Re: [R] Label data points in scatterplot matrices

2004-12-05 Thread Dieter Menne
Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de writes: Well, in principle you cannot easily (it's a warning, not an errror, BTW). But you can fake a little bit by, e.g., renaming z to pch: panel.hist - function(x, ...) { usr - par(usr); on.exit(par(usr))

Re: [R] boot package

2004-12-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:37:43 -0700, Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I using the boot package 1.2-20 on R 2.0.1. My statistics function estimates 6 parameters. In a small percentage of resampled data sets my statistics function doesn't produce an estimate for one

Re: [R] R plus SAS

2004-12-05 Thread Uwe Ligges
Wensui Liu wrote: Is it possible use SAS/DDE to communicate with R? I don't know of any DDE implementation for R. Uwe Ligges Sorry for offending useR. ^_^ Thanks a lot. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] Excel *.xls files, RODBC

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca writes: : : I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be : possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file : into R using RODBC. I have obtained and installed ODBC and the RODBC : package, but cannot for the life of me

RE: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo

2004-12-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Dec-04 Patrick Foley wrote: It is easy to spot response nonlinearity in normal linear models using plot(something.lm). However plot(something.glm) produces artifactual peculiarities since the diagnostic residuals are constrained by the fact that y can only take values 0 or 1. What do

Re: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo

2004-12-05 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
(Ted Harding) wrote: On 05-Dec-04 Patrick Foley wrote: It is easy to spot response nonlinearity in normal linear models using plot(something.lm). However plot(something.glm) produces artifactual peculiarities since the diagnostic residuals are constrained by the fact that y can only take values 0

RE: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo

2004-12-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Dec-04 Ted Harding wrote: [...] For example, adopting the ritual sigificant == P0.05, power = 80%, you can see a histogram of the p-values over the conventional significance breaks with hist(pvals,breaks=c(0,0.01,0.03,0.1,0.5,0.9,0.95,0.99,1),freq=TRUE) Sorry for the typo! That

Re: [R] boot package

2004-12-05 Thread Ernesto Jardim
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 01:37, Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat wrote: Hi, I using the boot package 1.2-20 on R 2.0.1. My statistics function estimates 6 parameters. In a small percentage of resampled data sets my statistics function doesn't produce an estimate for one parameter and the boot

Re: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in logistic regression?

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Re. the smoothed residuals, you do need to be careful about the smoother. Some of the robust ones will do precisely the wrong thing in this context: You really are interested in the mean, not some trimmed mean (which can easily amount to throwing away

[R] String manipulation---mixed case

2004-12-05 Thread Damian Betebenner
Hello, Does anyone know of a slick way to get R to convert a string which is all upper case to a string where the first letter in each word is upper case and all others are lower case? I suspect the solution is to begin by parsing the string, convert the appropriate letters to upper and

Re: [R] String manipulation---mixed case

2004-12-05 Thread Renaud Lancelot
Damian Betebenner a écrit : Hello, Does anyone know of a slick way to get R to convert a string which is all upper case to a string where the first letter in each word is upper case and all others are lower case? I suspect the solution is to begin by parsing the string, convert the appropriate

Re: [R] String manipulation---mixed case

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Damian Betebenner damian.betebenner at bc.edu writes: : : Hello, : : Does anyone know of a slick way to get R to convert a string which is all upper case to a string where the first : letter in each word is upper case and all others are lower case? : : I suspect the solution is to begin by

[R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Terry Mu
a data set like this: year monthdaycount 2001 11 10 2001 12 11 2004 7178 basically it is a count of of some numbers everyday through a few years now I'd like to get the mean of the count for every day.

Re: [R] String manipulation---mixed case

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Renaud Lancelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This question was posted a while ago and answered by Christian Hoffmann. I wrapped it in a small function: CapLeading - function (string){ ... Version of same: s - the quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog ss - strsplit(s, )[[1]] ss1 -

Re: [R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Terry Mu muster at gmail.com writes: : : a data set like this: : : year monthdaycount : 2001 11 10 : 2001 12 11 : : 2004 7178 : : : basically it is a count of of some numbers everyday through a few

Re: [R] Excel *.xls files, RODBC

2004-12-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:58:19PM +, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca writes: : : I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be : possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file : into R using RODBC. I have obtained and

Re: [R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Terry Mu
thank you, one more question: How can I list only values for given condition? for example, I want to see only data from febuary, i.e. month=2? On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:26:11 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry Mu muster at gmail.com writes: : : a data set like this:

Re: [R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Terry Mu
Sorry, I didn't express my problem clearly. Your answers surely help, but it's not what I meant to ask. I'd like mean for every day in a year, i.e, mean for January 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Febuary, 1st, ..., 28th, 29th(if leap year) ... There is only one count per day, so there is no need to

Re: [R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Do you mean the mean for all January firsts, the mean for all January 2nds, etc.? Look up ?format in addition to the commands you looked up before: tapply(DF$count, format(Dates, %Y-%m), mean) Terry Mu muster at gmail.com writes: : : Sorry, I didn't express my problem clearly. Your

Re: [R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Place Dates in DF and use subset(DF, month == 2) in place of DF. I think you need to reread the Introduction to R manual since you should find this sort of question answered there. If not the pointers I gave you should get you started. Terry Mu muster at gmail.com writes: : : thank you, : :

Re: [R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In my previous post the format should have been %m %d. Terry Mu muster at gmail.com writes: : : thank you, : : one more question: : : How can I list only values for given condition? : for example, I want to see only data from febuary, i.e. month=2? : : On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:26:11 +

Re: [R] how to calculate conditional mean?

2004-12-05 Thread Terry Mu
thanks, this time it works perfectly. I use tapply(DF$count, format(Dates, '%m-%d'), mean). as Patrick mentioned. It works without as.date(). with as.date() on, it gives a result one day after the actual date. I also got subset(). Thank you all very much. I like R and will learn more. Terry

RE: [R] IFELSE across large array?

2004-12-05 Thread Sander Oom
Dear all, Thanks to the help from the R mailing list we now have a script performing the required tasks, i.e. applying a mask and filter to a 3D array. See script below. Any further suggestions to simplify the code are very welcome. We are currently debugging the larger script of which this

Re: [R] Excel *.xls files, RODBC

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
: Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:35:46 -0600 : From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: Re: [R] Excel *.xls files, RODBC : : : On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:58:19PM +, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: : Rolf

Re: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo

2004-12-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Dec-04 Peter Dalgaard wrote: Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Re. the smoothed residuals, you do need to be careful about the smoother. Some of the robust ones will do precisely the wrong thing in this context: You really are interested in the mean, not some trimmed mean (which

[R] Histogram with equal-counts (-probability)

2004-12-05 Thread Hamish Macintyre
I would like to use R to generate a histogram which has bars of variable bin width with each bar having an equal number of counts. For example, if the bin limits are the quartiles, each bar would represent 1/4 of the total probability in the distribution. An example of such an equal-probability

Re: [R] String manipulation---mixed case

2004-12-05 Thread Spencer Graves
That's great, Peter. For pedestrians like me who are not quite as facile with regular expressions, the following seems slightly more readable: s - the quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog ss - strsplit(s, )[[1]] ss1 - substring(ss, 1,1) ss2 - substring(ss, 2)

Re: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
(Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x - runif(500) y - rbinom(500,size=1,p=plogis(x)) xx - predict(loess(resid(glm(y~x,binomial))~x),se=T) matplot(x,cbind(xx$fit, 2*xx$se.fit, -2*xx$se.fit),pch=20) Not sure my money isn't still on the splines, though. . Serves me right for

Re: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo

2004-12-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Dec-04 Peter Dalgaard wrote: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x - runif(500) y - rbinom(500,size=1,p=plogis(x)) xx - predict(loess(resid(glm(y~x,binomial))~x),se=T) matplot(x,cbind(xx$fit, 2*xx$se.fit, -2*xx$se.fit),pch=20) Not sure my money isn't still on the splines,

[R] Re : LOOPS

2004-12-05 Thread ssim
Dear lists, I want to construct a loop in R, but don't know how to do it. I can do it in SAS, but I prefer in R (which I am hoping I will off SAS for good soon). Could anyone help me to convert the SAS codes to equivalent R codes. Basically, the following codes were written to establish the

[R] Re : LOOPS

2004-12-05 Thread ssim
Thanks Peter. Basically, I am trying to establish the line of marker allele the progeny has inherited from either the sire or the dam. The progeny will share the sires but each have different dam (ie., daughter design or half-sib model). The SAS code I have written to identify the lines of

[R] Which FM should beginners R? A suggestion.

2004-12-05 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
We've recently had a thread on beginners and FAQs and the like. I decided that it might be a good idea to offer a short list of on-line help pages that beginners should read. Goals: - the list short be short (I think mine is too long) - many of the commonest questions should find answers there

RE: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo

2004-12-05 Thread Liaw, Andy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] What is the most useful way to detect nonlinearity in lo On 05-Dec-04 Peter Dalgaard wrote:

RE: [R] Re: Protocol for answering basic questions

2004-12-05 Thread Liaw, Andy
I'll really be brief this time... From: Tony Plate [snip] Also, I think that John Maindonald's idea of a I am new to R, where do I start? page, with a link from the posting guide, is an excellent idea. Someone mentioned a tip shown at R startup (a la S-PLUS for Windows, I guess). I

[R] tree class in R?

2004-12-05 Thread DFARRAR
I am trying to store a couple numbers for each partition, in a subset of the partitions of my data set. Of course, one can accomplish this using a binary tree. (The first split is on inclusion/exclusion of the first object, and so on.) I can probably simulate a tree using vectors. (One

RE: [R] tree class in R?

2004-12-05 Thread Mulholland, Tom
Have you had a look at the rpart package? If you haven't installed it it may be worth doing so. Then you can type require(rpart) ?rpart.object Tom -Original Message- From: DFARRAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 6 December 2004 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R]

[R] Gam() function in R

2004-12-05 Thread Janice Tse
Hi all, I'm a new user of R gam() function. I am wondering how do we decide on the smooth function to use? The general form is gam(y~s(x1,df=i)+s(x2,df=j)...) , how do we decide on the degree freedom to use for each smoother, and if we shold apply smoother to each attribute? Thanks!!

RE: [R] Gam() function in R

2004-12-05 Thread Liaw, Andy
Unfortunately that's not really an R question. I recommend that you read up on the statistical methods underneath. One that I'd wholeheartedly recommend is Prof. Harrell's `Regression Modeling Strategies'. [BTW, there are now two implementations of gam() in R: one in `mgcv', which is fairly

Re: [R] tree class in R?

2004-12-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
DFARRAR DFARRAR at vt.edu writes: : : I am trying to store a couple numbers for each partition, in a subset of the : partitions : of my data set. Of course, one can accomplish this using a binary tree. (The : first split is on : inclusion/exclusion of the first object, and so on.) I can

RE: [R] core dump during make check when building 64-bit R on Solaris8/9

2004-12-05 Thread CHAN Chee Seng
Again, thanks for all the replies and suggestions. At this point, I guess the only fix is NOT to use libsunperf from sun studio 8. If anyone really wants to use libsunperf, use sun one studio 7 or 9's instead. I will also try and send a bug report to the sun folks (in case there are people like

Re: [R] Re : LOOPS

2004-12-05 Thread Yuandan Zhang
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:36:37 +1300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear lists, I want to construct a loop in R, but don't know how to do it. I can do it in SAS, but I prefer in R (which I am hoping I will off SAS for good soon). Could anyone help me to convert the SAS codes to equivalent R codes.

RE: [R] Gam() function in R

2004-12-05 Thread Janice Tse
Thanks for the email. I will check that out However when I was doing this :gam(y~s(x1)+s(x2,3), family=gaussian, data=mydata )it gives me the error : Error in terms.formula(formula, data = data) : invalid model formula in ExtractVars What does it mean ? Thanks -Janice