Re: [R] Plot Mixtures of Synthetically Generated Gamma Distributions

2008-07-06 Thread Stephen Tucker
Are you trying to look at the difference in the gamma distributions due to variations in the shape and scale parameters? In this case, the following approach might be more straightforward: ## assign parameter values params <- list(curve1=c(1,1),curve2=c(1,2),curve3=c(1,3)) ## define function g

Re: [R] Backgrounds in Multiple Plots made with "fig"

2008-07-06 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Tom La Bone wrote: > The following code was adapted from an example Vincent Zoonekynd gave on his > web site http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html: > > n <- 1000 > x <- rnorm(n) > qqnorm(x) > qqline(x, col="red") > op <- par(fig=c(.02,.5,.5,.98), new=TRUE) > hist(x, probability=T, > c

Re: [R] Plot Mixtures of Synthetically Generated Gamma Distributions

2008-07-06 Thread Moshe Olshansky
I know very little about graphics, so my primitive and brute force solution would be plot(density(x[1:30]),col="blue");lines(density(x[31:60]),col="red");lines(density(x[61:90]),col="green") --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROT

[R] Hi~problem with the two sample test: ks2Test in the package of fbasics

2008-07-06 Thread l y
Hi everyone, when I use the two sample Kolmogorov¨CSmirnov ks2Test like this: x=read.table("e:/x.txt") y=rstable(1000,alpha,beta,gamma,delta) I alway get results as follows: Warning messages: 1: In ks.test(x = x, y = y, alternative = "two.sided") : cannot compute correct p-values with ties 2:

Re: [R] Plot Mixtures of Synthetically Generated Gamma Distributions

2008-07-06 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Gundala, It's just a starting points and I'm sure completely sure it will be improved. Try this (for now): set.seed(123) x=c( rgamma(30,shape=.2,scale=14), rgamma(30,shape=12,scale=10), rgamma(30,shape=5,scale=6)) plot(density(x[1:30]),col=2,xlim=range(0,max(density(x)$x)),type='l',main="De

Re: [R] Plot Mixtures of Synthetically Generated Gamma Distributions

2008-07-06 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Gundala, It's just a starting points. I'm sure it could be better. Try this: set.seed(123) x=c(rgamma(30,shape=.2,scale=14),rgamma(30,shape=12,scale=10),rgamma(30,shape=5,scale=6)) plot(density(x[1:30]),col=2,xlim=range(0,max(density(x)$x)),type='l',main="Density for your vector") points(de

[R] Plot Mixtures of Synthetically Generated Gamma Distributions

2008-07-06 Thread Gundala Viswanath
Hi, I have the following vector which is created from 3 distinct distribution (three components) of gamma: x=c(rgamma(30,shape=.2,scale=14),rgamma(30,shape=12,scale=10),rgamma(30,shape=5,scale=6)) I want to plot the density curve of X, in a way that it shows a distinct 3 curves that represent ea

Re: [R] Error in defining function

2008-07-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Your program works as is if you choose Mean but you have introduced two new errors: 1. SD is not defined in your program. 2. if multiple choices are taken then it will try to pass a vector to my.match.fun but that calls match.fun which only allows functions to be passed to it. You will have to t

Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 July 2008 at 12:07, Jason Lee wrote: | I checked from Ubuntu distro and the latest package only show 2.5.1. Anyone | has the similar problem too? In a particular (and now outdated) release of Ubuntu, yes. For all versions, see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r-base and for current

Re: [R] Error in defining function

2008-07-06 Thread Megh Dal
I made some changes and also incorporated your advice : library(zoo) Z.index <- as.Date(sample(12450:15500, 3000)) Z.data <- matrix(rnorm(300), ncol = 1) data1 <- zoo(Z.data, Z.index) fnc = function(data1) { selection2 = select.list(c("Mean", "SD"), multiple = T) Mean = functi

Re: [R] Method for checking automatically which distribtions fits a data

2008-07-06 Thread ctu
Hi, In my experience, I just plot the data set then figure it out. Maybe you could try this? I really wonder that there is such a R function exists. If yes, please let me know. Thanks Chunhao Tu Quoting Gundala Viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Suppose I have a vector of data. Is there a met

Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Lee
I checked from Ubuntu distro and the latest package only show 2.5.1. Anyone has the similar problem too? On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Jason Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran > archive about the related matter a

[R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Lee
Hi, I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran archive about the related matter and could not find anything closer to this. I want to upgrade my R version from 2.5.1. to 2.7.1. What is the best way to load the latest one apart from installing the packages (tar.gz)

Re: [R] Lots of huge matrices, for-loops, speed

2008-07-06 Thread Moshe Olshansky
This is correct for larger (more columns) matrices - computing the t(A)*A matrix and inverting it may cause numerical problems, but this should not be the case with two columns (one of which is all 1's). In any case, the matrix depends on vector x only and since it is small (80 entries), the re

Re: [R] Regular expressions: bug or misunderstanding?

2008-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/07/2008 7:37 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Look at the discussion of zero width lookahead assertions in ?regex . Use perl = TRUE as previously indicated. Thanks, this seems to work: gsub( "(? On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/07/2008 5:37 P

Re: [R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread markleeds
milton: that was totally your solution. i just changed it for what hippie dream wanted. hippie dream: you can do ?text to get a better explanation but the basic idea is that the first two parameters in text specify the coordinates at which you put the text and the third param is the text. so

Re: [R] Lots of huge matrices, for-loops, speed

2008-07-06 Thread Rolf Turner
On 7/07/2008, at 11:05 AM, Moshe Olshansky wrote: Another possibility is to use explicit formula, i.e. if you are doing linear regression like y = a*x + b then the explicit formulae are: a = (meanXY - meanX*meanY)/(meanX2 - meanX^2) b = (meanY*meanX2 - meanX*meanXY)/(meanX2 - meanX^2) whe

[R] Method for checking automatically which distribtions fits a data

2008-07-06 Thread Gundala Viswanath
Hi, Suppose I have a vector of data. Is there a method in R to help us automatically suggest which distributions fits to that data (e.g. normal, gamma, multinomial etc) ? - Gundala Viswanath Jakarta - Indonesia __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list http

Re: [R] Regular expressions: bug or misunderstanding?

2008-07-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Look at the discussion of zero width lookahead assertions in ?regex . Use perl = TRUE as previously indicated. On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/07/2008 5:37 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote: >> >> On 06-Jul-08 21:17:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>> >>> I'm tryi

[R] color with tcl/tk?

2008-07-06 Thread Hua Li
Dear all, I'm using tcl/tk to create a program to get answers from the user. I'd like a way to highlight/emphasize some of the information using colors. It'll be even better if I can color part of the messages instead of the whole thing. For example, I want to put the word "Hello" in red: req

[R] Exception Handling

2008-07-06 Thread Tudor Bodea
Dear useRs: Please provide me with your thoughts on an issue related to the design of a production level system. For example, let’s suppose that I need to run the same R script for a finite sequence of items (e.g., in the energy industry, I may need to asses the profitability of all gas stations

Re: [R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread hippie dream
Actually Ted, Mark's code worked perfectly although I am not really sure why. I am fairly confused by Ted'scode anyways, even though I'm sure it is right. Here is what it amounted to for my case: plot(Length ~ Width, data=infiltration1, col="blue", xlab = "Width (cm)", ylab = "Length (m)", xlim=

Re: [R] ignore warning messages?

2008-07-06 Thread Hua Li
Thanks a lot, Henrique and Jorge! --- On Tue, 7/1/08, Jorge Ivan Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jorge Ivan Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] ignore warning messages? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "R-help" > Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 1:12 PM > Dear Hua, > > Try > > opti

Re: [R] Regular expressions: bug or misunderstanding?

2008-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/07/2008 5:37 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 06-Jul-08 21:17:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm trying to write a gsub() call that takes a string and escapes all the unescaped quote marks in it. So the string \" would be left unchanged, but \\" would be changed to \\\" because the double ba

Re: [R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread Ted Harding
I think what he is trying to do is more on the following lines: D<-NULL; for(i in (1:5)){D<-cbind(D,2.5*i+(0:10)+ 0.5*rnorm(11))} {plot((0:10),D[,1],pch=49,col="blue",ylim=c(0,25))} for(i in (2:5)){points((0:10),D[,i],pch=(48+i),col="blue")} Ted. On 06-Jul-08 22:47:49, milton ruser wrote: > Hi H

Re: [R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread milton ruser
Thanks Mark Leeds! Just putting something more on the code: x<-runif(20) y<-rnorm(20) code.level<-sample(1:15,20, replace=T) df<-data.frame(cbind(x,y, code.level)) plot(y~x, data=df, type="n") text(df$x, df$y, df$code.level) Peace, Miltinho Astronauta Brazil On 7/6/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EM

Re: [R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread markleeds
below is milton's example with the text command changed to be the values of y itself ? is that what you wanted ? x<-runif(20) y<-rnorm(20) df<-data.frame(cbind(x,y)) plot(y~x, data=df, type="n") text(df$x, df$y, df$y) On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:59 PM, hippie dream wrote: Thanks Milton, I

Re: [R] Lots of huge matrices, for-loops, speed

2008-07-06 Thread Moshe Olshansky
Another possibility is to use explicit formula, i.e. if you are doing linear regression like y = a*x + b then the explicit formulae are: a = (meanXY - meanX*meanY)/(meanX2 - meanX^2) b = (meanY*meanX2 - meanX*meanXY)/(meanX2 - meanX^2) where meanX is mean(x), meanXY is mean(x*y), meanX2 is mean(

Re: [R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread hippie dream
Thanks Milton, I am finding this a little hard to explain. The code you gave me produced all 0.0 points whereas what I am looking for are the points to correspond to a specific column. I'll be explicit. I am graphing the location of 15 objects numbered 1 to 15. plot(Length ~ Width, data=infiltra

Re: [R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread milton ruser
Hi Hippien Dream If I understood, the code below may help you. Cheers, Miltinho Astronauta Brazil === x<-runif(20) y<-rnorm(20) df<-data.frame(cbind(x,y)) par(mfrow=c(1,2)) plot(y~x, data=df) plot(y~x, data=df, type="n") text(df$x, df$y, "o.o") On 7/6/08, hippie dream <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [R] What is my replication unit? Lmer for binary longitudinal data with blocks and two treaments.

2008-07-06 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Humberto, Instead of starting with a complicated model, how about producing some graphics to aid your understand of the problem? For this example, I'd think it would be revealing to look at the proportion of positive track plates that were positive. If tracks was a variable that summed up the

[R] Numbers as Points in Graphs

2008-07-06 Thread hippie dream
I am trying to produce a simple plot where the points in the plot are actually integers from my data. That is, I am making a length/width plot and I would like the points, rather dots or triangles, appear as different numbers corresponding to a column in my data. I have tried using this: ...,pch=

[R] Issue with postscript figures using WinAnsi encoding

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Rennie
Hi there, I've hit a bump in writing postscript files with special characters in the WinAnsi encoding on a windows machine. Here's some sample code: ### postscript(file = "test.eps", encoding="WinAnsi.enc", width = 3, height = 5.5, onefile = TRUE, h

[R] Issue with postscript figures using WinAnsi encoding

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Rennie
Hi there, I've hit a bump in writing postscript files with special characters in the WinAnsi encoding on a windows machine. Here's some sample code: ### postscript(file = "test.eps", encoding="WinAnsi.enc", width = 3, height = 5.5, onefile = TRUE, horiz

Re: [R] Regular expressions: bug or misunderstanding?

2008-07-06 Thread Ted Harding
On 06-Jul-08 21:17:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > I'm trying to write a gsub() call that takes a string and escapes all > the unescaped quote marks in it. So the string > > \" > > would be left unchanged, but > > \\" > > would be changed to > > \\\" > > because the double backslash doesn't act

Re: [R] Regular expressions: bug or misunderstanding?

2008-07-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try adding perl = TRUE On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to write a gsub() call that takes a string and escapes all the > unescaped quote marks in it. So the string > > \" > > would be left unchanged, but > > \\" > > would be changed to > > \\\

[R] Regular expressions: bug or misunderstanding?

2008-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I'm trying to write a gsub() call that takes a string and escapes all the unescaped quote marks in it. So the string \" would be left unchanged, but \\" would be changed to \\\" because the double backslash doesn't act as an escape for the quote, the first just escapes the second. I have

Re: [R] ts.plot

2008-07-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:36 PM, threshold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, my question concerns the following (guess) easy case. I have daily data > over 5-year period say > 199017.24 > 199018.19 > 199019.22 > . > . > 199120.11 > 199120.26 > 199122.2 > . > . > 199420.0

Re: [R] Lots of huge matrices, for-loops, speed

2008-07-06 Thread Ray Brownrigg
You are doing a lot of unnecessary work inside each loop. For example the function regression() is defined as many as rows*cols times, but only needs to be defined once. Similarly getgrid() and getslice() (which does need to be defined inside the j loop, but not inside the k loop). HTH Ray

[R] Benchmarking R and R Workloads

2008-07-06 Thread Imanpreet
Hello All, Could anybody provide performance benchmarking and workloads for R? I came across the following: http://r.research.att.com/benchmarks/ Could anybody provide any other pointers for benchmarking R? Cheers! Isa [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _

Re: [R] Lots of huge matrices, for-loops, speed

2008-07-06 Thread jim holtman
Open all 80 files at once and then start reading a line from each one in turn. On my Windows machine I can have 80 open at once. You are spending all your time 'skipping' records. Code might look something like this: # open them all files <- list() for (i in fileList) files[[i]] <- file(i, 'r')

Re: [R] Error in defining function

2008-07-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Megh Dal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone please tell me why I am getting this error? > > library(zoo) > Z.index <- as.Date(sample(12450:15500, 3000)) > Z.data <- matrix(rnorm(300), ncol = 1) > > data1 <- zoo(Z.data, Z.index) > > fnc = function(data1) >{ >

[R] ts.plot

2008-07-06 Thread threshold
Hi, my question concerns the following (guess) easy case. I have daily data over 5-year period say 199017.24 199018.19 199019.22 . . 199120.11 199120.26 199122.2 . . 199420.05 199424.64 199426.34 and I want to make ts.plot of the 2nd column with respect to year

Re: [R] looking for alternative of 'if-else'

2008-07-06 Thread ctu
Hi, I write the code for you. Hope this helps SD <- 1 date1 <- seq(as.Date("2001-01-01"), as.Date("2002-12-1"), by = "day") len1 <- length(date1) set.seed(1) # to make it reproducible data1 <- zoo(rnorm(len1), date1) plot(data1) # calculation for monthly or quarterly mean calc = function(frequ =

[R] Error in defining function

2008-07-06 Thread Megh Dal
Can anyone please tell me why I am getting this error? library(zoo) Z.index <- as.Date(sample(12450:15500, 3000)) Z.data <- matrix(rnorm(300), ncol = 1) data1 <- zoo(Z.data, Z.index) fnc = function(data1) { selection2 = select.list(c("Mean"), multiple = F) Mean = function(dataa) me

[R] Hi~problem with the two sample test: ks2Test in the package of fbasics

2008-07-06 Thread lily
Hi everyone, when I use the two sample Kolmogorov¨CSmirnov ks2Test like this: x=read.table("e:/x.txt") y=rstable(1000,alpha,beta,gamma,delta) I alway get results as follows: Warning messages: 1: In ks.test(x = x, y = y, alternative = "two.sided") : cannot compute correct p-values with tie

[R] What is my replication unit? Lmer for binary longitudinal data with blocks and two treaments.

2008-07-06 Thread hpdutra
First I would like to say thank you for taking the time to read it.Here is my problem. I am running a lmer analysis for binary longitudinal (repeated measures) data. Basically, I manipulated fruits and vegetation to two levels each(present and absent) and I am trying to access how these factors

Re: [R] looking for alternative of 'if-else'

2008-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/07/2008 11:58 AM, Arun Kumar Saha wrote: I am not sure whether I could understand all things. Here is my code : library(zoo) # an reproducible example SD <- 1 date1 <- seq(as.Date("2001-01-01"), as.Date("2002-12-1"), by = "day") len1 <- length(date1) set.seed(1) # to make it reproducible d

Re: [R] looking for alternative of 'if-else'

2008-07-06 Thread Arun Kumar Saha
I am not sure whether I could understand all things. Here is my code : library(zoo) # an reproducible example SD <- 1 date1 <- seq(as.Date("2001-01-01"), as.Date("2002-12-1"), by = "day") len1 <- length(date1) set.seed(1) # to make it reproducible data1 <- zoo(rnorm(len1), date1) plot(data1) # ca

[R] Lots of huge matrices, for-loops, speed

2008-07-06 Thread Zarza
Hello, we have 80 text files with matrices. Each matrix represents a map (rows for latitude and columns for longitude), the 80 maps represent steps in time. In addition, we have a vector x of length 80. We would like to compute a regression between matrices (response through time) and x and create

Re: [R] Test for multiple comparisons: Nonlinear model, autocorrelation?

2008-07-06 Thread Spencer Graves
If I had only a very limited time to do this, I might include 'month' as another effect, probably coded as 'sin' and 'cos' on an annual cycle rather than as 12 individual Indicators. This would allow you to explore not only main effects but interactions with plots. Before I did that

Re: [R] Windows Only: winMenuAdd() problem

2008-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/07/2008 10:37 AM, Bert Gunter wrote: Folks: I don't know whether the following is a Windows or R problem, nor whether it is particular to my particular Windows version/setup. So any help would be appreciated. First the problem, then the info. The following code can be cut and pasted into y

Re: [R] "lwd" gives different plotted line widths for Vertical and horizontal Lines when lwd= 2?

2008-07-06 Thread Pedro de Barros
Hi Hadley, Thanks for the quick and informative reply. I did what you suggested, and it was indeed the problem for the axes lines (both are the same thickness). However, ticks are still thicker... I am attaching the two pdf files (one with lwd=2, the other with lwd=3). Thanks again, Pedro A

Re: [R] Ignore blank columns when reading a row from a table

2008-07-06 Thread Bernardo Rangel Tura
Em Ter, 2008-07-01 às 13:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Hi, > > I am extracting data from a table where the rows have different column > lengths, > and empty columns have NA in them. Whenever I extract a row with some empty > columns, the resulting vector carries all the NAs. Is there a

[R] Windows Only: winMenuAdd() problem

2008-07-06 Thread Bert Gunter
Folks: I don't know whether the following is a Windows or R problem, nor whether it is particular to my particular Windows version/setup. So any help would be appreciated. First the problem, then the info. The following code can be cut and pasted into your R session #

[R] Backgrounds in Multiple Plots made with "fig"

2008-07-06 Thread Tom La Bone
The following code was adapted from an example Vincent Zoonekynd gave on his web site http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html: n <- 1000 x <- rnorm(n) qqnorm(x) qqline(x, col="red") op <- par(fig=c(.02,.5,.5,.98), new=TRUE) hist(x, probability=T, col="light blue", xlab="", ylab="", main="",

Re: [R] Repeated measures lme or anova

2008-07-06 Thread hadley wickham
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Martin Henry H. Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > 1. I do not know why you remove the intercept in the lme model, but keep it > in the aov model. > 2. The distributional assumptions are shot --- you can't run any sort of > normal model with these data.

Re: [R] "lwd" gives different plotted line widths for Vertical and horizontal Lines when lwd= 2?

2008-07-06 Thread hadley wickham
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Pedro de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have been trying to add lines to the axis grobs of plots produced with > ggplot2. > > The code I have used is below. It works, although I do not think it is a > really elegant way of doing what I want >

Re: [R] Interpreting messages when building packages

2008-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Johannes Huesing wrote: Dear expRts, when I try to build a package by myself, the process fails writing the following messages to 00install.out: * Installing *source* package 'dynalc' ... ** libs WARNING: no source files found chmod: Zugriff auf „/home/hannes/texte/forschung/clot/programme/dyna

[R] Interpreting messages when building packages

2008-07-06 Thread Johannes Huesing
Dear expRts, when I try to build a package by myself, the process fails writing the following messages to 00install.out: * Installing *source* package 'dynalc' ... ** libs WARNING: no source files found chmod: Zugriff auf „/home/hannes/texte/forschung/clot/programme/dynalc.Rcheck/dynalc/libs/*“ n

Re: [R] Repeated measures lme or anova

2008-07-06 Thread Martin Henry H. Stevens
Hi John, 1. I do not know why you remove the intercept in the lme model, but keep it in the aov model. 2. The distributional assumptions are shot --- you can't run any sort of normal model with these data. You might consider some sort of binomial (metabolite detected vs. not detected). Hank

Re: [R] {spam?} Re: Error: cannot use PQL when using lmer

2008-07-06 Thread Martin Henry H. Stevens
Hi hpdutra, I do not know what section of which Crawley book you are referring to, but I assume that Crawley's point is to use a binomial error distribution (logistic regression) rather than a normal model. It is generally thought that LaPlace methods are more accurate than PQL methods. H

Re: [R] lattice smooth problem?

2008-07-06 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:52 +0200, Troels Ring wrote: > Dear friends - I'm on windows, R 2.7.0 > I try again asking if anyone can explain why a single pig of 16 makes so > wild swings. > Warnings are issued, and they are > 1: pseudoinverse used at 482.1 > 2: neighborhood radius 242.1 > 3: reciproc

[R] lattice smooth problem?

2008-07-06 Thread Troels Ring
Dear friends - I'm on windows, R 2.7.0 I try again asking if anyone can explain why a single pig of 16 makes so wild swings. Warnings are issued, and they are 1: pseudoinverse used at 482.1 2: neighborhood radius 242.1 3: reciprocal condition number 0 4: at 360 5: radius 14400 6: all data on

[R] "lwd" gives different plotted line widths for Vertical and horizontal Lines when lwd= 2?

2008-07-06 Thread Pedro de Barros
Dear All, I have been trying to add lines to the axis grobs of plots produced with ggplot2. The code I have used is below. It works, although I do not think it is a really elegant way of doing what I want However, I am now noticing that when plotted, the width of the lines in the axis ar

Re: [R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of

2008-07-06 Thread Ted Harding
Bill, while your point is a fair one, as far as it goes, I (and no doubt others) often run R on low-powered hardware, and therefore like to restrict overload. MASS is quite a big package. I've no dispute with your statement that MASS is both recommended and universally available. And it is valuabl

Re: [R] looking for alternative of 'if-else'

2008-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/07/2008 4:59 AM, Arun Kumar Saha wrote: There is "if-else" loop if I have to choose 1 item from a 2-item list. However if I have a list of 4 items (let say) then how i can choose a single item without employing 'if-else' loop? I mean in VBA I can use "select-case", is there any equivalent i

Re: [R] looking for alternative of 'if-else'

2008-07-06 Thread ctu
Why don't you try "switch" Let me assume that you want to calculate a=3 and b =5 by using one of "MEAN", "SUM","MIN", and "MAX functions. Then you could write your code: (If you want to calculate "MEAN") example<-function(fun=c("MEAN", "SUM", "MIN", "MAX")){ + fun<-match.arg(fun);a=3;b=5

Re: [R] lattice question

2008-07-06 Thread Felix Andrews
I think you want scales = list(x = list(relation="free")) On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:13 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm creating a lattice barchart based off a pretty complicated data > structure. The barchart comes out quite nice ( thanks > to lattice ) but the problem is that the horizontal

[R] looking for alternative of 'if-else'

2008-07-06 Thread Arun Kumar Saha
There is "if-else" loop if I have to choose 1 item from a 2-item list. However if I have a list of 4 items (let say) then how i can choose a single item without employing 'if-else' loop? I mean in VBA I can use "select-case", is there any equivalent in R as well? Regards, [[alternative HT

Re: [R] Different Autocorrelation using R and other softwares

2008-07-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It is not 'obvious' that SPSS/Minitab/Excel are right -- we quite often see users who wrongly assume that the autocorrelation is the Pearson correlation between a series and its lagged values. The correct definition is given in the reference on the help page for acf. Please note the footer to

Re: [R] trying to superimpose a line plot onto a histogram

2008-07-06 Thread Edwin Lei
Okay I've included a picture of the plot I've been getting with the commands: > hist(data,freq=F) > lines(Y~X) Basically I want the line circled in red to overlap the histogram because that line is supposed to represent the exponential decay nature of the histogram. Thanks! > -Original Mes