[R] GAM Package: preplot.gam taking a **long** time

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Check
Hi: I have a large data set that I'm testing and I'm finding that preplot.gam is taking a very long amount of time to compute (like, more than 20 minutes). My machine is 32-bit, Debian unstable, 4GB memory, dual Xeon 3GHz. While the data set is very large, the gam() procedure is able to

[R] [R-pkgs] Random Survival Forest 1.0.0 is now available.

2006-08-14 Thread K. B. Udaya
Dear useRs, Release 1.0.0 of the new R package 'randomSurvivalForest' is now available on CRAN and its mirrors. The package implements Ishwaran and Kogalur's Random Survival Forests algorithm for right censored survival data. The algorithm is closely patterned after Breiman's random forests,

Re: [R] Gower Similarity Coefficient

2006-08-14 Thread Chuck Cleland
Timothy Rye wrote: I'm interested in clustering my data using the Gower Similarity Coefficient, and I was wondering if R is capable of using that metric Timothy Rye RSiteSearch(Gower) points to a number of relevant messages in the archives. It also reveals gdist() in the mvpart package,

Re: [R] split a y-axis to show data on different scales

2006-08-14 Thread Jim Lemon
Rashmi Mathur wrote: Hello, How do I split a y-axis to plot data on different scales? Eg: x - 1:10 y - c(-0.01,0.79,0.74,0.55,-0.67,0.32,-0.47,-0.05,723,759) plot(x,y) I'd like to show these data on the same plot, but the way it's written, all contrast in the first 8 data points is

[R] posting

2006-08-14 Thread adlai burman
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[R] naive help with setting node attributes

2006-08-14 Thread adlai burman
I have been trying for a LONG time to figure out how to do what I imagine is a fairly simple graph rendering issue. Can anyone help me figure out how to take two LARGE graphs G1 and G2 (not random) and set their node/edge attributes separately and uniquely such that when they are joined, G1

Re: [R] naive help with setting node attributes

2006-08-14 Thread Gabor Csardi
AJ, hmmm, which package are you using? This might help answering the question, which is quite hard to decypher in this form. At least for me. Gabor On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:25:17AM -0800, adlai burman wrote: I have been trying for a LONG time to figure out how to do what I imagine is a

[R] column to row

2006-08-14 Thread yohannes alazar
Dear mailing list I have a data in two columns and how can i convert it to one row . thank you in advance inpute 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 out put 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] column to row

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/14/06, yohannes alazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a data in two columns and how can i convert it to one row . thank you in advance inpute 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 out put 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 An example follows: input - matrix(1:10,5,2) input [,1] [,2] [1,]16

[R] Calculating trace of products

2006-08-14 Thread Søren Højsgaard
Dear all, I need to calculate tr(A B), tr(A B A B) and similar quantities **fast** where the matrices A, B are symmetrical. I've searched for built-in functions for that purpose, but without luck. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance Søren [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] column to row

2006-08-14 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
probably something like: mat - matrix(c(1:9, 1), 5, byrow = TRUE) c(t(mat)) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899

Re: [R] column to row

2006-08-14 Thread Neuro LeSuperHéros
input - matrix(1:10,5,2) input [,1] [,2] [1,]16 [2,]27 [3,]38 [4,]49 [5,]5 10 as.vector(input) [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Neuro From: yohannes alazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: r-help r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] column to row Date: Mon, 14

Re: [R] Calculating trace of products

2006-08-14 Thread roger koenker
I would suspect that something simple like sum(diag(crossprod(A,B))) would be quite competitive... url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~rogerRoger Koenker email[EMAIL PROTECTED]Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558University of Illinois fax:

Re: [R] Calculating trace of products

2006-08-14 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
check the following: A - matrix(rnorm(100*100), 100, 100); A - A + t(A) B - matrix(rnorm(100*100), 100, 100); B - B + t(B) sum(diag(A %*% B)) sum(A * B) system.time(for(i in 1:1) out - sum(diag(A %*% B))) system.time(for(i in 1:1) out - sum(A * B)) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris

Re: [R] Gower Similarity Coefficient

2006-08-14 Thread Martin Maechler
Chuck == Chuck Cleland [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:53:55 -0400 writes: Chuck Timothy Rye wrote: I'm interested in clustering my data using the Gower Similarity Coefficient, and I was wondering if R is capable of using that metric Timothy Rye

Re: [R] Gower Similarity Coefficient

2006-08-14 Thread Martin Maechler
Martin == Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:30:39 +0200 writes: Chuck == Chuck Cleland [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:53:55 -0400 writes: Chuck Timothy Rye wrote: I'm interested in clustering my data using the Gower Similarity

[R] mtext uses the typographical descender to align text

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Svensson
Hello One sometimes (quite often really ) marvel at the choice of defaults in R's graphic engine. For some obscure reason, mtext uses the typographical descender (bottom of letters) to align text. That is: gG will end up slightly higher that GG. Depending on the font, Q might end up higher

[R] Lattice barchart with different fill pattern

2006-08-14 Thread Rafael Duarte
Dear list, I am new to lattice plots. I want to make a barchart with 10 and more levels. I need to use a grey scale for printing purposes. The problem is that with 10 or more levels in factors it is very difficult to distinguish each level in the plot and legend, since the greys are very

Re: [R] lasso for variable selection

2006-08-14 Thread Liaw, Andy
For importance it's probably best to stick with absolute values of coefficients, instead of value of the penalty parameter for which the coefficients changed to non-zero. Friedman skipped a lot of details on his rule ensemble in that talk, due to time constraint. In his implementation he was

Re: [R] Auto-save possible in R?

2006-08-14 Thread Liaw, Andy
You could try something like: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/0334.html replacing the time-stamp with save.image() or save(). Not sure how it works in BATCH though... HTH, Andy From: John Morrow Hello fellow R'ers, I have a simple calculation with a very large data set

Re: [R] rpvm/snow packages on a cluster with dual-processor machi nes

2006-08-14 Thread Liaw, Andy
That's what I've tried before, on three dual-Xeon boxes, so I know it worked (as documented a that time). Andy From: Paul Y. Peng Luke Tierney just reminded me that makeCluster() can take a number greater than the number of machines in a cluster. It seems to be a solution to this

[R] left-justified fixed-width format

2006-08-14 Thread roger bos
I need to save data in fixed-width format without headers and reading the help archive leads me to believe that sprintf is pretty much the only way to do this. My question is, is there anyway to change the output so the text in each column is left justified instead of right justified? My code

[R] lme() F-values disagree with aov()

2006-08-14 Thread William Simpson
I have used lme() on data from a between-within subjects experiment. The correct ANOVA table is known because this is a textbook example (Experimental Design by Roger Kirk Chapter 12: Split-Plot Factorial Design). The lme() F-values differ from the known results. Please help me understand why.

Re: [R] mtext uses the typographical descender to align text

2006-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Andreas Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello One sometimes (quite often really ) marvel at the choice of defaults in R's graphic engine. For some obscure reason, mtext uses the typographical descender (bottom of letters) to align text. That is: gG will end up slightly higher

Re: [R] Lattice barchart with different fill pattern

2006-08-14 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 8/14/06, Rafael Duarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, I am new to lattice plots. I want to make a barchart with 10 and more levels. I need to use a grey scale for printing purposes. The problem is that with 10 or more levels in factors it is very difficult to distinguish each level

Re: [R] left-justified fixed-width format

2006-08-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, roger bos wrote: I need to save data in fixed-width format without headers and reading the help archive leads me to believe that sprintf is pretty much the only way to do this. My question is, is there anyway to change the output so the text in each column is left

Re: [R] lme() F-values disagree with aov()

2006-08-14 Thread i.m.s.white
Your lme statement is OK. To get the usual split-plot anova, your aov statement should be fit2 - aov(y ~ a*b*c + Error(s), data = d) This gives the same F-values as lme. On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:27:19AM -0400, William Simpson wrote: I have used lme() on data from a between-within subjects

Re: [R] lme() F-values disagree with aov()

2006-08-14 Thread William Simpson
Your lme statement is OK. To get the usual split-plot anova, your aov statement should be fit2 - aov(y ~ a*b*c + Error(s), data = d) No, this gives wrong F-values. By wrong I mean it does not agree with the published table. Table 12.10-2, page 559: Number of obs =

Re: [R] How to order or sort a data.frame

2006-08-14 Thread John Kane
--- Dimitrios Rizopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try the following: mdf - data.frame(us.state, count, year, month) mdf[order(mdf$year, mdf$month), ] Thansk to Dimitris and Dieter. This has helped since seems to have shown me a way around the problem. It just means that I have to sort

[R] help with glmmPQL

2006-08-14 Thread Matthew A. Krutky
Hello Folks- Is there a way to create confidence bands with 'glmmPQL' ??? I am trying to decide a way to best plot the model which we created with the glmmPQL function in R. I would like to plot my actual averaged data points within 95 % confidence intervals from the model. Plotting the

[R] solving non-linear system of equations

2006-08-14 Thread HAKAN DEMIRTAS
Didn't get any useful response to the following question. Trying again. I can't seem to get computationally stable estimates for the following system: Y=a+bX+cX^2+dX^3, where X~N(0,1). (Y is expressed as a linear

Re: [R] lme() F-values disagree with aov()

2006-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
William Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your lme statement is OK. To get the usual split-plot anova, your aov statement should be fit2 - aov(y ~ a*b*c + Error(s), data = d) No, this gives wrong F-values. By wrong I mean it does not agree with the published table. Well, it's the

Re: [R] lme() F-values disagree with aov()

2006-08-14 Thread William Simpson
Thanks very much Peter! Your lme statement is OK. To get the usual split-plot anova, your aov statement should be fit2 - aov(y ~ a*b*c + Error(s), data = d) No, this gives wrong F-values. By wrong I mean it does not agree with the published table. Well, it's the model that is

Re: [R] mtext uses the typographical descender to align text

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Svensson
Hi The reason I use expression is to get italics. Perhaps this is possible some other way? /A Peter Dalgaard wrote: Andreas Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello One sometimes (quite often really ) marvel at the choice of defaults in R's graphic engine. For some obscure reason,

[R] Question on .Options$max.print

2006-08-14 Thread Hans-Joerg Bibiko
Hi, I have a tiny question concerning .Options$max.print I have to set up this value to a greater value than 1 because I want to concatenate my output of a function to one single string (for connivence). I did this via .Options$max.print - 64000 or options(max.print=64000) Then I

Re: [R] mtext uses the typographical descender to align text

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
Andreas Svensson wrote: Hi The reason I use expression is to get italics. Perhaps this is possible some other way? 1. Yes, see ?mtext: plot(1:10) mtext(Hello World, 3, font=3) 2. expression() has to use bounding boxes for several reasons, in particular fractions spring to mind at

Re: [R] split a y-axis to show data on different scales

2006-08-14 Thread Spencer Graves
The pro's and con's of using scale breaks were discussed by Cleveland (1985) The Elements of Graphing Data (Wadsworth, pp. 85-91, 149). I don't know what Cleveland said about this is the second edition of this book, but I believe there are times when scale breaks are appropriate,

Re: [R] Question on .Options$max.print

2006-08-14 Thread Martin Maechler
HansJB == Hans-Joerg Bibiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:56:30 +0200 writes: HansJB Hi, I have a tiny question concerning HansJB .Options$max.print HansJB I have to set up this value to a greater value than HansJB 1 because I want to concatenate my output

[R] Attempt to access unmapped memory

2006-08-14 Thread Alexandre Aguiar
Hi, I am usiing R 2.3.1 under Linux kernel 2.6.11 with libreadline/libhistory 5.1. Bothe R and readline were compiled without quircks with gcc 3.3.3 and g77. Every time I try to edit command line by using del key the following error happens: 8-- ipacks -

Re: [R] How to reply to a thread if receiving R-help mails in digest form

2006-08-14 Thread Michael Dewey
At 14:21 13/08/2006, Dirk Enzmann wrote: I receive R-help messages in digest form that makes it difficult to answer a post. I noticed that my answer is not added to the thread (instead, a new thread is started) although I use the same subject line (starting with Re: ) as the original post. Is

Re: [R] Vector Join

2006-08-14 Thread Michael Dewey
At 13:23 13/08/2006, Michael Zatorsky wrote: Hi, I'm working on producing a simple cumulative frequency distribution. Thanks to the help of the good people on this list I now have four vectors that I'd like to join/relate into a table. e.g. v1 - myHistogram$breaks # classes v2 -

Re: [R] solving non-linear system of equations

2006-08-14 Thread Spencer Graves
Are you saying you did not receive my reply stamped 8/10/2006 2:12 AM in my Sent folder, or that my reply was not useful? In case the former is correct, my comments were as follows: Have you tried writing a function to compute SS = sum of squares deviations between the the left and

[R] missing data treatment in MCMC pack

2006-08-14 Thread Mariagiulia Matteucci
Hello, does anyone know something about missing data in the MCMC pack? thank you, Mariagiulia Mariagiulia Matteucci Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “Paolo Fortunati” Università di Bologna Via Belle Arti, 41 40126 Bologna (ITALY) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL: +39 051 264182 FAX: +39 051

[R] Making R script to run in a console

2006-08-14 Thread Ronaldo Reis-Jr.
Hi, is possible to make a R script to run under a console without open the R environment? Something like this example.R #!/usr/bin/R function(name=Put here your name) { print(name) } In a console I make ./example.R name=Ronaldo Reis Júnior then program print my name. It is possible? Thanks

Re: [R] solving non-linear system of equations

2006-08-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p.s. I don't see how it's obvious that 'a=-c'. Y=a+bX+cX^2+dX^3, where X~N(0,1). (Y is expressed as a linear combination of the first three powers of a standard normal variable.) Assuming that E(Y)=0 and Var(Y)=1, one can obtain the following

Re: [R] How to order or sort a data.frame

2006-08-14 Thread Dimitrios Rizopoulos
Quoting John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Dimitrios Rizopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try the following: mdf - data.frame(us.state, count, year, month) mdf[order(mdf$year, mdf$month), ] Thansk to Dimitris and Dieter. This has helped since seems to have shown me a way around the

[R] ARMA(1,1) for panel data

2006-08-14 Thread Tom Boonen
Dear List, I am new to TS-Modeling in R. I would like to fit an ARMA(1,1) model for a balanced panel, running Y on a full set of unit and year dummies using an arma(1,1) for the disturbance: y_it=unit.dummies+yeardummies+e_it where: e_it=d*e_it-1+u_it+q*u_it-1 How can I fit this model in R?

[R] CircStats help

2006-08-14 Thread Isabelle Deguise
Hello, I am quite new to R and although I have read some material (apparently not enough) I'm getting very frustrated. I'm trying to do some simple circular statistics in R (CircStats, primarily circ.mean) and I'm confused about the results. What is a negative radian or degree

Re: [R] CircStats help

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Bolker
Isabelle Deguise ideguise at interchange.ubc.ca writes: Hello, x - c(5.009684,37.814266, 295.722970, 0.00, 326.463366,242.678840) radx - rad(x) circ.mean(radx) [1] -0.4283351 deg(-0.4283351) [1] -24.54179 I would just like this number to be converted to the

Re: [R] Attempt to access unmapped memory

2006-08-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Alexandre Aguiar wrote: Hi, I am usiing R 2.3.1 under Linux kernel 2.6.11 with libreadline/libhistory 5.1. That is known to be buggy. Either patch it or downdate to 5.0. Bothe R and readline were compiled without quircks with gcc 3.3.3 and g77. Every time I try

[R] Fast way to load multiple files

2006-08-14 Thread Peter Eiger
Hi, Instead of having to program a loop to load several workspaces in a directory, it would be nice to store the filenames in a list filelist and then to apply load to this list lapply( filelist, load) Unfortunately, although it seems that R is loading the files, the contained objects are not

Re: [R] How to order or sort a data.frame

2006-08-14 Thread John Kane
--- Dimitrios Rizopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Dimitrios Rizopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try the following: mdf - data.frame(us.state, count, year, month) mdf[order(mdf$year, mdf$month), ] Thansk to Dimitris and Dieter.

Re: [R] Fast way to load multiple files

2006-08-14 Thread Berton Gunter
A reproducible example here would help (please see posting guide). A guess: is your filelist a list of (quoted) character strings? Correct pathnames to the files with correct separators for your OS? -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA The business of the

Re: [R] Making R script to run in a console

2006-08-14 Thread Marc Schwartz (via MN)
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:12 -0300, Ronaldo Reis-Jr. wrote: Hi, is possible to make a R script to run under a console without open the R environment? Something like this example.R #!/usr/bin/R function(name=Put here your name) { print(name) } In a console I make ./example.R

Re: [R] Fast way to load multiple files

2006-08-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Berton Gunter wrote: A reproducible example here would help (please see posting guide). A guess: is your filelist a list of (quoted) character strings? Correct pathnames to the files with correct separators for your OS? I think the issue is (from the help page) Usage:

Re: [R] Making R script to run in a console

2006-08-14 Thread Romain Francois
Le 14.08.2006 19:12, Ronaldo Reis-Jr. a écrit : Hi, is possible to make a R script to run under a console without open the R environment? Something like this example.R #!/usr/bin/R function(name=Put here your name) { print(name) } In a console I make ./example.R name=Ronaldo Reis

Re: [R] Call for Beta Testers: R+ (read R plus) for Solaris and Linux:

2006-08-14 Thread Bernardo Rangel tura
At 12:21 PM 8/8/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We look forward to hearing your comments and inputs on R+ ... please feel free to suggest a final name for our commercially supported R. I don´t understanding this mail. Is possible exist a commercial version of R? If R source is licensed for GPL

Re: [R] Making R script to run in a console

2006-08-14 Thread Alexandre Aguiar
Em Seg 14 Ago 2006 17:58, Marc Schwartz (via MN) escreveu: http://kavaro.fi/mediawiki/index.php/Using_R_from_the_shell I made a small change to the wrapper example by implementing dynamic allocation of memory and sizing the command line buffer to 32768 that is the real maximum size (at least

[R] Help with workaround for: Function '`[`' is not in the derivatives table

2006-08-14 Thread Earl F. Glynn
# This works fine: a - 1 b - 2 c - 3 E - expression(a * exp(b*X) + c) X - c(0.5, 1.0, 2.0) eval(E) [1] 5.718282 10.389056 57.598150 D(E, b) a * (exp(b * X) * X) eval(D(E, b)) [1] 1.359141 7.389056 109.196300 # But if (a,b,c) are replaced with (A[1], A[2], A[3]),

[R] Alexandre MENICACCI/Daix/RED/GroupeFournier est absent(e).

2006-08-14 Thread a . menicacci
Je serai absent(e) du 14/08/2006 au 21/08/2006. Je répondrai à votre message dès mon retour. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] Call for Beta Testers: R+ (read R plus) for Solaris and L inux:

2006-08-14 Thread Liaw, Andy
Note that it's commercially supported, not just commercial. Also, commercial does not mean closed source. Open source (and even GPL) and commercial need not be mutually exclusive. Remember that the free in free software is as in freedom rather than as in beer (as far as GPL is concern, at

Re: [R] Help with workaround for: Function '`[`' is not in thederivatives table

2006-08-14 Thread Berton Gunter
I think this is the sort of problem which is most elegantly handled by computing on the language. Here is an INelegant solution: A - c(1, 2, 3) for(i in 1:3)assign(paste('A',i,sep=''),A[i]) E - expression(A1 * exp(A2*X) + A3) ## could also use substitute() here, I think ## instead of

[R] merge 2 data frame based on more than 2 variables

2006-08-14 Thread Wensui Liu
Dear Lister, I understand merge() can be used to join 2 data frames based on 1 variable. But how about merge based on more than 2 variables? Thank you so much! -- WenSui Liu (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness

Re: [R] merge 2 data frame based on more than 2 variables

2006-08-14 Thread Simon Blomberg
Wensui Liu wrote: Dear Lister, I understand merge() can be used to join 2 data frames based on 1 variable. But how about merge based on more than 2 variables? Thank you so much! Just specify the 2 (or more) variable names in a column vector for by) merge(dat1, dat2, by= c(VarA, VarB))

Re: [R] merge 2 data frame based on more than 2 variables

2006-08-14 Thread Wensui Liu
what if the names are different in 2 data frames? On 8/14/06, Simon Blomberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wensui Liu wrote: Dear Lister, I understand merge() can be used to join 2 data frames based on 1 variable. But how about merge based on more than 2 variables? Thank you so much!

[R] help: cannot allocate vector of length 828310236

2006-08-14 Thread T Mu
Hi all, I was trying a probit regression using polr() and got this message, Error in model.matrix.default(Terms, m, contrasts) : cannot allocate vector of length 828310236 The data is about 20M (a few days ago I asked a question about large file, thank you for responses, then I use MS

Re: [R] merge 2 data frame based on more than 2 variables

2006-08-14 Thread Simon Blomberg
Then instead of by, use by.x and by.y to specifiy the variable names separately for both data frames. See ?merge, especially the examples. Wensui Liu wrote: what if the names are different in 2 data frames? On 8/14/06, Simon Blomberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wensui Liu wrote: