[R] packaged datasets in .csv format

2003-07-09 Thread David Firth
A couple of questions in connection with using .csv format to include data in a package: First, the background. The data() function loads data from .csv (comma-separated values) files using read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep = ;) But ?read.table says ## To write a CSV file for input

[R] packaged datasets in .csv format

2003-07-09 Thread David Firth
A couple of questions in connection with using .csv format to include data in a package: First, the background. The data() function loads data from .csv (comma-separated values) files using read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep = ;) But ?read.table says ## To write a CSV file for input

[R] Showing limits on line graphs

2003-07-09 Thread Monder, Harvey
Is there a function that would allow me to create a line graph of some central tendency, such as mean, with limits indicated by a vertical line at each data point, i.e. SD? It's a fairly common type of graphic, but in looking through examples I have been able to find, I have found no function

Re: [R] packaged datasets in .csv format

2003-07-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:53:27AM +0100, David Firth wrote: First, the background. The data() function loads data from .csv (comma-separated values) files using read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep = ;) But ?read.table says ## To write a CSV file for input to Excel one might use

RE: [R] Showing limits on line graphs

2003-07-09 Thread Monder, Harvey
I had considered using arrows or line segments to write my own function, but I though that someone might have done it before me. Thanks to all for their rapid response. The graphics I need can be generated using plotmeans in the gregmisc package. Harvey -Original Message-

[R] lists

2003-07-09 Thread Aurora
Is there a command similar to dim for lists, so that one can know how many elements it stores? Is it possible to add elements to a list once it has been constructed? Thanks in advance, Aurora __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [R] lists

2003-07-09 Thread Hotz, T.
my.list-list(a=1,b=2) length(my.list) [1] 2 my.list$c-3 my.list[[length(my.list)+1]]-4 my.list $a [1] 1 $b [1] 2 $c [1] 3 [[4]] [1] 4 HTH Thomas --- Thomas Hotz Research Associate in Medical Statistics University of Leicester United Kingdom Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

[R] RODBC and Oracle: error table does not exist

2003-07-09 Thread RINNER Heinrich
Dear r-helpers! I have trouble reading data from an Oracle data base using RODBC Version 1.0-3, R Version 1.7.1, Windows XP, Oracle8 ODBC Driver Version 8.1.6.4.0: library(RODBC) channel - odbcConnect(dsn=PAV32, case=oracle, believeNRows=FALSE) # ok, this was succesful x - sqlTables(channel)

Re: [R] Constructing missing data

2003-07-09 Thread Spencer Graves
Why is linear regression not applicable? Your answer to this question might help someone answer your initial question below. spencer graves Ghosh Mini wrote: Dear R users, I have complete data of some station (near by) and incomplete data of desired station. I want to construct the complete

[R] how to sort columns in a matrix?

2003-07-09 Thread David Andel
Hi I am struggling in finding a way to sort columns in a matrix. Can anyone help me, please? Thanks a lot, David __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] how to sort columns in a matrix?

2003-07-09 Thread Stefano Calza
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:39:31PM +0200, David Andel wrote: Hi, if you want to sort in alphabical order the columns of the matrix you colud do this aaa - aaa[,sort(colnames(aaa))] Is it what you want? HIH, Stefano Hi I am struggling in finding a way to sort columns in a matrix. Can

Re: [R] how to sort columns in a matrix?

2003-07-09 Thread Spencer Graves
Alternatively, if you want to sort first on aaa$a and second on aaa$b, then try the following: aaa[order(aaa$a, aaa$b),] hope this helps. spencer graves Stefano Calza wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:39:31PM +0200, David Andel wrote: Hi, if you want to sort in alphabical order the columns

Re: [R] how to sort columns in a matrix?

2003-07-09 Thread Stefano Calza
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:10:53AM -0700, Spencer Graves wrote: Of course! I guess I misunderstood the question! Stefano Alternatively, if you want to sort first on aaa$a and second on aaa$b, then try the following: aaa[order(aaa$a, aaa$b),] hope this helps. spencer graves Stefano

[R] `acting' on variables

2003-07-09 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Dear list, How can one from within a function act on these variables (outside a function) that were given as arguments. If I have e.g. this beginning of a function: foo - function(tiro){ app.tiro - 3 * tiro [...] } How can I from within the curly brackets e.g. concatenate the app.tiro to the

[R] .Internal(optim)

2003-07-09 Thread Edoardo Airoldi
hi all, I am using optim. I am getting the following error message: Error in optim(par = start.vals[, h], fn = post.func.pois, gr = post.grad. pois, : L-BFGS-B needs finite values of fn If I look at optim typing ' optim' it seems that the error comes from inside .Internal(optim), so I

Re: [R] `acting' on variables

2003-07-09 Thread Spencer Graves
foo - function(tiro){ + tiro - c(tiro, 3 * tiro) + tiro + } foo(2) [1] 2 6 Is this what you want? spencer graves Tobias Verbeke wrote: Dear list, How can one from within a function act on these variables (outside a function) that were given as arguments. If I have e.g. this beginning of a

[R] A problem with using the outer function

2003-07-09 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi: I am using R 1.7.0 on Windows. I am having trouble getting outer to work on one of my functions. Here is a simple example illustrating my problem: b1 - c(1.2,2.3) b2 - c(0.5,0.6) x - c(3e+01, 1e+02, 3e+02, 5e+02, 1e+03, 1e+04, 1e+05, 1e+06) y - c(2,4,2,5,2,3,1,1) n -

Re: [R] .Internal(optim)

2003-07-09 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Edoardo Airoldi wrote: hi all, I am using optim. I am getting the following error message: Error in optim(par = start.vals[, h], fn = post.func.pois, gr = post.grad. pois, : L-BFGS-B needs finite values of fn If I look at optim typing ' optim' it seems that the error comes from

Re: [R] `acting' on variables

2003-07-09 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Thanks to all of you for your answers, The situation I was dangerously trying to cope with was an incomplete life table, with incomplete ages and incomplete survivors. This is the table I want to complete using a Gompertz function to estimate mortality at high ages: agelx 1 75 53803 2 80

Re: [R] .Internal(optim)

2003-07-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:33:12 -0400, Edoardo Airoldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : hi all, I am using optim. I am getting the following error message: Error in optim(par = start.vals[, h], fn = post.func.pois, gr = post.grad. pois, : L-BFGS-B needs finite values of fn If I look at

Re: [R] A problem with using the outer function

2003-07-09 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you tried: outer(b1,b2,FUN=bpllkd,x=x,y=y,n=n) I don't think outer quite knows what to do with x, y, n). However, x=x1, y=y1, n=n1) clearly tells outer to pass the object x1 to the argument x of function bpllkd, etc. hope this helps. spencer graves p.s. I was just bitten by that

Re: [R] A problem with using the outer function

2003-07-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:33:11 -0400, Ravi Varadhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi: I am using R 1.7.0 on Windows. I am having trouble getting outer to work on one of my functions. Most likely the problem is that the function you give doesn't work on array arguments. Your function needs to take

Re: [R] `acting' on variables

2003-07-09 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Favete linguis... Thanks, Tobias __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] .Internal(optim)

2003-07-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:09:24 -0400, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Anything that's called by .Internal is C or Fortran code. Whoops, .Internal would only call C. Fortran can't handle the R objects. The C code might call some Fortran to do the work. Duncan Murdoch

[R] CFP: CART Data Mining Conference 2004

2003-07-09 Thread Lisa Solomon
Apologies for cross posting - CART Data Mining'04: First International CART(R) Conferences Focusing on the Data Mining technology of Leo Breiman, Jerome Friedman, Richard Olshen, Charles Stone (CART, MARS(R),

Re: [R] `acting' on variables

2003-07-09 Thread Damon Wischik
gompertz.estimates - function(age, surv){ ... app.age - ageseq[1:length(l.est)] list(app.age = app.age, l.est = round(l.est, digits=0)) } The components in the list are the things I would like to add to the columns in my incomplete life table. The way I would do this is by adding