Re: [R] Count function calls

2013-03-07 Thread Simon Zehnder
Dear Giovanni, apologize for this late reply! I was testing and reading a lot of stuff. I tried your suggestions and the problem of singularity in the regressor cross product vanishes when using the Group Mean function 'pgm' instead of 'pvcm'. Nevertheless, I found the collinearity in the regre

Re: [R] Count function calls

2013-02-27 Thread Simon Zehnder
Dear WIlliam, thank you very much for this very useful information! I learned something new! Enjoy your day! Simon On Feb 27, 2013, at 1:40 AM, William Dunlap wrote: > This is where <<- is helpful: >> N <- 0 ; trace(solve, quote(N <<- N + 1), print=FALSE) > Tracing function "solve" in pack

Re: [R] Count function calls

2013-02-26 Thread William Dunlap
This is where <<- is helpful: > N <- 0 ; trace(solve, quote(N <<- N + 1), print=FALSE) Tracing function "solve" in package "base" [1] "solve" > lapply(3:0, function(i)solve(diag(i,3), 1:3)) Error in solve.default(diag(i, 3), 1:3) : Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singul

Re: [R] count() function

2012-04-06 Thread Christopher R. Dolanc
Yes, I just tried the length() function and it worked beautifully. Thank you. On 4/5/2012 6:01 PM, William Dunlap wrote: I think you are looking for the function called length(). I cannot recreate your output, since I don't know what is in NZ_Conifers, but with the built-in dataset mtcars I ge

Re: [R] count() function

2012-04-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Christopher R. Dolanc wrote: I keep expecting R to have something analogous to the =count function in Excel, but I can't find anything. I simply want to count the data for a given category. I've been using the ddply() function in the plyr package to summarize

Re: [R] count() function

2012-04-05 Thread William Dunlap
I think you are looking for the function called length(). I cannot recreate your output, since I don't know what is in NZ_Conifers, but with the built-in dataset mtcars I get: > ddply(mtcars, .(cyl,gear,carb), summarize, MeanWt=mean(wt), N=length(wt)) cyl gear carb MeanWt N 143