Re: [R] vector of Vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Schalk Heunis
You want to use list: a = list() a[[1]] = c(1,2,3) a[[2]] = c(1,2,3) Note the [[..]] operator - check the "An Introduction to R" manual for more details Schalk Heunis On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:00 AM, wrote: > I just learned that vectors can't contain vectors, which frankly simply > confuses m

[R] vector of Vectors

2009-09-08 Thread sclarke3
I just learned that vectors can't contain vectors, which frankly simply confuses me (can you imagine arrays or lists in any other language not being able to contain arrays or lists?). At any rate, I need to create a data structure (size to be determined at runtime) which I will instantiate and t

Re: [R] Scan and read.table

2009-09-08 Thread Santosh
As you see in the data.. each section has table header followed by a row of table column headers and then rows of data. I felt read.table may not be the optimal function to extract both the texts (headers) and numerics (rows&columns of data). As of now, I use "scan" to get the text boundaries and u

Re: [R] Running a batch file with an r script

2009-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try ?Rscript ?system ?shell On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Daniel Bradley wrote: > Hi! > > I have a need to do the ridiculous and run a batch file if certain > conditions are met within an R script.  is there a simple way to do so? or > to run dos commands? > > Thanks! > Daniel > >        [[alt

Re: [R] SAS vs. R in web application

2009-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You would normally have R or SAS run on the server, not on the client machine so whether it opens a window or not makes no difference. The window is not on the client's machine anyways. The client only has a browser. >From within R see ?Rscript and ?system On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Carlo

Re: [R] Help with data containing date

2009-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: Lines <- "Date ABC D E 1978-10-22 18 20.64 0.0 0.176 -1.76 1978-10-23 15 17.06 0.4 0.147 2.52 1978-10-243 7.588 0.0 0.068 -6.86 1978-10-259 11.491 0.0 0.102-1.01 1978-10-26 13 14.98 1.4

Re: [R] SAS vs. R in web application

2009-09-08 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Carlos, The last time I checked the SAS license for web use was $25,000 per year. R costs $0 per century. Still interested in SAS? Not sure about your question about 'DOS window'. R on a web server interacts with your browser and doesn't open other windows. There are several online demos

[R] Running a batch file with an r script

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel Bradley
Hi! I have a need to do the ridiculous and run a batch file if certain conditions are met within an R script. is there a simple way to do so? or to run dos commands? Thanks! Daniel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org

[R] Help with data containing date

2009-09-08 Thread Subodh Acharya
Hello Everyone,I think this is a very simple problem, I have been struggling with it for a few days now. I have a 10-year daily data in the following format. Date ABC D E 1978-10-22 18 20.64 0.0 0.176 -1.76 1978-10-23 15 17.06 0.4 0.14

[R] SAS vs. R in web application

2009-09-08 Thread Carlos Alzola
Good evening, I have been asked to investigate the pros and cons of using SAS vs. R in a web application. Either SAS or R would be the engine used to make some very simple calculations and to produce graphs, preferably in png format. The advantages of R are pretty obvious as there would be no l

Re: [R] Confident interval for nls predictions

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Ridenhour wrote: > > Hello all, > I'm trying to establish some confidence intervals on predictions I am > making using > >>predict(nls(...)) > > and predict.nls (unfortunately) does not utilize the se.fit option. A > little more background is that I am trying to match the output with old

Re: [R] Obtaining value of median survival for survfit function to use in calculation

2009-09-08 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Or try the following: require(rms) data(lung) survfit(Surv (time, status) ~ ph.ecog, data=lung) lung <- transform(lung, ph.ecog=factor(ph.ecog)) f <- cph(Surv(time, status) ~ strat(ph.ecog), data=lung, surv=TRUE) ## doesn't assume PH quant <- Quantile(f) # print quant to see how all quantiles a

Re: [R] optim() argument scoping: passing parameter values into user's subfunction

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Bolker
Szumiloski, John wrote: > > Dear useRs, > > I have a complicated function to be optimized with optim(), and whose > parameters are passed to another function within its evaluation. This > function allows for the parameters to enter as arguments to various > probability distribution functions.

Re: [R] Obtaining value of median survival for survfit function to use in calculation

2009-09-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi, I have a strong recollection of a relatively recent communication on this issue with Terry, but cannot seem to locate it at the moment and I don't recall if it was on-list or off-list. I am either on drugs or Terry indicated that he was going to modify either the returned survfit() or

Re: [R] Scan and read.table

2009-09-08 Thread jim holtman
How do you want to extract the data? You can use 'readLines' to read in the data and then 'grep' to find the header lines and delete them. On the other hand, do you want to separate each section into a differnet object/list? You can again use readLines and determine where the breaks are and then

Re: [R] SRS Required sample size for simulated data

2009-09-08 Thread KABELI MEFANE
Hi   Out of curiosity, how can i determine the minimum required sample size of this data in a combined form say 100 entries which r functions can i use?   R helpers   Please help me combine the simulated data to a form of table where: Hypermarket have 10 rows, supermarket have 15 rows,...,

Re: [R] [R-SIG-Finance] Aggregating irregular time series

2009-09-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Suggest you try writing this in C. On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:00 PM, R_help Help wrote: > Hi Gabor, > > I appreciate your suggestion. I'm wondering if there's any faster > implementation that one could achieve. The dataset I have is about > 400K rows and I have many of them. Just wondering if you ha

Re: [R] Fitting a linear model with a break point

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel Malter
First, dependent on how highly dimensional your data is, I would recommend inspecting it visually first. Does the step-function seem a reasonable assumption? If I understand you correctly when you say, "piecewise linear which has the gradient constrained to zero," you mean dummy-variable coding f

Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: matplot(matrix(1:length(d), NCOL(d), byrow = TRUE), t(d), type = 'h', lty = 1, lwd = 2) On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Rafael Moral wrote: > Dear useRs, > > I want to plot the following barplot with lines instead of bars. Is there a > way? > > data <- data.frame(cbind(k = 0:3, fk = c

Re: [R] SPSS Statistics-R Integration Plug-In

2009-09-08 Thread Michael Bibo
Michael Chajewski fordham.edu> writes: > > Dear All, > > Has anyone tried to use this plug-in? Since I am running R-2.9.1 it will not even let me install it. Further, > since I am running Windows I cannot use the R provided R-2.7.0 Linux installation file from the archive > (tried to install

Re: [R] Combining simulated data

2009-09-08 Thread KABELI MEFANE
R helpers   Please help me combine the simulated data to a form of table where: Hypermarket have 10 rows, supermarket have 15 rows,..., spazashops with 35 rows.   Hypermarket <- rnorm(10, mean=2, sd=7000) Supermarket <- rnorm(15, mean=12000, sd=4000) Minimarket   <- rnorm(20, mean=1, s

Re: [R] cbind formula definition

2009-09-08 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
I don't understand the cbind(bi) sintax, but you can do this with the folowing: (Using iris data from R) form <- formula(paste(paste(names(iris), collapse = " + "), "~ 1")) 2009/9/8 "Biedermann, Jürgen" > Hi there, > > I have the following problem: > > I have a package called "polLCA" which has

Re: [R] [R-SIG-Finance] Aggregating irregular time series

2009-09-08 Thread R_help Help
Hi Gabor, I appreciate your suggestion. I'm wondering if there's any faster implementation that one could achieve. The dataset I have is about 400K rows and I have many of them. Just wondering if you have any thoughts. Thanks. Sakda On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:57 AM, R_help Help wrote: > --

Re: [R] eps file with embedded font

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Thanks for the further analysis on this Ted. I think the problem is that, with such a "wide" plot, you are running into the default paper size. If you look at the EPS produced by ghostscript, you will see a line like this ... 612 792 /letter setpagesize ... and notice that the value 61

Re: [R] Obtaining value of median survival for survfit function to use in calculation

2009-09-08 Thread David Winsemius
The survfit.object help page says: "The print.survfit method does more computation than is typical for a print method and is documented on a separate page." It takes a bit of digging, but after first trying: getAnywhere(print.survfit) # and then following code and trying getAnywhere(survme

Re: [R] Plotting two qqnorm plots:

2009-09-08 Thread Rolf Turner
njhuang86 wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to plot overlapping qqnorm plots on the same window? Suppose I have data in the vector x and y: qqnorm(x) lines(qqnorm(y)) I though these two lines will do the job... However, lines doesn't seem to work. Anyways, thanks in advance! E.g.:

Re: [R] Plotting two qqnorm plots:

2009-09-08 Thread Greg Hirson
You can do this in lattice: library(lattice) df = data.frame(val = rnorm(100), group = rep(c('x', 'y'), each = 50)) qqmath(~val, groups = group, data = df) Hope that helps, Greg njhuang86 wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to plot overlapping qqnorm plots on the same window? Suppose I have

[R] Obtaining value of median survival for survfit function to use in calculation

2009-09-08 Thread Polwart Calum (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust)
Hi, I'm sure this should be simple but I can't figure it out! I want to get the median survival calculated by the survfit function and use the value rather than just be able to print it. Something like this: library(survival) data(lung) lung.byPS = survfit(Surv (time, status) ~ ph.ecog, data=

Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread John Kane
Have a look at ?segments and/or ?arrows. --- On Tue, 9/8/09, rafamoral wrote: > From: rafamoral > Subject: Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 2:12 PM > > How can I draw thin bars in a barplot? > Rafael > > > hadley w

Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread John Kane
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, hadley wickham wrote: > From: hadley wickham > Subject: Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars > To: "rafamoral" > What's the difference between a line > and a thin bar? > Hadley Diet? > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM, rafamoral > wrote: > > > > I'm sorry, but

Re: [R] DOE in R?

2009-09-08 Thread Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
Hello, Maybe you want something like this: desD2 <- optFederov(~(Intro+Duration+GOTO+Fee+Color)^2,dat, nTrials = 30) In any case, both SAS's proc optex and R's optFederov implement a non-exhaustive search algorithm and nothing guarantees that the final design will be the same. However, you can

[R] image registration/alignment algorithm

2009-09-08 Thread Bob Meglen
Dec (6/5) 2006 Newsletter mentioned that EBImage might include image registration/alignment as "of foreseeable interest". My present Newsletter and Help Digest search finds no mention of this. Does anyone know of someone who might have implemented an image alignment or image registration algorit

Re: [R] makefile for sweave

2009-09-08 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Welma Pereira wrote: Hello, I have the following makefile. The problem is that the bibliography doesn t work. Any help would be appreciated! I really don t don t what to do..:-( # The sources of the report (tex, Rnw and other files (e.g. bib, idx)) TEX_CMPS = Report proble

Re: [R] Very basic question regarding plot.Design...

2009-09-08 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Petar Milin wrote: I would like to have a line on this plot, instead of two points: x1 = rnorm(100, 10, 2.5) x2 = rnorm(100, 26, 3.2) x1 = as.data.frame(x1) x2 = as.data.frame(x2) colnames(x1) = 'anxiety' colnames(x2) = 'anxiety' x1$gender = 'male' x2$gender = 'female' dat = rbind(x1, x2) requi

Re: [R] rcorrp.cens and U statistics

2009-09-08 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
pietro bulian wrote: I have two alternative Cox models with C-statistics 0.72 and 0.78. My question is if 0.78 is significantly greater than 0.72. I'm using rcorrp.cens. I cannot find the U statistics in the output of the function. This is the output of the help example: x1 <- rnorm(400) x2

[R] rcorrp.cens and U statistics

2009-09-08 Thread pietro bulian
I have two alternative Cox models with C-statistics 0.72 and 0.78. My question is if 0.78 is significantly greater than 0.72. I'm using rcorrp.cens. I cannot find the U statistics in the output of the function. This is the output of the help example: > x1 <- rnorm(400) > x2 <- x1 + rnorm(400) >

Re: [R] [OT] "_" inserted in postings

2009-09-08 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Tue, 08-Sep-2009 at 06:40AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > I don't see the underscores in that posting, but I do see this as the > last line in the headers: That's interesting. I see them using Mutt as well as with Thunderbird. I bounced the message to a Yahoo account, and the underscore

[R] Plotting two qqnorm plots:

2009-09-08 Thread njhuang86
Hi all, Does anyone know how to plot overlapping qqnorm plots on the same window? Suppose I have data in the vector x and y: qqnorm(x) lines(qqnorm(y)) I though these two lines will do the job... However, lines doesn't seem to work. Anyways, thanks in advance! -- View this message in context:

[R] gstat---2 basic plot questions

2009-09-08 Thread bevenro
Hi all-- I'm new to R, statistics and programming, so sorry if this is a really basic question! I have plotted a directional variogram, and I want to a. overlay the omni-directional line over each directional panel b. display the directional variograms in a single panel with a legend that ass

Re: [R] Derivative of nonparametric curve

2009-09-08 Thread Rolf Turner
On 8/09/2009, at 9:07 PM, FMH wrote: Dear All, I'm looking for a way on computing the derivative of first and second order of a smoothing curve produced by a nonprametric regression. For instance, if we run the R script below, a smooth nonparametric regression curve is produced. provid

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using fiel

2009-09-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: > Well, yeah, Henrique's solutions works fine with this data. Thanks for > that, although this is not so generic solutions which I was looking > after. As I originally posted, I was looking for solution which uses > the field-width information,

[R] Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Position in South San Francisco

2009-09-08 Thread Bert Gunter
Genentech has a full time job opening for a statistician in its nonclinical biostatistics group in South San Francisco, CA. For details, please go to the R-sig-jobs mailing list here: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-jobs/2009q3/70.html (you may need to subscribe to view this). Bert Gu

[R] help with 'lm' function: contrast and separate variance terms

2009-09-08 Thread Timothy Clough
Dear All, I am attempting to use R to perform an ANOVA with three factors: feature (3 levels), group (5 levels), and patient (246 levels), where patient is nested within group. Currently I am using the "lm" function to fit the model, with the following form: fit <- lm(intensity ~ featu

[R] Confident interval for nls predictions

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Ridenhour
Hello all, I'm trying to establish some confidence intervals on predictions I am making using >predict(nls(...)) and predict.nls (unfortunately) does not utilize the se.fit option. A little more background is that I am trying to match the output with older SAS routines to maintain consistency

Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread rafamoral
How can I draw thin bars in a barplot? Rafael hadley wrote: > > What's the difference between a line and a thin bar? > Hadley > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM, rafamoral > wrote: >> >> I'm sorry, but I think I was misunderstood. What I need is something like >> this: >> >> http://img525.ima

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using fiel

2009-09-08 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
Well, yeah, Henrique's solutions works fine with this data. Thanks for that, although this is not so generic solutions which I was looking after. As I originally posted, I was looking for solution which uses the field-width information, as Ted pointed out. But as I already mentioned, it seems that

[R] Ada package question

2009-09-08 Thread pramil cheriyath
Hi, I am using ada to predict a data set with 36 variables ada(x~.,data=train,iter=Iter, control=rpart.control(maxdepth=4,cp=-1,minsplit=0,xval=0)) can any one tell me in in laymans terms maxdepth- how do you set this, how do you change this to improve predictions success cp- same question fo

Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread hadley wickham
What's the difference between a line and a thin bar? Hadley On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM, rafamoral wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I think I was misunderstood. What I need is something like > this: > > http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2818/imagemyu.jpg > > Lines instead of bars > > Thanks! > > Raf

Re: [R] strange results in summary and IQR functions

2009-09-08 Thread Erik Iverson
It's all simply a matter of definitions, and there are many who disagree. See ?quantile , specifically the "type" argument. Since IQR does not appear to have a type argument, you could easily write your own versions of these that do what SAS does (assuming that is your goal). With x defined

Re: [R] Mapping factors to a new set of factors

2009-09-08 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi James, Take a look at the "recode" function in the "car" package. It might be useful in this case. HTH, Jorge On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:01 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to map a factor variable within a data frame to a new variable > whose entries are derived from the content of the o

Re: [R] Mapping factors to a new set of factors

2009-09-08 Thread jim holtman
use 'ifelse' # not tested; you supply data for the '%in%' map <- function(x){ ifelse(x %in% c('a','b'), "North", ifelse(x %in% c('c','d'), "South", ifelse(x %in% c('e', 'f'), "East", ifelse(x %in% c('g', 'h'), "West", NA } On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:01 PM, wrot

Re: [R] Count number of different patterns (Polytomous variable)

2009-09-08 Thread Erik Iverson
If your data.frame was called "test" below, nrow(unique(test)) would do what you want, I believe. Erik -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of "Biedermann, Jürgen" Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:24 AM To: r-help@

Re: [R] Count number of different patterns (Polytomous variable)

2009-09-08 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Jürgen, If x is your data, here are two suggestions: # Suggestion 1 length(unique( apply(x, 1, paste, sep="", collapse="") ) ) # [1] 2 # Suggestion 2 res <- as.data.frame( xtabs( ~. , as.data.frame( x ) ) ) dim(res[res$Freq > 0,])[1] # [1] 2 HTH, Jorge 2009/9/8 "Biedermann, Jürgen" > Hi

Re: [R] Count number of different patterns (Polytomous variable)

2009-09-08 Thread jim holtman
try this: > x V1 V2 V3 1 0 3 1 2 1 2 0 3 1 2 0 > unique(x) V1 V2 V3 1 0 3 1 2 1 2 0 > nrow(unique(x)) [1] 2 > 2009/9/8 "Biedermann, Jürgen" : > Hi there, > > Does anyone know a method to calculate the number of different patterns in a > given data frame. The variables are of p

Re: [R] Count number of different patterns (Polytomous variable)

2009-09-08 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
try this: DF <- data.frame(V1 = c(0,1,1), V2 = c(3,2,2), V2 = c(1,0,0)) DF nrow(unique(DF)) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Biedermann, Jürgen wrote: Hi there, Does anyone know a method to calculate the number of different patterns in a given data frame. The variables are of polytomous ty

Re: [R] extracting pvalues from ttest

2009-09-08 Thread 1Rnwb
Hello, I am using "B" as a vector to store all the t.tests. since i am a newbie to both R and statistics I am not sure if "B" is the list. Also I see "c" used in the do.call formula and do not know what it is being used for. I used aggregate but getting this error" Error in aggregate.data.frame(eo

Re: [R] Ellipse: Major Axis Minor Axis

2009-09-08 Thread Jari Oksanen
Vishal gmail.com> writes: > > Jari, thanks for the quick answer. > > > sqrt(eigen(cov.trob(mydataforellipse)$cov)$values) > > what will this return? > > For my data, I get: > > > sqrt(eigen(cov.trob(r)$cov)$values) > [1] 1.857733e-05 4.953181e-06 > > Is this Left hand value the major or the

[R] RSPython can't find module

2009-09-08 Thread Simon Frost
Hi Folks, After seeing some tips on the web, I managed to get RSPython-0.7-1 installed with R 2.9.0 (on Ubuntu 8.04). I had to get rid of the extra comma in the PythonPath function in Python.S: .PythonPath <- function(path=NULL, merge = TRUE) { dirSep <- ifelse(R.version$os == "Win32", ";", "

Re: [R] extracting pvalues from ttest

2009-09-08 Thread 1Rnwb
okay fixed it by putting "c" in quote marks. 1Rnwb wrote: > > Hello, I am using "B" as a vector to store all the t.tests. since i am a > newbie to both R and statistics I am not sure if "B" is the list. Also I > see "c" used in the do.call formula and do not know what it is being used > for. I

[R] Mapping factors to a new set of factors

2009-09-08 Thread james.arnold
Hello, I am trying to map a factor variable within a data frame to a new variable whose entries are derived from the content of the original variable and there are fewer factors in the new variable. That is, I'm trying to set up a surjection. After first thinking that this would be a common op

[R] strange results in summary and IQR functions

2009-09-08 Thread Chunhao Tu
Dear R users, Something is strange in summary and IQR. Suppose, I have a data set and I would like to find the Q1, Q2, Q3 and IQR. x<-c(2,4,11,12,13,15,31,31,37,47) > summary(x) Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max. 2.00 11.25 14.00 20.30 31.00 47.00 > IQR(x) [1] 19.75

Re: [R] using an array of strings with strsplit, issue when including a space in split criteria

2009-09-08 Thread Tony Breyal
SOLVED. Thanks to a reply off-list it appears that the 'space' in "published 11" is actually some kind of multibyte character. If I physically delete the 'space' and replace it by using the spacebar on my keyboard, then strsplit() behaves as expected. I had got the text from a hyperlink and copy

[R] Count number of different patterns (Polytomous variable)

2009-09-08 Thread Biedermann, Jürgen
Hi there, Does anyone know a method to calculate the number of different patterns in a given data frame. The variables are of polytomous type and not binary (for the latter i found a package called "countpattern" which unfortunately only functions for binary variables). V1 V2 V3 0 3

[R] cbind formula definition

2009-09-08 Thread Biedermann, Jürgen
Hi there, I have the following problem: I have a package called "polLCA" which has the following syntax: poLCA(formula, data) and needs the following formula definition: formula <- cbind(V1,V2,V3,...) So far so good. What I tried now was the following: #Get "data" with the "read.table" fuct

Re: [R] Mantel test least square line

2009-09-08 Thread Jari Oksanen
swertie voila.fr> writes: > > Hello, I performed a Mantel test and plotted communitiy similarities. I > would like to add a least square line. I thought about using abline taking > as slope the r-statistic of the Mantel test and calculating the y-intercept > analytically. Is this method correct?

Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread rafamoral
I'm sorry, but I think I was misunderstood. What I need is something like this: http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2818/imagemyu.jpg Lines instead of bars Thanks! Rafael. ONKELINX, Thierry wrote: > > Here is a solutions using ggplot2 and reshape > > library(reshape) > library(ggplot2) > d

[R] Confusion on use of permTS() in 'perm'

2009-09-08 Thread Robert A. LaBudde
Consider the following simple example using R-2.9.0 and 'perm' 2.9.1: > require('perm') > p<- c(15,21,26,32,39,45,52,60,70,82) > g<- c('y','n','y','y', rep('n',6)) #Patients ranked 1,3,4 receive treatment > permTS(p ~ g, alternative = 'two.sided', method='exact.ce') #find p-value by complete enu

[R] optim() argument scoping: passing parameter values into user's subfunction

2009-09-08 Thread Szumiloski, John
Dear useRs, I have a complicated function to be optimized with optim(), and whose parameters are passed to another function within its evaluation. This function allows for the parameters to enter as arguments to various probability distribution functions. However, I am violating some scoping con

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using fiel

2009-09-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Sep-09 16:17:00, David Winsemius wrote: > On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: >> Ok, I think that I have to give up and try to get this data separated >> by some char. It seem pretty much impossible to separate those fields. >> Thanks for your help and efforts. > > The solutio

Re: [R] sparse vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Robin -- Robin Hankin wrote: > Hi > > I deal with long vectors almost all of whose elements are zero. > Typically, the length will be ~5e7 with ~100 nonzero elements. > > I want to deal with these objects using a sort of sparse > vector. > > The problem is that I want to be able to 'add' two

[R] makefile for sweave

2009-09-08 Thread Welma Pereira
Hello, I have the following makefile. The problem is that the bibliography doesn t work. Any help would be appreciated! I really don t don t what to do..:-( # The sources of the report (tex, Rnw and other files (e.g. bib, idx)) TEX_CMPS = Report problem RNW_CMPS = prop1 prop2 ExeExps OTHER = Re

[R] Re : R-crash when loading workspace - Windows

2009-09-08 Thread sebed1110-divers
Hi Actually there is no more trouble with R 2.9.2 version. I was using 2.5.0 and really needed to update! Thanks anyway Edwige De : William Dunlap Envoyé le : Mardi, 8 Septembre 2009, 18h12mn 59s Objet : RE: [R] R-crash when loading workspace - Windows Coul

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using field lengths

2009-09-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: Ok, I think that I have to give up and try to get this data separated by some char. It seem pretty much impossible to separate those fields. Thanks for your help and efforts. The solution that Henrique offered seems to be a complete one: rea

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using fiel

2009-09-08 Thread Ted Harding
Lauri, Having looked at your example file, and examined its byte-by-byte content, it is a plain ASCII file which gives exactly the same layout as you originally posted. This, along with the field-width information you originally supplied, is not sufficient to determine a unique dcomposition into fi

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using field lengths

2009-09-08 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
Ok, I think that I have to give up and try to get this data separated by some char. It seem pretty much impossible to separate those fields. Thanks for your help and efforts. -L 2009/9/8 Lauri Nikkinen : > This is the file (see the attachment) that represents the problem I'm > facing with the ori

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using field lengths

2009-09-08 Thread Lauri Nikkinen
This is the file (see the attachment) that represents the problem I'm facing with the original file. I'm looking for some generic way to solve this problem. Thank you for your time. -L 2009/9/8 Barry Rowlingson : > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: > >> But this is not the sol

[R] Incomplete time series

2009-09-08 Thread Bryan
Hi list, I have a data frame with a "Date" column and a "Price" column - for example: Date Price 01/01/2009 5.45 01/03/2009 6.53 01/04/2009 7.55 01/06/2009 6.76 01/08/2009 4.12 01/18/2009 5.87 ... As you can see, there are days for which I don't have any data

[R] output layout question

2009-09-08 Thread Roger Leenders
Win7, R-2.9.1 Dear list, I have a large (nxm) matrix which is the output of an analysis. Since it is so large, I would like to use output formatting to make it easier to find particular values and patterns in the matrix. In particular, I want to print the matrix as follows: - cells with a va

Re: [R] Unexpected behavior in friedman.test and ks.test

2009-09-08 Thread Meyners, Michael, LAUSANNE, AppliedMathematics
Alex, It's mainly speculation, as I cannot check the Excel add-in nor Vassar, but I'll give it a try. For the Friedman-test: Results of R coincide with those reported by Hollander & Wolfe, which I'd take as a point in favor of R. In any case, my guess is that ties are handled differently (aver

Re: [R] Re : calling combinations of variable names

2009-09-08 Thread Helter Two
Thanks to Justin, Baptiste, and Sebed for your answers. The solutions work well. I have been putting them to good use today: the code now works wonderfully and I learnt some useful tricks! thanks, Peter <-Original Message-> >From: justin bem [justin_...@yahoo.fr] >Sent: 9/8/2009 9:06:2

Re: [R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
Here is a solutions using ggplot2 and reshape library(reshape) library(ggplot2) data <- data.frame(k = 0:3, fk = c(11, 20,7,2), f0k = c(13.72, 17.64, 7.56, 1.08), fkest = c(11.85, 17.78, 8.89, 1.48)) Molten <- melt(data, id.vars = "k") ggplot(Molten, aes(x = k, y = value, colour = variable)) + g

Re: [R] Fitting a linear model with a break point

2009-09-08 Thread Vito Muggeo (UniPa)
dear Dan, As far as I know, the strucchange package can be helpful for you.. On the other hand, if your regression function is continuous at the unknown break points to be estimated, you could try the segmented package. Hope this helps you, vito Daniel Brewer ha scritto: Hello, I would lik

[R] barplot with lines instead of bars

2009-09-08 Thread Rafael Moral
Dear useRs, I want to plot the following barplot with lines instead of bars. Is there a way? data <- data.frame(cbind(k = 0:3, fk = c(11, 20,7,2), f0k = c(13.72, 17.64, 7.56, 1.08), fkest = c(11.85, 17.78, 8.89, 1.48))) d <- t(data[,2:4]) barplot(d, beside=TRUE) Regards, Rafael. __

Re: [R] Data in Array

2009-09-08 Thread jim holtman
Not sure what you mean by 'store', but you can use a list: > a <- matrix(1, nrow = 5, ncol = 1) > b <- matrix(2, nrow = 10, ncol = 1) > c <- matrix(3, nrow = 15, ncol = 1) > myList <- list(a, b, c) > str(myList) List of 3 $ : num [1:5, 1] 1 1 1 1 1 $ : num [1:10, 1] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 $ : num

Re: [R] sparse vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Robin" == Robin Hankin > on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:58:49 +0100 writes: Robin> Hi guys Robin> thanks for this, it works fine, but I'm not sure the Matrix package does Robin> what I want: >> a = sparseMatrix(i=c(20, 30, 10), j=rep(1, 3), x=c(2.2, 3.3, 4.4))

[R] Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling and simulation

2009-09-08 Thread Dick Verkerk
Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling and simulation By Dr. Jan Freijer September 24, 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.can.nl/events/details.php?id=57 This course is aimed at users of R or S-PLUS in the bio-pharmaceutical sciences who would like to use R for clini

Re: [R] NA in cca (vegan)

2009-09-08 Thread Jari Oksanen
Gavin Simpson ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 17:15 +0200, Kim Vanselow wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to calculate a cca (package vegan) with species and > > environmental data. One of these environmental variables is > > cos(EXPOSURE). > > The problem: for flat releves ther

[R] Fitting a linear model with a break point

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel Brewer
Hello, I would like to test some data to see whether it has the shape of a step function (i.e. y1 up until x_th and then y2 where x_th is the threshold). The threshold x_th is unknown and the x values can only take discrete values (0,1,2,3,4). An example would be: data<- data.frame(x=1:20,y=c(rn

Re: [R] Regarding SVM using R

2009-09-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Abbas R. Ali wrote: my dimentions of trining set dim(trainingset) = 7 x 96 and dim (validation) = 3 x 96 other thing if i want to predicit trainingset accuracy it is also giviing me same error. Now its no issue of dimentions from my side. 1. Please keep rep

Re: [R] sparse vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi guys thanks for this, it works fine, but I'm not sure the Matrix package does what I want: > a = sparseMatrix(i=c(20, 30, 10), j=rep(1, 3), x=c(2.2, 3.3, 4.4)) Error in asMethod(object) : Cholmod error 'out of memory' at file:../Core/cholmod_memory.c, line 148 Surely an efficien

Re: [R] sparse vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Benilton Carvalho
library(Matrix) a = sparseMatrix(i=c(20, 30, 1), j=rep(1, 3), x=c(2.2, 3.3, 4.4)) b = sparseMatrix(i=c(3, 30), j=rep(1, 2), x=c(0.1, 0.1), dims=dim(a)) theSum = a+b summary(theSum) hth, b On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: Try this: abMerge <- merge(a, b, by

Re: [R] Regarding SVM using R

2009-09-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Abbas R. Ali wrote: by using predict(model.ksvm, validationset, ...) I am facing following error: "Error: '...' used in an incorrect context" No. I didn't mean to explicitly use "...", sorry. Actually, I had a two line fix here, but I'm looking back at your

Re: [R] Averaging rows if a condition is true.

2009-09-08 Thread A Ezhil
Thanks a lot, Mohamed. Kind regards, Ezhil --- On Mon, 9/7/09, Mohamed Lajnef wrote: > From: Mohamed Lajnef > Subject: Re: [R] Averaging rows if a condition is true. > To: "A Ezhil" > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 9:22 PM > Hi, > > Try to use aggregate function

Re: [R] sparse vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Sep-09 13:06:28, Robin Hankin wrote: > Hi > I deal with long vectors almost all of whose elements are zero. > Typically, the length will be ~5e7 with ~100 nonzero elements. > > I want to deal with these objects using a sort of sparse > vector. > > The problem is that I want to be able to 'a

[R] SPSS Statistics-R Integration Plug-In

2009-09-08 Thread Michael Chajewski
Dear All, Has anyone tried to use this plug-in? Since I am running R-2.9.1 it will not even let me install it. Further, since I am running Windows I cannot use the R provided R-2.7.0 Linux installation file from the archive (tried to install it through cygwin and it was a mess). Suggestions? Id

Re: [R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using field lengths

2009-09-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote: > But this is not the solution I was looking for. Thanks. I think the only way you'll get the solution you are looking for is if you can let us have a copy of the original input file, or at least the first few lines - and not pasted into an e

Re: [R] sparse vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Robin Hankin wrote: Hi I deal with long vectors almost all of whose elements are zero. Typically, the length will be ~5e7 with ~100 nonzero elements. I want to deal with these objects using a sort of sparse vector. Would using sparse matrices (from the Matrix

Re: [R] Regarding SVM using R

2009-09-08 Thread Abbas R. Ali
by using predict(model.ksvm, validationset, ...) I am facing following error:   "Error: '...' used in an incorrect context"   And I want to use regression in SVM what can I do for it. Thanks   Abbas   --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Abbas R. Ali wrote: From: Abbas R. Ali Subject: [R] Regarding SVM using

Re: [R] sparse vectors

2009-09-08 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: abMerge <- merge(a, b, by = 'index', all = TRUE) list(index = abMerge$index, val = rowSums(abMerge[,2:3], na.rm = TRUE)) On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Robin Hankin wrote: > Hi > > I deal with long vectors almost all of whose elements are zero. > Typically, the length will be ~5e7 w

[R] Unexpected behavior in friedman.test and ks.test

2009-09-08 Thread atconsta-rhelp
I have to start by saying that I am new to R, so I might miss something crucial here. It seems to me that the results of friedman.test and ks.test are "wrong". Now, obviously, the first thing which crossed my mind was "it can't be, this is a package used by so many, someone should have observed"

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