Re: [R] correlation structure in lmer

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/30/07, Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/29/07, Fränzi Korner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how can I specify a correlation structure in the lmer-function as it is > > possible in lme(formula, ..., corr=corAR1(form=...))? > > The short ans

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/29/07, hui xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks very much for all your advice. To be clear, my OS is window XP. I > bought this server last year. It's Dell Precision PWS690. THe processor is > Xeon(TM) CPU 3GHZ, 2G RAM. I am not sure how to check more details of > processor on my compute

Re: [R] correlation structure in lmer

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/29/07, Fränzi Korner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can I specify a correlation structure in the lmer-function as it is > possible in lme(formula, ..., corr=corAR1(form=...))? The short answer is "you can't". __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

Re: [R] degrees of freedom question

2007-08-23 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/22/07, Greg Tarpinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R2.3, WinXP > Dear all, > I am using the following functions: > f1 = Phi1+(Phi2-Phi1)/(1+exp((log(Phi3)-log(x))/exp(log(Phi4))) > f2 = Phi1+(Phi2-Phi1)/(1+exp((log(Phi3)-log(r)-log(x))/exp(log(Phi4))) > subject to the residual weight

Re: [R] small issue with densityplot

2007-08-21 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/21/07, Horace Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deepayan, you're right. Now I realize anyone could write a densityplot > function to apply on a different class of objects. I guess I should write to > the author of lme4 which from what I could see does not describe a > densityplot. By the way

Re: [R] invert 160000x160000 matrix

2007-08-14 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/14/07, Jiao Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tir, > Thank you very much for the note. I'm using an algorithm to analyze a data > set of 400 variables and the algorithm uses the inverse of a 16x16 > positive definite matrix. The matrix is stored as a text file. A meta-theorem in

Re: [R] lmer() : crossed-random-effects specification

2007-08-07 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/7/07, Daniel Caro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to estimate a crossed-random-effects model (i.e., measurements, > students, schools) where students migrate between schools over time. > I'm interested in the fixed effects of "SES", "age" and their > interaction on "read" (re

Re: [R] generating symmetric matrices

2007-07-30 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/30/07, Gregory Gentlemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/27/07, Gregory Gentlemen wrote: > > Greetings, > > > I have a seemingly simple task which I have not been able to solve today. > I want to cons

Re: [R] generating symmetric matrices

2007-07-30 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/27/07, Gregory Gentlemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > I have a seemingly simple task which I have not been able to solve today. I > want to construct a symmetric matrix of arbtriray size w/o using loops. The > following I thought would do it: > p <- 6 > Rmat <- diag(p) > dat.c

Re: [R] imposing constraints on the covariance matrix of random effects in lme4?

2007-07-13 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/12/07, JVVerkuilen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I am using lme4 to fit some mixed logistic regressions. I need to > impose an identification constraint of the following form: > (1sig12) > (sig12 sig22) > and have not figured out how to do it, i.e., sig11 = 1 but the re

Re: [R] is.null doesn't work

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/12/07, Atte Tenkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to work, if I unlist the argument at first ;-) > Atte > > Hi, > > What's wrong here?: > > > v=c(`-`,`+`,1,`^`,`^`,NA,NA,"X",9,"X",2) > > > i2=16 > > > v[i2] > > [[1]] > > NULL > > > is.null(v[i2]) > > [1] FALSE > > Is it a bug or h

Re: [R] Installation on Leopard

2007-07-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 7/11/07, Helin Gai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm wondering whether anyone has installed R on Mac OS X leopard with > success. I downloaded the latest version, but couldn't have it installed. > Any idea as to how I get around the problem? Thanks! Simon Urbanek has comments about R f

Re: [R] skeleton for C code?

2007-06-27 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/27/07, ivo welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R experts---I would like to write a replacement for the read.csv > function that is less general, but also more efficient. > > could someone please provide me with a skeleton function that shows me > how to read the arguments and return a data

Re: [R] How to run "mathematica" or "c" programs in R?

2007-06-23 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/22/07, Zhang Jian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some programs which were writen in mathematica or c language, but I > donot know how to use these software. So I want to run them in R. > Can I do it ? > How to run "mathematica" or "c" programs in R? To paraphrase Thomas Lumley, Sure.

Re: [R] using lme on multiple datasets in one shot

2007-06-22 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, > I would like to do a huge number of lme's using the same design matrix > (and fixed and random effects). Is it possible to do this efficiently? > Doing otherwise is not an option for my example. > Basically, I am wanting to d

Re: [R] Question about lmer

2007-06-18 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/18/07, Julia Proudnikova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We have a problem with function lmer. This is our code: > > Get_values<-function(ff_count, fixed_factors, rf_count, random_factors, > y_values) > { > SA<-matrix(as.array(c(fixed_factors, random_factors)), ncol=3) > data<-as.

Re: [R] How to comment out a piece of a R code in XEmacs+ESS

2007-06-16 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/16/07, Ronaldo Reis Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I using Xemacs+ESS to write a R code, I need to comment out a code line > by line putting # > It is possible to configure ESS to comment and uncomment a selected block of > code. This question probably belongs on the ESS-help mail

Re: [R] question about formula for lm

2007-06-16 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/14/07, Greg Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try: > > > lm( formula( paste( Ytext, '~ Xvar' ) ), data=X) That type of construction is perilously close to parse(paste(...)) and we know what Thomas said about that (see fortune("parse")). A safer way of constructing a formula from names stor

Re: [R] R vs. Splus in Pharma/Devices Industry

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/15/07, Nicholas Lewin-Koh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I just saw this thread. This issue, and the larger scale issue of open > source in industry > is being addressed. One has to realize that the behemoth that is the > clinical aperatus > of the pharma industry is very conservative and

Re: [R] lme() doesn't converge on IGF example

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/13/07, David Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running the Chapter 4 examples in Pinheiro & Bates' "Mixed-Effects > Models in S and S-PLUS" (2000), I get a message that the default > optimizer doesn't converge, but using "optim" for the optimizer > results in convergence: > > > > library(nlm

Re: [R] Tools For Preparing Data For Analysis

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/7/07, Robert Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As noted on the R-project web site itself ( www.r-project.org -> > Manuals -> R Data Import/Export ), it can be cumbersome to prepare > messy and dirty data for analysis with the R tool itself. I've also > seen at least one S programming book (

Re: [R] Extracting lists in the dataframe $ format

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/4/07, Stan Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to R and am trying to extract the factors of a dataframe using > numeric indices (e.g. df[1]) that are input to a function definition instead > of the other types of references (e.g. df$out). df[1] is a list(?) whose > class is "dataf

Re: [R] how to specify starting values in varIdent() of lme()

2007-06-01 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was reading the help but just did not get how to specify starting values for > varIdent() of the lme() function, although I managed to do it for corSymm(). > Do I specify the values just as they are printed out in an output, like c(1, > 1

Re: [R] Calling C routine in anther package in C code (R_RegisterCCallable)

2007-06-01 Thread Douglas Bates
It looks like your C++ compiler is mangling the name R_RegisterCCallable. Move the extern "C" before the #include On 6/1/07, Alex Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I want to make use of some C routines from other packages to write extensions > in C. > > > > In "Writing R Extension

Re: [R] Interaction term in lmer

2007-06-01 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/1/07, emine özgür Bayman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R users, > I'm pretty new on using lmer package. My response is binary and I have fixed > treatment effect (2 treatments) and random center effect (7 centers). I want > to test the effect of treatment by fitting 2 models: > > Model 1:

Re: [R] parallel processing an lme model

2007-05-29 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > Had anyone of you seen if it is possible to split a large lme() job to be > processed by multiple cpus/computers? > I am just at the very beginning to understand related things, but does the > lme() > use solution finding functi

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

2007-05-24 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/24/07, Ken Nussear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ken Nussear mac.com> writes: > > > > > 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. > > > > You ca

Re: [R] data in packages... a list?

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/22/07, Adrian Dusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > Is it possible to add a list in the data folder when creating a new package? Yes. > In other words, is data in packages restricted to data.frame only? Well section 1.1.3 of the manual "Writing R Extensions" say, in part, "Currentl

Re: [R] can I get same results using lme and gls?

2007-05-21 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering how to get the same results with gls and lme. In my lme, the > design matrix for the random effects is (should be) a identity matrix and > therefore G should add up with R to produce the R matrix that gls would report > (V=

Re: [R] Matrix package: writeMM

2007-05-17 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/15/07, Jose Quesada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm finding that readMM() cannot read a file written with writeMM(). > Example: > > library(Matrix) > a = Matrix(c(1,0,3,0,0,5), 10, 10) > a = as(a, "CsparseMatrix") > writeMM(a, "kk.mm") > b = readMM("kk.mm") > > Error in validObject(.O

Re: [R] Re-sizing R graphics for Sweave

2007-05-17 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/16/07, Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc, > > That did it! Thank you so much for your help… > > Regards, > Tom > > > Marc Schwartz wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 16:34 -0400, Thomas Adams wrote: > > > >> I am generating a single graphic containing about 31 Boxplots; the issue >

Re: [R] lmer error confusion

2007-05-16 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/16/07, Rick DeShon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > > I'm trying to run a simple model from Baayan, Davidson, & Bates and getting > a confusing error message. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? > > # Here's the data. > Subj<- factor(rep(1:3,each=6)) > Item<- factor(rep(1:3

Re: [R] lmer function

2007-05-16 Thread Douglas Bates
-- Original Message From: Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steven McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Iasonas Lamprianou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Tuesday, 15 May, 2007 2:17:34 AM Subject: Re: [R] lmer function On 5/14/07, Steven McKin

Re: [R] Unable to compile "Matrix" package

2007-05-16 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/16/07, Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading to 2.5.0 under freebsd 6.2 I updated all the add-on packages > in an R session via update.packages(...). R was unable to install > the "Matrix" package because it couldn't find the package. > Therefore I downloaded the *.t

Re: [R] Problem with lme4

2007-05-15 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/15/07, Seyed Reza Jafarzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should be > > > lmer(success ~ yearF + (1 | bandnumb), data=quality, family = binomial, > > method = PQL) It has to be method = "PQL" (the quotes are important) except that the PQL method is no longer an option in lmer. Beginning

Re: [R] lmer function

2007-05-14 Thread Douglas Bates
gt;lme4 Matrix lattice > "0.9975-13" "0.9975-11""0.15-4" > > > > Steven McKinney > > Statistician > Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program > British Columbia Cancer Research Centre > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] parsing an lmer error with interaction term

2007-05-14 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/14/07, Brian Riordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to specify a model using lmer with a binary response and > interaction term, but I get an error I can't parse (see below). > > Here is some sample data: > > SubjectConcordAgeDisc > SVC999MX148SU-Fyesuint > TOU

Re: [R] lmer function

2007-05-14 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/14/07, Iasonas Lamprianou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if the lmer function of lme4 works fine for unbalanced > designs? I have the examination results of 1000 pupils on three subjects, one > score every term. So, I have three scores for English (one for every term), > thre

Re: [R] R^2 from lme function

2007-05-14 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/14/07, Martin Henry H. Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Cleber, > By "full" I simply meant "not REML." the function assumes that the > fixed effects were estimated using REML criteria, and using update() > simply changes that to ML. If the model was fit originally with ML, > it shouldn

Re: [R] names of objects in .rda

2007-05-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/11/07, Benilton Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > sorry if this was discussed before (and in this situation, could you > please point me to the discussion in the archive? My search didn't > seem to be effective). > > Is there a way of getting the names of objects in a .rda

Re: [R] nlme fixed effects specification

2007-05-05 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/4/07, ivo welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi doug: yikes. could I have done better? Oh dear. I tried to make my example clearer half-way through, but made it worse. I meant set.seed(1); fe = as.factor( as.integer( runif(100)*10 ) ); y=rnorm(100); x=rnorm(100); print(summary(lm( y ~

Re: [R] nlme fixed effects specification

2007-05-04 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/3/07, ivo welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear R experts: > > sorry, I have to ask this again. I know that the answer is in section > 7.2 of "S Programming," but I don't have the book (and I plan to buy > the next edition---which I hope will be titled S/R programming ;-) ). > I believe th

Re: [R] R² in a non-linear regresion analisys

2007-05-04 Thread Douglas Bates
On 5/4/07, Adrian J. Montero Calvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody explain me how do i get Correlation Coefficient R² in a > non-linear regresion analisys performed with nls()?. Thanks in advance. It may seem "obvious" how to define the multiple correlation coefficient R^2 for a non-linea

Re: [R] Example of mcmcsamp() failing with lmer() output

2007-04-29 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/27/07, Michael Kubovy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would appreciate help with the following model > > <<1>>= > gunload <- read.table(hh('datasets/gunload.dat'), header = T) > gunload$method <- factor(gunload$method, labels = c('new', 'old')) > gunload$physique <- factor(gunload$group

Re: [R] weight

2007-04-29 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/28/07, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC you have a yes/no smoking variable scored 1/2 ? > > It is possibly being read in as a factor not as an > integer. > > try > class(df$smoking.variable) > to see . Good point. In general I would recommend using str(df) to check on the class

Re: [R] Converting "list of data frame" to data frame

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/28/07, Ajit Pawar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > This might be something very simple but a nice solution eludes me!! > >I have a function that I call within sapply that generates data frame > in each call. Now when sapply returns me back the result - it's in the form >

Re: [R] Matrix: how to re-use the symbolic Cholesky factorization?

2007-04-24 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/24/07, Gardar Johannesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been playing around with sparse matrices in the Matrix > package, in particularly with the Cholesky factorization of matrices > of class dsCMatrix. And BTW, what a fantastic package. > > My problem is that I have to carry out repeat

Re: [R] erratic behavior of match()?

2007-04-18 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/18/07, Bernhard Klingenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider the code: > > x <- seq(0,1,0.2) > y <- seq(0,1,0.01) > cbind(match(y,x),y) > > which, surprisingly, doesn't show a match at 0.6! (It gives correct > matches at 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8 and 1, though) > > In addition, > > x[4]==y[61] > >

Re: [R] Two sample t.test, order of comparions

2007-04-18 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/18/07, Helmut Schütz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear group members, > > I want to compare response variables ("logAUC") of two groups (treatment > "Test", "Reference") of a subset ("period == 1") in dataframe "resp" > (below): > >sequence subject period treatment AUC logAUC > 1

Re: [R] Modelling Heteroscedastic Multilevel Models

2007-04-17 Thread Douglas Bates
May I suggest the Exam data from the mlmRev package as an example. If you wish to have a random effect for Sex by school you could write the model as lmer(test.result ~ homework + Sex + (Sex|school)) which gives correlated random effects for the overall achievement in schools and the differentia

Re: [R] replicates in repeated ANOVA

2007-04-14 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/13/07, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have sort of a newbie question. I've seriously put a lot of effort into how to handle simple replicates in a repeated ANOVA design, but haven't had much luck. I really liked reading "Notes on the use of R for psychology experiments an

Re: [R] LME: internal workings of QR factorization

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/12/07, Izmirlian, Grant (NIH/NCI) [E] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I've been reading "Computational Methods for Multilevel Modeling" by Pinheiro > and Bates, the idea of embedding the technique in my own c-level code. The > basic idea is to rewrite the joint density in a form to mimi

Re: [R] help with lmer,

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/11/07, Brendan Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi R-users: > > New to R and I am trying to run a GLM with random effects. > > I have 3 replicates ('Replicate) of counts of parasites ('nor.tot.lep') > before and after an experiment ('In.Out'). When I run lmer I get the > error messages (16

Re: [R] Reasons to Use R

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/11/07, Robert Duval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I guess my question is... > > Is there any hope of R being modified on its core in order to handle > more graciously large datasets? (You've mentioned SAS and SPSS, I'd > add Stata to the list). > > Or should we (the users of large datasets)

Re: [R] Why warnings using lmer-model with family=binomial

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/11/07, Åsa Granberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > My question is why, and what I can do about that > I sometimes, but not always, get warning-messages like > > nlminb returned message singular convergence (7) > in: LMEopt(x = mer, value = cv) > > or > > IRLS iterations for PQL did

Re: [R] Help with pexp( )

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/11/07, Jeann S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Sorry for bringing up an old issue: > > >pexp(50, 0.5) > [1] 1 > > In some cases, pexp() gives CDF=1. I read some discussion in 2002 saying it > has been patched. However it's not working in "R2.4.1Patched". Could anyone > help

Re: [R] negative variances

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/11/07, Tu Yu-Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R experts, > > I had a question which may not be directly relevant to R but I will be > grateful if you can give me some advices. > > I ran a two-level multilevel model for data with repeated measurements over > time, i.e. level-1 the repeate

Re: [R] Reasons to Use R

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/10/07, Wensui Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg, > As far as I understand, SAS is more efficient handling large data > probably than S+/R. Do you have any idea why? SAS originated at a time when large data sets were stored on magnetic tape and the only reasonable way to process them was s

Re: [R] (sans objet)

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any function "argmax" in R ? > > For example, if I have the vector x=c(1,4,15,7,6), max(x)=15. > But I need a function f such that f(x)=3, 3 being the number where 15 is. which.max __

Re: [R] the numimum number of fixed factors lme package can deal with

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Bates
istance. > -----Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Douglas Bates > Sent: Tue 4/3/2007 5:57 PM > To: Fang, Yongxiang > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] the numimum number of fixed factors lme package can deal with > > On 4/3/07, Fan

Re: [R] lmer, CHOLMOD warning: matrix not positive definite

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/2/07, Seyed Reza Jafarzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting a warning message when I am fitting a generalized linear > mixed model (m1.2 below). > > > CHOLMOD warning: matrix not positive definite > Error in objective(.par, ...) : Cholmod error `matrix not positive > definit

Re: [R] the numimum number of fixed factors lme package can deal with

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 4/3/07, Fang, Yongxiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my study, mixed effects model is required and the number of fixed > effects is very large. When lme package is employed, a model error is > displayed once the number of fixed factors in the formula reaches 200. Is > this the maximum numbe

Re: [R] Use of 'defineVar' and 'install' in .Call

2007-03-28 Thread Douglas Bates
I did read your second message about the problem symptoms disappearing but I thought that I might make a couple of suggestions about your code anyway. There are a number of helper functions declared in Rinternals.h such as ScalarReal, which is equivalent to your mkans. (Also ScalarInteger, Scalar

Re: [R] R equivalent of S+SeqTrial?

2007-03-28 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/28/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 02:42 -0700, francogrex wrote: > > Does anyone know of an R package that is equivalent of S+SeqTrial for > > analysis of clinical trials using group sequential methods? Thanks. > > I don't know that there are fully functio

Re: [R] how to get "lsmeans"?

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/22/07, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but to increase the use of R in places > where SAS & SPSS dominate, it's important to make getting the same > answers as easy as possible. That includes things like lsmeans and type > III sums of squ

Re: [R] non-linear curve fitting

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/22/07, Hufkens Koen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a means of getting an F-statistic (p-value) out of all of this. > Because least-square criterion / r-square only tell me how good the fit is > and not necessarily how solid this fit is. An F-statistic (p-value) would be > nice... Wh

Re: [R] Gaussian Adaptive Quadrature

2007-03-21 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/21/07, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The function integrate() uses AGQ. There are other functions for > gaussian quadrature in the statmod() package that I really like. I think that integrate does adaptive quadrature but not adaptive Gaussian quadrature (which probably should hav

Re: [R] How does glm(family='binomial') deal with perfect sucess?

2007-03-20 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/20/07, Mike Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to understand the logistic regression performed by glm (i.e. when > family='binomial'), and I'm curious to know how it treats perfect > success. That is, lets say I have the following summary data > > x=c(1,2,3,4,5,6)

Re: [R] error installing packages

2007-03-20 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/7/07, Bricklemyer, Ross S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was finally able to get R to 'configure', 'make', and 'install' on Mandriva > 2007. Itried to install gnomeGUI and I received an error. See below. At > what step do I make R a shared library? Where did I go wrong? At the configu

Re: [R] augPred in lmer

2007-03-08 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/8/07, Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > not yet! At least not as far as I know. Not as far as I know either. > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:08:19PM -0600, Roberts, J. Kyle wrote: > > I read the posts about augPred with lme, but does anyone know if there is a > > corre

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/6/07, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bert Gunter wrote: > > Folks: > > > > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/6/07, Bert Gunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end? There has indeed

Re: [R] expm()

2007-03-06 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/6/07, Laura Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can the expm function be used to calculate the exponential of a matrix where > the matrix is multiplied by a vector in a data frame? I don't quite understand the question. The exponential of a matrix is only defined for square matrices. > For ex

Re: [R] Mitools and lmer

2007-03-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/2/07, Beth Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there > I am estimating a multilevel model using lmer. I have 5 imputed datasets so > I am using mitools to pool the estimates from the 5 > datasets. Everything seems to work until I try to use > MIcombine to produced pooled estimates. Doe

Re: [R] LME without convergence

2007-02-28 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/28/07, Ralf Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R-help list readers, > > I am fitting a mixed model using the lme function (R V 2.3.1 for > Windows). This is an example: > > dep<-c(25,40,33.33,60,70.83,72,71.43,50,40,53.33,64,54.17,60,53.57) > yes<-c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,0,1,2,3,4,5,6) > tre

Re: [R] compiling issues with Mandriva Linux 2007 Discovery

2007-02-27 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/27/07, Bricklemyer, Ross S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I am a new user to Linux but I am familiar with R. I have previously > used and installed R on a Windows platform without problems. I recently > set up a dual boot system (XP_64, Mandriva) to run R on a Linux platform > in orde

Re: [R] problem with weights on lmer function

2007-02-24 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/23/07, Ronaldo Reis Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Quinta 22 Fevereiro 2007 20:36, Andrew Robinson escreveu: > > Hi Ronaldo, > > > > I suggest that you send us a small, well-documented, code example that > > we can reproduce. It certainly looks as though there is a problem, > > but gi

Re: [R] Confindence interval for Levenberg-Marquardt fit

2007-02-21 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/21/07, joerg van den hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:09:52AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Well, the algorithm used does not affect the confidence interval (provided > > it works correctly), but what is nls.ml (presumably in some package you > > have not ment

Re: [R] Start and Restart R over SSH

2007-02-19 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/19/07, Nils Höller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have some big calculations in R to be done. > Since I can use R on a server with ssh, i was wondering if I can reopen > a R Shell after exiting ssh. > > I don't want to use the batch mode and nohup doesn't work. > > I want to use someth

Re: [R] something missing in summary()

2007-02-16 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/16/07, Jari Oksanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerard Smits g_smits at verizon.net Fri Feb 16 00:46:09 CET 2007: > > just noticed that two key pieces of information are not given by > > the summary() command: N and SD. we are given the N missing, but > > not the converse. I know these sum

Re: [R] nested model: lme, aov and LSMeans

2007-02-14 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/13/07, shirley zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working with a nested model (mixed). > > I have four factors: Patients, Tissue, sex, and tissue_stage. > > Totally I have 10 patients, for each patient, there are 2 tissues > (Cancer vs. Normal). > > I think Tissue and sex are fixed. Patien

Re: [R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
old. If it didn't install on a stock version of R-2.4.1 I imagine we would have heard about it before now. I think you may need to check if somehow you have an old version of the methods package on your search path or just install a fresh copy of R-2.4.1 > > Douglas Bates wrote: >

Re: [R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/11/07, Andrew Gelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to update my packages and then had a problem with loading the > Matrix package > http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Matrix_0.9975-9.zip > This is what happened when I tried to load it in: > > > library("Matrix") > E

Re: [R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
uasi() allows user-specified variance functions. > > I thought that was the point of the example on the family help page. > > ken > > > Douglas Bates a écrit : > Look at the 'link' component of the two lists. In the binomial family > object the link componen

Re: [R] deleting row when any col is.na

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/11/07, Milton Cezar Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I delete rows from a data.frame where almost one column is.na()? The na.omit function does this. > set.seed(123454321) > x <- matrix(rnorm(50, mean = 1), ncol = 5) > x[x < 0] <- NA > df <- data.frame(x) > df X1

Re: [R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
ideta : NULL > - attr(*, "class")= chr "family" > > > So, could this be the root of the problem? > > Here again is the logexp function: > logexp <- function(days = 1) > { > linkfun <- function(mu) qlogis(mu^(1/days)) > linkinv <

Re: [R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-10 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/10/07, Jessi Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, everyone. I've been trying to analyze bird nest survival > data using generalized linear mixed models (because we documented > several consecutive nesting attempts by the same individuals; i.e. > repeated measures data) and have been u

Re: [R] TA-Lib and R

2007-02-09 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does someone know how to use TA-Lib in R (http://ta-lib.org/)? Simple. Read the documentation for TA-Lib, then read the manual "Writing R Extensions", then write and test the necessary interface routines. ___

Re: [R] Timings of function execution in R [was Re: R in Industry]

2007-02-09 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/9/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other reason why pmin/pmax are preferable to your functions is that > they are fully generic. It is not easy to write C code which takes into > account that <, [, [<- and is.na are all generic. That is not to say that > it is not worth

[R] Timings of function execution in R [was Re: R in Industry]

2007-02-08 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/8/07, Albrecht, Dr. Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, Thanks a lot for your comments. I very well agree with you that writing efficient code is about optimisation. The most important rules I know would be: - vectorization - pre-definition of vectors,

Re: [R] R vs Matlab {Re: R in Industry}

2007-02-08 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/8/07, Manuel Morales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:53 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: > > > "Albr" == Albrecht, Dr Stefan (AZ Private Equity Partner) <[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]> > > > on Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:38:18 +0100 writes: > > > Albr> And, I was ver

Re: [R] NEWBIE: @BOOK help?

2007-02-08 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/8/07, Zembower, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Henric's recent post, he included this output: > > @BOOK{R:Harrell:2001, > AUTHOR = {Frank E. Harrell}, > TITLE = {Regression Modeling Strategies, with Applications to > Linear Models, Survival Analysis and Logistic >

Re: [R] Singular Gradient

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/7/07, This Wiederkehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to fit data with the following function: > > fit<-nls(y~ Is*(1-exp(-l*x))+Iph,start=list(Is=-2e-5,l=2.3,Iph=-0.3 > ),control=list(maxiter=500,minFactor=1/1,tol=10e-05),trace=TRUE) > But I get only a singular Gradient warning... Di

Re: [R] precision of zero in R

2007-02-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/3/07, pu chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > I have to calculate the determinants of near singular matrices. Presently R > just stop at the precision of 2.16 e-16. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Can you explain how you determined that number, perhaps including some code? It h

Re: [R] memory-efficient column aggregation of a sparse matrix

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Bates
On 1/31/07, Jon Stearley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to sum the columns of a sparse matrix according to a factor - > ie given a sparse matrix X and a factor fac of length ncol(X), sum > the elements by column factors and return the sparse matrix Y of size > nrow(X) by nlevels(f). The appen

Re: [R] Fwd: how to handle a longitudinal data

2007-01-27 Thread Douglas Bates
On 1/27/07, gallon li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually there are too many subjects. > > is there a way that i can make a table such that it can tell me the > frequency of number of observations? > > Like > > 3 4 5 > > 30 40 60 > > which means there are 30 subjects which each has 3

[R] [R-pkgs] New version of lme4 and new mailing list R-SIG-mixed-models

2007-01-25 Thread Douglas Bates
Version 0.9975-11 of the lme4 package has been uploaded to CRAN. The source package should be available on the mirrors in a day or two and binary packages should follow soon after. There are several changes in this release of the package. The most important is the availability of a development v

Re: [R] How to specify arguments in lme() ?

2007-01-18 Thread Douglas Bates
On 1/18/07, w jj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a question about the function lme() in R. > > I have a 2*2*3 layout with some missing data (labelled as *). These 3 > factors are labelled as A,B,C, the response is Score. The layout is as > follows:- > > A B C

Re: [R] mcmcsamp and variance ratios

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Bates
On 1/3/07, Martin Henry H. Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > I have assumed that ratios of variance components (Fst and Qst in > population genetics) could be estimated using the output of mcmcsamp > (the series on mcmc sample estimates of variance components). > What I have started

Re: [R] A question on lmer() function

2006-12-19 Thread Douglas Bates
On 12/17/06, Guojing Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R users, > We have encountered a slight problem when using the lmer() > function: > > 1. Data description: 11 locations; Nt: monthly mosquito population > density from 1994-2005 in each location. > 2. Question: to examine the degr

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