[R] Question

2014-12-25 Thread Ankita Shukla
Hi I was fitting this model with two matrices. But this bifit function didnt run in my R studio and i got error message. Could anyone guide me how to install this command. I am giving that command below to have better understanding. x.f <- cbind(log(Q5.all.pf), log(Q5.all.pf)^2) y.f <- t(log(mx5x5

[R] wiki link on main page is down?

2014-12-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On the left panel of http://www.r-project.org/ , there is a link titled "Wiki" which points to http://rwiki.sciviews.org/ . However, this link is broken and gives a 404 Not Found error. Could you please fix it? thanks raju __ R-help@r-project.org mailin

[R] help

2014-12-25 Thread Phillip Awodutire
i want to analyse survival data using typeI HALF LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION.how can i go about it?it installed one on R in the survival package didn't include the distribution...or i need a code to use maximum likelihood to estimate the parameter in survival analysis.a typical example of distribution ot

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Bert Gunter wrote: You persist in failing to read the docs! "the docs" -- do those exclude those I have been quoting and linking to? Moreover, neither Hadley Wickham, nor anyone else, is the authoritative source for R usage (other than for the (many!) packages he, himsel

Re: [R] debugging R code and dealing with dependencies

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 25, 2014, at 1:04 AM, Mike Miller wrote: I just wanted to put this out there. It's just some of my observations about things that happen with R, or happened in this particular investigation. There were definitely some lessons for me in thi

Re: [R] debugging R code and dealing with dependencies

2014-12-25 Thread David Winsemius
> On Dec 25, 2014, at 1:04 AM, Mike Miller wrote: > > I just wanted to put this out there. It's just some of my observations about > things that happen with R, or happened in this particular investigation. > There were definitely some lessons for me in this, and maybe that will be > true of

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Bert Gunter
You persist in failing to read the docs! Moreover, neither Hadley Wickham, nor anyone else, is the authoritative source for R usage (other than for the (many!) packages he, himself has authored). R's Help pages and manuals -- and ultimately the source code -- are the only such source. ?factor says

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Mike Miller wrote: I was going to ask a question about it how to test that an object is a vector, but then I found this: "is.vector() does not test if an object is a vector. Instead it returns TRUE only if the object is a vector with no attributes apart from names. Use i

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > I do think I get what is going on with this, but why should I buy into this > conceptualization? Why is it better to say that a matrix *is* a vector than > to say that a matrix *contains* a vector? The latter seems to be the more > common way

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/12/2014 3:59 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Duncan Murdoch > wrote: >> Would you say a cube contains a polygon, or a cube is a polygon? > > Neither, actually. I'd say a cube is a polyhedron or a square is a polygon. > > :-) > > But point taken, of course. I ha

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 25/12/2014 1:57 PM, Mike Miller wrote: I do think I get what is going on with this, but why should I buy into this conceptualization? Why is it better to say that a matrix *is* a vector than to say that a matrix *contains* a vector? The latter s

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Bert Gunter
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Would you say a cube contains a polygon, or a cube is a polygon? Neither, actually. I'd say a cube is a polyhedron or a square is a polygon. :-) But point taken, of course. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatist

Re: [R] debugging R code and dealing with dependencies

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
Thanks, but I was already in touch with Rob Kirkpatrick about it. We all work together at U Minnesota, or did until Rob went to VCU. Mike On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Uwe Ligges wrote: This is a rather detailed analysis, thanks, but I think it should be send to the maintainer of the "RFGLS" package

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/12/2014 1:57 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, peter dalgaard wrote: > >> >>> On 25 Dec 2014, at 08:15 , Mike Miller wrote: >>> "is.vector returns TRUE if x is a vector of the specified mode having no attributes other than names. It returns FALSE otherwise." >>> >

Re: [R] debugging R code and dealing with dependencies

2014-12-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
This is a rather detailed analysis, thanks, but I think it should be send to the maintainer of the "RFGLS" package (CCing). Best, Uwe Ligges On 25.12.2014 10:04, Mike Miller wrote: I just wanted to put this out there. It's just some of my observations about things that happen with R, or happ

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, peter dalgaard wrote: On 25 Dec 2014, at 08:15 , Mike Miller wrote: "is.vector returns TRUE if x is a vector of the specified mode having no attributes other than names. It returns FALSE otherwise." So that means that a vector in R has no attributes other than names.

Re: [R] tcltk

2014-12-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/12/2014 14:26, Ivan Calandra wrote: Dear useRs, I have just upgraded to R 3.1.2 for MacOS 10.6.8 (with the binary for Snow Leopard). Rather belatedly Everything is fine except that I get an error when loading TclTk: >library(tcltk) Error : .onLoad a échoué dans loadNamespace() po

[R] tcltk

2014-12-25 Thread Ivan Calandra
Dear useRs, I have just upgraded to R 3.1.2 for MacOS 10.6.8 (with the binary for Snow Leopard). Everything is fine except that I get an error when loading TclTk: >library(tcltk) Error : .onLoad a échoué dans loadNamespace() pour 'tcltk', détails : appel : system2("otool", c("-L", shQuote(DL

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 25 Dec 2014, at 08:15 , Mike Miller wrote: > >> >> "is.vector returns TRUE if x is a vector of the specified mode having >> no attributes other than names. It returns FALSE otherwise." > > So that means that a vector in R has no attributes other than names. Wrong. Read carefully. There a

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Mike Miller wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Jeff Newmiller wrote: You have written a lot, Mike, as though we did not know it. You are not the only one with math and multiple computing languages under your belt. I'm not assuming that you and Bert don't know things, but I do

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Jeff Newmiller wrote: You have written a lot, Mike, as though we did not know it. You are not the only one with math and multiple computing languages under your belt. I'm not assuming that you and Bert don't know things, but I do expect to have a wider audience -- when I

[R] debugging R code and dealing with dependencies

2014-12-25 Thread Mike Miller
I just wanted to put this out there. It's just some of my observations about things that happen with R, or happened in this particular investigation. There were definitely some lessons for me in this, and maybe that will be true of someone else. The main thing I picked up is that it is good

Re: [R] ave(x, y, FUN=length) produces character output when x is character

2014-12-25 Thread Jeff Newmiller
You have written a lot, Mike, as though we did not know it. You are not the only one with math and multiple computing languages under your belt. The point Bert made is that the concept that a matrix IS-A vector is not just an implementation detail in R... it helps the practitioner keep straight