[R] open script from web

2016-02-01 Thread Benn Fine
Hello In R, is it possible to load a script file into the editor via a web address? That is, I have a script file I want people to grab located at http://www.foo.com/bar.R and want to do something like file.edit("http://www.foo.com/bar.R";). But that doesn't seem to work. thanks [[alter

Re: [R] amending R+dependencies

2016-02-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Install a recent version of R such as R-3.2.3. R-3.0.2 is unsupported. Best, Uwe Ligges On 02.02.2016 01:00, kle...@sxmail.de wrote: Dear all,[a] after I have virtually given up on gearing up my R (v. 3.0.2; GUI: rkward; on last Linux Kubuntu LTS) for properly installing useful packages

Re: [R] open script from web

2016-02-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Well, two steps: download.file() and then file.edit(). Best, Uwe Ligges On 02.02.2016 06:16, Benn Fine wrote: Hello In R, is it possible to load a script file into the editor via a web address? That is, I have a script file I want people to grab located at http://www.foo.com/bar.R and want

Re: [R] open script from web

2016-02-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller
In almost all cases the answer is No. Some Web servers support WebDAV, but standard HTTP does not work that way. Has nothing to do with R. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On February 1, 2016 9:16:59 PM PST, Benn Fine wrote: >Hello > >In R, is it possible to load a script file

Re: [R] Panel Data Help

2016-02-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller
I am going to go out on a limb and say that the answer to your question is "Yes". However, I cannot decipher specifics from your description. If you want a more useful answer you need to follow the advice in the Posting Guide mentioned in the footer (including posting in plain text rather th

[R] amending R+dependencies

2016-02-01 Thread klerer
Dear all,[a] after I have virtually given up on gearing up my R (v. 3.0.2; GUI: rkward; on last Linux Kubuntu LTS) for properly installing useful packages containing functions that were not delivered with base R, amendment of R through getting packages from CRAN became the only viable way to obt

Re: [R] How to read ./configure messages

2016-02-01 Thread Peter Langfelder
I am not overly familar with Mint, but you need the "development version" of the readline library. If you have a GUI package manager installed, open it and search for readline. You should see a version that ends with -dev or -devel; you need to install that. HTH, Peter On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:0

[R] Panel Data Help

2016-02-01 Thread Daniel Dorchuck
Hi, I'm currently working on an econometrics project on banking and looking to merge a dataframe of bank specific data with dataframes of macro variables. I am then going to transform the data set into a plm dataframe using the plm package. The bank specific observations are indexed across time wh

Re: [R] on specifying an encoding for plot's main-argument

2016-02-01 Thread Daniel Bastos
Duncan Murdoch writes: > On 29/01/2016 10:35 AM, Daniel Bastos wrote: >> Here's how I plot a graph. >> >>plot(c(1,2,3), main = "graph ç") >> >> The main-string has a UTF-8 character "ç". I believe I'm using the >> windows device. It opens up on my screen. (The window says ``R >> Graphics:

[R] How to read ./configure messages

2016-02-01 Thread p_connolly
I've installed R from the tgz file since about R-0.9.x following the INSTALL instructions and have always succeeded using rpm-based OSes. With each new OS, that involved installing various additional packages before the configure script would complete. Figuring out which packages were required u

Re: [R] as(, "numeric") vs as.numeric()

2016-02-01 Thread Hervé Pagès
On 02/01/2016 07:33 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/02/2016 10:00 AM, Erik Wright wrote: Dear Frank, Thank you for the quick response. I am familiar with the tradeoffs between integers and doubles. However, I do not believe this answers my question. If you look at the help information for the

Re: [R] Efficient way to create new column based on comparison with another dataframe

2016-02-01 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Gaius, On 01/29/2016 10:52 AM, Gaius Augustus wrote: I have two dataframes. One has chromosome arm information, and the other has SNP position information. I am trying to assign each SNP an arm identity. I'd like to create this new column based on comparing it to the reference file. *1) Map

Re: [R] Modelling non-Negative Time Series

2016-02-01 Thread Giorgio Garziano
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tsintermittent/tsintermittent.pdf Best, -- GG [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PL

Re: [R] R Sig-Geo group - loop for creating spatial matrix

2016-02-01 Thread Giorgio Garziano
You may handle that as a list of "nb" objects. library(spdep) example(columbus) coord <- coordinates(columbus) z <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) neighbors.knn <- list() for (val in z) { neighbors.knn <- c(neighbors.knn, list(knn2nb(knearneigh(coord, val, longlat=F), sym=F))) } class(neighbours.knn)

[R] R Sig-Geo group - loop for creating spatial matrix

2016-02-01 Thread Francesco Perugini
Dear all,I want to create a routine to generate an object for different value of val: z <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) for (val in z) { neighbors.knn <- knn2nb(knearneigh(coord, val, longlat=F), row.names=cod_pro,sym=F) } However, it seems it does not work. How to store the neighbors.knn created

Re: [R] Plotting Dates Time Series Data

2016-02-01 Thread Giorgio Garziano
This tutorial may help: http://faculty.washington.edu/ezivot/econ424/Working%20with%20Time%20Series%20Data%20in%20R.pdf See pages 20 and 27 for your specific issue. Best, -- GG [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] updating elements of a list of matrixes without 'for' cycles

2016-02-01 Thread Bert Gunter
A perhaps faster approach takes advantage of the column major ordering of arrays and the expand.grid() function. I say "perhaps" faster, because "apply" family functions are still actually loops at the R level. Anyway, try this (using your little example): ## create a data frame (which is also a

[R] [R-pkgs] New Package: backblazer

2016-02-01 Thread phill
Dear R users, I'm pleased to announce that my first package has been accepted in CRAN. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/backblazer/ backblazer provides bindings to Backblaze's B2 cloud storage API. As it is my first package on CRAN, I would certainly appreciate feedback and sugges

Re: [R] as(, "numeric") vs as.numeric()

2016-02-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/02/2016 10:00 AM, Erik Wright wrote: Dear Frank, Thank you for the quick response. I am familiar with the tradeoffs between integers and doubles. However, I do not believe this answers my question. If you look at the help information for the as() function it says: "as(x, "numeric") u

Re: [R] as(, "numeric") vs as.numeric()

2016-02-01 Thread Erik Wright
Dear Frank, Thank you for the quick response. I am familiar with the tradeoffs between integers and doubles. However, I do not believe this answers my question. If you look at the help information for the as() function it says: "as(x, "numeric") uses the existing as.numeric function." But c

Re: [R] updating elements of a list of matrixes without 'for' cycles

2016-02-01 Thread Jue Lin-Ye
> > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:03:30 + > From: Matteo Richiardi < > ​​ > matteo.richia...@maths.ox.ac.uk> > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] updating elements of a list of matrixes without 'for' > cycles > Message-ID: > < > cabsru1lkohuz8m9jw1ju+nemksprirrtd_0wzotrlwi3z6d.

Re: [R] as(, "numeric") vs as.numeric()

2016-02-01 Thread Franklin Bretschneider
Dear Erik Wright, Re: > Could someone please explain this R behavior to me: > >> typeof(as.numeric(1:10)) > [1] "double" >> typeof(as(1:10, "numeric")) > [1] "integer" > > I expected "double" in both cases. In the help for the "as" function it says: > > "Methods are pre-defined for coercing

[R] as(, "numeric") vs as.numeric()

2016-02-01 Thread Erik Wright
Hi everyone, Could someone please explain this R behavior to me: > typeof(as.numeric(1:10)) [1] "double" > typeof(as(1:10, "numeric")) [1] "integer" I expected "double" in both cases. In the help for the "as" function it says: "Methods are pre-defined for coercing any object to one of the basi

Re: [R] Multilevel Modeling in R

2016-02-01 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
Dear David, R-sig-mixedmodels is a better mailing list for this kind of question. 1) yes 2) use (Treatment | Random_Assignment_Block) instead of (1 | Random_Assignment_Block) Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest t

Re: [R] String Matching

2016-02-01 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi Maybe I am completely wrong but do you really need regular expressions? You say you want to compare first nine characters of id? > substr(id, 1,9)==cusip [1] TRUE > or the last six? > substr(id, nchar(id)-6, nchar(id))=="432.rds" [1] TRUE > Cheers Petr > -Original Message- > From

Re: [R] String Matching

2016-02-01 Thread Berend Hasselman
> On 1 Feb 2016, at 08:03, PIKAL Petr wrote: > > Hi > > Maybe I am completely wrong but do you really need regular expressions? > > You say you want to compare first nine characters of id? > >> substr(id, 1,9)==cusip > [1] TRUE >> > > or the last six? > >> substr(id, nchar(id)-6, nchar(id)