Re: [R] Curve fitting

2005-12-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
Nagu wrote: Hi, Problem statement: There are two variables Y, X. Y is a response from X. I want to find a closed form formula to express Y in terms of X. Comments: I tried with simple polynomial basis but its not a good fit due to the non-linear nature of Y. Are there any set of

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread August Berg
On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following description in http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/.R/library/systemfit/html/hausman.systemfit . html what does the Not run mean? This means that the

Re: [R] Sweave: How can I include S input in paragraph mode

2005-12-02 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:38:21 +1000, Ross Darnell (RD) wrote: Sweavers As the title suggests I would appreciate any help to include S code in ordinary paragraph mode. I can use the textsl font but is isn't the same. You can always renew the Sinput and Soutput environments to

Re: [R] Minimizing a Function with three Parameters

2005-12-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get maximum likelihood estimates of \alpha, \beta_0 and \beta_1, this can be achieved by solving the following three equations: n / \alpha + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{n} ln(\psihat(i)) - \sum\limits_{i=1}^{n} ( ln(x_i +

[R] identifying strong clustering

2005-12-02 Thread paul sorenson
I have 130 or so rows of questionnaire data. It is 67 columns wide mostly of categorical nature (and often yes/no). I have been using daisy, pam and plot to view cluster plots with subsets of columns. With different subsets, there is great variation in the degree of overlap of the

Re: [R] values in between

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
Jim == Jim Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:34:51 -0500 writes: Jim Eric C. Jennings wrote: Hey there I have two vectors: y- c(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, -0.2, -0.6, 0.2, 0.0, 0.0, 0.4, 0.4, 0.2) In the vector y, I want to access (in the order

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread Arne Henningsen
On Friday 02 December 2005 09:00, you wrote: On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following description in http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/.R/library/systemfit/html/hausman.systemfi t . html

Re: [R] R Hierarchical clustering leaf node

2005-12-02 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:34:01 -0600, Qunfeng (Q) wrote: Hello, I am new to the R package. After I use R to perform the hierarchical clustering, I am only interested in retrieving the leaf nodes that share the last common ancestors. As illustrated below, I'd like to retrieve (B,

Re: [R] Impaired boxplot functionality - mean instead of median

2005-12-02 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi I totally agree with Martin because when I see boxplot I immediately expect median in the middle and all other parts defined accordingly. It is possible to use bp - boxplot(..., plot=F) and then to change the median values in bp to means and IQRs to SD and everything to anything else but

[R] what is best for scripting?

2005-12-02 Thread Molins, Jordi
I am using R in Windows. I see that I will have to use batch processes with R. I will have to read and write text files, and run some R code; probably some external code too. I have never done scripting. Is there any document that explains simple steps with examples? I also have heard that Python

[R] extracting rows of a dataframe

2005-12-02 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi look at the following session, in which I have a dataframe, and I want to extract the second row, without the first column. Everything works as expected until the last line, where I set the names of x to NULL, and get a non-desired object (I want c(4,3).). Three questions: (1) why is

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread August Berg
On 12/2/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 09:00, you wrote: On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following description in

Re: [R] extracting rows of a dataframe

2005-12-02 Thread Berwin A Turlach
RH == Robin Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RH Three questions: RH (1) why is as.vector(a[2,-1]) not a vector? Did you read the help file of as.vector() ? a - data.frame(male=c(T,T,F),mass=c(1,4,3),height=c(4,3,2)) a male mass height 1 TRUE1 4 2 TRUE4 3 3

Re: [R] Impaired boxplot functionality - mean instead of median

2005-12-02 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Evgeniy Kachalin wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr пишет: Evgeniy Kachalin wrote: Marc Schwartz (via MN) пишет: Marc Schwartz (via MN) пишет: library(Hmisc) library(lattice) ?panel.bpplot bwplot(, panel=panel.bpplot) By default, panel.bpplot shows the mean (dot) and median (line)

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread Arne Henningsen
On Friday 02 December 2005 09:58, you wrote: On 12/2/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 09:00, you wrote: On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread August Berg
On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following description in http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/.R/library/systemfit/html/hausman.systemfit . html what does the Not run mean? This means that the

Re: [R] extracting rows of a dataframe

2005-12-02 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi or maybe x - as.numeric(a[2,-1]) can suit to your needs. Petr On 2 Dec 2005 at 17:14, Berwin A Turlach wrote: From: Berwin A Turlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:14:42 +0800 To: Robin Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] Zero-inflated neg.bin. model and pscl package

2005-12-02 Thread Simone Vincenzi
Dear list, I'm currently trying to develop a model to assess clam yield potential in a lagoon. I'm using the zeroinfl function of the pscl package to fit a Zero-inflated negative binomial model, given the high occurrence of zero counts. I don't understand from the sentence in the pscl guide

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread Arne Henningsen
On Friday 02 December 2005 10:21, August Berg wrote: On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following description in http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/.R/library/systemfit/html/hausman.systemfi t .

[R] k-means / role of 'nstart'

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Raux
Hello, the k-means {stats} help and the HartiganWon paper say nothing about the way random sets works (parameter nstart). I would expect to get the different results for each random initial set but I always obtain only one result: how is it selected? Charles Raux

[R] cumulative % explained in mca() library(MASS)

2005-12-02 Thread Stefano Cabras
Hi, using mca function in library(MASS) I obtained the following result: miacm=mca(factor.variables,abbrev=TRUE,nf=11) miacm Call: mca(df = factor.variables, nf = 11, abbrev = TRUE) Multiple correspondence analysis of 1000 cases of 3 factors Correlations 0.605 0.599 0.586 0.577 0.577 0.577

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
Arne Henningsen wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 10:21, August Berg wrote: On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following description in

Re: [R] extracting rows of a dataframe

2005-12-02 Thread Patrick Burns
The key things here are: 1) a data frame is a list with some attributes (unlike a matrix which is (generally) an atomic vector with attributes). 2) 'as.vector' removes attributes. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and A Guide for the

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread August Berg
On 12/1/05, Arne Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 December 2005 02:50, August Berg wrote: I am confused by the following description in http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/.R/library/systemfit/html/hausman.systemfit . html what does the Not run mean? This means that the

[R] Seven month time-series sampled at hourly intervals

2005-12-02 Thread Henrik Andersson
I have data from several sensors that recorded data at hourly intervals during seven months. I want to separate daily variation from the trend, and also be able to zoom in on only one month of data. I have not been able what functions to use, I can not figure out from the help for 'ts' how to

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread August Berg
The source of an R package can be checked by the command R CMD check package_name (on a Unix/Linux machines; on Windows machines this is slightly different). In fact, it is exactly the same command on Windows. Uwe Ligges Why it did not work for me? library( systemfit ) R CMD

Re: [R] k-means / role of 'nstart'

2005-12-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Charles Raux wrote: the k-means {stats} help and the HartiganWon paper say nothing about the way random sets works (parameter nstart). I would expect to get the different results for each random initial set but I always obtain only one result: how is it selected? The code

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread ronggui
The source of an R package can be checked by the command R CMD check package_name (on a Unix/Linux machines; on Windows machines this is slightly different). In fact, it is exactly the same command on Windows. Uwe Ligges Why it did not work for me? library( systemfit ) R CMD

[R] covariance structures in lmer

2005-12-02 Thread Stephan Moratti
Hi, I usually use lme from the nlme library. Now I have read an article about lmer in Rnews and lmer seemed to me more comfortable to use. Unfortunately, I didn't find out how to use covariance structures (e. g. corSymm(), corAR1()). Is there a way to use them similarly as in lme ? Is it

Re: [R] masked from package:base?

2005-12-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
August Berg wrote: The source of an R package can be checked by the command R CMD check package_name (on a Unix/Linux machines; on Windows machines this is slightly different). In fact, it is exactly the same command on Windows. Uwe Ligges Why it did not work for me? library(

[R] sign and sign rank tests

2005-12-02 Thread John Sorkin
R 2.1.1 on Windows 2K I hope one and all will allow both an R question and a general stats question: (1) Is there any function that will perform non-parametric tests such as a sign test or a signed rank test? I know I could program both but I would prefer not re-inventing the wheel. (2)

Re: [R] covariance structures in lmer

2005-12-02 Thread Doran, Harold
Stephan: It is my understanding that the corClass functions are not able to be used with lmer() at this time. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephan Moratti Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 6:58 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] what is best for scripting?

2005-12-02 Thread jim holtman
A lot is personal preference. I use Perl since it is very good at doing any of the preprocessing that I need to setup data for R; e.g., reading a text file, extracting the data and then setting it up in a format for R. I can then invoke R from the script. Here is a sample of come Perl code that

Re: [R] Seven month time-series sampled at hourly intervals

2005-12-02 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:35:46 +0100 Henrik Andersson wrote: I have data from several sensors that recorded data at hourly intervals during seven months. I want to separate daily variation from the trend, and also be able to zoom in on only one month of data. I have not been able what

[R] plot and factors

2005-12-02 Thread Jason Miller
Read R-helpers, I'm relatively new to R and trying to jump in feet first. I've been able to learn a lot from on-line and printed documentation, but here's one question to which I can't find an answer. Well, it's a question with a couple parts. Thanks in advance for any direction

[R] bimodal data

2005-12-02 Thread Simone Immler
Hi, Does anybody have a good tip of how to treat bimodal data to perform statistical analyses? My data set ranges from -1 to 1 (any values are posssible in between) and most data are either close to -1 or close to 1. They are the results of a two choice experiment where individuals

Re: [R] bimodal data

2005-12-02 Thread Ingmar Visser
Hi Simone, It depends on what you want from the data ... A bimodal distribution can typically be modelled with a mixture distribution, where the assumption is that each of the modes corresponds to an underlying process generating those data. hth, ingmar Hi, Does anybody have a good tip of

Re: [R] plot and factors

2005-12-02 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi On 2 Dec 2005 at 6:40, Jason Miller wrote: To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch From: Jason Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 06:40:48 -0600 Subject:[R] plot and factors Read R-helpers, I'm relatively new to R

Re: [R] Seven month time-series sampled at hourly intervals

2005-12-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In addition to prior suggestion look at: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-refcard-ts.pdf http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/15.html http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/ On 12/2/05, Henrik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have data from several sensors that recorded data at

Re: [R] bimodal data

2005-12-02 Thread Ted Harding
On 02-Dec-05 Simone Immler wrote: Hi, Does anybody have a good tip of how to treat bimodal data to perform statistical analyses? My data set ranges from -1 to 1 (any values are posssible in between) and most data are either close to -1 or close to 1. They are the results of a two choice

Re: [R] what is best for scripting?

2005-12-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I do nearly all my scripting in R if its part of an R project. That keeps things simple since everything is in one language. See ?BATCH, ?commandArgs, ?readLines, ?system, ?grep, ?regex (and commands pointed to by it). If your script deals with XML, see the R XML package. If R is not involved

Re: [R] sign and sign rank tests

2005-12-02 Thread Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.
See Wilcox.test and Wilcox_test functions. Jarek Tuszynski -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sorkin Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:13 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] sign and sign rank tests R 2.1.1 on Windows 2K I

Re: [R] bimodal data

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
Your problem sounds like it could be modeled with logistic regression whereby the propensity for one result or another is linked to the factors that control it. Logistic regressions are a special case of generalized linear models. Look at ?glm Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:

[R] Time series influenced by half-time, intake and treatment...

2005-12-02 Thread Kåre Edvardsen
Hi! First of all: I'm a newbie to both statistics and R, so please be patient with me... I do however, like R because I've been programming (pascal, IDL, perl, C etc) and designing models since -92, but never related to statistics. Ok, here we go: I've got a set of 15 people, all of them

[R] Hosmer-Lemeshow gof test for survival data

2005-12-02 Thread giovanni parrinello
Dear All, I am looking for function's code to implement the Hosmer-Lemeshow gof test for survival data. Could anyone share it? TIA Gioavnni PS: I know that this test has low power, depends from dr. Giovanni Parrinello Section of Medical Statistics Department of Biotecnologies Viale

[R] multiple operations on indexed columns

2005-12-02 Thread Gregory Gentlemen
Hi guys, Im struggling with this: I have a dataset in which I have 9 measures and for each measure id like to compute the kendall tau correlation using cor.test with each of 20 covariates. Is there any systematic way to do this without writing a for loop? Thanks in advance,

[R] how to make a sub list from a long list using the component name?

2005-12-02 Thread szhan
Hello, R users, I have a long list with over 20,000 elements (say foo), now I want to make a sub list of 30 elements from this list using the component names such as subname-c( a, b, d, f, g, h, o, q,...). One way to do it is to make rest of elements in the list NULL, that is too silly. Is there

[R] Ancova and lme use

2005-12-02 Thread a . menicacci
Dear R-users, We expect to develop statistic procedures and environnement for the computational analysis of our experimental datas. To provide a proof of concept, we plan to implement a test for a given experiment. Its design split data into 10 groups (including a control one) with 2 mesures

Re: [R] how to make a sub list from a long list using the component name?

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, R users, I have a long list with over 20,000 elements (say foo), now I want to make a sub list of 30 elements from this list using the component names such as subname-c( a, b, d, f, g, h, o, q,...). One way to do it is to make rest of elements in the

Re: [R] How to solve allocation problem in lme() analysis?

2005-12-02 Thread hadley wickham
2. Have you tried lmer in library(lme4)? The syntax will be different, but it's a different algorithm and can handle problems that crash lme. This may or may not apply to you. For documentation on this, see Douglas Bates (2005) Fitting linear mixed models in R. R News,

Re: [R] what is best for scripting?

2005-12-02 Thread Michael H. Prager
Using R itself has the advantage that you won't need to learn a new language. You may even learn R better as a result. Using Python could also work well. I have found it worth learning, at least the basics. There a wider range of documentation (books) available for Python than for R, and

[R] Tidal Time Series Analysis in R

2005-12-02 Thread William H. Asquith
I am looking at using R to analyze time series data containing a tidal component. I need to remove the tidal signal to extract the time series of the phenomena I seek to study. A browse of R-project search engines has not been too fruitful? I've found 'hoa' and 'Rwave', but need further

[R] problems with R and snow on a debian box only

2005-12-02 Thread vittorio
(Posted also to debian-user) In my office network I have access to a debian powerpc server and 2 freebsd 6 servers (actually one of them is my notebook). Experienced user of the statistical software R, I have now a go at parallel computation via (r-)pvm and snow under R to enhance the performance

[R] M-estimator R function question

2005-12-02 Thread Rand Wilcox
In the robust library of S+, it is possible to compute Rocke's constrained M-estimator of scatter and location. Can't find anything within R that does the same thing. Can someone tell me whether any package exists for computing it? Thanks. Rand Wilcox Professor Dept of

[R] plot bg color in Mac OSX

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Rich
Hi, I am running R on my iBook (OS X 10.4) and whenever I try and plot a model that has been run, I get a grey background. This makes the plot difficult to read on bw printouts. I have tried changing the background to white (or any other color) without any success. Here's a current example

Re: [R] plot bg color in Mac OSX

2005-12-02 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 12/2/05, Peter Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running R on my iBook (OS X 10.4) and whenever I try and plot a model that has been run, I get a grey background. This makes the plot difficult to read on bw printouts. I have tried changing the background to white (or any other

[R] Character operations, strsplit()

2005-12-02 Thread Srinivas Iyyer
Dear group, could some one help me how i can split a string into pieces and access them. For example: test = this is a test typeof(test) [1] character strsplit(test,split='is') [[1]] [1] th a test Now I want to get test into : a vector and another object as list Also,

Re: [R] M-estimator R function question

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
Rand == Rand Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:42:48 -0800 (PST) writes: Rand In the robust library of S+, it is possible to compute Rand Rocke's constrained M-estimator of scatter and Rand location. Can't find anything within R that does the Rand same thing.

[R] NA as the output of ksmooth

2005-12-02 Thread Amir Safari
Dear R user, My input data, positive and negative, is complete without missing data. After running ksmooth( ) , I receive for $y , many NAs. What could be the reasons and how can I receive complete output? So many thanks for any help. Amir Safari

[R] Printing to file from C

2005-12-02 Thread Donatello Telesca
Hello, I am interfacing R and C code using the function .Call. Is there any way to print to file form C? I.e. is there something analogous to: fopen(file1, w); fprintf(file1, %f, ... ); fclose(file1); which would not cause an error in the excution? The Writing R Extension manual does not

Re: [R] what is best for scripting?

2005-12-02 Thread paul sorenson
As I get more familiar with R I tend to find the need for massaging data with other scripts decreasing. I still use python as a front end to some R tasks and it is a great language to have in your personal arsenal (as is R). The kind of decision making process for me goes something like: o

Re: [R] what is best for scripting?

2005-12-02 Thread José Matos
On 02/12/05, paul sorenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually dump data from Python to R in CSV format. I call R scripts from Python and about the only trick I use here is to read in an R script template and perform string variable expansion (interpolation in Perl) before sending it to an R

Re: [R] about comparison of KURTOSIS in package: moments and fBasics

2005-12-02 Thread P Ehlers
(Haven't seen an anwer to this yet; maybe I missed it.) klebyn wrote: Hello I do not know very much about statistics (and English language too :-( ), then I come in search of a clarification (explanation): I found two distinct results on KURTOSIS and I do not know which of them

[R] cloud() 3D scatter plot

2005-12-02 Thread Michelle DePrenger-Levin
Hello, I am creating a 3D scatter plot with the cloud function. I ask it to group my rows by a Treatment column (there are 4 different groups). I need to know which points in the plot correspond to which rows (which treatment). By default it assigns pchs and cols to each group. When I try to

Re: [R] [RsR] M-estimator R function question

2005-12-02 Thread Valentin Todorov
Dear Rand, unfortunately, right now none of the R packages can compute Rocke's constrained M-estimator of scatter and location. I have implemented this estimator as function covMTB in rrcov - see http://www.dst.unive.it/rsr/Todorov-treviso.pdf , slide 35 - but I have still some open problems to

Re: [R] cloud() 3D scatter plot

2005-12-02 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 12/2/05, Michelle DePrenger-Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am creating a 3D scatter plot with the cloud function. I ask it to group my rows by a Treatment column (there are 4 different groups). I need to know which points in the plot correspond to which rows (which treatment). By

[R] R-News 5/2, Bayesian Model Averaging, a detail

2005-12-02 Thread Adrian Raftery
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:26:42 +0200 From: [iso-8859-1] Pirjet? Antti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] R-News 5/2, Bayesian Model Averaging, a detail The article on BMA (Bayesian model averaging) presents most valuable tools for model selection, but I find one detail

Re: [R] Loop within nlme

2005-12-02 Thread Spencer Graves
I have not seen a reply to this, so I will offer a couple of feeble comments, hoping that you might find them useful even though they don't answer your question. It is difficult for me to understand your question, because my SAS experience is so limited. 1. R is open