R: [R] How to plot this

2004-11-17 Thread Guazzetti Stefano
Hi, looking at ?plot.density you will find a zero.line argument: set it to FALSE and no gray lines will appear in the plot. plot(density(y), zero.line = F, main= , ann = F, xlim = c(0, 4), ylim = c(0, 1), lty = 2, col = 4, axes = F) #and the add mtext(side = 1, line = 0, text = Environmental

Re: [R] R 2.0.0 Installation Problem

2004-11-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
David Rocke wrote: I and my students have been having an odd problem with this release, which is that packages are disappearing. After installation the package is found with the library command, but later in the same session or in a later session, the library command returns a not found error.

Re: [R] CDs for R?

2004-11-17 Thread Stuart Leask
I note similar discussions re. 'linux live' distributions, and another key point made there is that, with a moving target (ie. several significant upgrades a year), one shouldn't contribute to the vast mountain of landfill CDRs already represent. Which makes me wonder about changing the model a

RE: [R] how to estimate conditional density

2004-11-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Nov-04 Yulei He wrote: Hi, there. Suppose I have a bivariate data set y1 and y2. Can anybody tell me how to estimate the conditional density of f(y1|y2) and vice versa? Thanks. Yulei In the absence of a parametric model for the distribution, a simple-minded approach could be the

[R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, In the latest 'Scientific Computing World' magazine (issue 78, p. 22), there is a review on free statistical software by Felix Grant (doesn't have to pay good money to obtain good statistics software). As far as I know, this is the first time that R is even mentioned in this magazine,

Re: [R] violinplot options

2004-11-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
Tanja Zseby wrote: Hi, I am using the function vioplot() to generate violin plots. Now I would like to add a label to the y axix and a title to the diagram. Just setting ylab didnt work. Is it possible to set such options for the function ? I tried also with the function simple.violinplot, but

[R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization

2004-11-17 Thread Witold Eryk Wolski
Hi R-Users and Developers, Several months ago I made a request on Sourceforge to add the R/S - programming language to the _Trove_ categorization. (The Trove is a means to convey basic metainformation about your project.) Today I got the following response of one of the sourceforge admins. SNIP

Re: [R] persp grid

2004-11-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
Joel Bremson wrote: I've got a 4x4 matrix of points from a 2-way ANOVA I'd like to plot. The x,y correspond to the treatment groups and look like this ((1,1),(1,2),(1,3),(1,4),(2,1),...). The z is the 4x4 matrix. How can I get persp to grid the x,y axis with only the numbers 1-4 on both? The first

Re: [R] changing character to a vector name

2004-11-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
Laura Holt wrote: Dear R People: I would like to generate a vector/variable name from within a loop to be passed to a table function. This is what I have so far: assign(p1,paste(raw3.df$,rw2$V1[3],sep=)) p1 [1] raw3.df$CITIZEN Life is much easier: Consider to use raw3.df[[rw2$V1[3]]] instead.

Re: [R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization

2004-11-17 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Hi, I have 2 _small_ projects hosted in sf.net that use R FLR :: R for fisheries science (http://flr.sf.net) fsap: fish stock assessment for R (http://sf.net/projects/fsap) The first one is getting some hip and the second is dying ... Hope it helps. Regards EJ On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:09,

RE: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Lorenz . Gygax
So, is this analysis correct: are there hidden costs for free software like R in the time required to learn it? At least currently, for the people I know (biologists, ecologists, oceanographers, ...), this is perfectly true. This is even an insurmountable barrier for many of them I know, and

Re: [R] beginner's problem in displaying large data

2004-11-17 Thread Romain François
You can also try : ab - matrix(rnorm(1),nc=5) edit(ab) Hope this helps. Spencer Graves a écrit : 1. Did you try dim(sample.data)? Is it actually 2200 by 15? Or are you reading in just some subset of the data? If it is 2200 by 15, could you also please do class(sample.data)? 2.

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Jan P. Smit
Dear Phillippe, Very interesting. The URL of the article is http://www.scientific-computing.com/scwsepoct04free_statistics.html. Best regards, Jan Smit Philippe Grosjean wrote: Hello, In the latest 'Scientific Computing World' magazine (issue 78, p. 22), there is a review on free statistical

[R] RPMS for Fedora/RedHat

2004-11-17 Thread Martyn Plummer
An RPM for R 2.0.1 on Fedora Core 3/i386 should now be available on a CRAN mirror near you. Unfortunately, I am temporarily unable to build RPMS for previous versions of Fedora and Red Hat Linux due to problems with the mach chroot system on FC3. I expect this situation will be resolved soon

Re: [R] violinplot options

2004-11-17 Thread Henric Nilsson
At 10:55 2004-11-17 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote: Looks like nobody else has responded so far. I actually wrote something, but forgot to send it... If you are talking about the function in the package also called vioplot: The function is not very well designed. But since there is not much code in it,

[R] log-normal distribution and shapiro test

2004-11-17 Thread Siegfried Gonzi
Hello: Yes I know that sort of questions comes up quite often. But with all due respect I din't find how to perform what I want. I am searching archives and bowsing manuals but it isn't there, though, it is a ridiculous simple task for the experienced R user. I have data and can do the

RE: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Nov-04 Philippe Grosjean wrote: Hello, In the latest 'Scientific Computing World' magazine (issue 78, p. 22), there is a review on free statistical software by Felix Grant (doesn't have to pay good money to obtain good statistics software). As far as I know, this is the first time

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Federico Calboli
Philippe Grosjean wrote: I would be interested by your impressions and ideas on this topic. I have found that user friendly packages make a lot of assumptions and take a lot of decisions for the user. This makes things easy, but you do not really know what is going on, and I'd say this is a

Re: [R] R 2.0.0 Installation Problem

2004-11-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 17 Nov 2004, at 9:00 am, Uwe Ligges wrote: David Rocke wrote: I and my students have been having an odd problem with this release, which is that packages are disappearing. After installation the package is found with the library command, but later in the same session or in a later session, the

[R] frailty and time-dependent covariate

2004-11-17 Thread Emanuela Rossi
Hello, I'm trying to estimate a cox model with a frailty variable and time-dependent covariate (below there is the statement I use and the error message). It's seems to be impossible, because every time I add the time-dependent covariate the model doesn't converge. Instead, if I estimate the

[R] R: log-normal distribution and shapiro test

2004-11-17 Thread Vito Ricci
Hi, from what you're writing: The logaritmic transformation shapiro.test(log10(y)) says: W=0.9773, p-value= 2.512e-05. it seems the log-values are not distributed normally and so original data are not distributed like a log-normal: the p-value is extremally small! Other tests for normality are

[R] R package installation

2004-11-17 Thread Timothy D. Johnson
Dear Marco, I was given an excerpt with your problem about installing package on a MAC, such as Hmisc. I had the same problems and found a work around. I have not had any trouble loading in source packages since, include Hmisc and Design, acepack and vgam. First, I downloaded and installed the g77

Re: [R] Non-Linear Regression on a Matrix

2004-11-17 Thread Douglas Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your non-linear function (A, B) is parametric nls should do it for you. If you have R version 2 (perhaps even 1.9) do ?nls to see the help page. Older versions of R require library(nls) first. Hope this helps, Andy __ Andy Jaworski

[R] Impossible to run error message when using Sweave

2004-11-17 Thread Doran, Harold
Dear List: I have a large dataset of multiple schools. My goal is to produce a separate tex file for each school that plots some of the student achievement scores. Essentially, the aim is to develop a custom report for each school. To accomplish this, I have code for a loop that gets sourced into

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 11/17/04 12:34, Ted Harding wrote: This, though, still fails for information in packages which you have not installed. Perhaps I'm about to reveal my own culpable ignorance here, but I'm not aware of a full R info package which would be installed as part of R-base, being a database of info

RE: [R] R 2.0.0 Installation Problem

2004-11-17 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
Long time no see I'm not sure I can help but I will make a couple of suggestions: (1) Start R clean, install the new package, exit R normally, restart R and then try to find the package. I am adding a couple of extra, undocumented, and generally unnecessary steps in case the programs

[R] Re: R: log-normal distribution and shapiro test

2004-11-17 Thread Siegfried Gonzi
Hi: Thanks for your answer. Do you know how to test whether the data would fit to a gamma-distribution? How can I call fBasics? Note: I installed R-language on my Macintosh today; I have used the binary -- pre compiled -- package. Some of the R-help facilties do not function on my Mac. Again to

[R] Re: R: log-normal distribution and shapiro test

2004-11-17 Thread Vito Ricci
Dear Siegfried, you could find fBasics at this web address: http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/fBasics.html it includes skewness() and kurtosis() function. I usually run R on WIN 2000 and I don't know MAC! I can suggest to use Kolgomorov-Smirnov test to test whether the

Re: [R] R package installation

2004-11-17 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Timothy D. Johnson wrote: I was given an excerpt with your problem about installing package on a MAC, such as Hmisc. I had the same problems and found a work around. I have not had any trouble loading in source packages since, include Hmisc and Design, acepack and

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Patrick Burns
I'm a big advocate -- perhaps even fanatic -- of making R easier for novices in order to spread its use, but I'm not convinced that a GUI (at least in the traditional form) is the most valuable approach. Perhaps an overly harsh summary of some of Ted Harding's statements is: You can make a truck

[R] summary.lme() vs. anova.lme()

2004-11-17 Thread Dan Bebber
Dear R list: I modelled changes in a variable (mconc) over time (d) for individuals (replicate) given one of three treatments (treatment) using: mconc.lme - lme(mconc~treatment*poly(d,2), random=~poly(d,2)|replicate, data=my.data) summary(mconc.lme) shows that the linear coefficient of one of

Re: [R] CDs for R?

2004-11-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:25:54AM +0200, Jari Oksanen wrote: On 16 Nov 2004, at 23:39, (Ted Harding) wrote: Now comes my suggestion to CRAN maintainer: this all would be easier, if you would produce a CD image file ('iso') that would contain a snapshot of the latest version: main

Re: [R] summary.lme() vs. anova.lme()

2004-11-17 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
Hi Dan, check the `type' argument of `anova.lme()' which defaults to sequential. This is also discussed in Pinheiro and Bates but I don't have the book with me now to trace the page. I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public

[R] Multi-way tables

2004-11-17 Thread assuncao . senra
Hello, can someone tell me how to extract a partial table from a multiway table? Something else: I tried to do basic operations on cross-tables, like subtracting two cross tables with same dimensions and i was unable to do so. Is there another way? thanks!

Re: [R] Impossible to run error message when using Sweave

2004-11-17 Thread Douglas Bates
Doran, Harold wrote: Dear List: I have a large dataset of multiple schools. My goal is to produce a separate tex file for each school that plots some of the student achievement scores. Essentially, the aim is to develop a custom report for each school. To accomplish this, I have code for a loop

[R] Time difference in months? (difftime, units)

2004-11-17 Thread Andy Bunn
Is there a way to calculate the number of months between dates? StartDate - strptime(01 March 1950, %d %B %Y) EventDates - strptime(c(01 April 1955, 01 July 1980), %d %B %Y) difftime(EventDates, StartDate) So, there are 61 months between 01 March 1950 and 01 April 1955. There are 364 months

Re: [R] CDs for R?

2004-11-17 Thread Jari Oksanen
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:54, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:25:54AM +0200, Jari Oksanen wrote: On 16 Nov 2004, at 23:39, (Ted Harding) wrote: Now comes my suggestion to CRAN maintainer: this all would be easier, if you would produce a CD image file ('iso') that

Re: [R] summary.lme() vs. anova.lme()

2004-11-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Dan Bebber wrote: I modelled changes in a variable (mconc) over time (d) for individuals (replicate) given one of three treatments (treatment) using: mconc.lme - lme(mconc~treatment*poly(d,2), random=~poly(d,2)|replicate, data=my.data) summary(mconc.lme) shows that the linear

RE: [R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization

2004-11-17 Thread James . Callahan
SNIP SourceForge.net will consider the inclusion of a programming language within the Trove system when we host at least 5 projects based on that language. Please advise: Do you know of 5 projects hosted on SourceForge.net based on this language? SNIP Gretl, RPad and RMetrics, plus

Re: [R] Time difference in months? (difftime, units)

2004-11-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Andy Bunn wrote: Is there a way to calculate the number of months between dates? StartDate - strptime(01 March 1950, %d %B %Y) EventDates - strptime(c(01 April 1955, 01 July 1980), %d %B %Y) difftime(EventDates, StartDate) So, there are 61 months between 01 March 1950 and 01

Re: [R] Re: variations on the theme of survSplit

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, David Duffy wrote: Danardono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While waiting for 2.1, for those who need function[s] for this survival-splitting business, as I do, this 'survcut' function below might be helpful. You don't need to wait for 2.1. survival_2.16 is available on CRAN.

[R] referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Apoian, Zack
Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character string x . How would I take x as an input and return the vector x? DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and any attachments are inte...{{dropped}} __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [R] violinplot options

2004-11-17 Thread Tim F Liao
Uwe is right. You can add titles quite easily. Specifically, you can use title(main=...,ylab=...) and that will do the trick after you have used vioplot to do the plot. Tim Liao Original message Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:55:33 +0100 From: Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [R] Time difference in months? (difftime, units)

2004-11-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Andy Bunn abunn at whrc.org writes: : : Is there a way to calculate the number of months between dates? : : StartDate - strptime(01 March 1950, %d %B %Y) : EventDates - strptime(c(01 April 1955, 01 July 1980), %d %B %Y) : difftime(EventDates, StartDate) : : So, there are 61 months between 01

RE: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Berton Gunter
All: I have much enjoyed the discussion. Thanks to all who have contibuted. Two quick comments: 1. The problem of designing a GUI to make R's functionality more accessible is, I believe just one component of the larger issue of making statistical/data analysis functionality available to those

Re: [R] frailty and time-dependent covariate

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Emanuela Rossi wrote: Hello, I'm trying to estimate a cox model with a frailty variable and time-dependent covariate (below there is the statement I use and the error message). It's seems to be impossible, because every time I add the time-dependent covariate the model

[R] Re: referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Vito Ricci
Hi, see ? as.numeric as.numeric(c(-.1, 2.7 ,-1.5)) [1] -0.1 2.7 -1.5 you wrote: Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character string x . How would I take x as an input and return the vector x? = Diventare costruttori di soluzioni Became solutions' constructors

[R] Importing data from SPSS

2004-11-17 Thread Arin Basu
Message: 35 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: gauri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] R help To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Hi, I was wondering as to how I could convert SPSS data imported to R into tabular form. In the sense,

Re: [R] referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
get(x) see also r-FAQ 7.21 Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/16/396887 Fax: +32/16/337015 Web: http://www.med.kuleuven.ac.be/biostat

Re: [R] referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Arne Henningsen
get is your friend: R x - c( 1, 2, 3 ) R get( x ) [1] 1 2 3 All the best, Arne On Wednesday 17 November 2004 16:48, Apoian, Zack wrote: Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character string x . How would I take x as an input and return the vector x? DISCLAIMER:

RE: [R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization - GDAL

2004-11-17 Thread James . Callahan
GDAL Package for R http://sourceforge.net/projects/rgdal The R GDAL package is an interface for accessing Frank Warmerdam's Geographic Data Abstraction Library from within R. GDAL is capable of reading and writing a wide range of geographic data formats including ESRI grid format and geotiff.

Re: [R] referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Seth Falcon
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:48:46AM -0500, Apoian, Zack wrote: Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character string x . How would I take x as an input and return the vector x? get(x) See ?get. You may also be interested in ?assign. + seth

RE: [R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization - GDAL

2004-11-17 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Just a small correction. FLR and FSAp are not _my_ packages :-) For FLR there's a team working on its development. Regards EJ ps: my fault anyway, the first message was not clear. On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GDAL Package for R http://sourceforge.net/projects/rgdal

Re: [R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization

2004-11-17 Thread Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP SourceForge.net will consider the inclusion of a programming language within the Trove system when we host at least 5 projects based on that language. Please advise: Do you know of 5 projects hosted on SourceForge.net based on this language? SNIP Gretl, RPad and

RE: [R] referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Liaw, Andy
Can you give some hypothetical code on what you want to do? Does get() do what you want: dog - Spot f - function(x) get(x) f(dog) [1] Spot ? Andy From: Apoian, Zack Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character string x . How would I take x as an input

Re: [R] referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:48 -0500, Apoian, Zack wrote: Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character string x . How would I take x as an input and return the vector x? If I am understanding you correctly: x - 1:10 x [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 x.char - x

Re: [R] Re: referencing values of strings

2004-11-17 Thread Douglas Bates
Vito Ricci wrote: Hi, see ? as.numeric as.numeric(c(-.1, 2.7 ,-1.5)) [1] -0.1 2.7 -1.5 you wrote: Say you have a vector named x and a function which returns the character string x . How would I take x as an input and return the vector x? I think the question might have been about obtaining the

[R] dotchart background color

2004-11-17 Thread Dean Sonneborn
I'm creating a dotchart but the background color is gray. In fact, when ever I use the Lattice package the background is gray, which prints as black on my non-color printer. How do I change the background color to white? I'm also plotting two groups and would like to use circles and triangles

[R] (no subject)

2004-11-17 Thread Angela Re
Good evening, I'm going to use R to calculate the P-value for Pearson coefficient. Does it exist an already defined function?How can I do?Thanks for helping me. Angela __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization - GDAL

2004-11-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:52:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gretl, RPad and RMetrics, plus Ernesto's FLR and fsap make five. Isn't RMetrics at rmetrics.org at the ETH in Zuerich, CH? GDAL Package for R, makes six. Add RPy (rpy.sf.net) to make seven (or six, if remove RMetrics). Gretl

Re: [R] Multi-way tables

2004-11-17 Thread Spencer Graves
?apply hope this helps. spencer graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can someone tell me how to extract a partial table from a multiway table? Something else: I tried to do basic operations on cross-tables, like subtracting two cross tables with same dimensions and i was unable to do

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Spencer Graves
I agree with Bert. Thanks to all who contributed. I'd like to add one comment I didn't see in the thread so far: The corporate legal where I work is deathly afraid of the GNU General Public License (GPL), because if we touch GPL software inappropriately with our commercial

Re: [R] beginner's problem in displaying large data

2004-11-17 Thread Spencer Graves
Are you sure you are only getting the last 5 columns, rows 1723:2200? There isn't a scroll bar some place? What do you get from the following? (tst - data.frame(array(rnorm(500), dim=c(500, 6 This should come in 2 sets of 500 rows, the first with 5 columns, the second

Re: [R] (no subject)

2004-11-17 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:20 +0100, Angela Re wrote: Good evening, I'm going to use R to calculate the P-value for Pearson coefficient. Does it exist an already defined function?How can I do?Thanks for helping me. Angela help.search(Pearson) shows you: ... cor.test(stats) Test for

Re: [R] dotchart background color

2004-11-17 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 12:09, Dean Sonneborn wrote: I'm creating a dotchart but the background color is gray. In fact, when ever I use the Lattice package the background is gray, which prints as black on my non-color printer. How do I change the background color to white? See

Re: [R] Pearson coefficient p value (was: no subject)

2004-11-17 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 13:12 -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:20 +0100, Angela Re wrote: Good evening, I'm going to use R to calculate the P-value for Pearson coefficient. Does it exist an already defined function?How can I do?Thanks for helping me. Angela

[R] Course R/S+ December 2004 in San Francisco

2004-11-17 Thread elvis
XLSolutions Corporation (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) is proud to announce our December-2004 2-day R/S-plus courses in San Francisco Washington, DC San Francisco -- December 16th-17th Washington, DC --- December 16th-17th

[R] need help on R

2004-11-17 Thread Kamala Thomas
Hi, I am working on a modeling project for PMI-Australia and interested in using R, especially POLYMARS or PLYCLASS. I use SAS /PC on WINDOWS for the statistical analyses including Modeling. I got R downloaded to the system but can't figure out how to interface with SAS so that I could use SAS

[R] 3d scatter plot with drop line

2004-11-17 Thread Joel Bremson
This is a follow up to my question from yesterday. I want to do in R what is called a 3d scatter plot with drop lines in S-PLUS. Basically, it's a 3dscatterplot with lines connecting the x-y grid to the z points. The lines give a better perspective on the shape of the data surface. How to? Joel

Re: [R] R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization -GDAL

2004-11-17 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:52:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gretl, RPad and RMetrics, plus Ernesto's FLR and fsap make five. Isn't RMetrics at rmetrics.org at the ETH in Zuerich, CH? GDAL Package for R, makes six. Add RPy

Re: [R] need help on R

2004-11-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Kamala Thomas wrote: I am working on a modeling project for PMI-Australia and interested in using R, especially POLYMARS or PLYCLASS. I use SAS /PC on WINDOWS for the statistical analyses including Modeling. I got R downloaded to the system but can't figure out how to

[R] bioassay, excel

2004-11-17 Thread Andreas Betz
Dear all, iis there literature about application of R in bioassay and HTS around or does anybody experience using R in these areas. Is there any documentation on Excel XP/R interface around, where the use of the com server is described. My Rserver can not be started. Andreas Andreas Betz

Re: [R] CDs for R?

2004-11-17 Thread Ted Harding
Thanks to everyone who joined in the discussion about this and made comments or suggestions. Special thanks too to those who mailed me off-list with further suggestions, and offers to help me privately. I'm appreciative of the latter, and may take up some offers, but I hope it was clear

RE: [R] (no subject)

2004-11-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Nov-04 Angela Re wrote: Good evening, I'm going to use R to calculate the P-value for Pearson coefficient. Does it exist an already defined function?How can I do?Thanks for helping me. Angela cor.test is what you need (according to your statement). The Pearson correlation is the

[R] AYUDA

2004-11-17 Thread Brian pfeng
Hola, necesito informacion sobre como aplicar un modelo espacio estado y filtro de kalman en R. Soy nuevo en R. Gracias _ Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. __

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Mike Prager
This has been an interesting discussion. I make the following comment with hesitation, since I have neither the time nor the ability to implement it myself. Using CLI software, an infrequent user has trouble remembering the known functions needed and trouble finding new ones (especially as

RE: [R] bioassay, excel

2004-11-17 Thread Liaw, Andy
It's not in R, but the system described in the pair of papers our group published in the Journal of Biomolecular Screening late last year: http://jbx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/8/6/624 http://jbx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/8/6/634 is based on S-PLUS and StatServer. It was also presented at

[R] Power sampling

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, after a unsuccessful search in lists maliarchive I wonder how I could estimate the power of a sample size related to an unknown population. Given the following (fake))situation: I do have a database containing about 5 millions observations over 70 variables. I would like to compute (as

[R] Power sampling(II)

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Schönhoff
Hmm, sorry for hitting the send button to quick, here is the version output: platform i386-pc-linux-gnu arch i386 os linux-gnu system i386, linux-gnu status major2 minor0.0 year 2004 month10 day 04 language R regards Thomas

Re: [R] 3d scatter plot with drop line

2004-11-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:03:54 -0800, Joel Bremson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : This is a follow up to my question from yesterday. I want to do in R what is called a 3d scatter plot with drop lines in S-PLUS. Basically, it's a 3dscatterplot with lines connecting the x-y grid to the z points. The

Re: [R] CDs for R?

2004-11-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'd like to back Jari's proposal for an ISO image to be planted on CRAN as a separate file with its own unique URL. Exactly what its content should be may still be discussable, but I would be satisfied with full sources and documentation for R base

Re: [R] 3d scatter plot with drop line

2004-11-17 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 14:03, Joel Bremson wrote: This is a follow up to my question from yesterday. I want to do in R what is called a 3d scatter plot with drop lines in S-PLUS. Basically, it's a 3dscatterplot with lines connecting the x-y grid to the z points. The lines give a

Re: [R] State Space Modeling Kalman Filtering (was AYUDA)

2004-11-17 Thread Spencer Graves
Estimado Brian: 1. El ingles es la lengua oficial de esta lista. Muchas personas quienes pudieron haber contestado a su pregunta y para quienes el ingles no es su lengua materna no entienen el castellano. 2. Have you tried www.r-project.org - Search - R site search - Kalman? I

RE: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Thank you all (+ a couple of offline comments) on this topic. To summarize your comments: - Hidden costs, may be better called indirect costs are not so easy to calculate. In the cited paper http://www.scientific-computing.com/scwsepoct04free_statistics.html, there is an interesting advice from a

Re: [R] Search engine for LINUX MOZILLA

2004-11-17 Thread Yuandan Zhang
Thanks for instructions, it works. here are a few simple steps which may be useful for others too. 1 GET SOURCE: Following the link http://www.MedAnalytics.com/INSTALL, go and download http://www.MedAnalytics.com/j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin 2 INSTALL: chown 007

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread David Mitchell
Hopefully my experience with R may add something to this discussion. I majored in computer science in 1983, with minors in mathematics and statistics. As this was in the days when computers were largely big centralised boxes with remote terminals, I didn't get to use computers for stats while I

Re: [R-gui] Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Patrick Burns wrote: I'm a big advocate -- perhaps even fanatic -- of making R easier for novices in order to spread its use, but I'm not convinced that a GUI (at least in the traditional form) is the most valuable approach. Perhaps an overly harsh summary of some of Ted Harding's statements is:

[R] OOP pkg compilation failure

2004-11-17 Thread Gorden Jemwa
Hi all, I'm trying to install the OOP package (http://www.omegahat.org/OOP) but having difficulty in resolving the errors generated during compilation. Googling doesn't seem to be giving much help. Can anyone please help. Below is the transcript of what I get from my command prompt. (I'm

Re: [R] changing (core) function argument defaults?

2004-11-17 Thread RenE J.V. Bertin
gt;From: Patrick Connolly lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;To: quot;RenE J.V. Bertinquot; lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Subject: Re: [R] changing (core) function argument defaults? gt;Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:43:10 +1300 gt; gt;On Wed, 20-Oct-2004 at 07:48PM +0200, RenE J.V. Bertin wrote: gt; gt;|gt;

Re: [R] Changing graphics defaults [was: changing (core) function argument defaults?]

2004-11-17 Thread Spencer Graves
Under the S3 standard, you could make a local copy of any function and change the defaults in that local copy. That may not always work under the S4 standard methods dispatch going to code hidden in namespaces. In any event, it should be easy (and safer) to write a function with a

RE: [R] changing (core) function argument defaults?

2004-11-17 Thread Berton Gunter
Yes, I think for all practical purposes it (usually?) is. Here's an example. Suppose I wish to change the default constant argument of mad from 1.48 to 2. Then z-formals(mad) z$constant-2 mad-as.function(c(z,body(mad))) mad function (x, center = median(x), constant = 2, na.rm = FALSE,

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Andrew Criswell
Hi All, GRETL, a Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library is open-source, cross-platform, multi-language and fully GUI based. The website is http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ This is NOT a personal plug, simply posted to show what can be done. Andrew

[R] R statistical Library download problem

2004-11-17 Thread Piin-cherng Hwang
Hello, I just download R 2.0.0 and R 2.0.1. After I tried to un-zip them , I got error message Error reading header after processing 0 entries for both of them. Could you help? Thanks! Sincerely, Piin-cherng Hwang __ [EMAIL

[R] Redirect standard input and output of R

2004-11-17 Thread Victor Robles
Dear R-people! I’m trying to write a C program that write to the standard input of R and read the standard output. I can perfectly read the R output, but I’m not able of writing anything to R. This program really works with the ‘cat’ UNIX command, but it does not work with R. What I’m doing

[R] Calling Rdqags doesn't produce correct result.

2004-11-17 Thread Paul August
Does anyone has a clue what went wrong in the following attempt? I am trying to call the R built-in function Rdqags() from my C program for numerical integration. Following are the C program and the corresponding R program: C program - void test(double *a, double *b,

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-17 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Background: I'm a Computer Science lecturer, and I read the blue book cover to cover before ever setting finger to keyboard with R. Observation: I really only use R for very simple things, but there's practically *nothing* I've done with R since installing it could have been done via menus. I

[R] gdata package for genetics

2004-11-17 Thread Yuandan Zhang
Hi, I try to install genetics_1.1.1.tar.gz and get following errors. it looks for a package call 'gdata'. I looked and search r-project web, did not find any thing R CMD INSTALL src/contrib/genetics_1.1.1.tar.gz * Installing *source* package 'genetics' ... ** R ** data ** inst ** preparing

Re: [R] R statistical Library download problem

2004-11-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Piin-cherng Hwang wrote: I just download R 2.0.0 and R 2.0.1. After I tried to un-zip them , I got error message Error reading header after processing 0 entries for both of them. No distribution of R is a zip file. The sources are .tar.gz files, gzipped tar archives.

[R] ROracle connection problem

2004-11-17 Thread Andi Felber
Hi, I found the same question in the mailing list already a few months ago - but there was no answer to it - so I'll try it again Could somebody help me to solve this following problem? I just begin to learn how to connect my Oracle database with R. library(DBI) library(ROracle) Warning

Re: [R] gdata package for genetics

2004-11-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
From the description file Depends: combinat, gdata, MASS Now, gdata is part of the gregmisc bundle. install.packages(genetics, depend=TRUE) would have figured this out for you. On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Yuandan Zhang wrote: Hi, I try to install genetics_1.1.1.tar.gz and get following errors. it

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