Re: [R] analyzing results from Tuesday's US elections

2020-11-09 Thread Alexandra Thorn
This thread strikes me as pretty far off-topic for a forum dedicated to software support on R. https://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions "The ‘main’ R mailing list, for discussion about problems and solutions using R, announcements (not covered by ‘R-announce’ or ‘R-packages’, see above), a

Re: [R] Mac/PC differences in lmer results

2019-06-05 Thread Alexandra Thorn
To check whether the data are being read in appropriately, what happens when you plot the distribution of each of the independent variables on the respective systems? -A On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:32:28 +0200 Olivier Crouzet wrote: > Hi, > > 32bit vs. 64bit systems? > > Another thing I would look

[R] Help reinstalling rgdal (Ubuntu 16.04)

2018-08-09 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Hi all, Following some updates to R that I received via Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu 16.04 (looks like I now have R 3.4.4-1xenial0), I have been unable to reinstall rgdal, and I need help. Initially I was getting error messages about dependencies on GDAL 1.11.4, but after following instruct

[R] working with ordinal predictor variables?

2017-10-05 Thread Alexandra Thorn
I'm trying to develop a linear model for crop productivity based on variables published as part of the SSURGO database released by the USDA. My default is to just run lm() with continuous predictor variables as numeric, and discrete predictor variables as factors, but some of the discrete variable

Re: [R] Ranking submodels by AIC (more general question)

2011-06-23 Thread Alexandra Thorn
rfect for making comparisons! Thanks again to everybody who's tried to help me out on this! Alexandra On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 21:29 +0200, Jan van der Laan wrote: > Alexandra, > > Have a look at add1 and drop1. > > Regards, > Jan > > > On 06/23/2011 07:32 PM, Ale

[R] Ranking submodels by AIC (more general question)

2011-06-23 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Here's a more general question following up on the specific question I asked earlier: Can anybody recommend an R command other than mle.aic() (from the wle package) that will give back a ranked list of submodels? It seems like a pretty basic piece of functionality, but the closest I've been able

Re: [R] [cleaned code] RE: AIC() vs. mle.aic() vs. step()?

2011-06-23 Thread Alexandra Thorn
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 09:29 -0400, Alexandra Thorn wrote: > Ok, here's some example code showing how I get different output for AIC > vs. mle.aic(). Now that I've taken another look at the independent > variables, I'm wondering whether missing values in one of the vari

[R] [example code] RE: AIC() vs. mle.aic() vs. step()?

2011-06-23 Thread Alexandra Thorn
01 1 1 1 -57.34 [20,] 01 1 1 0 -56.35 Printed the first 20 best models R> AIC(lm(y1~xA)) # Model 1 above [1] -120.3801 R> AIC(lm(y1~xA+x15)) # Model 2 above [1] -110.8642 R> AIC(lm(y1~xA+x5)) # Model 3 above [1] -118.9906 On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 09:0

Re: [R] AIC() vs. mle.aic() vs. step()?

2011-06-23 Thread Alexandra Thorn
> > > Dr. Rubén Roa-Ureta > AZTI - Tecnalia / Marine Research Unit > Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g > 48395 Sukarrieta (Bizkaia) > SPAIN > > > > > -Mensaje original- > > De: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > > [mailto:r-h

[R] AIC() vs. mle.aic() vs. step()?

2011-06-22 Thread Alexandra Thorn
I know this a newbie question, but I've only just started using AIC for model comparison and after a bunch of different keyword searches I've failed to find a page laying out what the differences are between the AIC scores assigned by AIC() and mle.aic() using default settings. I started by usin