Re: [R] dopar parallel assignments

2010-04-29 Thread David M Smith
use %do%, I get > objects test_1.25 and test_1.50, but I don't get these objects if I > use %dopar% even though it seemed to run through the loop in parallel. > > Thanks in advance, > Vivek > > __ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://sta

Re: [R] Can't load "doSMP" from REvolutionR in regular R2.11.0

2010-04-29 Thread David M Smith
uot; which is >>> different from what revoIPC used.  I could just use REvolutionR, but all my >>> R peripherals were set up to work >>>  with the regular R2.11.0.  So, I really want to make this work.  Anyideas? >> &

Re: [R] Can't load "doSMP" from REvolutionR in regular R2.11.0

2010-04-29 Thread David M Smith
was built using "i386-pc-mingw32" which is different from > what revoIPC used.  I could just use REvolutionR, but all my R peripherals > were set up to work >  with the regular R2.11.0.  So, I really want to make this work.  Anyideas? -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, REvoluti

[R] Revolutions blog: March Roundup

2010-04-13 Thread David M Smith
ISmy to be alerted to new articles on a monthly basis. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolution-computing.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revo

Re: [R] Using R in a corporate envinronment

2010-03-10 Thread David M Smith
Hope this helps, # David Smith -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Fernando

[R] REvolutions blog: February Roundup

2010-03-05 Thread David M Smith
ike Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Kind regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing  http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvol

[R] Revolutions blog: January Roundup

2010-02-01 Thread David M Smith
Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing  http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php __

[R] Revolutions blog: December roundup

2010-01-11 Thread David M Smith
s also been updated at: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/calendar.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolution-computing.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter

[R] Revolutions blog: November roundup

2009-12-03 Thread David M Smith
ostings here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/roundups/ As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolution-computing.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm

Re: [R] Reading from Google Docs

2009-11-25 Thread David M Smith
of the other functionality of RGoogleDocs, this isn't going to help I'm afraid. # David -- David M Smith VP of Community, REvolution Computing http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: www.revolution-com

[R] Revolutions blog: October roundup

2009-11-03 Thread David M Smith
follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith VP of Community, REvolution Computing  http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolut

Re: [R] How to make R packages?

2009-10-23 Thread David M Smith
ial that works in Linux. You can find it here; http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6175/ with some additional commentary here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/08/creating-r-packages-a-tutorial-draft.html # David Smith -- David M Smith VP of Community, REvolution Computing http://b

Re: [R] News on R "s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread David M Smith
: > Start the REvolution without me... -- David M Smith VP of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: http://revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread David M Smith
t points to consider if you have the freedom to choose any platform and you need the additional memory capacity of a 64-bit version of R. But if you need to use 64-bit Windows and want to use R, the supported distribution REvolution R Enterprise has worked very well for many users. # David Smi

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread David M Smith
) > v<-double(1e+9) # 8GB vector > sum(v) [1] 0 The same is true of 64-bit versions of R on other platforms, too. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming

Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-05 Thread David M Smith
I install the REvolution Computing packages? >        Do these packages really make R faster? >        Are these packages stable? >        What are your experiences with REvolution Computing software? > > I am interested in hearing from members of the community, REvolution Comput

Re: [R] multicore - no parallel

2009-10-04 Thread David M Smith
via http://forums.revolution-computing.com. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

[R] Revolutions blog: September roundup

2009-10-01 Thread David M Smith
;t forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, U

Re: [R] more strange behavior of Revolution R 1.3.0

2009-09-24 Thread David M Smith
ion 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-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained

Re: [R] Which one shall I use? '=' or '<-'?

2009-09-17 Thread David M Smith
man/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x

Re: [R] Grouping data in a data frame: is there an efficient way to do it?

2009-09-02 Thread David M Smith
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolu

[R] Revolutions blog: August roundup

2009-09-02 Thread David M Smith
a...@revolution-computing.com. You can also follow me on Twitter as @revodavid. Cheers to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revol

Re: [R] Combining: R + Condor in 2009 ? (+foreach maybe?)

2009-09-01 Thread David M Smith
nks in advance, > Tal > > -- > > > My contact information: > Tal Galili > Phone number: 972-50-3373767 > FaceBook: Tal Galili > My Blogs: > http://www.r-statistics.com/ > http://www.talgalili.com > http://www.bios

Re: [R] Offtopic, HT vs. HH in coin flips

2009-08-31 Thread David M Smith
in a blog post on the > > Revolutions R blog, and although I believe the answer, I'm > > having a hard time figuring out why this should be? > > > > Thanks, > > Erik Iverson > > > > __ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailm

Re: [R] create separate plots by factors

2009-08-10 Thread David M Smith
t; ALDER     200   13650.2 > ALDER     500   15493.6 > AMERI       5   43656.5 > AMERI      10   51475.3 > AMERI      20   58854.4 > AMERI      50   68233.3 > AMERI     100   75135.9 > AMERI     200   81908.3 > > > Ingrid M Tohver > Research Scientist, Climate Impacts Gro

[R] Revolutions blog: July Roundup

2009-08-04 Thread David M Smith
ld be back to normal (or at least skew-Normal) now. Thanks to everyone who provided comments and tips and please keep them coming to da...@revolution-computing.com . (If you sent me a suggestion and haven't had a response yet, I'm *almost* through my email backlog - apologies for the delay.)

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-07-30 Thread David M Smith
prepared to wikify it if there is > sufficient interest. > > John Nash -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

Re: [R] I might be dumb : a simple question about "foreach"

2009-07-20 Thread David M Smith
_ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible c

[R] [R-pkgs] Parallel programming packages iterators, foreach and doMC released

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
in parallel. More information at blog.revolution-computing.com: http://bit.ly/tygLz -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming even

[R] Revolutions blog: June roundup

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
tips and please keep them coming to da...@revolution-computing.com . Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.rev

Re: [R] Are there any bloggers amoung us going to useR 2009 ?

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
I'm going to both UseR! (in Rennes) and DSC (in Copenhagen), and will be blogging about the talks and other interesting things I learn here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Te

Re: [R] parallel R?

2009-06-26 Thread David M Smith
ended example using foreach here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/05/parallelized-backtesting-with-foreach.html # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming

Re: [R] Software lifecycle for R releases (aka practical limits of support for older versions)

2009-06-25 Thread David M Smith
t R 2.7.2 through our distribution of REvolution R Enterprise, for example. More info here: http://www.revolution-computing.com/products/revolution-enterprise.php # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (

Re: [R] What has happened to the R-Help Google Groups Archive? Alternative?

2009-06-22 Thread David M Smith
ut didn't > see a page with this sort of info. > > Thank you kindly, > Tony Breyal -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our u

[R] Revolutions blog: May roundup

2009-06-03 Thread David M Smith
tp://blog.revolution-computing.com/calendar.html Comments and suggestions about the blog are welcome! (My email is da...@revolution-computing.com ). Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Fr

[R] Last month on the Revolutions blog

2009-05-01 Thread David M Smith
ty Calendar has been updated with many forthcoming events related to R. http://blog.revolution-computing.com/calendar.html Comments and suggestions about the blog are welcome! (My email is da...@revolution-computing.com ). Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolut

Re: [R] My surprising experience in trying out REvolution's R

2009-04-24 Thread David M Smith
how big a matrix needs to be before the multi-core > multi-threading will start save time. But it seems useful to build this > protection in your distribution so that it will not do multi-core when > multi-threading is more likely to do harm. > > Jason > -Original Message

Re: [R] My surprising experience in trying out REvolution's R

2009-04-23 Thread David M Smith
t; > In other words, REvolution's R consumes double the CPU with slightly > less speed. > > The above has been replicated a few times (as a statistician of course). > > > Anyone has any insight on this? Anyway, my high hope was dashed. -- David M Smith Director of Comm

Re: [R] Floating simulation error

2009-04-23 Thread David M Smith
___ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- David M Smith Dir

Re: [R] My surprising experience in trying out REvolution's R

2009-04-21 Thread David M Smith
x libraries,... > > e.g. in relatively small problems, Revolution's overhead may consume more > time and resources than the problem warrants. In others, you may see many > fold improvements. Very dangerous to generalize from an example or two (as I > recently experienced to my

Re: [R] what is R best for; what should one learn in addition to R

2009-04-20 Thread David M Smith
bigmemory or biglm. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events __ R-he

[R] Last month on the Revolutions blog

2009-03-31 Thread David M Smith
e blog are welcome! (My email is da...@revolution-computing.com ). Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-com

Re: [R] how to save a plot in a given size in inches or centimeters

2009-03-23 Thread David M Smith
e tricky if you want to measure in inches -- you'll need also use the "res" argument to set the resolution. See: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/01/10-tips-for-making-your-r-graphics-look-their-best.html for some examples. I'm guessing you want to print your graphic in which ca

Re: [R] numeric equality

2009-03-18 Thread David M Smith
a-zero.html which will hopefully clear up your questions. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events _

Re: [R] R with MKL

2009-03-18 Thread David M Smith
nt to try REvolution R (our distribution of R, currently based on R 2.7.2). You can download binary distribitions for Windows (32-bit) or MacOS here: http://www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revol

Re: [R] Is there any difference between <- and =

2009-03-12 Thread David M Smith
dvice that such constructs are best avoided. I've never seen the need to perform assignments in function calls before, but I'll avoid them now knowing about potential for mischief from lazy evaluation. Thanks. http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2008/12/use-equals-or-arrow-for-assignmen

[R] Two new R courses in April (US)

2009-03-11 Thread David M Smith
Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] Is there any difference between <- and =

2009-03-11 Thread David M Smith
log post: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2008/12/use-equals-or-arrow-for-assignment.html # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-h

Re: [R] simple graphing question

2009-02-23 Thread David M Smith
you reorganize your data the standard dotchart function should do what you need. See the code for the chart in the graph gallery (or here: http://tinyurl.com/dby3jd ). # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778

Re: [R] does R plus 3.3 need vista ?

2009-02-06 Thread David M Smith
loads/revolution-r.php It's supported on the following Windows platforms (from http://www.revolution-computing.com/forum/faq.php?faq=revr ): Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Home Premium, Service Pack 1 Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2 # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of

Re: [R] See source code for survplot function in Design package

2009-02-05 Thread David M Smith
_ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- David M Smith D

Re: [R] How do I get my IT department to "bless" R?

2009-01-29 Thread David M Smith
ting comfortable with relying on FOSS applications, but the real successes (Linux, Apache, MySQL, ...) have come when there's a commercial company to back up the open source community. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Co

Re: [R] commercially supported version of R for 64 -bit Windows?

2009-01-26 Thread David M Smith
beta program is launched it will be announced at http://blog.revolution-computing.com , but if anyone is interested in getting involved sooner please let me know. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Se

Re: [R] R, clinical trials and the FDA

2009-01-15 Thread David M Smith
uting.com/2009/01/analyzing-clinical-trial-data-with-r.html # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat

Re: [R] AT&T Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread David M Smith
on. But he has published a followup on the NYT's website clarifying and expanding a number of details here: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/ You can also provide comments on his article there too, if you like. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of

Re: [R] Regarding Books on R

2009-01-08 Thread David M Smith
; Couldn't get in search -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE d

Re: [R] R in the NY Times

2009-01-07 Thread David M Smith
ny other mainstream articles about R available online please let me know, and I'll do a round-up post in that section to make sure they're captured. By the way, we're writing about R and issues related to R daily at: http://blog.revolution-computing.com # David Smith -- David

[R] Chance Magazine statistical graphics contest

2008-12-31 Thread David M Smith
t closes January 15. # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-he

Re: [R] Compiling R for 64-bit Windows (was Re: increasing memory limit in Windows Server 2008 64-bit)

2008-12-02 Thread David M Smith
t yourself at that point. We have found that there are idiosyncrasies amongst the different compilers and configurations on the Windows 64-bit platform; we're using the Intel compiler and your mileage may well vary with others. # David Smith -- David M Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Directo

Re: [R] Recommended R books by XLSolutions Corporation

2008-10-28 Thread David M Smith
e should be simply calculating the likelihood that two individuals in a population have the same name (given that the common name was David Smith was only established after the fact), which makes it a complex form of the Birthday Problem. Hmmm. Any geneaologists want to chime in? # David M Smit