Re: [R] Packages

2005-08-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
Roger D. Peng wrote: What version of R are you using? 'modreg' no longer exists---its functions have been moved to the 'stats' package. Let me add that the URL cited below is not an official one. Plaese take a look at some CRAN mirror close to you. Uwe Ligges -roger Amir Safari

Re: [R] Attempting to recode elements contained in a list

2005-08-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Greg Blevins wrote: Hello R-Masters, I have a list 's' with three elements, as shown below. I want to recode a.a, a.a2, and a.a3 to NA if the value in a.a is less than 3. I think s is a data frame, and you are looking at its printout. There is almost certainly no

[R] Poisson Distribution fitting

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Miller
I am trying to fit a number of distributions to a set of data, I have used the fitdristr() funtion for most of the distributions, but Poisson is not one of the possible distributions. I found somewhee talking about using the gamlss package, but have been unable to find it again, any help would

Re: [R] Poisson Distribution fitting

2005-08-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mark Miller wrote: I am trying to fit a number of distributions to a set of data, I have used the fitdristr() funtion for most of the distributions, but Poisson is not one of the possible distributions. I found somewhee talking about using the gamlss package, but have

[R] 'splice' two data frames

2005-08-25 Thread David Whiting
Hi, I often need to take columns from two data.frames and 'splice' them together (alternately taking a column from the first data frame, then from the second). For example: x - table(sample(letters[1:9], 100, replace=TRUE), sample(letters[1:4], 100, replace=TRUE)) y - prop.table(x)

Re: [R] 'splice' two data frames

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Wolf
what about: @ *= z-data.frame(matrix(rbind(x,y),nrow(x),2*ncol(x))) rownames(z)-rownames(x) z @ output-start Thu Aug 25 11:24:29 2005 X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 X7 X8 a 2 0.02 1 0.01 2 0.02 2 0.02 b 3 0.03 0 0.00 4 0.04 3 0.03 c 3 0.03 2 0.02 1 0.01 6 0.06 d 3 0.03 4 0.04 2 0.02

Re: [R] 'splice' two data frames

2005-08-25 Thread David Whiting
Thank you! I think I can simplify the first line further to: z-data.frame(matrix(rbind(x,y),nrow(x))) i.e. remove 2 * ncol(x) Thanks. Dave Peter Wolf wrote: what about: @ *= z-data.frame(matrix(rbind(x,y),nrow(x),2*ncol(x))) rownames(z)-rownames(x) z @ output-start Thu Aug 25

Re: [R] how to close connections?

2005-08-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Try this con - gzfile(file.gz) a - readLines(con, n=1) showConnections(all=TRUE) close(con) showConnections(all=TRUE) So the connection is opened and closed as it says, but not destroyed. You do need to call close() explicitly -- from the help file 'close' closes and destroys a

Re: [R] Poisson Distribution fitting

2005-08-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mark Miller wrote: I am trying to fit a number of distributions to a set of data, I have used the fitdristr() funtion for most of the distributions, but Poisson is not one of the possible distributions. I found somewhee

Re: [R] lm.ridge

2005-08-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Daniel, DR == daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DR First: I think coefficients from lm(Employed~.,data=longley) DR should be equal coefficients from DR lm.ridge(Employed~.,data=longley, lambda=0) why it does not DR happen? Which version of R and which version of MASS are

[R] problem with read.table

2005-08-25 Thread Krishna
Hi All recently i faced an unknown problem while reading the data. Can someone help me in understanding why this happened. I have .txt file containing X, Y, Z variables. I used the command a - read.table(filename, header=TRUE) after reading the file i am able to view it by tryping a. but i am

Re: [R] problem with read.table

2005-08-25 Thread TEMPL Matthias
Hi All recently i faced an unknown problem while reading the data. Can someone help me in understanding why this happened. I have .txt file containing X, Y, Z variables. I used the command Please show at least 2 lines of your data. a - read.table(filename, header=TRUE) Are you

Re: [R] How to do log normal regression?

2005-08-25 Thread Frederico Zanqueta Poleto
A very simple and useful relation between the normal and log-normal distributions is that if log(Y) follows the normal distribution, then Y follows the log-normal distribution, and vice-versa. Then, if you want to do a log-normal regression, you can take the natural logarithm of your data and

Re: [R] problem with read.table

2005-08-25 Thread Krishna
Hi Mr. Pedro I tried names(a) and it displayed the names as X, Y and Z. rgds snvk On 8/25/05, Pedro J. Aphalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Did you try names(a) so see what are the names of the columns in the dataframe? Hope this helps a little. Pedro. Krishna wrote: Hi All

Re: [R] correlation by subset

2005-08-25 Thread Krishna
Hi Mr. Cleland it worked excellently well, and i believe the same logic or function by() can be used even for running regressions on subsets of huge datasets. correct me if iam wrong thank you for the help rgds snvk On 8/24/05, Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mr. Cleland Could you

Re: [R] correlation by subset

2005-08-25 Thread Chuck Cleland
Krishna wrote: Hi Mr. Cleland it worked excellently well, and i believe the same logic or function by() can be used even for running regressions on subsets of huge datasets. correct me if iam wrong Yes. For example, the FUN argument to by() can be a summary of a linear model:

[R] Converting characters to numbers in data frames

2005-08-25 Thread Anon.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't find the solution (including in the FAQ etc.). I have a vector of names of variables like this: NRes.x.y. where x and y are numbers. I want to extract these numbers as numbers to use elsewhere. I can extract the numbers as a list of

[R] Code in lattice::dotplot function.

2005-08-25 Thread ernesto
Hi, I'm trying to understand the code of lattice functions so that I can write some S4 methods using lattice. The following code is a snipet of dotplot that is reused in several other functions. I don't understand why this is needed can someone help ? Thanks EJ [...] right.name -

[R] concerning econometrics usage of R

2005-08-25 Thread SELIM YILDIRIM
Hi, I am currently looking for a program or programmng language easy to learn, easier to operate on.I heva heard about R, However I understand that R is designed especially for statisticians. As an economist, working on applied econometrics, I am not sure if it can meet my needs. Will I be able

Re: [R] Converting characters to numbers in data frames

2005-08-25 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Anon. wrote: I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't find the solution (including in the FAQ etc.). I have a vector of names of variables like this: NRes.x.y. where x and y are numbers. I want to extract these numbers as numbers to use elsewhere. I can extract the

Re: [R] Converting characters to numbers in data frames

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Wolf
Try: NAMES=c(NRes.1.2., NRes.1.3., NRes.1.4., NRes.1.5., NRes.1.6.) pattern-NRes\.([0-9]*)\.([0-9]*)\. data.frame(x=sub(pattern,\\1,NAMES),y=sub(pattern,\\2,NAMES)) @ output-start Thu Aug 25 14:08:50 2005 x y 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 4 4 1 5 5 1 6 output-end Peter Wolf Anon. wrote: I'm sure I'm

Re: [R] problem with read.table

2005-08-25 Thread vincent
Krishna a écrit : unable to access the variables in a, by giving the command a$X. try a$V1 or a[1] or a[,1] or a$V2 etc hih __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

Re: [R] Converting characters to numbers in data frames

2005-08-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 8/25/05, Anon. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't find the solution (including in the FAQ etc.). I have a vector of names of variables like this: NRes.x.y. where x and y are numbers. I want to extract these numbers as numbers to use

[R] Re : Packages

2005-08-25 Thread justin bem
Hi ! I got the same problem. I use R itself to install those package I got them. Try this It may work ! Sincerly ! - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

Re: [R] Call SAS from R

2005-08-25 Thread justin bem
hi , Ihave you try to use the package foreign ? try it may be you will see how to read foreign data file. Sincerly ! - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

[R] help on retrieving output from by( ) for regression

2005-08-25 Thread Krishna
Hi all I used a function qtrregr - by(AB, AB$qtr, function(AB) lm(AB$X~AB$Y)) objective is to run a regression on quartery subsets in the data set AB, having variables X and Y, grouped by variable qtr. Now i retrieved the output using qtrregr, however it only showed the coefficients

Re: [R] Re : Packages

2005-08-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
justin bem wrote: Hi ! I got the same problem. I use R itself to install those package I got them. Try this It may work ! If you reply to a question posted on R-help, please a) include the original question in your reply, others probably forgot the original question; b) reply to the

Re: [R] help on retrieving output from by( ) for regression

2005-08-25 Thread TEMPL Matthias
Look more carefully at ?lm at the See Also section ... X - rnorm(30) Y - rnorm(30) lm(Y~X) summary(lm(Y~X)) Best, Matthias Hi all I used a function qtrregr - by(AB, AB$qtr, function(AB) lm(AB$X~AB$Y)) objective is to run a regression on quartery subsets in the data set AB,

Re: [R] concerning econometrics usage of R

2005-08-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/25/2005 6:52 AM, SELIM YILDIRIM wrote: Hi, I am currently looking for a program or programmng language easy to learn, easier to operate on.I heva heard about R, However I understand that R is designed especially for statisticians. As an economist, working on applied econometrics, I am

Re: [R] concerning econometrics usage of R

2005-08-25 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:52:28 +0100 SELIM YILDIRIM wrote: Hi, I am currently looking for a program or programmng language easy to learn, easier to operate on.I heva heard about R, However I understand that R is designed especially for statisticians. As an economist, working on applied

Re: [R] help on retrieving output from by( ) for regression

2005-08-25 Thread Marc Schwartz
Also, looking at the last example in ?by would be helpful: attach(warpbreaks) tmp - by(warpbreaks, tension, function(x) lm(breaks ~ wool, data = x)) # To get coefficients: sapply(tmp, coef) # To get residuals: sapply(tmp, resid) # To get the model matrix: sapply(tmp, model.matrix) To get

[R] Help about R

2005-08-25 Thread Philippe
Hello, My name is Philippe Favrot, I'm a french occupational doctor (working in Luxembourg), and I'm an R beginner. I would be happy you could help me about the utilization of R. Recently, I measured sound levels in a plant. Before the measuring, I divided the plant in 3 virtual rows and 8

Re: [R] Help about R

2005-08-25 Thread vincent
Philippe a écrit : ... how can I draw a three dimensional graphic of the plant's sound level ? Not an answer, but I find image() very useful to visualize 3D data simply on a 2D colored image. hih __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Help about R

2005-08-25 Thread Romain Francois
Le 25.08.2005 15:54, Philippe a écrit : Hello, My name is Philippe Favrot, I'm a french occupational doctor (working in Luxembourg), and I'm an R beginner. I would be happy you could help me about the utilization of R. Recently, I measured sound levels in a plant. Before the measuring, I

Re: [R] problem with read.table

2005-08-25 Thread Don MacQueen
Potential helpers need more information. Type: head(a) and str(a) and post the results. Compare with the output of the same commands on a dataframe that does have this problem. -Don At 5:01 PM +0530 8/25/05, Krishna wrote: Hi Mr. Pedro I tried names(a) and it displayed the

Re: [R] help on retrieving output from by( ) for regression

2005-08-25 Thread Randy Johnson
What about using lmList from the lme4 package? Randy On 8/25/05 9:44 AM, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, looking at the last example in ?by would be helpful: attach(warpbreaks) tmp - by(warpbreaks, tension, function(x) lm(breaks ~ wool, data = x)) # To get coefficients:

[R] couldn't find function error message in R 2.1.1

2005-08-25 Thread qikai xu
Dear R-help, I have a home-made package works perfectly under R 1.9.1. Now I'm trying to port it to R 2.0. So I rebuild the package under R 2.1.1. It installs and loads OK. But when I try to call some functions myfoo in this package, it returns error message: Couldn't find function myfoo. I

Re: [R] concerning econometrics usage of R

2005-08-25 Thread Jorge de la Vega Gongora
There are some reviews. You can read: R: yet another Econometric Programming Environment, Francisco Cibari- Neto and Spyros G. Zarkos. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14: 319-329 (1999) On 8/25/05, Achim Zeileis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:52:28 +0100 SELIM YILDIRIM

Re: [R] concerning econometrics usage of R

2005-08-25 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:20:01 -0500 Jorge de la Vega Gongora wrote: There are some reviews. You can read: R: yet another Econometric Programming Environment, Francisco Cibari- Neto and Spyros G. Zarkos. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14: 319-329 (1999) It's a good article and definitely

Re: [R] couldn't find function error message in R 2.1.1

2005-08-25 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi Is the package loaded? What is echoed vhen you do library(mypackage) Does search() find your package? Cheers Petr On 25 Aug 2005 at 11:19, qikai xu wrote: Dear R-help, I have a home-made package works perfectly under R 1.9.1. Now I'm trying to port it to R 2.0. So I rebuild

[R] A. Mani : Tapply

2005-08-25 Thread A Mani
Hello, Is it safe to use tapply when the result will be of dim 2 x 1 or more ? In my PC R crashes. The code used was on a 3-col data frame with two factor cols and a numeric column. The fn was diff . data form being A, B, Num tapply(data$A, list(data$A, data$B), diff) -- A. Mani

Re: [R] Help about R

2005-08-25 Thread Don MacQueen
Also, for the three dimensional graphic, help.search(3d) will lead to a reference to the cloud() function in the lattice package. I don't remember if the lattice package is installed by default. If not, you will have to install it. (If you're using a Mac or Windows computer, there's a menu

Re: [R] problem with read.table

2005-08-25 Thread Liaw, Andy
Could it be that there are spaces in the names that were read in? a - data.frame( X=1:2, Y=3:4, Z=5:6, check.names=FALSE) a X Y Z 1 1 3 5 2 2 4 6 names(a) [1] X Y Z a$X NULL Andy From: Krishna Hi Mr. Pedro I tried names(a) and it displayed the names as X, Y and Z.

[R] box m-test

2005-08-25 Thread Petra Wallem
Hello everybody, Is there in R a so called box m-test for testing the equality of the variance/cov. matrix for checking on homoscedasticity? I could not find it among the traditional packages for multivariate statistics... Petra -- Petra Wallem Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ecología

[R] question sur R

2005-08-25 Thread Abdelhafid BERRICHI
bonjour je suis elève à l'ENSAI Rennes et je suis actuellement en stage de fin d'études j'ai une question sur R en fait lorsque le simule 2 lois normales qui sont mes 2 variables explicatives continus - une avec que des valeurs 0 (ou que 0) X1 - l'autre peut prendre aussi

Re: [R] help on retrieving output from by( ) for regression

2005-08-25 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
That works also (using the example in ?lmList) library(lme4) ?lmList fm1 - lmList(breaks ~ wool | tension, warpbreaks) However, one still would need to use either sapply() or lapply() as below to get the details that Krishna is looking for. 'fm1' above is a list of models (S4 class

Re: [R] histogram method for S4 class.

2005-08-25 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 8/24/05, ernesto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to develop an histogram method for a class called FLQuant which is used by the package FLCore (http://flr-project.org). FLQuant is an extension to array. There is an as.data.frame method that coerces flquant into a data.frame

Re: [R] Code in lattice::dotplot function.

2005-08-25 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 8/25/05, ernesto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand the code of lattice functions so that I can write some S4 methods using lattice. The following code is a snipet of dotplot that is reused in several other functions. I don't understand why this is needed can someone

[R] PDL model

2005-08-25 Thread Carsten . Colombier
Dear r-help team: Is a package implemented in R which includes a function that calculates polynomial distributed lag models (also: Almon models, pdl-model)? Provided a pdl function is available, can it be applied to robust statistics like MM-estimators? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Carsten

Re: [R] help on retrieving output from by( ) for regression

2005-08-25 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
Sorry to reply to my own post, but in reviewing the NAMESPACE file for lme4, it looks like Doug is perhaps planning to add additional model object accessor methods for the lmList class, including resid() and summary(), which are commented out now. coef() is available presently. So when in place,

[R] ROracle and select query empty

2005-08-25 Thread Mathieu Drapeau
Hi, I just installed ROracle and RDBI. The connection to the database seems to work also. My problem is when I am selection rows that really exist in the database, it is returning nothing. Where should I look to see what could be my problem? Thank you very much, Mathieu drv -

[R] Irregular Time Series: zoo its: Pros Cons

2005-08-25 Thread David James
Hello, I'm working with irregular time series data. What do you all think about the strengths and weaknesses of the zoo and its packages? I've installed and skimmed the documentation on both packages. I was hoping to get a little guidance from the user community before proceeding

Re: [R] Irregular Time Series: zoo its: Pros Cons

2005-08-25 Thread Whit Armstrong
I am the maintainer of its, but not it's original author. One of the main strengths of its is that it uses POSIXct dates. Zoo has the flexibility of using almost any date format, but I don't know if the other date formats can store hour, min, sec data. You might want to do a little exploring

Re: [R] Irregular Time Series: zoo its: Pros Cons

2005-08-25 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello David, You may be interested also by the regul() function and similar fro the pastecs package: it is designed to solve the kind of problems you talk about. You should read the manual, which is included. However, this manual is in French. Best, Philippe

Re: [R] box m-test

2005-08-25 Thread Liaw, Andy
I posted a translation from a Matlab version a while ago. Search in the list archive. Andy From: Petra Wallem Hello everybody, Is there in R a so called box m-test for testing the equality of the variance/cov. matrix for checking on homoscedasticity? I could not find it among the

[R] rgui on windows quiting automatically Resolved

2005-08-25 Thread Greg Snow
I have resolved the problem I had with rgui quiting automatically. I am posting this mainly so that if anyone else in the future has the same problem there will be a solution in the archives. The problem was apparently with the file Rconsole that was in the directory My Documents, when I deleted

Re: [R] rgui on windows quiting automatically Resolved

2005-08-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/25/2005 3:39 PM, Greg Snow wrote: I have resolved the problem I had with rgui quiting automatically. I am posting this mainly so that if anyone else in the future has the same problem there will be a solution in the archives. The problem was apparently with the file Rconsole that was

[R] Quick partitioning

2005-08-25 Thread Anna Oganyan
Hello, I am quite new in R, and I have one problem: I have large d-dimensional data sets (d=2, 3, 6, 10). I would like to divide the d-dim space into n (n may be 10, but better some larger number, for example 20) equally sized d-dim hypercubes and count how many data points are in each cube.

[R] covariance matrix under null

2005-08-25 Thread Devarajan, Karthik
Hello I am fitting a Cox PH model using the function coxph(). Does anyone know how to obtain the estimate of the covariance matrix under the null hypothesis. The function coxph.detail() does not seem to be useful for this purpose. Thanks, KD. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] Irregular Time Series: zoo its: Pros Cons

2005-08-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 8/25/05, David James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm working with irregular time series data. What do you all think about the strengths and weaknesses of the zoo and its packages? I have worked on the development of zoo with Achim Zeileis so I will just speak to that one. The key

[R] S3 class question

2005-08-25 Thread Joel Bremson
Hi, I have a class called spss containing prepared info from an SPSS file. ... class(ret) = spss return(ret) The function that returns this defined in a file that I source into R. Also in that file is a function matSummary.spss. I think I ought to be able to call matSummary(ret) to run the