Re: [R] Bootstrapping help

2006-01-18 Thread Ben Ridenhour
in the light of evolution. -T. Dobzhansky - Original Message From: Andrew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Tue Jan 17 22:20:55 2006 Subject: Re: [R] Bootstrapping help The first thing you are doing wrong is that you are not including a copy of cs for us to see

Re: [R] Bootstrapping help

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Robinson
Ben, although I appended a smiley to my first note, the message was serious. If you don't show us what you're doing, we can't help you. Please provide an example in which you: 1) generate a small dataframe similar in structure to yours 2) provide cs 3) show the boot statement that applies cs to

Re: [R] Bootstrapping help

2006-01-18 Thread Ben Ridenhour
Message From: Andrew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 15:45:15 Subject: Re: [R] Bootstrapping help Ben, although I appended a smiley to my first note, the message was serious. If you don't show us what you're doing, we can't help you

Re: [R] Bootstrapping help

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Robinson
Ben, Ok, it's clear now, thanks. Note that your boot call boot(mydata,cs,R=999) does not specify an stype argument. The boot help file notes that the default value for stype is i, which means that boot will pass an index to the function, not a weight, regardless of whether you call it w, i,

[R] Bootstrapping help

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Ridenhour
Hello, I am new to using R and I am having problems get boot() to work properly. Here is what I am trying to do: I have statistic called cs. cs takes a data matrix (154 x 5) and calculates 12 different scores for me. cs outputs the data as a vector (12 x 1). cs doesn't really use

Re: [R] Bootstrapping help

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Robinson
The first thing you are doing wrong is that you are not including a copy of cs for us to see ;). Based on what you have written, I speculate that cs does not use the index correctly. if so then a simple, although inefficient, workaround is to rewrite cs: cs - function(dataframe, index) {