Re: [R] exporting a table to latex

2006-12-13 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer M Krug Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:47 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] exporting a table to latex Is there another way of formating the values to three decimal

Re: [R] evolutionary computing in R

2006-08-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi Christian, the language spoken on this mailing list is English not German. As far as I know there is one package called gafit which is intended for... library(gafit) ?gafit ...Genetic Algorithm for Curve Fitting Is this something you are looking for? For non-German speakers who are

Re: [R] References verifying accuracy of R for basic statisticalcalculations and tests

2006-07-14 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corey Powell Do you know of any references that verify the accuracy of R for basic statistical calculations and tests. The results of these studies should indicate that R results are the same as the results of other statistical packages to a

Re: [R] References verifying accuracy of R for basic statisticalcalculations and tests

2006-07-14 Thread Rau, Roland
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley `Correct' as in `as obtained by NIST'? It is a considerable assumption that the reference results are 'correct' or 'accurate'. I learnt from my work with analytical

Re: [R] Second Partial Derivatives

2006-07-11 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Mcfadden Does R have any build-in function which allow me to count second partial derivatives numerically? library(nlme) ?fdHess I hope this is the direction you wanted to take. Best, Roland -- This mail has been sent through

[R] OT: Monograph on Statistical Programming

2006-05-29 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, my question might be a bit off-topic. Is there anything like a standard textbook on statistical programming? With that I don't mean anything like MASS, S Programming, Programming with Data, ... (no offense meant, they are fantastic books and each of those three helped me a great deal).

Re: [R] Regression through the origin

2006-05-23 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, a first step to answer your question: Regression through the origin (= without intercept) can be done by explicitly stating in the 'formula' argument '-1' If you check the help page of 'lm' for example: help(lm) It will say in the 'Details' section: A formula has an implied intercept term.

Re: [R] random generation of a factor

2006-05-22 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, Does anybody know a function that generates a factor of length N with K levels given the proportions c(p1, p2,... ,pk)? It would not ## does this code piece help you? mydata - c(yesterday, today, tomorrow) myproportions - c(0.3, 0.5, 0.2) n - 20 sample(x=mydata, size=n,

[R] Tiny Typo in R Data Import/Export Manual

2006-03-14 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, in the first paragraph in Section 4.3.2 of the R Data Import/Export Manual, it is written 'We havew tested...'. Most likely it should be 'We have tested...' It is just such a minor thing that I was unsure whether to submit a bug report. I use now R 2.2.1 on Win32 but I guess this is

Re: [R] How to get the intercept from lm?

2006-03-10 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, I hope the following code helps. Best, Roland ## creating example data xx - 1:30 yy - 3 + 2*xx + rnorm(length(xx), mean=0, sd=2) plot(xx,yy) # looks reasonable ## the 'lm' mymodel - lm(yy~xx) summary(mymodel) # just looking at the results ## extracting intercept and slope:

Re: [R] Linux editor like WinEdt?

2006-03-10 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, I initiate in R - Linux and I've some problems to find an editor with R interface as like RWinEdt for WinEdt. Anyone know one? a good interface, for sure, is Emacs[1] (or XEmacs[2]) in conjunction with ESS[3]. The problem is, however, that it takes a while and some commitment to get

[R] Linking Rblas

2006-03-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, when making a DLL via Rcmd SHLIB is there a way to link against a library such as Rblas (I am on a Windows platform) on a case to case basis? I played a bit around with some self-written C-code which should call the function 'dasum' defined in Blas.h. I encountered the following

Re: [R] Linking Rblas [under Windows]

2006-03-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear Prof. Ripley, thank you very much. It works now absolutely fine using a Makevars file with the contents you suggested. Thanks again, Roland -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:09 PM To: Rau, Roland Cc: r-help

[R] Numerical Mathematics Consortium

2006-03-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, I found a link to the Numerical Mathematics Consortium http://www.nmconsortium.org/index.aspx Their rationale can be summarized (as far as I understood) by the paragraphs which I copied from their homepage and pasted below. Maybe this could be of interest also for the development of R?

Re: [R] Tranferring R results to word prosessors

2006-02-09 Thread Rau, Roland
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Romain Francois Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:54 PM To: Tom Backer Johnsen One way could be to output in html format from R (with the R2HTML package) and then read back the html from your

Re: [R] R- License

2006-02-07 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] R- License Hello. We are trying to install R on our network, and I wanted to ask if there is a user license agreement. I will be grateful if somebody can send me a link to it; if one

Re: [R] sort columns

2006-02-02 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, is this what you were looking for? sort(c(v1, v9090, v910, v990, v908)) [1] v1v908 v9090 v910 v990 library(gtools) mixedsort(c(v1, v9090, v910, v990, v908)) [1] v1v908 v910 v990 v9090 Best, Roland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [R] A comment about R:

2006-01-03 Thread Rau, Roland
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 4:59 PM To: Philippe Grosjean Cc: Kort, Eric; Kjetil Halvorsen; R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] A comment about R: Probably what is

[R] Reshaping data

2005-12-08 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, given I have data in a data.frame which indicate the number of people in a specific year at a specific age: n - 10 mydf - data.frame(yr=sample(1:10, size=n, replace=FALSE), age=sample(1:12, size=n, replace=FALSE), no=sample(1:10, size=n,

Re: [R] Reshaping data

2005-12-08 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, thank you very much for your fast reply. It worked fine. In the meantime, I also had now an idea using a function from the apply-family (see below for the code). The more I use R, the more I get the impression that either the apply-family or outer() can solve most of my data-transformation

Re: [R] Dancing lissajous

2005-11-23 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:42 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Dancing lissajous http://www.geocities.com/robsteele/ this is what pops up when I try

Re: [R] Can I run both R and Python through Emacs

2005-11-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear Sri, probably this is the wrong list to address this question. For example, there are the newsgroups comp.emacs.xemacs or comp.lang.python which are probably more appropriate. Nevertheless, I don't think you need to do anything to configure XEmacs for Python. Just open or create a file with

Re: [R] Optim function

2005-11-04 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, is this what you meant? myfun - function(x) { return(x^2) } optim(par=0.5, fn=myfun, method=BFGS)$par Best, Roland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:23 AM To:

Re: [R] How to print output during for loops?

2005-10-30 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Lam I was wondering, if it is possible to print out the values of variables while you are in a for/while loop? Like this for example: for (i in 1:5) { i } yes, should be

Re: [R] outer-question

2005-10-28 Thread Rau, Roland
- From: Thomas Lumley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:39 PM To: Rau, Roland Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] outer-question You want FAQ 7.17 Why does outer() behave strangely with my function? -thomas On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Rau

[R] outer-question

2005-10-27 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, This is a rather lengthy message, but I don't know what I made wrong in my real example since the simple code works. I have two variables a, b and a function f for which I would like to calculate all possible combinations of the values of a and b. If f is multiplication, I would simply

Re: [R] survival frailty models

2005-10-26 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lamack lamack Dear all, someone could send me a introductory reference about Survival Frailty Models??? what about this article: @article{vaupel79, author={Vaupel, James W. and Manton, Kenneth G. and Stallard,

Re: [R] symbolic math

2005-10-26 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giannitrapani, Marco GSUK-GSSC Subject: [R] symbolic math Does anyone knows if it exists a symbolic math package in R, that allows to compute derivatives, integrals, etc.? Have a look at: ?D Does exist a

Re: [R] Teaching R - In front of the computer?

2005-09-20 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, thanks for telling me your experiences how you proceed teaching R. I am currently giving a five week course teaching R to 16 graduate-level students consisting of 12 sessions à 1.5 hours. Two weeks have passed during that course and I was just questioning myself whether my style of

[R] Teaching R - In front of the computer?

2005-09-19 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear R-Users, given you have been teaching R to students (grad level, mainly social science background, no previous programming experience, 80% know SPSS), what are your experiences concerning the style of teaching? Do you prefer to stand in front of the class like in normal lectures and you show

[R] power of a matrix

2005-08-17 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, I have a population with three age-classes, at time t=0 the population is: n.zero - c(1,0,0) I have a transition matrix A which denotes fertility and survival: A - matrix(c(0,1,5, 0.3,0,0, 0,0.5,0), ncol=3, byrow=TRUE) To obtain the population at t=1, I calculate: A %*% n.zero To

Re: [R] power of a matrix

2005-08-17 Thread Rau, Roland
35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/16/336899 Fax: +32/16/337015 Web: http://www.med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm - Original Message - From: Rau, Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: R-Help r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Wednesday, August 17

Re: [R] vectorization

2005-06-17 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitri Joe Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 7:01 PM To: R-Help Subject: [R] vectorization Hi there, I have a data frame (mydata) with 1 numeric variable (income) and 1 factor (education). I

[R] Arranging Plots

2005-05-19 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, I'd appreciate any hints how to arrange some plots. I have three plots. I would like to arrange them in the following order: - Plot 1 and Plot 2 should be in the upper row - Plot 3 should be in the lower row but centered in the middle. I hope the following sketch will help

RE: [R] Arranging Plots

2005-05-19 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, thank you very much for your help. I would like to thank Sean Davis, Barry Rowlingson, and Pierre Lapointe for their fast help. I actually use now the approach suggested by Barry Rowlingson via the split.screen() function. Thanks, Roland P.S. Three solutions in 30 minutes...and the

RE: [R] good editor for R sources ?

2005-04-26 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vincent (Sorry if the question has already been answered.) Could someone please suggest a good text editor for writing R sources ? (I know emacs exists ... but I find it a bit heavy). I use

RE: [R] emacs + R?

2005-04-04 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, However, as I try to start R within emacs as recommended: C-u M-x R emacs answers [no match] the same if I provide the whole path to the executable: C-u M-x /usr/bin/R[no match] given you have installed ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics), you can start an R session within Emacs

RE: [R] r under linux: creating high quality bmp's for win users

2005-03-22 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear useRs, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan T. Kim Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:18 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] r under linux: creating high quality bmp's for win users On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at

RE: [R] Mandrake 10.1

2005-03-15 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bogdan romocea Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:49 PM I would suggest that you consider another GNU/Linux distribution, I don't think it is necessary. Mandrake 10.1 is fine for running R.[1] I

RE: [R] Interval censoring in Survival analysis

2005-03-10 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AMOROS NAVARRO, ALEX I would like to know if R programme allows doing different kinds of censoring in his last version. What kind of package should I use Yes, try the following:

RE: [R] ESS

2005-03-04 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mahdi Osman Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:57 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] ESS I can not start R proccess or ESS from within XEmacs. What is going wrong? Do you have a

RE: [R] averaging within columns

2005-02-28 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, I'm hoping there is something like mean(dataname$wtime[name]) which will just create a column with length equal to the number of different names (levels) and an average wtime for each. So far though, I haven't had much luck figuring that one out. Does the following code do

RE: [R] Sorting a matrix on two columns

2005-02-21 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi Glen, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Glen R If a matrix with 5 columns has been defined and the first two columns need to be sorted in ascending order, how can this be achieved whilst ensuring the other 3 columns data are in

RE: [R] simple example of C interface to R

2005-02-08 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:40 PM To: Roger Bivand Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] simple example of C interface to R On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:09:37PM +0100,

RE: [R] Surprising Behavior of 'tapply'

2005-02-04 Thread Rau, Roland
: : : --- Rau, Roland Rau at demogr.mpg.de escribió: : Dear all, : : I wanted to make a two-way-table of two variables : with a counting : variable stored in another column of a dataframe. In : version 1.9.1, the : behavior is as expected as shown in the simplified : example code

[R] Surprising Behavior of 'tapply'

2005-02-03 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, I wanted to make a two-way-table of two variables with a counting variable stored in another column of a dataframe. In version 1.9.1, the behavior is as expected as shown in the simplified example code. sex - rep(c(F, M), 5) income - c(rep(low, 5), rep(high, 5)) count - 1:10 mydf

[R] Avoiding a Loop?

2005-01-21 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear R-Helpers, I have a matrix where the first column is known. The second column is the result of multiplying this first column with a constant const. The third column is the result of multiplying the second column with const. So far, I did it like this (as a simplified example):

RE: [R] Avoiding a Loop?

2005-01-21 Thread Rau, Roland
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:57 PM To: Rau, Roland Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Avoiding a Loop? Does this do what you want? nr.of.columns - 4 myconstant - 27.5 mymatrix - matrix(myconstant, nrow=5, ncol

[R] useR 2005 ?

2005-01-12 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear R-Help-List, are there any plans to organize a useR conference in 2005? Best, Roland + This mail has been sent through the MPI for Demographic Rese...{{dropped}} __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

[R] No Graphics Window, Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-21 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, I installed Mandrakelinux 10.1 (community) on my notebook. Before, I used Mandrakelinux 9.1 (and later 10.0 as an update). Now I wanted to compile, as before, R. In the beginning, nothing worked but it seemed to be the problem of GCC 3.4.1 which was shipped with my distribution. After

RE: [R] Increased execution speed of R2.0.1?

2004-12-21 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear R-Community, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tree). There used to be an alpha verision of byte-compiler for R - is it now included into official version of R? Is this byte-compiler publicly available (even if it is only an alpha-version)? Thanks, Roland I was searching the R-help archives.

RE: [R] ess in Windows (newbie Q)

2004-12-08 Thread Rau, Roland
Reposting... -Original Message- From: Rau, Roland Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] ess in Windows (newbie Q) Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray

RE: [R] How about a mascot for R?

2004-12-08 Thread Rau, Roland
reposting... -Original Message- From: Rau, Roland Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] How about a mascot for R? Dear all, browsing through the suggestions, I have the impression that the general direction is towards an animal from New

RE: [R] (no subject)

2004-11-26 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angela Re Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] (no subject) I'd like to know how to superimpose a Student distribution pt on a histogram. I think I have to use the

RE: [R] erase columns

2004-09-14 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michele lux Sent: Dienstag, 14. September 2004 10:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] erase columns Can somebody remember me which is the command to erase columns from a data frame? Thanks Michele I

RE: [R] newbie question: how to read a file into a matrix

2004-08-26 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gaby Aguilera Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[R] newbie question: how to read a file into a matrix matrix

RE: [R] R and Latex tables

2004-08-25 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joao Pedro W. de Azevedo Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] R and Latex tables Dear R users, I would like to know if there is any way that I can

RE: [R] Win-Edt and Sweave

2004-08-25 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joao Pedro W. de Azevedo Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Win-Edt and Sweave Does anyone knows if there is any plugin for Sweave to run on

RE: [R] S - R

2004-08-25 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zachary Skrivanek Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] S - R 'source'). Is there any way that I can save a list object in S that can be read into

RE: [R] how to draw two graphs in one graph window

2004-08-15 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuanjun Zhang Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 1:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[R] how to draw two graphs in one graph window it is not really

[R] Giving a first good impression of R to Social Scientists

2004-08-12 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, in the coming Winter Semester, I will be a teaching assistant for a course in Survival Analysis. My job will be to do the lab sessions. The software used for these lab sessions will be R. Most of the students have a background in social sciences and the only stats package they used so

[R] RE: Giving a first good impression of R to Social Scientists

2004-08-12 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: Vito Ricci [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] do you know there are several GUI for R? See: [...] R-Commander is quite like GUI of commercial softwares. Yes, I do know the R-Commander. But I did not want to give them a GUI but rather expose them

RE: [R] Replace only Capital Letters

2004-07-23 Thread Rau, Roland
did not work, because of the unused argument(s) (perl ...). Thanks again, Roland -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:58 PM To: Rau, Roland Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [R] Replace only Capital Letters

[R] Replace only Capital Letters

2004-07-22 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear All, I have these data: exampledata - c(This is one item, This is Another One, And so is This) I would like to find each occurence of a blank space followed by a Capital Letter and replace it by a blank space, a left curly brace, the respective Capital Letter, and then a right curly brace.

RE: [R] Barplots and error indicators: Some R-Code

2004-06-18 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, -Original Message- From: Frank E Harrell Jr [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Barplots and error indicators: Some R-Code Bar charts have many problems as pointed out in Bill

RE: [R] problems with starting R

2004-05-24 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi Sabine, -Original Message- From: Sabine Bader [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] problems with starting R When I try to start R from my desktop, an information-window pops up: Fatal error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE.

RE: [R] Isotopic notation in plots

2004-05-18 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi! -Original Message- From: Andersson, Henrik [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Isotopic notation in plots plot(1:10,xlab=expresssion(.^{14}*C)) # this works, but is not I wonder how this works

RE: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Rau, Roland
Hello, -Original Message- From: Philippe Grosjean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] Size of R user base Of course, this will only work with computers connected to the internet,... but at least, it could

RE: [R] Question on Data Simulation

2004-04-01 Thread Rau, Roland
Hello, -Original Message- From: Jingky P. Lozano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Question on Data Simulation Dear mailing list, Do you know a specific package in R where I can create an artificial

RE: [R] strange thing with sd

2004-03-29 Thread Rau, Roland
Hello, -Original Message- From: Andreas Pauling [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] strange thing with sd Shouldn't it give always zero? I was running your example code, and I always had the result zero

[R] Error in 'legend' help?

2004-03-25 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, maybe I have misunderstood something but to me it seems like a minor error in the help for ?legend for the argument 'bg'. There it says: bg: the background color for the legend box. (Note that this is only used if 'bty = n'.) I think, however, that it should be

RE: [R] colors, lines, characters .... documentation

2004-03-24 Thread Rau, Roland
Hello, -Original Message- From: Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] colors, lines, characters documentation Hi, Very so often when i am plotting something, doing a histogram, or

RE: R for economists (was: [R] Almost Ideal Demand System)

2004-02-19 Thread Rau, Roland
Hello, -Original Message- From: Mahmoud K. Okasha [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: R for economists (was: [R] Almost Ideal Demand System) Hello, I know a few papers in economics and econometrics using R.

RE: [R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R

2004-02-16 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Maximum likelihood estimation in R Hello, Use x=rnorm(100, mean=3, sd=1) library(MASS)

RE: [R] moments, skewness, kurtosis

2004-02-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: Samuelson, Frank* [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] moments, skewness, kurtosis I checked the help and the mailing list archives, but I can find no mention of a routine that

RE: [R] Another question, unfortunately. . . .(Installing foreig n/trying to import/export SAS files)

2004-02-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: Shoultz, Gerald [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Another question, unfortunately. . . .(Installing foreign/trying to import/export SAS files) I am trying to use read.ssd and

RE: [R] Various newbie questions

2004-02-04 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, -Original Message- From: Philippe de Rochambeau [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Various newbie questions year snow.cover 1970 6.5 1971 12.0 1972 14.9 1973 10.0 1974 10.7 1975 7.9 ...

RE: [R] I can't make .C(...) web-page example.

2004-02-01 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi! I am by no means an R-expert nor a C-expert but the document An Introduction to .C Interface to R by Roger D. Peng and Jan de Leeuw helped me a lot to find out how it works in principle to use the .C function call. You can find it on the homepage of Roger D. Peng

[R] Survival, Kaplan-Meier, left truncation

2004-01-07 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, I have data from 1970 to 1990 for people above age 50. Now I want to calculate survival curves by age starting at age 50 using the Kaplan Meier Estimator. The problem I have is that there are already people in 1970 who are older than 50 years. I guess this is called delayed entry or

[R] FW: Symposium COMPSTAT 2004

2003-12-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Dear all, I just received the following message, and I think it might be of interest to the R-list. Cordially, Roland - all people interested in COMPSTAT 2004 Symposium Prague December 8, 2004 Dear colleague, thank you very much for your

RE: [R] R 1.8 for debian

2003-10-20 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi Martin, Another question would be, how I can keep all my previously installed packages. will they be kept in '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library or does the new R overwrite these addional packages? cheers Martin don't know about your first question. But your second question has

RE: [R] Previous Commands, Summary

2003-10-10 Thread Rau, Roland
and Brian Ripley. Best, Roland -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:49 AM To: Philippe Glaziou Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Previous Commands On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Philippe Glaziou wrote: Rau, Roland

RE: [R] r editors

2003-10-02 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, I can recommend two editors: - Emacs/XEmacs in conjunction with the ESS-package (ESS= Emacs Speaks Statistics). It is free software. However, it takes a while until it is working nicely - especially if you have no experience with Emacs/XEmacs. One of the nice features is that you can run R

RE: [R] Characters and Numeric Values in One Matrix

2003-07-08 Thread Rau, Roland
Thank you very much for the advice using data.frame(I(names), ages) I received two solutions within 15 minutes of my initial request. What a quick and nice counterexample for the often heard claim: Free Software does not give you any support! Thanks again, Roland