Re: [R] Gauss user question

2004-04-01 Thread Ruud H. Koning
I have used gauss for a number of years. It is my experience that R is slower than gauss, but on the other hand R has much more functionality available than gauss and that saves programming time (and time to debug). The trick is of course to program efficiently in R, just as is the case when you

RE: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-01 Thread Lutz Prechelt
Bob, on a remark about Brian Ripley's remark if you're actually using indicies explicitly, you probably haven't wrapped your head around how powerful the indexing structure and whole object approach is in S and in R, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I believe the point was not so much that R

Re: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think that is an excellent illustration of my point: If you are writing code that works with single elements, you are probably a lot better off writing C code to link into R (and C is 0-based ...). but even in R it is not following However, the R thinking is to work with whole objects

RE: [R] array addition doesn't recycle!

2004-04-01 Thread Robin Hankin
At 01:39 pm -0500 31/03/04, Raubertas, Richard wrote: Another alternative is to use the underappreciated function 'sweep()': sweep(A, 1:2, a, +) I find the following helpful (it's not due to me but I cannot find the original poster): %.+% - function(a,x){sweep(a , 2:1 , x ,+ )} %+.% -

Re: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-01 Thread Bob Cain
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Now you can call f(x) and if x is a legacy variable f.legacy gets used and if x is Oarray then f.Oarray gets used. Thanks, Gabor. While I didn't understand the answer at all, I expect that I will eventually and I appreciate the thought that went into the affirmative.

[R] Search Engine Keywords

2004-04-01 Thread michele lux
Hallo all I don't understand why the Search Engine Keywords comand on the html help of R 1.8 doesn't work, is it active? or the problem is in my machine? thanks michele __

Re: [R] Search Engine Keywords

2004-04-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The problem is with your machine (and some other people's). That search engine does work on a properly configured machine. Since haven't given us anything to go on (like which OS, browser, R version (there is no such thing as R 1.8) ...) I can only suggest you look at the R 1.9.0 beta which is

Re: [R] choice-based conjoint

2004-04-01 Thread Felix Eggers
Thank you for your answers and suggestioins! I just read a tutorial on the use of SAS with Discrete Choice Models by Warren Kuhfeld (Marketing Research Methods in SAS, 2004, free for download). He suggests using the Cox PH model. It necessitates reformatting the data so that the alternatives

Re: [R] Confidence Intervals for slopes

2004-04-01 Thread David Orme
Hi, Thanks for the pointer - the 'lm(y~x:z)' model does give the slopes directly and hence confint gives the confidence intervals. The thing that puzzles me is that my dummy data explicitly sets the three levels of the factor to have different variances and yet the standard error is the same

Re: [R] New utility: sas2r

2004-04-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Bob Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rolf Poalis wrote: Dear R users, Biostatistics Denmark would like to annouce the availability of the new utility: sas2R --- a SAS to R parser. Has this been done by anyone for Matlab? I think there was a group at U.of Apraphulia working on it. --

[R] Question on Data Simulation

2004-04-01 Thread \Jingky P. Lozano\
Dear mailing list, Do you know a specific package in R where I can create an artificial survival data with controlled censoring condition? (For example, I want to simulate a data set with 5 variables and 20% of the observations are censored.) Many thanks. Jei

Re: [R] New utility: sas2r

2004-04-01 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:19:49 +0200 Rolf Poalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R users, Biostatistics Denmark would like to annouce the availability of the new utility: sas2R --- a SAS to R parser. For almost 40 years SAS has been the primary tool for statisticians worldwide and its

RE: [R] How to cluster the variables instead of data points?

2004-04-01 Thread Jens Oehlschlägel
Have a look at function varclus in package Hmisc. Best Jens Oehlschlägel -- __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Philipp Pagel
for testing learning purposes I create X11 device and specify layout like layout(c(1,2,3), 3, 1), so I could play with parameters and see several plots at the same time. That works fine until I try to create 4-th plot - all other plots erased. That's expected behaviour: you asked

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:38:54 +0400 (MSD), Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hello, for testing learning purposes I create X11 device and specify layout like layout(c(1,2,3), 3, 1), so I could play with parameters and see several plots at the same time. That works fine until I try to create

Re: [R] New utility: sas2r

2004-04-01 Thread Rolf Turner
Rolf Poalis wrote: Biostatistics Denmark would like to annouce the availability of the new utility: sas2R --- a SAS to R parser. For almost 40 years SAS has been the primary tool for statisticians worldwide and its easy-to-learn syntax, unsurpassed graphical system, powerful macro

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Philipp Pagel wrote: for testing learning purposes I create X11 device and specify layout like layout(c(1,2,3), 3, 1), so I could play with parameters and see several plots at the same time. That works fine until I try to create 4-th plot - all other plots erased.

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:38:54 +0400 (MSD), Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hello, for testing learning purposes I create X11 device and specify layout like layout(c(1,2,3), 3, 1), so I could play with parameters and see several plots at

Re: [R] New utility: sas2r

2004-04-01 Thread Göran Broström
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:13:18PM +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Bob Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rolf Poalis wrote: Dear R users, Biostatistics Denmark would like to annouce the availability of the new utility: sas2R --- a SAS to R parser. Has this been done by anyone for

RE: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Hanke, Alex
The command: layout(c(1,2,3), 3, 1) specifies 3 plots Try layout(1:4,2,2,byrow=T) Regards, Alex -Original Message- From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 1, 2004 7:39 AM To: R-help Subject: [R] multiple plots problem Hello, for testing learning purposes I create

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Angel Lopez
Have you considered using ?split.screen and ?erase.screen with a non-transparent background instead of layout. Example: par(bg = white) # default is likely to be transparent split.screen(c(3,1))# split display into three screens screen(1) plot(1:10) screen(2) plot(2:20) screen(3)

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Oleg Bartunov
interesting, it works, but still need to explicitly specify screen number. It'b be nice to have tabbed canvas, but I suspect it's wrong list. Oleg On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Angel Lopez wrote: Have you considered using ?split.screen and ?erase.screen with a non-transparent background

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Angel Lopez
Depends on what you understand by _explicitly_ specify screen number: par(bg = white) # default is likely to be transparent screenlist-split.screen(c(3,1))# split display into three i-screenlist[1] # Create a function to simulate the tabbing nextplot-function(i) { i-i+1 if

RE: [R] Question on Data Simulation

2004-04-01 Thread Rau, Roland
Hello, -Original Message- From: Jingky P. Lozano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Question on Data Simulation Dear mailing list, Do you know a specific package in R where I can create an artificial

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Angel, thanks for example, but I think you don't understand me - I was looking native way to say R, please, don't erase canvas. Any emulations required additional typing (so many in R! - readline is great, but no support for prefix search as in bash)) and some attention (don't forget to type

[R] general mixed model statement

2004-04-01 Thread brook
I am trying to analyze a general mixed model, but am confused about the model statement to use. The structure of the problem is the following: y = X b + Z u + e where X and Z are known incidence matrices for fixed and random effects respectively, b is a vector of fixed effects to be

RE: [R] general mixed model statement

2004-04-01 Thread Harold Doran
This would be accomplished via the nlme library for mixed linear models. See Pinhiero and Bates (2000) for all relevant documentation and data applications. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-01 Thread kjetil
On 31 Mar 2004 at 18:31, Bob Cain wrote: Peter Dalgaard wrote: I think it was said quite early in the thread, but since noone apparently listened, let me reiterate: One of the powerful indexing features in R is the negative index (all, except) and x[-0] would lead to some

RE: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Hanke, Alex
Correction: I should have wrote layout(matrix(c(1,2,3,4), 2, 2, byrow = TRUE)) Sorry Alex -Original Message- From: Hanke, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 1, 2004 9:25 AM To: 'Oleg Bartunov'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [R] multiple plots problem The command:

Re: [R] row selection based on median in data frame

2004-04-01 Thread Ed L Cashin
Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Is there a way to tell aggregate just do perform median on column runtime to select the whole row? Some helpful folks have emailed me requesting more info about what I'm trying to do. Here's a simple R function to produce a data frame like the one I

[R] nls function

2004-04-01 Thread Bill Shipley
Hello. I am trying to fit a non-rectangular hyperbola function to data of photosynthetic rate vs. light intensity. There are 4 parameters that have to be estimated. I find the nls function very difficult to use because it often fails to converge and then gives out cryptic error messages. I

Re: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-01 Thread Tony Plate
As far as I can see, the problems with legacy functions kill the class-based idea. As others have noted, if you define a class for which the indexing function [ is zero-based, and then pass an object x of that class to a legacy function, anything that function does that assumes 1 is the first

[R] gray background on jpegs using dev.print()

2004-04-01 Thread John Muller
When I try writing the current device to a jpeg file I keep getting a gray background for the jpeg images using dev.print. I have tried using the option bg=white and bg=#FF but neither seem to have any effect. If instead of writing to a screen device I open a jpeg device I can get any

Re: [R] nls function

2004-04-01 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi Bill, I've just spent a few months trying to fit a model to a dataset, and it's not easy. However, in my case, what appears to be recalcitrance on R's part actually turns out to be well-founded warnings that the structure of the model and the data are not permitting a clean, unambiguous

RE: [R] gray background on jpegs using dev.print()

2004-04-01 Thread Liaw, Andy
You have not shown us how you call dev.print() or the commands preceding that. Did you specify the bg=white in the call to dev.print()? Andy From: John Muller When I try writing the current device to a jpeg file I keep getting a gray background for the jpeg images using dev.print. I

[R] modelling nested random effects with interactions in R

2004-04-01 Thread Michael Rennie
Hi there Please excuse this elementary question, but I have been fumbling with this for hours and can't seem to get it right. I have a nested anova, with random factor lakefac nested within factor fishfac (fixed), with an additional fixed factor Habfac. If I consider everything as fixed

[R] Re: gray background on jpegs using dev.print()

2004-04-01 Thread John Muller
I get the gray background when I use plot to write to the screen and then try to write the screen contents to a file using dev.print(jpeg, file=H:/Secondary/cycle_time/test.jpg,width=800,quality=100,bg=white) ; I have also tried using bg = #FF instead of bg=white and have also tried

[R] R fft on 2D matrix

2004-04-01 Thread Anne Gosset
Hi, I am a brand new user of R and I have a really stupid problem: I am having troubles applying fft on 2D matrices. I import a data file of 256*256 elements with read.table (it is actually a grey scale image, the corresponding data file being generated with Matlab), and I find that the fft

Re: [R] R fft on 2D matrix

2004-04-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Anne Gosset wrote: Hi, I am a brand new user of R and I have a really stupid problem: I am having troubles applying fft on 2D matrices. I import a data file of 256*256 elements with read.table (it is actually a grey scale image, the corresponding data file being generated with Matlab), and I

Re: [R] R fft on 2D matrix

2004-04-01 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Anne Gosset wrote: Hi, I am a brand new user of R and I have a really stupid problem: I am having troubles applying fft on 2D matrices. I import a data file of 256*256 elements with read.table (it is actually a grey scale image, the corresponding data file being

Re: [R] multiple plots problem

2004-04-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:48:11 +0400 (MSD), Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: In Windows you can record all plots by using the record=TRUE option when you open the graphics display, or from the menu on the display window. You cycle back through

Re: [R] gray background on jpegs using dev.print()

2004-04-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, John Muller wrote: When I try writing the current device to a jpeg file I keep getting a gray background for the jpeg images using dev.print. That's because you are not using the correct tool. dev.print is designed for printing, as it says. I have tried using the option

Re: [R] gray background on jpegs using dev.print()

2004-04-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
par(bg=white) plot(1:10) dev.print(jpeg, width=600, height=600) gives a white background on the jpeg copy. Without the first line it is a transparent background, and the default matte for JPEGS is grey74, so the viewer displays it as transparent over a grey matte. BTW, John Muller has given

[R] arimax...

2004-04-01 Thread michele lux
Hallo all can someone explain me how the exogenus variables work in the arimax models is not clear for me... Thanks Michele __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

[R] Generating file names

2004-04-01 Thread Mark O. Kimball
I read a data set into a data.frame. I then operate on the set, add columns to the frame etc. and now want to output the frame into a file. Trouble is, I want the file to have a name based upon the original data set name. I cannot figure out how to cat strings together and use that new string as

Re: [R] Generating file names

2004-04-01 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Mark O. Kimball wrote: I read a data set into a data.frame. I then operate on the set, add columns to the frame etc. and now want to output the frame into a file. Trouble is, I want the file to have a name based upon the original data set name. I cannot figure out how to

Re: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Peter Wolf wrote: sort.6-function(a){ n-length(a) adapt-function(i){i+1} # local function to perform the index correction a-c(0,a) for(i in 2:n){ j-i-1 a[adapt(0)]-a[adapt(i)] while(a[adapt(j)]a[adapt(0)]){ a[adapt(j+1)]-a[adapt(j)] j-j-1 }

Re: [R] Generating file names

2004-04-01 Thread Mark O. Kimball
On Thursday 01 April 2004 01:40 pm, Mark O. Kimball wrote: I read a data set into a data.frame. I then operate on the set, add columns to the frame etc. and now want to output the frame into a file. Trouble is, I want the file to have a name based upon the original data set name. I cannot

Re: [R] gray background on jpegs using dev.print()

2004-04-01 Thread John Muller
Sorry about the email issue. I have a spam filter that only let's things on my pass list into my Inbox, all else gets put into a suspect folder. I have added the R help list to my pass list. Prof. Ripley asked why if you are using Windows *are* you using dev.print I actually started by using

[R] Use R function in C code

2004-04-01 Thread xt_wang
I want to use R function Matrix inverse in my c code, please tell me how I can. If there is a sample which can tell me how it works. It will be fantastic. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do

[R] boot question

2004-04-01 Thread Morris, Jeffrey [OCDUS]
What in the world am I missing?? x-rnorm(20) mean(x) [1] -0.2272851 results-boot(x,mean,R=5) results[2] $t [,1] [1,] -0.2294562 [2,] -0.2294562 [3,] -0.2294562 [4,] -0.2294562 [5,] -0.2294562 Jeff Morris Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics A Johnson Johnson Co. Rochester, NY Tel: (585)

Re: [R] Can R be useful to me?

2004-04-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:32:49AM -0300, Luiz Rodrigo Tozzi wrote: My question is: can I generate graphics and tables in gif ou any graphical format through shell script?? can I call R, run a package in my ascii data e then export the results to a gif, png or whatever? On Wed, Mar 31,

Re: [R] boot question

2004-04-01 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:19:55 -0500 Morris, Jeffrey [OCDUS] wrote: What in the world am I missing?? The help page? As help(boot) tells you: statistic: snip In all other cases 'statistic' must take at least two arguments. The first argument passed will always be

Re: [R] boot question

2004-04-01 Thread Andrew Robinson
You have to let boot pass the index for selection to the function as well. So, for example, try: boot.mean - function(data, index) mean(data[index]) results - boot(x, boot.mean, R=5) Andrew. On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:19, Morris, Jeffrey [OCDUS] wrote: What in the world am I

Re: [R] boot question

2004-04-01 Thread Angelo Canty
What you are missing is reading the helpfile! The function mean is not a valid statistic to be passed to boot function(x, i) mean(x[i]) is. Please do read the documentation. That's why it is provided. -- | Angelo J. Canty

Re: [R] boot question

2004-04-01 Thread Jason Turner
What in the world am I missing?? stype. As in (from help(boot) stype: A character string indicating what the second argument of statistic represents. Possible values of stype are 'i' (indices - the default), 'f' (frequencies), or 'w' (weights). This works.

Re: [R] Zero Index Origin?

2004-04-01 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
I asked where index origin 0 would help. (I am familiar with Dijkstra's article on why counting should start at 0 and agree whole-heartedly. I am also convinced that kicking against the goads is not helpful.) Peter Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] has provided two examples. (1) Converting pseudo-code

RE: [R] row selection based on median in data frame

2004-04-01 Thread Nick.Ellis
tmp row.labelsa b c 1 1 deadlift 7 13 2 2squat 7 24 3 3clean 7 10 4 4 deadlift 8 8 5 5squat 8 20 6 6clean 8 2 7 7 deadlift 9 5 8 8squat 9 32 9 9clean 9 19

[R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-01 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
Is there any effective way to get distinct geometric plotting symbols and colors for plots involving more than 25 groups? Thanks. Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Emeritus Anthropology Department - Portland State University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax:

RE: [R] modelling nested random effects with interactions in R

2004-04-01 Thread Lorenz . Gygax
Hi Michael, I have a nested anova, with random factor lakefac nested within factor fishfac (fixed), with an additional fixed factor Habfac. If I consider everything as fixed effects, it's addmittedly not the correct model, but I can at least get this to work: ... So now I try to run it

[R] off topic state data

2004-04-01 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: This is off topic, but this group is amazing: There is a state object, with all kinds of variables about US states. However, the numeric data is from 1977. Does anyone know of a similar data set with more recent data, please? Thanks in advance, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate

Re: [R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-01 Thread asemeria
The answer is yes. Have a look to pch and col plot parameters on R-help. A.S. Alessandro Semeria Models and Simulations Laboratory Montecatini Environmental Research Center (Edison Group), Via Ciro Menotti 48, 48023 Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy Tel. +39 544