[R] Possible ld.exe problem when building

2007-05-23 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I am trying to build R-2.5.0 from source on a Windows machinee. I downloaded the tools and such, and started things off. I received some odd errors messages, looked on the R Search and found a similar problem. The suggestion was to re-load ld.exe. I downloaded and installed

[R] Zipcodes latitude and longitude

2007-05-23 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
I see several mapping libraries but cannot find how to do a simple task. Starting with a vector of zip codes (in the United States and in Canada) I would like to automatically lookup the corresponding coordinates. Can you suggest a package and function that I should turn to? I would also like to

[R] RColorBrewer Package Color index

2007-05-23 Thread W. Katy
Hi everyone, Can anyone kindly help me with the interpretation of colors in the RColorBrewer Package (brewer.pal) ? For example, in brewer.pal command, when picking up the RdBu palette, does red means larger or smaller value? I am new to this fantastic program, and I have searched up and

Re: [R] RColorBrewer Package Color index

2007-05-23 Thread Dieter Menne
W. Katy linlicc at hotmail.com writes: Can anyone kindly help me with the interpretation of colors in the RColorBrewer Package (brewer.pal) ? For example, in brewer.pal command, when picking up the RdBu palette, does red means larger or smaller value? Conventionally, the redder colors

Re: [R] Possible ld.exe problem when building

2007-05-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It looks like your tools are not current. mbrtowc is in mingw-runtime, and you need version =3.11 (preferably 3.12). The rest of the messages suggest that malloc.c did not get built correctly, and for that you need to look at what happened in a clean build. (Just rm malloc.o and rebuilding

[R] about lex/yacc

2007-05-23 Thread elyakhlifi mustapha
hello, what about these functions lex/yacc which can parse and recognize a syntax? thanks _ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] about lex/yacc

2007-05-23 Thread Vladimir Eremeev
These are not functions. These are separate products (one more is bison), aimed to help in creating programming language interpreters. You should know the C programming language and be familiar with the algorithm theory, the finite state machine theory and with the LALR grammatics, in order to

[R] Grid-drawing in plot.its OR how to influence axTicks

2007-05-23 Thread Schneider, Manuel
Dear List, I am ploting an its object with user-specified ticks on the x axis, but cannot figure out how to adjust the plotted grid to these ticks. temp - its(1:3,dates=as.POSIXct(strptime(c(1999-12-31 01:00:00,2000-01-01 02:00:00,2000-01-10 02:00:00),format=%Y-%m-%d %X))) plot(temp) Gives the

Re: [R] about lex/yacc

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
elyakhlifi mustapha wrote: hello, what about these functions lex/yacc which can parse and recognize a syntax? thanks What about them? There are books, notably an O'Reilly one by D.Brown, as well as works on parser theory (Aho+Sethi+Ullman, e.g.). (This is more than a bit off-topic for

[R] log-rank tests

2007-05-23 Thread raymond chiruka
hie when using survdiff there are only 2 values for rho 01 but there are other rank tests .l know l can use other values of rho (l have tried it) but then how do l know what test is being carried out. l know there is more than 1 test for comparing survival data thanks

Re: [R] Please, remind a function name

2007-05-23 Thread Vladimir Eremeev
Great! I was thinking about adding such a feature in the future. Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Note that a significant difference between the two solutions is that the OO solution allows new methods corresponding to method= to be added without changing the function holding the statements.

Re: [R] basic problem but can't solve it

2007-05-23 Thread Christophe Pallier
If I understood correctly, the initial post asked for a vector of the same length as the original one. This is why I suggested: tapply(Measure,Month,mean)[as.character(Month)] btw, this is handy way to compute deviations from the means of subgroups (x - tapply(x, group,

[R] Fonts do not display properly on Red Hat

2007-05-23 Thread michael watson \(IAH-C\)
Hi I'm using R version 2.3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Server 3. When I run a simple: plot(1:10,1:10) The plot comes out great, but the fonts are displayed wrongly: http://coxpress.sourceforge.net/test.jpg I realise this is probably not an R problem per se, but before I go messing about with

[R] name of object in quotes

2007-05-23 Thread Gonzalo Rivero
I am writing a function in which, at some point, I to recuperate the name of a previous object in quotes. I am currently using the function Cs() from the Hmisc library but the result is: foo - function(xvar) { variable - Cs(xvar) return(variable) } foo(x1) xvar when I would expected to

Re: [R] Fonts do not display properly on Red Hat

2007-05-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Are you using a UTF-8 locale? (You know, there are good reasons why the posting guide asks for sessionInfo() output.) If so, the problem is probably with the non-availability of fonts in ISO10646 encoding, and you may well find that the R update suggested (before posting) in the posting guide

Re: [R] Possible ld.exe problem when building

2007-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/05/2007 2:13 AM, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: I am trying to build R-2.5.0 from source on a Windows machinee. I downloaded the tools and such, and started things off. Could you give the details on what you downloaded? As Brian said, it looks like you found obsolete copies.

Re: [R] basic problem but can't solve it

2007-05-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Use ave. Assuming DF is your 2 column data frame: ave(DF[,1], DF[,2], FUN = mean) On 5/22/07, Benoit Chemineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a basic problem but i can't figure it out with the table underneath. I would like to compute monthly averages. I would like to have the

[R] Where is package Umacs?

2007-05-23 Thread francogrex
We were promised this package last spring but I can't find it anywhere! Does anyone have any info? Thanks. From RNews: Umacs (Universal Markov chain sampler) is an R package (to be released in Spring 2006) that facilitates the construction of the Gibbs sampler and Metropolis algorithm for

[R] Need Help on Joining 2 text files in R

2007-05-23 Thread CHANDRAMOULI BANERJEE
Hi, I have 2 text files , the first one looks like this : CC: some statements this is followed by 10-12 lines in the similar pattern and then the next line is a comment and from the 14th line all the columns are aligned and the variable values are filled in The next

Re: [R] Where is package Umacs?

2007-05-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
francogrex wrote: We were promised this package last spring but I can't find it anywhere! Does anyone have any info? Thanks. From RNews: Umacs (Universal Markov chain sampler) is an R package (to be released in Spring 2006) that facilitates the construction of the Gibbs sampler and

[R] gaussian interpolation

2007-05-23 Thread JS Ubei
Hi R people, I need to do a gaussian interpolation, but I can't find a R function to do. Maybe this interpollation have a different name ? Regards J.S. _ __

Re: [R] Catenating factors.

2007-05-23 Thread Mike Lawrence
It may be poor form, but whenever I deal with factors in this way I find as.character and as.numeric useful ex. #if your factor levels are letters z=factor(unique(c(as.character(x),as.character(y #if your factor levels are numbers

[R] Replicated LR goodness-of-fit tests, heterogeneity G, with loglm?

2007-05-23 Thread Stewart Schultz
I have numerous replicated goodness-of-fit experiments (observed compared to expected counts in categories) and these replicates are nested within a factor. The expected counts in each cell are external (from a scientific model being tested). The calculations I need within each level of the

Re: [R] Script for merging datasets

2007-05-23 Thread Marshall L. Mdoka
Hi All, I am still new and so good with R. I am looking for anyone who can help me with a script that can read and merge two ascii rainfall datasets but discarding all the similar/repeated years within them. The new dataset has missing months but it has a longer period than the old data which

Re: [R] Manipulating the sizes of multiple screens

2007-05-23 Thread Mark Wardle
Judith Flores wrote: Hi, I used split.screen command to creaye 5 screens, 4 screens contain a plot each, the fifth screen is designated to a legend. I am having difficulties setting the dimensions of the screens in a way that would allow me to have the screen dedicated to the

[R] Fisher's r to z' transformation - help needed

2007-05-23 Thread Mike White
I am trying to use Fisher's z' transformation of the Pearson's r but the standard error does not appear to be correct. I have simulated an example using the R code below. The z' data appears to have a reasonably normal distribution but the standard error given by the formula 1/sqrt(N-3) (from

Re: [R] Legend outside plotting area

2007-05-23 Thread J . delasHeras
Quoting Judith Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have been trying many of the suggested options to place a legend outside plotting area, including something like this: par(xpd=T, oma=par()$oma+c(4.5,0,1.5,0),mar=par()$mar+c(1,0,1,0) But the aspect of the four plots gets

Re: [R] name of object in quotes

2007-05-23 Thread Bill.Venables
This is a long-standing idiom: foo - function(xvar) deparse(substitute(xvar)) foo(x1) [1] x1 Bill Venables CSIRO Laboratories PO Box 120, Cleveland, 4163 AUSTRALIA Office Phone (email preferred): +61 7 3826 7251 Fax (if absolutely necessary): +61 7 3826 7304 Mobile:

Re: [R] Fisher's r to z' transformation - help needed

2007-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 5/23/2007 7:40 AM, Mike White wrote: I am trying to use Fisher's z' transformation of the Pearson's r but the standard error does not appear to be correct. I have simulated an example using the R code below. The z' data appears to have a reasonably normal distribution but the standard

Re: [R] Fisher's r to z' transformation - help needed

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Mike White wrote: I am trying to use Fisher's z' transformation of the Pearson's r but the standard error does not appear to be correct. I have simulated an example using the R code below. The z' data appears to have a reasonably normal distribution but the standard error given by the

[R] make check fails tools-Ex in 2.5.0

2007-05-23 Thread Pacey, Mike
Hi folks, I'm attempting to compile and install 2.5.0, and make check is failing one of the earlier sanity tests. I'll append the relevant portion of the Rout.fail file below, but I've narrowed it down manually to a single command: sessionInfo() R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)

[R] Readline - wait for user input

2007-05-23 Thread Forest Floor
Hi, I've seen various posts on this question, but still can't get the code right. If I run the following code one line at a time, it works fine. If I run it together as a block, however, it doesn't wait for the input and gives an error. There must be a way to have are pause/wait for an

Re: [R] Reducing the size of pdf graphics files produced with R

2007-05-23 Thread Waichler, Scott R
as you are using MacOS X, you'll have ghostscript installed anyway. so try in R `dev2bitmap' with `type =pdfwrite'. I believe `gs' _does_ include compression. a quick test showed at least a reduction by about a factor of 2 relative to `pdf()'. probably one can fiddle with the ghostscript

Re: [R] Readline - wait for user input

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Forest Floor wrote: Hi, I've seen various posts on this question, but still can't get the code right. If I run the following code one line at a time, it works fine. If I run it together as a block, however, it doesn't wait for the input and gives an error. There must be a way to

[R] Infos

2007-05-23 Thread dieng alle
Hi, I have a problem with .RData. A friend gave me file .RData (he works on Linux). I have installed but I got the message(I'm in Windows): erreur fatale:impossible de recuperer les données sauvées dans .RData. Can you help me please to solve my problem. It's very important for me. If there

[R] Showing NAs when using table()

2007-05-23 Thread David Kane
I want to use table() to show NA values with factor variables. Using the set up from the help page, I have: b - factor(rep(c(A,B,C), 10)) d - factor(rep(c(A,B,C), 10), levels=c(A,B,C,D,E)) is.na(d) - 3:4 table(b, d) d bA B C D E A 9 0 0 0 0 B 0 10 0 0 0 C 0 0 9 0

Re: [R] Need Help on Joining 2 text files in R

2007-05-23 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 07:31:47 am CHANDRAMOULI BANERJEE wrote: Hi, I have 2 text files , the first one looks like this : CC: some statements this is followed by 10-12 lines in the similar pattern and then the next line is a comment and from the 14th line all the columns are

Re: [R] Reducing the size of pdf graphics files produced with R

2007-05-23 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:24:04AM -0700, Waichler, Scott R wrote: as you are using MacOS X, you'll have ghostscript installed anyway. so try in R `dev2bitmap' with `type =pdfwrite'. I believe `gs' _does_ include compression. a quick test showed at least a reduction by about a factor of 2

Re: [R] Infos

2007-05-23 Thread John Kane
Can you tell us a bit more. In particular where is the .RData stored and how are you accessing it? An example of the actual code would help. --- dieng alle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem with .RData. A friend gave me file .RData (he works on Linux). I have installed but

Re: [R] Reducing the size of pdf graphics files produced with R

2007-05-23 Thread Waichler, Scott R
Scott Scott Waichler, Senior Research Scientist Pacific Northwest National Laboratory MSIN K9-36 P.O. Box 999 Richland, WA 99352USA 509-372-4423 (voice) 509-372-6089 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hydrology.pnl.gov

[R] reading a big file

2007-05-23 Thread Remigijus Lapinskas
Dear All, I am on WindowsXP with 512 MB of RAM, R 2.4.0, and I want to read in a big file mln100.txt. The file is 390MB big, it contains a column of 100 millions integers. mln100=scan(mln100.txt) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 512000 Kb In addition: Warning messages: 1: Reached total

[R] Fonts do not display properly on Red Hat

2007-05-23 Thread michael watson \(IAH-C\)
Hi I'm using R version 2.3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Server 3. When I run a simple: plot(1:10,1:10) The plot comes out great, but the fonts are displayed wrongly: http://coxpress.sourceforge.net/test.jpg I realise this is probably not an R problem per se, but before I go messing about with

Re: [R] Infos

2007-05-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You haven't given us much to go on. The most likely problem is with 'A friend gave me file', is that the file could have got corrupted in the transfer. However, other possibilities are 1) You have a much older version of R than your friend. 2) Your computer has much less RAM than your

[R] make check problem

2007-05-23 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I thought all was well with my source compilation on Windows until I tried make check Here is an abbreviated version of my results: C:\esr\R-2.5.0\src\gnuwin32make check make check Testing package base Running examples in 'base-Ex.R' ... Comparing `base-Ex.Rout'

Re: [R] make check problem

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: I thought all was well with my source compilation on Windows until I tried make check Here is an abbreviated version of my results: C:\esr\R-2.5.0\src\gnuwin32make check make check Testing package base Running examples in 'base-Ex.R'

Re: [R] make check problem

2007-05-23 Thread Sicotte, Hugues Ph.D.
It looks like the system does not like that you installed the apps under your user folders. E.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Erin\Local Can you install in C:\Erin\Local -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess Sent: Wednesday, May 23,

[R] make check error in linux OS

2007-05-23 Thread Bricklemyer, Ross S
I am rebuilding R in a Mandriva Linux environment and have hit a new stumbling point I get the following error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R_HOME/R-2.5.0/tests' make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R_HOME/R-2.5.0/tests' make[3]: Entering

[R] Changing sequential regression code to call systemfit

2007-05-23 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
I use code ( actually its code from vars package and its directly below ) to do a sequence of lm calls and the data I use from the matrix depends on restrictions. for(i in 1:K){ datares - datasub[, which(x$restrictions[i, ] == 1),drop=FALSE] y - yendog[, i] lmres - lm(y ~ -1

[R] installing problems

2007-05-23 Thread Xyoby Chavez
hi every body. Im new in this program. Im traying to install R in linux suse10.0 in two following form: a) with the file R-2.5.0.tar.gz b) and the rpm file : R-base-2.5.0-2.1.i586.rpm ** In the first case a) when i uncompressed and type: linux:/opt/R/R-2.5.0 # ./configure the

Re: [R] Script for merging datasets

2007-05-23 Thread John Kane
I am not completely clear on the duplicate problem but have you had a look at ?unique as an approach to dealing with this and at ?merge to handle the actual data merging? --- Marshall L. Mdoka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am still new and so good with R. I am looking for anyone who

Re: [R] Zipcodes latitude and longitude

2007-05-23 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Farrel Buchinsky wrote: I see several mapping libraries but cannot find how to do a simple task. (for some definition of simple) Perhaps this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.geo/1534 on geocoding might help, especially Gabor Grothendieck's

Re: [R] reading a big file

2007-05-23 Thread jim holtman
see:http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/92525.html On 5/23/07, Remigijus Lapinskas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am on WindowsXP with 512 MB of RAM, R 2.4.0, and I want to read in a big file mln100.txt. The file is 390MB big, it contains a column of 100 millions

[R] I made some progress on my previous systemfit question but still not quite there

2007-05-23 Thread Leeds, Mark \(IED\)
Surprisingly, I played around with some test code and below actually creates equations that look correct. tempmat-matrix(10,nrow=6,ncol=6) restrictmat-diag(6) colnames(tempmat)-c(AUD.l1,CHF.l1,CAD.l1,GBP.l1,EUR.l1,JPY.l 1) rownames(tempmat)-c(AUD,CHF,CAD,GBP,EUR,JPY) eqn-list() for ( i in 1:6

[R] in unix opening data object created under win

2007-05-23 Thread toby909
Hi All I am saving a dataframe in my MS-Win R with save(). Then I copy it onto my personal AFS space. Then I start R and run it with emacs and load() the data. It loads only 2 lines: head() shows only two lines nrow() als say it has only 2 lines, I get error message, when trying to use this data

[R] Function to Sort and test AIC for mixed model lme?

2007-05-23 Thread Ken Nussear
Hi List I'm running a series of mixed models using lme, and I wonder if there is a way to sort them by AIC prior to testing using anova (lme1,lme2,lme3,lme7) other than by hand. My current output looks like this. anova

Re: [R] repeated measures regression

2007-05-23 Thread John Christie
Hmmm, been away and got this... I appreciate the effort but there wasn't anything, in principle, in MASS on this I didn't already know. My question is just more about the functioning of the lm command and deriving these values. I understand that its the wrong approach for repeated

[R] Missing data

2007-05-23 Thread John Sorkin
Can someone direct me to a package, or packages, that can perform data augmentation to deal with missing data? Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene

[R] make check prob with internet

2007-05-23 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: There seem to be some problems with the make check still. I changed the TMPDIR to C:\Temp, and that helped a great deal. But I'm still having problems with the internet.r functions. Please see below: C:\esr\R-2.5.0\src\gnuwin32make check make check Testing package base

Re: [R] repeated measures regression

2007-05-23 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Christie Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:09 PM To: Bert Gunter Cc: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] repeated measures regression Hmmm, been away and got this... I appreciate the

Re: [R] repeated measures regression

2007-05-23 Thread Marco B
Hi John, I have collected a few methods for doing this in a very empyrical fashion. I've asked a few questions on r-help about them, and got mixed responses. You can find the archived thread at: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/05/16660.html The responses and linked resources might