Re: [R] Error Running TinnR with R

2009-03-27 Thread Ken-JP
I had all these headaches with Tinn-R on Vista - tried reading all the message boards, reconfiguring .Rprofile, etc... ...no luck. I finally gave up and started using Eclipse with StatET. Now, it's actually easier to run RCMDs to check and release a package, and with SVN integration in Eclipse

[R] R: Fortran 90 etc.

2009-03-27 Thread mauede
I have tried to compile the working Fortran-90 routines (see attachment) to interface them with R. The compiler automatically caled by R CMD command line prints a bunch of error messages (as follows). I think I'm better off translating the Fortran implementation into R ... which is what I hoped

Re: [R] Data manipulation - multiplicate cases

2009-03-27 Thread Bill.Venables
Here is a suggestion. Let your data frame be 'dat': > dat X YZ 123 31 234 31 345 42 456 32 Try this: bigData <- data.frame(with(dat, rbind(cbind(X = rep(X, Z), Y = rep(Y,Y), Z = 1), cbind(X = rep(X, Y-Z), Y = rep(Y,

Re: [R] calculating average for multiple subclasses in a data set

2009-03-27 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Dan, Try this: with(dummy,tapply(as.numeric(len),as.factor(V1),summary)) See ?with, ?tapply and ?summary for more information. HTH, Jorge On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Dan Kortschak < dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > Hello R users, > > I have a data set which is a set of len

Re: [R] General help for a function I'm attempting to write

2009-03-27 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Colin, Try this: # Data DF <- structure(c(0, 0, 0, 4, 27, 0, 1, 0, 7, 16, 1, 0, 0, 16, 44, 0, 0, 0, 2, 39), .Dim = c(5L, 4L), .Dimnames = list(c("L01.1", "L01.2", "L01.3", "L01.4", "L01.5"), c("P01", "P02", "P03", "P04" ))) # Distances Names<-t(combn(colnames(DF),2)) apply(Names,1,function(x

[R] calculating average for multiple subclasses in a data set

2009-03-27 Thread Dan Kortschak
Hello R users, I have a data set which is a set of lengths and types of objects. I want to calculate the mean length for each type of object as opposed to the mean of all the objects in the set. This is in order to make a comparison between the lengths of each type of objects and the number of th

Re: [R] Sorting problem

2009-03-27 Thread Bill.Venables
Perhaps BA[, 2] is a factor? What you might need is something like BA[order(BA[, 1], -as.numeric(BA[, 2]), ] ? Bill Venables. From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jun Shen [jun.shen...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 March

[R] Los Angeles area R users group

2009-03-27 Thread Szilard Pafka
All: Jan de Leeuw and I have taken the initiative to organize a R users group in Los Angeles with regular meetings. Our aim is to bring together practitioners (from industry and academia alike) in order to facilitate a free and open exchange of knowledge and experience in solving data analysis, s

Re: [R] Quadrat Variance analysis

2009-03-27 Thread Rolf Turner
On 28/03/2009, at 1:56 PM, T.D.Rudolph wrote: Is there any package or operation in R designed to conduct or facilitate Quadrat Variance analysis of spatial data? Any leads would be much appreciated as I have found very little in my searches thus far. For spatial ***point pattern*** data,

[R] Quadrat Variance analysis

2009-03-27 Thread T.D.Rudolph
Is there any package or operation in R designed to conduct or facilitate Quadrat Variance analysis of spatial data? Any leads would be much appreciated as I have found very little in my searches thus far. Tyler -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Quadrat-Variance-analysis-tp

[R] Find inflection points using smooth.spline

2009-03-27 Thread T.D.Rudolph
Is there any way to identify or infer the inflection points in a smooth spline object? I am doing a comparison of various methods of time-series analysis (polynomial regression, spline smoothing, recursive partitioning) and I am specifically interested in obtaining the julian dates associated wit

Re: [R] Column name assignment problem

2009-03-27 Thread jim holtman
Since you want to generate your own variable names instead of using a list, do the operation in three steps: x <- get(paste("arunoff_",table_year, sep='')) colnames(x)[4] <- "COUNT" assign(paste("arunoff_",table_year, sep=''), x) On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Steve Murray wrote: > > Dear all

Re: [R] use of "@" character in variable name

2009-03-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Its possible to have otherwise illegal names by surrounding them in backticks: > `...@b` <- 3 > `...@b` [1] 3 > `if` <- 55 > `if` [1] 55 Also note use of check.names=FALSE: > Lines <- "a...@b if + 1 2" > DF <- read.delim(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE, check.names = FALSE) > DF a...@b i

Re: [R] Out of memory crash on 64-bit Fedora

2009-03-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Adam Wilson wrote: Greetings all, First of all, thanks to all of you for creating such a useful, powerful program. I regularly work with very large datasets (several GB) in R in 64-bit Fedora 8 (details below). I'm lucky to have 16GB RAM available. However if I am not careful and load too muc

[R] Sorting problem

2009-03-27 Thread Jun Shen
Hi, everyone, I was trying to sort a data frame by two columns, one increasing, the other decreasing and got an error. "Error in FUN(left) : invalid argument to unary operator", The command is "BA[order(BA[1],-BA[2]),]". BA is the data frame. It was working if I used increasing on both columns.

Re: [R] generalized Poisson regression

2009-03-27 Thread Johannes Huesing
Arafat Ud Zaman [Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:26:59PM CET]: > Dear sir, > I want to know about R command for parameter estimation for generalized > Poisson regression. > Do you mean the method of Consul and Shoukri? I once tried Generalized Poisson parameter estimation by their suggestion side by si

Re: [R] nls, convergence and starting values

2009-03-27 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Bert Gunter a écrit : Based on a simple scatterplot of pourcma vs transat, a 4 parameter logistic looks like wild overfitting, and that may be the source of your problems. Given the huge scatter, a straight line is about as much as would seem sensible. I think this falls into the "Why ever would

[R] Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (qda)

2009-03-27 Thread MarcioRibeiro
Hi listers, Does anybody knows if the function qda for quadratic discriminant analysis provides the coefficients of quadratic discriminants... Well, I find out that for the linear discriminant analysis lda, the fonction provides the coefficients... Thanks in advance, Marcio -- View this message

Re: [R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general nonlinear problems

2009-03-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Florin, How do you obtain x from (Y, b), i.e. x = g(Y,b)? I don't follow how a "discontinuity" is introduced, when you plug in x(Y, b) into f. If f(.) is smooth and all the g(.) are smooth, then the composition f(g(.)) will also be smooth. If this is not the case, what type of discontinuity

Re: [R] how to get all iterations if I meet NaN?

2009-03-27 Thread Patrizio Frederic
2009/3/27 huiming song : > hi, everybody, please help me with this question: > > If I want to do iteration for 1000 times, however, for the 500th iteration, > there is NaN appears. Then the iteration will stop. If I don't want the stop > and want the all the 1000 iterations be done. What shall I do

[R] asking advice for Integer Programming packages

2009-03-27 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Dear everyone, I don't know much about Integer Programming but am afraid I am facing a problem that can only be solved via Integer Programming. I was wondering if those of you who have experience with it could recommend an R package. I found the following R packages: Rglpk glpk lpSolve lpSolveAPI

Re: [R] "[.data.frame" and lapply

2009-03-27 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
redirected to r-devel, because there are implementational details of [.data.frame discussed here. spoiler: at the bottom there is a fairly interesting performance result. Romain Francois wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a bug I think. [.data.frame treats its arguments differently > depending on the num

[R] Predictive Analytics Seminar: San Jose, NYC, Toronto, more

2009-03-27 Thread Elise Johnson
Hi all, I wanted to let you know about our training seminar on predictive analytics - coming April, May, Oct, and Nov in San Jose, NYC, Stockholm, Toronto and other cities. This is intensive training for marketers, managers and business professionals to make actionable sense of customer data by p

Re: [R] deleting/removing previous warning message in loop

2009-03-27 Thread aaron wells
William, The function keepWarnings that you wrote did the trick. Thanks for the help! Aaron > Subject: Re: [R] deleting/removing previous warning message in loop > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:33:51 -0700 > From: wdun...@tibco.com > To: awell...@hotmail.com > > You try a usi

Re: [R] error when setting up Rcmd BATCH on new computer

2009-03-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Brigid Mooney wrote: My apologies, the files version 4-3 files I downloaded came from the link: http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles Ah, those files, then please ask the author of those files. I'd never use them, since running R CMD BATCH TestBatch.R testoutput.txt without

Re: [R] Column name assignment problem

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Murray
Dear all, I've been trying to implement the advice given to me, but without much success so far. I thought I'd provide the code in full in the hope that it might make more sense. Just to reiterate, I'm attempting to change the header of the 4th column of every table to "COUNT". year<- 1951:2

Re: [R] nls, convergence and starting values

2009-03-27 Thread Bert Gunter
Based on a simple scatterplot of pourcma vs transat, a 4 parameter logistic looks like wild overfitting, and that may be the source of your problems. Given the huge scatter, a straight line is about as much as would seem sensible. I think this falls into the "Why ever would you want to do such a t

Re: [R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general nonlinear problems

2009-03-27 Thread Florin Maican
The number of variables is larger that the number of functions constraints. You are right I can rewrite my problem like this max f =h1(x11;x12;..;x1n;Y,b)+ h2(x21,x22, ... x2m;Y,b) x,b I know Y and for given values of b I can compute {x11,x1n} as one system of equations and {x21,x22

Re: [R] error when setting up Rcmd BATCH on new computer

2009-03-27 Thread Brigid Mooney
My apologies, the files version 4-3 files I downloaded came from the link: http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles 2009/3/27 Uwe Ligges : > > > Brigid Mooney wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I got a new computer, and am trying to reinstall R and have run into a >> bit of a problem when runni

Re: [R] : how to select rows at random

2009-03-27 Thread Laura Rodriguez Murillo
Thank you so much again! Laura 2009/3/27 jim holtman : > I meant type in "?sample" to see what the 'sample' function does.  For > example, to select 50 random rows, > >> sample(2000,50) >  [1] 1004  857 1219 1850  480  543 1466 1498 1854  922 1713  621  414 > 1830  105  817  906  825 1329 1500 18

[R] nls, convergence and starting values

2009-03-27 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
"in non linear modelling finding appropriate starting values is something like an art"... (maybe from somewhere in Crawley , 2007) Here a colleague and I just want to compare different response models to a null model. This has worked OK for almost all the other data sets except that one (dumped b

Re: [R] : how to select rows at random

2009-03-27 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 15:11 -0400, Laura Rodriguez Murillo wrote: > Hi dear list, > > I have a list of around 2000 identifiers aranged in a dataframe in one > column and I would like to choose a random subset of these. I wonder > if somebody can tell me if I could do this with R... Not sure what

Re: [R] : how to select rows at random

2009-03-27 Thread jim holtman
I meant type in "?sample" to see what the 'sample' function does. For example, to select 50 random rows, > sample(2000,50) [1] 1004 857 1219 1850 480 543 1466 1498 1854 922 1713 621 414 1830 105 817 906 825 1329 1500 1806 1623 186 352 1270 1727 1170 518 1743 370 964 20 710 870

Re: [R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general nonlinear problems

2009-03-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi, Looking at your problem, it seems like you can simply transform it to an unconstrained problem: Maximize h(x1, x2, ..., xn) where h(x1, x2, ..., xn) = f(g1(x), g2(x), ..., gn(x)). Am I missing something or haven't you provided all the information? Ravi. __

Re: [R] : how to select rows at random

2009-03-27 Thread Laura Rodriguez Murillo
Sorry, I'm attaching part of the file I have. They go up to 2000 and I would like to take a subset of around 300. 5001 1 5001 2 5001 3 5001 5 5001 6 5002 1 5002 2 5002 5 5002 6 5002 11 5002 15 5002 16 5003 1 5003 2 5003 5 5003 6 5004 1 5004 2 5004 5 5004 6 5004 10 5004 11 5004 12 5004 15 5004 16

Re: [R] Overlying a map on top of an image [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-03-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
See, e.g., Paul Murrell's slides from a keynote at useR! 2006, "Can R Draw Graphs?": http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Talks/rgraphs.pdf or even better buy his book on R Graphics and pay attention to the pixmap package with the addlogo() function. Uwe Ligges augusto.sanab...@ga.gov.au wro

Re: [R] : how to select rows at random

2009-03-27 Thread jim holtman
?sample On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Laura Rodriguez Murillo wrote: > Hi dear list, > > I have a list of around 2000 identifiers aranged in a dataframe in one > column and I would like to choose a random subset of these. I wonder > if somebody can tell me if I could do this with R... > > Than

Re: [R] error when setting up Rcmd BATCH on new computer

2009-03-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Brigid Mooney wrote: Hello, I got a new computer, and am trying to reinstall R and have run into a bit of a problem when running the BATCH command. For reference, the OS is Windows Vista, 64 bit. I installed R 2.8.1 and have the 4-3 files from the following link extracted with the containing

[R] : how to select rows at random

2009-03-27 Thread Laura Rodriguez Murillo
Hi dear list, I have a list of around 2000 identifiers aranged in a dataframe in one column and I would like to choose a random subset of these. I wonder if somebody can tell me if I could do this with R... Thank you so much! Laura RM __ R-help@r-proj

Re: [R] how to get all iterations if I meet NaN?

2009-03-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
huiming song wrote: hi, everybody, please help me with this question: If I want to do iteration for 1000 times, however, for the 500th iteration, there is NaN appears. Then the iteration will stop. If I don't want the stop and want the all the 1000 iterations be done. What shall I do? suppos

[R] deleting/removing previous warning message in loop

2009-03-27 Thread aaron wells
Hello R Users, I am having difficulty deleting the last warning message in a loop so that the only warning that is produced is that from the most recent line of code. I have tried options(warn=1), rm(last.warning), and resetting the last.warning using something like: > warning("Resett

Re: [R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general nonlinear problems

2009-03-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Can you tell us more about your obj function, f, and the equality constraints g_k? Do you really have as many equality constraints as the number of variables? Are these all non-linear? Can't you find the roots of this system of equations? If yes, you could find all the roots (with multiple

Re: [R] use of "@" character in variable name

2009-03-27 Thread Taylor, Z Todd
Camel case will cause database issues, too, at least if you ever need to move from one db to another--every one seems to have its own idea whether to preserve case, up-case, or down-case object names. You may not care if you only use one db and only from R. SomeOfUsFindCamelCaseUnreadableToo. --

Re: [R] Assignment to variables fails to loop

2009-03-27 Thread jim holtman
Look at what paste("Fekete_",index$year, index$month, sep='') is creating in the 'assign'; it is a character vector that have the same value each time through the loop. What you may want to do is something like this: index <- expand.grid(year = sprintf("%04d", seq(1986, 1995)), month = sprintf(

[R] RExcel rcom Server Loading The Wrong Version of R

2009-03-27 Thread Chiquoine, Ben
Hi, I'm pretty new to R and VERY new to RExcel. I've just finished setting it up and I'm having some problems. My first Issue is that if I attempt to use a function like RApply("sum", A1:A4) from within excel it gives me an error saying "There seems to be no R process connected to the server"

Re: [R] Assignment to variables fails to loop

2009-03-27 Thread baptiste auguie
The variable name in your call to assign should vary within the for loop, otherwise you're always assigning the value to the same variable. Consider the following example, listOfNames <- c("a", "b", "c") listOfVariables <- c("vara", "varb", "varc") for(index in seq_along(listOfNames)){

Re: [R] Random Forest Variable Importance

2009-03-27 Thread Liaw, Andy
Read ?importance, especially the "scale" argument. Andy > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Li GUO > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:24 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Random Forest Variable Importance

[R] Assignment to variables fails to loop

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Murray
Dear all, I think I'm nearly there in writing R code which will read in files with two variable parts to the file name and then assigning these file names to objects, which also have two variable parts. I have got the code running without encountering errors, however, I receive 50+ of the same

Re: [R] about the Choleski factorization

2009-03-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 3/27/2009 11:46 AM, 93354504 wrote: Hi there, Given a positive definite symmetric matrix, I can use chol(x) to obtain U where U is upper triangular and x=U'U. For example, x=matrix(c(5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4),3,3) U=chol(x) U # [,1] [,2] [,3] #[1,] 2.236068

[R] Efficiency: speeding up unlist that is currently running by row

2009-03-27 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Hello everyone! I have a piece of code that works and does what I need but...: # I have 3 slots: nr.of.slots<-3 # My data frame is "new.a": new.a<-data.frame(x=c("john", "mary"),y=c("pete","john"),z=c("mary","pete"),stringsAsFactors=FALSE) print(new.a) # Creating all possible combinations of the

[R] constraint optimization: solving large scale general nonlinear problems

2009-03-27 Thread Florin Maican
Hi I need advice regarding constraint optimization with large number of variables. I need to solve the following problem max f(x1,...,xn) x1,..xn x1=g1(x1,...,xn) . . xn=gn(x1,...,xn) I am using Rdonlp2 package which works well until 40 variables in my case. I ne

Re: [R] [R-sig-hpc] snow Error.

2009-03-27 Thread luke
Recent versons of snow signal an error if the value returned from a worker indicates an error. The error handling facilities in snow are still evolving; for now id you don't want an error on a worker to become an error an the master you need to catch the error in the worker yourself and produce a

Re: [R] about the Choleski factorization

2009-03-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Very nice, Duncan. Here is a little function called loch() that implements your idea for the Lochesky factorization: loch <- function(mat) { n <- ncol(mat) rev <- diag(1, n)[, n: 1] rev %*% chol(rev %*% mat %*% rev) %*% rev } x=matrix(c(5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4),3,3) L <- loch(x) all.equal(x, t(L) %*

Re: [R] about the Choleski factorization

2009-03-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Very nice, Duncan. Here is a little function called loch() that implements your idea for the Lochesky factorization: loch <- function(mat) { n <- ncol(mat) rev <- diag(1, n)[, n: 1] rev %*% chol(rev %*% mat %*% rev) %*% rev } x=matrix(c(5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4),3,3) L <- loch(x) all.equal(x, t(L) %*

Re: [R] about the Choleski factorization

2009-03-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
You want a factorizzation of the form: A = L' L. Am I right (we may name this a "Lochesky factorization)? By convention, Cholesky factorization is of the form A = L L', where L is a lower triangular matrix, and L', its transpose, is upper traingular. So, all numerical routines compute L accord

[R] how to get all iterations if I meet NaN?

2009-03-27 Thread huiming song
hi, everybody, please help me with this question: If I want to do iteration for 1000 times, however, for the 500th iteration, there is NaN appears. Then the iteration will stop. If I don't want the stop and want the all the 1000 iterations be done. What shall I do? suppose I have x[1:1000] and z

[R] General help for a function I'm attempting to write

2009-03-27 Thread Colin Garroway
Hello, I have written a small function ('JostD' based upon a recent molecular ecology paper) to calculate genetic distance between populations (columns in my data set). As I have it now I have to tell it which 2 columns to use (X, Y). I would like it to automatically calculate 'JostD' for all co

[R] first time poster

2009-03-27 Thread rilleyel
hi, so, please bear with me as I am new to the wonderful world of computers... i am trying to answer the following question, and having no luck: Focus your analysis on a comparison between respondents labeled “Low” (coded 1) on attend4 and respondents labeled “High” (coded 4). Then, examine the v

Re: [R] about the Choleski factorization

2009-03-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/27/2009 11:46 AM, 93354504 wrote: Hi there, Given a positive definite symmetric matrix, I can use chol(x) to obtain U where U is upper triangular and x=U'U. For example, x=matrix(c(5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4),3,3) U=chol(x) U # [,1] [,2] [,3] #[1,] 2.236068 0.4472136 0.8944272 #

[R] Random Forest Variable Importance

2009-03-27 Thread Li GUO
Hello, I have an object of Random Forest : iris.rf (importance = TRUE). What is the difference between "iris.rf$importance" and "importance(iris.rf)"? Thank you in advance, Best, Li GUO [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@

[R] Out of memory crash on 64-bit Fedora

2009-03-27 Thread Adam Wilson
Greetings all, First of all, thanks to all of you for creating such a useful, powerful program. I regularly work with very large datasets (several GB) in R in 64-bit Fedora 8 (details below). I'm lucky to have 16GB RAM available. However if I am not careful and load too much into R's memory, I

[R] creating a matrix as input to lowess

2009-03-27 Thread Graves, Gregory
I have a very large file with many rows and columns. I want to create a plot with lowess. If I try the following it works fine: data(PrecipGL) plot(PrecipGL) lines(lowess(time(PrecipGL),PrecipGL),lwd=3, col=2) In my file, 2 columns are "nox" and "sdate", and are both typeof() = double.

Re: [R] functions flagged for debugging

2009-03-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/27/2009 11:18 AM, Christos Hatzis wrote: Hi, Is there a way to find which functions are flagged for debugging in a given session? The isdebugged() function (which is new in 2.9.0) will tell you this. Duncan Murdoch __ R-help@r-project.org m

Re: [R] Sweave-output causes error-message in pdflatex

2009-03-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/27/2009 10:12 AM, Gerrit Voigt wrote: Dear list, Latex/Sweave has trouble processing Sveave-output coming from the summary-command of a linear Model. >summary(lmRub) The output line causing the trouble looks in R like this Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 In

Re: [R] print table (data.frame) to pdf

2009-03-27 Thread Greg Snow
See either textplot in the gplots package or addtable2plot in the plotrix package, or for even more flexibility learn Sweave or its variants. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -Original Message- > From: r-

Re: [R] R 2.8.1 and 2.9 alpha crash when running survest of Design package

2009-03-27 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
We will try to quickly get out a new version of Design that checks for the version of survival that is installed and uses a different .C call accordingly. This will involve ignoring (for now) the new weights option Terry has implemented. Frank Terry Therneau wrote: A couple additions to Th

Re: [R] Ploting a matrix

2009-03-27 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Sebastian, Consider matplot() for this. Here is an example (taken from Baptiste Auguie's post): date <- factor(letters[1:9]) d <- data.frame(x1=seq(1, 9), x2=seq(2, 10), date=date) matplot(d[,-3],pch=16,xaxt='n',las=1,ylab='Some label here',xlab='Date') axis(1,d[,3],d[,3]) legend('toplef

Re: [R] Re sults sometimes in seconds with difftime unit=mins

2009-03-27 Thread jim holtman
I think the problem is is that 'diff' does not have a 'units' parameter; 'difftime' does. Here is a way of doing it: > x [1] "2009-03-27 13:00:00 EDT" "2009-03-27 13:00:35 EDT" "2009-03-27 13:01:10 EDT" "2009-03-27 13:01:45 EDT" "2009-03-27 13:02:20 EDT" "2009-03-27 13:02:55 EDT" "2009-03-27 13:

[R] print table (data.frame) to pdf

2009-03-27 Thread Paulo E. Cardoso
How can I print a data.frame to a PDF with pdf()...dev.off() Paulo E. Cardoso [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting gu

[R] about the Choleski factorization

2009-03-27 Thread 93354504
Hi there, Given a positive definite symmetric matrix, I can use chol(x) to obtain U where U is upper triangular and x=U'U. For example, x=matrix(c(5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4),3,3) U=chol(x) U # [,1] [,2] [,3] #[1,] 2.236068 0.4472136 0.8944272 #[2,] 0.00 1.6733201 0.3585686 #[3,] 0

Re: [R] Passing parameters to R script in Rgui

2009-03-27 Thread Bert Gunter
You are misusing source. Write a function to do what you want. An "Introduction to R" documents how. Have you read it? -- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics 650-467-7374 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Be

Re: [R] interactive image graphic

2009-03-27 Thread Greg Snow
Here is some code that may get you started (if I am understanding your question correctly): library(TeachingDemos) myfunc <- function(zmin=90, zmax=195, ncol=100, pal='heat') { cols <- switch(pal, heat=heat.colors(ncol), terrain=terrain.colors(ncol),

Re: [R] color vectors other than gray()

2009-03-27 Thread Paulo E. Cardoso
Petr, I'd like to be able to change the ramp to other than grey shades. Please see my previous message with some data. Paulo E. Cardoso -Mensagem original- De: Petr PIKAL [mailto:petr.pi...@precheza.cz] Enviada: sexta-feira, 27 de Março de 2009 15:12 Para: Paulo E. Cardos

Re: [R] Reading in files with variable parts to names

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Murray
Thanks, that's great - just what I was looking for. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-conta

[R] Passing parameters to R script in Rgui

2009-03-27 Thread Daren Tan
How do I pass parameters to R script in Rgui ? Currently, I am using source("foo.R"). Thanks __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html a

Re: [R] Ploting a matrix

2009-03-27 Thread baptiste auguie
Here's my suggestion using the ggplot2 package (but you may prefer to stick with base functions), date = factor(letters[1:9]) d <- data.frame(x1=seq(1, 9), x2=seq(2, 10), date=date) head(d) # dummy data that resembles yours str(d) library(reshape) md <- melt(d, id="date") # creates a data.fr

Re: [R] color vectors other than gray()

2009-03-27 Thread Paulo E. Cardoso
OK I got it working partially. The plot results in a ramp varying from white -> red -> black, doing this: plot(grelha,ol="grey80", #! Gráfico com grelha de amostragem e gradiente de abundância fg=color.scale(((1-(quad_N_sp$x)/max(quad_N_sp$x))),c(0,1,1),c(0,1),c(0,1)), cex.lab=0.7, cex.axi

[R] error when setting up Rcmd BATCH on new computer

2009-03-27 Thread Brigid Mooney
Hello, I got a new computer, and am trying to reinstall R and have run into a bit of a problem when running the BATCH command. For reference, the OS is Windows Vista, 64 bit. I installed R 2.8.1 and have the 4-3 files from the following link extracted with the containing folder in my system PATH

Re: [R] Weighting data with normal distribution

2009-03-27 Thread Mark Lyman
Alice Lin gmail.com> writes: > > > I have a vector of binary data – a string of 0’s and 1’s. > I want to weight these inputs with a normal kernel centered around entry x > so it is transformed into a new vector of data that takes into account the > values of the entries around it (weighting th

Re: [R] Ploting a matrix

2009-03-27 Thread skrug
Sorry for the mistake. As you probably already guesed, I am just starting using R. I could not name the difference between a matrix and a data.frame. > str(b) 'data.frame': 9 obs. of 7 variables: $ Datum: Factor w/ 9 levels "06.03.","07.03.",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 $ X1 : int 408 335 2123 4

[R] functions flagged for debugging

2009-03-27 Thread Christos Hatzis
Hi, Is there a way to find which functions are flagged for debugging in a given session? Thank you. -Christos [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE d

Re: [R] Ploting a matrix

2009-03-27 Thread baptiste auguie
the result of read.table is a data.frame, not a matrix as you first suggested. Can you copy the result of str(b) so we know what your data is made of? I'm guessing the most elegant solution will be to use the reshape package, followed by ggplot2 or lattice. baptiste On 27 Mar 2009, at 14

Re: [R] color vectors other than gray()

2009-03-27 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 27.03.2009 15:36:23: > I'm certainly missing something. > > In fact the ramp I need must be scaled according to a vector of values (in > this case species abundance in each grid cell), as in the example vector > below: > > > length(quad_N_sp$x) # wher

[R] Re sults sometimes in seconds with difftime unit=mins

2009-03-27 Thread Ptit_Bleu
Hello, I'm trying to calculate an integration and x-axis is a time (format : %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"). I use diff(date, units="mins") in a loop for but sometimes the results stay in seconds (95% is ok). Examples for 2 sets of data are given below (first result stays in seconds whereas the second in m

Re: [R] R: plm and pgmm

2009-03-27 Thread ivowel
dear giovanni--- thanks for answering on r-help to me as well as privately. I very much appreciate your responding. I read the plm vignette. I don't have the book, so I can't consult it. :-(. I am going to post this message now (rather than just email it privately), because other amateurs ma

[R] Ploting a matrix

2009-03-27 Thread skrug
Unfortunately, I could not solve the problem of plotting all columns of a matrix against the first column I used: b=read.table("d:\\programme\\R\\übungen\\Block 1b.txt", header=T) "b" is a table with the first column using Dates and the following columns with vectors. apply(b[,-1], 2, plot

Re: [R] color vectors other than gray()

2009-03-27 Thread baptiste auguie
Can you provide a minimal example that we can run directly after copy and paste (using a standard data set or dummy data)? It's always helpful to try and nail down the core of your question (often you'll find the answer while formulating your question in minimal terms). baptiste On 27

Re: [R] Competing risks Kalbfleisch & Prentice method

2009-03-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi Terry, My "this" was your (a), i.e. the smoothed hazard rate function. I apologize if I came across as being rude. I was only curious to see if you had any scientific/statistical rationale for not including the smoothed hazard option in your "survival" package, which is, by far, the most w

Re: [R] Competing risks Kalbfleisch & Prentice method

2009-03-27 Thread Eleni Rapsomaniki
Dear Prof. Therneau, Thank you for your views on this subject. I think all R users who play with survival analysis are most grateful for the functions you have already supplied us with. I'm guessing Ravi is wondering why you have not implemented the smoothing of the baseline hazard from the Cox

Re: [R] color vectors other than gray()

2009-03-27 Thread Paulo E. Cardoso
I'm certainly missing something. In fact the ramp I need must be scaled according to a vector of values (in this case species abundance in each grid cell), as in the example vector below: > length(quad_N_sp$x) # where x is the abundance value [1] 433 quad_N_sp$x [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

[R] cannot reproduce matlab wavelet results with R

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Ivanov
Dear R users, I want to get the D1 details reconstructed to the level of my time series. My original time series is NH$annual[,] and it has 118 elements. This is the code I use and the results: library(wavelets) NHj <- extend.series(X=NH$annual[,], method="reflection", length="powerof2", j=7); deta

Re: [R] pca vs. pfa: dimension reduction

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Dewey
At 18:22 25/03/2009, Jonathan Baron wrote: On 03/25/09 19:06, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: > Can't make sense of calculated results and hope I'll find help here. > > I've collected answers from about 600 persons concerning three > variables. I hypothesise those three variables to be components (o

Re: [R] Reading in files with variable parts to names

2009-03-27 Thread Romain Francois
That's because do.call wants a list: what about this one: > do.call( sprintf, append( list("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_%04d%02d.asc"), expand.grid( seq(1986,1995), 1:12) ) ) Romain Steve Murray wrote: Dear all, Thanks for the help in the previous posts. I've conside

Re: [R] Reading in files with variable parts to names

2009-03-27 Thread jim holtman
Does this give you what you want (just did it in two steps); > x <- expand.grid(year = sprintf("%04d", seq(1986, 1995)), month = > sprintf("%02d", 1:12)) > filelist <- paste("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Data\\comp_runoff_hd_", > paste(x$year, x$month, sep=''), '.asc', sep='') > > > > > filelist

Re: [R] color vectors other than gray()

2009-03-27 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote: Hi, Have a look at: ?rainbow ?rgb ?heatmap Furthermore, the packages colorspace, ggplot, plotrix, and RColorBrewer have useful tools for this. For the ides behind the palettes in colorspace, see Achim Zeileis, Kurt Hornik, and Paul Murrell (2

Re: [R] R 2.8.1 and 2.9 alpha crash when running survest of Design package

2009-03-27 Thread Terry Therneau
A couple additions to Thomas's message. The 'survest' function in design directly called C routines in the survival package. The argument list to the routines changed due to the addition of weights; calling a C routine with the wrong arguments is one of the more reliable ways to crash a prog

[R] Sweave-output causes error-message in pdflatex

2009-03-27 Thread Gerrit Voigt
Dear list, Latex/Sweave has trouble processing Sveave-output coming from the summary-command of a linear Model. >summary(lmRub) The output line causing the trouble looks in R like this Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 In my Sweaved Tex-file that line looks like this

Re: [R] 3D PLOT

2009-03-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/27/2009 9:57 AM, bastian250...@freenet.de wrote: Hello, I would like to create a 3D plot with the following data formats: a <- 1:100 b <- 1:100 c <- matrix(, 100, 100) i.e. c(i,j) = f ( a(i) , b(j) ) each of the 1 elements i,j in matrix c is a function of a(i) and b(j). I would li

[R] snow Error.

2009-03-27 Thread jgarcia
Hello, I have a program that used to run well in October, it uses library snow. Since then, one change has ocurred (snow library has been updated) and another could have ocurred (I've unadvertently modified something). Anyway, now when I make the call: parallel.model.results <- clusterApply(cl,p

Re: [R] Reading in files with variable parts to names

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Murray
Dear all, Thanks for the help in the previous posts. I've considered each one and have nearly managed to get it working. The structure of the filelist being produced is correct, except for a single space which I can't seem to eradicate! This is my amended code, followed by the first twelve row

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