Re: [R] Validity of GLM using Gaussian family with sqrt link

2008-12-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
a) There is a difference between link=sqrt and link="sqrt". link: a specification for the model link function. This can be a name/expression, a literal character string, a length-one character vector or an object of class '"link-glm"' (such as generated by 'make

Re: [R] Clustering with Mahalanobis Distance

2008-12-10 Thread Wayne F
I don't have any experience with your particular problem, but the thing I notice is that mahalanobis is that by default you specify a covariance matrix, and it uses solve to calculate its inverse. If you could supply the inverse covariance matrix (and specify inverted=TRUE to mahalanobis), that mi

[R] Validity of GLM using Gaussian family with sqrt link

2008-12-10 Thread Lam, Tzeng Yih
Dear all, I have the following dataset: each row corresponds to count of forest floor small mammal captured in a plot and vegetation characteristics measured at that plot > sotr plot cnt herbc herbht 1 1A1 0 37.08 53.54 2 1A3 1 36.27 26.67 3 1A5 0 32.50 30.62 4 1A7

[R] Simplex function in R

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Line
I have a set of linear equations and would like to find any feasible solution. A simplex solution works in Case 1 below, but not in Case 2. I would be grateful for any help. Case 1: Find any feasible solution for the set of linear equations: a + b + c = 5 a + b + 0c = 4 0a +

[R] Re : A package to set up a questionnaire & enter data

2008-12-10 Thread justin bem
I don't believe there exist one ! but for that purpose I use CSPRO who is free !  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/cspro/  Justin BEM BP 1917 Yaoundé Tél (237) 99597295 (237) 22040246 À : r-help@r-project.org Envoyé le : Jeudi, 11 Décembre 2008, 1h35mn

[R] help about of ordinal data?

2008-12-10 Thread Tony zeng
Hi,all guys, I have got some variables(numbers:n) ,all are ordinal and each gets 5 levels,I must describle the importence of n-1 variables to the rest(a special one ) reprensenting by percent. How i can do? regression? but they are all ordinal! Quartile regression? or something other than

Re: [R] means of a column within groups of a data frame

2008-12-10 Thread Daniel Malter
Hi John, ?tapply #generate groups, 5 with 100 obs each group=rep(1:5,each=100) #generate xs 2*group value+random error x=group*2+rnorm(500,0,1) #get mean of x for each group #should be about Mu={2, 4, 6, 8, 10} tapply(x,group,mean) Cheers, Daniel - cuncta stricte dis

[R] means of a column within groups of a data frame

2008-12-10 Thread John Sorkin
R 2.8.0 windows XP I would like to divide the rows of data frame into five groups and then get the mean of one column within the five groups. I have accomplished this using the code below, but I hope there is an easier way, i.e. some function that I can call # create five groups. cut(data$BMI,

Re: [R] How do I multiply labeled vectors of numbers?

2008-12-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You probably want Marc's solution but just in case note that zoo's merge supports zero fill which means that if you represented the two as zoo objects whose "times" are cat, dog, ... then we would have: File1 <- "typen dog2 cat4 horse6" File2 <- "typen horse1 dog

Re: [R] Logical inconsistency

2008-12-10 Thread Bernardo Rangel Tura
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 06:02 -0800, emma jane wrote: > Many thanks for your help, perhaps I should have set my query in context > ! > > I'm simply calculating an indicator variable [0,1] based on the whether the > difference between two measured variables is > 1 or <=1. > > I understand the

Re: [R] how to force years as.numeric?

2008-12-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 12/10/2008 06:54 PM Viktor Nagy wrote: > Hi, > > My next problem is that I have a data frame with an years column. This > column for some reason is recognised as factor instead of being > numeric. The years go from 1970 to 2007. When I convert it to numeric > with as.numeric then it goes from 1

Re: [R] Coercing data into a simple array

2008-12-10 Thread withflavor
Nevermind. x$acf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Coercing-data-into-a-simple-array-tp20947264p20947450.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/ma

[R] how to force years as.numeric?

2008-12-10 Thread Viktor Nagy
Hi, My next problem is that I have a data frame with an years column. This column for some reason is recognised as factor instead of being numeric. The years go from 1970 to 2007. When I convert it to numeric with as.numeric then it goes from 1 to 38. Is there a way to convert it with saving its "

[R] Coercing data into a simple array

2008-12-10 Thread withflavor
I am using acf() to get the autocorrelations of a time series. It works but I want to then get the autocorrelations into a simple list of numbers. > x <- acf(price_changes, lag.max = 12,type = "correlation",plot = FALSE) > x Autocorrelations of series ‘price_changes’, by lag 0 1

Re: [R] how to merge panel data stored by variable?

2008-12-10 Thread Viktor Nagy
wow, this package is amazing! Thank you! V 2008/12/10 hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Viktor Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/12/10 Stefan Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> > I have two datasets stored in tab-separated format in the following way >>>

Re: [R] R and Scheme

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: Peter Dalgaard wrote: Johannes Huesing wrote: Stavros Macrakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:59:25AM CET]: So I conclude that what is really meant by "R semantics are based on Scheme semantics" is "R has functions as first-class citizens and a correct im

[R] A package to set up a questionnaire & enter data

2008-12-10 Thread CE.KA
Hi R users, Is there a Package in R to - set up a questionnaire? - enter data? Best regards -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/A-package-to-set-up-a-questionnaire---enter-data-tp20947237p20947237.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-10 Thread hadley wickham
> Perhaps... But plyr works only on **basic** data structures, and I referred > to all **possible** data strucures (deliberately); so I stand by my > statement and note that you did not contradict it. To me the basic structures are vectors, matrices and arrays; lists; and data frames (that these a

Re: [R] converting multiple columns from POSIX* to Date

2008-12-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
Use inherits() then rather than class(): DF[] <- lapply(DF, function(x) ifelse(inherits(x, "POSIXt"), as.Date(x), x)) That should hopefully work better than my first attempt. HTH, Marc Schwartz on 12/10/2008 05:47 PM Farrel Buchinsky wrote: > I will tr

Re: [R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-10 Thread Bert Gunter
Hadley: Perhaps... But plyr works only on **basic** data structures, and I referred to all **possible** data strucures (deliberately); so I stand by my statement and note that you did not contradict it. -- Bert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

Re: [R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-10 Thread hadley wickham
> graphics,statistical analysis etc. as well as programming. There are just > too many possible data structures to expect logical consistency in their > handling throughout (if one can even define what that means in specific > instances!). I disagree with this claim: I think it is possible to crea

Re: [R] converting multiple columns from POSIX* to Date

2008-12-10 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
I will try that but I am somewhat skeptical since when I go class(date.of.birth) I get not just one word but two: "POSIXt" "POSIXct". Will that not mess up the logical test When I tried the following: lapply(as.list(dataframename),class)=="POSIXt" every item was false Farrel Buchinsky GrandCentr

Re: [R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-10 Thread hadley wickham
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Patrizio Frederic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > I have a data frame such as: > > 1 blue 0.3 > 1 NA0.4 > 1 red NA > 2 blue NA > 2 green NA > 2 blue NA > 3 red 0.5 > 3 blue NA > 3 NA1.1 > > I wish to find the last non-missing value in every 3p

Re: [R] converting multiple columns from POSIX* to Date

2008-12-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 12/10/2008 05:26 PM Farrel Buchinsky wrote: > converting a POSIX class variable to a date class is easy. > dates<-as.Date(x) #where X is of class POSIX > How does one do that to all columns in a data frame that are of POSIX > class and leave all the other columns (integers, factors) as is. > >

Re: [R] read.*: How to read from a URL?

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Morgan
Martin Morgan wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, hadley wickham wrote: Hi Michael, In general, I think you should be able to do: gimage <- read.jpeg(url(gimageloc)) Note that would not be really correct: it would need to be gimage <- read.jpeg(con <- url(gimageloc)) clos

Re: [R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-10 Thread Bert Gunter
Yes. Read the help pages **carefully**! e.g. ?tapply says that the first argument is an **atomic** vector. A factor is not an atomic vector. So tapply interprets it as such by looking only at its representation, which is as integer values. apply works on **arrays,** which must be of a single t

Re: [R] How do I multiply labeled vectors of numbers?

2008-12-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 12/10/2008 05:17 PM Bill McNeill (UW) wrote: > I'm an R newbie trying to do an operation that seems like it should be very > simple, but after much playing around with the interface and reading "An > Introduction to R" I can figure out how to do it. > > I have two text files. File1 contains: >

Re: [R] read.*: How to read from a URL?

2008-12-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/12/2008 5:41 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, hadley wickham wrote: Hi Michael, In general, I think you should be able to do: gimage <- read.jpeg(url(gimageloc)) Note that would not be really correct: it would need to be gimage <- read.jpeg(con <- url(gimageloc)) clo

[R] converting multiple columns from POSIX* to Date

2008-12-10 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
converting a POSIX class variable to a date class is easy. dates<-as.Date(x) #where X is of class POSIX How does one do that to all columns in a data frame that are of POSIX class and leave all the other columns (integers, factors) as is. Feel free to reply with just one or two buzzwords that I co

Re: [R] trouble loading candisc

2008-12-10 Thread John Fox
Dear Pete, It's hard to tell from your email exactly what you did after you installed the candisc package. Did you load the candisc package via library(candisc) before trying to use the candisc() function? I hope this helps, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of

[R] bigmemory with reshape?

2008-12-10 Thread Avram Aelony
Hello, I am running into memory boundaries and would like to try to make use of the bigmemory (or any other memory enabling) library. Can anyone help with suggestions as to how this might work? > library(reshape) > s <- melt( d[,1:62], id=c(1) ) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 16.0 Mb >

Re: [R] How do I multiply labeled vectors of numbers?

2008-12-10 Thread Jim Holtman
?merge Sent from my iPhone On Dec 10, 2008, at 15:17, "Bill McNeill (UW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm an R newbie trying to do an operation that seems like it should be very simple, but after much playing around with the interface and reading "An Introduction to R" I can figure out h

[R] How do I multiply labeled vectors of numbers?

2008-12-10 Thread Bill McNeill (UW)
I'm an R newbie trying to do an operation that seems like it should be very simple, but after much playing around with the interface and reading "An Introduction to R" I can figure out how to do it. I have two text files. File1 contains: typen dog2 cat4 horse6 File2 cont

Re: [R] read.*: How to read from a URL?

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Morgan
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, hadley wickham wrote: Hi Michael, In general, I think you should be able to do: gimage <- read.jpeg(url(gimageloc)) Note that would not be really correct: it would need to be gimage <- read.jpeg(con <- url(gimageloc)) close(con) since it other

Re: [R] read.*: How to read from a URL?

2008-12-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, hadley wickham wrote: Hi Michael, In general, I think you should be able to do: gimage <- read.jpeg(url(gimageloc)) Note that would not be really correct: it would need to be gimage <- read.jpeg(con <- url(gimageloc)) close(con) since it otherwise leaks a connection (w

Re: [R] Better way to find distances between points in a set?

2008-12-10 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Stavros Macrakis wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: The 'better way' to do almost anything starts with a reading of the _posting guide_, which reminds you to Do your homework before posting [Reasons whyfor deleted]]...

Re: [R] Better way to find distances between points in a set?

2008-12-10 Thread Carl Witthoft
Ok... then.. I didn't mean to start a flame war, so first off I apologize for firing off my second comment. I think a fair compromise is: I should have at least noted that I got as far as finding dist() (and which.max()), thus showing "some" effort on my part before posting my query. Anyw

Re: [R] missing argument

2008-12-10 Thread Bert Gunter
I believe the usual practice in this case is simply to give default values for arguments: function(x, y, opt.arg1 = 0, opt.arg2 = sin(1),...) If you haven't already done so, perusal of "An Introduction to R" -- especially the "Named Arguments and Defaults" -- would be appropriate. Cheers, Bert G

[R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-10 Thread Patrizio Frederic
hi all, I have a data frame such as: 1 blue 0.3 1 NA0.4 1 red NA 2 blue NA 2 green NA 2 blue NA 3 red 0.5 3 blue NA 3 NA1.1 I wish to find the last non-missing value in every 3ple: ie I want a 3 by 3 data.frame such as: 1 red 0.4 2 blue NA 3 blue 1.1 I have written a little

Re: [R] R and Scheme

2008-12-10 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Johannes Huesing wrote: >> Stavros Macrakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at >> 04:59:25AM CET]: >>> So I conclude that what is really meant by "R semantics are based on >>> Scheme >>> semantics" is "R has functions as first-class citizens and a correct >>> implemen

Re: [R] missing argument

2008-12-10 Thread Tony Breyal
I think i might of misunderstood the question. I was thinking you meant what if one of the arguments were not used, as in the example below (see ?missing): f<- function(d1, d2, d3) { vec <- c(missing(d1), missing(d2), missing(d3)) if(any(vec)) { return(0) }

Re: [R] missing argument

2008-12-10 Thread Tony Breyal
?missing never used it myself, but looks like it might help you :-) Tony Breyal. On 10 Dec, 19:09, "jonas garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, > I have a question and I'm going to give an example of my problem > > f<- function(d1, d2, d3) > { > d<- d1*d2/d3 > return(d) > > } > > v1<-

Re: [R] Confusion with Converting Factors to Dates using as.date

2008-12-10 Thread Josip Dasovic
Thank you very much, Peter. As is often the case, R gave me exactly what I asked it to give me, but not what I wanted it to give me. :) Cheers, Josip Research Associate Human Security Report Project School for International Studies Simon Fraser University Suite 7200--515 W. Hastings St. Vancouver

Re: [R] Confusion with Converting Factors to Dates using as.date

2008-12-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 12/10/2008 02:41 PM Josip Dasovic wrote: > Dear R-Helpers: > > I'm having a problem getting dates into the correct format. I have a > data frame, which is based on a .csv file that I imported into R via > read.table. > > R has converted my date variables to factors; when I use the as.Date > co

Re: [R] Confusion with Converting Factors to Dates using as.date

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Josip Dasovic wrote: Dear R-Helpers: I'm having a problem getting dates into the correct format. I have a data frame, which is based on a .csv file that I imported into R via read.table. R has converted my date variables to factors; when I use the as.Date command, most of the values are convert

[R] trouble loading candisc

2008-12-10 Thread Pete Shepard
Hello, I am having trouble loading the package candisc onto my R distribution. I am using 2.7.1-2. I do a "> install.packages("candisc" and get the following output. Warning in install.packages("candisc") : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' --- Please select a CRA

Re: [R] Better way to find distances between points in a set?

2008-12-10 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The 'better way' to do almost anything starts with a reading of the > _posting guide_, which reminds you to >Do your homework before posting [Reasons whyfor deleted]]... > > Oh yes, if you are too lazy to look

Re: [R] How to Break Axis in Lattice Plot

2008-12-10 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Larry Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have searched the following problem in the R help achives, and there did > not seem to be solutio for it. > > The problem is how to break the axis in the xyplot (lattice plot). I read > the posts using the packag

[R] Confusion with Converting Factors to Dates using as.date

2008-12-10 Thread Josip Dasovic
Dear R-Helpers: I'm having a problem getting dates into the correct format. I have a data frame, which is based on a .csv file that I imported into R via read.table. R has converted my date variables to factors; when I use the as.Date command, most of the values are converted "correctly" (and b

Re: [R] Linking a library with init(argc,argv) function

2008-12-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:12:12PM +0100, Maxime Debon wrote: > I am facing a difficulty with loading a library depending on a library > (libMesh) which needs an initialization function (libMesh::init(argc, > argv);). Create 'fake' argc/argv as eg in char *myargv[] = { "somename", "--foo

[R] Calculating Leverage or studentized residuals with gls

2008-12-10 Thread dt Excellent
Dear colleagues, hi. I am using the function gls in R-package nlme and I want to compute either the leverage values or the studentized residuals. Can any body tell me how can do that? With regards ___ ΧρησιμοποιείÏ[[el

[R] (no subject)

2008-12-10 Thread Sara Sievert
Hello! I've fitted a time series to the exponential power density (Subbotin) with the following function: library(MASS) dep<- function(x,location,scale,tail) # Exponential power (=Subbotin) { const<- 2*scale*tail^(1/tail) *gamma(1+1/tail) z<- (x-location)/scale exp(-1/tail*abs(z)^tail)/con

[R] Linking a library with init(argc,argv) function

2008-12-10 Thread Maxime Debon
Hi, I would like to embed the LibMesh library in R. I have already linked C++ code and build libraries as it is explained in the R-extension manual with trivial examples : dyn.load(paste("/home/default/LibFooR",.Platform$dynlib.ext,sep="")) I am facing a difficulty with loading a library d

[R] missing argument

2008-12-10 Thread jonas garcia
Dear list, I have a question and I'm going to give an example of my problem f<- function(d1, d2, d3) { d<- d1*d2/d3 return(d) } v1<- 1 v2<- 2 If I try f(v1, v2, v3) Error in f(v1, v2, v3) : object "v3" not found I obviously got the above error message. I would like to add something to my functio

Re: [R] how to merge panel data stored by variable?

2008-12-10 Thread hadley wickham
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Viktor Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/10 Stefan Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > I have two datasets stored in tab-separated format in the following way >> > file1: >> > country year1year2 >> > Germanyvar1 var1 >> > Hu

Re: [R] read.*: How to read from a URL?

2008-12-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
If you use url("http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/Private/langrens.csv";) then most functions will work, because that creates a connection to read the URL. Most functions that can read files do it through connections. Duncan Murdoch On 12/10/2008 2:17 PM, Michael Friendly wrote: The q

Re: [R] how to merge panel data stored by variable?

2008-12-10 Thread Viktor Nagy
2008/12/10 Stefan Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have two datasets stored in tab-separated format in the following way > > file1: > > country year1year2 > > Germanyvar1 var1 > > Hungary var1 var1 > > > > file2: > > country year1

Re: [R] Better way to find distances between points in a set?

2008-12-10 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hah! I DID do my homework first. From now on I guess I'll have to post the complete list of trails I followed before deciding I was lost. That appears to be the only way to stave off the Harpies. So, before I posted, and before I even wro

Re: [R] read.*: How to read from a URL?

2008-12-10 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Michael, In general, I think you should be able to do: gimage <- read.jpeg(url(gimageloc)) or alternatively use the EBImage from bioconductor which will read from a url automatically (it also opens a much wider range of file types) library(EBImage) img <- readImage(gimageloc, TrueColor) Had

Re: [R] read.table with different row lengths

2008-12-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 12/10/2008 12:50 PM Chris Poliquin wrote: > Hi, > > I need to read in a series of text files with a time series on each > row. The series are of different lengths and I'd like to just use the > first row as the length and have R ignore extra values in rows that go > over this length. > > For

Re: [R] read.table with different row lengths

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Poliquin
For some reason R is reading in the file and creating new rows with fill=TRUE that begin with NA. In other words, the R table I end up with has more rows than my text file. These are very long time series (3500 observations). Each of my text file has about 200 rows. With the example I

[R] read.*: How to read from a URL?

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Friendly
The question is how to use a URL in place of a file= argument for read.*.functions that do not support this internally. e.g., utils::read.table() and her family all support a file= argument that can take a URL equally well as a local file. So, if I have a file on the web, I can equally well d

Re: [R] convert dataframe to matrix for cmdscale

2008-12-10 Thread William Simpson
Thanks Henrique Here's what I came up with temp<-read.table(filename, header=TRUE) tempm<-tapply(temp[,3],temp[,1:2],c) #put dataframe into matrix form tempm<-(tempm + t(tempm))/2 #add matrix to matrix flipped about diagonal and divide by 2 Bill On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Henrique Dallazu

Re: [R] RCurl::postForm() -- how does one determine what the names are of each form element in an online html form?

2008-12-10 Thread Tony Breyal
Thank you Felix and also to the individual who replied off-list. re: html code -- you are both indeed correct that the form elements are named within the html code for a simple form, and i thank you both for letting me know about this. For simple forms i think i will try and write myself a functio

[R] read.table with different row lengths

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Poliquin
Hi, I need to read in a series of text files with a time series on each row. The series are of different lengths and I'd like to just use the first row as the length and have R ignore extra values in rows that go over this length. For example: 1 0 3 4 5 1 3 5 6 8 7 7 2 1 1 1 4 7 7 7 So

Re: [R] Better way to find distances between points in a set?

2008-12-10 Thread cgw
Hah! I DID do my homework first. From now on I guess I'll have to post the complete list of trails I followed before deciding I was lost. That appears to be the only way to stave off the Harpies. So, before I posted, and before I even wrote my toy script, I found and read thru

Re: [R] Logical inconsistency

2008-12-10 Thread Gustavo Carvalho
Hello, An alternative to round(): isTRUE(all.equal((2.3-1.3),1)) Regards, Gustavo. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Stephan Kolassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Emma, > > unfortunately, rounding variables before taking the difference will not > solve your problem, because the *rounded* vari

Re: [R] First call to constructor fails (R.oo)

2008-12-10 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, Any R.oo Object must accept no arguments, e.g. Object(). Thus, in your case you need to be able to support the call MyClass(). The reason is that the first time you use the class, R.oo will create a static object of the class by calling (). Typically, I would do it this way: setConstructor

[R] First call to constructor fails (R.oo)

2008-12-10 Thread Valentin Ruano
Hi all, I'm trying to do some object-oriented programming in R using the R.oo package. Right from the start I encountered a strange (at least for me) problem. I define a new class/constructor based on the R.oo documentation. However the first attempt to create an object fails: === Code: === li

Re: [R] line length in legend

2008-12-10 Thread baptiste auguie
From the code of legend() the length seems to be hard-wired (seg.len = 2). You could copy the code and add this "seg.len" as a free parameter in your own custom function. An alternative is to use the lattice package which has a size argument for this purpose. See ? xyplot in the key section.

Re: [R] line length in legend

2008-12-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Perhaps you could just place the labels right on the graphs: library(zoo) z <- as.zoo(window(EuStockMarkets, end = 1992)) plot(z, screen = 1) text(time(z)[1], z[1], colnames(z), cex = .6) On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Giovanni Petris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible t

Re: [R] tapply within a data.frame: a simpler alternative?

2008-12-10 Thread baptiste auguie
On 10 Dec 2008, at 17:25, hadley wickham wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:02 AM, baptiste auguie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear list, I have a data.frame with x, y values and a 3-level factor "group", say. I want to create a new column in this data.frame with the values of y scaled to

Re: [R] exporting rast from R to GRASS

2008-12-10 Thread Roger Bivand
Thybério Luna Freire gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, everybody! > i created a imagem by kriging using geoR package. I imported points > from GRASS("zn", after converted to geodata "zn_geo"), the border > "zn_border" and a raster mask. Then i interpolated the points by > kriging and created a raster

Re: [R] tapply within a data.frame: a simpler alternative?

2008-12-10 Thread baptiste auguie
Excellent! I completely forgot its name and existence. Perhaps ave should be mentioned on the help page of either by, tapply, split. Many thanks, baptiste On 10 Dec 2008, at 17:20, Chuck Cleland wrote: On 12/10/2008 12:02 PM, baptiste auguie wrote: Dear list, I have a data.frame with x,

Re: [R] tapply within a data.frame: a simpler alternative?

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
baptiste auguie wrote: > Dear list, > > I have a data.frame with x, y values and a 3-level factor "group", say. > I want to create a new column in this data.frame with the values of y > scaled to 1 by group. Perhaps the example below describes it best: > >> x <- seq(0, 10, len=100) >> my.df <- da

Re: [R] tapply within a data.frame: a simpler alternative?

2008-12-10 Thread hadley wickham
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:02 AM, baptiste auguie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, > > I have a data.frame with x, y values and a 3-level factor "group", say. I > want to create a new column in this data.frame with the values of y scaled > to 1 by group. Perhaps the example below describes i

Re: [R] tapply within a data.frame: a simpler alternative?

2008-12-10 Thread Chuck Cleland
On 12/10/2008 12:02 PM, baptiste auguie wrote: > Dear list, > > I have a data.frame with x, y values and a 3-level factor "group", say. > I want to create a new column in this data.frame with the values of y > scaled to 1 by group. Perhaps the example below describes it best: > >> x <- seq(0, 10,

Re: [R] Logical inconsistency

2008-12-10 Thread Stephan Kolassa
Hi Emma, unfortunately, rounding variables before taking the difference will not solve your problem, because the *rounded* variables are subject to the same (effectively) random internal representation. Examples: > round(8.3,20)-round(7.3,20)>=1 [1] TRUE > round(2.3,20)-round(1.3,20)>=1 [1] F

[R] tapply within a data.frame: a simpler alternative?

2008-12-10 Thread baptiste auguie
Dear list, I have a data.frame with x, y values and a 3-level factor "group", say. I want to create a new column in this data.frame with the values of y scaled to 1 by group. Perhaps the example below describes it best: x <- seq(0, 10, len=100) my.df <- data.frame(x = rep(x, 3), y=c(3*sin(

Re: [R] request information

2008-12-10 Thread Stefan Grosse
Lisbeth Garzon schrieb: > Dear R-Help team, > > I'm researcher University Nacional of Colombia, I'll use R for my research, > and I would want to know, how i can to estimate Logistic Regression model > such as binary logistic model, multinomial logistic model, and logit models > with repeated measu

[R] line length in legend

2008-12-10 Thread Giovanni Petris
Hello, Is it possible to set the length of the lines appearing in a legend? For example, with > plot(window(EuStockMarkets, end = 1992), plot.type = "s", lty = c("13", > "6413", "431313", "B4")) > legend(1991.7, 2200, legend = colnames(EuStockMarkets), lty = c("13", "6413", > "431313", "B4"))

Re: [R] 2-Y-axes on same plot

2008-12-10 Thread Ben Tupper
On Dec 10, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Joe Trubisz wrote: Hi... Is this possible in R? I have 2-sets of data, that were collected simultaneously using 2- different data acquisition schemes. The x-values are the same for both. The y-values have different ranges (16.4-37.5 using one method, 557-634 u

[R] .Fortran and memory allocation

2008-12-10 Thread Gunnar Hellmund
Hi I know it is not recommended to use dup=FALSE with .Fortran calls, but ... 1) Is it possible to allocate memory for a large array of type double or integer without initializing the array (and how is this done) 2) If the answer to question 1) is 'Yes': Is it possible to pass the uninitialized

[R] request information

2008-12-10 Thread Lisbeth Garzon
Dear R-Help team, I'm researcher University Nacional of Colombia, I'll use R for my research, and I would want to know, how i can to estimate Logistic Regression model such as binary logistic model, multinomial logistic model, and logit models with repeated measurement, for i can estimate discrete

[R] RMySQL Keeps crashing

2008-12-10 Thread PeterBvolk
Hi all, I am working on MySQL 5.0 with RMySQL 0.7-2. All commands except for Select statements work. I can create tables, Truncate then etc. When I issue a Select statement with dbSendQuery containing more than one column in the selection then R crashes. I have been looking around but could not f

[R] mixed exponential distribution

2008-12-10 Thread Fazekas, Jacob
Good morning, Is there anyway to do Mixed Exponential Distribution in R? I am trying to load some lag-weighted empirical survival distribution into R and run a mixed exponential on that data. Thanks, Jacob Fazekas Jacob Fazekas Assistant Actuary Auto-Owners Insurance Company 517-703-2543 [EMA

[R] 2-Y-axes on same plot

2008-12-10 Thread Joe Trubisz
Hi... Is this possible in R? I have 2-sets of data, that were collected simultaneously using 2- different data acquisition schemes. The x-values are the same for both. The y-values have different ranges (16.4-37.5 using one method, 557-634 using another). In theory, if you plot both plots

Re: [R] How to get Greenhouse-Geisser epsilons from anova?

2008-12-10 Thread John Fox
Dear Nils, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Skotara > Sent: December-10-08 9:22 AM > To: Peter Dalgaard > Cc: r-help@r-project.org; John Fox > Subject: Re: [R] How to get Greenhouse-Geisser epsilons from anova? > > Dear John, > thank

Re: [R] xyplot sorted by date

2008-12-10 Thread Stefan Grosse
> With the lattice package, I would like to plot C1 as function of C2 sorted > by the dates, that is something like : > xyplot(C1 ~ C2 | as.Date(C3)) > > It plots somethings but not the truth. > I have compared the output with the output of this script > > I don't know whether it is ther perfe

Re: [R] how to merge panel data stored by variable?

2008-12-10 Thread Stefan Grosse
> I have two datasets stored in tab-separated format in the following way > file1: > country year1year2 > Germanyvar1 var1 > Hungary var1 var1 > > file2: > country year1year2 > Germanyvar2 var2 > Hungary v

Re: [R] Multpile (45x8) graphs of the same page / device: titles crammed

2008-12-10 Thread tsunhin wong
I found I have to use font=1, and I found it works when I set: par(mfcol=c(45,8)) par(mar=c(0,0.5,1,0.5)) instead of par(mfcol=c(45,8)) par(mai=c(0,0,0,0)) On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:22 AM, tsunhin wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if cex=0.001 with font=1 will still have the title font too >

[R] how to merge panel data stored by variable?

2008-12-10 Thread Viktor Nagy
Hi, I have two datasets stored in tab-separated format in the following way file1: country year1year2 Germanyvar1 var1 Hungary var1 var1 file2: country year1year2 Germanyvar2 var2 Hungary var2 va

Re: [R] R and Scheme

2008-12-10 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > [deletions, including attribution, which I think were Stavros then Luke > then Peter:] >> >> In R, most data types (including numeric vectors) do not have a standard external representation which can be read back in w

[R] xyplot sorted by date

2008-12-10 Thread Ptit_Bleu
Hello I have a dataframe with 3 columns C1, C2 and C3. C1 and C2 are numerical data and C3 is the date of the data (format : %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") With the lattice package, I would like to plot C1 as function of C2 sorted by the dates, that is something like : xyplot(C1 ~ C2 | as.Date(C3)) It plo

Re: [R] Multpile (45x8) graphs of the same page / device: titles crammed

2008-12-10 Thread Detlef Steuer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:22:55 -0500 "tsunhin wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if cex=0.001 with font=1 will still have the title font too > large? (so that the upper halves of title is cut off and cannot be > seen?) > Will there be a workaround?

Re: [R] R and Scheme

2008-12-10 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Stavros Macrakis wrote: > > >> There is no equivalent to set-car!/rplaca (not even pairlists and >> expressions). For example, r<-pairlist(1,2); r[[1]]<-r does not create a >> circular list. And in general there doesn't seem to be substructure sharing >> at the semant

Re: [R] glm error message when using family Gamma(link=inverse)

2008-12-10 Thread Terry Therneau
John, You have specified a model with E(y) = 1/eta where eta = X beta is the linear predictor and E(y) must be >0, since the family is Gamma and you have a lot of covariates in the model. glm now has to try to find a best linear predictor, but under the

Re: [R] Multpile (45x8) graphs of the same page / device: titles crammed

2008-12-10 Thread tsunhin wong
What if cex=0.001 with font=1 will still have the title font too large? (so that the upper halves of title is cut off and cannot be seen?) Will there be a workaround? Can there be a work around so that I can label each small graphs with the info I need in a "smaller" way? Thanks! Regards, J

Re: [R] controlling axes in plot.cuminc (cmprsk library)

2008-12-10 Thread Arthur Allignol
Hi, You could try to use the option xaxt = "n" in plot.cuminc, instead of axes. Hope that helps, Arthur Amy Krambrink wrote: Dear R-help list members, I am trying to create my own axes when plotting a cumulative incidence curve using the plot.cuminc function in the CMPRSK library. The defa

Re: [R] How to get Greenhouse-Geisser epsilons from anova?

2008-12-10 Thread Skotara
Dear John, thank you for the kind offer! Sorry, I just made a mistake anywhere I can not trace back, now it works as you described it. Thank you again! Dear Peter, thank you for the information, I did not know about the quotation marks. It indeed works using "G-G Pr"! The SPSS and R output for

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