Re: [R] as.ltraj error: date should be of the same length as xy

2009-08-27 Thread Clément Calenge
Hello Mike, I have radio tracking data involving relocations of raccoons over the course of a night (locations every 20 minutes). I have the date and time of each location. I am trying to convert the data into an type II ltraj so I can do a first passage time analysis. My problem is that when

[R] [Fwd: Re: Video demo of using svSocket with data.table]

2009-08-27 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Forwarded to R-Help, because I think it could interest people following this thread. Clearly, RServe and svSocket have different goals and very little overlap. Best, Philippe Original Message Subject: Re: Video demo of using svSocket with data.table Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009

Re: [R] Plotting to stdout

2009-08-27 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 07:53:57PM +, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > is there a way to write the result of a plot > to stdout? I mean even a binary thingy like > a png-file, written to stdout?! > I tried with the file-argument of png() and jpeg(), > but did not get working results. I don't think yo

[R] choosing of CPU's to run R

2009-08-27 Thread huang min
Dear All, I am considering to buy a workstation. For the CPUs, I wonder whether anybody have the experience in choosing one for the R. Intel Xeon W3540 2.93 8MB/1066 QC CPU is much cheaper as compared with the Intel Xeon E5540 2.53 8MB/1066 QC CPU. However, its Hz 2.93 is bigger than 2.53. I won

Re: [R] math symbol + value of a variable in legend.

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Maechler
> "KRCT" == Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres > on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:26:04 -0500 writes: KRCT> Thank you very much for your help. KRCT> To the R gurus: It will be better at the future to simplify this KRCT> options. KRCT> They are too cumbersome!!! The ones David showed

Re: [R] choosing of CPU's to run R

2009-08-27 Thread Joshua Wiley
Dear Huang, I do not know how either of these run R in particular. However, the price difference is because the E5540 is a newer line of chip architecture than the W3540. One of the differences is the speed that data can be transferred to and from the chip (Intel now calls it the QPI, it used to

[R] dimnames in class "by" object

2009-08-27 Thread utkarshsinghal
Hi All, > d = data.frame(a=1:10,b=1:10) > by1 = rep(c("a","b"),5) > by(d, by1, function(z) z[,,drop=F]) by1: a a b 1 1 1 3 3 3 5 5 5 7 7 7 9 9 9 by1: b a b 2 2 2 4 4 4 6 6 6 8 8 8 10 10 10 > by(d, by1, function(z) z[,

Re: [R] choosing of CPU's to run R

2009-08-27 Thread huang min
Thanks, Joshua. It's quite helpful. Hope someone can give some idea whether the Hz or the QPI is relatively important in computing. Huang On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote: > Dear Huang, > > I do not know how either of these run R in particular. However, the price > difference

Re: [R] Submit a R job to a server

2009-08-27 Thread Bernd Bischl
Noah Silverman wrote: Deb, I generally run my larger R tasks on a server. Here is my workflow. 1) Write an R script using a text editor. (There are many popular ones.) 2) FTP the R script to your server. 3) SSH into the server 4) Run R 5) Run the script that you uploaded from the R process you

Re: [R] Submit a R job to a server

2009-08-27 Thread Mario Valle
Bernd Bischl wrote: > Noah Silverman wrote: >> Deb, >> >> I generally run my larger R tasks on a server. >> >> Here is my workflow. >> >> 1) Write an R script using a text editor. (There are many popular ones.) >> 2) FTP the R script to your server. >> 3) SSH into the server >> 4) Run R >> 5) Run

Re: [R] [Fwd: Re: Video demo of using svSocket with data.table]

2009-08-27 Thread Erich Neuwirth
If you are working on windows, Thomas Baier's statconnDCOM and rcom allow you to access R servers via COM. The statconnDCOM package also has a servermanager which allows to configure servers for exclusive or nonexclusive (= common workspace) usage for different clients (possibly living on differen

[R] Comparing and adding two data series

2009-08-27 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear R helpers   I have two series A and B as given below -   A <- c(2, 2, 1, 3, 7, 3, 3, 1, 14, 7, 31) B <- c(0.0728,0.9538,4.0140,0.0020,2.5593,0.1620,2.513,0.3798, .0033,0.2282, 0.1614)   I need to calculate the total in dataset B corresponding to the numbers in dataset A i.e. for no 1 in A,

Re: [R] choosing of CPU's to run R

2009-08-27 Thread Patrick Burns
My guess is that there is not a simple answer. My newest machines are extremely fast at doing: sum(rnorm(1e6)) relative to my older machines. But they are not so much faster at doing the work that I actually want done. But if there is a simple answer, I'd be keen to hear it. Patrick Burns

Re: [R] Winsorized mean and variance

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Lemon
Roberto Perdisci wrote: Hello everybody, after searching around for quite some time, I haven't been able to find a package that provides a function to compute the Windorized mean and variance. Also I haven't found a function that computes the trimmed variance. Is there any such package around?

Re: [R] Comparing and adding two data series

2009-08-27 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear Gerrit Eichner   Thanks a million. This only proves how powerful R is. I really appreciate your kind help.   Sometimes I really wonder from where I can learn such commands.   Thanks again.   With warmest regards   Maithili --- On Thu, 27/8/09, Gerrit Eichner wrote: From: Gerrit Eichner S

[R] Header file related to arithmetic functions

2009-08-27 Thread prateep kumar
Hi, I am a new to R. I am using C language to write the code and I am calling R functions from C ( I am including R.h, Rmath.h etc. in C code). I would like to know which header file contains the general arithmetic functions(mean etc.) so that I can add that in my C code. I searched in inter

Re: [R] Comparing and adding two data series

2009-08-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Also: rowsum(B, A) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Maithili Shiva wrote: > Dear Gerrit Eichner > > Thanks a million. This only proves how powerful R is. I really appreciate > your kind help. > > Sometimes I really wonder from where I can learn such commands. > > Thanks again. > > With warmest r

Re: [R] choosing of CPU's to run R

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Patrick Burns wrote: > My newest machines are extremely > fast at doing: >sum(rnorm(1e6)) > relative to my older machines. > But they are not so much faster at > doing the work that I actually > want done. ...like finishing your next book and that sort of stuff? ;-) -- O__ Peter Da

Re: [R] Comparing and adding two data series

2009-08-27 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear Peter Konings   Thanks a lot for your kind advice. It worked wonderfully.   Thanks again   Regards   Maithili --- On Thu, 27/8/09, Peter Konings wrote: From: Peter Konings Subject: Re: [R] Comparing and adding two data series To: "Maithili Shiva" Date: Thursday, 27 August, 2009, 11:12 A

Re: [R] Help on efficiency/vectorization

2009-08-27 Thread jim holtman
try this: > x <- as.data.frame(matrix(round(runif(50),0),nrow=5)) > rownames(x) <- letters[1:dim(x)[1]] > x V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 a 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 b 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 c 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 d 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 e 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0

Re: [R] Help on efficiency/vectorization

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this also: lapply(apply(x == 1, 2, which), names) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Steven Kang wrote: > Dear R users, > > I am trying to extract the rownames of a data set for which each columns > meet a certain criteria. (condition - elements of each column to be equal > 1) > > I have the c

Re: [R] Problem merging two data frames

2009-08-27 Thread jim holtman
FAQ 7.31 is probably the answer. If you want to try it, convert all your numerics that you want to merge on to character and round to the same value so you can "see" what is actually being matched. Comparing numerics for equality can present some challanges. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Mehd

[R] (no subject)

2009-08-27 Thread Mcdonald, Grant
dear sir, my data larger than this example but is of the following format: y x Age 30 0.0323 O 24 0.0389 Y 158 0.058 Y 120 0.0581 O 100 0.0471 Y 102 0.0615 Y 160 0.0546 O i ma making a scatter plot of y~x and want to specify different coloured an

Re: [R] R for reliability engineering?

2009-08-27 Thread MOPTKaHo
Hello there, I work as a researcher on the FATIMAT project, housed in 'Catholic University College Sint Lieven', 'Technologiecampus Gent' (in Belgium) , dealing with fatigue testing machines (check http://mechanics.kahosl.be/fatimat/ for more info). I am using R for studying basic statistics and

[R] Fw: PROBLEM - - COMPARING AND COMBINING two DATASETS

2009-08-27 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear Sirs,   At the outset I sincerely apologize for reproducing my query to you. I also thank all of you for the solution you had provided. It has worked on the actual data I am working with.   However, there is this peculiar problem which I had realized only after I had obtained my

[R] Merge data frames but with a twist.

2009-08-27 Thread Tony Breyal
Dear all, Question: How to merge two data frames such that new column are added in a particular way? I'm not actually sure how to best articulate my question to be honest, so i hope showing you what I want to achieve will communicate my question better. Lets say I have two data frames: > DF1 <-

Re: [R] (no subject)

2009-08-27 Thread jim holtman
Setup a vector with the shapes and the colors you want that are the same length as the number of levels in Age: > x <- read.table('clipboard', header=TRUE) > x y x Age 1 30 0.0323 O 2 24 0.0389 Y 3 158 0.0580 Y 4 120 0.0581 O 5 100 0.0471 Y 6 102 0.0615 Y 7 160 0.0546 O >

Re: [R] Fw: PROBLEM - - COMPARING AND COMBINING two DATASETS

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: tapply(B, factor(A, levels = seq(max(A))), sum) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Maithili Shiva wrote: > > > > > > > > Dear Sirs, > > At the outset I sincerely apologize for reproducing my query to you. I also > thank all of you for the solution you had provided. It has worked on the >

Re: [R] Help on efficiency/vectorization

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Maechler
> "MO" == Moshe Olshansky > on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:36:22 -0700 (PDT) writes: MO> You can do MO> for (i in 1:ncol(x)) {names <- rownames(x)[which(x[,i]==1)];eval(parse(text=paste("V",i,".ind<-names",sep="")));} you can, but after install.packages("fortunes") > require("f

Re: [R] Merge data frames but with a twist.

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: xtabs(as.numeric(Measure) ~ Show + Datetime, data = DF3) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Tony Breyal wrote: > Dear all, > > Question: How to merge two data frames such that new column are added > in a particular way? > > I'm not actually sure how to best articulate my question to be

Re: [R] Issues with factors with duplicate (empty) levels

2009-08-27 Thread Frederik Elwert
Hello again, Just for your information, I think I found a way to work around the problem described below. I don’t know if it’s the most elegant way, but it seems to work. Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 11:55 +0200 schrieb Frederik Elwert: > Hello! > > I imported a DJI survey[1] from an SPSS file.

Re: [R] tweedie and lmer

2009-08-27 Thread Ben Bolker
kbs wrote: > > This is the link that gave me the indication: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-March/127261.html > > Are there alternative ways to deal with a high count of zeros for > count data with lmer? > Fair enough. I think the problem is that lme4 has changed quite

Re: [R] tweedie and lmer

2009-08-27 Thread Simon Wood
If you don't have too many groups then you could get mgcv:gam to fit this using the Tweedie family from mgcv. It's a bit fiddly, but there's an example at the end of ?gam.models with exactly your RE structure. On Wednesday 26 August 2009 17:30, Mohammad AlMarzouq wrote: > Hello all, > > I have

Re: [R] Fw: PROBLEM - - COMPARING AND COMBINING two DATASETS

2009-08-27 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: Try this: tapply(B, factor(A, levels = seq(max(A))), sum) Nice! It might have a disadvantage in that it produces NA's instead of the requested 0's, but that would be easily remedied with an: is.na(obj) <- 0 It was much neater than

Re: [R] Merge data frames but with a twist.

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Tucker
You may want to use the reshape package for this task: > library(reshape) > recast(DF3,Show ~ Datetime, id.var=names(DF3),value="Measure") Show 08/26/2009 11:30 AM 08/26/2009 9:30 AM 1 Firefly 3 1 2 Red Dwarf 4 2 If yo

Re: [R] Fw: PROBLEM - - COMPARING AND COMBINING two DATASETS

2009-08-27 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear Sirs,   Thanks again for the solution. That was "VERY KIND" of you to readress my query again and again. Please accept my sincere aplogies for referring the problem again and thanks again for the solution. You were very patience and I really appreciate that. Have a great day ahead.   With

Re: [R] Fw: PROBLEM - - COMPARING AND COMBINING two DATASETS

2009-08-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: xtabs(B ~ factor(A, seq(max(A On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Maithili Shiva wrote: > > > > > > > > Dear Sirs, > > At the outset I sincerely apologize for reproducing my query to you. I also > thank all of you for the solution you had provided. It has worked on the > actual data

[R] fitting a linear model line through srip plot

2009-08-27 Thread Mehdi Khan
I am creating a strip plot from the lattice library, and would like the display to also have the linear model line through it. How would I do that? stripplot(jitter(vs30)~tif.vs30, data=rastermodel, xlim=c(150,600), ylim=c(0,1000)) yonglm<-lm(vs30~tif.vs30, data=rastermodel) Thanks! [[

[R] distinct elements of a vector

2009-08-27 Thread mirauta
Hello, I have the vector (a,b,a,c) and I trying to obtain it's distinct elements in another vector. Is there a function that can do this? Thanks, Bogdan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/distinct-elements-of-a-vector-tp25168032p25168032.html Sent from the R help mailing l

Re: [R] Winsorized mean and variance

2009-08-27 Thread Roberto Perdisci
This is of great help, thanks! Roberto On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: > Roberto Perdisci wrote: >> >> Hello everybody, >>  after searching around for quite some time, I haven't been able to >> find a package that provides a function to compute the Windorized mean >> and varianc

Re: [R] Submit a R job to a server

2009-08-27 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Have a look at Karim Chine's R/Biocep project: http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/ /henrik On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Moshe Olshansky wrote: > Hi Deb, > > Based on your last note (and after briefly looking at Rserve) I believe that > you should install R with all the packages y

Re: [R] Merge data frames but with a twist.

2009-08-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Stephen Tucker wrote: > You may want to use the reshape package for this task: > >> library(reshape) >> recast(DF3,Show ~ Datetime, id.var=names(DF3),value="Measure") >       Show 08/26/2009 11:30 AM 08/26/2009 9:30 AM > 1   Firefly                   3              

Re: [R] distinct elements of a vector

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try : unique(c(a,b,a,c)) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM, mirauta wrote: > > Hello, > > I have the vector (a,b,a,c) and I trying to obtain it's distinct elements > in > another vector. > Is there a function that can do this? > > Thanks, > Bogdan > -- > View this message in context: > http://ww

[R] generating multiple sequences in subsets of data

2009-08-27 Thread Jason Baucom
I'm running into a problem I can't seem to find a solution for. I'm attempting to add sequences into an existing data set based on subsets of the data. I've done this using a for loop with a small subset of data, but attempting the same process using real data (200k rows) is taking way too long.

Re: [R] generating multiple sequences in subsets of data

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this; stuff$row3 <- with(stuff, ave(row1, row2, FUN = seq)) I don't understand the fourth column On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jason Baucom wrote: > I'm running into a problem I can't seem to find a solution for. I'm > attempting to add sequences into an existing data set based on subse

Re: [R] generating multiple sequences in subsets of data

2009-08-27 Thread Jason Baucom
Henrique, That works great! Thanks. The row3 is a sequence that restarts each time a new row2 is reached. Row4 is a sequence that restarts each time a new row2 is reached OR row1 reaches some threshold. By setting a threshold of 3, we expect a restart of the sequence once row1 reaches

Re: [R] generating multiple sequences in subsets of data

2009-08-27 Thread Jason Baucom
I got this to work. Thanks for the insight! row7 is what I need. > checkLimit <-function(x) x<3 > stuff$row6<-checkLimit(stuff$row1) > stuff$row7 <- with(stuff, ave(row1,row2, row6, FUN = sequence)) > stuff row1 row2 row3 row4 row5 row6 row7 1 01111 TRUE1 2

[R] subset of a matrix

2009-08-27 Thread Carlos Gonzalo Merino Mendez
Hello everyone, I would appreciate any help with the following. My dataset is a list containing matrices. So if you type e.g. data[[1]] you get something like: [,1][,2] 361a AT 456b AG 72145aTG As you can see my rows have names which are char

Re: [R] subset of a matrix

2009-08-27 Thread milton ruser
Hi Carlos, how about this step first: rownames(mydata)<-gsub("361a","00361a",rownames(mydata)) rownames(mydata)<-gsub("456a","00456a",rownames(mydata)) good luck milton On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Carlos Gonzalo Merino Mendez < carlosgmer...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, I would ap

Re: [R] generating multiple sequences in subsets of data

2009-08-27 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Jason Baucom wrote: I got this to work. Thanks for the insight! row7 is what I need. checkLimit <-function(x) x<3 stuff$row6<-checkLimit(stuff$row1) You don't actually need those intermediate steps: > stuff$row7 <- with(stuff, ave(row1, row2, row1 < 3, FU

Re: [R] Creating a simple line graph

2009-08-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 8/27/09, Josh Roll wrote: > I am having trouble getting both graphs on the same page. Its > separating them, especially when i write them to a pdf. I need visual > comparison capabilities. Do i need to include the two data sets in the same > "plot" to make this happen. Thanks > h

[R] help on ar(1)

2009-08-27 Thread Gaspar Núñez
Hi Assume i have three time series Y, X and Z and the model is Y(t) = b1 + b2*X(t) + b3*Z(t) + u(t) How can I introduce an autoregressive term ar(1) to solve for serial autocorrelation? i've been trying with ar(arg1,arg2,arg3) but it only works for individual series thanks a lot -- Gaspar

Re: [R] subset of a matrix

2009-08-27 Thread milton ruser
Hi Carlos, I think I made a wrong suggestion. Sorry about that. I was thinking that if you have the same rowname length it helps you on the data handling. Is it true?! Case yes I can try suggest another automatic way of you get it. bests milton On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:39 PM, milton ruser

Re: [R] Winsorized mean and variance

2009-08-27 Thread William Revelle
Roberto, Try winsor in the psych package. Bill At 10:21 AM -0400 8/27/09, Roberto Perdisci wrote: This is of great help, thanks! Roberto On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: Roberto Perdisci wrote: Hello everybody, after searching around for quite some time, I haven't

Re: [R] subset of a matrix

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: lapply(data, function(r) lapply(split(r, substr(sprintf("%05d", as.numeric(gsub("[a-z]", "", row.names(r, 1, 3)), table)) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Carlos Gonzalo Merino Mendez < carlosgmer...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, I

Re: [R] subset of a matrix

2009-08-27 Thread Carlos Gonzalo Merino Mendez
Hi Milton, Thanks for trying to help anyway. From: milton ruser Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:48:41 PM Subject: Re: [R] subset of a matrix Hi Carlos, I think I made a wrong suggestion. Sorry about that. I was thinking that if

Re: [R] subset of a matrix

2009-08-27 Thread Carlos Gonzalo Merino Mendez
Hi Henrique, I tried your code. I simply copied and pasted it 'cause I have no idea how it works. What I get is the total number of A's and T's and all other characters, which was not my intention. Maybe I need to make some modifications to your script before being able to apply within my scrip

Re: [R] fitting a linear model line through srip plot

2009-08-27 Thread Mehdi Khan
Nevermind, I figured another way through the plot command. thanks :) On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Mehdi Khan wrote: > I am creating a strip plot from the lattice library, and would like the > display to also have the linear model line through it. How would I do that? > > stripplot(jitter(v

Re: [R] mann whitney u

2009-08-27 Thread Greg Snow
How current is the literature? Is the more recent literature using Mann-Whitney because of inertia rather than best practice? The Mann-Whitney/Wicoxon test is a special case of a permutation test that has a shortcut computation. Fast computers were not available when these tests were develope

Re: [R] math symbol + value of a variable in legend.

2009-08-27 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Maechler > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:30 AM > To: Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres > Cc: RHelp > Subject: Re: [R] math symbol + value of a variable in legend. > > >

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread David L Carlson
I'd suggest looking at Rcmdr by John Fox (http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/). I use it to introduce anthropology students to R for statistical analyses. It is a graphical user interface that lets students quickly begin using R to run statistical analyses. It includes a command window so y

Re: [R] Merge data frames but with a twist.

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Tucker
Ah, thanks always - I originally thought as.chron() was required to have all fields (m/d/y hh:mm:ss) as for chron() but I see that the former passes its 'format' argument to as.POSIXct() Good deal! Stephen - Original Message From: Gabor Grothendieck To: Stephen Tucker Cc: Tony Bre

Re: [R] Merge data frames but with a twist.

2009-08-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The inconsistency arose in order to satisfy backward compatibility while giving chron a direct way to use % codes. chron used its own format specification so it would have been difficult to add % codes there; however, as.chron, at the time, did not support a format specification at all so it was s

Re: [R] math symbol + value of a variable in legend.

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: legend("topleft", c(as.expression(bquote(mu == .(m1))), as.expression(bquote(mu == .(m2) On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres < krcab...@une.net.co> wrote: > Hi R users: > > I will like to have a legend with math symbols and also with > the value of a variabl

Re: [R] math symbol + value of a variable in legend.

2009-08-27 Thread William Dunlap
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division wdunlap tibco.com > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of William Dunlap > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:18 AM > To: Martin Maechler; Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torr

[R] standard error associated with correlation coefficient

2009-08-27 Thread Donald Braman
I want the standard error associated with a correlation. I can calculate using cor & var, but am wondering if there are libraries that already provide this function. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list http

[R] Best R text editors?

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Quick informal poll: what is everyone's favorite text editor for working with R? I'd like to hear from people who are using editors that have some level of direct R interface (e.g. Tinn-R, Komodo+SciViews). Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Te

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Erich Neuwirth
And if your students are used to work with Excel (on Windows) and will have data in Excel, consider RExcel (more info at rcom.univie.ac.at) which among other things gives you the R Commander menu as an Excel menu. Disclaimer: I am the author of RExcel. David L Carlson wrote: > I'd suggest lookin

[R] ignore an error and go back to ....

2009-08-27 Thread kathie
Dear R users, is there way to ignore an error and go back to 1st line? I mean, #--- while (or repeat) { 1 2 . . . 6 } #- For example, if I have an error in the 6th line, the

[R] select one function from two of them

2009-08-27 Thread SH.Chou
Hi all, I have two functions called test1() and test2(). Now how do I select one of them in test3()?? Say test3<-function(func="test1"){ if (func=="test1"){ now.func<-test1() } else now.func<-test2() } I know this function I wrote does not right. Do an

[R] select one function from two of them in another function

2009-08-27 Thread SH.Chou
Hi all, I have two functions called test1() and test2(). Now how do I select one of them in test3()?? Say test3<-function(func="test1"){ if (func=="test1"){ now.func<-test1() } else now.func<-test2() } I know this function I wrote does not right. Do an

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Andreas Stefik
Along this same note, are there any editors that have good code completion (intellisense) capabilities for R? I'll be teaching R to undergraduates this semester and I imagine having code completion would be helpful. Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University

Re: [R] select one function from two of them

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: test1 <- function()cat("Call: Test 1", "\n") test2 <- function()cat("Call: Test 2", "\n") test3 <- function(FUN) match.fun(FUN) test3("test1") On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:39 PM, SH.Chou wrote: > Hi all, I have two functions called test1() and test2(). Now how do I > selec

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/27/09, Andreas Stefik wrote: > Along this same note, are there any editors that have good code completion > (intellisense) capabilities for R? I'll be teaching R to undergraduates this > semester and I imagine having code completion would be helpful. > Personally I find JGR a comfortable co

[R] setting par(srt) according to plot aspect ratio

2009-08-27 Thread Levi Waldron
How can I look up the aspect ratio of a plot, so I can use that to correctly adjust the angle of text which is supposed to be parallel to a line in the plot? The following example code works for a 1:1 aspect ratio, but puts the text at the wrong angle if the plot region is short and wide or tall a

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Frederik Elwert
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 15:40 -0500 schrieb Andreas Stefik: > Along this same note, are there any editors that have good code completion > (intellisense) capabilities for R? I'll be teaching R to undergraduates this > semester and I imagine having code completion would be helpful. JGR[1] is

Re: [R] select one function from two of them in another function

2009-08-27 Thread jim holtman
Is this what you want -- this returns a function that you can then call: > test1 <- function() 1 > test2 <- function() 2 > test3 <- function(func='test1'){ # return the function to call + if (func == 'test1') return(test1) + return(test2) + } > > # test it > test3()() # default -- notice

Re: [R] ignore an error and go back to ....

2009-08-27 Thread jim holtman
Give us the example where 'try' did not work. Something like this should work while(){ 1 2 try.err <- try(...code that might error) if (try.err, 'try-error') next 3 } On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, kathie wrote: > > Dear R users, > > is there way to ignore an error and

[R] Data set variables meaning

2009-08-27 Thread Caio Azevedo
Hi all, Does anybody know the meaning of the values 0 - 1, for each variable from data "sex2" avaible from the package "logistf"? Thanks in advance. Best, Caio [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https:/

Re: [R] select one function from two of them in another function

2009-08-27 Thread Bert Gunter
While correct, the solution below is unnecessarily complicated. Functions can be passed around and used as arguments just like any other objects. Hence (using Jim's example): > test3 <- function(func)func > test3(test1)() [1] 1 > test3(test2)() [1] 2 Of course. arguments can be entered in the par

Re: [R] setting par(srt) according to plot aspect ratio

2009-08-27 Thread Levi Waldron
I frequently use R's help facilities and I know about the asp argument to plot, but this doesn't answer my question. I would like to allow the aspect to be determined automatically but *query* the aspect ratio for future use. I suppose one work-around would be to use the data ranges and plot regi

Re: [R] Help on efficiency/vectorization

2009-08-27 Thread Steven Kang
Many thanks to all for resolving my issue! On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Martin Maechler < maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > > "MO" == Moshe Olshansky > > on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:36:22 -0700 (PDT) writes: > >MO> You can do >MO> for (i in 1:ncol(x)) {names <- > rownames(

[R] Transform data for repeated measures

2009-08-27 Thread Richardson, Patrick
I have a dataset that I'm trying to rearrange for a repeated measures analysis: It looks like: patient basefev1 fev11h fev12h fev13h fev14h fev15h fev16h fev17h fev18h drug 201 2.46 2.68 2.76 2.50 2.30 2.14 2.40 2.33 2.20a 202 3.50 3.95 3.65 2.93 2.53 3.04

Re: [R] Transform data for repeated measures

2009-08-27 Thread Rolf Turner
?reshape On 28/08/2009, at 11:37 AM, Richardson, Patrick wrote: I have a dataset that I'm trying to rearrange for a repeated measures analysis: It looks like: patient basefev1 fev11h fev12h fev13h fev14h fev15h fev16h fev17h fev18h drug 201 2.46 2.68 2.76 2.50 2.30 2.14 2

Re: [R] Transform data for repeated measures

2009-08-27 Thread Bert Gunter
I suspect reshape() is the function you're looking for; there is also a reshape package that you might prefer. It's also quite easy to do this in base R using unlist() and some indexing with rep, but that may be more than you care to deal with. Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatisics

[R] problems with strsplit using a split of ' \\\ ' : a regex problem

2009-08-27 Thread Mark Kimpel
I have a vector of gene symbols, some of which have multiple aliases. In the case of an alias, they are separated by ' \\\ '. Here is a real world example, which would represent one element of my vector: Eif4g2 /// Eif4g2-ps1 /// LOC678831 What I would like to do is input the vector into a functio

Re: [R] problems with strsplit using a split of ' \\\ ' : a regex problem

2009-08-27 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
You need a escape before each backslash: a <- c('a \\ b', 'a \\ b') cat(a, "\n") You can write in this form: strsplit(a, " .*\\.* ") On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote: > I have a vector of gene symbols, some of which have multiple aliases. In > the > case of an ali

Re: [R] setting par(srt) according to plot aspect ratio

2009-08-27 Thread Levi Waldron
For posterity's sake, here is the solution I figured out. Putting the following lines after the plot(f) command seems to set the angle correctly: myasp <- (par("fin")[2]-par("mai")[1]-par("mai")[3])/(par("fin")[1]-par("mai")[2]-par("mai")[4]) (f_angle <- atan(myasp)*180/pi) (g_angle <- atan(2*mya

Re: [R] problems with strsplit using a split of ' \\\ ' : a regex problem

2009-08-27 Thread Mark Kimpel
Thanks Henrique. I had actually tried using 6 back-slashes but didn't know to use 'cat' to see the non-escaped representation (see below to see my original confusion). Your strsplit, of course, works great. Thanks again! > a [1] "a \\ b" "a \\ b" > cat(a) a \\\ b a \\\ b> -

[R] Spatio-Temporal Models in the ramps package

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
The ramps package looks very appealing. I have run the examples in the package .pdf and gone through the .pdf article at the Journal of Statistical Software, and am very impressed. Is it possible to see a spatio-temporal example in R script as well? Thanks. -- View this message in context: ht

[R] Which one is the right test?

2009-08-27 Thread Atte Tenkanen
Hi, I have a population. Then I have picked one relatively small sub-sample of it using a particular criterion. The means of the whole population and that of the sample seems to differ significantly. The distributions are not normal. What is the right test? Atte Tenkanen University of Turku, F

[R] heatmap column width

2009-08-27 Thread Tiandao Li
Hi, I generated a 3-column heatmap, however, I want to have a smaller column width and big font size of label on the right side. Thanks! > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26) i486-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETAR

[R] SFBA R Users Group - Fall kickoff w/ Hadley Wickham, more news, & call for presenters

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Porzak
The San Francisco Bay Area useR Group is very excited to host Hadley Wickham on Sep 17 for our Fall kickoff meeting. Details at http://www.meetup.com/R-Users/calendar/10446894/ This year we are moving our regular meeting monthly meeting to the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Also, we hope to rotate the

[R] problem plotting with ggplot2

2009-08-27 Thread romunov
Dear R-Help subsribers, upon running into a wonderful ggplot2 package by accident, I abruptly encountered another problem. Almost every command run with ggplot2 results in some sort of error. The one below is far the most common one. Kind people from ggplot2 mailing list couldn't manage to solve

Re: [R] Fw: PROBLEM - - COMPARING AND COMBINING two DATASETS

2009-08-27 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear Sir,   Thanks a lot for your solution and guidance. It worked wonderfully.   Regards   Maithili --- On Thu, 27/8/09, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: From: Gabor Grothendieck Subject: Re: [R] Fw: PROBLEM - - COMPARING AND COMBINING two DATASETS To: "Maithili Shiva" Cc: r-help@r-project.org D