Re: [R] strange (to me) p-value distribution

2008-06-08 Thread Mark Kimpel
Wolfgang, Thank you for both the explanation and the beautiful R code to demonstrate your point. Even after seeing the empirical evidence, however, I couldn't get the underlying mechanism into my head. I tweaked your code a bit to make the batch effect even bigger, to the point where, ah ha, the

Re: [R] Need to run R on Fedora 9.

2008-06-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Jonathan Baron wrote: On 06/05/08 09:28, RobertsLRRI wrote: I'm in need of a version of R that will run on fedora 9 and haven't been able to find one. I need this in order to run Bioconductor. Any advice? Why not say (as root) yum install R ? Worked for me. The point is that there

Re: [R] Need to run R on Fedora 9.

2008-06-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in need of a version of R that will run on fedora 9 and haven't been able to find one. I need this in order to run Bioconductor. Any advice? Why not say (as root) yum install R ? Worked for me. The point is

Re: [R] how to important a date file into R

2008-06-08 Thread Dr. S. B. Nguah
Hi, ?read.fwf Try, read.fwf(filename.ext,width=c(3,rep(1,298)),header=F) Blay yyan liu wrote: Hi: I have a data file in the following format. The first three digits stand for the ID of a respondent such as 402, 403. Different respondents may have the same ID. Followed the ID are

[R] SARIMA Model Problem

2008-06-08 Thread ruangkij s
Hi.. I get a below data from sofeware . For the SARIMA equation should be (1 - 0.991B^{12})z_t + 43.557 = (1+0.37B)(1-0,915B^{12})a_t as somebody advise me .. Then I use it to confrim the forecasting output but it look like this equation is not correct .. because it

Re: [R] favorite useful tools?

2008-06-08 Thread Michael Dewey
At 15:16 07/06/2008, Carl Witthoft wrote: Hi, I'm relatively new to R, so I don't know the full list of base (or popular add-on packages) functions and tools available. For example, I tripped across mention of rle() in a message about some other problem. rle() turned out to be a handy

[R] Adding a Rotated Density Plot to an Existing Plot

2008-06-08 Thread Rory Winston
Hi Consider the following graph: x - rnorm(1000) x - x + exp(-x/2) layout(matrix(rep(c(1,1,2), 2), 2, 3, byrow=TRUE)) boxplot(x) rug(jitter(x), side=2) plot(density(x)) What I would really like to do is to have the density plot rotated by 90 degrees so that I can see it line up with the rug

Re: [R] eliminating and relabeling the first column

2008-06-08 Thread jim holtman
I am not sure exactly what you were trying to do. read.table will read your data into an object with R and you can change the row names: dat - read.table(textConnection(H1 H2 H3 + 1 2 3 + 4 54 6 + 6 7 8 + 3 2 1), header=TRUE) closeAllConnections() dat H1 H2 H3 1 1 2 3 2 4 54 6 3 6 7

Re: [R] Adding a Rotated Density Plot to an Existing Plot

2008-06-08 Thread jim holtman
This gets you close to the solution that you want: x - rnorm(1000) x - x + exp(-x/2) layout(matrix(rep(c(1,1,2), 2), 2, 3, byrow=TRUE)) boxplot(x) rug(jitter(x), side=2) y - density(x) plot(y$y, y$x, type='l') On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Rory Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [R] Adding a Rotated Density Plot to an Existing Plot

2008-06-08 Thread jim holtman
I forgot to make sure the axis ranges were the same: x - rnorm(1000) x - x + exp(-x/2) layout(matrix(rep(c(1,1,2), 2), 2, 3, byrow=TRUE)) boxplot(x, ylim=c(0.5,4)) rug(jitter(x), side=2) y - density(x) plot(y$y, y$x, type='l',ylim=c(0.5,4)) On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Rory Winston [EMAIL

[R] multinormality

2008-06-08 Thread hanen
is there any function under R that allows me to test the normality of my 92 sumples? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/multinormality-tp17717230p17717230.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

[R] exponential distribution

2008-06-08 Thread Antonio Gasparrini
Dear all, I've tried to solve the Es. 12, cap 4 of Introduction to GLM by Annette Dobson. It's about the relationship between survival time of leukemia patients and blood cell count. I tried to fit a model with exponential distribution, first by glm (family gamma and then dispersion parameter

[R] AUC steady state calculations

2008-06-08 Thread Bart Joosen
Hi, a collegue has send me an excel sheet with some plasma values, and now he wants to know the AUC steady state. I took a look at the CRAN taskviews, and came up with PK, PKtools, ... The AUC calculation, no problem with that, but how do I calculate the steady state? One way of thinking was

Re: [R] Adding a Rotated Density Plot to an Existing Plot

2008-06-08 Thread Rory Winston
Thanks Jim! Thats just what I want. Cheers Rory jim holtman wrote: I forgot to make sure the axis ranges were the same: x - rnorm(1000) x - x + exp(-x/2) layout(matrix(rep(c(1,1,2), 2), 2, 3, byrow=TRUE)) boxplot(x, ylim=c(0.5,4)) rug(jitter(x), side=2) y - density(x) plot(y$y, y$x,

Re: [R] multinormality

2008-06-08 Thread Maria Rizzo
For a test of multivariate normality, there is mvnorm.etest in the energy package. Maria Rizzo On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:01 AM, hanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any function under R that allows me to test the normality of my 92 sumples? -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] txt file, 14000+ rows, only last 8000 appear

2008-06-08 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:30:56PM -0700, RobertsLRRI wrote: when I load my data file in txt format into the R workstation I lose about 6000 rows, this is a problem. Is there a limit to the display capabilities for the workstation? is all the information there and I just can't see the first

Re: [R] R + Linux

2008-06-08 Thread Hank Stevens
I typically use a Mac (I love it) with Aquamacs, LaTeX, and R, and recently started using Linux Ubuntu as well. Ubuntu is the only distribution I have ever tried, and I really like it. I like it so much that I would have made my switch complete, but cannot find replacement for the PDF cut

Re: [R] how to important a date file into R

2008-06-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this. From your printout it seems that there are some extraneous spaces in the file so first we read it in and remove the spaces and just in case remove any completely blank lines. Then we re-read it using read.fwf. Note that the widths= argument in read.fwf can be a list where we specify

Re: [R] lsmeans

2008-06-08 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/7/08, John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Dieter, I don't know whether I qualify as a master, but here's my brief take on the subject: First, I dislike the term least-squares means, which seems to me like nonsense. Second, what I prefer to call effect displays are just

[R] Installation of R bindings on Windows

2008-06-08 Thread Axel Etzold
Dear all, I am trying to install a package of R bindings for the Ruby language on Windows Vista ... this involves some compilation work with Mingw. (The analogous process on Linux Ubuntu went fine, but for the Windows installation, I need to provide the location of the file analogous to the

Re: [R] lsmeans

2008-06-08 Thread hadley wickham
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/08, John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Dieter, I don't know whether I qualify as a master, but here's my brief take on the subject: First, I dislike the term least-squares means, which seems to me like

[R] optim, constrOptim: setting some parameters equal to each other

2008-06-08 Thread Alex F. Bokov
Hello, and apologies for the upcoming naive questions. I am a biologist who is trying to teach himself the appropriate areas of math and stats. I welcome pointers to suggested background reading just as much as I do direct answers to my question. Let's say I have a function F() that takes

Re: [R] lsmeans

2008-06-08 Thread John Fox
Dear Doug, Your point is correct, of course, but if people are interested in computing marginal means (or marginal cell means), then they can do so simply and don't need a statistical model. I think that when such a model is fit, interest is typically in conditioning on the other explanatory

Re: [R] lsmeans

2008-06-08 Thread John Fox
Dear Hadley, Unfortunately, the term marginal gets used in two quite different ways, and Searle's population marginal means would, I believe, be more clearly called population conditional means or population partial means. This is more or less alternative terminology for least-squares means (to

Re: [R] lsmeans

2008-06-08 Thread hadley wickham
Well put Doug. I would add another condition, which I don't know how to state precisely. The settings for the other terms, which are usually marginal medians, modes, or means, must make sense when considered jointly. Frequently when all adjustment covariates are set to overall marginal

Re: [R] optim, constrOptim: setting some parameters equal to each other

2008-06-08 Thread Spencer Graves
If 'F' is twice differentiable, this could be done fairly easily by writing 'F' as a function to be maximized with a1 = a + da, etc., and using the 'activePars' argument in maxNR{maxLik} to specify the constraints you want. More specifically, consider the following: Fmax -

Re: [R] optim, constrOptim: setting some parameters equal to each other

2008-06-08 Thread Katharine Mullen
Here is an example w/optim where you have an objective function F(x) where you have (possibly a few) constraints of form x_i=x_j, and you can specify the constraints flexibly, which is what I _think_ you want. An example from you would have been nice. ## objective function that depends on all

Re: [R] Installation of R bindings on Windows

2008-06-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
From within R try this: file.path(R.home(), bin, R.dll, fsep = \\) On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Axel Etzold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I am trying to install a package of R bindings for the Ruby language on Windows Vista ... this involves some compilation work with Mingw. (The

Re: [R] optim, constrOptim: setting some parameters equal to each other

2008-06-08 Thread Katharine Mullen
the example I just mailed had an error; it should have been: ## objective function that depends on all parameters, here a, b, c obfun - function(a,b,c,dd) sum((dd - (exp(a * 1:100) + exp(b * 1:50) + exp(c * 1:25) ))^2) fr - function(x, eqspec, dd, obfun) { ## assign variables for parameter

Re: [R] lsmeans

2008-06-08 Thread John Fox
Dear Hadley, Actually, the effects package does exactly what you suggest for continuous predictors. Regards, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -Original Message-

Re: [R] sample size in bootstrap(boot)

2008-06-08 Thread Tim Hesterberg
bootstrap() and samp.bootstrap() are part of the S+Resample package, see http://www.insightful.com/downloads/libraries You could modify boot() to allow sampling with size other than n. Use caution when bootstrapping with a sample size other than n. The usual reason for bootstrapping is inference

[R] R and C/C++ for loop

2008-06-08 Thread juiceorange
I want to call C/C++ in R to do the loops. Is it doable? If my whole code is a big loop, is it better to do the inverse thing, i.e. call R function in C/C++? Whichever is better, is there any online material which guide me the procedure? Thank you! -- View this message in context:

[R] Default Argument Passing in Script

2008-06-08 Thread Gundala Viswanath
Hi all, Currently I run R script with arguments the following ways $ R --vanilla myscript.R ARGUMENT1 And in my script it is encoded as: __BEGIN__ args-commandArgs() do_sth(args[3]) My question is that is there a way to set a default argument inside the R script? In Perl analogically

Re: [R] exponential distribution

2008-06-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What do you mean by 'correct' here? If you do manually what glm() does, you would expect to get the same answer, but that is not independent verification. As far as I recall either glm nor survreg are calculation the exact variance in this case -- they are both making use of asymptotic