-help, Has anyone implemented sparklines in the strips of a lattice plot? What I have in mind is, say, highlighting that part of a time series that one is examining in more detail in a set of lattice plots. Regads,. Mark Difford. PS: (Andreas Loffler has implemented a simple but

Re: [R] calling R from within Java, using jri

2006-10-06 Thread john.gavin
Hi, (I addressed the JRI issues I had in my previous email below http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/70322 by working with the precompiled version of JRI that is part of the rJava package.) So I can now run the JRI examples as expected but am having difficulty getting the Rengine

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread Jim Lemon
And of course for NEdit, all one needs to do is select: Preferences | Default Settings | Customize menus | Macro Menu Then select the New option at the top of the menu list, Give it a name (I call this r_comment), Enter the following code: replace_in_selection(^,#,regex) click on Apply and

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: Commenting code out and providing documentation comments are easily done with a good editor, although R documentation comments really belong in files where help() can find them. R documentation comments belong in .Rd files at the moment, but how joyous would it

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Note that if you only have block comments in a language, its much harder to do this: http://www.xkcd.com/c156.html Barry __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] back to back barplot

2006-10-06 Thread Jim Lemon
Domenico Vistocco wrote: Dear all, someone knows if there is an already implemented function for drawing a back to back barplot (something similar to histbackback of the Hmisc package but for categorical data)? Hi Domenico, Have a look at pyramid.plot in the plotrix package if you want

Re: [R] hist plot

2006-10-06 Thread Jim Lemon
Baoqiang Cao wrote: Hi there, I really couldn't find out how to plot histogram with point/line instead of rectangle for each bin? Any help please? Thanks! This is a guess, but... y-hist(rnorm(100,3),plot=FALSE)$counts x-barplot(y,width=0.01,space=20) points(x,y) Jim

[R] processing strings in R

2006-10-06 Thread Florian Menzel
Dear R cracks, I need to process data in R which consist of strings like AAABAVVABNN ABVVNNAA What I would like to know is whether there are commands that deliver -the length of a string -one specified character of a string (e.g. the 3rd letter) -that allow to concatenate

[R] Fitting a cumulative gaussian

2006-10-06 Thread Gamer, Matthias
Dear R-Experts, I was wondering how to fit a cumulative gaussian to a set of empirical data using R. On the R website as well as in the mail archives, I found a lot of help on how to fit a normal density function to empirical data, but unfortunately no advice on how to obtain reasonable

Re: [R] processing strings in R

2006-10-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Florian Menzel wrote: Dear R cracks, We prefer to be called 'R souls'. I need to process data in R which consist of strings like AAABAVVABNN ABVVNNAA What I would like to know is whether there are commands that deliver -the length of a string -one specified

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread Stefano Calza
And of course in emacs you can select the region to comment then hit Ctrl-x r t and type #: all the lines in that region will have a # at the beginnig To uncomment Ctrl-x r d Stefano On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:05:52PM -0400, Jim Lemon wrote: JimAnd of course for NEdit, all one needs to do is

Re: [R] Summation in R

2006-10-06 Thread Petr Pikal
I was off for few days and as nobody seems to answer I will try again. It is probably not trivial with matrix (possibly with combination of outer and some subsequent selection) but if you can transfer it to data frame (or list) you could use mapply tj - 1:5 vj - matrix(1:25, 5,5) mapply(*,

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread hadley wickham
Commenting code out and providing documentation comments are easily done with a good editor, although R documentation comments really belong in files where help() can find them. R documentation comments belong in .Rd files at the moment, but how joyous would it be if they could be

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread Martin Maechler
Stefano == Stefano Calza [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:55:38 +0200 writes: Stefano And of course in emacs you can select the region to comment then hit Stefano Ctrl-x r t and type #: all the lines in that region will have a # at the Stefano beginnig Stefano To

Re: [R] Relative constraint using constrOptim?

2006-10-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Reparameterize replacing x1 with x2+delta constraining delta to be positive or else replace x1 with x2 + delta^2 and no constraint. On 10/6/06, Felix Eggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to optimize a likelihood function using constrOptim. I know from prior research that, e.g. x1x2. Is

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread Stefano Calza
Cool, didn't know that! Thanks, Stefano On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:46:03PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: MartinStefano To uncomment Ctrl-x r d Martin Martinwell, if we really talk emacs --- we shouldn't here -- Martinyou definitely should learn to use M-; Martin MartinIt does use ## in ESS

[R] glm and plot.effects

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Kubovy
Dear R-helpers, I don't see a difference between the following two plots of effect objects, which I understand should be different. What am I missing? require(doBy) require(effects) data(budworm) m1 - glm(ndead/20 ~ sex + log(dose), data=budworm, weight=ntotal, family=binomial) m1.eff -

Re: [R] lmer BIC changes between output and anova

2006-10-06 Thread lorenz.gygax
The two models that you compare differ in their fixed effects. As far as lme had been concerned, the anova gave a warning because one should not compare two models differing in their fixed effects if they had been estimated with REML (Pinheiro Bates, 2000). I guess the issue is still the same

Re: [R] glm and plot.effects

2006-10-06 Thread John Fox
Dear Michael, Look more closely at the two plots: With rescale.axis=TRUE (the default), the vertical axis is on the scale of the linear predictor (i.e., the logit scale), but the tick marks are labelled in the scale of the response (i.e., the probability scale); this preserves the linear

[R] Re : research

2006-10-06 Thread justin bem
Hi, What about computational aspect for the job you intend to realise ? What will be the use of R ? R can do a lot in statistic but you can't ask help for a topic so far far of R. Be more precise. Justin BEM Elève Ingénieur Statisticien Economiste BP 294 Yaoundé. Tél (00237)9597295. -

Re: [R] help with script

2006-10-06 Thread JOHN VOIKLIS
Thank you, Gabor, for all your suggestions. Best, John On 10/5/06, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/06, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also see package caTools. On 10/4/06, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See:

Re: [R] sweave2html only for Linux users ?

2006-10-06 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Laurent Rhelp laurentRhelp at free.fr writes: Dear R-List, I would like to convert my rnw files written with Sweave from LaTeX to html. I discovered on the list the following link : http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/SweaveConvert Is this document only for linux

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread BBands
And of course vim, emacs, nedit, tinn-r... Should R be editor specific? Or should it be editor neutral? In my view blocks comments are a desirable, editor-neutral approach. Note that most of the more recent languages have some form of block comment capability.

[R] [R-pkg] New packages pmg, gWidgets, gWidgetsRGtk2

2006-10-06 Thread j verzani
I'd like to announce three new packages on CRAN: pmg, gWidgets, and gWidgetsRGtk2. --John Verzani 1 PMG *=*=*= The pmg package for R provides a relatively simple graphical user interface for R in a manner similar to the more mature RCmdr package. Basically this means a menu-driven interface

Re: [R] Fitting a cumulative gaussian

2006-10-06 Thread Dieter Menne
Gamer, Matthias gamer at uni-mainz.de writes: Specifically, I have data from a psychometric function relating the frequency a subject's binary response (stimulus present / absent) to the strength of a physical stimulus. Such data is often modeled using a cumulative gaussian function.

Re: [R] which command

2006-10-06 Thread Dieter Menne
AgusSusanto gusanto at gmail.com writes: I obtained error messages when I run these commands in UNIX, but I obtained correct result when I run these command in WINDOWS. Can somebody point out the problem and give the solution. Thanks. dt-read.table(file=Fall.dat) dim(dt) [1] 1941

[R] Estimate in Wilcox_test vs wilcox.exact

2006-10-06 Thread Jue.Wang2
Does any one know why wilcox.exact sometimes doesn't agree with wilcox_test on the estimate of the difference of medians in two levels ? Thank you Jue Wang, Biostatistician Contracted Position for Preclinical Research Biostatistics PrO Unlimited (908) 231-3022 Example 1: (wilcox_test gives

[R] Fitting a cumulative gaussian

2006-10-06 Thread ken knoblauch
If the data asymptote at 0 and 1, then you can use glm with the binomial family with either the logistic or probit links. If the data are from an n-alternative forced choice procedure or if the data do not asymptote at 0 and 1 for some reason or other, then you need to try other procedures.

Re: [R] [R-pkg] New packages pmg, gWidgets, gWidgetsRGtk2

2006-10-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Hi, I need installation instructions. library(pmg) seems not to be enough. Thanks. library(pmg) Loading pmg() Loading required package: gWidgets Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2 Loading required package: RGtk2 Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to

Re: [R] treatment effect at specific time point within mixedeffects model

2006-10-06 Thread Afshartous, David
-Original Message- From: Chuck Cleland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 5:32 AM To: Afshartous, David Subject: Re: [R] treatment effect at specific time point within mixedeffects model Afshartous, David wrote: The data structure is a repeated measures

[R] lmer output

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Ford
When I do lmer models I only get Estimate, Standard Error and t value in the output for the fixed effects. Is there a way I get degrees of freedom and p values as well? I'm a very new to R, so sorry if this a stupid question. Thank you - Mike Mike Ford Centre for Speech and Language

Re: [R] lmer output

2006-10-06 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:05 +0100, Mike Ford wrote: When I do lmer models I only get Estimate, Standard Error and t value in the output for the fixed effects. Is there a way I get degrees of freedom and p values as well? I'm a very new to R, so sorry if this a stupid question. Thank

Re: [R] sparklines in lattice

2006-10-06 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 10/6/06, Mark Difford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R-help, Has anyone implemented sparklines in the strips of a lattice plot? What I have in mind is, say, highlighting that part of a time series that one is examining in more detail in a set of lattice plots. It's not particularly

[R] Stopping ctrl-\ from qutting R

2006-10-06 Thread Martin C. Martin
Hi, In the Linux (FC3) version of R, ctrl-\ quits R. This wouldn't be so bad, but on my keyboard, it's right next to ctrl-p and I tend to hit it by accident. Is there any way to turn that off? Best, Martin __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

[R] [R-pkgs] new version of mclust available

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Fraley
A new version of mclust is now available as a contributed package on CRAN. The associated manual is located at http://www.stat.washington.edu/www/research/reports/2006/tr504.pdf The main feature in terms of new functionality is the option to include a Bayesian prior in the mixture model for

Re: [R] Stopping ctrl-\ from qutting R

2006-10-06 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Martin C. Martin wrote: In the Linux (FC3) version of R, ctrl-\ quits R. This wouldn't be so bad, but on my keyboard, it's right next to ctrl-p and I tend to hit it by accident. And what is the use of ctrl-p? Alberto Monteiro __

Re: [R] Stopping ctrl-\ from qutting R

2006-10-06 Thread Martin C. Martin
previous command. Very helpful when you want to repeat something you recently did, perhaps after modifying it a bit. - Martin Alberto Monteiro wrote: Martin C. Martin wrote: In the Linux (FC3) version of R, ctrl-\ quits R. This wouldn't be so bad, but on my keyboard, it's right next to

Re: [R] Stopping ctrl-\ from qutting R

2006-10-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin C. Martin wrote: In the Linux (FC3) version of R, ctrl-\ quits R. This wouldn't be so bad, but on my keyboard, it's right next to ctrl-p and I tend to hit it by accident. And what is the use of ctrl-p? Same as up-arrow, but some

Re: [R] Stopping ctrl-\ from qutting R

2006-10-06 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 14:46 -0400, Martin C. Martin wrote: Hi, In the Linux (FC3) version of R, ctrl-\ quits R. This wouldn't be so bad, but on my keyboard, it's right next to ctrl-p and I tend to hit it by accident. Is there any way to turn that off? Open your favorite terminal

[R] Sum of Bernoullis with varying probabilities

2006-10-06 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, Given a series of n independent Bernoulli trials with outcomes Yi (i=1...n) and Prob[Yi = 1] = Pi, I want P = Prob[sum(Yi) = r] (r = 0,1,...,n) I can certainly find a way to do it: Let p be the vector c(P1,P2,...,Pn). The cases r=0 and r=n are trivial (and also are exceptions for

Re: [R] Stopping ctrl-\ from qutting R

2006-10-06 Thread Martin C. Martin
Thanks! I put it in my .bashrc, now it will never bother me again. Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: BTW, you might want to consider updating your FC distro, as FC3 is now EOL Unfortunately, this is my work machine and they're still using FC3. Although I've heard various grumblings about it,

Re: [R] mcmcsamp-CI instead of P-values - references?

2006-10-06 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Henrik Parn henrik.parn at bio.ntnu.no writes: Dear all, Given the discussions and issues of d.f., p-values and mcmcsamp-CIs in mixed models, I wonder if anyone could recommend one or two papers (or other citable sources for that sake) that summarizes the arguments for/against

[R] is it possible to fill with a color or transparency gradient?

2006-10-06 Thread Eric Harley
Hi all, Is there a way to fill a rectangle or polygon with a color and/or transparency gradient? This would be extremely useful for me in terms of adding some additional information to some plots I'm making, especially if I could define the gradient on my own by putting functions into rgb

[R] Nonlinear mixed effects model

2006-10-06 Thread Cam
In nonlinear mixed effects models, SAS doesn't allow for free manipulation of the covariance matrix (you can only specify a type, and our type doesn't exist). Can R accomplish this? For example: Parameters: B1= Beta 1i B2= Beta 2i G1= Gamma i y = B1 -(B1 - B2) exp { - G1 time} + e the

Re: [R] is it possible to fill with a color or transparency gradient?

2006-10-06 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 16:15 -0400, Eric Harley wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to fill a rectangle or polygon with a color and/or transparency gradient? This would be extremely useful for me in terms of adding some additional information to some plots I'm making, especially if I could define

[R] how to check object size in workspace

2006-10-06 Thread Weiwei Shi
hi, I tried to keep my workspace as small as possible when i tried to save.image(). Sometimes, I am not sure whether obj in workspace will be needed in future or not. However, I want to delete some big ones when I use save.image(). BTW, I know I could use save, but I would like to know : how to

[R] Once again: aov vs. lme/lmer

2006-10-06 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
First of all, I apologize for asking a question that has appeared recurrently in this mailing list. However, I have googled for it, have looked at the mailing list archives, and also looked at Pinheiro Bates book (although not very thoroughly, I must confess), to no avail. Here is the question:

[R] Row comparisons to a new matrix?

2006-10-06 Thread Atte Tenkanen
Hi, Can somebody tell me, which is the fastest way to make comparisons between all rows in a matrix (here A) and put the results to the new symmetric matrix? I have here used cosine distance as an example, but the comparison function can be any other, euclidean dist etc.

Re: [R] Sum of Bernoullis with varying probabilities

2006-10-06 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 10/6/06, Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Given a series of n independent Bernoulli trials with outcomes Yi (i=1...n) and Prob[Yi = 1] = Pi, I want P = Prob[sum(Yi) = r] (r = 0,1,...,n) I can certainly find a way to do it: Let p be the vector c(P1,P2,...,Pn). The

Re: [R] Row comparisons to a new matrix?

2006-10-06 Thread Berton Gunter
?dist Bert Gunter Nonclinical Statistics 7-7374 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Atte Tenkanen Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:54 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Row comparisons to a new matrix? Hi, Can somebody tell me,

Re: [R] Sum of Bernoullis with varying probabilities

2006-10-06 Thread Ted Harding
Many thanks for your comments, Deepayan; and I liked your recursive solution! Fun indeed. Just a comment (below) on one of your comments (the rest snipped). On 06-Oct-06 Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 10/6/06, Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Given a series of n independent

Re: [R] Row comparisons to a new matrix?

2006-10-06 Thread Atte Tenkanen
I have to focus my question a little. I'd like to get rid of those for-loops and use, if possible, some faster method for creating the symmetric result matrix. Atte ?dist Bert Gunter Nonclinical Statistics 7-7374 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [R] Row comparisons to a new matrix?

2006-10-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
There is a generalized inner product here: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/04/3709.html On 10/6/06, Atte Tenkanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can somebody tell me, which is the fastest way to make comparisons between all rows in a matrix (here A) and put the results to the new

Re: [R] Sum of Bernoullis with varying probabilities

2006-10-06 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 10/6/06, Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks for your comments, Deepayan; and I liked your recursive solution! Fun indeed. Just a comment (below) on one of your comments (the rest snipped). On 06-Oct-06 Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 10/6/06, Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] is it possible to fill with a color or transparency gradient?

2006-10-06 Thread hadley wickham
I haven't been using R very long, so it's possible that I'm just missing something, but I haven't found anything like this in the help files. I've tried to poke around in graphics, grid, and ggplot, without any luck so far. I really like some of the functionality in ggplot, and it does some

Re: [R] how to check object size in workspace

2006-10-06 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Weiwei Shi helprhelp at gmail.com writes: hi, I tried to keep my workspace as small as possible when i tried to save.image(). Sometimes, I am not sure whether obj in workspace will be needed in future or not. However, I want to delete some big ones when I use save.image(). BTW, I know I

Re: [R] Block comments in R?

2006-10-06 Thread Jose Claudio Faria
Hi all, Indeed, block comment is more clean and elegant than line by line. If the R interpreter will recognizes it (I'm not sure if already recognizes), we will spend no more than few hours to make the syntax of the main editors compatible, isn't it? Regards, -- Jose Claudio Faria

[R] [R-pkgs] DBI, RMySQL, RSQLite updated

2006-10-06 Thread Seth Falcon
Hello all, Just uploaded to CRAN updates for RSQLite, RMySQL, and DBI. The primary svn repository for these packages is now hosted by the Gentleman Lab in Seattle and our group is working with David James to help with maintenance. Details on the updates are below. RMySQL_0.5-9.tar.gz *

[R] gregexpr in R 2.3.0 != gregexpr in R 2.4.0

2006-10-06 Thread Stefan Th. Gries
Hi all I have a question regarding differences in the way gregpexr works in R 2.3.0 and R 2.4.0. In R 2.3.0, this is what happens: gregexpr( [a-z] [a-z] , a b c d e f , perl=T) [[1]] [1] 1 3 5 7 9 attr(,match.length) [1] 5 5 5 5 5 ... while in R 2.4.0, this is what happens: gregexpr(

Re: [R] gregexpr in R 2.3.0 != gregexpr in R 2.4.0

2006-10-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You can get that by using zero width lookahead assertions. They must match but are not consuming so the next match will not be forced to start past them. See ?regex and http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html for more. gregexpr( [a-z](?= [a-z] ), a b c d e f , perl = TRUE) On

Re: [R] gregexpr in R 2.3.0 != gregexpr in R 2.4.0

2006-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/6/2006 10:00 PM, Stefan Th. Gries wrote: Hi all I have a question regarding differences in the way gregpexr works in R 2.3.0 and R 2.4.0. In R 2.3.0, this is what happens: gregexpr( [a-z] [a-z] , a b c d e f , perl=T) [[1]] [1] 1 3 5 7 9 attr(,match.length) [1] 5 5 5 5 5