Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread jwd
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:06:35 -0500 Oliver Keyes wrote: > +1. And frankly I would like to suggest that there is another obvious > solution here; pairing a set of guidelines around expected user > behaviour with removing people from the mailing list, or moderating > them, if they do not think that

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread jwd
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:33:12 -0800 Hasan Diwan wrote: > There exists a fine line between being unintentionally rude, but > helpful and purposely putting someone down. -- H The line is really not "fine" at all since it lies in that word "purposely." Also, you've associated "helpful" with uninten

Re: [R] Regular R freezes

2015-12-22 Thread jwd
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:13:07 +0100 Tim Richter-Heitmann wrote: > Dear List, > > some days ago my R started to regularily freezes, especially during > these operations: > > mso(,permutations=999), package vegan > anova.cca(), package vegan > forward.sel(), package packfor > > I am running R on

Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

2015-12-16 Thread jwd
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:16:21 -0800 John Kane wrote: ... > > I have lived next door to the USA for most of my life and never > realized that American usage is 'brackets' for [ ] . I would use > the term brackets in normal use for ( ) and "square brackets for [ ]. > ... There's a lot of fog in

Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded.

2015-12-16 Thread jwd
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:34:20 -0600 Hadley Wickham wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler > wrote: > > > > > >[] > > > > > You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot() > > > command. Just finish with a ')' > > > > Hmm... I once learned > > > >

Re: [R] CRAN - Package "activity" - how do you convert time (hh:mm) into radians in R 3.1.2 on Windows 7 OS 64bit

2015-11-04 Thread jwd
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 09:02:46 +0100 Martin Maechler wrote: > > Bert Gunter > > on Tue, 3 Nov 2015 14:54:46 -0800 writes: > > > ... should have said: with a 24 hour "clock". > > -- Bert > > Bert Gunter > > Hmm, thank you Bert. > > I know nothing about measuring time in r

Re: [R] Unable to run RcmdrPlugin.survival using 3.2.2 with Windows 10

2015-09-04 Thread jwd
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:07:19 +1000 "Joyaa Antares" wrote: > Dear John, > > Very many thanks. Your hypothesis was completely correct - I did > save the workspace, and this is what created the problem. As a > newbie, being part way through an "exercise", saving my workspace > intuitively seemed

Re: [R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?

2015-07-05 Thread jwd
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 11:09:54 +0300 Federico Calboli wrote: > Hi All, > > I am upgrading a package for CRAN, and I get this note: > > checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE > Malformed Description field: should contain one or more complete > sentences. > > This is puzzling because: > >

Re: [R] not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file

2015-03-20 Thread jwd
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:00:18 -0400 Nicole Ford wrote: > Hello, > > I recently updated to the newest version of R and I am encountering > issues. Please find my error and session info below. My data are > attached. I have tried the readstata13 package just in case to no > avail. Unless I am m

Re: [R] R vs. RStudio?

2015-01-11 Thread jwd
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:22:56 -0500 Boris Steipe wrote: > Could someone kindly enlighten me whether there are currently > advantages to use R Studio vs. the normal R GUI? On the Mac I can't > seem to find anything compelling, on Windows (which I don't use > myself) I noticed last year that there s

Re: [R] Can not save files

2015-01-02 Thread jwd
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:29:05 -0500 "John Sorkin" wrote: > When I try to save a file, I get "Permission denied". > Can someone let me know why this happens? > > > I am running under Windows 7, Rstudio > > > > save(TheResults,file="c:\\data") You are explicitly attempting to place a file name

Re: [R] Rose Diagrams for Geology

2014-11-21 Thread jwd
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:06:03 -0600 David Doyle wrote: > Thank you to David and David for their help. The code below > generated what I needed. > > > library(circular) > mydata <- read.table("http://doylesdartden.com/R/Joints.csv";, > header=TRUE, sep=",",) > x <- circular(mydata$JointsRad) > r

Re: [R] R/Ubuntu, “package ‘stats’ in options(”defaultPackages“) was not found”

2014-09-19 Thread jwd
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:28:42 -0400 "davide.chi...@gmail.com" wrote: > I tried with a different mirror, but nothing changed... > > Any other idea? > > Thanks anyway > > -- Davide What is the output of library()? JWDougherty __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] Why does debugging print() change output of function?

2014-09-06 Thread jwd
On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:31:49 -0700 David Winsemius wrote: The only other difference I see is a missing semicolon in the second example, which, in the first precedes your print() instruction. JWDougherty __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat

Re: [R] converting dataframe into multiple time series

2014-08-24 Thread jwd
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:52:35 +0900 Bill wrote: > Hello. Can someone suggest how to do this: > > for (i in 2:length(colnames(allvar.df))) { > var=colnames(allvar.df)[i] > timeSeriesName = paste(var,".time.series") > varRef=paste(var,".df$",var) > varDate=paste(var,".df$date") > timeSeriesName <-

Re: [R] Installation of R version 3.1.0

2014-08-14 Thread jwd
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:15:58 -0400 VG wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I am currently using *R version 3.0.0 RC (2013-03-28 r62434) -- > "Masked Marvel"* > > I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS- the Lucid Lynx. > > I downloaded the tar.gz of R 3.1.0 under my Downloads folder. > I changed my directory to Downlo

[R] Update fail

2014-07-14 Thread jwd
I've been getting of an "R-patched" update, but running the process results in the following: File './x86_64/R-patched-devel-3.1.1-4.1.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/patched/openSUSE_13.1/' The system is opensuse 13.1, Linux 3.11.1

Re: [R] Paper on Analytics using R

2014-07-10 Thread jwd
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:17:23 +0800 Katherine Gobin wrote: > Dear R Forum, > > I am looking for some write-up or paper on Use of R for Analytics or > why R should be preferred over others for Analytics purpose. Tried > google but got some info about some commercial vendors using R for > analytics

Re: [R] C: drive memory full

2014-06-17 Thread jwd
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:48:54 + "Hiyoshi, Ayako" wrote: > Dear Martyn and Professor Ripley, > > Thank you so much for your help. I used Window's large file search > (it was useful! thank you), but there is no big files detected in C: > drive . Perhaps I will have to reinstall Windows.. > The

Re: [R] distance by sea

2014-06-07 Thread jwd
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 14:58:11 +0200 Giulia Fassio wrote: > Hello, > > someone know if it is possible to use R to calculate distance by sea > between two geographic coordinates? I have many points in the sea and > I want to create a matrix using R of the length of trajectories that > pass only trou

Re: [R] dev-lang/R-3.1.0: biocLite("vsn") removes all files in /

2014-05-18 Thread jwd
On Sun, 18 May 2014 07:16:46 +0200 Juergen Rose wrote: What disappeared are links and three files. The links are recreatable, although they would be better placed in user space rather than under /. Of the three files, the *bz2 appears to be part of a Gentoo release, the second a grub configurat

Re: [R] Saving the ouput data

2014-05-18 Thread jwd
Or you can try help(sink). JWDougherty __ 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, reprodu

Re: [R] how to replace values

2014-01-20 Thread jwd
4 5 $ age: num 38 35 NA NA NA SO, the question, is what do you want to do with that column? An "NA" value tells you honestly that the information is missing. Replacing it with a zero can be misleading and can bias some basic parameter estimates. After you know how you want to t

Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2014-01-02 Thread jwd
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:51:06 -0500 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: ... > > The assignment operator is TWO characters: a less than sign > immediately followed by a minus sign. Try copying and pasting this: > > x <- 3 > x > Actually, you can use the = sign as well. X = 3 works the same as X <- 3

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go

2014-01-02 Thread jwd
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:42:53 -0500 David Parkhurst wrote: > I have several variables in a data frame that aren't listed by ls() > after I attach that data frame. Where did they go, and how can I > stop the hidden ones from masking the local ones? > Thanks for any help. > David > You really nee

Re: [R] Help with removing extra legend elements in ggplot

2013-11-24 Thread jwd
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:44:11 -0700 Matthew Van Scoyoc wrote: You want to consider this as a programming bug in your code. Executing each line sequentially shows that the problem appears in the second line: nmds.fig + geom_point(aes(color = VegType, shape = VegType, size = 10)) ?aes() and ?geom

Re: [R] Bar Graph

2013-11-12 Thread jwd
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:02:19 +0300 Keniajin Wambui wrote: > I am using R 3.0.2 on a 64 bit machine > > I have a data set from 1989-2002. The data has four variables > serialno, date, admission ward, temperature and bcg scar. > > serialno admin_ward date_admn bcg_scar temp_axilla yr > 70162W

Re: [R] Help on error (Error: could not find function "kernelUD")

2013-11-06 Thread jwd
On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:22:26 -0700 "Angela Dwyer" wrote: You didn't forget to load the library did you? The bit of output you provide doesn't show a "library(adehabitat)" line. That needs to be run before the function can be found. JWDougherty __ R-h

Re: [R] pie graphs in log scale axis

2013-10-28 Thread jwd
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:03:36 -0700 jwd wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:40:51 + > "Ortiz, John" wrote: ... > > > It is not clear what you want. Why is there an 'x = "log"' term in > plot()? If you want to plot log(x) try usin

Re: [R] pie graphs in log scale axis

2013-10-28 Thread jwd
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:40:51 + "Ortiz, John" wrote: > > Dear list users, > > > I'm doing a plot integrating Grid output with Base Graphics output > (gridBase, Murrell 2012). > > My goal is to produce a xy plot where each point is represented by a > pie. I could get it using the attach co

Re: [R] Code Book from SPSS Data

2013-10-27 Thread jwd
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Peter Maclean wrote: It's not fully clear what you need, but, as I very vaguely recall, the code book in SPSS provided labels for what are called levels in "factors" in R, which are categorical variables. Try: "??categorical" at the prompt for starters.

Re: [R] Quick advice on loading packages

2013-10-22 Thread jwd
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:32:17 -0400 "Data Analytics Corp." wrote: > Hi, > > I need some quick advice/help on loading packages. I want to write a > simple function to load a number of packages I intend to use at a > conference presentation. I'm thinking of something like: > > fn.

Re: [R] error installing ggm package

2013-08-27 Thread jwd
Lianne, "graph" can be found here: http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/ You will need to read the bioconductor instructions. If you visit the R Project CRAN site, you can find packages there. Each package will have an associated description and a list of "depends" which are other packag

Re: [R] data import: strange experience

2013-08-22 Thread jwd
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:35:53 -0400 SH wrote: It looks like your problem has already been answered, however, as a rule of thumb anytime you see a peculiarity like this you should look for minor variations between what you expected to export and what Excel really exported as delimited text. Occasi

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread jwd
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 02:56:56 -0500 Paul Bernal wrote: Paul, I would suggest acquiring at least a small library of of books about R and reading them. I would recommend An Introduction to R and R Data Import/Export (both available online on the R Project Site in both pdf and HTML), Introductory S

Re: [R] Windows 7 (Swedish): 'Rcmd INSTALL' fails (SOLVED)

2013-07-21 Thread jwd
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:16:54 +1200 Rolf Turner wrote: ... > > "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.1\library" ? > > > > This is of course a very minor problem, since I never do anything > > useful on Windows machines. > > Fortune candidate? > Seconded. JWDougherty __

Re: [R] Fwd: Problem with ODBC connection

2013-06-10 Thread jwd
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:19:14 +0545 Christofer Bogaso wrote: Any real answer would be contingent on a reader being provided a reproducible example. Since you don't provide that, there's not a lot of point to an answer. However, to tilt at a windmill, depending on the size and complexity of your da