[R] seeking alternative method to copy a large section of my R program

2014-02-22 Thread Julie Royster
Is there any way I can insert markers at the beginning and end of a large section of R statements and then copy all text in between to clipboard? I have trouble scrolling to select long sections, so if there is another way I would like to know it! Julie (for husband Larry) [[alternative

[R] names error message

2013-12-02 Thread Julie Royster
Hello wise R folks, I ran a job to combine 2 dataframes using rbind. I received this error message that the names were not the same Error in match.names(clabs,names(xi)): names do not match previous names BUT when I entered this statement Identical (names(data1[[1]]),names(data2[[2]]) ) R res

[R] Windows Vista computer will not use changes I made to R console file

2013-06-01 Thread Julie Royster
My newer laptop died so I installed R on an older Vista laptop. I did follow the online instructions about giving myself full control under the R properties security tab. I made changes in the R console file under the etc folder to use bold type in color Black, but it is not doing what I ask. I am

[R] seeking tip to keep first of multiple observations per ID

2013-03-15 Thread Julie Royster
Dear R community, I am a neophyte and I cannot figure out how to accomplish keeping only the first record for each ID in a data.frame that has assorted numbers of records per ID. I studied and found references to packages plyr and sql for R, and I fear the documentation for those was over my head