[R] Shape preserving interpolating splines

2008-05-29 Thread Tine
Hi! Does anyone know a R package for multivariate (not univariate!) shape preserving interpolating splines. For example spline must preserve monotonocity in both directions, etc... Tine Mlač __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

Re: [R] Including a tilde in a plotmath-type call

2008-05-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think what you are asking for is not a tilde. That is a raised symbol (an accent), and not as in TeX's $\sim$ . It is character 126 in the Adobe Symbol encoding (Adobe's name is '\similar'), so one way is expression(X*symbol("\176")*N(mu, sigma^2)) There are others, and in most circumstanc

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-29 Thread T.D.Rudolph
Here's an added caveat, with subsequently a more detailed explanation of the output desired: The data this will apply to includes a variety of whole numbers not limited to 1 & 0, a number of which may appear consecutively and not separated by zeros! e.g. x<-c(3,2,0,1,0,2,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,4,1) ans

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-29 Thread T.D.Rudolph
Here's an added caveat, with subsequently a more detailed explanation of the output desired: The data this will apply to includes a variety of whole numbers not limited to 1 & 0, a number of which may appear consecutively and not separated by zeros! e.g. x<-c(3,2,0,1,0,2,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,4,1) answ

Re: [R] Question about adding text to xYplot(Hmisc)

2008-05-29 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 5/29/08, Wen Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to make a graph that have error bars and text at > specific position. > > I used the following code from the help file of xYplot(Hmisc) as an example > except I add a myPanel function, which is just supposed to add l

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-29 Thread T.D.Rudolph
I'm trying to build on Jim's approach to change the parameters in the function, with new rules: 1. if (x[i]==0) NA 2. if (x[i]>0) log(x[i]/(number of consecutive zeros immediately preceding it +1)) x<-c(1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1) # i.e. output desired = c(0, NA, -0.69, NA, NA, -1.098, N

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-29 Thread T.D.Rudolph
I'm trying to build on Jim's approach to change the parameters in the function, with new rules: 1. if (x[i]==0) NA 2. if (x[i]>0) log(x[i]/(number of consecutive zeros preceding it +1)) x<-c(1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1) # i.e. output desired = c(0, NA, -0.69, NA, NA, -1.098, NA, NA, NA, -

Re: [R] lm() function

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Cleber Nogueira Borges wrote: my linear model is y=c+a*x1+b*x2 i tried to found a, c, b by the use of: mymodel<-lm(y~1+x1+x2) where y, x1, x2 are 3 vectors with the same length the result is a=NA.so i want to know where is the problem. It's the sum of x1 and x2 equal to one? run the command:

Re: [R] nlm and "missing argument

2008-05-29 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On May 29, 2008, at 11:54 PM, Redding, Matthew wrote: Dear R Gurus, I am having a little difficulty with nlm. I've searched the archives and found nothing that tells me why this is occuring -- though there are some slightly similar issues. A simple example: lev2<-function(aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd,e

Re: [R] Tukey HSD (or other post hoc tests) following repeated measures ANOVA

2008-05-29 Thread Ullrich Ecker
Thanks, Dieter, but as far as I understand, 'glht' does not support objects of class 'aovlist' either. I mean, I know there is a "TukeyHSD" function out there, but that's the problem: repeated measures ANOVA yields an aovlist object, and TukeyHSD calls for an aov object. And I don't know if

[R] nlm and "missing argument

2008-05-29 Thread Redding, Matthew
Dear R Gurus, I am having a little difficulty with nlm. I've searched the archives and found nothing that tells me why this is occuring -- though there are some slightly similar issues. A simple example: lev2<-function(aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd,eee){ res<-aaa+bbb+ccc+ddd+eee res } nlm(l

[R] Question about adding text to xYplot(Hmisc)

2008-05-29 Thread Wen Huang
Hello, I have been trying to make a graph that have error bars and text at specific position. I used the following code from the help file of xYplot(Hmisc) as an example except I add a myPanel function, which is just supposed to add letters from the alphabet at the position aligned at y =

[R] imputationlist, update, and recode

2008-05-29 Thread Donald Braman
I'm stumbling my way through manipulating data in multiply imputed datasets, and have run into a problem translating code I used to run on my pre-imputed dataset to multiple datasets. The imputation runs just fine, as does the reading of the mi data sets into an imputationList. I run into trouble

Re: [R] Including a tilde in a plotmath-type call

2008-05-29 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On May 29, 2008, at 11:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose I have a plot plot(1:10, pch = "") And I want some text to indicate a Normal distrubition. I could do this: text(5, 6, substitute(XN(mu, sigma^2)), adj = 0) text(5.35, 6, "~", adj = 0) But that's clumsy, and depending on you

[R] Including a tilde in a plotmath-type call

2008-05-29 Thread p_connolly
Suppose I have a plot plot(1:10, pch = "") And I want some text to indicate a Normal distrubition. I could do this: text(5, 6, substitute(XN(mu, sigma^2)), adj = 0) text(5.35, 6, "~", adj = 0) But that's clumsy, and depending on your plotting device, might not even look sensible. I'd prefe

Re: [R] Problem with scatter plotting

2008-05-29 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On May 29, 2008, at 9:56 PM, lek2k wrote: PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. I (and certainly many others) have been using multiple points calls for a while now with no problems at

Re: [R] Calculating conditional mean of large series of experiments

2008-05-29 Thread Anthony28
Yes I know the problem can be solved analytically -- the point was to see how well R could simulate the theory. In any case, your assistance is greatly appreciated and it worked well. Thankyou. R does a good job of simulating the experiment! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.c

[R] Problem with scatter plotting

2008-05-29 Thread lek2k
Hi I'm trying to scatter plot 3 data sets on the one graph. I plot the first data set by calling: plot and the next two data sets by calling points points and coloring them different colors to distinguish between the data sets I've also set the xlim and ylim values appropiately The problem is

Re: [R] image() for grid package?

2008-05-29 Thread Felix Andrews
Yes, here are 3 functions that can do it grid::grid.rect RGraphics::grid.imageFun lattice::panel.levelplot On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Wittner, Ben, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to display an image (such as is done with the function image()) > in a grid package viewpo

Re: [R] existing package (mmlcr) modification -- appropriate process?

2008-05-29 Thread Xiaohui Chen
Hi Jenny, A simple solution is to add your line to the function, re-load/source the modified function to the console (e.g. by copy and paste). Then the new function with the same name as the original one will be called next time. If you don't want to use modified function any longer, just use

[R] existing package (mmlcr) modification -- appropriate process?

2008-05-29 Thread Jennifer Thacher
All: I am new to R and would like your help in identifying the appropriate process to follow in order to modify the output from an existing package. I've had difficulty finding an answer online, perhaps because I am using incorrect terminology. A package that I am using (mmlcr) invokes an

[R] Problems with hclust and/or cutree.

2008-05-29 Thread Rolf Turner
I have been attempting to do some work using hclust, and have run into a (possibly subtle) problem. The background is that I constructed a dissimilarity matrix ``d1'' (it involved something called the ``Jaccard similarity coefficient''; I won't go into the details unless requested). I then

Re: [R] Help for R on Windows for non-Win-enabled!

2008-05-29 Thread Chuck Cleland
On 5/29/2008 7:48 PM, Ted Harding wrote: Hi Folks, I need help with a query about R on Windows, specifically about graphics devices. I'm advising someone remotely (so it's all by email) who is running R on Windows, while I am not (Linux only). Things have reached the stage where saving graphics

[R] package for stochastic frontier models?

2008-05-29 Thread aaront
I need to estimate maximum tree crown radius and am looking for a package to prepare stochastic frontier models in R. I have not found any package references on Nabble R help, google, or R help. Any tips on a package for this? With regards, Aaron Trowbridge Researcher BV Research Centre Smith

Re: [R] Bimodal Distribution

2008-05-29 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi Mike, if you can decompose the bimodal distribution into (eg two) known forms, then you could try a stepwise approach, eg: If uniform < 0.5 then double it and use it to draw from the inverse cdf of A, else, double (uniform - 0.5) and use it to draw from the inverse cdf of B. You can change

[R] Help for R on Windows for non-Win-enabled!

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, I need help with a query about R on Windows, specifically about graphics devices. I'm advising someone remotely (so it's all by email) who is running R on Windows, while I am not (Linux only). Things have reached the stage where saving graphics plots as Windows metafiles is looming. I'

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-29 Thread T.D.Rudolph
I'm trying to build on Jim's approach to change the parameters in the function, with new rules: 1. if (x[i]>0) log(x[i]/(number of consecutive zeros immediately preceding it +1)) 2. if (x[i]==0) NA x<-c(1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1) # i.e. output desired = c(0, NA, -0.69, NA, NA, -1.098, NA

Re: [R] lm() function

2008-05-29 Thread Cleber Nogueira Borges
my linear model is y=c+a*x1+b*x2 i tried to found a, c, b by the use of: mymodel<-lm(y~1+x1+x2) where y, x1, x2 are 3 vectors with the same length the result is a=NA.so i want to know where is the problem. It's the sum of x1 and x2 equal to one? run the command: round( sum( c(x1,x2) ),12)==1

Re: [R] help with simple function

2008-05-29 Thread T.D.Rudolph
I'm trying to build on Jim's approach to change the parameters in the function, with new rules: 1. if (x[i]==0) NA 2. if (x[i]>0) log(x[i]/(number of consecutive zeros preceding it +1)) x<-c(1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1) # i.e. output desired = c(0, NA, -0.69, NA, NA, -1.098, NA, NA, NA, -1.38,

Re: [R] lm() function

2008-05-29 Thread Roland Rau
Hi, Cleber Nogueira Borges wrote: hanen wrote: hi, my linear model is y=c+a*x1+b*x2 i tried to found a, c, b by the use of: mymodel<-lm(y~1+x1+x2) where y, x1, x2 are 3 vectors with the same length the result is a=NA.so i want to know where is the problem. It's the sum of x1 and x2 equal t

Re: [R] Calculating conditional mean of large series of experiments

2008-05-29 Thread Moshe Olshansky
Your problem can be easily solved analytically yielding that E(A/B=b) = (110 - b*b)/(21 - 2*b) - no programming needed! If you insist on writing a program, you could do something like: x <- sample(1:10,2000,replace=TRUE) M <- matrix(x,nrow=2) #each column of M represents two balls A <- apply(M,2

Re: [R] Unexpected behaviour in reading genomic coordinate files of R-2.7.0

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Lawrence
This is not really addressing your problem, but I thought you might want to know that the rtracklayer package in Bioconductor already supports parsing BED files, as well as GFF and WIG. It's main purpose is to load the tracks into genome browsers, like UCSC. Michael On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:11 A

Re: [R] OT: batch processing XLS files to CSV

2008-05-29 Thread sjbarry
__ 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] Datasets in R

2008-05-29 Thread Roland Rau
Carlos López wrote: I´m trying to find datasets that will give me residuals, after applying the lm function, with no normality, non linearity, and heteroscedacity so I can try to exemplify those cases in the linear regression model. Can you give any advice on what datasets would be appropiate?

Re: [R] lm() function

2008-05-29 Thread Rolf Turner
On 30/05/2008, at 9:57 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez wrote: Dear Hanen, You don't need "1" in your R code. Try this: # Model mymodel<-lm(y~x1+x2) # Coefficients summary(mymodel) See also ?lm. That's not the problem. The ``1'' is redundant but does no harm. There is presumably something ``wrong''

Re: [R] lm() function

2008-05-29 Thread Cleber Nogueira Borges
hanen wrote: hi, my linear model is y=c+a*x1+b*x2 i tried to found a, c, b by the use of: mymodel<-lm(y~1+x1+x2) where y, x1, x2 are 3 vectors with the same length the result is a=NA.so i want to know where is the problem. It's the sum of x1 and x2 equal to one? run the command: round( sum(

[R] Bimodal Distribution

2008-05-29 Thread Mike Williams
Hello R Users, I am doing a Latin Hypercube type simulation. I have found the improvedLHS function and have used it to generate a bunch of properly distributed uniform probabilities. Now I am using functions like qlnorm to transform that into the appropriately lognormal or triangularly distri

Re: [R] lm() function

2008-05-29 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Hanen, You don't need "1" in your R code. Try this: # Model mymodel<-lm(y~x1+x2) # Coefficients summary(mymodel) See also ?lm. Thanks, Jorge On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:15 PM, hanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > my linear model is y=c+a*x1+b*x2 i tried to found a, c, b by t

[R] lm() function

2008-05-29 Thread hanen
hi, my linear model is y=c+a*x1+b*x2 i tried to found a, c, b by the use of: mymodel<-lm(y~1+x1+x2) where y, x1, x2 are 3 vectors with the same length the result is a=NA.so i want to know where is the problem. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/lm%28%29-function-tp1754607

Re: [R] optimization setup

2008-05-29 Thread Ray Brownrigg
Did you copy-paste that error message? I get: > optim(par=c(1,1), f3) Error in f1(theta, theta1) : object "theta" not found > You seem to be confusing your formal and actual parameters. When you invoke f3 (within optim()), theta is not defined within f3(). Ray On Fri, 30 May 2008, threshold

Re: [R] appropriate covariance matrix for multiple nominal exogenous and multiple continuous endogenous variables in SEM

2008-05-29 Thread John Fox
Dear Gus, If the nominal variables are exogenous then you need not use polychoric and polyserial correlations. (Indeed, if they are polytomous and unordered, then it would be inappropriate to do so.) Simply use dummy exogenous variables, as you would in a dummy regression. You could use a one-si

Re: [R] Manipulating DataSets

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Neil Gupta wrote: Hello R-Users, I am new to R and trying my best however I need help with this simple task. I have a dataset, YM1207. X.Symbol Date Time Exchange TickType ReferenceNumber Price Size 12491 3:YMZ7.EC 12/03/2007 08:32:50 ECB 85985770

Re: [R] Plotting a cubic line from a multiple regression

2008-05-29 Thread Stephan Kolassa
Hi Ashish, I am rather more concerned about whether what you outlined is legitimate (your question 1 below). If you are looking at children, higher AGE will be associated with higher TIV, so both variables would essentially measure the same thing (see Miller & Chapman, Misunderstanding Analysi

Re: [R] optimization setup

2008-05-29 Thread ctu
Hi, I think Ray has answered this question in the previous e-mail. Because optim can only use one single parameter thus you can not have the parameters: theta, theta1 and x at the same time. such as: f1<-function(theta) {theta[1]+theta[2]} f2<-function(theta) {f1(theta)*3} f3<-function(thet

[R] Datasets in R

2008-05-29 Thread Carlos López
I´m trying to find datasets that will give me residuals, after applying the lm function, with no normality, non linearity, and heteroscedacity so I can try to exemplify those cases in the linear regression model. Can you give any advice on what datasets would be appropiate? I can´t use the ones

Re: [R] Thank you

2008-05-29 Thread ctu
I totally agree both of you. This is a super place to mature the R. I learn a lot from this R heaven! Chunhao Quoting Esmail Bonakdarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Tubin wrote: In the past few weeks I have had to give myself a crash course in R, in order to accomplish some necessary tasks for my

Re: [R] Plot colors

2008-05-29 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try: x <- c(1,2,1,1,6,7,-1,-1,5,-1) plot(x, col = ifelse(x == -1, "red", "black"), pch = 16) On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, uv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. I am plotting graphs for values ranging between -1 and 10, for example: > (1,2,1,1,6,7,-1,-1,5,-1) > I am trying to plot the graphs

Re: [R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try using stop: if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) { stop("Different number of assets! \n\n") On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Bill Cunliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, based on a certain condition, I may want to exit my code > early: > > > >#

Re: [R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread ctu
You might try to use "on.exit" or "stop"? # on.exit if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) { on.exit(cat("Different number of assets! "\n")) } # stop if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) { stop("Different number of assets!") } You could find these in "S prog

Re: [R] optimization setup

2008-05-29 Thread threshold
Hi, thanks for your replay the previous post of mine. Let me ask you one more question similar to the previous one, based on a naive example: f1<-function(theta, theta1) {theta[1]+theta[2]+theta1[1]} f2<-function(theta, x, theta1) {f1(theta, theta1)*exp(x)*theta1[2]} function to be optimized wi

Re: [R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread Douglas Bates
It looks like you want to stop the function execution on detecting an error condition, in which case the appropriate function to call is stop(), as in if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) stop("Different number of assets!") An alternative, if you don't want to write the error messages for each

Re: [R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread Esmail Bonakdarian
Bill Cunliffe wrote: For example, based on a certain condition, I may want to exit my code early: # Are there the same number of assets in "prices" and "positions"? if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) { cat("Different number of assets! \n\n"

Re: [R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread Xiaohui Chen
stop('Different number of assets! \n\n') X Bill Cunliffe 写道: For example, based on a certain condition, I may want to exit my code early: # Are there the same number of assets in "prices" and "positions"? if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) {

Re: [R] Thank you

2008-05-29 Thread Esmail Bonakdarian
Tubin wrote: In the past few weeks I have had to give myself a crash course in R, in order to accomplish some necessary tasks for my job. During that time, I've found this forum to be helpful time and time again - usually I find the answer to my problem by searching the archives; once or twice I

Re: [R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread Charles C. Berry
See ?return HTH, Chuck On Thu, 29 May 2008, Bill Cunliffe wrote: For example, based on a certain condition, I may want to exit my code early: # Are there the same number of assets in "prices" and "positions"? if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) {

Re: [R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread Roland Rau
Hi Bill Cunliffe wrote: For example, based on a certain condition, I may want to exit my code early: # Are there the same number of assets in "prices" and "positions"? if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) { cat("Different number of assets! \

[R] How do you exit a function in R?

2008-05-29 Thread Bill Cunliffe
For example, based on a certain condition, I may want to exit my code early: # Are there the same number of assets in "prices" and "positions"? if (nAssetPositions != nAssetPrices) { cat("Different number of assets! \n\n")

Re: [R] akima interpolation and triangulation question

2008-05-29 Thread steven wilson
thanks. one more thing w/r this particular data set: tri.mesh doesn't work in R but triangulation (S+SpatialStats) does work interp.old (diff ncp) doesn't work in R but it does in Splus for the same ncp values??? so,R or SPlus? who's right? On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Prof Brian Riple

Re: [R] test for multivariate normality?

2008-05-29 Thread ctu
Yes. You could install "mvnormtest" Package and perform the multivariate normality test. By using mshapiro.test I wish this is helpful! Chunhao Tu Quoting HongSheng Liao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: My stat textbook tells me that using Shapiro-Wilk test for each variable one by one is not equal

Re: [R] Troubles plotting lrm output in Design Library

2008-05-29 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Patrizio Frederic wrote: dear Harrell, thank you for quick reply and suggestions. I still have the problem: library(Design) x = rnorm(100) y = runif(100)<(exp(x)/(1+exp(x))) y = 0*y+1*y d = datadist(x,y) options(datadist="d") fit = lrm(y~x) # works fine, but plot(fit) #produce the error

[R] appropriate covariance matrix for multiple nominal exogenous and multiple continuous endogenous variables in SEM

2008-05-29 Thread Gus Jespersen
Hi, I would like to use the sem package to perform a path analysis (no latent variables) with a mixture of 2 nominal exogenous, 1 continuous exogenous, and 4 continuous endogenous variables. I seek advice as to how to calculate the appropriate covariance matrix for use with the sem package.

Re: [R] R reference Books

2008-05-29 Thread Wim Bertels
Hi Neil, as i am not an advanced user, i find reference cards very handy (google: reference card R) hth a bit, Wim Message: 70 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:25:36 -0500 From: "Neil Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [R] R reference Books To: R-help@r-project.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTEC

[R] test for multivariate normality?

2008-05-29 Thread HongSheng Liao
My stat textbook tells me that using Shapiro-Wilk test for each variable one by one is not equal to a test for multivariate normality as a whole. Does R have a function of testing for multivariate normality? Thanks. Hongsheng (Hank) Liao, Ph.D. Lab Manager Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecolo

[R] Thank you

2008-05-29 Thread Tubin
In the past few weeks I have had to give myself a crash course in R, in order to accomplish some necessary tasks for my job. During that time, I've found this forum to be helpful time and time again - usually I find the answer to my problem by searching the archives; once or twice I've posted que

[R] Manipulating DataSets

2008-05-29 Thread Neil Gupta
Hello R-Users, I am new to R and trying my best however I need help with this simple task. I have a dataset, YM1207. X.Symbol Date Time Exchange TickType ReferenceNumber Price Size 12491 3:YMZ7.EC 12/03/2007 08:32:50 ECB 8598577013379

Re: [R] Suitable package for carrying out sigma and beta co nvergence in panel data

2008-05-29 Thread Roger Bivand
Amarjit Singh Sethi yahoo.co.in> writes: > > Dear all > I wish to carry out sigma- and beta-convergence analysis in respect of > panel data [wherein current value of > one of the variables needs be regressed upon suitably transformed lagged > values of another > variable(s)]. I am quite new to

Re: [R] On reading posts on this list

2008-05-29 Thread stephen sefick
Rnabble, search on the CRAN site, and some others On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Axel Etzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am fairly new to R and this list (this is my first post), so I am > wondering whether > there is a possibility to view posts on this list conveniently on a

Re: [R] On reading posts on this list

2008-05-29 Thread Richard . Cotton
> I am fairly new to R and this list (this is my first post), so I am > wondering whether > there is a possibility to view posts on this list conveniently on a > website besides > reading my email. You can see them on Nabble, but there is a delay of a couple of hours. http://www.nabble.com/R-hel

Re: [R] Plotting a cubic line from a multiple regression

2008-05-29 Thread Richard . Cotton
> I'm attempting to plot a cubic relationship between two variables > controlling for the effects of a third variable. In this short > example, I'm trying to use AGE to predict CORTEX while controlling for > the effects of TIV (total intracranial volume): > > > cortex =

Re: [R] On reading posts on this list

2008-05-29 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi Axel, Perhaps http://www.nabble.com/R-f13819.html can be useful. Thanks, Jorge On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Axel Etzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am fairly new to R and this list (this is my first post), so I am > wondering whether > there is a possibility to view p

Re: [R] On reading posts on this list

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
Yes, starting from http://www.r-project.org/ you can go to the mailing lists, choose the appropriate one, go to the corresponding archives and read all of it sorted by the most common criteria. Best wishes, uwe Axel Etzold wrote: Dear all, I am fairly new to R and this list (this is my fir

Re: [R] On reading posts on this list

2008-05-29 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Axel Etzold wrote: Dear all, I am fairly new to R and this list (this is my first post), so I am wondering whether there is a possibility to view posts on this list conveniently on a website besides reading my email. See http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r

[R] "rbinom" not using probability of success right

2008-05-29 Thread Kyle Matoba
Message: 24 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 05:53:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Twumasi-Ankrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [R] "rbinom" not using probability of success right To: r-help@r-project.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain I am trying to simulate a series of ones and zeros

[R] Plot colors

2008-05-29 Thread uv
Hi. I am plotting graphs for values ranging between -1 and 10, for example: (1,2,1,1,6,7,-1,-1,5,-1) I am trying to plot the graphs so that the points with value of -1 will be in one specific color, and the rest of the points will be in one different specific color. I would be grateful for any ide

[R] On reading posts on this list

2008-05-29 Thread Axel Etzold
Dear all, I am fairly new to R and this list (this is my first post), so I am wondering whether there is a possibility to view posts on this list conveniently on a website besides reading my email. I have in mind something like this : http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/4 for the Ruby programming

Re: [R] creating library

2008-05-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If you mean a package ... 'Writing R Extensions' says Ideally, the @R{} code files should only directly assign @R{} objects and definitely should not call functions with side effects such as @code{require} and @code{options}. Note that you are expecting the side-effect of 'print', which is calle

Re: [R] how to use substring match as condition?

2008-05-29 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Albert Vilella wrote: Hi, How can I use a substring match as a condition in a subset command? Perhaps subset(input, field1=="blah1" & regexpr("blah2",field3) != -1 ) ?? Study in example(gsub) the regexpr example and in ?gsub the 'Value' se

Re: [R] Search&replace string?

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
Perhaps you want to read the files only once, and save those 85 or whatever versions you want. For Search&Replace you might want to take a look at ?gsub and friends. Uwe Ligges Romain wrote: Hi there, I would like to know if it is possible to modify a text file with a R function. In fact I

Re: [R] postscript

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
Note that ?postscript tells you: "Note that R does not embed the font(s) used in the PostScript output: see ?embedFonts for a utility to help do so." It makes really sense to read both of these help pages. Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to save a graph as a .ps fil

Re: [R] In fact this is a Stats question, but... "The return."

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Thanks* all those who took the time to help me (even if the "question" was not related to - the use of - R). Now I think I can soundly make my point w/ the referee (can I use your replies? If so I intend to properly cite its use?!?). In general, I think it is best not

Re: [R] calling C function from R

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
What you have sent is almost unreadable. Please do not send HTML messages (as the posting guide suggests)! Wen-Ching Lin wrote: Hi, I am reading the source code of rpart. I have problems understand the following code and would appreciate for any helps. In rpart.s, there is a line: rpfit <- .

Re: [R] on attach/load of a *package*; was creating library

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
yoo wrote: Hi, I'm able to create a library with R CMD INSTALL cmd, etc... I'm just You probably mean you are able to *install* a *package*, I guess. wondering.. is it possible that when the user says library(boo), it runs some initialization code? Yes: See the manual writin

[R] help with RPART

2008-05-29 Thread Linus An
Hi all, I am using RPART for my genetic study under ANOVA method. I wanted to know if it is possible to see r-squared or the amount of the variance in the data explained by a model (or a tree in this case from the RPART package. I am guessing that there has to be one since I am using ANOVA to est

[R] Plotting a cubic line from a multiple regression

2008-05-29 Thread Ashish Ranpura
Dear all, I'm attempting to plot a cubic relationship between two variables controlling for the effects of a third variable. In this short example, I'm trying to use AGE to predict CORTEX while controlling for the effects of TIV (total intracranial volume): corte

[R] creating library

2008-05-29 Thread yoooooo
Hi, I'm able to create a library with R CMD INSTALL cmd, etc... I'm just wondering.. is it possible that when the user says library(boo), it runs some initialization code? I have a dumb R file that is: print(2) boo <- function(x){} when I R CMD INSTALL the library, I'm able to see 2

[R] Calculating conditional mean of large series of experiments

2008-05-29 Thread Anthony28
I need to repeat an experiment 1000 times. Each experiment involves randomly selecting one ball each from two separate bags. Each bag contains 10 balls, numbered 1, 2, 3, ... , 10. So the probability of selecting any one pair of balls is equal to all others. For each experiment, what I need to do

Re: [R] "Levels" error after printing

2008-05-29 Thread Dieter Menne
Gundala Viswanath gmail.com> writes: > > Hi all, > > After running this code (attaches is the input file): > > dat <- read.table("gene_prob.txt", sep = "\t") > n <- length(dat$V1) > print(n) > print(dat$V1) > > I get this print out. > > .. > [8541] LOC552889 GPR15 SLC2A11

[R] PCA projection graphic

2008-05-29 Thread Cleber Nogueira Borges
Hello all, I am trying make an graphic of 1ª PC projection, but I not get success in adaption of code at ref[1]. The code make a 2ª PC projection...{by mistake, I guess...} Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance. Cleber # adaption code :: ref[1]="Statistics with R", cap.09; http://zoonek

[R] In fact this is a Stats question, but... "The return."

2008-05-29 Thread eesteves
*Thanks* all those who took the time to help me (even if the "question" was not related to - the use of - R). Now I think I can soundly make my point w/ the referee (can I use your replies? If so I intend to properly cite its use?!?). Regards, Eduardo Esteves ps - Sorry for not explaining

Re: [R] Joining uneven datasets

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Neil Gupta wrote: Hello, I have quite a simple problem that I believe can be solved quite easily. I have a dataframe as such: Symbol Date Time Exchange TickType ReferenceNumber Price Size 1 3:YMZ7.EC 12/03/2007 08:30:00 ECB83916044 133879 2 3:YMZ7.EC 12/03/200

Re: [R] In fact this is a Stats question, but...

2008-05-29 Thread S Ellison
The low R2 says the model does not explain much of the variance. But the high significance arises from the very large number of degrees of freedom. This is not an 'incompatibility'; just what happens with large dispersion, small effects and a very large number of observations. But you clearly hav

[R] Joining uneven datasets

2008-05-29 Thread Neil Gupta
Hello, I have quite a simple problem that I believe can be solved quite easily. I have a dataframe as such: Symbol Date Time Exchange TickType ReferenceNumber Price Size 1 3:YMZ7.EC 12/03/2007 08:30:00 ECB83916044 133879 2 3:YMZ7.EC 12/03/2007 08:30:00 EC

Re: [R] Troubles plotting lrm output in Design Library

2008-05-29 Thread Patrizio Frederic
dear Harrell, thank you for quick reply and suggestions. I still have the problem: library(Design) x = rnorm(100) y = runif(100)<(exp(x)/(1+exp(x))) y = 0*y+1*y d = datadist(x,y) options(datadist="d") fit = lrm(y~x) # works fine, but plot(fit) #produce the error message Error in value.chk

Re: [R] can I do this with R?

2008-05-29 Thread Lucke, Joseph F
Frank, I believe, is correct. Using the AIC/BIC for data-driven model selection does NOT solve the "stepwise problem". This is because the distribution of the sample AIC is changed from its original distribution to an extreme-value distribution, e.g.., min (AIC1, AIC2, ..., AICn). Thus, whatev

Re: [R] image() for grid package?

2008-05-29 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.: > Is there a way to display an image (such as is done with the function > image()) in a grid package viewport? Yes. Use levelplot() from the lattice package. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://sta

Re: [R] In fact this is a Stats question, but...

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Ben Bolker wrote: ualg.pt> writes: Dear All, I'me having (much) trouble understanding why it happened and answering a referee's comment to part of a submitted manuscript. I've tried to google for help but... I'm really confident that although this is a R-Help list someone can help me

Re: [R] In fact this is a Stats question, but...

2008-05-29 Thread Ben Bolker
ualg.pt> writes: > > Dear All, > I'me having (much) trouble understanding why it happened and answering > a referee's comment to part of a submitted manuscript. I've tried to > google for help but... I'm really confident that although this is a > R-Help list someone can help me! > > I us

Re: [R] Troubles plotting lrm output in Design Library

2008-05-29 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Patrizio Frederic wrote: Dear R-helpers, I'm having a problem in using plot.design in Design Library. Tho following example code produce the error: n <- 1000# define sample size set.seed(17) # so can reproduce the results age<- rnorm(n, 50, 10) blood.pressure <- rnorm(n, 120, 15

[R] image() for grid package?

2008-05-29 Thread Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.
Is there a way to display an image (such as is done with the function image()) in a grid package viewport? Thanks. -Ben The information transmitted in this electronic communica...{{dropped:16}} __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.c

Re: [R] can I do this with R?

2008-05-29 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Xiaohui Chen wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr 写道: Xiaohui Chen wrote: step or stepAIC functions do the job. You can opt to use BIC by changing the mulplication of penalty. I think AIC and BIC are not only limited to compare two pre-defined models, they can be used as model search criteria. You coul

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