Re: [Rd] Interacting with Clusters...

2004-09-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
ROrca has some of the tools you need. I'm getting it ready for submission (note that it requires SJava to be installed). See http://www.analytics.washington.edu/~rossini/ and either get the zip package (if you have Windows) or the tar.gz package (for Unixes). Robert L Obenchain <[EMAIL PR

[Rd] Interacting with Clusters...

2004-09-08 Thread Robert L Obenchain
Dear R-devel, My current research focuses upon sensitivity analyses which require [1] clusterings of patients in a baseline covariate X-space and [2] examining the distribution of within-cluster treatment differences in outcome. I have generated some primitive R code for this, but I really need

Re: [Rd] A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs

2004-09-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 8 Sep 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > etc? Or perhaps it is better with a catchall "Date-fmt", i.e., e.g., > > > "Date-%Y%m%d"? That'd be fairly easy to code: > > > > > > else if (length(grep("^Date-",colClasses[i]))) > > > as.Dat

[Rd] Resposta automática para ausência do escritório: Administration

2004-09-08 Thread Andreia Sa
Estarei fora do escritório até Dezembro 2004. I Will be out of the office until December 04. Na minha ausência, por favor contacte: Sofia Burnay em [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/list

Re: [Rd] A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs

2004-09-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > etc? Or perhaps it is better with a catchall "Date-fmt", i.e., e.g., > > "Date-%Y%m%d"? That'd be fairly easy to code: > > > > else if (length(grep("^Date-",colClasses[i]))) > > as.Date(data[[i]], sub("^Date-(.*)$","\\1", colClasses[i])

Re: [Rd] A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs

2004-09-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 8 Sep 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To make it actually work, we should probably fixup the "what" that is > > being passed to scan a bit further upstreams. > > > > > > > Might be a good idea to teach colClasses about "factor". > > > > That's

[Rd] Re: [R] Sweave echoing comments (again)

2004-09-08 Thread Wolski
Hi! I observed it also. There are cases where it is not desirable. It will be quite helpfull, if possible, to have a parameter that allows one to switch of removing the #comments. /E *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 9/6/2004 at 1:30 PM Thomas Petzoldt wrote: >>>Hello, >>> >>>I tr

Re: [Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 09:48, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > > OK...well, let me think "outside the polygon" for a moment. Notice that > > I did not say "box", as the shape is not quite fixed yet ;-) > > > > First, I would not twist your arm on this. There is an option alrea

Re: [Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Marc Schwartz wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 08:02, Uwe Ligges wrote: Marc Schwartz wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 03:13, Uwe Ligges wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] Indeed, I think it is possible to provide

Re: [Rd] A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs

2004-09-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To make it actually work, we should probably fixup the "what" that is > being passed to scan a bit further upstreams. > > > > Might be a good idea to teach colClasses about "factor". > > That's what I thought. Other ideas would be to predefine some s

Re: [Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 08:02, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Marc Schwartz wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 03:13, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > >>Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>[.

Re: [Rd] as(object,"list") as(object,"matrix") differences?

2004-09-08 Thread John Chambers
Please re-read the previous mail to see answers to your questions, as noted below. Wolski wrote: > > Hi! > > Some follow up questions concerning the class definition of list. > > On 9/7/2004 at 11:47 AM John Chambers wrote: > >>> > >>>as(object, "list") works like all coercion to basic datatype

Re: [Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Marc Schwartz wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 03:13, Uwe Ligges wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] Indeed, I think it is possible to provide an srt command (e.g. in half a year for something like R-2.1.0). What

Re: [Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 03:13, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > >>>Indeed, I think it is possible to provide an srt command (e.g. in half a > >>>year fo

Re: [Rd] as(object,"list") as(object,"matrix") differences?

2004-09-08 Thread Wolski
Hi! Some follow up questions concerning the class definition of list. On 9/7/2004 at 11:47 AM John Chambers wrote: >>> >>>as(object, "list") works like all coercion to basic datatypes. The >>>method uses the corresponding old-style as. function. In >>>addition, if coercion is strict, all attrib

Re: [Rd] Feil i websider (PR#7216)

2004-09-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This appears to all relate to old R documentation, except that the > nlme.stat.wisc.edu link is indeed dead and still appearing in the FAQ. > > (The sender name is "check age and link" in Norwegian, so possibly not > a real person, but he/she/it'll get

Re: [Rd] A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs

2004-09-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >From ?read.table (this is about read.table, despite the subject line, I > believe?) > > colClasses: character. A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns. > > "NULL" is not a class in my book (and certainly not one a column can > have).

Re: [Rd] A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs

2004-09-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
>From ?read.table (this is about read.table, despite the subject line, I believe?) colClasses: character. A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns. "NULL" is not a class in my book (and certainly not one a column can have). So no wonder it does not work, and it is not a bug not to wor

Re: [Rd] Feil i websider (PR#7216)

2004-09-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
This appears to all relate to old R documentation, except that the nlme.stat.wisc.edu link is indeed dead and still appearing in the FAQ. (The sender name is "check age and link" in Norwegian, so possibly not a real person, but he/she/it'll get the reply nonetheless.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: [Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] Indeed, I think it is possible to provide an srt command (e.g. in half a year for something like R-2.1.0). What is expected for "srt = 0"? a) the current behaviour, i.e. srt=0 in re

RE: [Rd] having trouble building r-devel

2004-09-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aha-- thanks! > > >> Or I've > >> gotten my wires crossed... > > > >The latter. Try commenting out > > > ># path (possibly full path) to same version of R on the host system > ># R_EXE=R > >^^ > > > >in MkRules. It's uncommented there from experimen

RE: [Rd] having trouble building r-devel

2004-09-08 Thread Mark.Bravington
Aha-- thanks! >> Or I've >> gotten my wires crossed... > >The latter. Try commenting out > ># path (possibly full path) to same version of R on the host system ># R_EXE=R >^^ > >in MkRules. It's uncommented there from experiments with >cross-compiling. >Works for me. Yes, it's just worked for

Re: [Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] > > Indeed, I think it is possible to provide an srt command (e.g. in half a > > year for something like R-2.1.0). What is expected for "srt = 0"? > > a) the current behaviour, i.e. srt=0 in respect to th

[Rd] Re: argument srt for mtext(); was: [R] using text on the x axis ticks rather than numbers

2004-09-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: > > > > > >>Out of curiosity, why is srt not respected in mtext ? See examples below > > > > > > It doesn't make a lot of sense. mtext is about putting text on >m > lines, and