Re: [R] Package "survival" --- Difference of coxph strata with subset?

2011-07-10 Thread ryusuke
Finally, I found the answer from here... http://www.childrensmercy.org/stats/weblog2005/StratifiedCoxRegression.asp http://www.childrensmercy.org/stats/weblog2005/StratifiedCoxRegression.asp Thernau and Grambsch describe it well in their book on survival analysis. /Analysis of multicenter clinica

[R] Help with project function in rgdal library

2011-07-10 Thread Patrick Leahy
Hi, I'm trying to plot a set of geographical coordinates over the polygons in a shapefile, so I need to transform the coordinates to the same projection. I'm currently using the project function in the rgdal library, but I can't seem to figure out how to format the proj string argument correctly.

Re: [R] Is there a better way ?

2011-07-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Eric, You can use chain assignment, for example: r <- s <- t <- u <- v <- x <- numeric(length(p)) Also, just an FYI, you can do something similar using vector(), for example: vector(mode = "numeric", length = length(p)) of course you would not need to explicitly name the arguments. There i

Re: [R] Taking inputs from the user

2011-07-10 Thread Verma, Ankur
Hey Greg, Thanks for this. Looks like an option I can discuss. -Original Message- From: Greg Snow [mailto:greg.s...@imail.org] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 9:11 PM To: Verma, Ankur; 'jim holtman' Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] Taking inputs from the user Are your users willin

[R] Is there a better way ?

2011-07-10 Thread eric
Is there a more compact way to say this ? r <-numeric(length(p)) ; s <-numeric(length(p)); t <- numeric(length(p)); u <- numeric(length(p)); v <- numeric(length(p)) ; x <-numeric(length(p)) all these variables will be used in a loop for (i in 1 : length(p)) { r[i] <- s[i] <- t[i] <- etc } -- V

Re: [R] R2WinBUGS problem: bugs - storage.mode error

2011-07-10 Thread dhocking
Sorry for continuing to reply to myself. I believe that my problem was putting a factor ("plot") in my data for the bugs(data,...) call. I still have stuff to work out in the code but I don't get the error if I exclude plot from the win.data <- list(...) assignment. I have to think if that will now

Re: [R] R2WinBUGS problem: bugs - storage.mode error

2011-07-10 Thread dhocking
Sorry for the additional post - I received the suggestion to include the following additional information: *> traceback()* 5: FUN(X[[12L]], ...) 4: lapply(data, formatC, digits = digits, format = "E") 3: write.datafile(lapply(data, formatC, digits = digits, format = "E"), file.path(dir, da

[R] R2WinBUGS problem: bugs - storage.mode error

2011-07-10 Thread dhocking
I have successfully used R2WinBUGS in the past and an trying to use basically the same code with some different data but I'm getting the following error: > out <- bugs(data=win.data, inits=inits, parameters.to.save=params, > model.file = "PoissonGLMM.txt", n.chains=nc, n.iter=ni, n.burn=nb, > n.th

[R] R2WinBUGS problem: bugs - storage.mode error

2011-07-10 Thread dhocking
I have successfully used R2WinBUGS in the past and an trying to use basically the same code with some different data but I'm getting the following error: > out <- bugs(data=win.data, inits=inits, parameters.to.save=params, > model.file = "PoissonGLMM.txt", n.chains=nc, n.iter=ni, n.burn=nb, > n.th

Re: [R] Help regarding tersvirta.test

2011-07-10 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Works for me: > library(tseries) Loading required package: quadprog Loading required package: zoo ‘tseries’ version: 0.10-25 ‘tseries’ is a package for time series analysis and computational finance. See ‘library(help="tseries")’ for details. > x<- as.ts(rnorm(1000)) > str(

Re: [R] problems with ifelse??

2011-07-10 Thread mousy0815
This fixed my problem thanks. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/problems-with-ifelse-tp3658498p3658543.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/

Re: [R] problems with ifelse??

2011-07-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:09 PM, mousy0815 wrote: I have the following code to determine the probability of a t-cell encountering an antigen after "m" steps. probability <- function(N, f, m, b, x, t) { #using ifelse instead of if/else #N is the number of lymph nodes #f is the fraction

Re: [R] Chebyshev Inequality — MVUE

2011-07-10 Thread David Winsemius
The formula from Finley is reproduced in Johnson, Kotz, and Balakrishnan's "Continuous Distributions: Vol. 1" in the beginning of their Log Normal chapter. I am not clear that the recursive formula in W. Huber's spreadsheet is a correct representation of the iterative version there, but can

[R] problems with ifelse??

2011-07-10 Thread mousy0815
I have the following code to determine the probability of a t-cell encountering an antigen after "m" steps. probability <- function(N, f, m, b, x, t) { #using ifelse instead of if/else #N is the number of lymph nodes #f is the fraction of Dendritic cells (in the correct node) that

Re: [R] Chebyshev Inequality — MVUE

2011-07-10 Thread Durant, James T. (ATSDR/DTEM/PRMSB)
Ah, thanks so much. I found the excel spreadsheet almost right after I posted to the r group. I had concerns about using Chebyshev and wanted to reproduce Dr. Whubers simulation to see for myself how it performs. To be clear I normally use Lands exact or bootstrap for the UCL (or sometimes take

[R] R code to extract shape polygons for any state for loading into Geobugs

2011-07-10 Thread Shant Ch
Hello R users, I am fitting a spatio-temporal model for the areal data related to school districts of Texas, US using geobugs. For that I need to load the polygon shape file in geobugs.In Bradley Carlin's website there was an S-plus program called poly.S to extract polygons for any state in th

Re: [R] Help with tryCatch

2011-07-10 Thread eric
Bill, first off, thanks much for helping me through this. I think the best approach might be for me to attach the actual code. I could probably do the if-else-else that you suggested. But I have eight different variables with the same basic issue (note that six of the eight are commented out whil

Re: [R] Converting the time in a numeric value

2011-07-10 Thread jim holtman
try this: > x <- data.frame(time = seq(as.POSIXct("2011-1-1 00:00"), by = '1 hour', > length = 300)) > # default to night > x$day <- FALSE > # now set days to TRUE > # get hour/minutes > temp <- format(x$time, "%H%M") > x$day[temp >= "0600" & temp < "1900"] <- TRUE > > head(x, 30)

[R] Help regarding tersvirta.test

2011-07-10 Thread Aravind R.N
Hi, I tried running the function terasvirta.test in the package tseries for a univariate tseries object. For eg. x<- as.ts(rnorm(1000)) terasvirta.test(x) I get the following error Error in as.matrix(y) : argument "y" is missing, with no default The function seems to expect a default y argumen

Re: [R] Converting the time in a numeric value

2011-07-10 Thread Amy Ruiz Goyco
Hi Professor: When I read the file, the time in military time and date are stored in the same vector as follows: 2011-01-29 16:15:11.823547 I want to take all the hours saved in that file and categorize them as day and night. For example, the day would be between 06:00:00-19:00:00 and th

Re: [R] help with Code

2011-07-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, 1) Still not reproducible because we do not have "E.csv" 2) The help list is not for homework questions. Many (most?) professors and/or their TAs offer office hours where they are willing to provide help and guidance (unless, of course, the assignment is meant to encourage you to learn on you

Re: [R] help with Code

2011-07-10 Thread finguy
R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) Thanks for responding Josh. I got all the codes from my professor. Here is what was required ##Load fPortfolio, PerformanceAnalytics, fOptions

Re: [R] Help with tryCatch

2011-07-10 Thread William Dunlap
Look at what sapply() is returning before you assign it into zest[i]. If the return value has length 0, set zest[i] to NA. If it has length more than 1, I don't know what you want to do. If it has length 1 then do the assignment. zest <- numeric(1) tmp <- tryCatch(sapply(...), error=function()NA

Re: [R] Dataset in parts - how to join together?

2011-07-10 Thread Hasan Diwan
region1 <- read.table(file1, header=T) ... region12 <- read.table(file12, header=T) region <- data.frame(rbind(region1, region=1)..., rbind(region12, region=12))) rm(region1, region2, region3..., region11, region12) On 10 July 2011 12:22, majesty wrote: > Hello, I am new to R - could somebody sug

Re: [R] Code Help

2011-07-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:32 PM, finguy wrote: > Am I missing a Package? I'm not sure why is won't read the functions. Any That is the implication, yes. To find out which one (though one wonders how you got this code without knowing the packages it runs on), you can use the findFn() function fr

Re: [R] Dataset in parts - how to join together?

2011-07-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, If all the datasets have the same columns, you could just use rbind(). You might also look into the merge function. You can look up the documentation by typing (at the console): ?rbind ?merge We can give more detailed help with a more detailed example. Cheers, Josh On Sun, Jul 10, 2011

Re: [R] help with Code

2011-07-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, Please provide a *reproducible* example (as the posting guide requests). It is also courteous to report your version of R and the package which contains the chart.Regression() function. We can look it up, but it saves time if you just say it. Josh On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:52 PM, finguy

[R] Code Help

2011-07-10 Thread finguy
Am I missing a Package? I'm not sure why is won't read the functions. Any help is much appreciated. > PData = Data[,3:10] > Spec = portfolioSpec() Error: could not find function "portfolioSpec" > setTargetReturn(Spec) = mean(colMeans(PData)) Error in setTargetReturn(Spec) = mean(colMeans(PData))

[R] help with Code

2011-07-10 Thread finguy
chart.Regression(MCD,SPX, Rf = .03/12, excess.returns = TRUE, main = "Security Characteristic Line", fit = c("loess", "linear"), legend.loc = "topleft") Error in as.vector(data[, i]) : subscript out of bounds Why is this happening? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabb

Re: [R] Basic vector logic not working

2011-07-10 Thread DimmestLemming
Thanks so much! The single & did it, and now I know how that works -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Basic-vector-logic-not-working-tp3656465p3657958.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r

[R] Dataset in parts - how to join together?

2011-07-10 Thread majesty
Hello, I am new to R - could somebody suggest a function to investigate for the following: I have data of the form OA_CODE VALUE xyz 0.42 abd 0.10 but I have it in 12 separate files, each with output areas and value for one of 12 regions. I would like to combine the 12 files

Re: [R] Help with tryCatch

2011-07-10 Thread eric
I tried the following: zest[i] <- tryCatch(sapply(getNodeSet(zdoc, "//zestimate/amount"), xmlValue), error=function() NA) Here's what happens : Error in zest[i] <- tryCatch(sapply(getNodeSet(zdoc, "//zestimate/amount"), : replacement has length zero -- View this message in context: http:

Re: [R] change legend character size in image.plot

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2011-07-10 03:16, dmeire wrote: I'm using the image.plot() function (fields package), but I want to enlarge the characters of the legend (as they are too small to be read in a combined figure), but there is no way I can find a command to do this. I can enlarge the legend bar (with legend.witdh

Re: [R] Chebyshev Inequality — MVUE

2011-07-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 10, 2011, at 2:49 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 10-Jul-11 16:27:04, Durant, James T. (ATSDR/DTEM/PRMSB) wrote: Hello, I was interested in trying to write an R script to calculate a UCL for a lognormal distribution using the Chebyshev Inequality -- MVUE Approach (based on EPA’s guidance fo

Re: [R] SpatialPolygonsDataFrame holes problem

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Bebber
Thank you very much, this code worked. I will refer future geospatial queries to R-sig-geo, as suggested. I have also edited the original shapefile in QGIS to remove the error, as suggested by Barry Rowlingson. Dan -Original Message- From: Roger Bivand [mailto:roger.biv...@nhh.no] Sent:

Re: [R] Help with tryCatch

2011-07-10 Thread William Dunlap
Don't bother putting the 'zest[i]<-' into the error handler: the retun value of the handler will be the return value of tryCatch: E.g., > tryCatch(stop("Oops"), error=function(cond)NA, warning=function(cond)-1) [1] NA > tryCatch(warning("Hmm"), error=function(cond)NA, warning=function(cond)-

Re: [R] Chebyshev Inequality — MVUE

2011-07-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Jul-11 16:27:04, Durant, James T. (ATSDR/DTEM/PRMSB) wrote: > Hello, > I was interested in trying to write an R script to calculate a > UCL for a lognormal distribution using the Chebyshev Inequality > -- MVUE Approach (based on EPA’s guidance found in > http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessmen

Re: [R] question about getting things out of an lapply

2011-07-10 Thread Annemarie Verkerk
Dear Josh, thank you so much for working this out for me - it works really well now! My only remaining problem is that I can't seem to plot the gradients to color.edge in plot.phylo() for my tree, but I've asked the relevant list (R-sig-phylo) for some troubleshooting with that. Many thanks

[R] Chebyshev Inequality — MVUE

2011-07-10 Thread Durant, James T. (ATSDR/DTEM/PRMSB)
Hello, I was interested in trying to write an R script to calculate a UCL for a lognormal distribution using the Chebyshev Inequality — MVUE Approach (based on EPA’s guidance found in http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/pdf/ucl.pdf). This looks like it should be straight forward, but I am n

[R] Help with tryCatch

2011-07-10 Thread eric
Having a hard time understanding the help files for tryCatch. Looking for a little help with the following statement which sits inside a for loop zest[i] <- tryCatch(sapply(getNodeSet(zdoc, "//zestimate/amount"), xmlValue), error=function() zest[i] <-"NA") zest is a numeric vector If the sapply

Re: [R] Storing and managing custom R functions for re-use

2011-07-10 Thread steven mosher
Same here. Just made my first package and regret not having learned how to do it from the very beginning. Steve On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Michael Dewey wrote: > At 12:30 09/07/2011, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> sorry if this is a bit on the sidetrack for R-help. >>

Re: [R] How do I get two levels of grouping for in a lattice panel function?

2011-07-10 Thread Bert Gunter
> To paraphrase your sig: > > "Rhelp answers are like a trumpet - if you don't put any code and data into > them, you don't get anything out of it." > >> -- >> "Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get >> anything out of it." >> < > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hart

Re: [R] Using t tests

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Marchywka
( after getting confirmation of lack of posts try again, LOL ) > From: marchy...@hotmail.com > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: RE: [R] Using t tests > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:13:51 -0400 > > > ( sorry if this is a repost but I meant to post to list

Re: [R] How do I get two levels of grouping for in a lattice panel function?

2011-07-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: Dear list, I'm working on a panel function where I would like to be able to visualise data grouped by the category of the data, and then also changes in summary descriptives from one condition to another in the same scatter plot. Like

Re: [R] change legend character size in image.plot

2011-07-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:16 AM, dmeire wrote: I'm using the image.plot() function (fields package), but I want to enlarge the characters of the legend (as they are too small to be read in a combined figure), but there is no way I can find a command to do this. I can enlarge the legend bar (wi

[R] change legend character size in image.plot

2011-07-10 Thread dmeire
I'm using the image.plot() function (fields package), but I want to enlarge the characters of the legend (as they are too small to be read in a combined figure), but there is no way I can find a command to do this. I can enlarge the legend bar (with legend.witdh), axis character size (cex.axis) or

Re: [R] Converting the time in a numeric value

2011-07-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:55 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2011, at 09:44 , peter dalgaard wrote: > >> >> On Jul 10, 2011, at 09:15 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >> article on date-times (not the un-refereed one in R-News 4/1) to gain more >> understanding. >> >> Just to clarify, R New

Re: [R] grey colored lines and overwriting labels i qqplot2

2011-07-10 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Here's a simple example: > df <- data.frame(x = 1:10, y = rnorm(10)) > dput(df) structure(list(x = 1:10, y = c(-1.55669581922794, -0.6086844726417, -0.414989571570644, -0.202690819994734, -0.421436945159872, 0.00216009424665418, -0.193955384660702, -0.764966890023485, -0.740871219664316, -0.0

Re: [R] OpenOffice ods spreadsheets in R?

2011-07-10 Thread Martin Rittner
David, you are right, I seem not to be able to reproduce the problem with a synthetic file see attached). However, if I run tst<-read.ods(file="test.ods",stringsAsFactors=FALSE) I do not get a data.frame() in tst[[1]], just a vector of the row names: 1> tst[[1]] [1] NA "row1" "row2" "row3"

Re: [R] Storing and managing custom R functions for re-use

2011-07-10 Thread Michael Dewey
At 12:30 09/07/2011, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes wrote: Dear all, sorry if this is a bit on the sidetrack for R-help. As a regular R user I have developed quite a lot of custom R functions, to the point of not always remembering what I have already programmed, where the file is and so on. I was wo

[R] Package "survival" --- Difference of coxph strata with subset?

2011-07-10 Thread ryusuke
[code]>require("survival") > coxph(Surv(futime,fustat)~age + strata(rx),ovarian) Call: coxph(formula = Surv(futime, fustat) ~ age + strata(rx), data = ovarian) coef exp(coef) se(coef) z p age 0.137 1.15 0.0474 2.9 0.0038 Likelihood ratio test=12.7 on 1 df, p=0.000368 n= 26,

Re: [R] readSeries

2011-07-10 Thread finguy
I re-entered the command and then this appeared Error in midnightStandard2(charvec, format) : 'charvec' has non-NA entries of different number of characters -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/readSeries-tp3657300p3657396.html Sent from the R help mailing list archi

Re: [R] readSeries

2011-07-10 Thread Berend Hasselman
finguy wrote: > > Data = readSeries(file="Data.csv1.csv",header=T,sep=",",format="%Y-%m-%d") > > after i enter this command it says it 'Error: could not find function > "readSeries"' > Please help thanks. > You need to load the library timeSeries first before you can use functions defined by t

Re: [R] Converting the time in a numeric value

2011-07-10 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 10, 2011, at 09:44 , peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2011, at 09:15 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > article on date-times (not the un-refereed one in R-News 4/1) to gain more > understanding. > > Just to clarify, R News articles were in general refereed (single reviewer), > at lea

[R] readSeries

2011-07-10 Thread finguy
Data = readSeries(file="Data.csv1.csv",header=T,sep=",",format="%Y-%m-%d") after i enter this command it says it 'Error: could not find function "readSeries"' Please help thanks. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/readSeries-tp3657300p3657300.html Sent from the R hel

Re: [R] Converting the time in a numeric value

2011-07-10 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 10, 2011, at 09:15 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: article on date-times (not the un-refereed one in R-News 4/1) to gain more understanding. Just to clarify, R News articles were in general refereed (single reviewer), at least in the later years, but the one you're referring to is a "Help d

Re: [R] Converting the time in a numeric value

2011-07-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Amy Ruiz Goyco wrote: Hello: I am new using R. I have a file that contain in the same columns date and time like for example 2011/10/03 12:34:45.123423 p.m., but when I read the file and display the vector, I see of this way "2011-10-03 12:34:45.123423". I need to con