Re: [R] publishing random effects from lme

2005-02-04 Thread Christoph Scherber
Hi Dieter, Yes, I´ve tried both options. The anova(lme(...)) gives me good results for the fixed effects part, but what I´m specifically interested in is what to do with the random effects. I have tried glmmPQL (generalized linear mixed-effects models), which did in fact greatly help account

Re: [R] Handling large data sets via scan()

2005-02-04 Thread Christoph Lehmann
does it solve to a part your problem, if you use read.table() instead of scan, since it imports data directly to a data.frame? let me know, if it helps Nawaaz Ahmed wrote: I'm trying to read in datasets with roughly 150,000 rows and 600 features. I wrote a function using scan() to read it in (I

Re: [R] publishing random effects from lme

2005-02-04 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
If you have heteroscedasticity problems, the nlme package has many varFunctions (e.g., varPower, varIdent, etc.) that could assist you in fitting it. The usage of GLMMs is mainly for discrete and count data that you cannot fit with lme. Testing between competing lme models should be done via

[R] Output from function to a tcltk window

2005-02-04 Thread Henrik Andersson
I would like to display output to a tcltk window from e.g. a call to summary(). I tried to get something else than oneliners into a text window of the kind found at: http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/TextWindows.html But without success. Henrik

[R] Is anyone using the MiniR distribution?

2005-02-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I currently build two different versions of each Windows binary: the rw.exe full installation program (with the next release looking to be around 25 Megabytes), and a series of 8 diskette-sized files named miniR*. The miniR files only include a minimal installation of R, and are rarely

RE: [R] Surprising Behavior of 'tapply'

2005-02-04 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear helpers, thank you very much for your advice. After starting a new R-session this morning, I was also unable to replicate the problem, although the old session showed still the same problem. One suggestion was that I maybe redefined some functions, but this was not the case. I only loaded

Re: [R] Output from function to a tcltk window

2005-02-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Henrik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to display output to a tcltk window from e.g. a call to summary(). I tried to get something else than oneliners into a text window of the kind found at: http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/TextWindows.html

[R] Installing R packages in windows

2005-02-04 Thread Vikas Rawal
I need to install a selected set of packages on a number of machines (in a computer lab). Some of these machines are not connected to internet. Is it possible to download all the packages and make a kind of repository on a CD, and then install.packages from the CD? Vikas

[R] Rare Cases and SOM

2005-02-04 Thread Manuel Gutierrez
I am trying to understand how the SOM algorithm works using library(class) SOM function. I have a 1000*10 matrix and I want to be able to summarize the different types of 10-element vectors. In my real world case it is likely that most of the 1000 values are of one kind the rest of other (this is

[R] integration function

2005-02-04 Thread Christoph Scherber
Dear R users, I have tried to write a function which gives the step-wise integral for an exponential function (moving from -3 to 3 in steps of 0.1, where the output for every step shall be the integral under the curve of y against x. However, something seems to be wrong with this function; can

RE: [R] Output from function to a tcltk window

2005-02-04 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter and Henrik, What the Rcmdr does may be overkill for Henrik's application, since it also intercepts error and warning messages, and tries to take the behaviour of the R console. The relevant functions are in the file Commander.R in the source package; the principal one is: doItAndPrint

Re: [R] Installing R packages in windows

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Vikas Rawal wrote: I need to install a selected set of packages on a number of machines (in a computer lab). Some of these machines are not connected to internet. Is it possible to download all the packages and make a kind of repository on a CD, and then install.packages from the CD? Yes, just

Re: [R] integration function

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Christoph Scherber wrote: Dear R users, I have tried to write a function which gives the step-wise integral for an exponential function (moving from -3 to 3 in steps of 0.1, where the output for every step shall be the integral under the curve of y against x. However, something seems to be

Re: [R] integration function

2005-02-04 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
The syntax you have you used is not correct. integrate() needs as first argument a function! see ?integrate for more info. a possible solution could be: x - seq(-3, 3, 0.1) y - exp(x) ## integral - function(z, a, b, step.){ cc - numeric(n - (b-a)/step.) f - function(x) exp(x) for(i

Re: [R] Handling large data sets via scan()

2005-02-04 Thread Roger D. Peng
I can usually read in large tables by very careful usage of read.table() without having to resort to scan(). In particular, using the `colClasses', `nrows', and `comment.char' arguments correctly can greatly reduce memory usage (and increase speed) when reading in data. Converting from a list

Re: [R] Is anyone using the MiniR distribution?

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Maechler
Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:50:22 + writes: Duncan I currently build two different versions of each Duncan Windows binary: the rw.exe full installation Duncan program (with the next release looking to be around Duncan 25

[R] How to read in .jpeg files

2005-02-04 Thread Bill Simpson
In case others are looking for a simple way to read in .jpeg files as ordinary matrices, here is my solution. I am only interested in greyscale images, so you will have to alter the following if you want colour. Most .jpegs are colour, so first step is to open the file with ImageMagick display

Re: [R] Opening for a Statistics Practitioner in San Francisco

2005-02-04 Thread beep . boop
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:34:17 -0800, you wrote: |=[:o) You will have a degree in statistics, be fluent in R and the Microsoft |=[:o) Office suite (especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint). SQL query skills are |=[:o) very helpful as is real-world business and marketing experience. |=[:o)

[R] sink to file

2005-02-04 Thread Urs Wagner
Hello I would like to use the source(command) and write the output into a file. I am using outputfile=file(output.txt, open=wt) sink(outputfile, type=output) source(input.R, echo=TRUE) Unfortunately the result has prompted commands. How can I avoid the prompted commands data(iris), ...? Thanks

[R] how to generate a function from a linear model

2005-02-04 Thread Tony Han Bao
Hi All, I am trying to generate a function from a linear model. I think there should be build-in function that perform this action but I've had no luck finding it. For example, I have a model created using lm(). model - lm(sat.d~1+sat.n+I(sat.n^2)) What I would like to have is a

[R] Bayesian Network

2005-02-04 Thread NDIKUMAGENGE Alice
Hello, I would like to use Bayesian Networks with R. I have already installed the package called deal which has succefully unpacked (package 'deal' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked) . But when I try to write - network (df) I have that kind of error message (be low)! rats -

[R] QCC and PlotMath question

2005-02-04 Thread Shawn Way
For some reason, using the qcc package, I'm unable to use the plotmath notation in the title. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? library(qcc) a - rnorm(100) qcc(a,type=xbar.one,title=expression(bar(X)),ylab=expression(CFU/ft^3) ) This seems to not let the expression be evaluated, so I tried:

Re: [R] how to generate a function from a linear model

2005-02-04 Thread Roger D. Peng
I don't think there's an automatic way to do this but you might try something like: model - lm(sat.d~1+sat.n+I(sat.n^2)) f - function(x) { predict(model, data.frame(sat.n = x)) } -roger Tony Han Bao wrote: Hi All, I am trying to generate a function from a linear model. I think there should be

Re: [R] How to read in .jpeg files

2005-02-04 Thread Bill Simpson
for(i in 1:dims[1]) x[i,]-rev(x[i,]) #flip the image vertically Courtesy of Rolf Turner, here is a much better way to flip vertically: x - x[,ncol(x):1] Bill __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] Bayesian Network

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
NDIKUMAGENGE Alice wrote: Hello, I would like to use Bayesian Networks with R. I have already installed the package called deal which has succefully unpacked (package 'deal' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked) . But when I try to write - network (df) I have that kind of error message

RE: [R] Bayesian Network

2005-02-04 Thread Liaw, Andy
I guess you are using R on Windows, and install the binary version of the package. (Please tell us, as the Posting Guide asks, rather than leave us guessing.) Did you load the package with `library(deal)' before using the functions? Andy From: NDIKUMAGENGE Alice Hello, I would like

RE: [R] how to generate a function from a linear model

2005-02-04 Thread Liaw, Andy
predict() can do that for you without giving you the explicit form of the prediction function. I believe Prof. Harrell has facilities in his Design/Hmisc packages for producing functions from fitted models. Andy From: Tony Han Bao Hi All, I am trying to generate a function from a linear

Re: [R] Is anyone using the MiniR distribution?

2005-02-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:46:03 +0100, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:50:22 + writes: Duncan The miniR files only include a minimal installation Duncan of R, and are rarely tested. Rather than building

Re: [R] QCC and PlotMath question

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Shawn Way wrote: For some reason, using the qcc package, I'm unable to use the plotmath notation in the title. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? library(qcc) a - rnorm(100) qcc(a,type=xbar.one,title=expression(bar(X)),ylab=expression(CFU/ft^3) ) This seems to not let the expression be

Re: [R] sink to file

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Urs Wagner wrote: Hello I would like to use the source(command) and write the output into a file. I am using outputfile=file(output.txt, open=wt) sink(outputfile, type=output) source(input.R, echo=TRUE) Unfortunately the result has prompted commands. How can I avoid the prompted commands

RE: [R] graphics examples

2005-02-04 Thread Jackson, Alan AK SIEP-EPT-RXR
Very nice! I can't wait to buy the book. I have some plots I am working on that are surprisingly difficult to do : http://www.oplnk.net/~ajackson/weather/Temperature_2000.png and others in that directory for an example. The challenge was coloring in the polygons which were, in some cases, defined

[R] 2 small problems: integer division and the nature of NA

2005-02-04 Thread Denis Chabot
Hi, I'm wondering why 48 %/% 2 gives 24 but 4.8 %/% 0.2 gives 23... I'm not trying to round up here, but to find out how many times something fits into something else, and the answer should have been the same for both examples, no? On a different topic, I like the behavior of NAs better in R

[R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Depire Alexandre
Hello, I develop some R package on Linux machine with C subroutines. The programs in C are well compiled on Linux machine and so I have some .so files. Now, I want to do the same work on windows, so I install R (the last version) on windows, with Active Perl and djgpp, which is, as I know, the

[R] Keeping the data of C structure in R variables?..

2005-02-04 Thread Oleg Sklyar
Dear all, does anybody know if there is a way to implement the following idea: if for example I have a C/C++ structure of form: struct { int size; char * data; } SData; in C code I could create some implementation that would create this structure by pointer and fill in the data, so I would

Re: [R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Depire Alexandre wrote: Hello, I develop some R package on Linux machine with C subroutines. The programs in C are well compiled on Linux machine and so I have some .so files. Now, I want to do the same work on windows, so I install R (the last version) on windows, with Active Perl and djgpp,

Re: [R] 2 small problems: integer division and the nature of NA

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Denis Chabot wrote: Hi, I'm wondering why 48 %/% 2 gives 24 but 4.8 %/% 0.2 gives 23... I'm not trying to round up here, but to find out how many times something fits into something else, and the answer should have been the same for both examples, no? No. Not from the perspective of a digital

Re: [R] 2 small problems: integer division and the nature of NA

2005-02-04 Thread Spencer Graves
It's the difference between integers and reals: 48 and 24 are integers; 4.8 and 0.2 are floating point numbers. Consider: (4.8+.Machine$double.eps) %/% (0.2-.Machine$double.eps) [1] 24 (4.8-.Machine$double.eps) %/% (0.2+.Machine$double.eps) [1] 23 Does this help? spencer graves

Re: [R] 2 small problems: integer division and the nature of NA

2005-02-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Denis Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm wondering why 48 %/% 2 gives 24 but 4.8 %/% 0.2 gives 23... I'm not trying to round up here, but to find out how many times something fits into something else, and the answer should have been the same for both examples, no? Well, you

RE: [R] Keeping the data of C structure in R variables?..

2005-02-04 Thread Huntsinger, Reid
I think you should have a look at external pointers (type EXTPTRSXP). They are used in the R source . See, for example, memory.c. Also see the developer page notes on weak references, finalizers, etc, which you'll need to be familiar with. This is really an R-devel question! Reid Huntsinger

RE: [R] 2 small problems: integer division and the nature of NA

2005-02-04 Thread Huntsinger, Reid
It's convention in mathematics that the empty sum is 0. You can think of this as a generalization of 0*x = 0. Reid Huntsinger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Denis Chabot Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:01 AM To:

[R] genetic algorithm

2005-02-04 Thread WeiWei Shi
Hi, I am doing some research on feature selection for classfication problem using genetic algorithm in a wrapper approach. I am wondering if there is some package which is already built for this purpose. I was advised before about dprep package but I don't think it used GA there (if I am wrong,

Re: [R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote: Depire Alexandre wrote: Hello, I develop some R package on Linux machine with C subroutines. The programs in C are well compiled on Linux machine and so I have some .so files. Now, I want to do the same work on windows, so I install R (the last version) on

Re: [R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Depire Alexandre
On windows, I install the last version of MinGW, I change path environment variable, but when on command windows, I try to compute R CMD SHLIB inv.c I have the following error: 'make' is unknown. I have mingw32-make.exe, but R don't use it, ?? I think it is'nt normal, but I don't know how

Re: [R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Depire Alexandre
Is it easier to compute .dll on linux, via cross-compiler ? Le vendredi 4 Février 2005 18:37, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote: Depire Alexandre wrote: Hello, I develop some R package on Linux machine with C subroutines. The programs in C are well compiled

RE: [R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Depire Alexandre On windows, I install the last version of MinGW, I change path environment variable, but when on command windows, I try to compute R CMD SHLIB inv.c I have the following error: 'make' is unknown. I have mingw32-make.exe, but R don't use it, ?? I think it

Re: [R] sink to file

2005-02-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote: Urs Wagner wrote: Hello I would like to use the source(command) and write the output into a file. I am using outputfile=file(output.txt, open=wt) sink(outputfile, type=output) source(input.R, echo=TRUE) Unfortunately the result has prompted commands. How can

RE: [R] genetic algorithm

2005-02-04 Thread dr mike
To my knowledge, two packages have an implementation of an evolutionary, or genentic, algorithm. Gafit is a curve fitting package and rgenoud for function minimisation (combined with, iirc, a derivative-based Quasi-Newton approach for unconstrained problems). One thing, in the S-Plus robust

Re: [R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Depire Alexandre wrote: Is it easier to compute .dll on linux, via cross-compiler ? The Windows way described in README.packages is not hard, you just have to follow the advices. Once your system has been set up, it's the same as native compiling on Linux. Uwe Ligges Le vendredi 4 Février 2005

Re: [R] Compilation of R (linux) package on windows

2005-02-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Depire Alexandre wrote: On windows, I install the last version of MinGW, I change path environment variable, but when on command windows, I try to compute R CMD SHLIB inv.c I have the following error: 'make' is unknown. I have mingw32-make.exe, but R don't use it, ?? I think it is'nt normal,

[R] Building a Matrix

2005-02-04 Thread Doran, Harold
Dear List: I am having some difficulty constructing a matrix that must take a specific form. The matrix must be have a lower block of non-zero values and the rest must all be zero. For example, if I am building an n X n matrix, then the first n/2 rows need to be zero and the first n/2 columns

RE: [R] Building a Matrix

2005-02-04 Thread Liaw, Andy
Is this what you want? mat - matrix(0, 4, 4) mat[col(mat) 2 row(mat) 2] - 100 mat [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,]0000 [2,]0000 [3,]00 100 100 [4,]00 100 100 Andy From: Doran, Harold Dear List: I am having some difficulty

[R] (no subject)

2005-02-04 Thread Soukup, Matt
Hi. I have a problem that I can't seem to find an optimal way of solving other than by doing things manually. I'm trying to subset a data frame by the number of observations that occurred at a given row but want to take into account the number of observations of preceding rows. Here's an example.

Re: [R] Building a Matrix

2005-02-04 Thread Spencer Graves
Does the following do what you want: vl.mat - matrix(0,4,4) i34 - 3:4 vl.mat[i34,i34] - 100 vl.mat [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,]0000 [2,]0000 [3,]00 100 100 [4,]00 100 100 spencer graves Doran, Harold wrote: Dear List: I am having

Re: [R] Building a Matrix

2005-02-04 Thread Patrick Burns
Unless I'm missing something, all you need to do is create the large matrix and then replace the submatrix via subscripting the rows and columns: ans - matrix(0, n, n) sub.seq - floor(n/2 + 1):n ans[sub.seq, sub.seq] - submatrix Patrick Burns Burns Statistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696

[R] simple example of C interface to R

2005-02-04 Thread jbdunsmo
i'd like to use the C interface to R in a program i'm writing. as a starting point, i'm trying to create a very simple C program that uses R. i've read the R documentation on this, but i'm having trouble figuring out where SEXP is defined and how to use it. i noticed someone else on this list

[R] proportional chance criteria

2005-02-04 Thread T. Murlidharan Nair
Is there an R function that I can use to calculate the p-value from the Z statistics computed for the relationship between chance and observed proportions in predictions. More sprcifically I am refering to proportional chance criteria (Cpro). Details are in Huberty's book on Applied discriminant

Re: [R] 2 small problems: integer division and the nature of NA

2005-02-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Denis Chabot chabotd at globetrotter.net writes: : The sum of a vector having at least one NA but also valid data gives NA : if we do not specify na.rm=T. But with na.rm=T, we are telling sum to : give the sum of valid data, ignoring NAs that do not tell us anything : about the value of a

RE: [R] simple example of C interface to R

2005-02-04 Thread Liaw, Andy
See if this helps: http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/useR-2004/Keynotes/Dalgaard.pdf Andy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'd like to use the C interface to R in a program i'm writing. as a starting point, i'm trying to create a very simple C program that uses R. i've read the R

Re: [R] no. at risk in survfit()

2005-02-04 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
array chip wrote: Hi, when I generated a survfit() object, I can get number of patients at risk at various time points by using summary(): fit-survfit(Surv(time,status)~class,data=mtdata) summary(fit) class=1 time n.risk n.event survival std.err lower 95% CI upper 95% CI

RE: [R] no. at risk in survfit()

2005-02-04 Thread Austin, Matt
Have you looked at the times argument to the summary method? --Matt Matt Austin Statistician Amgen One Amgen Center Drive M/S 24-2-C Thousand Oaks CA 93021 (805) 447 - 7431 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of array chip Sent: Friday,

[R] R package with C code on Windows

2005-02-04 Thread S. Blay
Dear R helpers, MyPkg passes R CMD check on Linux machines. However, when I 'R CMD check myPkg' on Windows, the libs subdirectory is not being created. If I install the package and then create the libs subdirectory manually and copy the dll files to it, the package seems to work fine (but

[R] arrow head styles?

2005-02-04 Thread ivo_welch-rstat8303
dear R wizards: is it possible to specify different arrow head styles? E.g., a solid arrow head? Or a bent arrow head? Or a longer or shorter arrow head? (perhaps through an add in?) I guess I could write this myself, but since arrows is built-in, I was hoping it had some flexibility

Re: [R] simple example of C interface to R

2005-02-04 Thread jbdunsmo
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:09:37PM +0100, Roger Bivand wrote: Well, it is documented in the Writing R Extensions manual: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#System-and-foreign-language-interfaces thanks. reading through that a second time made all the difference. i still

[R] How to access results of survival analysis

2005-02-04 Thread Heinz Tuechler
Hello, it seems that the main results of survival analysis with package survival are shown only as side effects of the print method. If I compute e.g. a Kaplan-Meier estimate by km.survdur-survfit(s.survdur) then I can simply print the results by km.survdur Call: survfit(formula =

Re: Re: [R] Installing R packages in windows

2005-02-04 Thread Vikas Rawal
Thank you. That is useful. But is it possible to download all the packages in one go, or would one have download each one by one? Vikas -Original Message- From: Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:55:42 +0100 Subject: Re: [R]

RE: Re: [R] Installing R packages in windows

2005-02-04 Thread Liaw, Andy
A half-way decent ftp client would allow you to get all files in a directory, so that ought to be quite easy. Andy From: Vikas Rawal Thank you. That is useful. But is it possible to download all the packages in one go, or would one have download each one by one? Vikas -Original

Re: [R] Building a Matrix

2005-02-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Doran, Harold HDoran at air.org writes: : : Dear List: : : I am having some difficulty constructing a matrix that must take a : specific form. The matrix must be have a lower block of non-zero values : and the rest must all be zero. For example, if I am building an n X n : matrix, then the

Re: [R] interval partition problem [was: (no subject)]

2005-02-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Soukup, Matt SoukupM at cder.fda.gov writes: : : Hi. : : I have a problem that I can't seem to find an optimal way of solving other : than by doing things manually. I'm trying to subset a data frame by the : number of observations that occurred at a given row but want to take into : account the

Re: [R] interval partition problem [was: (no subject)]

2005-02-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : Soukup, Matt SoukupM at cder.fda.gov writes: : : : : : Hi. : : : : I have a problem that I can't seem to find an optimal way of solving other : : than by doing things manually. I'm trying to subset a data frame by the : : number of

[R] question about ldahist function

2005-02-04 Thread Fairouz Makhlouf
Hi, When I am using ldahist function I would like to specify different colors for each of the groups in the data I am using. Is it possible? If not does anybody know of another function to plot multiple histograms on one plot for different groups. Thanks = Thanks Fairouz Makhlouf