Re: [R] Masking oceans using polypath

2013-08-11 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi The outline for France from that database is a little bit pesky because it consists of multiple segments that travel in different directions around the French border. Here is some (possibly jetlagged) code that puts the segments all in the same direction and produces a nicer result ... b

Re: [R] ifelse() applied on function

2013-08-11 Thread William Dunlap
> ifelse(ChooseFn, lapply, sfLapply)(MyList, function(x) { > ... > return()) Use 'if', not 'ifelse', and wrap it in parentheses to get the precendence right (if (ChooseFn) lapply else sfLapply)(MyList, function(x){...}) Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com >

[R] [R-pkgs] Some improvements in gam package

2013-08-11 Thread Trevor Hastie
I have posted a new version of the gam package: gam_1.09 to CRAN. Thus update improved the step.gam function considerably, and gives it a parallel option. I am posting this update announcement along with the original package announcement below, which may be of interest to those new to the list

[R] SEM polychoric

2013-08-11 Thread Pablo Menese Camargo
I have this mcfa<- "impulsivity=~imp1r+imp2+imp3+imp4 physical=~phys1+phys2+phys3+phys4 risky=~risk1+risk2+risk3+risk4 selfish=~self1+self2+self3+self4 simple=~simp1+simp2+simp3+simp4r temper=~temp1+temp2+temp3+temp4 control=~impulsivity+physical+risky+selfish+simple+temper" where: the model is a

Re: [R] Off-topic? Linux laptop for R

2013-08-11 Thread Mitchell Maltenfort
Perhaps it is bad form to respond to my own post but all the responses have been useful and I did not want to play favorites I am coming back to Linux after several MacBook years. Unfortunately the Linux for Laptops page is not as well updated as it once was. On the other hand, pre-installed Li

Re: [R] Off-topic? Linux laptop for R

2013-08-11 Thread memilanuk
Another +1 here for the ThinkPad series... they seem to run Linux distros about as well as most, and are pretty robustly built. I picked up a Lenovo ThinkPad T530 last fall with Windows 7 Pro on it, and have it currently set up to dual-boot into openSUSE 12.3. Ubuntu 13.04 probably ran the sm

Re: [R] Off-topic? Linux laptop for R

2013-08-11 Thread stephen sefick
I have a gatway running scientific linux 6.4. It runs R quite well. I had an old mac power pc running a special flavor of debian that ran R well relative to the hardware constraints. FWIW, get all intel hardware; Then the rest is up to you. Good Luck! Stephen On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:40 PM,

Re: [R] Off-topic? Linux laptop for R

2013-08-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, I have no real input here from personal experience, but the author of the coderspiel blog has these two "recent" posts about his experience with Ubuntu on (what seem to be) two very nice machines: The latest is a Vaio Pro of some sort. Ubuntu is a bit difficult to install, but doable: http:/

Re: [R] Off-topic? Linux laptop for R

2013-08-11 Thread Rolf Turner
I think that Hasan Diwan's assertion is a bit of an over-simplification. I have a Toshiba Satellite L850 that has no problems of any sort running R. However it *does* have problems with WiFi. The WiFi drivers for my laptop won't work under (any?) Linux system. Apparently (I don't completel

[R] Plotting multivariate time-series with ggplot2

2013-08-11 Thread A Duranel
Hello all. Let's say I have a multivariate time-series, obtained from 2 loggers returning a numeric value and a factor giving additional information about this numeric value, for instance its accuracy: data<-data.frame(date=rep(seq(from=as.Date("2012-01-01"), by=1, length.out=100), 2), logger=c(re

Re: [R] RWeb Server

2013-08-11 Thread Gergely Daróczi
Hi Ed, our rapporter.net service might be useful for you that lets users create brew-flavored report templates (text with R chunks) to be run on datasets. So this is a cloud solution to be used directly via the frontend, or called dynamically from any webpage via API: http://blog.rapporter.net/201

Re: [R] Advice on use of R for Generalised Linear Modelling

2013-08-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Alan Sausse wrote: > Hi, > > Not an expert R user, something of a novice - please be gentle with me! > > I have a particular interest in generalised linear models (GLMs) and I'm > experienced in fitting them using other bits of software. > > R can fit GLMs of

Re: [R] ifelse() applied on function

2013-08-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Ron Michael wrote: > Hi, > > How can I apply ifelse function to chose appropriate function? > > My goal is user will chose lapply() function if "ChooseFn = T" otherwise to > chose sfLapply() from snowfall package. > > I am basically trying to avoid repeatatio

Re: [R] RWeb Server

2013-08-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Take a look at http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/ to see if this is useful. Cheers, Bert On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Wiebe, Ed@CDCR wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for tutorials on setting up R on a Windows 2008 server for the > purpose of making calls from web pages (e.g. SharePoint) or r

[R] ifelse() applied on function

2013-08-11 Thread Ron Michael
Hi,   How can I apply ifelse function to chose appropriate function?   My goal is user will chose lapply() function if "ChooseFn = T" otherwise to chose sfLapply() from snowfall package.   I am basically trying to avoid repeatation to write all internal steps, if user choses lapply or sfLapply. F

[R] RWeb Server

2013-08-11 Thread Wiebe, Ed@CDCR
Hello, I am looking for tutorials on setting up R on a Windows 2008 server for the purpose of making calls from web pages (e.g. SharePoint) or report engines (e.g. SSRS) to embed inline dynamically rendered R content. I found the link to RWeb (http://www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/) which I was hopi

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread arun
HI Christofer, Don't know what is wrong in your side. I copy and pasted the same code and got the same answer as I emailed you. CH <- c("MRTZIt", "MRTZIT", "PPBZJG", "ppbzJG")  CH1<-sort(CH,decreasing=TRUE) CH1 #[1] "ppbzJG" "PPBZJG" "MRTZIt" "MRTZIT" chnew<-CH1 chnew[duplicated(toupper(CH1))]<

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Christopher: Yes, I warned you about both cases: In your second example there is no match since there is no nonupper case version of the all upper case entries. As you did not specify what should be done in that case, I leave it to you to figure out the necessary modifications of my code. Possibl

Re: [R] Off-topic? Linux laptop for R

2013-08-11 Thread Hasan Diwan
Any laptop that performs well with Linux will perform acceptably with R and vice versa. -- H On 11 August 2013 11:03, Mitchell Maltenfort wrote: > Can anyone recommend a laptop that performs well running R under Linux? > Thanks. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hello Arun, Thank you for your prompt reply. However if I use your new code, I am not getting the answer which you provided: > CH <- c("MRTZIt", "MRTZIT", "PPBZJG", "ppbzJG") > CH [1] "MRTZIt" "MRTZIT" "PPBZJG" "ppbzJG" > CH1<-sort(CH,decreasing=TRUE) > chnew<-CH1 > chnew[duplicated(toupper(CH1)

Re: [R] Adding negative values with mean of positive values

2013-08-11 Thread arun
Hi, You may try this: vec1<-unique(data1[,1]) res<-do.call(rbind,lapply(seq_along(vec1),function(i) {x1<-data1[data1[,1]%in%vec1[-i],]; x2<-mean(x1$value[x1$value>0]); x3<- data1[data1[,1]%in% vec1[i],]; x3$value[x3$value<0]<-x3$value[x3$value<0]+x2; x3})) res1<-res[match(row.names(dat1),row.nam

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread arun
Hi Christofer, I didn't test this extensively.  Looks like this works for the example you showed.  CH1<-sort(CH,decreasing=TRUE) chnew<-CH1 chnew[duplicated(toupper(CH1))]<- CH1[duplicated(toupper(CH1),fromLast=TRUE)] sort(chnew) #[1] "MRTZIt" "MRTZIt" "ppbzJG" "ppbzJG" A.K. __

[R] Off-topic? Linux laptop for R

2013-08-11 Thread Mitchell Maltenfort
Can anyone recommend a laptop that performs well running R under Linux? Thanks. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Thanks Bert and Arun for your help. As Bert already pointed out, Arun's code is working well, however except this: > CH <- c("MRTZIt", "MRTZIT", "PPBZJG", "ppbzJG") > chnew<-CH > chnew[duplicated(toupper(CH))]<-CH[duplicated(toupper(CH),fromLast=TRUE)] > CH [1] "MRTZIt" "MRTZIT" "PPBZJG" "ppbzJG"

Re: [R] Advice on use of R for Generalised Linear Modelling

2013-08-11 Thread Bert Gunter
1. For RevolutionR capabilities, contact them (mailing lists, website, etc.) 2. CRAN has a whole section on GUI's. You should consult it: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ 3. Your GUI query would be more appropriate on the R-sig-gui list. Cheers, Bert On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Alan Sausse

Re: [R] Advice on use of R for Generalised Linear Modelling

2013-08-11 Thread John Sorkin
Alan, I can't answer your first question, but as far as the second question goes, have you examined RStudio? http://www.rstudio.com/ Rstudio is a free, nice, IDE (I think this stands for integrated development environment that facilitates working in R. I provides very very basic sytax help (i.e

[R] Advice on use of R for Generalised Linear Modelling

2013-08-11 Thread Alan Sausse
Hi, Not an expert R user, something of a novice - please be gentle with me! I have a particular interest in generalised linear models (GLMs) and I'm experienced in fitting them using other bits of software. R can fit GLMs of course, using the glm() command. I have some large multivariate data s

[R] [R-pkgs] pls 2.4-3 released

2013-08-11 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Version 2.4-3 of the pls package has been released. Windows and OSX binaries should appear shortly. The pls package implements Partial Least Squares Regression, Principal Component Regression and Canonical Powered PLS Regression. The major changes are: - Can now perform cross-validation in para

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Well, maybe: it assumes that the uppercase string version always occurs after the nonuppercase version. That's why I rejected it. However, it points out something important: details matter. The more one knows about the nature of the problem, the better the solution one can tailor -- a remark for w

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread arun
Hi, May be this helps: chnew<-CH  chnew[duplicated(toupper(CH))]<-CH[duplicated(toupper(CH),fromLast=TRUE)]  chnew #[1] "aBd"    "sTb"    "aBd"    "dFDasd" "asd"    "dFDasd" A.K. - Original Message - From: Christofer Bogaso To: r-help Cc: Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 8:39 AM Subjec

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Oh, sorry. One type. Here's the correct version On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Christofer: > > You may have to fortify the following a bit to allow for the > possibility that some of your caps strings don't match. But other than > that, I think this will do: > >> CH <- c("a

Re: [R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Christofer: You may have to fortify the following a bit to allow for the possibility that some of your caps strings don't match. But other than that, I think this will do: > CH <- c("aBd", "sTb", "ABD", "dFDasd", "asd", "DFDASD") > caps <- CH %in% z > noncaps <- CH[!caps] > chnew <- CH > chnew[ca

[R] Working with string

2013-08-11 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hello again, Let say I have a lengthy character vector like: CH <- c("aBd", "sTb", "ABD", "dFDasd", "asd", "DFDASD") Now I want to create a vector like: CH_New <- c("aBd", "sTb", "aBd", "dFDasd", "asd", "dFDasd") ## the 3rd and 6th element replaced Basically, the goal is: If an element has a

Re: [R] coxph diagnostics

2013-08-11 Thread Göran Broström
On 08/11/2013 06:14 AM, Soumitro Dey wrote: Hello all, This may be a naive question but since I'm new to R/survival models, I cannot figure it out the problem myself. I have a coxph model for my data and I am trying to test if the proportional hazards assumption holds. Using cox.zph on the mo