[R] Questions concerning function 'svm' in e1071 package

2006-07-03 Thread Van Kerckhoven, Johan
Greetings everyone, I have the following problem (illustrating R-code at bottom of mail): Given a training sample with binary outcomes (-1/+1), I train a linear Support Vector Machine to separate them. Afterwards, I compute the weight vector w in the usual way, and obtain the fitted values as w'x

[R] [R-pkgs] ggplot: a new system for drawing graphics in R

2006-07-03 Thread hadley wickham
ggplot provides a new system for drawing graphics in R, based on the Grammar of Graphics. It combines the advantages of both base and lattice graphics: conditioning and shared axes are handled automatically, and you can still build up a plot step by step from multiple data sources. It also

[R] could i change the ouput style on summary?

2006-07-03 Thread zhijie zhang
Dear friends, summary() doesn't give a good ouput style,e.g.: grasssoiltem airtem gheight humidity altitude diluo :38 Min. :15.90 Min. :17.70 Min. : 8.00 Min. : 0.2360 high: 43 huanghuacai:32 1st Qu.:19.32 1st Qu.:22.60 1st Qu.:40.00

Re: [R] sparse matrix tools

2006-07-03 Thread Martin Maechler
JJTh == Thaden, John J [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 2 Jul 2006 07:38:21 -0500 writes: JJTh Dear R-Help list: I'm using the Matrix library to JJTh operate on 600 X ~5000 element unsymmetrical sparse JJTh arrays. So far, so good, but if I find I need more JJTh speed or

[R] Calculation of lags

2006-07-03 Thread Ronaldo Reis-Jr.
Hi, If I have the follow situation: A dependent variable (i.e. number of insects) that is affected by an independent variable (i.e. rain). The problem is that the measure of rain affect the population in other moment. So there exit a lag between the rain and the number of insects. Exist in R

Re: [R] lme convergence

2006-07-03 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Dimitris: The change you suggested sounds constructive. Unfortunately, it did NOT solve the problem, at least for the modification of the example from the 'lme' help page I tested. However, one other similar change (and adding 'nlme:::' to the calls for functions

Re: [R] large dataset!

2006-07-03 Thread Anupam Tyagi
JENNIFER HILL jh1030 at columbia.edu writes: Hi, I need to analyze data that has 3.5 million observations and about 60 variables and I was planning on using R to do this but I can't even seem to read in the data. It just freezes and ties up the whole system -- and this is on a Linux box

[R] [R-pkgs] Rassist - Student-friendly package

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Robinson
The Rassist package has been loaded to CRAN. This package is designed to make R easier for new users, by providing extra checks and feedback. Presently the package functionality includes: * offers an alternative help facility, eg(.), with examples first, with additional examples included.

Re: [R] rownames, colnames, and date and time

2006-07-03 Thread Brandt, T. (Tobias)
Hi all I was wondering whether there has ever been an update on the rownames and colnames behaviour as described by Eric below? I still get the same behaviour, exactly as described by Eric, on my WinXP installation of R-2.3.0. I also posted a message to r-help on Friday but looking through the

Re: [R] median of gamma distribution

2006-07-03 Thread Matthias Kohl
Hi, to compute the median (or expectation, var, sd, IQR, mad, ...) you can also use package distrEx. library(distrEx) (G - Gammad()) median(G) Matthias - original Nachricht Betreff: Re: [R] median of gamma distribution Gesendet: Fri, 30. Jun 2006 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [R] could i change the ouput style on summary?

2006-07-03 Thread jim holtman
Try this function: #create some data x - data.frame(a=runif(100), b=runif(100,100,200), c=runif(100,1000,2000)) # need to transpose the output of sapply t(sapply(x, function(z){ + .res - c(quantile(z, c(0, .25, .5, .75, 1)), mean(z), var(z)) + names(.res) - c('Min', '1st Qu',

[R] help a newbie with a loop

2006-07-03 Thread Boks, M.P.M.
Hi, I am new in R and stumbled on a problem my (more experienced) friends can not help with with. Why isnt this code working? The function is working, also with the loop and the graph appears, only when I build another loop around it (for different values of p) , R stays in a loop?

[R] Determine file access modifiers at file creation

2006-07-03 Thread statwi01
Hi, is in R a command or option to a command which allows to set the file access modifiers for newly created files under Linux ? Currently a new file (e.g. with cat) is created with rw-r--r-- and I would like to have rw-rw-r. And I do not want to use umask. Thanks in advance Sigbert

[R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread John Sorkin
R 2.2 on windows XP I have a dataset with multiple columns. Some of the columns represent independent variables, some represent dependent variables. I would like to run the same analyses on a fixed set of independent variables, changing only the dependent variable, e.g. y1-y2=x1+x2+x3

[R] legend with filled boxes AND lines

2006-07-03 Thread florian . koller
Dear all, Is there a straightforward way to create a legend box that has both filled boxes and lines? So far I have built around this problem by creating two legends (with bty = n) and manually drawing a box around both (but this is cumbersome, because I have to check upon the y coordinates of

Re: [R] rownames, colnames, and date and time

2006-07-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Note that if you are really trying to represent time series using rownames as the time variable then you might consider using the zoo or its packages (or ts class if they are regular) instead. library(zoo) mymat-matrix(1:4,nrow=2,ncol=2) mydates-as.POSIXct(c(2001-1-24,2005-12-25)) z - zoo(mymat,

Re: [R] Calculation of lags

2006-07-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Represent your series as a ts object and see ?lag Also lag.plot may or may not be of use to you. On 7/2/06, Ronaldo Reis-Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I have the follow situation: A dependent variable (i.e. number of insects) that is affected by an independent variable (i.e. rain).

Re: [R] Determine file access modifiers at file creation

2006-07-03 Thread jim holtman
Try using 'system': system(chmod 664 filename) On 7/3/06, statwi01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is in R a command or option to a command which allows to set the file access modifiers for newly created files under Linux ? Currently a new file (e.g. with cat) is created with rw-r--r-- and I

Re: [R] help a newbie with a loop

2006-07-03 Thread jim holtman
You need to debug your function. If you put some 'cat(p, ind)' statements: for (ind in 1:500) {cat(p, ind, '\n') res[ind,]-powerb(x[c(1:(500-ind),(500+ind):1000)],4,0.05,0.20,0.1,m)} Here is the place where it seemed to 'stall' on me: 0.3 250 0.3 251 0.3 252 0.3 253 0.3 254 0.3 255 0.3 256

Re: [R] Determine file access modifiers at file creation

2006-07-03 Thread statwi01
Hi, Try using 'system': system(chmod 664 filename) That's my plan, if I can not do it in R directly. Thanks Sigbert __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

Re: [R] sparse matrix tools

2006-07-03 Thread Thaden, John J
So far I've used only 'new(dgC.Matrix,...)' and 'new(dgT.Matrix,...)'! I did not mean to malign Matrix speed/functionality -- I've not tested these yet -- nor do I quite know yet what function(s) I needto perform on my matrices! My questions were hypothetical. Thanks for the additional

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
John Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R 2.2 on windows XP (that's a bit old...) I have a dataset with multiple columns. Some of the columns represent independent variables, some represent dependent variables. I would like to run the same analyses on a fixed set of independent variables,

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/3/2006 7:39 AM, John Sorkin wrote: R 2.2 on windows XP I have a dataset with multiple columns. Some of the columns represent independent variables, some represent dependent variables. I would like to run the same analyses on a fixed set of independent variables, changing only the

[R] Workspace size

2006-07-03 Thread statwi01
Hi, Can I determine the approximate size of a workspace on the harddisk before saving it via sys.save.image(name) ? Thanks in advance Sigbert __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Chuck Cleland
John Sorkin wrote: R 2.2 on windows XP I have a dataset with multiple columns. Some of the columns represent independent variables, some represent dependent variables. I would like to run the same analyses on a fixed set of independent variables, changing only the dependent variable, e.g.

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: # test data set.seed(1) mat - matrix(rnorm(900), nc = 9) colnames(mat) - letters[1:9] DF - as.data.frame(mat) # run lm's and display coefs for(i in seq(1, 5, 2)) { dat - cbind(z = DF[,i] - DF[,i+1], DF[7:9]) Coef - coef(lm(z ~., dat)) cat(y: DF[,, i, ] - DF[,,

[R] help a newbie with a loop

2006-07-03 Thread Simon Knapp
On 7/3/06, Boks, M.P.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new in R and stumbled on a problem my (more experienced) friends can not help with with. Why isnt this code working? The function is working, also with the loop and the graph appears, only when I build another loop around it (for

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
- Original Message - From: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [R] macro facility in R Try this: # test data set.seed(1) mat - matrix(rnorm(900), nc = 9) colnames(mat)

Re: [R] Optional variables in function?

2006-07-03 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
jim holtman wrote: ?missing On 7/2/06, Jonathan Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit new to writing R functions and I was wondering what the best practice for having optional variables in a function is, and how to test for optional and non-optional variables? e.g. if I have the

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Prager
Here is one user's perspective on this, with no pretense of being definitive. In the S (R) world, the expression computing on the language is used to encompass what I would call the tasks of macro programming. This involves uses of various S (R) expressions that convert between names of

[R] problem with --vanilla in R

2006-07-03 Thread Katrin Braesel
Hallo, I'm using the R Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24) on Suse Linux 10.1. With an older R and Linux version I could write a R-function into a file and execute it with the command: R --vanilla script.r In the file script.r was code like this: postscript(file=results.eps) x-2 y-3 plot(x,y) dev.off()

Re: [R] problem with --vanilla in R

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Katrin Braesel wrote: Hallo, I'm using the R Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24) on Suse Linux 10.1. With an older R and Linux version I could write a R-function into a file and execute it with the command: R --vanilla script.r In the file script.r was code like this:

[R] do i set the correct argument?

2006-07-03 Thread zhijie zhang
Dear friends, In gls() of nlme package, there is some explanation on correlation: gls(model, data, correlation, weights, subset, method, na.action, control, verbose) correlation: an optional 'corStruct' object describing the within-group correlation structure. See the documentation

Re: [R] large dataset!

2006-07-03 Thread rdporto1
Jennifer, we had a little discussion about this topic last May when I had a similar problem. It is archived at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/76401.html You can follow the thread to see the various arguments and solutions. I tried to summarize the possible suggested approachs

Re: [R] how to get the studentized residuals in lm()

2006-07-03 Thread Martin Maechler
ronggui == ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:29:42 +0800 writes: help.search(studentized) ronggui You will see: ronggui studres(MASS) Extract Studentized Residuals from a Linear Model Yes. But you don't even need another package. Thanks to John

Re: [R] macro facility in R

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, John Sorkin wrote: R 2.2 on windows XP I have a dataset with multiple columns. Some of the columns represent independent variables, some represent dependent variables. I would like to run the same analyses on a fixed set of independent variables, changing only the

Re: [R] legend with filled boxes AND lines

2006-07-03 Thread Martin Maechler
Did you try legend(.., lty=..., fill=..., merge = TRUE) ? In an example I just tried, this allowed to give filled boxes *and* lines. Please give a reproducible example of what you did -- maybe by modifying one of the many example(legend) examples. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich florian

Re: [R] help with coxme

2006-07-03 Thread Spencer Graves
When I tried it, I seemed to get inconsistent results, the first of which was irreproducible. The first error message said that 'rats2' was not a data.frame. I don't know what I did to get that, but when I tried it again, I got the following: Error in max(kindex) : object kindex

[R] Antwort: Re: legend with filled boxes AND lines

2006-07-03 Thread florian . koller
Hi Martin, I know about the merge command, but I want a line without the box in the legend. Ideally I would need some argument that tells the fill subcommand not only to suppress the box color (see example below), but also to suppress the frame of the fill box. Alternatively if someone could tell

[R] gamm

2006-07-03 Thread Piet Bell
Hello, I am a bit confused about gamm in mgcv. Consulting Wood (2006) or Ruppert et al. (2003) hasn't taken away my confusion. In this code from the gamm help file: b2-gamm(y~s(x0)+s(x1)+s(x2)+s(x3),family=poisson,random=list(fac=~1)) Am I correct in assuming that we have

Re: [R] lme and SAS Proc mixed

2006-07-03 Thread Spencer Graves
Your example is entirely too complicated for me to parse in the time available, but I have a few questions that I hope might help: First, have you examined str(fit.lme) plus all the other help pages listed under See Also in the lme help page, especially lmeObject? With

[R] xlab, ylab in balloonplot(tab)?

2006-07-03 Thread Jim Porzak
I'm not understanding something. I'm trying to add xlab ylab to a balloon plot of a table object. From docs I thought following should work: require(gplots) # From balloonplot example: # Create an example using table xnames - sample( letters[1:3], 50, replace=2) ynames - sample(

[R] difficult data manipulation question

2006-07-03 Thread markleeds
hi everyone : suppose i have a matrix in which some column names are identical so, for example, TEMP AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD,AAA, BBB 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 3 7 6 0 1 1.54 9 9 6 0 1.06 1011 3 3 I

Re: [R] difficult data manipulation question

2006-07-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: # test data # read in header separately so R does not make column names unique Lines - AAA BBB CCC DDD AAA BBB 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 3 7 6 0 1 1.54 9 9 6 0 1.06 1011 3 3 DF -

[R] analogue of group option of SAS MIXED/random in R

2006-07-03 Thread Bruno L. Giordano
Dear list, I am trying to use lme to build the analogue of the following SAS MIXED random specification: random int+Variable1+Variable2 /subject = Subject group=Condition type=vc; which gives a Condition-blocked heterogeneity in the random effects variance-covariance matrix. Needless to say, I

[R] gamm and binomial data

2006-07-03 Thread Piet Bell
Hello, I have a response variable that is a time series of 0's and 1's. And a couple of continous explanatory variables. I would like to fit a gamm with auto-correlation and binomial distribution using gamm in mgcv. Something simple like: tmp-gamm(y ~ s(x),

[R] xlab, ylab in balloonplot(tab)?

2006-07-03 Thread Jim Porzak
Dear ListRs, I'm not understanding something. I'm trying to add xlab ylab to a balloon plot of a table object. From gplots docs I thought following should work: require(gplots) # From balloonplot example: # Create an example using table xnames - sample( letters[1:3], 50, replace=2)

Re: [R] difficult data manipulation question

2006-07-03 Thread jim holtman
Here is a modification of Gabor's solution that will return the dataframe with just the maximum columns: # test data # read in header separately so R does not make column names unique Lines - AAA BBB CCC DDD AAA BBB 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 3 7 6 0 1

Re: [R] curiosity question: new graphics vs. old graphics subsystem

2006-07-03 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi ivo welch wrote: I just read paul murrell's new book, R graphics. now, I have always used the traditional graphics system. apparently, the new (trellis?) system is an entirely separate graphics system. after reading the book, I cannot figure out what the intrinsic capability advantage

Re: [R] postscript file too large : maybe an R question

2006-07-03 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i created a postscipt file in R and then i downloaded a free version of ghostview to view it. unfortunately, i get the message fata error : dynamic memory exhausted when i try to view it. when i do a dir on windows xp, the file size is 149,034,475 and i know

[R] parameter las (function par / graphics) on right axis

2006-07-03 Thread Paulo Barata
Dear R users, When trying to produce a graph with a scale on the right axis, I came across a possible problem with graph making in R. When using plot or barplot, when the parameter las (used by the graphics function par) is set to 1 (axis labels always horizontal), labels on the right axis are

[R] Problems on testing moderating effect (or interactive effect).

2006-07-03 Thread Guo Wei-Wei
Hi everyone, I want to do test on moderating effect. I have three factors, A, B, and C. A has influence on B, and C moderating the influence. The relationship looks like this: A - B ^ | C A, B, and C are all scale variables. I think I can test the moderating effect by adding

Re: [R] analogue of group option of SAS MIXED/random in R

2006-07-03 Thread Bruno L. Giordano
Well, just in case somebody is interested, the following R code gives the same estimates as the SAS code below: ##R code### G.Data-groupedData(Response~1|Subject,data=In.Data) G.Data$Condition-as.ordered(G.Data$Condition) G.Data$Const-rep(1,length(Variable1))

[R] randomization test for a two-way ANOVA

2006-07-03 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi, I've looked into ways of implementing this procedure, i.e. repeating the two-way ANOVA many times, scrambling the order of cases across the treatments, to produce a distribution of F ratios for each effect. This seemed a job for the 'boot' package. However, I'm not sure I'm doing an actual