Re: [R] Getting started help

2008-02-19 Thread gatemaze
Hi, if I may further add it would be very helpful if you get a book on R from your library... the introductory chapters should be very much helpful as all of them start on how to simply start R, load your data files, etc etc The deepness and power of R is well beyond any other software, but yo

Re: [R] Which package to install?

2008-02-19 Thread gatemaze
Hi, well if there is no binary it seems you have to recompile from source... >From the R FAQ: 2.5.1 How can R be installed (Unix) If R is already installed, it can be started by typing R at the shell prompt (of course, provided that the executable is in your path). If binaries are available for

Re: [R] fitted values are different from manually calculating

2008-02-19 Thread gatemaze
Thank you all for your help. Apologies for not giving an example. model.matrix was useful as comparing that table with the one from the spreadsheet showed the "mispell". On 19/02/2008, Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2008 8:41 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > on a simpl

[R] fitted values are different from manually calculating

2008-02-19 Thread gatemaze
Hello, on a simple linear model the values produced from the fitted(model) function are difference from manually calculating on calc. Will anyone have a clue... or any insights on how fitted function calculates the values? Thank you. -- -- Yianni [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

[R] wilcox.test help

2007-11-09 Thread gatemaze
Hi, I am performing a paired wilcox.test (ie wilcoxon signed ranked test) on two samples for testing if they are similar. 1. I would like to test whether they are similar not at point 0 difference rather than on a more flexible, ie if they differ by more than 5 units let's say. Is this possible to