Re: [R] makeSOCKcluster

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Hrishikesh Rajpathak wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to R and trying to implement parallelism in R. I am currently using R-2.3.1, and Cygwin to run R on Windows xp. Did you build R under Cygwin (which is not a supported platform), or are you running a native Windows

Re: [R] Substring and strsplit

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote: If you are using 'only' English then str - dog strsplit(str,NULL)[[1]] works perfectly and it is fast. It does also work 'perfectly' and fast in 'Unicode' in all major European and CJK languages (and many others): extending the iconv example

Re: [R] core dump with point.in.polygon

2006-09-01 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: I've been trying to get some code to run on a 64-bit FreeBSD machine running R : Copyright 2006, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24) ISBN 3-900051-07-0 and

Re: [R] working with summarized data

2006-09-01 Thread Anupam Tyagi
One solution is to simulate the population by repeating each row weight number of times. This is inefficient. It may create a very large dataset for a large sample survey. But some of graphs and other things may turn out to your liking, depending upon how the functions are written. Anupam. Rick

[R] Consulta sobre bases en R

2006-09-01 Thread Marcela Corrales
Estimados, Quisiera saber cuanto es el tamaño máximo de datos contenidos en mi base de datos, que el software R puede llegar a procesar y soporta. De antemano agradezco y envió un cordial saludo. Marcela Corrales CPData Optimum [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

[R] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Buying more computer for GLM

2006-09-01 Thread g . russell
Peter Dalgaard wrote Is this floating point bound? (When you say 30 factors does that mean 30 parameters or factors representing a much larger number of groups). If it is integer bound, I don't think you can do much better than increase CPU speed and - note - memory bandwidth (look for

[R] newbie question about index

2006-09-01 Thread z s
Hi, I am trying to convert a variable a = sample(1:3,100,rep = T) represents choices into a 3X100 dummy varible b with corresponding element set to 1 otherwise 0. eg. a: 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 1 b: 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.. 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0... 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0... Is there something like b[a] =1

Re: [R] newbie question about index

2006-09-01 Thread Jacques VESLOT
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Re: [R] newbie question about index

2006-09-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try using outer: outer(1:3, a, ==)+0 On 8/31/06, z s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to convert a variable a = sample(1:3,100,rep = T) represents choices into a 3X100 dummy varible b with corresponding element set to 1 otherwise 0. eg. a: 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 1 b: 1 0 0 1 0 0 1

Re: [R] newbie question about index

2006-09-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is an additional way: model.matrix(~ factor(a) - 1) On 9/1/06, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using outer: outer(1:3, a, ==)+0 On 8/31/06, z s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to convert a variable a = sample(1:3,100,rep = T) represents choices into a

Re: [R] newbie question about index

2006-09-01 Thread Joris De Wolf
what about: b - rbind(1*(a==1),1*(a==2),1*(a==3)) z s wrote: Hi, I am trying to convert a variable a = sample(1:3,100,rep = T) represents choices into a 3X100 dummy varible b with corresponding element set to 1 otherwise 0. eg. a: 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 1 b: 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1.. 0

Re: [R] newbie question about index

2006-09-01 Thread Petr Pikal
Hallo probably there are other options but outer(1:3,a, ==)*1 can do what you want. HTH Petr On 31 Aug 2006 at 22:41, z s wrote: Date sent: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:41:27 +0800 (CST) From: z s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Buying more computer for GLM

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Dalgaard wrote Is this floating point bound? (When you say 30 factors does that mean 30 parameters or factors representing a much larger number of groups). If it is integer bound, I don't think you can do much better than increase CPU

[R] Checking a package: Foreign function calls without 'PACKAGE' argument: - what must I do??

2006-09-01 Thread Søren Højsgaard
In the process of checking a package, I get the warning Foreign function calls without 'PACKAGE' argument: .Call(tr, ...) .Call(trProd, ...) See section 'System and foreign language interfaces' of the 'Writing R.. These functions are called using the wrappers trX - function(x, package=gRcox)

Re: [R] Checking a package: Foreign function calls without 'PACKAGE' argument: - what must I do??

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Søren Højsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the process of checking a package, I get the warning Foreign function calls without 'PACKAGE' argument: .Call(tr, ...) .Call(trProd, ...) See section 'System and foreign language interfaces' of the 'Writing R.. These functions are called

Re: [R] makeSOCKcluster

2006-09-01 Thread Luke Tierney
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Hrishikesh Rajpathak wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to R and trying to implement parallelism in R. I am currently using R-2.3.1, and Cygwin to run R on Windows xp. Did you build R under Cygwin (which is not a supported

Re: [R] Consulta sobre bases en R

2006-09-01 Thread Bonfigli Sandro
Yo no soy experto en estos asuntos pero creo que no haya una respuesta a su pregunta. No es que R no tenga tamaño máximo de datos que pueda llegar a procesar, pero ese tamaño depende de el hardware (las caracteristica de su computadora) y el software (el sistema operativo no es fijo, como R

[R] embed image (png) in postscript (device)

2006-09-01 Thread Hans-Peter
Hi, I output multiple grid-package-based plots to the postscript device. Because the graphics are complicated and consists of a lot of datapoints (~200'000) the files become really big. To avoid this big files and to shorten the creation, I currently print the plots to the png device and manually

Re: [R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows

2006-09-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/31/2006 10:40 PM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote: I installed GSView and the file opens correctly and the output is as is should be. As you suggest, this must be a bug in Adobe CS2 Illustrator and Photoshop. It could conceivably still be our bug, but I'd like to hear what Adobe tech support

Re: [R] Substring and strsplit

2006-09-01 Thread Hans-Joerg Bibiko
On 1 Sep 2006, at 08:22, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote: If you are using 'only' English then str - dog strsplit(str,NULL)[[1]] works perfectly and it is fast. It does also work 'perfectly' and fast in 'Unicode' in all major European and CJK

Re: [R] Consulta sobre bases en R

2006-09-01 Thread Michael Dewey
At 17:04 31/08/2006, Marcela Corrales wrote: Estimados, Quisiera saber cuanto es el tamaño máximo de datos contenidos en mi base de datos, que el software R puede llegar a procesar y soporta. Marcela, you will get more help if you (a) post in English (b) give us more information about your

Re: [R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 8/31/2006 10:40 PM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote: I installed GSView and the file opens correctly and the output is as is should be. As you suggest, this must be a bug in Adobe CS2 Illustrator and Photoshop. It could conceivably still be our

Re: [R] Antwort: Buying more computer for GLM

2006-09-01 Thread g . russell
Prof Brian Ripley wrote Probably not, but you have the ability to profile in R and find out. Thanks. This is certainly something I could check, and I shall do so. Some more comments; 1) The Fortran code that underlies glm is that of lm.fit that only makes use of level-1 BLAS and

Re: [R] Antwort: Buying more computer for GLM

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote 3) As I recall, you were doing model selection via AIC on 20,000 observations. You might want to think hard about that, since AIC is designed for good prediction. I would do model exploration on a much

[R] Local library under Windoze.

2006-09-01 Thread Rolf Turner
Continuing to try to customize my environment for using R under Windoze, I experimented with installing a package from CRAN in a local library ``Lib''. I created the directory ``Lib'' in the folder in which R starts, and then executed install.packages(abind,lib=Lib) Everything went

[R] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Buying more computer for GLM

2006-09-01 Thread g . russell
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I would not have expected glm to be more than say 5x slower than lm if CPU cycles and not memory were the limiting factor. In that case more RAM might be all you need. The ratio between glm and lm might well be about 5x, but that's still a big difference for us.

Re: [R] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Buying more computer for GLM

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I would not have expected glm to be more than say 5x slower than lm if CPU cycles and not memory were the limiting factor. In that case more RAM might be all you need. The ratio between glm and lm might well be

Re: [R] cumulative growth rates indexed to a common starting point over n series of observations

2006-09-01 Thread toby_marks
Perfect, the apply was exactly what I was after, just wasn't clicking with me, and I overlooked the cumprod ... sweet ! Thanks to all for pushing me down the right path! Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/31/2006 05:03 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject

Re: [R] Tables with Graphical Representations

2006-09-01 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Sam Ferguson wrote: Hi useRs - I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me where to find R-code to do mixes of tables and graphics. I am thinking of something similar to this: http://yost.com/information-design/powerpoint-corrupts/ or like the excel routines people are

Re: [R] Local library under Windoze.

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This warning is indeed really an error, but do you want all your downloads to fail just because one does? install.packages() behaves the same way on Unices. I was not aware that this works with relative paths for any version of R. Try using a full path, which always works for me. If indeed

Re: [R] Local library under Windoze.

2006-09-01 Thread James W. MacDonald
Hi Rolf, Rolf Turner wrote: Continuing to try to customize my environment for using R under Windoze, I experimented with installing a package from CRAN in a local library ``Lib''. I created the directory ``Lib'' in the folder in which R starts, and then executed

Re: [R] embed image (png) in postscript (device)

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Hans-Peter wrote: Hi, I output multiple grid-package-based plots to the postscript device. Because the graphics are complicated and consists of a lot of datapoints (~200'000) the files become really big. To avoid this big files and to shorten the creation, I currently

[R] xyplot background color

2006-09-01 Thread Nathan Vandergrift
I've been unable to solve this problem using all sorts of variants of trellis.par.set, or par.settings within xyplot. I need this plot not to be transparent, so when I drop the .ps into LaTeX it shows up on my black slides. thanks. nathan traj.female-read.delim(d:\TRAfemales.dat, header =

Re: [R] Problems with OS X R

2006-09-01 Thread Rob J Goedman
Hi Catherine, Not sure if you got any answers yet. This is a Mac issue, so a better mailing list is R-SIG-Mac. For now we can take it offline. Can you tell me how you installed R? What exactly does show up in the R Console? Rob On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Catherine Carter wrote: Hi

Re: [R] Tables with Graphical Representations

2006-09-01 Thread Ted Harding
On 31-Aug-06 Sam Ferguson wrote: Hi useRs - I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me where to find R-code to do mixes of tables and graphics. I am thinking of something similar to this: http://yost.com/information-design/powerpoint-corrupts/ or like the excel routines people are

[R] integration problem with gamma function

2006-09-01 Thread Leo Gürtler
Dear R-list members, I have a problem with translating a mathematica script into R. The whole script is at the end of the email (with initial values for easy reproduction) and can be pasted directly into R. The problematic part (which is included below of course) is --- Original Mathematica

Re: [R] Tables with Graphical Representations

2006-09-01 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
(Ted Harding) wrote: On 31-Aug-06 Sam Ferguson wrote: Hi useRs - I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me where to find R-code to do mixes of tables and graphics. I am thinking of something similar to this: http://yost.com/information-design/powerpoint-corrupts/ or like the excel

[R] (1) R/Splus Advanced Programming, NYC, Sept 11-12 (2) Regression Modeling Strategies in R/Splus, Sept 28-29

2006-09-01 Thread Sue Turner
XLSolutions Corporation (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) R/Splus Advanced programming course taught the R Development Core Team is almost full! (1) R/Splus Advanced Programming --- by the R Development Core Team Guru! http://www.xlsolutions-corp.com/Radv.htm

Re: [R] S4 Method Dispatch for Sealed Classes

2006-09-01 Thread Martin Maechler
Thomas == Thomas Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31 Aug 2006 18:36:57 +0200 writes: Thomas I encounter a problem with method dispatch with S4 Thomas classes, using the 'sealed' parameter in setClass. [...] [...] Thomas Tried on R 2.3.1 and R

[R] New quote ?

2006-09-01 Thread Berton Gunter
Is this a candidate for R's package of wise quotes (whose name I've forgotten and can't find at the moment)? The point here is that all but the most uselss variables will measurably improve the fit in large problems with few variables. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] Compiling a package

2006-09-01 Thread R Heberto Ghezzo, Dr
Hello, I am in Win-XP R:2.3.0 latest rtools and Perl - of today I got Rcmdr.HH source code and tried to compile it myself copy all directory to R/R-2.3.0/src/library/Rcmdr.HH from R/R-2.3.0/src/library I typed: ..\..\bin\R CMD build --force --binary --auto-zip Rcmdr.HH * checking for file

Re: [R] New quote ?

2006-09-01 Thread Spencer Graves
fortunes maintained by Achim Zeileis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berton Gunter wrote: Is this a candidate for R's package of wise quotes (whose name I've forgotten and can't find at the moment)? The point here is that all but the most uselss variables will measurably improve the fit in large problems

Re: [R] Tables with Graphical Representations

2006-09-01 Thread Greg Snow
The LaTeX or other solutions suggested are probably best, but here is a way to do it using only R base graphics (the below code is to get you started, some graphical parameters need to be set to get the spacing to look better): tmp - structure(list(Cancer = structure(as.integer(c(19, 23, 22, 13,

[R] repeating the same procedure with a number of files within a directory

2006-09-01 Thread Ffenics
Hi there I am very new to R so dont know much about the programming side of thing yet. I've worked out how to input a data matrix, create distance matrices and print them to an external file but only for one data matrix at a time. I actually have a batch of data matrices for which I want to

[R] lmer applied to a wellknown (?) example: summary

2006-09-01 Thread Henrik Parn
Dear all, I wish to thank Christoph Buser and John Wilkinson for their input, and especially John his examples and for for pointing me to the thread 'Doubt about nested aov output' where the rat-example was hiding...:

[R] Lattice plot with fitted curves

2006-09-01 Thread David Scott
I have some data which consists of time series for a number of sites. It appears that there is not much autocorrelation in the data and I have fitted a cubic for each site using lm. I would like to obtain a lattice plot with one panel for each site and showing the original data, and the

[R] Summary --- Local library under Windoze.

2006-09-01 Thread Rolf Turner
Prof. Brian Ripley solved the problem. He wrote: I was not aware that this works with relative paths for any version of R. Try using a full path, which always works for me. I tried it using a full path, and bingo! It worked like a charm. Under Unix the relative path

Re: [R] repeating the same procedure with a number of files within a directory

2006-09-01 Thread jim holtman
Just have to use a 'for' loop; for (i in list.files()){ x - read.table(i) # read in the next file (this is in 'i') compute write your distance matrix. } On 9/1/06, Ffenics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there I am very new to R so dont know much about the programming side of

Re: [R] Summary --- Local library under Windoze.

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
install.packages() in R 2.4.0 will make a full path out of a relative path, to avoid any confusion. (normalizePath is a good way to do that, BTW). On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Rolf Turner wrote: Prof. Brian Ripley solved the problem. He wrote: I was not aware that this works with relative paths

Re: [R] Compiling a package

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please use Rcmd INSTALL --build and see if that works for you. It is how Uwe Ligges and I build the public repositories. On just Rcmd INSTALL if you don't want to distribute it. (R CMD and Rcmd are the same thing, and I prefer the older form which is more efficient.) On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, R

Re: [R] Compiling a package

2006-09-01 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
These are the commands I used Rcmd check Rcmdr.HH ## detailed checks Rcmd build Rcmdr.HH ## tar.gz R CMD INSTALL --build Rcmdr.HH ## installs and builds .zip __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Lattice plot with fitted curves

2006-09-01 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 9/1/06, David Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some data which consists of time series for a number of sites. It appears that there is not much autocorrelation in the data and I have fitted a cubic for each site using lm. I would like to obtain a lattice plot with one panel for each

[R] histograms

2006-09-01 Thread Nair, Murlidharan T
I am interested in plotting histograms for the following data Isoform Tumor_65_198 Tumor_50_192 Tumor_80_167 Tumor_80_204 Tumor_95_197 Tumor_70_189 Tumor_90_202 Tumor_40_177 Tumor_60_21 Tumor_70_174 Tumor_70_147 Tumor_50_5 ABCC4-2007 1 1 1 6 1 9 10 1 2 0 10 1

Re: [R] integration problem with gamma function

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It is the same issue. Martin's reply was for a specific value of 'a': the factor is gamma(a). Please do study the help page for pgamma (as the posting guide did ask you to), as it has all the details. Note that the Mathematica version can easily lead to representation difficulties for even

Re: [R] histograms

2006-09-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Your data seems to have come through messed up but lets assume you have a data frame with one column per tumor. The convert your data to stacked form and call histogram: DF - data.frame(T1 = 1:10, T2 = 6:15) library(lattice) histogram(~ values | ind, stack(DF)) On 9/1/06, Nair, Murlidharan T

Re: [R] cumulative growth rates indexed to a common starting point over n series of observations

2006-09-01 Thread toby_marks
The apply with the cumprod was exactly what I was after. The apply just wasn't clicking with me, and I had overlooked the cumprod. Thanks to all for pushing me down the right path! Actually, what I am ultimately after is a way to link this series, without having to use a for loop ( the only

Re: [R] cumulative growth rates indexed to a common starting point over n series of observations

2006-09-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 September 2006 at 14:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The apply with the cumprod was exactly what I was after. The apply just | wasn't clicking with me, and I had overlooked the cumprod. Thanks to all | for pushing me down the right path! | | Actually, what I am ultimately after is a way

[R] write a table to file with unequal length of lists

2006-09-01 Thread Zhu Wang
Dear R helpers, To illustrate my problem, here is a simplified example. I want to write a table to a file similar to: x a 1 4,5 2 8,9,10 Note the length of elements of a is 2 and 3 respectively. This can be created by, for

[R] difference between ns and bs in predict.glm

2006-09-01 Thread Spencer Jones
I am fittling a spline to a variable in a regression model, I am then using the predict.glm funtion to make some predictions. When I use bs to fit the spline I don't have any problems using the predict.glm function however when I use ns I get the following error: Error in model.frame(formula,

Re: [R] cumulative growth rates indexed to a common starting point over n series of observations

2006-09-01 Thread toby_marks
That is choice !I'm starting to love this language. Thank-you ! Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/01/2006 02:59 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject Re: [R] cumulative growth rates indexed to a common starting point over n series of observations

Re: [R] write a table to file with unequal length of lists

2006-09-01 Thread Rolf Turner
What about x - 1:2 a - list(c(4,5),c(8,9,10)) # Which is the way you *should* # have constructed a! ddd - data.frame(x=x,a=I(unlist(lapply(a,paste,collapse=, write.table(ddd,file=ddd.out,quote=FALSE,row.names=FALSE)

[R] Help with singular value decomposition

2006-09-01 Thread Lord Tyranus
Hi wizards, I have seen the function svd of R for singular value decomposition, but I need to computes the ``economy size'' or ``thin'' singular value decomposition of a matrix in R. Somebody knows how to do that?. Thanks in advance. -- Web Page http://geocities.com/lord_tyranus_96/

[R] Reading many files at once

2006-09-01 Thread Srinivas Iyyer
dear group, i have 100 files starting with 'hsa-*'. ex. file: fruit p-value apple 0.0003 orange 0.004 kiwi 0.0003 peach 0.0004 I want to read all these files and create a single matrix. here each file may have different fruit names. in the matrix i want to have a

Re: [R] histograms

2006-09-01 Thread hadley wickham
Your data seems to have come through messed up but lets assume you have a data frame with one column per tumor. The convert your data to stacked form and call histogram: DF - data.frame(T1 = 1:10, T2 = 6:15) library(lattice) histogram(~ values | ind, stack(DF)) Or with ggplot and reshape:

Re: [R] write a table to file with unequal length of lists

2006-09-01 Thread Zhu Wang
Yes, the code does the job. Thanks, Zhu Wang Rolf Turner wrote: What about x - 1:2 a - list(c(4,5),c(8,9,10)) # Which is the way you *should* # have constructed a! ddd - data.frame(x=x,a=I(unlist(lapply(a,paste,collapse=,

Re: [R] Lattice plot with fitted curves

2006-09-01 Thread hadley wickham
I have some data which consists of time series for a number of sites. It appears that there is not much autocorrelation in the data and I have fitted a cubic for each site using lm. I would like to obtain a lattice plot with one panel for each site and showing the original data, and the

Re: [R] cumulative growth rates indexed to a common starting point over n series of observations

2006-09-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 September 2006 at 14:59, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 1 September 2006 at 14:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | The apply with the cumprod was exactly what I was after. The apply just | | wasn't clicking with me, and I had overlooked the cumprod. Thanks to all | | for pushing me down

Re: [R] histograms

2006-09-01 Thread Nair, Murlidharan T
Thanks ../Murli -Original Message- From: hadley wickham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:08 PM To: Gabor Grothendieck Cc: Nair, Murlidharan T; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: Re: [R] histograms Your data seems to have come through messed up but lets

Re: [R] cumulative growth rates indexed to a common starting point over n series of observations

2006-09-01 Thread toby_marks
Yes I do. I was still scratching my head still trying to figure out why I couldn't get my actual #s to match the example from the random series. This now matches my brute force calcs. btw: Also had a former colleague and good friend suggest this could be done using ranges. Which opened my

Re: [R] write a table to file with unequal length of lists

2006-09-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
A simple for loop would do it: x - 1:2; a - list(4:5, 8:10) # test data cat(x a\n, file = ) # only if you want a header for(i in seq(along = x)) cat(x[i], a[[i]], \n, file = ) On 9/1/06, Zhu Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear R helpers, To illustrate my problem, here is a simplified

Re: [R] Help with singular value decomposition

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
R's svd does this by default (at least according to Wikipedia's definition). Take a closer look at the help page, and in particular 'nu' and 'nv'. On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Lord Tyranus wrote: Hi wizards, I have seen the function svd of R for singular value decomposition, but I need to computes

Re: [R] write a table to file with unequal length of lists

2006-09-01 Thread Zhu Wang
Apparently I missed cat. Thanks. Zhu Wang Gabor Grothendieck wrote: A simple for loop would do it: x - 1:2; a - list(4:5, 8:10) # test data cat(x a\n, file = ) # only if you want a header for(i in seq(along = x)) cat(x[i], a[[i]], \n, file = ) On 9/1/06, Zhu Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [R] difference between ns and bs in predict.glm

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Your example is not actually a regression, and not reproducible. Here is one that is both: fm1 - lm(weight ~ ns(height, df = 5), data = women) predict(fm1, newdata=women[1,], se=TRUE) Error: variable 'ns(height, df = 5)' was fitted with class nmatrix.5 but class nmatrix.1 was supplied In

Re: [R] Lattice plot with fitted curves

2006-09-01 Thread David Scott
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 9/1/06, David Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some data which consists of time series for a number of sites. It appears that there is not much autocorrelation in the data and I have fitted a cubic for each site using lm. I would like to

Re: [R] Tables with Graphical Representations

2006-09-01 Thread Anupam Tyagi
First Graphic in the initial posting: I think this graphic need to be scaled in a manner so it can be interpreted correctly while going across rows, columns, and non-contguous cells, or the correct interpretation and way to read this provided. For example, in the last row one has to read the