Re: [R] how to connect to a remote PostgreSQL database from R on mac osx

2010-10-20 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Simone Gabbriellini wrote: > Hello List, > > I would like to connect to a postgreSQL database on a remote server and I am > wondering what is the best package to do that. I have just installed RpgSQL, > RPostgreSQL, Rdbi and RODBC. I have used RPostgreSQL in the

Re: [R] lattice xyplot - formatting of multiple Y variables when using subgroups

2010-10-17 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Coen van Hasselt wrote: > Hi all, > > Using xyplot I want to print to Y variables (y1, y2) versus X, conditional > on the group. > How can I obtain a line (type="l") for one relationship (ie. y1 ~ x) and > points (type="p") for the other (y2 ~ x) ? > > library(lat

[R] kernlab:ksvm:eps-svr: bug?

2010-09-24 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Hi, A. In a nutshell: The training error, obtained as "error (ret)", from the return value of a ksvm () call for a eps-svr model is (likely) being computed wrongly. "nu-svr" and "eps-bsvr" suffer from this as well. I am attaching three files: (1) ksvm.R from the the kernlab package, un-edited, (2

Re: [R] lattice: option to sort x when type = l

2010-07-26 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Prasenjit Kapat wrote: >> Hi, >> >> (please Cc me) >> >> In xyplot (), type = "l" (or one that includes "l", *el*) is >> (generally) meaningfu

[R] lattice: option to sort x when type = l

2010-07-26 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Hi, (please Cc me) In xyplot (), type = "l" (or one that includes "l", *el*) is (generally) meaningful only when the 'x' variable is sorted. In practice, one either sorts the data frame before hand or writes a tiny panel function which sorts the supplied x and then calls the default panel.xyplot(

[R] Trouble using Ecdf () from the Hmisc library

2010-04-30 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Hello: [Kindly Cc when replying] The question in a nutshell is this: Is there a more robust alternative to Ecdf ()? The details: I've used Ecdf () _a lot_ over the past few years and I have learned to live with its warnings. But I am running short on time and patience now [*] Here is a reproduc

Re: [R] spectral decomposition for near-singular pd matrices

2008-07-16 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Moshe Olshansky yahoo.com> writes: > How large is your matrix? Right now I am looking at sizes between 30x30 to 150x150, though it will increase in future. > Are the very small eigenvalues well separated? > > If your matrix is not very small and the lower eigenvalues are clustered, this may

[R] spectral decomposition for near-singular pd matrices

2008-07-16 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Hi, I have a matrix M, quite a few (< 1/4th) of its eigen values are of O(10^-16). Analytically I know that M is positive definite, but numerically of course it is not. Some of the small (O(10^-16)) eigen values (as obtained from eigen()) are negative. It is the near-singularity that is causing th

Re: [R] what does "size" of a plotting character mean?

2007-10-04 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Hi, Thank you Prof Ripley for the response. On 10/4/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Prasenjit Kapat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > plot(1,1, cex=2) means that the size of the plotting character (empty > > circle in this case

[R] what does "size" of a plotting character mean?

2007-10-04 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Hi, plot(1,1, cex=2) means that the size of the plotting character (empty circle in this case) is double the default size. Now my question is: What characteristic of the symbol (circle) is double? Is it the area or the diameter? What if the symbol is not a circle, what is the generic meaning of