Re: [R] removing daylight savings in R

2009-02-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What do you mean by 'standard time'? If you mean UTC, set TZ=UTC. For anything else, see ?Sys.timezone (which explains the use of TZ). I am guessing that you are storing times in "POSIXct" objects (you do not say): they are in UTC. Have you any evidence that 'datetimes are getting converted t

[R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I want to install some versions of R simultaneously from source on a computer (running Linux). Some programs have an option to specify a suffix for the executable (eg R would become R-2.7.2 when the suffix is specified as "-2.7.2"). I did not find this option for R - did I overlook it? If it i

Re: [R] question about 3-d plot

2009-02-26 Thread andrew
actually, I just realised you also want a line in the plot. I am not super-sure how to do this. On Feb 27, 5:20 pm, andrew wrote: > the following should work > > library(lattice) > x <- seq(1,100) > y <- seq(1,100) > gr <- expand.grid(x,y) > gr$z <- x + y + rnorm(1,0,100) > cloud(z ~ x + y,

[R] analysis of variance using lmer

2009-02-26 Thread Lars Kunert
Hi, I am trying to do an analysis of variance for an unbalanced design. As a toy example, I use a dataset presented by K. Hinkelmann and O. Kempthorne in "Design and Anaylysis of Experiments" (p353-356). This example is very similar to my own dataset, with one difference: it is balanced. Thus it is

[R] removing daylight savings in R

2009-02-26 Thread Rhiannon Marchant
Hi all, I've been having some trouble with times in regards to daylight savings in R version 2.8.1. I have an ORACLE database that R is importing data in from, for the 2am and 2:30am time intervals for the dates that daylight savings starts the times are getting read as NA values i

Re: [R] question about 3-d plot

2009-02-26 Thread andrew
the following should work library(lattice) x <- seq(1,100) y <- seq(1,100) gr <- expand.grid(x,y) gr$z <- x + y + rnorm(1,0,100) cloud(z ~ x + y, data = gr) also, look for the package rgl which does similar but with more possiblities. On Feb 27, 4:28 pm, Dipankar Basu wrote: > Hi R Users, >

[R] question about 3-d plot

2009-02-26 Thread Dipankar Basu
Hi R Users, I have produced a simulated scatter plot of y versus x tightly clustered around the 45 degree line through the origin with the following code: x <- seq(1,100) y <- x+rnorm(100,0,10) plot(x,y,col="blue") abline(0,1) Is there some way to generate a 3-dimensional analogue of this? C

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Ajay ohri
How would this agency be convinced of adopting R code also how would these things work. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr < f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program >

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Ajay ohri
Sometimes for the sake of simplicity, SAS coding is created like that. One can use the concatenate function and drag and drop in an simple excel sheet for creating elaborate SAS code like the one mentioned and without any time at all. There are multiple ways to do this in SAS , much better and simi

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Wensui Liu
Thanks for pointing me to the SAS code, Dr Harrell After reading codes, I have to say that the inefficiency is not related to SAS language itself but the SAS programmer. An experienced SAS programmer won't use much of hard-coding, very adhoc and difficult to maintain. I agree with you that in the S

Re: [R] accessing and preserving list names in lapply

2009-02-26 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
res <- lapply(1:length(L),do.one) Actually, I do res <- lapply(:length(L),function(x)do.one(L[x])) -- this is the price of needing the element's name, so I have to both make do.one extract the name and the meat separately inside, and lapply becomes ugly. Yet the obvious alternatives -- ex

Re: [R] ftp fetch using RCurl?

2009-02-26 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Hi Stanley. CHD850 wrote: Hi everyone, I have to fetch about 300 to 500 zipped archives from a remote ftp server. Each of the archive is about 1Mb. I know I can get it done by using download.file() in R, but I am curious that is there a faster way to do this using RCurl. For example, are there

Re: [R] generalized linear mixed models with a beta distribution

2009-02-26 Thread Ben Bolker
Jeff Evans-5 wrote: > > > lme4 does have a leg up on GLIMMIX in other areas, though. > The latest SAS release (9.2) is now able to compute the Laplace > approximation of the likelihood, but it will only fit an overdispersion > parameter using pseudo-likelihoods which can't be used for model >

[R] accessing and preserving list names in lapply

2009-02-26 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
Sometimes I'm iterating over a list where names are keys into another data structure, e.g. a related list. Then I can't use lapply as it does [[]] and loses the name. Then I do something like this: do.one <- function(ldf) { # list-dataframe item key <- names(ldf) meat <- ldf[[1]] mydf

Re: [R] Computing sd across an array with missing values

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Lawrence
It just so happens that I created a vectorized SD function the other day. See the column and row versions below. If there are any rows/columns with only one non-NA value, it will return NaN. col_sd = function(x){ dimx = dim(x) x.mean = .Internal(colMeans(x,dimx[1],dimx[2],na.rm=TRU

Re: [R] generalized linear mixed models with a beta distribution

2009-02-26 Thread dave fournier
You can fit this kind of model (and negative binomial) and more difficult mixed models with AD Model Builder's random effects module which is now freely available at http://admb-project.org/ -- David A. Fournier P.O. Box 2040, Sidney, B.C. V8l 3S3 Canada Phone/FAX 250-655-3364 http://ott

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Thomas Levine
Perhaps "coat" and "jacket" are more ambiguous in the United States than the United Kingdom. If it's cold enough to warrant it, I wear a jacket in the morning. If it isn't, I don't want to have to carry it around all day. Checking the daily weather forecast is too much work, so I just go by the cur

Re: [R] Moving Average

2009-02-26 Thread Carl Witthoft
Along similar lines, I wrote a toy script to apply any function you want in a windowed sense. Be warned that it's about 1 times slower than loess(). # my own boxcar tool, just because. # use bfunc to specify what function to apply to the windowed # region. # basically must be valid func

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread JRG
On 26 Feb 2009 at 23:47, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > 2009/2/26 Frank E Harrell Jr : > > If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program > > in SAS, take a look at the SAS programs provided by the US Agency for > > Healthcare Research and Quality for risk adjusting and repo

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Barry Rowlingson wrote: 2009/2/26 Frank E Harrell Jr : If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program in SAS, take a look at the SAS programs provided by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for risk adjusting and reporting for hospital outcomes at http:/

Re: [R] Something similar to data.frame, but allows variables with unique lengths?

2009-02-26 Thread Domenico Vistocco
Jason Rupert wrote: I have a tightly coupled collection of variables with different lengths and types (some characters and others numerics). I looked at the documentation for data.frame, but indicates that it expects all variables to have the same length, i.e. number of elements. I think you

Re: [R] Something similar to data.frame, but allows variables with unique lengths?

2009-02-26 Thread jim holtman
?list On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Jason Rupert wrote: > I have a tightly coupled collection of variables with different lengths and > types (some characters and others numerics).  I looked at the documentation > for data.frame, but indicates that it expects all variables to have the same

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2009/2/26 Frank E Harrell Jr : > If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program > in SAS, take a look at the SAS programs provided by the US Agency for > Healthcare Research and Quality for risk adjusting and reporting for > hospital outcomes at http://www.qualityindicat

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Wensui Liu
Frank, I couldn't locate the program you mentioned. doyou mind being more specific? could you please point me to the file? i am just curious. thanks. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program > in SAS, t

Re: [R] User manual or tutorial for GAM package

2009-02-26 Thread David Winsemius
Perhaps you could be more specific in your request? The gam function in the gam package has 4 pages describing the syntax and multiple examples, so saying you "can not quite seem to get the syntax correct for my data format as simple as it is." is impossibly non-specific. -- David Winsemius

Re: [R] Substituting in a variable file name in a Windows system command

2009-02-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Elaine Jones wrote: I am running R version 2.8.1 on Windows XP OS. I generate and write a .csv file from my R script. Then the following command works to upload it to a remote server using a windows batch file that carries out the ftp (among other things). > system("C:/upload_data/upload

[R] complex data summary

2009-02-26 Thread James J. Roper
Dear All, I am interested in using R to summarize data so that I can THEN do some additional analyses using behavioral data. I study birds, mostly, and often behavioral data that includes timing. So, for example, each line may be the occurrence of some behavior, and it would include identifiers

[R] Something similar to data.frame, but allows variables with unique lengths?

2009-02-26 Thread Jason Rupert
I have a tightly coupled collection of variables with different lengths and types (some characters and others numerics).  I looked at the documentation for data.frame, but indicates that it expects all variables to have the same length, i.e. number of elements.    I was hoping the "See Also" do

[R] User manual or tutorial for GAM package

2009-02-26 Thread Neotropical bat risk assessments
Hi all, Tnx for the number of suggestion to buy one of the books. Unfortunately being a non profit conservation project now w/o funding since all Central American projects were shut down 2 years ago due to lack of donor funding I have nothing now at all for books or even my support, to cover e

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread hadley wickham
See also http://umbrellatoday.com/ Hadley On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Thomas Levine wrote: > I'm writing a program that will tell me whether I should wear a coat, > so I'd like to be able to download daily weather forecasts and daily > reports of recent past weather conditions. > > The NOAA

Re: [R] left truncated data survival analysis package

2009-02-26 Thread Göran Broström
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:02 AM, wrote: > > Hello, > I d like to run a survival analysis with "left truncated data". Could you > recommend me a package to do this please ? The 'eha' package if you want parametric or discrete time models. Göran > Thanks > Philippe Guardiola > >

[R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program in SAS, take a look at the SAS programs provided by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for risk adjusting and reporting for hospital outcomes at http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/software.htm . The PS

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2009/2/26 Thomas Levine : > I'm writing a program that will tell me whether I should wear a coat, > so I'd like to be able to download daily weather forecasts and daily > reports of recent past weather conditions. > > The NOAA has very promising tabular forecasts > (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapC

Re: [R] User manual or tutorial for GAM package

2009-02-26 Thread Bert Gunter
-- or perhaps even the section on "Additive Models" in the latest edition of V&R's MASS (still a useul book to have in one's library, IMHO, although, like me, it's getting grayer) Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics 650-467-7374 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-pro

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
James Muller wrote: > Yes, as a general thing go to regular expressions if you don't have an > existing library available to do the same thing (or you're lazy like > me:). > > many things are simply *much* easier with xpath than with regexes, and with the XML package you got it for free. vQ

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread James Muller
Yes, as a general thing go to regular expressions if you don't have an existing library available to do the same thing (or you're lazy like me:). Jame On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Scillieri, John wrote: >> Looks like you can sign up to get XML feed data from Weathe

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Scillieri, John wrote: > Looks like you can sign up to get XML feed data from Weather.com > > http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html > ... and use the excellent R package XML by Duncan Temple Lang to parse the document and easily access the data with, e.g.., XPath rather than regular expre

Re: [R] User manual or tutorial for GAM package

2009-02-26 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:54 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Neotropical bat risk assessments wrote: Hi all, I would like to run the gam package, but can not quite seem to get the syntax correct for my data format as simple as it is. The gamlss package has a user man

[R] When download.file fails...

2009-02-26 Thread CHD850
Hi everyone, In the situation that the remote file does not exist, download.file fails, yet it still creates a file as provided for "destfile" argument. I tried to delete this bad file but got the message that it is still being used by "other programs", which I assume is R. Does anyone know ho

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Scillieri, John
Looks like you can sign up to get XML feed data from Weather.com http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html Hope it works out! -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of James Muller Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:57 PM

Re: [R] User manual or tutorial for GAM package

2009-02-26 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Neotropical bat risk assessments wrote: Hi all, I would like to run the gam package, but can not quite seem to get the syntax correct for my data format as simple as it is. The gamlss package has a user manual but other than the help with gam package I can no

[R] User manual or tutorial for GAM package

2009-02-26 Thread Neotropical bat risk assessments
Hi all, I would like to run the gam package, but can not quite seem to get the syntax correct for my data format as simple as it is. The gamlss package has a user manual but other than the help with gam package I can not find a user manual per se. I did install the gamair that has loads of

[R] Substituting in a variable file name in a Windows system command

2009-02-26 Thread Elaine Jones
I am running R version 2.8.1 on Windows XP OS. I generate and write a .csv file from my R script. Then the following command works to upload it to a remote server using a windows batch file that carries out the ftp (among other things). > system("C:/upload_data/uploadq8.bat C:/upload_data

Re: [R] generalized linear mixed models with a beta distribution

2009-02-26 Thread Jeff Evans
Thanks for responding Doug. I'm sure SAS just hasn't gotten around to releasing their code yet. lme4 does have a leg up on GLIMMIX in other areas, though. The latest SAS release (9.2) is now able to compute the Laplace approximation of the likelihood, but it will only fit an overdispersion paramet

Re: [R] plot with pairwise joined points

2009-02-26 Thread William Simpson
Thanks very much Rolf, Dimitris, & Greg! Bill On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > On 27/02/2009, at 9:46 AM, William Simpson wrote: > >> I would like to do as follows >> plot(a,b) >> points(c,d,pch=19) >> >> Now join with a line segment point a[1], b[1] to c[1], d[1]; a[2], >

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread James Muller
Thomas, Have a look at the source code for the webpage (ctrl-u in firefox, don't know in internet explorer, etc.). That is what you'd have to parse in order to get the forecast from this page. Typically when I parse webpages such as this I use regular expressions to do so (and I would never downpl

Re: [R] plot with pairwise joined points

2009-02-26 Thread Rolf Turner
On 27/02/2009, at 9:46 AM, William Simpson wrote: I would like to do as follows plot(a,b) points(c,d,pch=19) Now join with a line segment point a[1], b[1] to c[1], d[1]; a[2], b[2] to c[2], d[2] ... a[n], b[n] to c[n], d[n] All corresponding points from the two data sets are joined by line

Re: [R] plot with pairwise joined points

2009-02-26 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
have a look at segments(), e.g., x <- rnorm(5) y <- rnorm(5) z <- rnorm(5) w <- rnorm(5) r1 <- range(x, z) r2 <- range(y, w) plot(r1, r2, type = "n") points(x, y) points(z, w, pch = 19) segments(x, y, z, w) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris William Simpson wrote: I would like to do as follow

Re: [R] plot with pairwise joined points

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Snow
Try: > segments(a,b,c,d) -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of William Simpson > Sent: Thursday, Fe

Re: [R] generalized linear mixed models with a beta distribution

2009-02-26 Thread Douglas Bates
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jeff Evans wrote: > Has there been any follow up to this question? I have found myself wondering > the same thing: How then does SAS fit a beta distributed GLMM? It also fits > the negative binomial distribution. When SAS decides to open-source their code we'll b

[R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Thomas Levine
I'm writing a program that will tell me whether I should wear a coat, so I'd like to be able to download daily weather forecasts and daily reports of recent past weather conditions. The NOAA has very promising tabular forecasts (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Ithaca&state=NY&sit

Re: [R] error message and convergence issues in fitting glmer in package lme4

2009-02-26 Thread Douglas Bates
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Tanja Srebotnjak wrote: > I'm resending this message because I did not include a subject line in my > first posting. Also, it is generally more effective to send questions about lmer/glmer to the R-SIG-Mixed-Models list, which I am cc:ing on this reply. >> Hell

[R] plot with pairwise joined points

2009-02-26 Thread William Simpson
I would like to do as follows plot(a,b) points(c,d,pch=19) Now join with a line segment point a[1], b[1] to c[1], d[1]; a[2], b[2] to c[2], d[2] ... a[n], b[n] to c[n], d[n] All corresponding points from the two data sets are joined by line segments. Thanks very much for any tips on how to do th

Re: [R] windows vs. linux code

2009-02-26 Thread Jeffrey J. Hallman
Rolf Turner writes: > Despite the knowledge, wisdom, insight, skill, good looks, and other > admirable characteristics of the members of the R-help list, few of > us are skilled in telepathy or clairvoyance. Oh, yeah? Then how did I know you were going to say that, huh? -- Jeff __

Re: [R] Bug in predict function for naiveBayes?

2009-02-26 Thread Liaw, Andy
You need to set "Class" as factor before you call naiveBayes(); i.e., mixture.train$Class <- factor(mixture.train$Class) Then you can just do: pred.bayes <-predict(Bayes.res, mixture.test, type="class") Andy > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:

[R] bottom legends in ggplot2 ?

2009-02-26 Thread Avram Aelony
Has anyone had success with producing legends to a qplot graph such that the legend is placed on the bottom, under the abcissa rather than to the right hand side ? The following doesn't move the legend: library(ggplot2) qplot(mpg, wt, data=mtcars, colour=cyl, gpar(legend.position=

Re: [R] Merge question

2009-02-26 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 02/26/2009 11:52 AM Vadlamani, Subrahmanyam {FLNA} wrote: > Hi: > I am a new R user. I have the following question and would appreciate your > input > > Data1 (data frame 1) > p1,d1,d2 (p1 is text and d1 and d2 are numeric) > xyz,10,25 > > Data2 (data frame 2) > p1,d1,d2 > xyz,11,15 > > Now

Re: [R] Bug in predict function for naiveBayes?

2009-02-26 Thread joris meys
Dear all, I've sent a mail last week already. I've been trying to get this predict function work, but somehow I keep on getting the same error. Read the help files, searched the internet, but I don't seem to get what I'm doing wrong. Anybody who has experience with this function? It's contained i

Re: [R] Merge question

2009-02-26 Thread milton ruser
Hi there, something like this? Data1<-read.table(stdin(), head=T, sep=",") p1,d1,d2 xyz,10,25 kmz,100,250 Data2<-read.table(stdin(), head=T, sep=",") p1,d1,d2 xyz,11,15 kmz,110,150 Data1 Data2 Data3<-data.frame(rbind(Data1,Data2)) Data3 Data3.sum<-aggregate(Data3[,c("d1","d2")], list(Data3$p1)

Re: [R] two colors and putting lines on bar plots

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Snow
For the first question you can use %in% rather than ==, for example: ifelse( dataframe$vector_o_number %in% c('00','01), 'red', 'black') for the reference line, the abline function will draw a line the full width/height of a graph for a general reference, if you want separate lines for each gr

Re: [R] windows vs. linux code

2009-02-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Paul Gilbert wrote: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Try if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") ... else ... Gabor has suggested what I think is the best way to do this check, but in my experience, if you are doing this check then you are almost certainly missing some featu

[R] glm with large datasets

2009-02-26 Thread Julio Gonzalez Diaz
Hi all, I have to run a logit regresion over a large dataset and I am not sure about the best option to do it. The dataset is about 20x2000 and R runs out of memory when creating it. After going over help archives and the mailing lists, I think there are two main options, though I am not

[R] generalized linear mixed models with a beta distribution

2009-02-26 Thread Jeff Evans
Has there been any follow up to this question? I have found myself wondering the same thing: How then does SAS fit a beta distributed GLMM? It also fits the negative binomial distribution. Both of these would be useful in glmer/lmer if they aren't 'illegal' as Brian suggested. Especially as SAS i

[R] Merge question

2009-02-26 Thread Vadlamani, Subrahmanyam {FLNA}
Hi: I am a new R user. I have the following question and would appreciate your input Data1 (data frame 1) p1,d1,d2 (p1 is text and d1 and d2 are numeric) xyz,10,25 Data2 (data frame 2) p1,d1,d2 xyz,11,15 Now I want to create a new data frame that looks like so below. The fields d1 and s2 are su

Re: [R] which zip file is the emulator package?

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Snow
Are you behind a firewall? See the help for download.file for details on setting proxy information if this is the case. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-proje

[R] use R Group SFBA March meeting reminder

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Porzak
All San Francisco Bay Area useRs, On March 11th, Spencer Graves & Sundar Dorai-Raj will talk about Creating R Packages, and related issues. This is the first of our (now) regular monthly meetings, details here http://www.meetup.com/R-Users/calendar/9718957/ Last week Wednesday, we had over 60 pe

Re: [R] Hi, Coding problem

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Snow
It looks like what you did was something like: > tmp <- sim(100) > table(tmp)/100 To get your results (it is easier for us to help if you tell us what you actually did, also setting a seed and telling us that seed helps us reproduce what you did exactly). The reason that you did not see 9 and

Re: [R] Random Forest confusion matrix

2009-02-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
randomForest output is based on predict(iris.rf) whereas the code shown below uses predict(iris.rf, iris). See ?predict.randomForest for an explanation. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Li GUO wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have a question on the confusion matrix generated by function randomFores

[R] error message and convergence issues in fitting glmer in package lme4

2009-02-26 Thread Tanja Srebotnjak
I'm resending this message because I did not include a subject line in my first posting. Apologies for the inconvenience! Tanja > Hello, > > I'm trying to fit a generalized linear mixed model to estimate diabetes > prevalence at US county level. To do this I'm using the glmer() function

[R] ftp fetch using RCurl?

2009-02-26 Thread CHD850
Hi everyone, I have to fetch about 300 to 500 zipped archives from a remote ftp server. Each of the archive is about 1Mb. I know I can get it done by using download.file() in R, but I am curious that is there a faster way to do this using RCurl. For example, are there some parameters that I can s

Re: [R] R communication

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Snow
This could depend somewhat on which OS you have on the computers as to which packages will work or work best for you. A couple of packages to look at include, Rmpi, nws, and snow (no relation), and the other packages in the suggests field for snow. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical

Re: [R] windows vs. linux code

2009-02-26 Thread Paul Gilbert
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Try if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") ... else ... Gabor has suggested what I think is the best way to do this check, but in my experience, if you are doing this check then you are almost certainly missing some feature of R that will let you avoid doing it.

Re: [R] which zip file is the emulator package?

2009-02-26 Thread eric lee
Thanks, Duncan. The BACCO package worked. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 2/26/2009 11:08 AM, eric lee wrote: >> >> Hi.  I'm trying to run the elliptic package on my computer (windows >> platform, version 2.7.2).  I downloaded the elliptic package zip file >> from >>

Re: [R] which zip file is the emulator package?

2009-02-26 Thread David Winsemius
Reading this article, announcing the elliptic package (which was a distinct pleasure) and also looking at the R-FAQ, my guess is that you need the BACCO bundle. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v15/i07/paper -- David Winsemius On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:08 AM, eric lee wrote: Hi. I'm trying to run

Re: [R] which zip file is the emulator package?

2009-02-26 Thread eric lee
Hi, Duncan. I choose 'package' then ''install package' and tried 6 different U.S. mirrors. The message I always get is: Warning: unable to access index for repository http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.7 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/p

Re: [R] which zip file is the emulator package?

2009-02-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/26/2009 11:08 AM, eric lee wrote: Hi. I'm trying to run the elliptic package on my computer (windows platform, version 2.7.2). I downloaded the elliptic package zip file from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ and installed it, but it says that it needs the "emulator" package. Can you tell

Re: [R] survival::survfit,plot.survfit

2009-02-26 Thread Jeff Xu
Thanks very much, Bernhard and Terry. It clarify my confusion and really helps a lot. Regards Jeff Xu Terry Therneau wrote: > >> plot(survfit(fit)) should plot the survival-function for x=0 or >> equivalently beta'=0. This curve is independent of any covariates. > > This is not correct. It

[R] gplot problems with faceting

2009-02-26 Thread BOISSON, Pascal
Dear R-Listers, I am very confused with what seems to be a misuse of the faceting options with gplot function and I hope you might help me on this. z contains various simulation results from simulations with different set of parameters. I melt my data to have the following data.frame structure

[R] Random Forest confusion matrix

2009-02-26 Thread Li GUO
Dear R users, I have a question on the confusion matrix generated by function randomForest. I used the entire data set to generate the forest, for example: > print(iris.rf) Call: randomForest(formula = Species ~ ., data = iris, importance = TRUE, keep.forest = TRUE) confusion

[R] which zip file is the emulator package?

2009-02-26 Thread eric lee
Hi. I'm trying to run the elliptic package on my computer (windows platform, version 2.7.2). I downloaded the elliptic package zip file from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ and installed it, but it says that it needs the "emulator" package. Can you tell me where to download this? The only simi

Re: [R] layout of igraph

2009-02-26 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Shukai, layout.drl supports edge weights, so you could try that. An alternative is doing MDS, see ?cmdscale and maybe help.search("MDS"). But both these methods are approximate, obviously, most often you cannot embed an n-dimensional (n>>2) graph into the 2-dimensional plane and keep all the "dis

Re: [R] layout of igraph

2009-02-26 Thread kevinchang
Thanks Gabor's fast reply. In my research, every node has it's own vector of scores. So I can compute correlation between every pair of nodes. I used the width and color of the edge for this purpose. But visualizing the correlations by distance may be clearer. Best, Shukai Gábor Csárdi-2 wro

Re: [R] Using very large matrix

2009-02-26 Thread Jay Emerson
Corrado, Package bigmemory has undergone a major re-engineering and will be available soon (available now in Beta version upon request). The version currently on CRAN is probably of limited use unless you're in Linux. bigmemory may be useful to you for data management, at the very least, where

Re: [R] layout of igraph

2009-02-26 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Shukai, the force based layout algorithms (layout.drl, layout.fruchterman.reingold, layout.graphopt, layout.kamada.kawai) are likely to do this; although they are not explicitly required to place hubs in the center, usually they do. I am not sure what is the "correlation between two nodes". You m

Re: [R] Singularity in a regression?

2009-02-26 Thread David Winsemius
I saw Ted's reply and it is certainly sensible. I would wonder whether to model ought to be recast so that the scientific question is more clear? You are obviously studying the effect of different substitutions (F, Cl, Br, I, Me) and different positions around an aromatic ring (meta, para).

[R] layout of igraph

2009-02-26 Thread kevinchang
Dear R users, I am trying to draw a network using igraph package. I intend to place the hub nodes (the ones with the relatively more connection with other nodes) in the center of the graph. Also, the graph need to be in the fashion that the higher the correlation between two nodes is , the clos

Re: [R] Singularity in a regression?

2009-02-26 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
It looks like your data has not enough information to estimate the parameter for metaCl. Maybe because metaCL is identical to one of the other variables or a constant. HTH, Thierry ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor

Re: [R] Moving Average

2009-02-26 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:54 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 26-Feb-09 13:54:51, David Winsemius wrote: I saw Gabor's reply but have a clarification to request. You say you want to remove low frequency components but then you request smoothing functions. The term "smoothing" implies removal of high

Re: [R] Singularity in a regression?

2009-02-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Feb-09 12:58:49, Bob Gotwals wrote: > R friends, > > In a matrix of 1s and 0s, I'm getting a singularity error. Any helpful > ideas? >From the degress of freedom in your output, it seems you are fitting 10 binary variables to a total of 23 observations. In such circumstances, it is not un

Re: [R] Moving Average

2009-02-26 Thread stephen sefick
I wrote a little code using Fourier filtering if you would like to take a look at this: library(StreamMetabolism) library(mFilter) x <- read.production(file.choose()) #contiguous.zoo(data.frame(x[,"RM202DO.Conc"], coredata(x[,"RM202DO.Conc"]))) #contiguous.zoo(data.frame(x[,"RM61DO.Conc"], coredat

Re: [R] Moving Average

2009-02-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Feb-09 13:54:51, David Winsemius wrote: > I saw Gabor's reply but have a clarification to request. You say you > want to remove low frequency components but then you request smoothing > functions. The term "smoothing" implies removal of high-frequency > components of a series. If you pr

[R] Singularity in a regression?

2009-02-26 Thread Bob Gotwals
R friends, In a matrix of 1s and 0s, I'm getting a singularity error. Any helpful ideas? lm(formula = activity ~ metaF + metaCl + metaBr + metaI + metaMe + paraF + paraCl + paraBr + paraI + paraMe) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3QMax -4.573e-01 -7.884e-02 3.4

[R] R: Moving Average

2009-02-26 Thread mauede
I apologize for my messy post which stems from my own confusion ... and depression as well. In fact I though I was done with a big chunk of a project and to my dismay I found out there is more to do. I am trying to adapt an algorithm, based on advanced wavelet analysis, to my respiration signals

Re: [R] survival::survfit,plot.survfit

2009-02-26 Thread Terry Therneau
> plot(survfit(fit)) should plot the survival-function for x=0 or > equivalently beta'=0. This curve is independent of any covariates. This is not correct. It plots the curve for a hypothetical subject with x= mean of each covariate. This is NOT the "average survival" of the data set. Im

Re: [R] statistical significance of accuracy increase in classification

2009-02-26 Thread Stefan Evert
On 26 Feb 2009, at 14:14, Max Kuhn wrote: Do you know about any good reference that discusses kappa for classification and maybe CI for kappa??? You might also want to take a look at this survey article on kappa and its alternatives: Artstein, Ron and Poesio, Massimo (2008). Survey arti

Re: [R] plot.survfit

2009-02-26 Thread Terry Therneau
For a fitted Cox model, one can either produce the predicted survival curve for a particular "hypothetical" subject (survfit), or the predicted curve for a particular cohort of subjects (survexp). See chapter 10 of Therneau and Grambsch for a long discussion of the differences between these,

Re: [R] survival::predict.coxph

2009-02-26 Thread Terry Therneau
You are mostly correct. Because of the censoring issue, there is no good estimate of the mean survival time. The survival curve either does not go to zero, or gets very noisy near the right hand tail (large standard error); a smooth parametric estimate is what is really needed to deal with thi

Re: [R] C-index for models fitted using start, stop in Surv?

2009-02-26 Thread Terry Therneau
One of my colleagues has written a technical report on how to do this, but I have not yet implemented it in the survival package. Terry Therneau http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/biostat/techreports.cfm #80 Concordance for Survival Time Data: Fixed and Time-Depende

Re: [R] Moving Average

2009-02-26 Thread David Winsemius
I saw Gabor's reply but have a clarification to request. You say you want to remove low frequency components but then you request smoothing functions. The term "smoothing" implies removal of high-frequency components of a series. If smoothing really is your goal then additional R resource w

Re: [R] statistical significance of accuracy increase in classification

2009-02-26 Thread Max Kuhn
> Do you know about any good reference that discusses kappa for classification > and maybe CI for kappa??? I don't, but googling on kappa and confusion matrix etc should get you there. Kappa works very well when the true classes are skewed. For example, if 10% of you samples are class A and 90% c

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