Re: [R] appending to a vector

use a for loop, your second example is faster since it does not rewrite x2 each iteration. An excellent reference on this subject and many other R pitfalls is 'The R Inferno' http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/s/Spoetry/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf ------ Jonathan P. Dai

Re: [R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser

try: options(help_type = 'text') ?options If this works, you can create a site profile (A default is created automatically in windows, if I remember correctly) where you can set this to run in each session. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - US

Re: [R] RExcel

It is asking the obvious, but did you run the commands from the rcom package after installation (see inline ***s)? -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a

Re: [R] How to *completely* stop a script after stop()?

Would options(error = recover) be of some help? -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose?

Re: [R] Estimates at each iteration

meter called "limiter". HtoH, Jon ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do

Re: [R] passing arguments via "..."

Does that help? ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it."

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

I think you should google search Sweave, as well as check out the ?Sweave page. Not to mention the graphics devices that embed quite nicely into documents, like ?postscript. HTH, Jon -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown

Re: [R] ) Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object '' not found

It looks like your column name has periods in it somewhere. Is your header separated by something other than commas? look at: names(data.sex) or test by "age" %in% names(data.sex) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 116

Re: [R] memory increasing

. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it." - Jubal Ea

Re: [R] Understanding tryCatch

tryCatch will only execute it's error function on errors. If you are getting warnings, you may find it helpful to set: options(warn = 2) ?options tryCatch(warning("!"), error = function(x) print("Error!")) ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technici

Re: [R] Scope of variable?

?cat cat prints text, and returns an invisible NULL. Also, it is general practice to assign values using '<-' even inside of functions, for reasons detailed in ?"<-" ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science

Re: [R] a question

HTH, Jon -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it." - Jub

Re: [R] Keyboard Input

Solved. Thanks. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word..

Re: [R] indeterminate for loop

?"while" You don't want a for loop. You need a while loop. ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, t

Re: [R] Keyboard Input

through the results of a large simulation. As I think about it more, though, it is probably going to be easier to dump the data into files and look through it outside of R. Thanks anyways, Jon -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649

[R] (no subject)

to do this? Thanks, Jon PS I apologize if this double-sends, but I am having mail client issues. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty?

Re: [R] sum of variables in function

How about: x <- rnorm(1000) fn <- function(k) sum(x[1:k]*(x[k+1] + x[k+2])) vals <- sapply(1:100, fn) vals -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room sti

Re: [R] tryCatch - Continuing for/next loop after error

I did not know that. When reading the help topic for the first time myself, I think I assumed that it returned no value since it had no Value section, and I haven't used it in a way that it would return a value. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Le

Re: [R] tryCatch - Continuing for/next loop after error

below: -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it."

Re: [R] tryCatch - Continuing for/next loop after error

-- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it.&quo

Re: [R] Complex sampling?

-- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it.&quo

Re: [R] generate 3 distinct random samples without replacement

would this work? s <- sample(d1, 300, F) D <- data.frame(a = s[1:100], b = s[101:200], c = s[201:300]) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a ro

Re: [R] Probabilities greather than 1 in HIST

If you read ?hist, you will answer your own question. The issue in your code is the parameter prob = T, which does nothing. By default, hist reports density. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV

Re: [R] bootstrap resampling - simplified

tion(x) which(bigsamp == x)[1:5])))[1:20] samp <- bigsamp[idx] I apologize for my lack of clarity, though after reading the original post I'm not sure which solution the OP was looking for. Cheers, Jon ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Scienc

Re: [R] bootstrap resampling - simplified

. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it.&quo

Re: [R] Vector manipulations

Is this what you want? I don't know what your v looks like, but this won't work if there are cases in which v won't sum to exactly x. x <- 20 v <- sample(0:1, 100, T) w <- v[1:which(cumsum(v)==x)] ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USG

Re: [R] bootstrap resampling question

something like: bigsamp <- sample(1:20, 100, T) idx <- sort(unlist(sapply(1:20, function(x) which(bigsamp == x)[1:5])))[1:20] samp <- bigsamp[idx] ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (30

Re: [R] Variable names AS variable names?

To access a variable by a character string name, try for(code in codes) { dat <- get(code) [stuff] } Other options include ?assign if you need to manipulate the original, or ?with to use the subject of "codes" as an environment. ------ Jona

Re: [R] create dummy variables by for loop

See inline below. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the wor

Re: [R] Running code sequentially from separate scripts (but not functions)

t;- parse("code1.r") run2 <- parse("code2.r") run3 <- parse("code3.r") # Use this to run anytime eval(run1) eval(run2) eval(run3) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville W

Re: [R] Using string to call/manipulate an object

n","high","low","close","vol")', sep = ''))) } HTH, Jon -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room

Re: [R] R script HELP!

a Import/Export". ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it."

Re: [R] R script HELP!

It looks to me like when you assign ID_min and ID_max that you want them to be vectors. In R, this is accomplished by ?c. Example: ID_min <- c(976834501, 290018099.3145, 1000) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown R

Re: [R] CDF of Sample Quantile

-- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it." - Jubal Early, Firef

Re: [R] help - "the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used"

The issue here is that if only accepts a single True/False argument. Try these functions: ?ifelse ?all ?any -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room

Re: [R] R-/Text-editor for Windows?

b is R. This could easily be solved if you just use RTerm/RGui by replacing all the instances of Console with the appropriate R executable. [1]www.autohotkey.com [2]sourceforge.net/projects/console ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center

Re: [R] R-/Text-editor for Windows?

hand, geany is cross platform. As always, EMACS + ESS and Vim are also options. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,

Re: [R] Quantile Regression: Extracting Residuals

Try looking here: ?rq.object ?residuals R has excellent documentation that can answer many such questions with less than a minute of reading. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724

Re: [R] Question about histogram

a randomly chosen computer is running Ubuntu? Density is more universal, IMO. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,

Re: [R] how to wrap a long line in R scripts?

yyy lo", "ong charrr", sep = "") print(a) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the

Re: [R] how to wrap a long line in R scripts?

t;Response", lty = 1, pch = 5, cex = .75) num <- ((a1 + a2 + a3)/b1 + (a4 + a5 + a6)/b2) / b3 ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 &quo

Re: [R] how to wrap a long line in R scripts?

a <- "rey lo ong charrr" Although the indentation is just personal preference. ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304)

Re: [R] randomForest speed improvements

post analysis. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the w

Re: [R] matrices call a function element-wise

IIRC, R is perfectly able to call matrices as vectors, so you might be able to do this: FT <- function(i) fisher.test(matrix(c(A[i],B[i],C[i],D[i]),2)) E <- sapply(1:100, FT) Though I don't know how much time you will save. -- Jonathan P. Daily

Re: [R] Windows editor suggestions - autosave

e one for myself in AutoHotKey in about 2 mins), it has a ton of other options and is cross-platform. Geany: www.geany.org -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room st

Re: [R] Faster way to do it??...using apply?

I don't know if it's any faster, but it is also possible this way: y <- ifelse(x ==1, round(runif(x)), sign(x)) ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the

Re: [R] Fitting a Triangular Distribution to Bivariate Data

= 50, degree = 1)) ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it." - J

Re: [R] How to optimize function parameters?

If you can somehow add the sign of the output to the root square error, nlm, nlminb, and many options within optimx accept bounds. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "I

Re: [R] How to optimize function parameters?

mx' serves as a wrapper to many optimization algorithms and offers methods to compare them side-by-side. Good luck, Jon ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room st

Re: [R] Alter plot point size by value of the plot value

Assuming your plot values are X and Y: cex.val <- 1 + (Y < 1E-6)*.5 - (Y > 1E-3)*.5 plot(X, Y, cex = cex.val) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room sti

Re: [R] Integrate two function in R

As a minor plug for my favorite non stat-based mathematics software, sagemath also has a rudimentary R interface built-in -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room

Re: [R] Help about nlminb function

alues. Try changing parametres[,3] -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what&

Re: [R] Help about nlminb function

having variables on very different scales. Since you did not follow the posting guide (important part *'d below), my only suggestion is to ?nlminb -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724

Re: [R] Integration with LaTex and LyX

?Sweave LyX is a bit harder, although you can probably export LyX docs to a *.tex and Sweave those fairly painlessly. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room st

Re: [R] More elegant magnitude method

What a brain fart... Thanks! -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what&

[R] More elegant magnitude method

nction(x){ + length(charToRaw(format(trunc(x), scientific = F)))-1} > a <- 123456789 > b <- 1E15 > c <- 12.345 > scl(a) [1] 8 > scl(b) [1] 15 > scl(c) [1] 1 Thanks ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Lee

Re: [R] string

?paste collapse = T may be necessary. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or

Re: [R] Optimize multiple variable sets

returned x issue, you are correct that it is a 'tol' issue: reducing tol to something reasonably low approximates the min fairly well. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 &q

Re: [R] Optimize multiple variable sets

me as x^2 + 1*x, at x = 0. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's

Re: [R] rpart results - problem after oversampling

them now. So the choice of which 6 to split is arbitrary. (Someone with more knowledge of rpart's guts feel free to correct me). -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "I

Re: [R] Sequence for repeated numbers

a frame. Such as: > dat <- data.frame(ID, grade) > dat <- dat[order(grade),] ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,

Re: [R] Two dimensional Array defined on intevals

Does this work for you? g <- function(x,y) ifelse(x < .5, 0, 2) + ifelse(y < .5, 1, 2) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its e

Re: [R] Population abundance, change point

akin to tree outputs than piecewise regression outputs. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have pu

Re: [R] Population abundance, change point

. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it." - Jubal

Re: [R] Check for is.object

I think you want the function ?exists >if(!exists("NewObject")) ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,

Re: [R] question about constraint minimization

Does ?constrOptim look as though it will handle your needs? -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself

Re: [R] predict() an rpart() model: how to ignore missing levels in a factor

(UNTESTED): > test.set <- test.set[test.set$crop %in% original.set$crop,] ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thin

Re: [R] help on IDE

, in some cases, a custom "Run" command. Linux systems also often ship language specific IDEs with dependency checks on R, but not always. ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 7

Re: [R] Population abundance, change point

. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it.&quo

Re: [R] Population abundance, change point

r, knots = X, degree = 1), tau = 0.8) > plot(year, count) > lines(year, fitted(fit)) ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the

Re: [R] Anyone can help with this question

assuming your data takes the form of locationlatitudelongitude string num num string2 num num try: sub <- dat[sample.int(length(dat$location), 1000),] -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown R

Re: [R] Null values in R

Would ?is.null be what you are looking for? -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or

Re: [R] maptools package

bjects. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it.&quo

Re: [R] external R scripts

It would be possible to call other R scripts using calls to ?system or ?system2 and ?Rscript, provided you formatted what you passed as [args] and how your scripts handled [args]. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road

Re: [R] Random Sample

Use "set.seed()" -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what'

Re: [R] subsets, %in%

Any logical value can be negatively compared using ! does: subset(dat, !(dat$ID %in% someID)) provide what you need? -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room st

Re: [R] improve R memory under linux

ell you it can't allocate an object of size .02. ------ Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpo

Re: [R] cross-validation for choosing regression trees

27;, as they may be more informative. ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, wh

Re: [R] programming questions

For data frames you can also use with() in your example: with(d, exists("z")) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does

Re: [R] optim works on command-line but not inside a function

. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it." - Jubal Early, Firefly From: Damo

Re: [R] memory allocation problem

s well as the number of steps needed. Good luck! ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose?

Re: [R] R script on linux?

created executable, in which case the terminal command chmod +x "myscript.R" will do it. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty

Re: [R] R script on linux?

What is the error message? -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what'

Re: [R] Possible memory leak in loop.

Thank you, I will give that a try. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, w

[R] Possible memory leak in loop.

emB <- memory.size() memA returns as 9.3, and memB returns 11.3. I'm not familiar with fluctuation patterns in RAM usage (if there are any). Does anyone with more experience know if this is indicative of a memory leak? Thanks, Jon -- Jonath

Re: [R] Best IDE for R

USB stick with ease. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the wor

Re: [R] Best IDE for R

I noticed that nabble link presented Notepad++ as having to copy/paste into the editor. There is a companion to NP++, though, that allows line/file passing directly to an R console, auto-completion, and a bunch of other goodies called NppToR. -- Jonathan P

Re: [R] Zoom in in a plot

In that case you may wish to look into the rggobi package, which provides an R interface to the ggobi tools. I haven't used it much, but it has a lot of interactive options. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown

Re: [R] anomalies with the loess() function

?loess use this instead: fit <- loess(b~a) lines(a, predict(fit)) -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thin

Re: [R] Zoom in in a plot

I think that this would be possible if you save the graph to a scalable format. Try looking into: ?postscript ?xfig ?pdf -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room

Re: [R] Reading in a tab delimitated file

Right, I forgot to mention to use header = T. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose?

Re: [R] Reading in a tab delimitated file

A call to read.table(..., sep = "", ...) reads in any length of whitespace as the delimiter. On your sample text it read in a 2 column dataframe. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430

Re: [R] lowess() won't handle NAs

Try using the loess() function instead - it has an "na.action" parameter that should be able to handle your problem. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is t

[R] Passing rq models to Fstats

uot; object where the function assumes a "lm". Has anyone had this issue? ---------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, th