Re: [R] Confusing concept of vector and matrix in R

2010-03-30 Thread lith
> Reframe the problem. Rethink why you need to keep dimensions. I never ever > had to use drop. The problem is that the type of the return value changes if you happen to forget to use drop = FALSE, which can easily turn into a nightmare: m <- matrix(1:20, ncol=4) for (i in seq(3, 1, -1)) { p

Re: [R] R output to Rich Text Format

2010-03-18 Thread lith
> Hi,  Does anyone know of an existing package that will output to rtf?   > Something along the lines of pdf(ds,'file.pdf') or write.csv(ds,'file.csv'). You could use odfWeave and then use OpenOffice to generate an RTF file. Regards, Tom __ R-help@r-pr

Re: [R] odfWeave Error

2010-03-17 Thread lith
> I am following an example from online and am getting the following error: > ."Error unizipping fileunzip not found". Are zip and unzip in your path? If not you could use odfWeaveControl. Example: odfctrl <- odfWeaveControl( zipCmd = c("h:/bin/zip.exe -r $$file$$ .", "h:/bin/unzip.e

Re: [R] dot-dot-dot as an actual argument

2010-02-19 Thread lith
> I could not find any documentation of how dot-dot-dot works when used > as an argument in a function call (rather than as a formal argument in > a definition). You might also be interested in other thread regarding this problem: http://groups.google.com/group/r-help-archive/msg/5c6ea5eb593337b4

Re: [R] ellipsis-related error: used in an incorrect context, no ... to look in

2010-02-19 Thread lith
Does nobody have an advice concerning that problem? If it is a FAQ, I'd appreciate a pointer to a discussion of this issue. With the docs accessible to me, I wasn't able to solve that problem. >     require(lattice) >     f.barchart <- function(...) { >         barchart(..., >             panel =

[R] ellipsis-related error: used in an incorrect context, no ... to look in

2010-02-16 Thread lith
Hi, I have the following code snippet: require(lattice) f.barchart <- function(...) { barchart(..., panel = function(x, y, ...) { panel.barchart(x, y, ...) } ) } x <- data.frame(a = c(1,1,2,2), b = c(1,2,3,4), c = c(1,2,2,1)

Re: [R] question on sqldf syntax

2010-01-25 Thread lith
On 25 Jan., 20:26, GL wrote: > Actually, better sql would likely be: > > dbs.final <- sqldf("select * from dbs.possible.combos left join > dbs.aggregate using (Date,Place)") > > but this still doesn't work I'd suspect name mangling to cause the problem: http://code.google.com/p/sqldf/#2._Why_does

Re: [R] lattice: How to display no box but only a y-axis on the left + Thicker lines

2009-09-30 Thread lith
> Yes. You can get back the tick marks with scaless$col: Thanks for the hint. May I kindly ask what would be the easiest way to draw a line on the left side? Thanks, Tom __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] lattice: How to display no box but only a y-axis on the left + Thicker lines

2009-09-18 Thread lith
> 1.) How do I make lattice (e.g. barchart) to not draw a box but only a > y-axis on the left hand side so that the plot looks like barplot with > default settings? Does nobody have an idea? Or is the solution that obvious? __ R-help@r-project.org maili

[R] lattice: How to display no box but only a y-axis on the left + Thicker lines

2009-09-16 Thread lith
Hi, I have two somewhat embarassing questions about the lattice-related plot functions: 1.) How do I make lattice (e.g. barchart) to not draw a box but only a y-axis on the left hand side so that the plot looks like barplot with default settings? So that the following two code snippets look more