[R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-11 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Hi R, Can we download Reuters (3000 Xtra) data from R? Does ODBC package help me in this? Or otherwise, is there a way to extract daily closing prices data of Reuters from R? Thank you very much, Shubha This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}}

Re: [R] 2-Y-axes on same plot

2008-12-11 Thread Jim Lemon
Joe Trubisz wrote: Hi... Is this possible in R? I have 2-sets of data, that were collected simultaneously using 2-different data acquisition schemes. The x-values are the same for both. The y-values have different ranges (16.4-37.5 using one method, 557-634 using another). In theory, if

Re: [R] A package to set up a questionnaire enter data

2008-12-11 Thread Jim Lemon
CE.KA wrote: Hi R users, Is there a Package in R to - set up a questionnaire? - enter data? Hi CE.KA, I don't know, but I have written a general purpose questionnaire program in Tcl-Tk that will administer the questionnaire and record the responses. If you don't find anything, let me know.

Re: [R] means of a column within groups of a data frame

2008-12-11 Thread Jim Lemon
John Sorkin wrote: R 2.8.0 windows XP I would like to divide the rows of data frame into five groups and then get the mean of one column within the five groups. I have accomplished this using the code below, but I hope there is an easier way, i.e. some function that I can call # create five

[R] Fwd: Jacobi Plane Rotations in R

2008-12-11 Thread Jan de Leeuw
http://idisk.mac.com/jdeleeuw-Public/jacobi This is paper/software for various techniques based on Jacobi plane rotations. There is R code for -- classical cyclical Jacobi Eigen diagonalization -- Jacobi-based SVD diagonalization -- approximate simultaneous diagonalization of symmetric

Re: [R] Logical inconsistency

2008-12-11 Thread Kenn Konstabel
Rounding can do no good because round(8.8,1)-round(7.8,1)1 # still TRUE round(8.8)-round(7.7)1 # FALSE What you might do is compute a-b-1 and compare it to a very small number: (8.8-7.8-1) 1e-10 # TRUE K On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM, emma jane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Greg,

[R] Coxian Distribution

2008-12-11 Thread Borja Soto Varela
Hello R-users. I want to know if there is in R the distribution and density function of the Coxian. If there isn't, It will help if someone has written this functions. Thanks Borja [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org

[R] Rotate basic plot (scatter) in R

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Hegenloh
Dear all, I was trying to rotate a plot using R. I tried most of the examples offered here in this forum, but for some reason it is not working for a Scatterplot or in my case: plot (x,y). With a histogram I had no problems. Is it not possible to rotate a simple plot? Thanks a lot, Michael

Re: [R] snowfall sfInit error

2008-12-11 Thread Jochen Knaus
Dear Mr. Ripley, indeed that it true. sfInit() currently have a bug on Windows depending on the usage of the Linux tools and the broken Exceptionhandling. Too bad I never tested it accordingly on Windows (as we do not have any Windows machines in our institute). snowfall 1.62 is in the pipe

[R] call lattice function in a function passing groups argument

2008-12-11 Thread Thomas Zumbrunn
I'm trying to use a lattice function within a function and have problems passing the groups argument properly. Let's say I have a data frame d - data.frame(x = rnorm(100), y = c(a, b)) and want to plot variable x in a densityplot, grouped by the variable y, then I would do something like

Re: [R] Rotate basic plot (scatter) in R

2008-12-11 Thread Philipp Pagel
I was trying to rotate a plot using R. I tried most of the examples offered here in this forum, but for some reason it is not working for a Scatterplot or in my case: plot (x,y). With a histogram I had no problems. Is it not possible to rotate a simple plot? I'm not 100% sure what exactly you

Re: [R] Simplex function in R

2008-12-11 Thread axionator
Hi, in the first example, your feasible set is just one point (the one that fulfills the 3 equations) and thus there is only this one point which can maximize the objective function. In the second case, the feasible set is a line. But the simplex algorithm tries to find an optimizing value of the

[R] Principal Component Analysis - Selecting components? + right choice?

2008-12-11 Thread Corrado
Dear R gurus, I have some climatic data for a region of the world. They are monthly averages 1950 -2000 of precipitation (12 months), minimum temperature (12 months), maximum temperature (12 months). I have scaled them to 2 km x 2km cells, and I have around 75,000 cells. I need to feed them

Re: [R] A package to set up a questionnaire enter data

2008-12-11 Thread David Croll
Hello, For entering data alone, you would not need a package. For simple questionnaires, you could write a function. It could go like this. For example you want to record people's names and their ages: # Sets up an empty database database - c() enter_data - function() { show(Enter

Re: [R] Simplex function in R

2008-12-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try the pseudo inverse: m - rbind(c(1, 1, 1), c(1, 0, 1), c(0, 1, 0)) b - c(5, 2, 3) library(MASS) ginv(m) %*% b On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Chris Line [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a set of linear equations and would like to find any feasible solution. A simplex solution works in

Re: [R] Principal Component Analysis - Selecting components? + right choice?

2008-12-11 Thread Stéphane Dray
You can have look to *S. Dray*. On the number of principal components: A test of dimensionality based on measurements of similarity between matrices. /Computational Statistics and Data Analysis/, 52:2228-2237, 2008. which is implemented in the testdim function of the ade4 package. Cheers.

Re: [R] ref card for data manipulation?

2008-12-11 Thread Vitalie Spinu
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:29:43 +0100, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You (as many before you) have overlooked the ave() function, which can replace the ordering as well the do.call(c,tapply()) Majority of questions on this list concern data manipulation. Many are repetitive.

[R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Gustaf Rydevik
Hi all, Is there a simple function already implemented for getting the ISO weeks of a Date object? I couldn't find one, and so wrote my own function to do it, but would appreciate a pointer to the default way. If a function is not yet implemented, could the code below be of interest to submit to

[R] merging data.frames columnwise (rbind with different variables, lengths)

2008-12-11 Thread Stefan Uhmann
Dear List, I have two dataframes with overlapping colnames and want to merge them. Actually, what I want is more similar to rbind, but the dataframes differ in their columns. Here are the examples: df1 - data.frame(A = c(1,2), B = c(m,f), C = c(at home, away)) df2 - data.frame(A = c(2), C =

Re: [R] merging data.frames columnwise (rbind with different variables, lengths)

2008-12-11 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
Dear Stefan, Why not use merge() if you want to merge two datasets? ;-) df1 - data.frame(A = c(1,2), B = c(m,f), C = c(at home, away)) df2 - data.frame(A = c(2), C = c(at home)) merge(df1, df2, all = TRUE) HTH, Thierry

[R] Extracting the name of an object into a character string

2008-12-11 Thread Philip Whittall
Dear List, I am writing a function in R with the facility to store models for later use in scoring. It would be very useful if I could include in the name of the file stored the name of the model object being stored, this name being chosen by the user in the function call. A simple function to

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
strftime(x, %V) E.g. strftime(as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()), %V) is 50, and you might want as.numeric() on it. Note that this is OS-dependent, and AFAIR Windows does not have it. On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Gustaf Rydevik wrote: Hi all, Is there a simple function already implemented for getting the ISO

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
A slightly simpler version is format(Sys.Date(), %V) On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: strftime(x, %V) E.g. strftime(as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()), %V) is 50, and you might want as.numeric() on it. Note that this is OS-dependent, and AFAIR Windows does not have it. On Thu, 11 Dec

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
format(d, %U) and format(d, %W) give week numbers using different conventions. See ?strptime On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Gustaf Rydevik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a simple function already implemented for getting the ISO weeks of a Date object? I couldn't find one, and

Re: [R] merging data.frames columnwise (rbind with different variables, lengths)

2008-12-11 Thread David Hajage
Dear Stefan, You could use rbind.fill() from reshape package : install.packages(reshape) library(reshape) df1 - data.frame(A = c(1,2), B = c(m,f), C = c(at home, away)) df2 - data.frame(A = c(2), C = c(at home)) rbind.fill(df1, df2) AB C 1 1m at home 2 2faway 3 2 NA

Re: [R] Simplex function in R

2008-12-11 Thread Gerard M. Keogh
re pseudo inverse On the point of generalised inverses - GINV is usually taken to mean the moore-penrose pseudo inverse - this is the least squares projection. There are others - e.g. the Drazin inverse which amounts to diagonalisation - of course this inverse may not be available in R. Gerard

[R] Property of cov(x) - matrix, some elements of x missing

2008-12-11 Thread Lukas Gudmundsson
Dear List Members, this question is not directly related to R but follows up a comment in the documentation of 'cov'. In the case of missing values in the input matrix 'x' there are various options specified via the parameter 'use'. One of them being 'pairwise.complete.obs'. In the 'Details'

Re: [R] A package to set up a questionnaire enter data

2008-12-11 Thread cryan
Not an R package, but EpiData is free software designed to to exactly this. It's a wonderful piece of software. Define fields, add annotations, provide defaults, provide allowable values or ranges, calculate one field based on entry to another, conditional skipping from one question to another

Re: [R] ref card for data manipulation?

2008-12-11 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, Good idea, what do you say we try and write a page on this in the R wiki? I started the topic: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=guides:overview-data-manip Once the content is there, it wouldn't be much of an effort to create a reference-card format if required. Best

[R] how to get the CDF of a density() estimation?

2008-12-11 Thread Viktor Nagy
Hi, I've estimated a simple kernel density of a univariate variable with density(), but after I would like to find out the CDF at specific values. How can I do it? thanks for your help, with it I am very close to finish my first little bit more serious work in R, Viktor

Re: [R] how to get the CDF of a density() estimation?

2008-12-11 Thread Adelchi Azzalini
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:28:31 +0100, Viktor Nagy wrote: VN Hi, VN VN I've estimated a simple kernel density of a univariate variable with VN density(), but after I would like to find out the CDF at specific VN values. VN How can I do it? VN Answer 1. Use approfun to interpolate the outcome from

Re: [R] Logical inconsistency

2008-12-11 Thread Bernardo Rangel Tura
Hi Kenn, Well I think your use or round isn't optimal solution. If you using round(x,1)-round(x,1) you create 2 problems First: error propagation because you make 2 round. Second: you don't using guard digits approach. The optimal use of round is using in last calculation: Look this

Re: [R] ref card for data manipulation?

2008-12-11 Thread Vitalie Spinu
__ 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, reproducible code.

Re: [R] ref card for data manipulation?

2008-12-11 Thread hadley wickham
You (as many before you) have overlooked the ave() function, which can replace the ordering as well the do.call(c,tapply()) Majority of questions on this list concern data manipulation. Many are repetitive. Overlooking like that will always happen unless some comprehensive data

Re: [R] how to get the CDF of a density() estimation?

2008-12-11 Thread Adelchi Azzalini
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:11:06 +0100, Adelchi Azzalini wrote: AA AA In practical terms you can still use density(), as indicated above, but AA selecting a suitably smaller bandwith compared to the one used for AA density estimation. PS. of course this is numerically most inefficient... Adelchi

Re: [R] Principal Component Analysis - Selecting components? + right choice?

2008-12-11 Thread S Ellison
If you're intending to create a model using PCs as predictors, select the PCs based on whether they contribute significanctly to the model fit. In chemometrics (multivariate stats in chemistry, among other things), if we're expecting 3 or 4 PC's to be useful in a principal component regression,

Re: [R] R and Scheme

2008-12-11 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: Peter Dalgaard wrote: Johannes Huesing wrote: Stavros Macrakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:59:25AM CET]: So I conclude that what is really meant by R semantics are based on Scheme semantics is R has functions as first-class

Re: [R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-11 Thread Patrizio Frederic
dear Hadley and Bert, thank you very much for your suggestions. I asked one question and I learned 2 things: 1. Hadley, library(plyr) ddply(data, .(V1), colwise(cl)) that is exactly what I was searching for. 2. Bert, ?tapply says that the first argument is an **atomic** vector. A factor is

Re: [R] call lattice function in a function passing

2008-12-11 Thread Ryan Hafen
If however I wanted to call the function densityplot within a function and pass the groups argument as an argument of that function, how would I have to proceed? It is not as straightforward as f - function(data, groupvar) { densityplot(~ x, data, groups = groupvar) } probably

Re: [R] Validity of GLM using Gaussian family with sqrt link

2008-12-11 Thread Lam, Tzeng Yih
Dear Prof. Ripley, Thank you for your quick response. (A) link-sqrt is a name and not accepted. link=sqrt is a literal character string, and is. I am not entirely sure whether I understand that statement but this is what I found out. If I specify family=gaussian(link=sqrt), the glm()

Re: [R] Logical inconsistency

2008-12-11 Thread Kenn Konstabel
Hi, I agree -- and my examples using round were meant as bad and dangerous examples. Using round at the last step is better and may solve the problem, but in your example ... round(8.8-7.8,1)==1 [1] TRUE ... you have to know in advance how many decimal places can possibly make a difference (is

[R] Sorting problem

2008-12-11 Thread ronggui
Sys.setlocale(,C) x1 - as.character(date()) # I use date to record the time, and save it to sqlite database, to it converted to character x1_2 - strptime(x1, %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y) x2 - as.character(date()) x2_2 - strptime(x2, %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y) X-c(x1_2,x2_2) order(X) ## I want to get the

[R] Combining tplot and barplot

2008-12-11 Thread mmichel
Hello! I am pretty new to R statistics and trying to figure out how to show the barplot and the single data points in one single plot. I am using the tplot code from the following site for showing the single datapoints: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/TatsukiRcode/

Re: [R] tapply within a data.frame: a simpler alternative?

2008-12-11 Thread David Freedman
You might take a look at the transformBy function in the doBy package For example, new.df=transformBy(~group,data=my.df, new=y/max(y)) David Freedman baptiste auguie-2 wrote: Dear list, I have a data.frame with x, y values and a 3-level factor group, say. I want to create a new

[R] passing on the ... arguments in a progammed graphics function

2008-12-11 Thread Mark Heckmann
Hi everyone, I want to write a wrapper function that uses the hist() function. Now I want to allow the hist breaks argument as optional in my function. So when my function contains the breaks argument I want the hist() function to use it, if not, I want the hist() function to use its default for

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-11 Thread Rory.WINSTON
Hi Shubha I have created an extension DLL for downloading time series data from Reuters. You can download it from here: http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/archives/287 There is also a short manual available at the same location:

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-11 Thread Tony Breyal
Hi Shubha, I'm replying offlist because although I don't have an answer to your question, i thought i would point you in the direction of Rmetrics (http://www.rmetrics.org/rmetricsPackages.htm) as there might be something in there that may be helpful if you don't get a more direct answer from

Re: [R] ref card for data manipulation?

2008-12-11 Thread Vitalie Spinu
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:19:03 +0100, hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You (as many before you) have overlooked the ave() function, which can replace the ordering as well the do.call(c,tapply()) Majority of questions on this list concern data manipulation. Many are repetitive.

Re: [R] motif search

2008-12-11 Thread Jean lobry
Dear Alessia, I am very new to R and wanted to know if there is a package that, given very long nucleotide sequences, searches and identifies short (7-10nt) motifs.. I would like to look for enrichment of certain motifs in genomic sequences. I tried using MEME (not an R package, I know),

Re: [R] passing on the ... arguments in a progammed graphics function

2008-12-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/11/2008 11:01 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote: Hi everyone, I want to write a wrapper function that uses the hist() function. Now I want to allow the hist breaks argument as optional in my function. So when my function contains the breaks argument I want the hist() function to use it, if not, I

Re: [R] Validity of GLM using Gaussian family with sqrt link

2008-12-11 Thread Gerard M. Keogh
Hi all, Just on this question : can I assume any R internal defined function can be used to describe the link (e.g. = arctan) so long as its increasing and monotone? How might abs work for example - (except at 0)? And/or finally, can I define any old function in R called myfun and use

Re: [R] A package to set up a questionnaire enter data

2008-12-11 Thread CE.KA
Thank you ryancw wrote: Not an R package, but EpiData is free software designed to to exactly this. It's a wonderful piece of software. Define fields, add annotations, provide defaults, provide allowable values or ranges, calculate one field based on entry to another, conditional

Re: [R] Sorting problem

2008-12-11 Thread ronggui
Sorry for the last post. I didn't use the latest version of R. It works under Linux as well for R-2.8.0 patch. Best On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:34 PM, ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sys.setlocale(,C) x1 - as.character(date()) # I use date to record the time, and save it to sqlite database,

Re: [R] Extracting the name of an object into a character string

2008-12-11 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
do you mean something like the following: f - function (x) { deparse(substitute(x)) } x - 5 y - 6 z - 7 f(x) f(y) f(z) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Philip Whittall wrote: Dear List, I am writing a function in R with the facility to store models for later use in scoring. It would

Re: [R] Validity of GLM using Gaussian family with sqrt link

2008-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please do read the help page: fortune(WTFM) applies. On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Gerard M. Keogh wrote: Hi all, Just on this question : can I assume any R internal defined function can be used to describe the link (e.g. = arctan) so long as its increasing and monotone? How might abs work for

[R] very long integers

2008-12-11 Thread Aaron Robotham
A quick question really: I have a database with extremely long integer IDs (eg 588848900971299297), which is too big for R to cope with internally (it appears to store as a double), and when I do any frequency tables erroneous results appear. Does anyone know of a package that extends

[R] Logical in test

2008-12-11 Thread David B. Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM
OK, this should be trivial but I'm not finding it. I want to compress the test, if (i==7 | i==10 | i==30 | i==50) {} into something like if (i in c(7,10,30,50)) {} so I can build a excludes vector excludes - c(7,10,30,50) and test if (i in excludes) {} However, I'm not finding a clue on

[R] help with predict in stats4

2008-12-11 Thread David Kaplan
Hi, We're using stats4 for a logistic regression. The code is chdreg.logit2 - glm(chd ~ age + sex, family = binomial) summary(chdreg.logit2) oddsratios - coef(chdreg.logit2) exp(oddsratios) # Calculate model predicted values pred - predict(chdreg.logit2,type=response) The glm part runs fine,

Re: [R] merging data.frames columnwise (rbind with different variables, lengths)

2008-12-11 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
have a look at merge(), e.g., df1 - data.frame(A = c(1,2), B = c(m,f), C = c(at home, away)) df2 - data.frame(A = c(2), C = c(at home)) merge(df1, df2, all = TRUE, sort = FALSE) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Stefan Uhmann wrote: Dear List, I have two dataframes with overlapping

Re: [R] very long integers

2008-12-11 Thread Rory.WINSTON
Have you looked at the R interface to gmp? http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gmp/index.html Rory Winston RBS Global Banking Markets Office: +44 20 7085 4476 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Robotham Sent: 11 December 2008

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Gustaf Rydevik
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A slightly simpler version is format(Sys.Date(), %V) On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: strftime(x, %V) E.g. strftime(as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()), %V) is 50, and you might want as.numeric() on it.

Re: [R] Logical in test

2008-12-11 Thread Gustavo Carvalho
Take a look at ?any. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:11 PM, David B. Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this should be trivial but I'm not finding it. I want to compress the test, if (i==7 | i==10 | i==30 | i==50) {} into something like if (i in c(7,10,30,50)) {}

[R] generate combination multiset (set with repetition)

2008-12-11 Thread Reuben Cummings
Hi, This has been asked before but not sufficiently answered from what I could find. How do you create combinations with repetitions (multisets) in R? If I have set - array(1:3) And I want to choose all combinations of picking 2 numbers, I want to get a print out like [,1] [,2] [1,]1

[R] problem with legend

2008-12-11 Thread valeria pedrina
hi all, I want to do a plot and put the legend on the left of y axis this is my code: x-seq(1980,2005,1) plot(x,tfa_ita,type=l,col=1,xlim=c(1979,2005),ylim=c(0.2,1.7),xlab=,ylab=,main=Totale Attivita` Finanziarie) lines(x,tfa_spa,type=l,col=2) lines(x,tfa_aus,type=l,col=3)

[R] very long integers

2008-12-11 Thread Aaron Robotham
A quick question really: I have a database with extremely long integer IDs (eg 588848900971299297), which is too big for R to cope with internally (it appears to store as a double), and when I do any frequency tables erroneous results appear. Does anyone know of a package that extends

Re: [R] Logical in test

2008-12-11 Thread Seeliger . Curt
OK, this should be trivial but I'm not finding it. I want to compress the test, if (i==7 | i==10 | i==30 | i==50) {} into something like if (i in c(7,10,30,50)) {} so I can build a excludes vector excludes - c(7,10,30,50) and test if (i in excludes) {} Works for me.

Re: [R] Principal Component Analysis - Selecting components? + right choice?

2008-12-11 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi, It is generally not the case that the best PC set, say, the top k PCs (where k p, p being the number of predcitors) contain the best predictor subset in linear regression. Hadi and Ling (Amer Stat, 1998) show that it is even possible to have an extreme situation where the first (p-1) PCs

Re: [R] generate combination multiset (set with repetition)

2008-12-11 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, Perhaps you can use expand.grid and then remove the mirror combinations, values - 1:3 tmp - expand.grid(values, values) unique.combs - tmp[tmp[, 1]=tmp[, 2], ] unique.combs[do.call(order, unique.combs), ] # reorder if you wish Var1 Var2 111 412 713 522 8

Re: [R] Logical in test

2008-12-11 Thread Stavros Macrakis
i %in% c(7,10,30,50) On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:11 PM, David B. Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM drdbthomp...@gmail.com wrote: OK, this should be trivial but I'm not finding it. I want to compress the test, if (i==7 | i==10 | i==30 | i==50) {} into something like if (i in c(7,10,30,50))

Re: [R] very long integers

2008-12-11 Thread Stavros Macrakis
If they are IDs, you presumably don't need to perform arithmetic on them, so why not store them as strings? If you're reading them with read.table, see the colClasses parameter. I am not sure how to do this in RODBC; as.isthere (as in read.table) does not affect columns that look like numbers --

[R] how to plot implicit functions

2008-12-11 Thread YIHSU CHEN
Dear R users -- I think this question was asked before but there was no reply to it. I would appreciate any suggestion any of you might have. I am interested in plotting several implicit functions (F(x,y,z)=0) on the same fig. Is there anyone who has an example code of how to do this? Thank

[R] Complex integration in R

2008-12-11 Thread Borja Soto Varela
Dear R-user I need a function to approximate a complex integration. My function is: aprox2=function(s,x,rate){ dexp(x,rate)*exp(-s*x) } where argument s is a complex number. I can't use the integrate function because it's only used with numeric arguments Does anyone know some function to

Re: [R] generate combination multiset (set with repetition)

2008-12-11 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear Reuben, On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:53 PM, baptiste auguie ba...@exeter.ac.uk wrote: Hi, Perhaps you can use expand.grid and then remove the mirror combinations, values - 1:3 tmp - expand.grid(values, values) unique.combs - tmp[tmp[, 1]=tmp[, 2], ] unique.combs[do.call(order,

Re: [R] generate combination multiset (set with repetition)

2008-12-11 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Reuben Cummings wrote: Hi, This has been asked before but not sufficiently answered from what I could find. How do you create combinations with repetitions (multisets) in R? If I have set - array(1:3) Why wrap 1:3 in array() ?? And I want to choose all combinations

[R] help: programming loop, binding columns between data sets

2008-12-11 Thread Simon Pickett
Hi, I often have the problem of combining data sets of different lengths together. Simple example: I have data frame a, with two columns C1 and C2 and another data frame b with only one column V1. Data frame b is much bigger than a, but C1 of a has the same levels as V1 of b. (so in other

Re: [R] repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-11 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote: ...?tapply says that the first argument is an **atomic** vector. A factor is not an atomic vector. So tapply interprets it as such by looking only at its representation, which is as integer values. What is the

[R] check if a certain ... argument has been passed on to my user-defined function

2008-12-11 Thread Mark Heckmann
Hi, How can I check if a certain ... argument has been passed on to my user-defined function or not? foo - function(data, ...) { ### here I want to check whether xlab was passed with the ... arguments ### or if the ... arguments did not contain an xlab argument } I tried missing(xlab) ,

Re: [R] check if a certain ... argument has been passed on to my user-defined function

2008-12-11 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: foo - function(data, ...) { ### here I want to check whether xlab was passed with the ... arguments ### or if the ... arguments did not contain an xlab argument args - list(...) return(ifelse(xlab %in% names(args), Exists, Missing)) } On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Mark Heckmann

Re: [R] check if a certain ... argument has been passed on to my user-defined function

2008-12-11 Thread Charles C. Berry
See ?match.call and note the expand.dots arg. HTH, Chuck On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Mark Heckmann wrote: Hi, How can I check if a certain ... argument has been passed on to my user-defined function or not? foo - function(data, ...) { ### here I want to check whether xlab was passed

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Hans W. Borchers
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com writes: format(d, %U) and format(d, %W) give week numbers using different conventions. See ?strptime Gabor, the results of format(aDate, W) appear to be incorrect anyway, see: format(as.Date(2008-01-01), %W) #- 00 There is never a

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
According to the definition in ?strptime (which is not the same as the ISO definition): format(x, %W) returns Week of the year as decimal number (00–53) using Monday as the first day of week (and typically with the first Monday of the year as day 1 of week 1). The UK convention. The first day

[R] R imperfections? -- was: repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-11 Thread Bert Gunter
Replies inline below. Best regards, -- Bert ___ From: macra...@gmail.com [mailto:macra...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stavros Macrakis Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:53 AM To: Bert Gunter Cc: Patrizio Frederic; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] repeated

[R] Row order in plot

2008-12-11 Thread qroberts
I'm new to R so forgive me if this seems like a simple question: So I have table where the row titles are string variables. When I plot the data with rows along the x-axis, the data is ordered alphabetically as opposed to the order of the table. How can I preserve the row order of the table in

Re: [R] Row order in plot

2008-12-11 Thread Sarah Goslee
It would be easier to answer your question if we knew what your data look like, what R commands you've tried, and what result you want. One possibility: plot the data against 1:nrow(yourdata), and add the row names as labels. Sarah On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:35 PM, qroberts lvaic...@bu.edu

[R] is there a way to recursilvely lapply

2008-12-11 Thread Whit Armstrong
for a simple example: x - list() x[[a]] - list(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(3,4,5)) x[[b]] - list(a=c(6,7,8),b=c(9,10,11)) lapply(x,sum) this fails w/ Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : invalid 'type' (list) of argument Just wondering if I have overlooked something obvious. one can also do:

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Hans W. Borchers
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com writes: According to the definition in ?strptime (which is not the same as the ISO definition): format(x, %W) returns Week of the year as decimal number (00–53) using Monday as the first day of week (and typically with the first Monday of

Re: [R] is there a way to recursilvely lapply

2008-12-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This will recursively lapply and may or may not be what you are looking for: rapply(x, sum) On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com wrote: for a simple example: x - list() x[[a]] - list(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(3,4,5)) x[[b]] - list(a=c(6,7,8),b=c(9,10,11))

Re: [R] getting ISO week

2008-12-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Perhaps you mean is that the definition ought be otherwise but at least according to one standard the definition is correct: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strptime.html On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Hans W. Borchers hwborch...@gmail.com wrote: Gabor Grothendieck

[R] candisc plotting

2008-12-11 Thread Pete Shepard
Hello, I have a file with two dependent variables (three and five) and one independent variable. I do i.mod - lm(cbind(three, five) ~ species, data=i.txt) and get the following output: Coefficients: three five (Intercept) 9.949 9.586 species -1.166 -1.156 I do a

Re: [R] call lattice function in a function passing groups argument

2008-12-11 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Zumbrunn t.zumbr...@unibas.ch wrote: I'm trying to use a lattice function within a function and have problems passing the groups argument properly. Let's say I have a data frame d - data.frame(x = rnorm(100), y = c(a, b)) and want to plot variable x in

Re: [R] is there a way to recursilvely lapply

2008-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Whit Armstrong wrote: for a simple example: x - list() x[[a]] - list(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(3,4,5)) x[[b]] - list(a=c(6,7,8),b=c(9,10,11)) lapply(x,sum) this fails w/ Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : invalid 'type' (list) of argument Just wondering if I have overlooked something

Re: [R] R imperfections? -- was: repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-11 Thread Stavros Macrakis
Bert, Thanks for your reply. I suspect we agree more than you might think Comments inline below. I've snipped out parts. -s On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote: Rationale? -- you'll have to ask the developers Hmm. It would be

Re: [R] 2-Y-axes on same plot

2008-12-11 Thread Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
Joe Trubisz wrote: Hi... Is this possible in R? I have 2-sets of data, that were collected simultaneously using 2-different data acquisition schemes. The x-values are the same for both. The y-values have different ranges (16.4-37.5 using one method, 557-634 using another). In theory, if

[R] Resampling physiological data using R?

2008-12-11 Thread tsunhin wong
Dear all R users, I am going to use R to process some of my physiological data about eye. The problem is the recording machine does not sample in a reliably constant rate: the time intervals between data sampled can vary from 9msec to ~120msec, while most around in the 15-30msec range. The below

Re: [R] is there a way to recursilvely lapply

2008-12-11 Thread Whit Armstrong
Thanks, Gabor and Prof. Ripley. Sorry for the oversight. I grepped the lapply help for recursive prior to sending my question. why does it appear as *r*ecursive in the help file? or is that just a formating problem on my machine? -Whit On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Prof Brian Ripley

[R] Equivalent to Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) in R?

2008-12-11 Thread Pilgrim Regression
Is there an equivalent to MPlus's Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) missing data estimator for R? If so, is there a way to take covariance structures produced by such a package and perform multiple regression with these? If you are unfamiliar with Mplus' FIML below is a link to their

Re: [R] R imperfections? -- was: repeated searching of no-missing values

2008-12-11 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
replies inline below. Bert Gunter wrote: Replies inline below. [bert (?)]...?tapply says that the first argument is an **atomic** vector. A factor is not an atomic vector. So tapply interprets it as such by looking only at its representation, which is as integer values.

Re: [R] is there a way to recursilvely lapply

2008-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Whit Armstrong wrote: Thanks, Gabor and Prof. Ripley. Sorry for the oversight. I grepped the lapply help for recursive prior to sending my question. why does it appear as *r*ecursive in the help file? or is that just a formating problem on my machine? It is marked as

[R] Extract rows from data frame based on row names from another data frame

2008-12-11 Thread Wade Wall
Hi all, Is there a function to extract row names from a data frame based on row names from another data frame? I can write a loop function to do this, but this may be inefficient in terms of processing. thanks for any information, Wade __

[R] simulate spatial data

2008-12-11 Thread Daniel Malter
Hi, I am simulating 2-dimensional data using the RandomFields library and the gaussRF function therein. While this is done with the code below, I would like the landscape to be continuous or smooth at the edges. That is, I would like the upper edge to smoothly connect to the lower edge AND the

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