Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/23/2009 10:07 PM, William Simpson wrote: Thanks Jim. BTW the times in x and y are in ascending order (time of occurrence). If I do it this way, how do I actually read the data in and store in the file? Toy code, please. Hi Bill, This seems a bit like some heartbeat data that I had to de

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/23/2009 10:07 PM, William Simpson wrote: Thanks Jim. BTW the times in x and y are in ascending order (time of occurrence). If I do it this way, how do I actually read the data in and store in the file? Toy code, please. Hi Bill, This seems a bit like some heartbeat data that I had to

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread William Simpson
OK thanks, I look at sleep and get it Bill On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > William Simpson wrote: >>> As I understand it, they don't come in pairs anyway. >> Correct. >> >>> For the same reason >>> a data frame is just the wrong kind of data structure. If you don't want

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
William Simpson wrote: >> As I understand it, they don't come in pairs anyway. > Correct. > >> For the same reason >> a data frame is just the wrong kind of data structure. If you don't want >> separate data files, you can use one file with two columns where the >> second column is (say) 1 for the

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread William Simpson
Thanks Jim. BTW the times in x and y are in ascending order (time of occurrence). If I do it this way, how do I actually read the data in and store in the file? Toy code, please. Bill > > Hi Bill, > > xy<-list(x=1:10,y=1:100) > > Note that this cheerfully ignores how you are going to figure out

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread William Simpson
> As I understand it, they don't come in pairs anyway. Correct. > For the same reason > a data frame is just the wrong kind of data structure. If you don't want > separate data files, you can use one file with two columns where the > second column is (say) 1 for the x and 2 for the y. Could you ex

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread William Simpson
The way you do it is to compute the cross-intensity function (you can google this; a key name is David Brillinger). The general problem is that of system identification for point processes. Bill On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: > On 10/23/2009 07:58 PM, William Simpson wrote: >

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Jim Lemon wrote: > On 10/23/2009 07:58 PM, William Simpson wrote: >> I am running an expt that presents a point process input x and >> measures a point process output y. The times of each event are >> recorded. The lengths of the data records of x and y are necessarily >> different, and can be diff

Re: [R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/23/2009 07:58 PM, William Simpson wrote: I am running an expt that presents a point process input x and measures a point process output y. The times of each event are recorded. The lengths of the data records of x and y are necessarily different, and can be different by a factor of 10. I wo

[R] data file with columns of unequal length

2009-10-23 Thread William Simpson
I am running an expt that presents a point process input x and measures a point process output y. The times of each event are recorded. The lengths of the data records of x and y are necessarily different, and can be different by a factor of 10. I would like to save these data after each experiment