Re: [R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi what about do inside some function a subset of your whole data frame fff <- function( data, rows) { data.1 <- data[1:rows,] get all necessary stuf on data.1 return what you want } You can put a dimension check if you want the function to be more robust Regards Petr r-help-boun...@r-pr

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Gene Leynes
I have recently discovered the "playwith" library, which is great for creating complex lattice objects. If you start with a simple lattice plot then modify it using playwith, you can export the code to produce the spiffed up plot. I noticed this function at the bottom of the xyplot documentat

Re: [R] Exporting large datasets

2009-07-01 Thread DrDimo
Thanks guys, writing smaller pieces did the trick. Still takes about 4 hours to do but that more manageable than over 30 hours without even writing a line. jholtman wrote: > > What do you want to export it to and in what format? You will probably > have > a problem trying to write that large a

[R] help exporting to excel via xlsReadWritePro

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Anderson
I’m trying to export a file from R to excel using the xlsReadWritePro function and I keep getting the error below. I get the same error when I use the oledatetime function. My current date format is mm/dd/, which is how I want it in excel. Also is there anyway to export different dataset

[R] conditional recoding a variable

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Anderson
I have a variable that identifies citizen type but some of my rows are blank. I want to replace the blank entries with the correct value which is conditional on another variable. In SAS, my conditional statement would be as follow: if citizenType="" and primarylanguage="English" then citizenType

[R] sum_to_zero_constraints

2009-07-01 Thread Iason Christodoulou
Dear kind R-experts. with miximum likelihood method i found the following estimations for my parameters vector: mu H A1 A2 . . . A10 D1 D2 . . . D10 but i want to add sum to zero constraints. sum(a1:a10)=0 and sum(d1:d10)=0 how i will do this? _

[R] another xyplot question

2009-07-01 Thread jlfmssm
I have a data set like this ID=c("A","A","A","A","A","A","A","B","B","B","B","B","B","B") s=c(1.1,2.2,1.3,1.1,3.1,4.1,4.2,1.1,2.2,1.3,1.1,3.1,4.1,4.2) d=c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1,2,3,4,5,6,7) t=c(-3,-1,0,1,2,3,4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3) mydata<-data.frame(cbind(as.character(ID),as.numeric(s),as.integer(d),as.nu

[R] another type of parallel programming for R

2009-07-01 Thread Norm Matloff
On 2009-07-01, David M Smith wrote: > REvolution Computing has just released three new packages for R to > CRAN (under the open-source Apache 2.0 license): foreach, iterators, > and doMC. Together, they provide a simple, scalable parallel computing > framework for R that lets you take advantage o

[R] using heatmap.2 without specifying Colv and Rowv

2009-07-01 Thread Elizabeth Chun
Hi all, I am a novice user of the heatmap.2 function in the Bioconductor gplots package. I am trying to create a heatmap diagram from a hierarchical clustering result based on the complete linkage and the pearson correlations as the distance metrics. After reading the help page for heatmap.2,

Re: [R] timer in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Michael wrote: Hi all, How could I set a timer in R, so that at fixed interval, the R program will invoke some other functions to run some tasks? Use timer events in the tcltk package: z=function(){cat("Hello you!\n");tcl("after",100

[R] ncurses for R?

2009-07-01 Thread Stephen J. Barr
Hello, I would like to make a simple console application using R. Is there a good library (such as ncurses) for writing console applications in R? Thanks, -stephen __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] Using sapply to build a count matrix

2009-07-01 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Murray Cooper wrote: Dear All, I am new to R and slowly learning how to use the system. The following code is an exercise I was trying. The intent is to generate 10 random samples of size 5 from a vector with integers 1:10 and 2 missing values. I then want to genera

Re: [R] Question about <<- assignment

2009-07-01 Thread Hsiu-Khuern Tang
Rolf Turner auckland.ac.nz> writes: > > > On 2/07/2009, at 12:20 PM, Hsiu-Khuern Tang wrote: > > > Is this expected behavior? > > > >> z <- 1:5 > >> z[1] <<- 0 > > Error in z[1] <<- 0 : object "z" not found > > > > The documentation seems to suggest that z will be found in the global > > envir

Re: [R] Using sapply to build a count matrix

2009-07-01 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Murray, Here is one way: create a function that takes k sample()s from any vector (e.g., x) and then calculates the number of NA values in it. Then replicate the procedure as many times as you want. # The function foo <- function(x, k = 5){ xsample <- sample(x, k)

[R] Using sapply to build a count matrix

2009-07-01 Thread Murray Cooper
Dear All, I am new to R and slowly learning how to use the system. The following code is an exercise I was trying. The intent is to generate 10 random samples of size 5 from a vector with integers 1:10 and 2 missing values. I then want to generate a matrix, for each sample which shows the freque

Re: [R] 'singularity' between fixed effect and random factor in mixedmodel

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel Malter
An Econometrician may help you with more theoretical insights, but you could do Monte-Carlo simulations of data and analyze the effects you are interested in. Daniel - cuncta stricte discussurus - -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: r-help-boun.

Re: [R] Question about <<- assignment

2009-07-01 Thread Rolf Turner
On 2/07/2009, at 12:20 PM, Hsiu-Khuern Tang wrote: Is this expected behavior? z <- 1:5 z[1] <<- 0 Error in z[1] <<- 0 : object "z" not found The documentation seems to suggest that z will be found in the global environment and modified accordingly. I would agree that the documentation wou

[R] Managing Packages: Which functions call other functions in package?

2009-07-01 Thread Bryan Hanson
R Colleagues: I¹m moving toward building my own package, and it occurs to me that it might be useful to have some method of listing or better, graphically displaying, which functions call other functions within the package. In other words, I¹m seeking some means of seeing how the functions relate

[R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread Carl Witthoft
> More generally, you can always write a loop. They aren't necesssrily fast > or elegant, but they're pretty general. For example, to calculate the max > of the previous 50 observations (or fewer near the start of a vector), you > could do > > x <- ... some vector ... > > result <- numeric(le

[R] MCMCpack: Selecting a better model using BayesFactor

2009-07-01 Thread Debabrata Midya
Dear R users, Thanks in advance. I am Deb, Statistician at NSW Department of Commerce, Sydney. I am using R 2.9.1 on Windows XP. This has reference to the package “MCMCpack”. My objective is to select a better model using various alternatives. I have provided here an example code from

[R] Question about <<- assignment

2009-07-01 Thread Hsiu-Khuern Tang
Is this expected behavior? > z <- 1:5 > z[1] <<- 0 Error in z[1] <<- 0 : object "z" not found The documentation seems to suggest that z will be found in the global environment and modified accordingly. Best, Hsiu-Khuern. __ R-help@r-project.org mailin

[R] 'singularity' between fixed effect and random factor in mixed model

2009-07-01 Thread Thomas Mang
Hi, I just came across the following issue regarding mixed effects models: In a longitudinal study individuals (variable ind) are observed for some response variable. One explanatory variable, f, entering the model as fixed effect, is a (2-level) factor. The expression of that factor is consta

Re: [R] odd behaviour in quantreg::rq

2009-07-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wednesday 01 July 2009, roger koenker wrote: > url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~rogerRoger Koenker > emailrkoen...@uiuc.eduDepartment of Economics > vox: 217-333-4558University of Illinois > fax: 217-244-6678Urbana, IL 61801 > > On

Re: [R] Average of data files in a directory

2009-07-01 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
The mean function works in data.frames: lapply(loadfiles, mean) [[1]] Time Pressure 1. 323. [[2]] Time Pressure 1. 323. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:50 PM, plpd00 wrote: > > Dear all, > > I know it is as simple as c <- (a + b)/2 to compute the average > (element-wise)

Re: [R] convert factor to indicator matrix

2009-07-01 Thread Rolf Turner
On 2/07/2009, at 9:53 AM, Thomas Mang wrote: Hi, I am looking for a function which can convert a single factor (a vector), or a list of multiple factors, into the indicator (dummy) matrix with 0/1 entries (or other contrasting schemes). I could cook it myself, but I am actually sure this th

Re: [R] recoding charactor variables with special charactors

2009-07-01 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
It's because the levels of factor, don't characters: f <- factor(c("AAA's", "B(s)", "CCC")) levels(f)[levels(f) == "AAA's"] <- "AA" On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Chris Anderson wrote: > I have a several character variables that I need to recode, but some of > them have special characters

Re: [R] convert tabular time series into a matrix format

2009-07-01 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: xtabs(x ~ t + id, data = X) On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Young Cho wrote: > Hi, thanks everyone for any help in advance. > > I found myself dealing with a tabular time-series data formatted each row > like [ time stamp, ID, values]. I made a small examples: > > X = data.frame(t

[R] convert factor to indicator matrix

2009-07-01 Thread Thomas Mang
Hi, I am looking for a function which can convert a single factor (a vector), or a list of multiple factors, into the indicator (dummy) matrix with 0/1 entries (or other contrasting schemes). I could cook it myself, but I am actually sure this thing already exists - but forgot the name and pa

Re: [R] odd behaviour in quantreg::rq

2009-07-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wednesday 01 July 2009, roger koenker wrote: > It's not clear to me whether you are looking for an exploratory tool > or something more like formal inference. For the former, it seems > that estimating a few weighted quantiles would be quite useful. at > least > it is rather Tukeyesque. While

[R] How to fit a hierarchical model using Umacs

2009-07-01 Thread Luwis Tapiwa Diya
Dear R Users, I have been trying to fit models using Umacs. However I seem to be lost in specifying random effects. Can anyone advise me (if possible with a small hierarchical or mixed models data set) on how one can specify the random effects sampling algorithm or possibly point me to the example

Re: [R] using garchFit() to fit ARMA+GARCH model with exogeneous variables

2009-07-01 Thread spencerg
Hello, Yuhan: If I wanted to get something sensible today, I'd do ordinary least squares using lm(y~x), the garchFit on the residuals. This will give you a reasonable answer except that the confidence intervals from "lm" will not be accurate. I'd want to do normal probability plots of

[R] R: Is there a way to extract some fields data from HTML pages through any R function ?

2009-07-01 Thread mauede
Thank you so much. I emailed the people who are in charge of maintaining miRecords and related info. I asked them for an available data transfer protocol like ftp or similar to avoid manually downloading haindreds of sequences from their web site. I got no feedback at all. Thanks again, Maura

Re: [R] convert tabular time series into a matrix format

2009-07-01 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Young, I am sorry, my bad, it should have been with(X, tapply(x, list(id, t), function(y) y )) to get exactly what you asked for. HTH, Jorge On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez wrote: > Dear Young, > Try this: > > with(X, tapply(x, list(t,id), function(y) y )) > > HTH, > >

Re: [R] convert tabular time series into a matrix format

2009-07-01 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Young, Try this: with(X, tapply(x, list(t,id), function(y) y )) HTH, Jorge On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Young Cho wrote: > Hi, thanks everyone for any help in advance. > > I found myself dealing with a tabular time-series data formatted each row > like [ time stamp, ID, values]. I

Re: [R] convert tabular time series into a matrix format

2009-07-01 Thread jim holtman
Is this what you want: > X = data.frame(t=c(1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5),id = + c('a','b','c','c','b','d','e','b','a','e','a','b','d','b','c')) > X$x = rnorm(15) > X t id x 1 1 a -0.6264538 2 1 b 0.1836433 3 1 c -0.8356286 4 2 c 1.5952808 5 2 b 0.3295078 6 2 d -0.82046

[R] recoding charactor variables with special charactors

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Anderson
I have a several character variables that I need to recode, but some of them have special characters like single quote or ( ). How tell R to ignore these special characters so I can rename them? Below is the error message I am getting. social$FamilySupport[social$FamilySupport=="Mr. XXXs' exte

Re: [R] convert tabular time series into a matrix format

2009-07-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Can't say whether its any faster but read.zoo in the devel version of zoo can do this using the split= argument where split=2 in the example below says to split it into time series defined by the second column. Lines <- '"t" "id" "x" 1 "a" -1.71941257904109 1 "b" 1.33629503083329 1 "c" 1.613373720

Re: [R] convert tabular time series into a matrix format

2009-07-01 Thread jim holtman
This may be closer; forgot about the NAs > cast(X.m, id ~ t, function(x) if (length(x)==0) NA else sum(x)) id 1 2 3 4 5 1 a -0.6264538 NA 0.5757814 1.5117812NA 2 b 0.1836433 0.3295078 0.7383247 0.3898432 -2.214700 3 c -0.835628

[R] RScaLAPACK package with OpenMPI

2009-07-01 Thread Michela Cameletti
Hi all, I'm using RScalapack library for parallelizing some heavy matrix operations required by MCMC methods for spatio-temporal models. The package reference manuals (dated 2005) states that the library needs LamMPI to work but we have a Linux Cluster with OpenMPI. We have found (http://cvs.fedor

[R] Average of data files in a directory

2009-07-01 Thread plpd00
Dear all, I know it is as simple as c <- (a + b)/2 to compute the average (element-wise) of two data vectors. However, I can't work out to compute the average when you have many data vectors in a directory. I have done this: setwd("/.../data/") listfiles <- li

[R] convert tabular time series into a matrix format

2009-07-01 Thread Young Cho
Hi, thanks everyone for any help in advance. I found myself dealing with a tabular time-series data formatted each row like [ time stamp, ID, values]. I made a small examples: X = data.frame(t=c(1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5),id = c('a','b','c','c','b','d','e','b','a','e','a','b','d','b','c'))

Re: [R] "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 332.3 Mb"

2009-07-01 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
By the way, you'll probably have to reinstall some or all of your packages (and dependencies) if you are using R64.app, probably downgrading them in the process. --j Steve Ellis wrote: Dear R-helpers, I am running R version 2.9.1 on a Mac Quad with 32Gb of RAM running Mac OS X version 10.5.

Re: [R] "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 332.3 Mb"

2009-07-01 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Steve: Are you running R64.app? If not, grab it from here: http://r.research.att.com/R-2.9.0.pkg (http://r.research.att.com/ under "Leopard build") . As far as I know (and I actually just tried it this morning), the standard R 2.9.1 package off the CRAN website is the 32 bit version,

Re: [R] odd behaviour in quantreg::rq

2009-07-01 Thread roger koenker
It's not clear to me whether you are looking for an exploratory tool or something more like formal inference. For the former, it seems that estimating a few weighted quantiles would be quite useful. at least it is rather Tukeyesque. While I'm appealing to authorities, I can't resist recallin

Re: [R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread baptiste auguie
For another generic approach, you might be interested in the Reduce function, rolling <- function( x, window=seq_along(x), f=max){ Reduce(f, x[window]) } x= c(1:10, 2:10, 15, 1) rolling(x) #15 rolling(x, 1:10) #10 rolling(x, 1:12) #10 Of course this is only part of the solution to the

Re: [R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 01/07/2009 1:26 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch >> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/07/2009 11:49 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,  I have a data.frame that is date ordered by row number - earliest

Re: [R] timer in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Michael wrote: > Hi all, > > How could I set a timer in R, so that at fixed interval, the R program > will invoke some other functions to run some tasks? > Use timer events in the tcltk package: > z=function(){cat("Hello you!\n");tcl("after",1000,z)} > tcl("after"

Re: [R] timer in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Michael
I use Windows. Thank you! On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Eduardo Leoni wrote: > I think you are better off writing the R script and invoke it using a > OS specific tool. For Unix-like systems there is cron. > > hth, > > -e > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Michael wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> How c

Re: [R] Memory issues on a 64-bit debian system (quantreg)

2009-07-01 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Just wanted to leave a note on this, after I got my new iMac (and installed R64 from the AT&T site) -- quantreg did run, after topping out at whopping 12GB of swap space (MacOS X, at least, should theoretically have as much swap space as there is space on the HD -- it will dynamically increase

Re: [R] Rcorr

2009-07-01 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
James Allsopp wrote: No, that's made no difference, sorry. Sorry I forgot to check the print method for rcorr. If P<.0001 it prints as 0. To print under your control print the object $P from the list created by rcorr: r <- rcorr(. . .) r$P Frank Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: James Allsopp

Re: [R] Interaction plots (six on one page)

2009-07-01 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
I would do this as a lattice plot. Continuing with your data: tmp <- data.frame(sapply(data, tapply, data[1:2], mean)) tmp$time <- factor(tmp$time) xyplot(thanaa+thalcho+thalino+ponaa+pocho+poino ~ time, group=BMIakt, data=tmp, type="l", scales=list(relation="free"), auto.key=list(ti

Re: [R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/07/2009 1:26 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/07/2009 11:49 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I have a data.frame that is date ordered by row number - earliest date first and most current last. I want to create a couple of new columns that show

Re: [R] odd behaviour in quantreg::rq

2009-07-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Thanks Roger. Your comments were very helpful. Unfortunately, each of the 'groups' in this example are derived from the same set of data, two of which were subsets-- so it is not that unlikely that the weighted medians were the same in some cases. This all leads back to an operation attempting

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:35:39PM -0400, miguel bernal wrote: > Emacs or X-emacs with ess (Emacs Speaks Statistics) is great on Linux and > Mac (can be the console you saw on Mac) for syntax highlight, programming > and debugging. Also see http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/ema

[R] Neural Networks

2009-07-01 Thread Brigid Mooney
Hi, I am starting to play around with neural networks and noticed that there are several packages on the CRAN website for neural networks (AMORE, grnnR, neural, neuralnet, maybe more if I missed them). Are any of these packages more well-suited for newbies to neural networks? Are there any relati

[R] timer in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Michael
Hi all, How could I set a timer in R, so that at fixed interval, the R program will invoke some other functions to run some tasks? Thank you very much! __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

Re: [R] Select values at random by id value

2009-07-01 Thread hadley wickham
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Sunil Suchindran wrote: > #Highlight the text below (without the header) > # read the data in from clipboard > > df <- do.call(data.frame, scan("clipboard", what=list(id=0, > date="",loctype=0 ,haptype=0))) > > # split the data by date, sample 1 observation from each

[R] How should I denormalise a data frame list of lists column?

2009-07-01 Thread Tim Slidel
Hi, (apologies for initial html posting) I have a data frame where one column is a list of lists. I would like to subset the data frame based on membership of the lists in that column and be able to 'denormalise' the data frame so that a row is duplicated for each of its list elements. Example co

[R] [R-pkgs] Parallel programming packages iterators, foreach and doMC released

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
REvolution Computing has just released three new packages for R to CRAN (under the open-source Apache 2.0 license): foreach, iterators, and doMC. Together, they provide a simple, scalable parallel computing framework for R that lets you take advantage of your multicore or multiprocessor workstation

[R] How should I denormalise a data frame list of lists column?

2009-07-01 Thread Tim Slidel
Hi, I have a data frame where one column is a list of lists. I would like to subset the data frame based on membership of the lists in that column and be able to 'denormalise' the data frame so that a row is duplicated for each of its list elements. Example code follows: # The data is read in in

Re: [R] Select values at random by id value

2009-07-01 Thread Sunil Suchindran
#Highlight the text below (without the header) # read the data in from clipboard df <- do.call(data.frame, scan("clipboard", what=list(id=0, date="",loctype=0 ,haptype=0))) # split the data by date, sample 1 observation from each split, and rbind sampled_df <- do.call(rbind, lapply(split(df, df$

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Tobias Verbeke
seeliger.c...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: There is no IDE for R in the same way that there is for other languages -- something that supports integrated versioning, debugging and testing, perhaps using Eclipse. Boy howdee, I hope someone knows otherwise. There is a feature-rich R plug-in for Ecl

Re: [R] match() indexing

2009-07-01 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Christopher, Try this: merge(x,y,all=TRUE) HTH, Jorge On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Hane, Christopher A < christopher.h...@ingenixconsulting.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to vectorize some assignment statements using match(), but > can't seem to get it correct. > > I have 2 da

[R] match() indexing

2009-07-01 Thread Hane, Christopher A
Hello, I'm trying to vectorize some assignment statements using match(), but can't seem to get it correct. I have 2 data frames each with a key column of unique values. I want to copy a column from one frame to another where the key values are the same. The data frames are not the same length

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Seeliger . Curt
> ... I saw my friend has a R Console window which has automatic syntax > reminder when he types in the first a few letters of R command. ... You might be thinking of JGR (Jaguar) at http://jgr.markushelbig.org/JGR.html . This editor also prompts you with function argument lists, including for f

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread baptiste auguie
2009/7/1 miguel bernal > I think there is a package to visualize the links between > functions in a package, but I don't know its name (if anybody knows it, I > will love to know it). reminds me of roxygen's callgraph (relies on graphviz), is that what you meant? baptiste [[alternativ

Re: [R] Revolutions blog: June roundup

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Knecht
David, Using this mail I think I found a simple solution for something I knew I was going to have to learn about. Thanks, Mark On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM, David M Smith wrote: > I write about R every weekday at http://blog.revolution-computing.com > . In case you missed them, here are som

Re: [R] Revolutions blog: June roundup

2009-07-01 Thread Tal Galili
Great roundup - thank you David. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM, David M Smith < da...@revolution-computing.com> wrote: > David -- -- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.r-sta

[R] The step before interfacing to GRASS

2009-07-01 Thread Javi Hidalgo
Dear all, A very basic terrain calculated as a matrix from Spatial Points Patterns: #interpolate using the akima package library(akima) terrain=interp(ppoints$x,ppoints$y,ppoints$marks,xo=x0,yo=y0, linear=F) > class(terrain) [1] "list" > class(terrain$x) #these are the x-coord i.e: [1...1000] [

[R] Revolutions blog: June roundup

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
I write about R every weekday at http://blog.revolution-computing.com . In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. http://bit.ly/tygLz announced the release of the "foreach" and "iterators" packages on CRAN, for simple scalable parallel progr

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Romain Francois
If you are coming to useR! next week, then you might want to check the session on "Workbenches": http://www.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009/abstracts/schedule.html Romain On 07/01/2009 06:58 PM, Michael wrote: Hi all, Could anybody point me to some latest productivity tools in R? I am int

Re: [R] abline going out of bounds

2009-07-01 Thread rajesh j
Here's my code library(sound); q1<-loadSample(" path to wav"); q2<-loadSample("path to wav"); q3<-loadSample(" path to wav"); m1<-read.table("txt",header=FALSE); m2<-read.table("txt",header=FALSE); m3<-read.table("txt",header=FALSE); layout(matrix(c(1,2,3,4,5,6), 6, 1, byrow = TRUE)); par(mar = c(

[R] "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 332.3 Mb"

2009-07-01 Thread Steve Ellis
Dear R-helpers, I am running R version 2.9.1 on a Mac Quad with 32Gb of RAM running Mac OS X version 10.5.6. With over 20Gb of RAM "free" (according to the Activity Monitor) the following happens. > x <- matrix(rep(0, 6600^2), ncol = 6600) # So far so good. But I need 3 m

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread miguel bernal
Emacs or X-emacs with ess (Emacs Speaks Statistics) is great on Linux and Mac (can be the console you saw on Mac) for syntax highlight, programming and debugging. I think there is a package to visualize the links between functions in a package, but I don't know its name (if anybody knows it, I will

Re: [R] sorting question

2009-07-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This maps each string to one of the form yearQqtr at which point you can sort them. Modify the mapping as necessary. > library(gsubfn) > dd <- c("2002", "2003H1", "2003H2", "2004", "2005Q1", "2005Q2") > gsubfn("H.|Q.|$", list(H1 = "Q1", H2 = "Q2", Q2 = "Q2", Q3 = "Q3", Q4 = "Q4", > "Q1"), dd)

Re: [R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 01/07/2009 11:49 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>   I have a data.frame that is date ordered by row number - earliest >> date first and most current last. I want to create a couple of new >> columns that show the max and min values from

Re: [R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Michael, Great topic - I hope to see others respond. For me there are several big "time savers" with using R (on windows XP), search them on google : 1) tinn-r, for syntax highlighting. 2) "Rexcel" package - for getting data from excel. (BTW, for excel, I also recommend the ASAP utillities) 3)

Re: [R] abline going out of bounds

2009-07-01 Thread Greg Snow
How are you creating the plots before adding the line? This sounds like you may be mixing graphics types (creating the plots with grid graphics (lattice or ggplot2) then using abline from the base graphics system) or using a plot function that plays with the graphics settings and leaves them in

Re: [R] locale changing on Windows

2009-07-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
It can be done without setting locales using chron: > library(chron) > as.Date(chron("1970-Jan-01", format = "Year-Month-Day")) [1] "1970-01-01" On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: >  Dear r-helpers, > >  This is a little bit more of a Windows problem than > an R problem, but ... >

Re: [R] sorting question

2009-07-01 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Steve Jaffe > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:59 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] sorting question > > > I've asked about custom sorting before and it appears that -

[R] abline going out of bounds

2009-07-01 Thread rajesh j
Hi, I have a multiplot of 6 rows and 1 column.I need to draw vertical lines in each plot.However when I use abline(v=locator(1)$x) in some plots the line only comes for half the box and it goes beyond the box in others.I suspect this has something to do with the margins.any help? -- Rajesh.J

[R] Map projections - converting latitude/longitude to eastings and northings

2009-07-01 Thread stephen sefick
I am trying to set up a Grass project and need to set up the region so that I can view the map. I can look at a map and find the lat/lon, but the map projection is in UTM NAD38 WGS84 and I need to set the eastings and northings. Is there a package that will help me calculate this in R. thanks --

Re: [R] Are there any bloggers amoung us going to useR 2009 ?

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
I'm going to both UseR! (in Rennes) and DSC (in Copenhagen), and will be blogging about the talks and other interesting things I learn here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ # David Smith -- David M Smith Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (20

Re: [R] (no subject)

2009-07-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
See the by= argument. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Andriy Fetsun wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to calculate the volatility on not overlapping basis. Do you > know functions for not overlapping calculation? > > It is like to take first 20 observations and apply st.dev to 20 and then > take next

[R] sorting question

2009-07-01 Thread Steve Jaffe
I've asked about custom sorting before and it appears that -- in terms of a user-defined order -- it can only be done either by defining a custom class or using various tricks with "order" Just wondering if anyone has a clever way to order "vintages" of the form 2002, 2003H1, 2003H2, 2004, 2005Q

[R] productivity tools in R?

2009-07-01 Thread Michael
Hi all, Could anybody point me to some latest productivity tools in R? I am interested in speeding up my R programming and improving my efficiency in terms of debugging and developing R programs. I saw my friend has a R Console window which has automatic syntax reminder when he types in the first

Re: [R] Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares of nonlinear regression

2009-07-01 Thread Ravi Varadhan
You are describing a "generalized nonlinear least-squares" estimation procedure. This is implemented in the gnls() function in "nlme" package. ?gnls Ravi. Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medici

Re: [R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/07/2009 11:49 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I have a data.frame that is date ordered by row number - earliest date first and most current last. I want to create a couple of new columns that show the max and min values from other columns *so far* - not for the whole data.frame. It seems

Re: [R] (no subject)

2009-07-01 Thread Andriy Fetsun
Hi, I am trying to calculate the volatility on not overlapping basis. Do you know functions for not overlapping calculation? It is like to take first 20 observations and apply st.dev to 20 and then take next 20 observations and calculate st. deviation. I tried with function rollapply(), but it d

[R] RScaLAPACK package with OpenMPI

2009-07-01 Thread Michela Cameletti
Hi all, I'm using RScalapack library for parallelizing some heavy matrix operations required by MCMC methods for spatio-temporal models. The package reference manuals (dated 2005) states that the library needs LamMPI to work but we have a Linux Cluster with OpenMPI. We have found (http://cvs.fedor

[R] double bootstrap

2009-07-01 Thread Seunghee Baek
Hi All, I would like to do double boostrapping to estimate 95% CI coverage. So, I can only need to estimate 95% confidence interval from each bootstrapped sample. Since we don't have a closed form of 95% CI, in order to get 95% CI for each sample, we need to use bootstrapping. For outer bootstra

[R] locale changing on Windows

2009-07-01 Thread Ben Bolker
Dear r-helpers, This is a little bit more of a Windows problem than an R problem, but ... any idea how to query the *available* locales from within R (or otherwise) on a Windows system? Teaching in a Spanish-language setting and would like to do something like Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME","en_

[R] RKWard

2009-07-01 Thread Ubirajara
Does anyone using linux KDE heard about RKWard? Is it good? Is it better than emacs/ess? Any thought? Ubirajara Alberton __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide ht

Re: [R] garchFit in fGarch fitted values are all the same

2009-07-01 Thread Ron Burns
I tried tseries::garch() and was getting a lot of False Convergence so tried fGarch::grachFit. Looking a bit further I find that from fGarch::garchFit I get ..@ fit:List of 17 .. ..$ convergence: int 1 .. ..$ message: chr "singular convergence (7)" for any and all fits. I

[R] ?max (so far...)

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I have a data.frame that is date ordered by row number - earliest date first and most current last. I want to create a couple of new columns that show the max and min values from other columns *so far* - not for the whole data.frame. It seems this sort of question is really coming from m

Re: [R] Rcorr

2009-07-01 Thread James Allsopp
No, that's made no difference, sorry. Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > James Allsopp wrote: >> Hi, >> I've just run an rcorr on some data in Spearman's mode and it's just >> produced the following values; >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 1.00 -0.55 >> [2,] -0.55 1.00 >> >> n= 46 >> >> >> P >> [,1] [,

[R] Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares of nonlinear regression

2009-07-01 Thread Derek An
Dear all, When doing nonlinear regression, we normally use nls if e are iid normal. i learned that if the form of the variance of e is not completely known, we can use the IRWLS (Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares ) algorithm: for example, var e*i =*g0+g1*x*1 1. Start with *w**i = *1 2.

Re: [R] Is there a way to extract some fields data from HTML pages through any R function ?

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Maura -- mau...@alice.it wrote: > I deal with a huge amount of Biology data stored in different databases. > The databases belongig to Bioconductor organization can be accessed through > Bioconductor packages. > Unluckily some useful data is stored in databases like, for instance, miRDB, > mi

Re: [R] is there a way to extract fata from web pages through some R function ?

2009-07-01 Thread Greg Hirson
Maura, Try the RCurl package, specifically the functions getURL and getForm. Greg mau...@alice.it wrote: I deal with a huge amount of Biology data stored in different databases. The databases belongig to Bioconductor organization can be accessed through Bioconductor packages. Unluckily some u

[R] Is there a way to extract some fields data from HTML pages through any R function ?

2009-07-01 Thread mauede
I deal with a huge amount of Biology data stored in different databases. The databases belongig to Bioconductor organization can be accessed through Bioconductor packages. Unluckily some useful data is stored in databases like, for instance, miRDB, miRecords, etc ... which offer just an interacti

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