Re: [R] Automating package building packages and repository uploading

2006-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: Dear Rusers, I have developed two packages for a client of mine. After new features are added or bugs corrected, I upload them to my own web repository. I create both source and binary versions. binary Linux packages, it seems. The latter

Re: [R] Sweave and multipage lattice

2006-07-20 Thread Friedrich Leisch
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:01:02 -0500, Sundar Dorai-Raj (SD) wrote: Dieter Menne wrote: Dear R-Listeners, as the Sweave faq says: http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/FAQ.html creating several figures from one figure chunk does not work, and for standard

[R] Permutation Distribution

2006-07-20 Thread Jacob van Wyk
Hallo Is there an elegant way to do the following: Dataset consists of 2 variables: var1: some measurements, and var2: a grouping variable with two values, 1 and 2. There are (say) 10 measurements from group 1 and 15 measurements from group 2. The idea is to study the permutation distribution

Re: [R] Permutation Distribution

2006-07-20 Thread Jacques VESLOT
data1 - expand.grid(var1=1:15, var2=1:2) test - replicate(1000, with(data.frame(var1=data1$var1, var2=sample(data1$var2)), diff(tapply(var1, var2, mean hist(test) --- Jacques VESLOT CNRS UMR 8090 I.B.L (2ème étage) 1

[R] hist or barplot

2006-07-20 Thread COMTE Guillaume
Hi all, I wish to draw 2 hist (or barplot) on the same graph. I can do it simply by using par(new=TRUE) , but it overlap with the first drawn, how to tell R to put in front of the graph the min value of the two graph in order for it to be seen and don't hide each other. I've been

[R] showMethods()! Re: How to find S4 generics?

2006-07-20 Thread Martin Maechler
SpG == Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:23:58 -0700 writes: SpG Hi, Thomas: Thanks very much. I haven't tried it yet, SpG but it looks very useful. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves Hmm, ?methods has been containing for a while methods Note: methods methods

Re: [R] hist or barplot

2006-07-20 Thread Jacques VESLOT
s1 - runif(10,0,10) s1 [1] 8.328396 2.840870 7.401377 9.998165 5.045539 9.568728 5.372493 5.232439 [9] 5.774790 4.224103 s2 - runif(10,0,10) s2 [1] 1.230750 3.855060 8.652698 7.846725 9.100171 7.309179 9.235562 1.581741 [9] 6.979521 1.918997 ss - cbind(s1,s2) smin -

[R] RE : how to use large data set ?

2006-07-20 Thread Yohan CHOUKROUN
Thank you for your answers. So, I have to derive variables, reclassify, binning, aggregate, or merge variables (data management). After that I have to do a logistic regression to do scoring. I have tried a MySQL database with RODBC but I did a mistake, I have 33 millions rows table and not 3

Re: [R] Fitting a distribution to peaks in histogram

2006-07-20 Thread Ulrik Stervbo
On 7/19/06, hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you be a bit more excact? I a biologist and relatively new to R In that case, I would _strongly_ advise that you get advice from a local statistician. I am afraid that, by comparison, I am the local statistican. I am also the local

[R] dotchart with log scale?

2006-07-20 Thread Johannes Hüsing
Dear all, I would like to draw a dot chart on a log scale. What is the syntax for this? A barchart may use log=x, but trying this with dotchart() leads to an error message. Greetings Johannes __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] plain shading (not residuals) in mosaic plot

2006-07-20 Thread Kie Zuraw
Thank you very much, Gabor Grothendieck and Muhammad Subianto. Both of these work perfectly. I think I was misunderstanding gp and gpar() before. Again, thank you both. -KZ Quoting Muhammad Subianto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe like this: mosaic(allmorph, direction = v, pop = FALSE,

[R] Function with an array (extracted from a matrix) as argument

2006-07-20 Thread Alessandro Antonucci
I wrote a function f whose argument is an array If I set x - c(5,1,2) and I run f(x) everything works fine. On the other hand, If I extract the same array from a matrix by: x - my.matrix[1,1:3] such that the first three elements of the first row of my.matrix are exactly 5 1 2, something

[R] Question about functions in R

2006-07-20 Thread Ivan Kalafatic
I tried to make the following function: function(x, y){ dates-intersect(x[,1],y[,1]) m-matrix(NA,length(dates),3) m[,1]-dates j-1 k-1 for(i in fdax[,1]){ if(is.element(i,dates)){ m[j,3]-as.numeric(fdax[k,2]) j-j+1 } k-k+1 } return(m) }

Re: [R] Automating package building packages and repository uploading

2006-07-20 Thread Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
Dear Rusers, Well, then it seems that the problem is that I am building linux binary packages. Since I do not have any compiled code within --just R code--, their contents should --and, in fact, are-- directly installable on Windows platforms (which is what I intend to do). If I understand

Re: [R] Function with an array (extracted from a matrix) as argument

2006-07-20 Thread Alessandro Antonucci
Sorry to disturb again the list subscribers, but I fixed my problem, by simply using the c operator: x - c(my.matrix[1,1:3]) Alessandro * Alessandro Antonucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] [200706, 12:12]: I wrote a function f whose argument is an array If I set x - c(5,1,2) and I run f(x)

Re: [R] Question about functions in R

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Ivan Kalafatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to make the following function: function(x, y){ dates-intersect(x[,1],y[,1]) m-matrix(NA,length(dates),3) m[,1]-dates j-1 k-1 for(i in fdax[,1]){ if(is.element(i,dates)){ m[j,3]-as.numeric(fdax[k,2])

Re: [R] Fitting a distribution to peaks in histogram

2006-07-20 Thread hadley wickham
I am afraid that, by comparison, I am the local statistican. I am also the local R-guru, and neither is saying much - so please bear with me. Do you know of some functions (built in hopefully) that I can try? I'm a bit leery of offering advice without really sitting down and discussing your

Re: [R] Automating package building packages and repository uploading

2006-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: Dear Rusers, Well, then it seems that the problem is that I am building linux binary packages. Since I do not have any compiled code within --just R code--, their contents should --and, in fact, are-- directly installable on Windows

Re: [R] Question about functions in R

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Lemon
Ivan Kalafatic wrote: I tried to make the following function: function(x, y){ dates-intersect(x[,1],y[,1]) m-matrix(NA,length(dates),3) m[,1]-dates j-1 k-1 for(i in fdax[,1]){ if(is.element(i,dates)){ m[j,3]-as.numeric(fdax[k,2]) j-j+1

[R] Timing benefits of mapply() vs. for loop was: Wrap a loop inside a function

2006-07-20 Thread Doran, Harold
List: Thank you for the replies to my post yesterday. Gabor and Phil also gave useful replies on how to improve the function by relying on mapply rather than the explicit for loop. In general, I try and use the family of apply functions rather than the looping constructs such as for, while etc as

Re: [R] dotchart with log scale?

2006-07-20 Thread hadley wickham
I would like to draw a dot chart on a log scale. What is the syntax for this? A barchart may use log=x, but trying this with dotchart() leads to an error message. You can do this easily with ggplot: install.packages(ggplot) library(ggplot) qplot(mpg, factor(cyl), data=mtcars, log=x)

Re: [R] how can I delete rows?

2006-07-20 Thread Daniele Medri
Il giorno mar, 18/07/2006 alle 12.25 -0300, raul sanchez ha scritto: how can I select the countries of Lat. Am. thank you hint: add to the data.frame a column with the continental ID so this could be usefull for other needs. hint: ?subset -- Daniele Medri

Re: [R] Timing benefits of mapply() vs. for loop was: Wrap a loop inside a function

2006-07-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Note that if you use mapply in the way I suggested, which is not the same as in your post, then its just as fast. (Also the version of mapply in your post gives different numerical results than the for loop whereas mine gives the same.) like.mat is the for loop version, like.mat2 is your mapply

Re: [R] how to use large data set ?

2006-07-20 Thread bogdan romocea
By far, the cheapest and easiest solution (and the very first to try) is to add more memory. The cost depends on what kind you need, but here's for example 2 GB you can buy for only $150: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144157 Project constraints?! If they don't want to

Re: [R] Permutation Distribution

2006-07-20 Thread Torsten Hothorn
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jacob van Wyk wrote: Hallo Is there an elegant way to do the following: Dataset consists of 2 variables: var1: some measurements, and var2: a grouping variable with two values, 1 and 2. There are (say) 10 measurements from group 1 and 15 measurements from group 2.

Re: [R] Timing benefits of mapply() vs. for loop was: Wrap a loop inside a function

2006-07-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Note that if you use mapply in the way I suggested, which is not the same as in your post, then its just as fast. (Also the version of mapply in your post gives different numerical results than the for loop whereas mine gives the same.) like.mat is the for loop

[R] Can make no plots !!!

2006-07-20 Thread Bernat Claramunt i Lopez
Dear all I have Kubuntu linux and have updated to the latest version (6.06 dapper). I do not know why but now I can not make no plots. For instance, when I type hist(...) this is the message I get: can't find X11 font Error in X11 (display, width, heigth..) unable to start devide X11

Re: [R] Timing benefits of mapply() vs. for loop was: Wrap a loop inside a function

2006-07-20 Thread Doran, Harold
Yes, that significantly improves the speed so that the for loop and the mapply function both return the same CPU time. Also, thank you for your diagnosis of the likelihood matrix. Harold -Original Message- From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20,

Re: [R] plain shading (not residuals) in mosaic plot

2006-07-20 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Kie Zuraw wrote: Thank you very much, Gabor Grothendieck and Muhammad Subianto. Both of these work perfectly. I think I was misunderstanding gp and gpar() before. Again, thank you both. Two further additions to this: Maybe like this: mosaic(allmorph, direction = v,

[R] (robust) mixed-effects model with covariate

2006-07-20 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear all, I am unsure about how to specify a model in R and I thought of asking some advice to the list. I have two groups (Group= A, B) of subjects, with each subject undertaking a test before and after a certain treatment (Time= pre, post). Additionally, I want to enter the age of the

[R] Correspondence analysis with R

2006-07-20 Thread Emanuele Mazzola
Hello everybody, i'm having some trouble performing correspondence analysis with R for Mac OS X. Does anyone know about some useful package? And also, if i had found coordinates of points representing row and column profiles, how do i put them in a single figure with labels identifying each

Re: [R] showMethods()! Re: How to find S4 generics?

2006-07-20 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Martin: I looked for 'showMethods' before I posted this question. I see two possible reasons others might not have mentioned it previously -- and why my post didn't mention it: HARD TO FIND Now that you have mentioned it, I recall having stumbled across it and used

[R] Help on making code faster-would C help ?

2006-07-20 Thread Benn Fine
Using R on windows I have the following code for(i in 1:1) { draw some random weights perfom a weighted least squares regression some simple addition and multiplication } The code works fine but is slow. I have mingw installed and can dyn.load, although I am more used to doing

Re: [R] Help on making code faster-would C help ?

2006-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Without details it is hard to say, but if you do the WLS via lm.wfit, probably not. If you are using lm() and taking the overhead 1 times, that is the first thing to avoid. As an example of this sort of thing, look at the C code for lqs{MASS} which does thousands of regressions quite

Re: [R] showMethods()! Re: How to find S4 generics?

2006-07-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Notice that in Martin's example he used showMethods(class = lmer, where = package:Matrix) The result is still not optimal but it is slightly more useful than trying the default location. The approach that Thomas contributed earlier in this discussion is probably the better route. On 7/20/06,

Re: [R] Correspondence analysis with R

2006-07-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/20/2006 10:38 AM, Emanuele Mazzola wrote: Hello everybody, i'm having some trouble performing correspondence analysis with R for Mac OS X. Does anyone know about some useful package? And also, if i had found coordinates of points representing row and column profiles, how do i put

Re: [R] showMethods()! Re: How to find S4 generics?

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Douglas Bates wrote: Notice that in Martin's example he used showMethods(class = lmer, where = package:Matrix) The result is still not optimal but it is slightly more useful than trying the default location. The approach that Thomas contributed earlier in this

Re: [R] Correspondence analysis with R

2006-07-20 Thread bady
Hi, Hi all, i'm having some trouble performing correspondence analysis with R for Mac OS X. Does anyone know about some useful package? And also, if i had found coordinates of points representing row and column profiles, how do i put them in a single figure with labels identifying each one

[R] how to print table with more columns per row?

2006-07-20 Thread ryszard . czerminski
When printing a table it is broken at some point (depending how long are the associated names) see example below. Is there a way to control number of columns being printed for a given chunk of the table? Best regards, Ryszard z5 AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF

Re: [R] how to print table with more columns per row?

2006-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is controlled by options(width): characters not columns. On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When printing a table it is broken at some point (depending how long are the associated names) see example below. Is there a way to control number of columns being printed for a

Re: [R] Weibull distribution

2006-07-20 Thread Leaf Sun
Hi William, Thanks a lot for your response. I checked the package and found that what I want to solve was the opposite, that is, from mean and sd to parameters shape and scale. Could anyone give some hints please? Any suggestion would be appreciated! Leaf - Original Message -

[R] throwaway() function

2006-07-20 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Dear all, I apologize if this is a FAQ (seems a bit like one, but I didn't find anything). I'm looking for an easy way to cut one value out of a vector and shorten the vector accordingly. Something like: x - c(1, 1, 0, 6, 2) throwaway(x[3]) which will return x = 1 1 6 2, with length(x) = 4. I

Re: [R] how to print table with more columns per row?

2006-07-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In some cases it may be sufficient to abbreviate the colnames: library(MASS); data(survey) head(survey) Sex Wr.Hnd NW.Hnd W.HndFold PulseClap Exer Smoke Height M.I 1 Female 18.5 18.0 Right R on L92Left Some Never 173.00 Metric 2 Male 19.5 20.5 Left R on

Re: [R] throwaway() function

2006-07-20 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
John Wiedenhoeft wrote: Dear all, I apologize if this is a FAQ (seems a bit like one, but I didn't find anything). I'm looking for an easy way to cut one value out of a vector and shorten the vector accordingly. Something like: x - c(1, 1, 0, 6, 2) throwaway(x[3]) which will return

Re: [R] throwaway() function

2006-07-20 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
John Wiedenhoeft wrote: Dear all, I apologize if this is a FAQ (seems a bit like one, but I didn't find anything). I'm looking for an easy way to cut one value out of a vector and shorten the vector accordingly. Something like: x - c(1, 1, 0, 6, 2) throwaway(x[3]) which will return

[R] Correspondence analysis with R -follow up

2006-07-20 Thread Emanuele Mazzola
Hi all, thank you for your answers; i've tried both cca from vegan library, and dudi.coa from ade4 library; one last question: my deal is mainly with contingency tables, like the one i'm posting here acciaieria-c(.41,.02,.44,.04,.09) laminatoio-c(.34,.28,.26,.01,.11)

Re: [R] Fitting a distribution to peaks in histogram

2006-07-20 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Ulrik Stervbo wrote: [much deleted] I am measureing the amount of DNA in cells, and I need to know the percentage of cells in a part of the cell cycle; that the percentage of cells in the first peak, in the second peak and so on. I want to integrate the area between to

Re: [R] Question about functions in R

2006-07-20 Thread Valentin Dimitrov
Try to insert a space before the last bracket! R sometimes does not accept a curly bracket as a first character on a line of a script. Regards, Valentin --- Ivan Kalafatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to make the following function: function(x, y){ dates-intersect(x[,1],y[,1])

Re: [R] Package for autocorrelation analysis?

2006-07-20 Thread Spencer Graves
I just got 145 hits for RSiteSearch(ecology, functions) and 28 for RSiteSearch(Moran's I, functions). Might any of these help you? Spencer Graves Ivan Rubio Perez wrote: Hi! Dear All, I want to implement an autocorrelation analysis and estimated the Moran's I in a set of

Re: [R] 'nlme' crashes R (was: Using corStruct in nlme)

2006-07-20 Thread Spencer Graves
Thanks for providing such a self-contained example by which 'nlme' crashes R. Could you please also give us 'sessionInfo()'? I don't have time to test it myself now, but perhaps if you identify your platform, you might interest someone else in checking it. I'm sorry I

Re: [R] Permutation Distribution

2006-07-20 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jacob van Wyk wrote: Hallo Is there an elegant way to do the following: Dataset consists of 2 variables: var1: some measurements, and var2: a grouping variable with two values, 1 and 2. There are (say) 10 measurements from group 1 and 15 measurements from group 2.

Re: [R] throwaway() function

2006-07-20 Thread John Wiedenhoeft
Easier than I thought. Thanks a lot! Am Donnerstag, den 20.07.2006, 17:25 +0100 schrieben zig Leute ;-): x[-3] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] 'nlme' crashes R (was: Using corStruct in nlme)

2006-07-20 Thread grieve
Thanks Spencer. Here is my sessionInfo(): Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) i386-pc-mingw32 attached base packages: [1] methods stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [7] base other attached packages: nlme 3.1-75 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Spencer Graves wrote: Thanks

[R] Convergence warnings from zeroinfl (package pscl)

2006-07-20 Thread Daniel E. Bunker
Dear R-Helpers, Can anyone please help me to interpret warning messages from zeroinfl (package pscl) while fitting a zero inflated negative binomial model? The console reports convergence and the parameters seam reasonable, but these Warning messages: 1: algorithm did not converge in:

Re: [R] Can make no plots !!!

2006-07-20 Thread Phil Spector
Bernat - Just a guess, but maybe you need to install the packages xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi - Phil On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Bernat Claramunt i Lopez wrote: Dear all I have Kubuntu linux and have updated to the

[R] function names in a vector used by for (){} character problem ?

2006-07-20 Thread bunny , lautloscrew.com
Hi there, i´m have vector of kernels. just like: kernels = c('gauss','epan','rectangular') i know there are density.default$kernels, but thats not my question here. my own kernel functions are running and working. my problem is the following is not working: dev.off() par(mfrow=c(3,3))

[R] How do I modify an exported function in a locked environment?

2006-07-20 Thread Steven McKinney
Running R.app on Mac OS X 10.4 version _ platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0 arch powerpc os darwin8.6.0 system powerpc, darwin8.6.0 status

Re: [R] Using corStruct in nlme

2006-07-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/18/2006 2:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble fitting correlation structures within nlme. I would like to fit corCAR1, corGaus and corExp correlation structures to my data. I either get the error step halving reduced below minimum in pnls step or alternatively R

Re: [R] How do I modify an exported function in a locked environment?

2006-07-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/20/2006 3:49 PM, Steven McKinney wrote: Running R.app on Mac OS X 10.4 version _ platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0 arch powerpc os darwin8.6.0 system powerpc, darwin8.6.0

Re: [R] function names in a vector used by for (){} character problem ?

2006-07-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/20/2006 3:42 PM, bunny , lautloscrew.com wrote: Hi there, i´m have vector of kernels. just like: kernels = c('gauss','epan','rectangular') i know there are density.default$kernels, but thats not my question here. my own kernel functions are running and working. my problem is the

Re: [R] function names in a vector used by for (){} character problem ?

2006-07-20 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/20/06, bunny , lautloscrew.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, i´m have vector of kernels. just like: kernels = c('gauss','epan','rectangular') i know there are density.default$kernels, but thats not my question here. my own kernel functions are running and working. my problem is

[R] (no subject)

2006-07-20 Thread Leaf Sun
@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: [R] Weibull distribution Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-mailer: Foxmail 6, 3, 103, 21 [cn] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==003_Dragon527446281311_= This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

[R] Job Openings: Nonclinical statistics Positions at Genentech, South San Francisco, CA

2006-07-20 Thread Berton Gunter
To all: Genentech has immediate openings for two MS/PhD statisticians in its preclinical/nonclinical statistics group in South San Francisco, CA. As the name indicates, this group provides statistical services to all of Genentech's RD, manufacturing, and marketing activities **except** clinical

[R] Loss of numerical precision from conversion to list ?

2006-07-20 Thread Fabian Scheipl
I´m working on an R-implementation of the simulation-based finite-sample null-distribution of (R)LR-Test in Mixed Models (i.e. testing for Var(RandomEffect)=0) derived by C. M. Crainiceanu and D. Ruppert. I'm in the beginning stages of this project and while comparing quick and dirty

Re: [R] Using corStruct in nlme

2006-07-20 Thread grieve
Duncan, i could not find one seed which caused both corGaus and corExp to crash in R-patched. but, i found a seed that caused each to fail individually. Thanks for your help. # For corExp: set.seed(26) for(i in 1:length(CO2$conc)){ CO2$conc[i]-(CO2$conc[i]+rnorm(1)) } fm1CO2.lis -

Re: [R] [Rd] How do I modify an exported function in a locked environment?

2006-07-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
As others have mentioned its not really a good idea to modify the namespace of a package and writing a wrapper as Duncan suggested is much preferable. An intermediate approach that is not as good as the wrapper but better than modifying the namespace is to copy the objects of interest to your

Re: [R] Loss of numerical precision from conversion to list ?

2006-07-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
R tries to use the maximum precision (64 bit mantissa) in the floating point registers when it can. When it stores results to memory, they are stored in double precision (53 bit mantissa). There's unlikely to be anything specific about conversion to a list that lost the precision, but I'm

Re: [R] Using corStruct in nlme

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan, i could not find one seed which caused both corGaus and corExp to crash in R-patched. but, i found a seed that caused each to fail individually. Thanks for your help. Running these under Valgrind they both show the same problem

Re: [R] Using corStruct in nlme

2006-07-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/20/2006 7:16 PM, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan, i could not find one seed which caused both corGaus and corExp to crash in R-patched. but, i found a seed that caused each to fail individually. Thanks for your help. Running these under

[R] Order-restricted inference

2006-07-20 Thread Bruno L. Giordano
Hello, I looked for R packages which focused on order-restricted statistical inference, but I could find only the isoreg() function. I would need to test whether the means in my (repeated measures) data follow a given order, e.g. AB=CD. I took a look at the monograph by Barlow et al. (1972) on

[R] Q. regarding optim()

2006-07-20 Thread N. Goodacre
Dear R mailing group, The second parameter for the function optim()is a function whose parameters are to be optimized. The description of this function given in the help file is the following: fn: A function to be minimized (or maximized), with first argument the vector of

[R] Parameterization puzzle

2006-07-20 Thread Murray Jorgensen
Consider the following example (based on an example in Pat Altham's GLM notes) pyears - scan() 18793 52407 10673 43248 5710 28612 2585 12663 1462 5317 deaths - scan() 2 32 12 104 28 206 28 186 31 102 Smoke - gl(2,1,10,labels=c(No,Yes)) Age - gl(5,2,10,labels=c(35-44,45-54,55-64,65-74,75-84),