Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-16 Thread Mark Difford
Hi willemf, Glad to hear that it helped. Years ago (late-90s) I Linuxed, but have since been forced into the Windows environment (where, however, I have the great pleasure of being able to use MiKTeX and LyX, i.e. TeX/LaTeX). I therefore can't help you further, except to say that I have never ha

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-16 Thread Mark Difford
ation, it's not possible to help further. Of course, you could send me the data and a script showing how you want it plotted, and I would send you a PDF in return, showing you what R can do ;). HTH, Mark. Mark Difford wrote: > > Hi willemf, > > Glad to hear that it helped.

Re: [R] help with bivariate density plot question

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Daniela, Spencer (? Graves) is not at home. Seriously, this is a list that many people read and use. If you wish to elicit a response, then you would be wise to give a better statement of what your difficulty is. The function you enquire about is well documented with an example, see ## libra

Re: [R] calculate differences - strange outcome

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Andreas, It's because you are dealing with binary or floating point calculations, not just a few apples and oranges, or an abacus (which, by the way, is an excellent calculating device, and still widely used in some [sophisticated] parts of the world). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_po

Re: [R] Newbie's question about lm

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Ptit, >> I would like to fit data with the following formula : >> y=V*(1+alpha*(x-25)) >> where y and x are my data, V is a constant and alpha is the slope I'm >> looking for. Priorities first: lm() or ordinary least-square regression is a basically a method for finding the best-fitting strai

Re: [R] R version 2.7.1 (warnings)

2008-07-19 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jaap, With all those packages loading it could take some time, unless it's a known problem (?). Why don't you do a vanilla start (add switch --vanilla to startup) and do some simple core-related stuff. Then add packages one-by-one... Or: search through the source code of the packages for the

Re: [R] R version 2.7.1 (warnings)

2008-07-20 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jaap, Great stuff! As the old adage went, "Go well, go " Bye, Mark. Van Wyk, Jaap wrote: > > Thanks, Mark, for the response. > The problem is vith SciViews. It is not stable under the latest version of > R. > I found a solution by downloading the latest version of Tinn-R, which > commu

Re: [R] Decoding subscripts/superscripts from CSVs

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Nina, > Subscripts, superscripts, and italics are encoded in carats, and I was > wondering > if R can actually recognize those and print actual superscripts, etc. > Here's an example: I know that ladies are fond of diamonds (perhaps you mean carets?); though it isn't quite clear what you wan

Re: [R] Accessing individual variables from summary of lm

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Ben, Sorry (still a little out-of-tune), perhaps what you really need to know about is ?"[" HTH, Mark. Mark Difford wrote: > > Hi Ben, > >> If you wouldn't mind, how do I access the individual components inside >> coefficients matrix? > >

Re: [R] Accessing individual variables from summary of lm

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Ben, > If you wouldn't mind, how do I access the individual components inside > coefficients matrix? What you want to know about is ?attributes ## attributes(model) model$coefficients model$coefficients[1] model$coefficients[2:4] model$coefficients[c(1,5)] HTH, Mark. ascentnet wrote: > >

Re: [R] Coefficients of Logistic Regression from bootstrap - how to get them?

2008-07-23 Thread Mark Difford
Hi All, It really comes down to a question of attitude: you either want to learn something fundamental or core and so bootstrap yourself to a "better" place (at least away from where you are), or you don't. As Marc said, Michal seems to have erected a wall around his thinking. I don't think it's

Re: [R] Histogram

2008-07-23 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Angelo, Look carefully at package vcd; and at log-linear models (+ glm(..., family=poisson)). For overdispersion there are more advanced methods. HTH, Mark. Angelo Scozzarella wrote: > > Hi, > > how can I treat data organised in classes and frequencies? > > Ex. > > class frequen

Re: [R] Just 2 more questions - for now!

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Robin, >> I ... can't get lm to work despite reading the help. I can get it to work >> with a single >> explanatory variable, EG model <- lm(data$admissions~data$maxitemp) I'll answer just the second of your questions. Advice: don't just read the help file, look at the examples and run them;

Re: [R] factor question

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Edna, Because I am "always" subsetting, I keep the following function handy mydata[] <- lapply(mydata, function(x) if(is.factor(x)) x[,drop=T] else x) This will strip out all factor levels that have been dropped by a previous subsetting operation. For novice users of R (though I am not sugge

Re: [R] R-package install

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Cindy, >> Hi, I have a R package, which is a .tar.tar file. And it is said to be >> source code for all >> platforms. ... I am wondering if I can use this package in Windows R. If it is source code you would first need to compile it to binary format before you can use it. Can you do that? W

Re: [R] extracting Pr>ltl from robcov/ols (Design)

2008-07-25 Thread Mark Difford
ldb (?), >> I am trying to extract significance levels out of a robcov+ols call >> However, I can't figure out how to get to the significance (Pr>ltl). >> It is obviously calculating it because the call: It's calculated in print.ols(). See extract below. To see the whole function, do print.

Re: [R] Beginning lm

2008-07-26 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Kevin, >> Can anyone give me a short tutorial on the formula syntax? ... I am sorry >> but I could not >> glean this information from the help page on lm. You can give yourself a very good tutorial by reading ?formula and Chapter 12 of file://localhost/C:/Program%20Files/R/R-2.7.1pat/doc/ma

Re: [R] A easy way to write formula

2008-07-27 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jinsong and Thierry, >> (x1 + x2 + x3) ^2 will give you the main effects and the interactions. Although it wasn't specifically requested it is perhaps important to note that (...)^2 doesn't expand to give _all_ interaction terms, only interactions to the second order, so the interaction term

Re: [R] graphing regression coefficients and standard errors

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Murali, >> I am interested in plotting my regression analysis results(regression >> coefficients and >> standard errors obtained through OLS and Tobit models) in the form of >> graphs. plot(obj$lm) will give you a set of diagnostic plots. What you seem to be after is ?termplot. Also look at

Re: [R] multiv

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Ileana, See this thread: http://www.nabble.com/R-package-install-td18636993.html HTH, Mark. Somesan, Ileana wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I want to install the package "multiv" which is not maintained any >> more (found in the archive: multiv_1.1-6.tar.gz from 16 July 2003). I >> have install

Re: [R] Help interpreting density().

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Kevin, >> The documentation indicates that the bw is essentially the sd. >> > d <- density(rnorm(1000)) Not so. The documentation states that the following about "bw": "The kernels are scaled such that this is the standard deviation of the smoothing kernel...," which is a very different thing

Re: [R] Help interpreting density().

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Difford
on and the interquartile range divided by 1.34 times > the sample size to the negative one-fifth power (= Silverman's ‘rule of > thumb’ > > But how does that relate to say a Poisson distribution or a two-parameter > distribution like a normal, beta, or binomial distributio

Re: [R] Help interpreting density().

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Difford
then... HTH, Mark. rkevinburton wrote: > > Sorry I tried WikiPedia and only found: > > Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. > > I will try to find some other sources of information. > > Kevin > > Mark Difford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [R] Re peated Measure ANOVA-Old question

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Chunhao, >> I google the website and I found that there are three ways to perform >> repeated measure ANOVA: aov, lme and lmer. It's also a good idea to search through the archives. >> I use the example that is provided in the above link and I try >> > tt<-aov(p.pa~group*time+Error(subject

Re: [R] Re peated Measure ANOVA-Old question

2008-07-30 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Chunhao, If you carefully read the posting that was referred to you will see that lme() and not lmer() was used as an example (for using with the multcomp package). lmer() was only mentioned as an aside... lmer() is S4 and doesn't work with multcomp, which is S3. Apropos of specifying random

Re: [R] Mixed effects model where nested factor is not the repeated across treatments lme???

2008-07-30 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Miki and Chunhao, << Rusers (Anna, and Mark {thank you guys}) provide me a vary valuable << information. Also see Gavin Simpson's posting earlier today: apparently multcomp does now work with lmer objects (it's gone through phases of not working, then working: it's still being developed). B

Re: [R] Coefficients of Logistic Regression from bootstrap - how to get them?

2008-07-31 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Michal, >> It is that you just don't estimate mean, or CI, or variance on PK profile >> data! >> It is as if you were trying to estimate mean, CI and variance of a >> "Toccata_&_Fugue_in_D_minor.wav" file. What for? The point is in the >> music! >> Would the mean or CI or variance tell you

Re: [R] contour lines in windows device but neither in pdf nor in postscript

2008-08-01 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Patrizio, >> # I can see contour lines in a window device but I can't see them in >> files pdftry.pdf and pstry.ps No problem with either format on my system, though I am using 2.7.1 patched. It's not mentioned as a bug fix for the patched version so surely was working in 2.7.1. Probably some

Re: [R] How to get the p-value from lmer on a longitudinal analysis

2008-08-01 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Ronaldo, ... lmer p-values There are two packages that may help you with this and that might work with the current implementation of lmer(). They are languageR and RLRsim. HTH, Mark. Bugzilla from [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a modelo like this: > > Yvar <- c(0, 0, 0, 0,

Re: [R] Lattice: Changing the names of conditional variables in strips to mathematical expressions

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Andrew, This does it as part of the call. I have increased the height of the strip and added italic for the second name only. densityplot(~density|type,data=Query,plot.points="jitter",ref=TRUE,width="sj", panel=function(x, ...){ panel.grid(h=-1, v=-1) panel.density

Re: [R] How do I get an inset graph (i.e. graph within a graph)?

2008-08-03 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Arthur, This can be done quite easily using the appropriate arguments listed under ?par; and there are other approaches. Ready-made functions exist in several packages. I tend to use ?add.scatter from package ade4. It's a short function, so it's easy to customize it, but it works well straight

Re: [R] subset inside a lattice plot using panel.lines

2008-08-04 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Michael, >> Pulling my hair out here trying to get something very simple to work. ... I can't quite see what you are trying to do [and I am not sure that you clearly state it], but you could make things easier and simpler by (1) creating a factor to identify your groups of rows more cleanly a

Re: [R] Is there any way to make pretty tables in R to pdf?

2008-08-04 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Arthur, >> I was wondering if there was a package that can make pretty R tables to >> pdf. You got through TeX/LateX, but PDF could be your terminus. Package Hmisc: ? summary.formula and its various arguments and options. You can't get much better. http://cran.za.r-project.org/doc/contrib/

Re: [R] Is there any way to make pretty tables in R to pdf?

2008-08-04 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Arthur, Sorry, sent you down the wrong track: this will help you to get there: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf Regards, Mark. Arthur Roberts wrote: > > Hi, all, > > All your comments have been very useful. I was wondering if there was > a package

Re: [R] re quest for fine panel axis controls in lattice

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Difford
Hi David, >> Specifically, within each panel, I want to set the limits for x and y >> equal to each other since it is paired data (using the max value of the >> two). In addition to the code Chuck Cleland sent you, you may want to "square" things up by adding the argument: aspect = "iso" before

Re: [R] Correlation dichotomous factor, continous (numerical) and ordered factor

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Birgitle, >> ... my variables are dichotomous factors, continuous (numerical) and >> ordered factors. ... >> Now I am confused what I should use to calculate the correlation using >> all my variables >> and how I could do that in R. Professor Fox's package polycor will do this for you in a ve

Re: [R] defining the distance between axis label and axis

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jörg, >> I haven't found anything in par()... No? Well don't bet your bottom $ on it (almost never in R). ?par (sub mgp). Mark. Jörg Groß wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I make the distance between an axis-label and the axis bigger? > > I haven't found anything in par()... > > _

Re: [R] Problems using hetcor (polycor)

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Birgitle, You need to get this right if someone is going to spend their time helping you. Your code doesn't work: You have specified more columns in colClasses than you have in the provided data set. > TestPart<-read.table("TestPart.txt", header=TRUE,row.names=1, > na.strings="NA" ,colClasses

Re: [R] Problems using hetcor (polycor)

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Birgitle, It seems to be failing on those columns that have just a single "entry" (i.e = 1, with the rest as 0; having just 1, an , and then 0s gets you through). And there are other reasons for failure (in the call to get a positive definite matrix). The main problem lies in the calculation

Re: [R] Problems using hetcor (polycor)

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Difford
ctor. >> >> This should work now >> >> library(methods) >> setClass("of") >> setAs("character", "of", function(from) as.ordered(from)) >> >> Classe72<-cclasses <- c(rep("factor", 55), rep("numeric"

Re: [R] Problems using hetcor (polycor)

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Difford
e to use all variables without > somehow imputing missing values. > > But I will try which variables I can finally use. > > Many thanks again. > > B. > > > Mark Difford wrote: >> >> Hi Birgitle, >> >> It seems to be failing on those columns th

Re: [R] Where is the archive? Calling a function within a function.

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Kevin, >> Where is the archive? Start with this: ?RSiteSearch HTH, Mark. rkevinburton wrote: > > I seem to remember this topic coming up before so I decided to look at the > archive and realized that I didn't know where it was. Is there a > searchable archive for this list? Thank you. >

Re: [R] Tick marks that correspond with bars on barplot

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Megan, >> I would like to have an X-axis where the labels for the years line up >> after every two bars >> in the plot (there is one bar for hardwood, and another for softwood). It isn't clear to me from your description what you really want (I found no attachment)? What you seem to be trying

Re: [R] [lme4]Coef output with binomial lmer

2008-08-09 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Tom, >> 1|ass%in%pop%in%fam This is "non-standard," but as you have found, it works. The correct translation is in fact 1|fam/pop/ass and not 1|ass/pop/fam as suggested by Harold Doran. Dropping %, ass%in%pop%in%fam reads [means] as: nest ass in pop [= pop/ass], and then nest this in fam ==

Re: [R] Simple lme/lmer random effects questions

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Brandon, >> ...is it sufficient to leave the values as they are or should I generate >> unique names for all >> combinations of sleeve number and temperature, using something like >> > data$sleeve.in.temp <- factor(with(data, temp:sleeve)[drop=TRUE]) You might be luckier posting this on htt

Re: [R] ylab with an exponent

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Difford
>> what is the problem? A solution is: plot(1,2, ylab=expression(paste("insects ", m^2))) The problem is very much more difficult to determine. stephen sefick wrote: > > plot(1,2, ylab= paste("insects", expression(m^2), sep=" ")) > > I get insects m^2 > I would like m to the 2 > > what is

Re: [R] before-after control-impact analysis with R

2008-08-18 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Nikolaos, >> My question again is: Why can't I reproduce the results? When I try a >> simple anova without any random factors: Lack of a "right" result probably has to do with the type of analysis of variance that is being done. The default in R is to use so-called Type I tests, for good rea

Re: [R] before-after control-impact analysis with R

2008-08-18 Thread Mark Difford
Hi ... Sorry, an "e" was erroneously "elided" from Ripley... Mark Difford wrote: > > Hi Nikolaos, > >>> My question again is: Why can't I reproduce the results? When I try a >>> simple anova without any random factors: > > La

Re: [R] Re lational Operators in Legend

2008-08-18 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Lorenzo, >> ...but I would like to write that 5<=k<=15. This is one way to do what you want plot(1,1) legend("topright", expression(paste(R[g]~k^{1/d[f]^{small}}~5<=k, {}<=15))) HTH, Mark. Lorenzo Isella wrote: > > Dear All, > I am sure that what I am asking can be solved by less than a

Re: [R] Re lational Operators in Legend

2008-08-18 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Lorenzo, I may (?) have left something out. It isn't clear what "~" is supposed to mean; perhaps it is just a spacer, or perhaps you meant the following: plot(1,1) legend("topright", expression(paste(R[g] %~~% k^{1/d[f]^{small}},~5<=k, {}<=15))) HTH, Mark

Re: [R] How to solve this problem ?

2008-08-21 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Daren, >> Small progress, ... m4 <- list(m1=m1, m2=m2, m3=m3) boxplot(m4) It's always a good idea to have a look at your data first (assuming you haven't). This shows that the reliable instrument is m2. HTH, Mark. Daren Tan wrote: > > > Small progress, I am relying on levene test to che

Re: [R] Test of Homogeneity of Variances

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Difford
Have you read the documentation to either of the functions you are using? ?bartlett.test "Performs Bartlett's test of the null that the variances in each of the groups (samples) are the same." This explicitly tells you what is being tested, i.e. the null tested is that var1 = var2. ?rnorm G

Re: [R] aov, lme, multcomp

2008-08-25 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Richard, >> The tests give different Fs and ps. I know this comes up every once in a >> while on R-help so I did my homework. I see from these two threads: This is not so, or it is not necessarily so. The error structure of your two models is quite different, and this is (one reason) why the

Re: [R] Two envelopes problem

2008-08-26 Thread Mark Difford
... To pick up on what Mark has said: it strikes me that this is related to the simplex, where the bounded nature of the vector space means that normal arithmetical operations (i.e. Euclidean) don't work---that is, they can be used, but the results are wrong. Covariances and correlations for inst

Re: [R] random error with lme for repeated measures anova

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jean-Pierre, A general comment is that I think you need to think more carefully about what you are trying to get out of your analysis. The random effects structure you are aiming for could be stretching your data a little thin. It might be a good idea to read through the archives of the R-sig

Re: [R] convert princomp output to equation for plane?

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Bill, >> Since x, y,and z all have measurement errors attached, the proper way >> to do the fit is with principal components analysis, and to use the >> first component (called loadings in princomp output). The easiest way for you to do this is to use the pcr [principal component regression

Re: [R] model II regression - how do I do it?

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Danilo, >> I need to do a model II linear regression, but I could not find out how!! The smatr package does so-called model II (major axis) regression. Regards, Mark. Danilo Muniz wrote: > > I need to do a model II linear regression, but I could not find out how!! > > I tryed to use the

Re: [R] model II regression - how do I do it?

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Danilo, >> I need to do a model II linear regression, but I could not find out how!! The smatr package does so-called model II (major axis) regression. Regards, Mark. Danilo Muniz wrote: > > I need to do a model II linear regression, but I could not find out how!! > > I tryed to use the

Re: [R] Density estimates in modelling framework

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Hadley, There is also locfit, which is very highly regarded by some authorities (e.g. Hastie, Tibs, and Friedman). Cheers, Mark. hadley wrote: > > Hi all, > > Do any packages implement density estimation in a modelling framework? > I want to be able to do something like: > > dmodel <- d

Re: [R] model II regression - how do I do it?

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Difford
. I can't tell you how often I have seen analysts put the (usually) inaccurately determined analyte on x and the spec reading on y. HTH, Mark. Dylan Beaudette-2 wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2008, Mark Difford wrote: >> Hi Danilo, >> >> >> I need to do a

Re: [R] non-parametric Anova and tukeyHSD

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Stephen, See packages: coin nparcomp npmc There is also kruskalmc() in package pgirmess Regards, Mark. stephen sefick wrote: > > I have insect data from twelve sites and like most environmental data > it is non-normal mostly. I would like to preform an anova and a means > seperation lik

Re: [R] non-parametric Anova and tukeyHSD

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Difford
That slipped right away from me before I could say I meant to add this link to a useful thread from Torsten Hothorn. ?RSiteSearch would probably have got you there. http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/06/5829.html Mark Difford wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > See package

Re: [R] ANCOVA/glm missing/ignored interaction combinations

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Lara, >> And I cant for the life of me work out why category one (semio1) is being >> ignored, missing >> etc. Nothing is being ignored Lara --- but you are ignoring the fact that your factors have been coded using the default contrasts in R, viz so-called treatment or Dunnett contrasts. Tha

Re: [R] ANCOVA/glm missing/ignored interaction combinations

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Difford
And perhaps I should also have added: fit your model without an intercept and look at your coefficients. You should be able to work it out from there quite easily. Anyway, you now have the main pieces. Regards, Mark. Mark Difford wrote: > > Hi Lara, > >>> And I cant for t

Re: [R] Help understanding lrm function of Design library

2009-08-18 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Noah, >> Could someone point me to an online resource where I could learn >> more? (I'm big on trying to teach myself.) [about lrm funcction and the >> Design library] Go for the hardcopy, but you could look at Google Books if you are pressed. There you will find a good preview of the text.

Re: [R] Contrasts within ANOVA frame (Repost)

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jun, >> I have three levels for a factor names "StdLot" and want to make three >> comparisons, 1 vs 2, 1 vs 3 and 2 vs 3. With only three levels to your factor, the contrast matrix you are specifying is over-parametrized (i.e. over-specified): it has 3 rows and 3 columns. ## Look at the defa

Re: [R] applying summary() to an object created with ols()

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Benjamin, >> Does anyone know how I can set the *datadist()* and the *options()* such >> that I will get access to all coefficients? ## Do this before you fit your models, i.e. tell datadist &c what data set you are using. d <- datadist( subset(aa, Jahr>=1957 & Jahr<=1966) ) options( datadis

Re: [R] using loglog link in VGAM or creating loglog link for GLM

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Kendra, >> I am trying to figure out how to apply a loglog link to a binomial >> model (dichotomous response variable with far more zeros than ones). If I were you I would look at ?zeroinfl in package pscl. Regards, Mark. Kendra Walker wrote: > > > > I am trying to figure out how to a

Re: [R] Between-group variance from ANOVA

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Emma, >> R gives you the tools to work this out. ## Example set.seed(7) TDat <- data.frame(response = c(rnorm(100, 5, 2), rnorm(100, 20, 2))) TDat$group <- gl(2, 100, labels=c("A","B")) with(TDat, boxplot(split(response, group))) summary(aov(response ~ group, data=TDat)) Regards, Mark. e

Re: [R] Between-group variance from ANOVA

2009-08-25 Thread Mark Difford
am trying to apply this to, I have more than 2 > groups. I was hoping there would be a function that helps you do this that > I don't know about. > > > Thanks for your help Emma > > > > > Mark Difford wrote: >> >> Hi Emma, >> >>>&g

Re: [R] Between-group variance from ANOVA

2009-08-25 Thread Mark Difford
720.7 3.6 --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 unlist(T.sum) unlist(T.sum)[5]/unlist(T.sum)[6] Mean Sq1 3084.028 Regards, Mark. Mark Difford wrote: > > Hi Emma, > >>> ...from this I can read the within-group variance. can anyone tel

Re: [R] adding factor scores back to an incomplete dataset...

2009-08-25 Thread Mark Difford
Hi David, >> I am doing a factor analysis on survey data with missing values. ... Is >> there a way to subset >> from my original data set that will work with factanal() and preserve the >> original rows or that >> will allow me to append the factor scores back onto the original dataset >> with

Re: [R] adding factor scores back to an incomplete dataset...

2009-08-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi David, Phil, Phil Spector wrote: >> David - >> Here's the easiest way I've been able to come up with. Easiest? You are making unnecessary work for yourselves and seem not to understand the purpose of ?naresid (i.e. na.action = na.exclude). Why not take the simple route that I gave, which rea

r-help@r-project.org

2009-08-31 Thread Mark Difford
Hi John, >> Has a test for bimodality been implemented in R? You may find the code at the URL below useful. It was written by Jeremy Tantrum (a PhD of Werner Stuetzle's). Amongst other things there is a function to plot the unimodal and bimodal Gaussian smoothers closest to the observed data. A

Re: [R] Problem with xtabs(), exclude=NULL, and counting NA's

2009-09-05 Thread Mark Difford
>> I must say that this is slightly odd behavior to require both >> na.action= AND exclude=. Does anyone know of a justification? Not strange at all. ?options na.action, sub head "Options set in package stats." You need to override the default setting. ws-7 wrote: > >>> xtabs(~wkhp, x, excl

Re: [R] How can I appoint a small part of the whole data

2009-09-05 Thread Mark Difford
Yichih, Answer 2 is "correct," because your indexing specification for 1 is wrong. You also seem to have left out a comma. ## mu1990$wage[mu1990$edu==2|mu1990$edu==3|mu1990$edu==4, ] ## like this mu1990$wage[mu1990$edu%in%2:4, ] You really could have worked this out for yourself by looking at t

Re: [R] Omnibus test for main effects in the face ofaninteraction containing the main effects.

2009-09-08 Thread Mark Difford
Hi John, >> When Group is entered as a factor, and the factor has two levels, the >> ANOVA table gives a p value for each level of the factor. This does not (normally) happen so you are doing something strange. ## From your first posting on this subject fita<-lme(Post~Time+factor(Group)+fact

Re: [R] Alternative to Scale Function?

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Difford
>> The scale function will return the mean and sd of the data. By default. Read ?scale. Mark. Noah Silverman-3 wrote: > > I think I just answered my own question. > > The scale function will return the mean and sd of the data. > > So the process is fairly simple. > scale training data varai

Re: [R] could not find function "Varcov" after upgrade of R?

2009-09-12 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Zhu, >> could not find function "Varcov" after upgrade of R? Frank Harrell (author of Design) has noted in another thread that Hmisc has changed... The problem is that functions like anova.Design call a function in the _old_ Hmisc package called Varcov.default. In the new version of Hmisc thi

Re: [R] Triangular distribution for kernel regression

2009-09-12 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Brian, >> I am trying to get fitted/estimated values using kernel regression and a >> triangular kernel. Look at Loader's locfit package. You are likely to be pleasantly surprised. Regards, Mark. Bryan-65 wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to get fitted/estimated values using kernel regr

Re: [R] hel with factorial analysis with mixed data

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Difford
andreiabb wrote: >> the message that I am getting is >> Error in AFDM (all_data_sub.AFDM, type=c(rep("s",1), rep("n",1), rep("n", >> : >> unused arguments (s) (type=c("s", "n","n")) >> Can someone help me? If you are in hel[l] then it is entirely your own fault. The error message is clear a

Re: [R] How to do a PCA with ordered variables?

2009-09-17 Thread Mark Difford
P. Branco wrote: >> I have used the dudi.mix method from the ade4 package, but when I do the >> $index it shows >> me that R has considered my variables as quantitative. >> What should I do? You should make sure that they are encoded as ordered factors, which has nothing to do with ade4's dud

Re: [R] The Claw Density and LOCFIT

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jaap, >> Could anybody please direct me in finding an updated version of this >> document, or help me >> correct the code given in the file. The (out-of-date) code is as follows: You are not helping yourself, or anyone else, by not including the error messages you get when trying to execute "

Re: [R] Correlation Network Diagram?

2009-07-03 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Rory, There are several. Have a look at the gR Task Views. There you will also find a link to the statnet suite, where you will find links to a dedicated set of jstatsoft articles. Regards, Mark. Rory Winston wrote: > > Hi all > > On page 39 of this paper [1] by Andrew Lo there is a very

Re: [R] Differing Variable Length Inconsistencies in Random Effects/Regression Models

2009-07-15 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Aditi, Parts of _your_ code for the solution offered by Jerome Goudet are wrong; see my comments. > famfit<-lmer(peg.no~1 + (1|family), na.action=na.omit, vcdf) ## use: > na.action=na.exclude > resfam<-residuals(famfit) > for( i in 1:length(colms)) + { + print ("Marker", i) + regfam<-ab

Re: [R] Differing Variable Length Inconsistencies in Random Effects/Regression Models

2009-07-15 Thread Mark Difford
Perhaps I should have added the following: To see that it "works," run the following: famfit<-lmer(peg.no~1 + (1|family), na.action=na.exclude, vcdf) resfam<-residuals(famfit) for( i in 1:length(colms)) { print(coef(lm(resfam~colms[,i]))) } Regards, Mark. A Singh wrote: > > > Dear All, >

Re: [R] Split plot analysis problems

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jean-Paul, >> ... since R is not able to extract residuals? R can extract the residuals, but they are a "hidden" in models with an error structure ## str(aov(PH~Community*Mowing*Water + Error(Block))) residuals(aov(PH~Community*Mowing*Water + Error(Block))$Block) residuals(aov(PH~Community*M

Re: [R] Split plot analysis problems

2009-07-23 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Jean-Paul, >> However, I've tried both solutions on my model, and I got different >> residuals :... >> What could be the difference between the two? There is no difference. You have made a mistake. ## tt <- data.frame(read.csv(file="tt.csv", sep="")) ## imports your data set T.aov <- aov(PH

Re: [R] how to correlate nominal variables?

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Timo, >> I need functions to calculate Yule's Y or Cramérs Index... Are such >> functions existing? Also look at assocstats() in package vcd. Regards, Mark. Timo Stolz wrote: > > Dear R-Users, > > I need functions to calculate Yule's Y or Cramérs Index, in order to > correlate variables

Re: [R] Adding picture to graph?

2009-07-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Rainer, >> the question came up if it would be possible to add a picture >> (saved on the HDD) to a graph (generated by plot()), which >> we could not answer. Yes. Look at package pixmap and, especially, at the examples sub s.logo() in package ade4. Regards, Mark. Rainer M Krug-6 wrote:

Re: [R] Selecting Bootstrap Method for Quantile Regression

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Tom, >> For example, if I want to use the "xy-pair bootstrap" how do I indicate >> this in summary.rq? The general approach is documented under summary.rq (sub se option 5). Shorter route is boot.rq, where examples are given. ## ?boot.rq y <- rnorm(50) x <- matrix(rnorm(100),50) fit <- rq(y~

Re: [R] i'm so stuck with text file and contour plot

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Difford
Hannes, >> been trying to read a text file that contains heading in the first line >> in to R but cant. You want the following: ## TDat <- read.csv("small.txt", sep="\t") TDat str(TDat) See ?read.csv Regards, Mark. hannesPretorius wrote: > > Ok i feel pretty stupid.. been trying to read a

Re: [R] i'm so stuck with text file and contour plot

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Difford
06.to.Oct.2008" > ###- > > names(tdat)[4:7] <- c("Strk.dens.2006", "Strk.dens.2007", "Strk.dens. > 2008", "cumStrk.2006_8") > > # cannot use variable names that begin with numbers > without spec

Re: [R] i'm so stuck with text file and contour plot

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Difford
And I meant to add, but somehow forgot, that the default for read.csv is header=TRUE (which is different from read.table, where it is FALSE). Regards, Mark. Mark Difford wrote: > > Hi David, > >>> I think he may also need to add the header=TRUE argument: > > No! The

Re: [R] i'm so stuck with text file and contour plot

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Difford
Hannes, >> When I read the entire text file in I get the following message Then you have not followed the very simple instructions I gave you above, which I repeat below. Or you have changed small.txt. ## TDat <- read.csv("small.txt", sep="\t") TDat str(TDat) Mark. hannesPretorius wrote: >

Re: [R] Testing year effect in lm() ***failed first time, sending again

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Difford
Emmanuel, >> somewhat incomplete help pages : what in h*ll are valid arguments to >> mcp() beyond "Tukey" ??? Curently, you'll have to dig in the source to >> learn that...). Not so: they are clearly stated in ?contrMat. Regards, Mark. Emmanuel Charpentier-3 wrote: > > Le jeudi 30 juillet 2

Re: [R] PCA or CA

2009-09-29 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Paul, >> I have a data set for which PCA based between group analysis (BGA) gives >> significant results but CA-BGA does not. >> I am having difficulty finding a reliable method for deciding which >> ordination >> technique is most appropriate. Reliability really comes down to you thinking

Re: [R] trouble with html() in Hmisc

2009-10-03 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Liviu, >> > tmp <- latex(.object, cdec=c(2,2), title="") >> > class(tmp) >> [1] "latex" >> > html(tmp) >> /tmp/RtmprfPwzw/file7e72f7a7.tex:9: Warning: Command not found: >> \tabularnewline >> Giving up command: \...@hevea@amper >> /tmp/RtmprfPwzw/file7e72f7a7.tex:11: Error while reading

Re: [R] trouble with html() in Hmisc

2009-10-03 Thread Mark Difford
and to the preamble of the *.tex file: \providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\} Regards, Mark. Liviu Andronic wrote: > > Hello > > On 10/3/09, Mark Difford wrote: >> This has nothing to do with Hmisc or hevea. >> > Although I have LyX installed, I don't quite underst

Re: [R] Trendline for a subset of data

2009-10-09 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Steve, >> However, I am finding that ... the trendline ... continues to run beyond >> this data segment >> and continues until it intersects the vertical axes at each side of the >> plot. Your "best" option is probably Prof. Fox's reg.line function in package car. ## library(car) ?reg.line

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