[R] Problem with saving pdf file graphics in R-2.6.0

2007-10-16 Thread John Wilkinson
Hi, # Example of my problem of saving pdf file graphics in R-2.6.0 > x<-1:10;y<-1:10 > plot(x,y,type="b") # attempting to save the plot as a *pdf file fails # and the following error meassge is shown. Error: Invalid font type In addition: Warning messages: 1: font family not found in PostScri

Re: [R] polygon overlapping

2007-10-16 Thread Haiyong Xu
No. On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Moshe Olshansky wrote: > Are your polygons convex? > > --- Haiyong Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> Is there any package which can calculate the >> overlapping area of two >> polygons or output the coordinates of the >> overlapping of two polygons?

Re: [R] polygon overlapping

2007-10-16 Thread Moshe Olshansky
Are your polygons convex? --- Haiyong Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > Is there any package which can calculate the > overlapping area of two > polygons or output the coordinates of the > overlapping of two polygons? > > Thanks. > Haiyong > > ___

[R] polygon overlapping

2007-10-16 Thread Haiyong Xu
Hi there, Is there any package which can calculate the overlapping area of two polygons or output the coordinates of the overlapping of two polygons? Thanks. Haiyong __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLE

[R] Observations on SVD linpack errors, and a workaround

2007-10-16 Thread Art Owen
Lately I'm getting this error quite a bit: Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv) : error code 1 from Lapack routine 'dgesdd' I'm running R 2.5.0 on a 64 bit Intel machine running Fedora (8 I think). Maybe the 64 bit platform is more fragile about declaring convergence. I'm seeing way more of these errors t

Re: [R] survreg's algorithm

2007-10-16 Thread Gad Abraham
Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gad Abraham wrote: > >> Gad Abraham wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using survreg() from the survival package for parametric survival >>> regression (modelling inter-arrival times of patients to a waiting list >>> as exponentially distributed, with various re

Re: [R] survreg's algorithm

2007-10-16 Thread Gad Abraham
Terry Therneau wrote: > Gad Abraham wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm using survreg() from the survival package for parametric survival >> regression (modelling inter-arrival times of patients to a waiting list >> as exponentially distributed, with various regressors such as queue size >> and season). >>

Re: [R] Time Series - Function to fit ARIMA and GARCH components

2007-10-16 Thread Hannu Kahra
I guess that is not available, but you can fit MA(1)+GARCH(1,1) to the first difference of the series using garchFit available in the (Rmetrics) fGarch package. -Hannu On 10/17/07, jStat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm searching for a function to fit a conditional mean structure (ARIMA) > an

[R] Time Series - Function to fit ARIMA and GARCH components

2007-10-16 Thread jStat
I'm searching for a function to fit a conditional mean structure (ARIMA) and a conditional variance structure (GARCH) to a data set for one model. Particularly, I'm trying to fit an IMA(1,1)+GARCH(1,1) model to a data set. However, I can't seem to find a function that will let me specify both the

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Excel 2007 xlsx files are zip files that contain XML files which define the spreadsheet -- its all readable text. Create an Excel 2007 xlsx file, rename its extension to .zip, unzip it and you can look at all the constituent files using any text editor or your browser. On 10/16/07, Marc Schwartz

Re: [R] help with nls and Hill equation

2007-10-16 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think its your parameterization that is problematic. ED50^hill is tough for it to work with since both are varying. Try reparameterizing using ED50hill = ED50^hill as a parameter so that the parameters become Emax, ED50hill and hill. You can back transform afterwards. On 10/16/07, Lanre Oku

Re: [R] The itemize command in *.Rd files.

2007-10-16 Thread Rolf Turner
On 17/10/2007, at 2:52 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Okay, I see it now. The bug shows up when the \itemize command > is not at the start of a line; you can avoid it by inserting a line > feed there. The cause is apparently that the translator from .Rd > format to troff (or whatever that is)

Re: [R] The itemize command in *.Rd files.

2007-10-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/10/2007 8:18 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 17/10/2007, at 1:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 16/10/2007 7:46 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >>> I'm getting an anomalous result from using the itemize command in >>> a documentation >>> file. My usage is something like >>> \itemize{ >>> \item Mel

Re: [R] Finding NA values.

2007-10-16 Thread Moshe Olshansky
If your vector is x then which(is.na(x)) produces that inecies. --- Megh Dal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a vector with some of it's elements are NA. I > am looking for a function to detect what are the > corresponding index number of NA values. Anyone can > help me on this regard? > >

[R] Finding NA values.

2007-10-16 Thread Megh Dal
I have a vector with some of it's elements are NA. I am looking for a function to detect what are the corresponding index number of NA values. Anyone can help me on this regard? - Building a website is a piece of cake. [[alternative HTML version

Re: [R] The itemize command in *.Rd files.

2007-10-16 Thread Rolf Turner
On 17/10/2007, at 1:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 16/10/2007 7:46 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >> I'm getting an anomalous result from using the itemize command in >> a documentation >> file. My usage is something like >> \itemize{ >> \item Melvin >> \item Irving >> \item Clyde >> \item Fred >>

Re: [R] The itemize command in *.Rd files.

2007-10-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/10/2007 7:46 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > I'm getting an anomalous result from using the itemize command in a > documentation > file. My usage is something like > > \itemize{ > \item Melvin > \item Irving > \item Clyde > \item Fred > } > > (This was place inside ``\details{ }''.) I just p

[R] The itemize command in *.Rd files.

2007-10-16 Thread Rolf Turner
I'm getting an anomalous result from using the itemize command in a documentation file. My usage is something like \itemize{ \item Melvin \item Irving \item Clyde \item Fred } (This was place inside ``\details{ }''.) (Previously I had enclosed the text following each item in braces but t

[R] doubts about Silhouette

2007-10-16 Thread Maura E Monville
Sorry for the long message. I'm doing my best to try to explain myself. I have fitted a spline to my data, I have fitted a spline, filled in the missing data by replicating the spline coefficients associated to the last node. I obtained a number of dendograms by different combination of distance a

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread J Dougherty
Azza, By "sign changes" are you looking at how long runs of similar results are before switching, e.g. HHTHTTTH sees four changes, while sees just one? JD __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PL

Re: [R] error in sample ()

2007-10-16 Thread jim holtman
If you follow the posting and provide a reproduciable example, it would be easier to suggest a solution. One thing you need to so is an 'str(disperser.mx)' and I will bet it shows it as a dataframe and not a matrix. Here is a sample of code that shows if it is a matrix it works, otherwise it give

[R] error in sample ()

2007-10-16 Thread Silvia Lomascolo
I am trying to get a random matrix based on an original matrix called disperser.mx, with dimensions 30x73 When I write the following code: >scramble = sample (disperser.mx) >newmat = matrix(scramble, nrow=30) I get the following warning message and a very weird matrix with 30 rows but only 3 co

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, azzza wrote: > > Thats what is frustrating meI've done a lot of reading, but there doesnt > seem to be much info on sign changes..I dont udnerstand why the > poportion of sign changes is much less than 50%, despite the proportion of > heads being equal to that

Re: [R] Calculating confidence in an estimate including numberof trials?

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Lakeland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:44:54PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: > Daniel, thanks for your suggestion. So, it's just done like this: > > pnorm(21, mean=20, sd=10/4) - pnorm(19, mean=20, sd=10/4) > [1] 0.3108435 > > # OR > > pnorm(21, mean=20, sd=10/sqrt(16)) - pnorm(19, mean=20, > sd=10/sqrt(16)) >

Re: [R] try / tryCatch for download.file( ) within a for loop when URL does not exist

2007-10-16 Thread Vishal Belsare
Jim, Thanks. Actually I just got it working a few minutes ago with: tryCatch({download.file(url, destfile = file, quiet = FALSE, mode = "wb")}, silent = FALSE, condition = function(err) { } ) but I like your suggestion better. I'll attempt to log the list of url's downloaded ok and those which e

Re: [R] try / tryCatch for download.file( ) within a for loop when URL does not exist

2007-10-16 Thread jim holtman
I think this is closer to what you want. You can determine what you want to do; this one just goes to the next iteration: date <- as.POSIXlt(as.Date("2007-10-15", "%Y-%m-%d")) for (i in 1:difftime(as.POSIXlt(as.Date("2007-10-15", "%Y-%m-%d")),"2007-10-01")) { if (date$wday != 0 & da

[R] histogram labels

2007-10-16 Thread H. Paul Benton
Dear all, Just a quick one, hopefully. I have a histogram made from the method 'hist()'. How do I get labels on the bars? Such that the bars will have the x axis on the bar, not the frequency of the point but the number of the point itself. To make a quick summary, I want the the numbers from

[R] RMySQL LoadLibrary failure: Invalid access to memory location.

2007-10-16 Thread Talbot Katz
Hi. I'm sorry to revisit a problem that's been much discussed, but I haven't yet been able to overcome it. I am running R 2.5.1 on Windows XP Professional 5.1 (Service Pack 2), and I believe I have MySQL 5.0.45 installed (I downloaded and installed mysql-essential-5.0.45-win32.msi from http:/

[R] try / tryCatch for download.file( ) within a for loop when URL does not exist

2007-10-16 Thread Vishal Belsare
I am trying to download a bunch of files from a server, for which I am using download.file( ) within a for loop. The script is working fine except until download.file hits a URL which has no file, at which point it exits. I want to change this behavior to simple log the failure and maintain state w

Re: [R] Calculating confidence in an estimate including numberof trials?

2007-10-16 Thread Zembower, Kevin
Daniel, thanks for your suggestion. So, it's just done like this: > pnorm(21, mean=20, sd=10/4) - pnorm(19, mean=20, sd=10/4) [1] 0.3108435 > # OR > pnorm(21, mean=20, sd=10/sqrt(16)) - pnorm(19, mean=20, sd=10/sqrt(16)) [1] 0.3108435 > Thanks, again. -Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMA

Re: [R] R-2.6.0 - packages installation through a proxy - not working

2007-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/16/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > options(download.file.method="wget") > > in your Rprofile and you should be fine for all subsequent file operations. I added # # Set download options options(download.file.method="wget") to /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site. It does n

Re: [R] Calculating confidence in an estimate including number of trials?

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Lakeland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:30:48PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: > Now I'd like to know how to use R to solve this type of problem. In all > my other problems using normal curves, I used dnorm or pnorm, but > neither of these includes anything regarding the number of trials. pnorm can be used lik

[R] Updating R-Software without complete new installation

2007-10-16 Thread John C Frain
-- Forwarded message -- From: John C Frain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16 Oct 2007 21:28 Subject: Re: [R] Updating R-Software without complete new installation To: Vladimir Eremeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A word of warning. There is a danger that some package that you depend on may not

[R] Calculating confidence in an estimate including number of trials?

2007-10-16 Thread Zembower, Kevin
[Yes, this is related to a homework problem, but is not the problems itself.] In my mathematical statistics class, we've just learned about properties of estimators, and I can now solve manually problems like this: A sample of size n = 16 is drawn from a normal distribution where sigma = 10 but m

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread hadley wickham
On 10/16/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:38 +0100, Arnold Akem wrote: > > Hey Seniors, > > > > Really new to R, please has anyone imported a dataset from MS office > > excel 2007 into R yet? It seem to be giving me hard times which I did > > not expect as i

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of azzza > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:49 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Need some help > > > > THANKYOU guyz! yes, Jim's code was right (it was similar to someone > elses)I

Re: [R] underdetermined system

2007-10-16 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Here is a more general R function to solve "any" linear system (under/over determined): ls.min <- function(x, y) { # solves: x %*% b = y d <- svd(x) # min-norm solution b.min <- d$v %*% diag(1/d$d, length(d$d)) %*% t(d$u) %*% y return(b.min) } > # underdetermined case > x <- matrix(c(2, -1, 4,

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread jim holtman
sum(toss == 1) /length(toss) # assuming heads == 1 On 10/16/07, azzza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > THANKYOU guyz! yes, Jim's code was right (it was similar to someone > elses)I somehow missed his reply! > Yes, that was exactly what i was looking for. lastly, how do i find the > frequency o

[R] univariate impulse responses

2007-10-16 Thread Martin Ivanov
Dear R users, I need to calculate the univariate impulse response function for a series of data. Unfortunately the vars package does not support univariate analysis. If I try to evaluate a single series like this: VAR(y=xres,p=1,type="none",ic="AIC") the result is Error in VAR(y = xres, p = 1,

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread azzza
THANKYOU guyz! yes, Jim's code was right (it was similar to someone elses)I somehow missed his reply! Yes, that was exactly what i was looking for. lastly, how do i find the frequency of heads perhaps? Marc Schwartz wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0700, azzza wrote: >> >> >> ok

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Rolf Turner
On 17/10/2007, at 7:52 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Scionforbai wrote: >> >> I just wonder: why should R and its community try to support >> such an awful program, with its protected formats and unmantained >> features/bugs? >> > By such logic, why should R be ported to Windows? :-) > > Short an

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread azzza
Thank you guyz. your codes gave me the results I was looking for. And thanks for the reference suggestion. Lastly, how do I code the frequency of heads? Daniel Lakeland wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:06:47PM -0400, jim holtman wrote: >> If what you are asking for is to see how many ti

[R] Mutual Information on continuous variables

2007-10-16 Thread Wan Kyu Kim
I am looking for a function for MI (mutual information) for continuous variables X, Y. I prefer not to discretize X,Y as it leaves the problems of optimal bin number etc. Can any one give a pointer to calculate mutual information using Gausian kernel estimator for two continuous variables ? wan

Re: [R] underdetermined system

2007-10-16 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Here is a solution using SVD: w <- matrix(c(1, 5), ncol=2) sw <- 2 w.svd <- svd(w) sw %*% w.svd$u %*% diag(1/w.svd$d, length(w.svd$d)) %*% t(w.svd$v) > sw %*% w.svd$u %*% diag(1/w.svd$d, length(w.svd$d)) %*% t(w.svd$v) [,1] [,2] [1,] 0.07692308 0.3846154 > This, of course, has a

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0700, azzza wrote: > > > ok, so suppose a coin is tossed 1000 times. Each time head occurs, we win a > dollar, otherwise we lose a dollar. Let S(n) be our accumulated winnings > after n tosses. For instance, if the sequence HHHTT occurs in the first five > tosses, th

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread azzza
Ok, so n= the toss number, and s(n) is the accumulated winnings after n tosses. Now, each time we have a heads, we win a dollar, and each time we have a tails, we lose a dollar. So, s(n) is th sign changes in 1000 tosses. In the beginning, S(0) must be 0, and S(-1) must be zero too. ok, so if on

Re: [R] underdetermined system

2007-10-16 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Ravi Varadhan wrote: > QR is good for overdetermined LS problems, and I don't think that it can be > used for "minimum norm" solution of underdetrmined LS problems. You need > LAPACK's Fortran routine DGELS. I am not sure if this currently available > in R. It is in include

Re: [R] library(car): Anova and repeated measures without between subjects factors

2007-10-16 Thread John Fox
Dear Ralf, Unfortunately, Anova.mlm(), and indeed Anova() more generally, won't handle a model with only a constant. As you point out, this isn't reasonable for repeated-measures ANOVA, where it should be possible to have only within-subjects factors. When I have a chance, I'll see what I can do t

Re: [R] underdetermined system

2007-10-16 Thread yoooooo
Turns out someone asked this before ;) http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/07/04/2981.html Ravi Varadhan wrote: > > QR is good for overdetermined LS problems, and I don't think that it can > be > used for "minimum norm" solution of underdetrmined LS problems. You need > LAPACK's Fortra

Re: [R] Adding axis lines to splom plots

2007-10-16 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 10/16/07, Sarah Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to produce a 30x30 lattice grid. The 30 variables naturally > fall into three groups of ten and I would like to add thicker axis lines > around these to highlight this. However, I can only do this separately, > so far, and

Re: [R] underdetermined system

2007-10-16 Thread Ravi Varadhan
QR is good for overdetermined LS problems, and I don't think that it can be used for "minimum norm" solution of underdetrmined LS problems. You need LAPACK's Fortran routine DGELS. I am not sure if this currently available in R. Ravi.

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread azzza
ok, so suppose a coin is tossed 1000 times. Each time head occurs, we win a dollar, otherwise we lose a dollar. Let S(n) be our accumulated winnings after n tosses. For instance, if the sequence HHHTT occurs in the first five tosses, then S(5) = $1.00 wheras if the sequence H occurs, S(5) =

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Scionforbai wrote: > > I just wonder: why should R and its community try to support > such an awful program, with its protected formats and unmantained > features/bugs? > By such logic, why should R be ported to Windows? :-) Short answer: because some of the data you want to use is writen in Excel

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Bert Gunter
R's developers have made the right decision. Like it or not, my company colleagues and "customers" provide me most data in Excel. I want to use R to analyze/plot/etc the data, and sometimes to provide them R applications to do the analyses themselves instead of the current Excel analyses (sic) th

Re: [R] detrending a time series

2007-10-16 Thread rdporto
Chris, if you really want to use the stl() function, one possible solution is to do my.ts=ts(my.ts,start=1800,frequency=2). Rogerio --- Original Message --- From: Christoph Scherber Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:16:39 +0200 Dear R users, I am trying to ´detect´ the trend in an artificial time

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Lakeland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:06:47PM -0400, jim holtman wrote: > If what you are asking for is to see how many times it crosses the > axis when 'accumulating' the values of the top (+1, -1), then the > following will do it - this is for 1000 and shows there are 32 > crossings of the axis. I think wh

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Scionforbai
I just wonder: why should R and its community try to support such an awful program, with its protected formats and unmantained features/bugs? I mean, from both philosophical and technical point of view: R is free software and should rather try to be 'viral' than to compete. It already has the stren

Re: [R] data structure for plsr

2007-10-16 Thread Bricklemyer, Ross S
Jim, I tried str(yarn). I received the following output: 'data.frame': 28 obs. of 3 variables: $ NIR: num [1:28, 1:268] 3.07 3.07 3.08 3.08 3.10 ... ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 .. ..$ : NULL .. ..$ : NULL $ density: num 100.0 80.2 79.5 60.8 60.0 ... $ train : logi TR

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread roger koenker
You should be reading Feller v1 (p 86, 3rd ed) to see that the number of zero crossings in this process is proportional to sqrt(n) not n. url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~rogerRoger Koenker email[EMAIL PROTECTED]Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558Un

Re: [R] data structure for plsr

2007-10-16 Thread jim holtman
try: str(yarn) to see what the structure is. On 10/16/07, Bricklemyer, Ross S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I am working with NIR spectral data and it was great to find that the example > in ?plsr also used spectral data. Unfortunately, I am having difficulty > figuring out how the "y

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread jim holtman
If what you are asking for is to see how many times it crosses the axis when 'accumulating' the values of the top (+1, -1), then the following will do it - this is for 1000 and shows there are 32 crossings of the axis. > x <- sample(c(-1,1), 1000, TRUE) > plot(cumsum(x), type='l') > # now if you a

[R] data structure for plsr

2007-10-16 Thread Bricklemyer, Ross S
All, I am working with NIR spectral data and it was great to find that the example in ?plsr also used spectral data. Unfortunately, I am having difficulty figuring out how the "yarn" dataset is structured to allow for the plsr model to read: library(pls) data(yard) yarn.oscorespls <- mvr(den

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of azzza > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:06 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Need some help > > > > You are right, I was a bit too vague. I am trying to simulate > 1000 coin > Tosse

[R] Bravington debug package with ESS

2007-10-16 Thread Sam McClatchie
System: Linux kernel 2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper R version 2.5.1 ESS 5.2.11 on Emacs 21.4.1 - Colleagues I'm not sure if R-help or ESS is the right list for this query, so please forgive me if you think this posting is to the wrong list. I'd like to use Mark Bravington's package

Re: [R] help with nls and Hill equation

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Lakeland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:29:17AM -0400, Lanre Okusanya wrote: > Thanks. > I am just not used to having such a huge difference when changing the > initial condition by 1 point. it usually tends to be an issue when you > are way off (especially since the hill converged at 1.69). Does it > have some

Re: [R] simulation

2007-10-16 Thread Sandrine-et-Francois
Hi Oarabile, I'm not sure to full understand how you plan to use your function ... but it seems that do.call("rbind", ...) should address your concern. HTH, Best regards F - Original Message - From: "Oarabile Molaodi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:47 AM Subje

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread azzza
Thats what is frustrating meI've done a lot of reading, but there doesnt seem to be much info on sign changes..I dont udnerstand why the poportion of sign changes is much less than 50%, despite the proportion of heads being equal to that of tails. Marc Schwartz wrote: > > You

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:21 +0200, Scionforbai wrote: > > Such workarounds should normally be avoided. > > You forgot to mention: Excel should normally be avoided. > > Risk of scrambling data while exporting to a simple ascii formatted text file? > Is it a joke? No. Excel is notorious for this.

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Scionforbai
> Such workarounds should normally be avoided. You forgot to mention: Excel should normally be avoided. Risk of scrambling data while exporting to a simple ascii formatted text file? Is it a joke? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.

[R] Adding axis lines to splom plots

2007-10-16 Thread Sarah Barry
Hi, I am trying to produce a 30x30 lattice grid. The 30 variables naturally fall into three groups of ten and I would like to add thicker axis lines around these to highlight this. However, I can only do this separately, so far, and I don't know how to superimpose the grid with the thicker l

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
The best way to read or write Excel files is with the RExcel package. The development package available from http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/rcom/download/devel/RExcel.installer_1.80-14.zip reads both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 files. In this development release, the installer is structured as an ord

[R] Simple plot of IR and option prices

2007-10-16 Thread James
Hi, I'm trying to construct what I think should be a fairly simple plot, yet I'm having a tremendously difficult time. I'm trying to create a very simple graph showing the effect of interest rates on option prices. I have three sets of option prices that I've calculated using rMetrics.

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Schwartz
You might want to do some more research on "Bernoulli Trials" and "Fair Coins", which would provide some enlightenment on why you would not "expect" 500 sign changes in 1,000 tosses and why you should, if the coin is "fair", expect to *approach* a 50/50 distribution of heads and tails in a large nu

Re: [R] saving as PDF in R2.6.0 (MS Windows GUI)

2007-10-16 Thread Uwe Ligges
Several others wondered before and it has been fixed in R-patched. Uwe Ligges Filippo Piro wrote: > I wonder why using the MS Windows GUI menu to save a graphic as PDF in > R2.6.0 results in the following message: > > Error: invalid specification font > > furthermore: Warning messages: > 1:

Re: [R] Need some help

2007-10-16 Thread azzza
You are right, I was a bit too vague. I am trying to simulate 1000 coin Tosses. Then to write a code for the number of heads/Tails.naturally, we would expect the proportion of heads to be 50% so the number of heads would be around 500. Secondly, I'm trying to look at the number of sign change

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:38 +0100, Arnold Akem wrote: > Hey Seniors, > > Really new to R, please has anyone imported a dataset from MS office > excel 2007 into R yet? It seem to be giving me hard times which I did > not expect as it use to go well with the previous versions. > > Thanks

Re: [R] R-2.6.0 - packages installation through a proxy - not working

2007-10-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 October 2007 at 16:37, Rainer M Krug wrote: | Liviu Andronic wrote: | > On 10/16/07, Rainer M. Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> I always change the variables in the terminal window before I start R, i.e. | >> | >> export http_proxy=SERVER:3128 | >> export ftp_proxy=SERVER:3128 | >> | >>

Re: [R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Bert Gunter
Please read the Posting Guide and provide reproducible code. What do you mean by "import"? -- via RODBC?... as a delimited text file? ... using read.table(), scan(),... ??? Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] cumulative frequency plots for factors

2007-10-16 Thread Dieter Vanderelst
Hi, Henrique's solution is indeed very elegant. But after a while, I thought I needed more control over individual lines. Therefore, I switched to the more complex method you also suggest. I want to thank the both of you for the help. Regards, Dieter Jim Lemon wrote: > Dieter Vanderelst wrot

[R] saving as PDF in R2.6.0 (MS Windows GUI)

2007-10-16 Thread Filippo Piro
I wonder why using the MS Windows GUI menu to save a graphic as PDF in R2.6.0 results in the following message: Error: invalid specification font furthermore: Warning messages: 1: font family not found in PostScript database 2: font family not found in PostScript database Filippo Piro

[R] Import from excel 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Arnold Akem
Hey Seniors, Really new to R, please has anyone imported a dataset from MS office excel 2007 into R yet? It seem to be giving me hard times which I did not expect as it use to go well with the previous versions. Thanks in advance. arnoldo -

Re: [R] R-2.6.0 - packages installation through a proxy - not working

2007-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/16/07, Scionforbai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would start R with the command: > > http_proxy="http://SERVER:3128"; R > > and then from R I would try: > > install.packages("Rcmdr", dep = TRUE, method = "wget") > install.packages("Rcmdr", dep = TRUE, method = "wget") --- Please select a CR

[R] the new package "sets"

2007-10-16 Thread Jorge Manuel de Almeida Magalhães
Dear Sirs I can't try the package sets because I have a old mac system. Package sets needs R = 2.6. I need to group some variables into a set of new variables defined by a particular modality: Example: my.df = data.frame(var1=c(1,2,2,1,2,2,1,2), var2=c(2,2,1,1,2,2,1,1), var3=c(1,2,2,1,1,1,1,

[R] underdetermined system

2007-10-16 Thread yoooooo
Hi, sorry, I'm an idiot.. and I know I'm missing something stupid.. I thought if we solve an underdetermine system with QR, my soln is: min ||x|| (L2 sense) such that Ax = b then say i have: > w <- matrix(c(1, 5), ncol=2) > sw = 2 > qrW = qr(t(w) %*% w) > qr.coef(qrW, t(w) %*% sw) [,1]

[R] library(car): Anova and repeated measures without between subjects factors

2007-10-16 Thread Ralf Goertz
Hi, sorry if this is explained somewhere but I didn't find anything. How can I use "Anova" from the car package to test a modell without between subject's factors? Suppose I have the following data mat.1 mat.2 mat.3 di ex 1 858588 1 1 2 909293 1 1 3 9797

Re: [R] R-2.6.0 - packages installation through a proxy - not working

2007-10-16 Thread Scionforbai
I would start R with the command: http_proxy="http://SERVER:3128"; R and then from R I would try: install.packages("Rcmdr", dep = TRUE, method = "wget") provided that you have wget installed on your system (which I think). __ R-help@r-project.org mai

Re: [R] help with nls and Hill equation

2007-10-16 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Another approach that usually works well is to use the option: algorithm = "port". This uses the "nl2sol" routine. foo.nls <- nls(var~Emax*(Dose^hill)/((EC50^hill)+(Dose^hill)), start=list(Emax=-4,EC50=269,hill=1), algorithm="port", trace=T,data=foo) This generally has more robust convergence

Re: [R] Get the last 3 chars of a string

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 07:49 -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > > Here is an alternative: > > > > sub(".*(..)$", "\\1", x) > > > > For sufficiently small values of 3 ;) > all.equal(2., 3) [1] TRUE ;-) Marc __

Re: [R] Canberra distance

2007-10-16 Thread Jari Oksanen
Frédéric Chiroleu cirad.fr> writes: > > Hi, > > I misunderstand the definition of Canberra distance in R. > > On Internet and in function description pages of dist() from stats and > Dist() from amap, Canberra distance between vectors x and y, d(x,y), is : > > d(x,y) = sum(abs(x-y)/(x+y)) >

Re: [R] survreg's algorithm

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gad Abraham wrote: > Gad Abraham wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm using survreg() from the survival package for parametric survival >> regression (modelling inter-arrival times of patients to a waiting list >> as exponentially distributed, with various regressors such as queue size >>

Re: [R] ggplot2: ordering categorial data

2007-10-16 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Christoph, There's a couple of things you need to do. Firstly, you need to reorder the factor according to how you want the data sorted df$tld <- reorder_factor(df$tld, tapply(df$spam1, df$tld, mean)) is one way to do that. The reason that position dodge isn't working for you is because it

Re: [R] Get the last 3 chars of a string

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Here is an alternative: > > sub(".*(..)$", "\\1", x) > For sufficiently small values of 3 ;) -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle __

Re: [R] problem with RCurl 0.8-1 installation on Debian Etch

2007-10-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Christian, On 16 October 2007 at 15:39, Christian Kohler wrote: | Dear R-Users, | | I am having some trouble getting an installation of RCurl 0.8-1 to work | properly on a Debian (Etch) machine. | | | The command 'R CMD INSTALL RCurl_0.8-1.tar.gz' yields the following error: | | Installin

Re: [R] R-2.6.0 - packages installation through a proxy - not working

2007-10-16 Thread Rainer M Krug
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/16/07, Rainer M. Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I always change the variables in the terminal window before I start R, i.e. >> >> export http_proxy=SERVER:3128 >> export ftp_proxy=SERVER:3128 >> >> and then start R - I did it this morning, and it worked. > > I alw

Re: [R] Data manipulation

2007-10-16 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi "Klaus Friis Østergaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal dne 16.10.2007 10:34:15: > > 2007/10/15, Petr PIKAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > > Well, let us put it another way. Do you want for each unique combination > of Hole and Feature to subtract a value from one data frame, let us call > it

Re: [R] Bootstrapping Contrasts for Repeated Measures ANOVA

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Lakeland
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:19:35PM -0500, Alex Baugh wrote: > However, I don't know where to begin to write a program to do > contrasts with a resampling technique. select a random sample (with replacement) from the population with factor level 1, and a random sample from the population with fact

Re: [R] R-2.6.0 - packages installation through a proxy - not working

2007-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/16/07, Rainer M. Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always change the variables in the terminal window before I start R, i.e. > > export http_proxy=SERVER:3128 > export ftp_proxy=SERVER:3128 > > and then start R - I did it this morning, and it worked. I always start up Gentoo with these var

Re: [R] help with nls and Hill equation

2007-10-16 Thread Lanre Okusanya
Thanks. I am just not used to having such a huge difference when changing the initial condition by 1 point. it usually tends to be an issue when you are way off (especially since the hill converged at 1.69). Does it have something to do with the algorithm or is the hill just very finicky? Lanre

[R] Comparison

2007-10-16 Thread Alessandra Trimarchi
Dear r-help mailing list, thanks for the advices on the last question,through them I've solved it. But now, I would know, how is possible to compare two(or more) cluster dendrograms, because for each cluster dendrogram coming from different data frame the height is measured with different uni

Re: [R] help with nls and Hill equation

2007-10-16 Thread Christian Ritz
Hi! I would suggest trying out a few different starting values as a first unsystematic approach. For example changing hill=1 to hill=2 results in convergence: foo.nls<-nls(var~Emax*(Dose^hill)/((EC50^hill)+(Dose^hill)), start=list(Emax=-4,EC50=269,hill=2),trace=T,data=foo) Christian ___

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