Re: [R] Authoring a book

2006-08-23 Thread Tom Backer Johnsen
Jack B. Arnold wrote: > Dear Tom, > > Looking forward to your book. "Psychologists and students" clearly need > all the encouragement to use R that they can get. I have been using it > for a couple of years now, and find, that for most purposes, it is just > a little harder to get into than t

[R] Search for best ARIMA model

2006-08-23 Thread Schweitzer, Markus
Hello, I have a several time series, which I would like to check for their best fitted Arima model (I am checking for the lowest aic value). Which lets me raise two questions: 1) is there are more efficient way, than using 6 for-loops? 2) sometimes the system cannot calculate with given paramete

Re: [R] how to run ANCOVA?

2006-08-23 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
> But how is that different from just a 3-way ANOVA with age, diagnosis, > and gender as the the three effects? Isn't ANCOVA a fundamentally > different model? > Thanks, > Sasha ANCOVA is a linear model with both factors and continuous variables on the right-hand side of the model formula. In p

Re: [R] help with pasting + expressions?

2006-08-23 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
Please visit the R site http://www.r-project.org/ and search the mailing list for "paste expression" We discussed the topic recently. The "trick" is that you don't paste expressions, you make an expression containing paste. Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-

Re: [R] help with pasting + expressions?

2006-08-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try bquote: y.hat <- sigma.hat <- 1.1 plot(1) lab <- bquote(hat(y) == .(y.hat) * "," ~ hat(sigma)^2 == .(sigma.hat)) text(1, 1, lab, pos = 4) On 8/23/06, Jeff D. Hamann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't believe I'm having such a hard time with this and I haven't been > able to find out how to

[R] help with pasting + expressions?

2006-08-23 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I can't believe I'm having such a hard time with this and I haven't been able to find out how to solve this... lab <- expression( paste( hat(v), as.character(round(y.hat,2)), ",", hat(sigma)^2, as.character(sigma.hat)) ) text( x=pt$x+2, y=pt$y,labels=lab ) ## the text should be \hat{y} =

[R] how to replace one row with other row?

2006-08-23 Thread Zhang Jian
I want to replace one row with other information in the dataframe. For example: > cb04.full[1:5,] tag sp gx gy dbh codes status branch species lifestyle *family*genera 1 10101 COMA 1.64 1.54 1.2 10111 alive 0毛榛 COMA *COMA* COMA 2 10102 COMA 2.05 2.45 1.5 10111 a

[R] "fixed effects" transformation

2006-08-23 Thread Eduardo Leoni
Hi - I am doing an analysis using panel data methods, particularly what economists call "fixed effects". It can easily be done in R through the inclusion of factors in an lm formula. However, when the number of groups is excessive (in my case 2000+) it is much more efficient to demean the data by

[R] ess-remote question

2006-08-23 Thread Manuel Morales
Dear list, Is there any way to load a local data file when connected to a remote machine via ESS? Thanks! Manuel __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-projec

[R] Classification tree with a random variable

2006-08-23 Thread Amy Koch
Hi, I am planning on using classification trees to build a predictive model for data which includes a random variable. I intend to use the R functions 'rpart' (and potentially also 'randomForest' and 'bagging'). I have a data set with 390 data points. The response variable is binary. There ar

[R] [R-pkgs] spatstat 1.9-5

2006-08-23 Thread Adrian Baddeley
A new version 1.9-5 of the package `spatstat' has been uploaded to CRAN. What it is: -- spatstat is a package for analysing spatial data, mainly Spatial Point Patterns. What's in it: Functions for exploratory data analysis, model-fitting, simulation, spatial sampling, mode

Re: [R] rgl: exporting to pdf or png does not work

2006-08-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/23/2006 5:15 PM, Gaspard Lequeux wrote: > Hej, > > When exporting a image from rgl, the following error is encountered: > >> rgl.postscript('testing.pdf', fmt="pdf") > RGL: ERROR: can't bind glx context to window > RGL: ERROR: can't bind glx context to window > Warning messages: > 1: X11 pro

Re: [R] rgl package: color of the axes

2006-08-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/23/2006 4:13 PM, Gaspard Lequeux wrote: > Hej, > > When plotting triangles with rgl.triangles and setting the axes afterwards > with decorate3d(aspect=TRUE), the axes get the color used for the last > triangle plotted. > > Example: > > rgl.triangles(c(1,2,3),c(1,2,5),c(1,3,2),col="#55FF55

[R] polychor error

2006-08-23 Thread Janet Rosenbaum
Hi. Does anyone know whether the following error is a result of a bug or a feature? I can eliminate the error by making ML=F, but I would like to see the values of the cut-points and their variance. Is there anything that I can do? tmp.vec<-c(0, 0, 0 , 0 ,0 , 1, 0, 2, 0 , 0, 5 ,5 ,

Re: [R] rgl: exporting to pdf or png does not work

2006-08-23 Thread Berton Gunter
Please contact the package maintainer. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

[R] rgl: exporting to pdf or png does not work

2006-08-23 Thread Gaspard Lequeux
Hej, When exporting a image from rgl, the following error is encountered: > rgl.postscript('testing.pdf', fmt="pdf") RGL: ERROR: can't bind glx context to window RGL: ERROR: can't bind glx context to window Warning messages: 1: X11 protocol error: GLXBadContextState 2: X11 protocol error: GLXBad

[R] rgl package: color of the axes

2006-08-23 Thread Gaspard Lequeux
Hej, When plotting triangles with rgl.triangles and setting the axes afterwards with decorate3d(aspect=TRUE), the axes get the color used for the last triangle plotted. Example: rgl.triangles(c(1,2,3),c(1,2,5),c(1,3,2),col="#55FF55") decorate3d(aspect=TRUE) Using decorate3d(aspect=TRUE,col=

[R] Wavelet Output

2006-08-23 Thread hedger22
Hello all, I am new to r as well as wavlets. The following is a times series from a bond portfolio I have uploaded from a text file. Bond1 <- scan("C:.../UploadR2.txt") I am trying to decompose the portfolio return using wavelets. My goal is to find out the wavlet variance and average at eac

[R] putting the mark for censored time on 1-KM curve or competing risk curve

2006-08-23 Thread Linda Lei
Hi All, I'm trying to figure out the cumulative incidence curve in R in some limited time. I found in package "cmprsk", the command "plot.cuminc" can get this curve. But I noticed that there is no mark for the censored time there, comparing with the KM curve by "plot.survfit". Here are my codes

Re: [R] glm inside one self-defined function

2006-08-23 Thread Mike Wolfgang
After I updated my R from 2.2.0 to 2.3.1, it is working fine now. Thanks! Mike On 8/23/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your example works for me without any error messages in R 2.3.1 with the > current (uncredited) MASS package 7.2-27.1, including giving about 20 'ok > here.'.

Re: [R] editing ".Internal" functions

2006-08-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You could also look at p.arrows in sfsmisc package which is entirely in R. On 8/23/06, B. Chasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a function called arrows() which is an .Internal function. How > difficult is it to modify that function to return the xy coordinates for > the line "segments" th

[R] covariance matrix of predictions

2006-08-23 Thread Arnab mukherji
Hi ! I am trying to get at the covariance of the predictions of a linear model. Suppose the we have: > x<-runif(1000) > y<-2 + 25x*x +rnorm(1000) > lm1 <-lm(y~x, data = data.frame(y = y, x=x)) > x.pred <-runif(10) > y.hat <- predict(lm1, newdata = data.frame(x=x.pred)) I was wondering how to g

Re: [R] lean and mean lm/glm?

2006-08-23 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Damien Moore wrote: > > Thomas Lumley < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> I have written most of a bigglm() function where the data= argument is a >> function with a single argument 'reset'. When called with reset=FALSE the >> function should return another chunk of data, or NUL

Re: [R] editing ".Internal" functions

2006-08-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, B. Chasco wrote: > There is a function called arrows() which is an .Internal function. How > difficult is it to modify that function to return the xy coordinates for > the line "segments" that make up the arrowhead? That depends on your 'core competencies'. You have the s

Re: [R] glm inside one self-defined function

2006-08-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Your example works for me without any error messages in R 2.3.1 with the current (uncredited) MASS package 7.2-27.1, including giving about 20 'ok here.'. Did you heed the advice in the posting guide to update (as well as to tell us the versions of things you were using)? Probably not (as you

[R] editing ".Internal" functions

2006-08-23 Thread B. Chasco
There is a function called arrows() which is an .Internal function. How difficult is it to modify that function to return the xy coordinates for the line "segments" that make up the arrowhead? Brandon Chasco University of Washington ph (206) 221-6768 ___

[R] Calculating the combined standared errors from two regression equations

2006-08-23 Thread Philip Bermingham
Hello, I have two regression equations, one predicts number of interactions from people-a and the other predicts number of interactions from people-b. I am summing the number of interactions to get the combined number of interactions. How do I calculate the combined standared error? Philip

[R] How would you run repeated-measures multifactorial MANCOVA?

2006-08-23 Thread Mitchell Maltenfort
OK, now that I've worked through Venebales and Ripley and a few other sources, I can see more than one way of attacking a problem I expect to be facing soon: a repeated-measures MANCOVA with more than one X-factor. But that got me wondering how the people who've been playing with R longer than I h

Re: [R] lean and mean lm/glm?

2006-08-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Thomas Lumley wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Damien Moore wrote: > > > > > Thomas Lumley wrote: > > > > > > > No, it is quite straightforward if you are willing to make multiple > > > > passes > > > > through the data. It is hard with a single pas

Re: [R] lean and mean lm/glm?

2006-08-23 Thread Damien Moore
Thomas Lumley < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >I have written most of a bigglm() function where the data= argument is a >function with a single argument 'reset'. When called with reset=FALSE the >function should return another chunk of data, or NULL if no data are >available, and when called with

Re: [R] lean and mean lm/glm?

2006-08-23 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Damien Moore wrote: > >> Thomas Lumley wrote: >> >>> No, it is quite straightforward if you are willing to make multiple passes >>> through the data. It is hard with a single pass and may not be possible >>> unless the data are in random order. >>> >>> F

Re: [R] lean and mean lm/glm?

2006-08-23 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Damien Moore wrote: > > Thomas Lumley wrote: > >> No, it is quite straightforward if you are willing to make multiple passes >> through the data. It is hard with a single pass and may not be possible >> unless the data are in random order. >> >> Fisher scoring for glms is just

Re: [R] glm inside one self-defined function

2006-08-23 Thread Mike Wolfgang
Thanks Bill and Simon. I wrote a simpler function to test and found out it was stepAIC which causes error, and I still don't know how to solve it. Check out this simple function: myfun<-function(k){ xx<-mvrnorm(100,rep(0,10),diag(1,10),empirical=TRUE) colnames(xx)<-paste("x",1:10,sep='') py

Re: [R] lean and mean lm/glm?

2006-08-23 Thread Damien Moore
Thomas Lumley wrote: > No, it is quite straightforward if you are willing to make multiple passes > through the data. It is hard with a single pass and may not be possible > unless the data are in random order. > > Fisher scoring for glms is just an iterative weighted least squares > calculat

[R] nonlinear least squares trust region fitting ?

2006-08-23 Thread Martin Ivanov
Hello! I am running R-2.3.1-i386-1 on Slackware Linux 10.2. I am a former matlab user, moving to R. In matlab, via the cftool, I performed nonlinear curve fitting using the method "nonlinear least squares" with the "Trust-Region" algorithm and not using robust fitting. Is it possible to perform

Re: [R] two density curves in one plot?

2006-08-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
With lattice graphics: library(lattice) d1 <- rnorm(100) d2 <- runif(100) densityplot(~ d1 + d2, auto.key = TRUE) On 8/23/06, Antje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if I can plot two curves I get from "density(data)" into > one plot. I want to compare both. > With the follo

Re: [R] how to run ANCOVA?

2006-08-23 Thread Sasha Wolosin
Hello, Thank you very much for your response! However, I still do not understand how this works. I would like to adjust the factors (diagnosis and gender) for the covariate (age), so you are saying I should use: aov.out <- aov(response ~ age + diagnosis*gender, data) or aov.o

[R] problems installing odrpack

2006-08-23 Thread Lothar Schmid
Hello, I'm trying to install odrpack (http://www.netlib.org/odrpack/) on my ubuntu linux system. That is a fortran package which I need to fit a circle to 2-dim data points (if someone knows a simpler package for that task, please tell me). For installing odrpack, I need a utility called fsplit,

Re: [R] negatively skewed data; reflecting

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Kubovy
On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have constructed histograms of various variables in my dataset. > Some of them are negatively skewed, and hence need data > transformations applied. I know that you first need to reflect the > negatively skewed data and then apply a

Re: [R] negatively skewed data; reflecting

2006-08-23 Thread Eik Vettorazzi
a simple reflection (on the y-axis) of x is -x, but you have to ensure that there are only nonnegative numbers if you want to use the log transformation. So you should reflect on a postive number z greater than abs(min(x)), if min(x)<0. This is done by z-x. Why don't you simply shift your dat

Re: [R] how to complete this task on data management

2006-08-23 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi This is a little bit more precise. My sugeestion works with unordered data and finds row index for second item lower then a threshold. which(diff(cumsum(diff(data<3.5)==1)<2)!=0)+2 However with ordered data you need to slightly modify it which(diff(cumsum(diff(data<3.5)!=0)<2)!=0)+2 I bet

Re: [R] negatively skewed data; reflecting

2006-08-23 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > This problem may be very easy, but I can't think of how to do it. I have > constructed histograms of various variables in my dataset. Some of them are > negatively skewed, and hence need data transformations applied. I know that > you first need to reflect

Re: [R] negatively skewed data; reflecting

2006-08-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/23/2006 8:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > This problem may be very easy, but I can't think of how to do it. I have > constructed histograms of various variables in my dataset. Some of them are > negatively skewed, and hence need data transformations applied. I know that > you

Re: [R] negatively skewed data; reflecting

2006-08-23 Thread Jon Minton
I'm new to R myself, but am wondering whether the t() (transpose) function would work? > hist(t(Lsoc)) Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 2006 13:08 To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] negatively s

[R] negatively skewed data; reflecting

2006-08-23 Thread z . dalton
Hi, This problem may be very easy, but I can't think of how to do it. I have constructed histograms of various variables in my dataset. Some of them are negatively skewed, and hence need data transformations applied. I know that you first need to reflect the negatively skewed data and then a

Re: [R] 3d timeseries dataframe

2006-08-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Jon Minton wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm new to R so this might be a little basic for enlightened people like > yourselves... > > > > I have quarterly British Labour Force Survey (Local Area) data from 1992 to > present in .tab format* in folders running from 01 (for the first time > period) to 56

Re: [R] Random structure of nested design in lme

2006-08-23 Thread Doran, Harold
Why are the results not reliable? From: ESCHEN Rene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:48 AM To: Spencer Graves; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: Doran, Harold Subject: RE: [R] Random structure of nes

Re: [R] two density curves in one plot?

2006-08-23 Thread Antje
Thank you both very much. It works! __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reprodu

Re: [R] how to get a histogram of an POSIXct vector ?

2006-08-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > search on web indicates that R also includes a hist method on POSIXct > vectors. > methods(hist) [1] hist.Date* hist.default hist.POSIXt* Non-visible functions are asterisked so almost (objects of class POSIXct inherit from class POS

Re: [R] two density curves in one plot?

2006-08-23 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
try this: x1 <- rnorm(1000) x2 <- rnorm(1000) d1 <- density(x1) d2 <- density(x2) plot(range(d1$x, d2$x), range(d1$y, d2$y), type = "n", xlab = "x", ylab = "Density") lines(d1, col = "red") lines(d2, col = "blue") I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Bio

[R] two density curves in one plot?

2006-08-23 Thread Antje
Hello, I was wondering if I can plot two curves I get from "density(data)" into one plot. I want to compare both. With the following commad, I just get one curve plotted: plot( density(mydata) ) Sorry for this stupid question but I could not find a solution until now... Antje

[R] how to get a histogram of an POSIXct vector ?

2006-08-23 Thread Peter.Marx
Hi, search on web indicates that R also includes a hist method on POSIXct vectors. My (perhaps too unexperienced) approach below yields an error. Could somebody give me a hint what's wrong ? Peter > str(samples) `data.frame': 7500 obs. of 1 variable: $ DateTime:'POSIXct', format: chr "2

[R] creating a list from distance matrix

2006-08-23 Thread Ffenics
Hi there Is there a function in R that will take a distance matrix and print it to file as follows: Object1 Object2 67.99 Object1 Object3 90.44 etc. Any help/suggestions/references I should look up much appreciated. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___

[R] 3d timeseries dataframe

2006-08-23 Thread Jon Minton
Hi, I'm new to R so this might be a little basic for enlightened people like yourselves... I have quarterly British Labour Force Survey (Local Area) data from 1992 to present in .tab format* in folders running from 01 (for the first time period) to 56 (for the most recent). i.e. my dir

Re: [R] how to complete this task on data management

2006-08-23 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi I am not sure what you really want. If you try to preserve first part of your objects just exclude them from operation e.g. data[-(1:5),] will exclude first five rows from your dataframe. However it is unclear what you want to do next. Instead of three items you want only add one different?

Re: [R] Random structure of nested design in lme

2006-08-23 Thread ESCHEN Rene
The output of the suggested lmer model looks very similar to the output of aov, also when I ran the model on the dataset I want to use. Thank you very much for the suggestion, this appears to solve my problem to a great extend. However, one of my response variables is survival of my plants, whi