Re: [R] Subset of time observations where timediff > 60 secs

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: There is an example at the end of the Prices and Returns section of the zoo-quickref vignette in the zoo package. library(zoo) vignette("zoo-quickref") If speed is your main concern check this recent thread that was posted on R-sig-finance: http://n4.nabble.com/SUMMARY

Re: [R] Ordeing Zoo object

2009-12-08 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Bogaso wrote: Hi all, I would like to ask how to order a Zoo object? Consider following code dat <- zooreg(rnorm(5), as.yearmon(as.Date("2001-01-01")), frequency=12) dat Jan 2001 Feb 2001 Mar 2001 Apr 2001 May 2001 -0.8916124 -0.4516505 1.1305884 -1.4881309 0.3

Re: [R] barchart() {lattice} help.

2009-12-08 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Peng Cai wrote: > Please ignore my last question. I found a way to handle that. One last > thing: > > I'm defining my own y scales. In the process the bar starts from below the > "y=0" line (or below the y-axis). Is there a way to get rid of it. Have you tried addi

[R] Ordeing Zoo object

2009-12-08 Thread Bogaso
Hi all, I would like to ask how to order a Zoo object? Consider following code > dat <- zooreg(rnorm(5), as.yearmon(as.Date("2001-01-01")), frequency=12) > dat Jan 2001 Feb 2001 Mar 2001 Apr 2001 May 2001 -0.8916124 -0.4516505 1.1305884 -1.4881309 0.3703734 Here I want to order fro

Re: [R] Serial Correlation in panel data regression

2009-12-08 Thread sayan dasgupta
Dear Sir, Thanks for your reply But still exists a trick . Basically I want to do Panel Tobit. I am using the tobit function from the package (AER) on a panel data . Suppose that Gasoline$lgaspcar is a 0 inflated data and I do m1<- tobit (as.formula(paste("lgaspcar ~", rhs)), data=Gasoline) then

Re: [R] Significant performance difference between split of a data.frame and split of vectors

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:00 AM, Peng Yu wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:37 PM, David Winsemius > wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Peng Yu wrote: I have the following code, which tests the split on a data.frame and the split on each column (as vector) separately. The runtimes are of 10 time

[R] Exporting Contingency Tables with xtable

2009-12-08 Thread Na'im R. Tyson
Dear R-philes: I am having an issue with exporting contingency tables with xtable(). I set up a contingency and convert it to a matrix for passing to xtable() as shown below. v.cont.table <- table(v_lda$class, grps, dnn=c("predicted", "observed")) v.cont.mat <- as.matrix(v.cont.tab

Re: [R] Can elements of a list be passed as multiple arguments?

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Peng Yu wrote: I want to split a matrix, where both 'u' and 'w' are results of possible ways. However, whenever 'n' changes, the argument passed to mapply() has to change. Is there a way to pass elements of a list as multiple arguments? You need to explain what yo

Re: [R] Significant performance difference between split of a data.frame and split of vectors

2009-12-08 Thread Peng Yu
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:37 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> I have the following code, which tests the split on a data.frame and >> the split on each column (as vector) separately. The runtimes are of >> 10 time difference. When m and k increase, th

Re: [R] How to know what vignette are available in a package?

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Peng Yu wrote: For any given package (for example, data.table), is there a way to show all the available vignette from the package (or to know whether there is vignette)? ?vignette -- David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT _

[R] How to know what vignette are available in a package?

2009-12-08 Thread Peng Yu
For any given package (for example, data.table), is there a way to show all the available vignette from the package (or to know whether there is vignette)? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read t

[R] Can elements of a list be passed as multiple arguments?

2009-12-08 Thread Peng Yu
I want to split a matrix, where both 'u' and 'w' are results of possible ways. However, whenever 'n' changes, the argument passed to mapply() has to change. Is there a way to pass elements of a list as multiple arguments? m=10 n=2 k=3 set.seed(0) x=replicate(n,rnorm(m)) f=sample(1:k, size=m, repl

Re: [R] Significant performance difference between split of a data.frame and split of vectors

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Peng Yu wrote: I have the following code, which tests the split on a data.frame and the split on each column (as vector) separately. The runtimes are of 10 time difference. When m and k increase, the difference become even bigger. I'm wondering why the performance

[R] Significant performance difference between split of a data.frame and split of vectors

2009-12-08 Thread Peng Yu
I have the following code, which tests the split on a data.frame and the split on each column (as vector) separately. The runtimes are of 10 time difference. When m and k increase, the difference become even bigger. I'm wondering why the performance on data.frame is so bad. Is it a bug in R? Can i

Re: [R] problem with split eating giga-bytes of memory

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Kimpel
Jim, could you provide a code snippit to illustrate what you mean? Hadley, good point, I did not know that. Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMai

Re: [R] Why cannot get the expected values in my function

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:07 PM, rusers.sh wrote: Hi, In the following function, i hope to save my simulated data into the "result" dataset, but why the final "result" dataset seems not to be generated. #Function simdata<-function (nsim) { # Instead why not: cbind(x=runif(nsim), y=runif(nsim

[R] Why cannot get the expected values in my function

2009-12-08 Thread rusers.sh
Hi, In the following function, i hope to save my simulated data into the "result" dataset, but why the final "result" dataset seems not to be generated. #Function simdata<-function (nsim) { result<-matrix(NA,nrow=nsim,ncol=2) colnames(result)<-c("x","y") for (i in 1:nsim) { set.seed(i) resul

Re: [R] problem with split eating giga-bytes of memory

2009-12-08 Thread jim holtman
Also instead of 'splitting' the data frame, I split the indices and then use those to access the information in the original dataframe. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote: > Hadley, Just as you were apparently writing I had the same thought and did > exactly what you suggested, co

Re: [R] problem with split eating giga-bytes of memory

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Kimpel
Hadley, Just as you were apparently writing I had the same thought and did exactly what you suggested, converting all columns except the one that I want split to character. Executed almost instantaneously without problem. Thanks! Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry I

Re: [R] problem with split eating giga-bytes of memory

2009-12-08 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Mark, Why are you using factors? I think for this case you might find characters are faster and more space efficient. Alternatively, you can have a look at the plyr package which uses some tricks to keep memory usage down. Hadley On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote: > Charles

Re: [R] problem with split eating giga-bytes of memory

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Kimpel
Charles, I suspect your are correct regarding copying of the attributes. First off, selectSubAct.df is my "real" data, which turns out to be of the same dim() as myDataFrame below, but each column is make up of strings, not simple letters, and there are many levels in each column, which I did not p

Re: [R] re-ordering x-lables using barchart()

2009-12-08 Thread Xin Ge
In the same function as given below: Can anyone suggest how can I bold font the "site names" ??? Thanks! library(lattice) barchart(yield ~ variety | site, data = barley, groups = year, layout = c(6,1), aspect=.7, ylab = "Barley Yield (bushels/acre)", scales = lis

Re: [R] re-ordering x-lables using barchart()

2009-12-08 Thread Gary Miller
@ David and Phil: Thanks for your suggestions. @ Xin: Are you also working with barchart()? -Gary On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Phil Spector wrote: > Gary - > If you create an ordered factor, barchart will plot the > sites in the order you specify. For example, try > > barley$site = ordere

Re: [R] partial match for two datasets

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Lynn Wang wrote: Hi all, I have two sets: dig<-c("DAVID ADAMS","PIERS AKERMAN","SHERYLE BAGWELL","JULIAN BAJKOWSKI","CANDIDA BAKER") import<-c("by DAVID ADAMS","piersAKERMAN","SHERYLE BagWEL","JULIAN BAJKOWSKI with ","Cand BAKER","smith green") I want to

Re: [R] problem with split eating giga-bytes of memory

2009-12-08 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Mark Kimpel wrote: I'm having trouble using split on a very large data-set with ~1400 levels of the factor to be split. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it with the simple self-contained example below. As you can see, splitting the artificial dataframe of size ~13MB results i

Re: [R] Reading from Google Docs

2009-12-08 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
Is anyone using RGoogleDocs? If so have you used it in the last few weeks and is it working as it used to. Look at the problem I have run into. Farrel Buchinsky On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 14:25, Farrel Buchinsky wrote: > Thank you for the interest in my problem. > > > I have been using the same

Re: [R] Problem with if statement

2009-12-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
It would be easier to answer if a portion of the input were shown in the question using dput(rf) or dput(head(rf)) but lets assume it looks like this and that our objective is to display a table of Name vs. DNAME counts where DNAME consists of manufactured short names -- is that right? DF <- data

Re: [R] by function ??

2009-12-08 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi, I think you want by(TestData[ , "RATIO"], LEAID, median) -Ista On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:36 PM, L.A. wrote: > > I'm just learning and this is probably very simple, but I'm stuck. >   I'm trying to understand the by(). > This works. > by(TestData, LEAID, summary) > > But, This doesn't. > > by

[R] partial match for two datasets

2009-12-08 Thread Lynn Wang
Hi all, I have two sets: dig<-c("DAVID ADAMS","PIERS AKERMAN","SHERYLE BAGWELL","JULIAN BAJKOWSKI","CANDIDA BAKER") import<-c("by DAVID ADAMS","piersAKERMAN","SHERYLE BagWEL","JULIAN BAJKOWSKI with ","Cand BAKER","smith green")     I want to get the following result from "import" after comp

[R] by function ??

2009-12-08 Thread L.A.
I'm just learning and this is probably very simple, but I'm stuck. I'm trying to understand the by(). This works. by(TestData, LEAID, summary) But, This doesn't. by(TestData, LEAID, median(RATIO)) ERROR: could not find function "FUN" HELP! Thanks, LA -- View this message in context: http

[R] Advice - get my function to work with a list

2009-12-08 Thread gcam
I really need help altering a function I have written. The function currently performs a specific task on a dataframe. I now wish to be able to use it with a splitting function by either passing it a pre-split dataframe or by being able to designate the splitting factor. Can anyone advise? Her

Re: [R] re-ordering x-lables using barchart()

2009-12-08 Thread Xin Ge
Thanks David, it worked! On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:03 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Gary Miller wrote: > > Hi R Users, >> >> I'm trying to re-order the "site names" ("Waseca", "Morris", ...). I'm >> using >> following code: >> >> libarry(lattice) >> > > # slip this cod

Re: [R] Problem with if statement

2009-12-08 Thread Erik Iverson
You can use the "ifelse" function for vectorized conditionals like you have here. See ?ifelse. From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Burke [art.bu...@educationnorthwest.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009

[R] Problem with if statement

2009-12-08 Thread Arthur Burke
I am trying to use the value of an ID variable in an if statement and not getting the results I expected. # ID values for two school districts > with(rf, tapply(DistrictID, DistrictName, min) ) Aberdeen School Dist. # 58 Buhl Joint School District 59

Re: [R] conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

2009-12-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here are a couple of solutions. The first uses by and the second sqldf: > Lines <- " rt dur tid mood roi x + 55 5523 200 4 subj 9 5 + 56 5523 52 4 subj 7 31 + 57 5523 209 4 subj 4 9 + 58 5523 188 4 subj 4 7 + 70 4016 264 5 indic 9 51 + 71 4016 195 5 indic 4 14" >

Re: [R] Formatting the length one vector to match another?

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
Or perhaps just: plot(xrange, yrange, type ="s") -- On Dec 8, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Peter Alspach wrote: Tena koe Oliver ?seq should help if I understand your question correctly Peter Alspach -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.o

Re: [R] Formatting the length one vector to match another?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Alspach
Tena koe Oliver ?seq should help if I understand your question correctly Peter Alspach > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Wells Oliver > Sent: Wednesday, 9 December 2009 11:19 a.m. > To: r-help@r-project.

Re: [R] R Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread Carl Witthoft
All the solutions presented work, but, gosh, why not fix the source file in the first place? One way: Open the text file in Excel or a clone thereof, and tell the importer dialog box to use both tabs and commas as delimiters. Then save the result, which will have your 'third column' nicely sp

Re: [R] conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

2009-12-08 Thread Marek Janad
I've sent last message only to Titus. Sorry :) Below my proposition: Instead of aggregate, try summaryBy from doBy package. It's much faster. And this package made my life easier :) try: summaryBy(dur+x~index, data=d, FUN=c(sum, mean)), but index should be in data.frame as I remember. I haven't

Re: [R] grep() exclude certain patterns?

2009-12-08 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 15:18 -0600, Peng Yu wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Greg Snow wrote: >> >> The invert argument seems a likely candidate, you could also do perl=TRUE >> >>

Re: [R] arrow plots

2009-12-08 Thread Jim Lemon
On 12/09/2009 05:42 AM, Cable, Samuel B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote: Am doing some vector plots with the arrows() function. Works well. But what I need to do is supply an arrow for scaling for the reader. I need to plot an arrow of some known magnitude somewhere on the page (preferably outs

Re: [R] grep() exclude certain patterns?

2009-12-08 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Greg Snow wrote: > I am sure that you mentioned before that your are using 2.7.1, and possibly > even why, but with the number of posts to this list each day and the number > of different posters, I cannot keep track of what version everyone is using > (well, I

[R] Formatting the length one vector to match another?

2009-12-08 Thread Wells Oliver
I have xrange which is a range of values from 1 to a max of 162. I have a yrange of values which really could be any values, but there's a min and a max. I'd like to create N number of steps between the min and the max so the length matches the xrange, so that I can plot them together. Any tips?

Re: [R] conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

2009-12-08 Thread Titus von der Malsburg
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Nikhil Kaza wrote: > I suppose that is true, but the example data seem to suggest that it is > sorted by rt. I was not very clear on that. Sorry. > d$count <- 1 >  a <- with(d, aggregate(subset(d, select=c("dur", "x", "count"), > list(rt=rt,tid=tid,mood=mood,roi=

[R] problem with split eating giga-bytes of memory

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Kimpel
I'm having trouble using split on a very large data-set with ~1400 levels of the factor to be split. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it with the simple self-contained example below. As you can see, splitting the artificial dataframe of size ~13MB results in a split dataframe of ~ 144MB, with an in

Re: [R] re-ordering x-lables using barchart()

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Gary Miller wrote: Hi R Users, I'm trying to re-order the "site names" ("Waseca", "Morris", ...). I'm using following code: libarry(lattice) # slip this code (or one with your preferred ordering) in before the plot call: barley$site <- factor(barley$site,

Re: [R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread Gaurav Moghe
Thanks a lot to everyone who replied. I used some of Stephan Kolassa's suggestions (thanks, Stephan). Here's my final code which worked (with comments to explain novices like me who come looking for the same answer) x=read.table("file",sep="\t",colClasses="character") prate<-x[,2] lrate<-x[,3] #th

Re: [R] igraph plot - vertex colors

2009-12-08 Thread Jakson A. Aquino
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:34:18PM -0800, Brock Tibert wrote: > I have successfully created and analyzed my network data. I am > new to R, and Network Analysis too, but I want to color my > vertex based on some of the centrality measures calculated. > > Can someone point me in the right directi

Re: [R] problem in labeling the nodes of tree drawn by rpart

2009-12-08 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Depending on your sample size, you might be able to just label the nodes by drawing a random sample from the variable names :-) Frank kaida ning wrote: Hi all, I used rpart to fit a model, where the covariates are categorical variables. Then I plotted the tree (mytree) and used the command "t

Re: [R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Gaurav Moghe wrote: > Hi David, > > 1) My code is as follows: > x=read.table("file",sep="\t") > prate<-x[,2] > lrates<-(x[,3]) > When I do: > print (typeof(lrates)): I get "integer" You've already received several solutions from people more R-savvy than I, so I wil

[R] re-ordering x-lables using barchart()

2009-12-08 Thread Gary Miller
Hi R Users, I'm trying to re-order the "site names" ("Waseca", "Morris", ...). I'm using following code: libarry(lattice) barchart(yield ~ variety | site, data = barley, groups = year, layout = c(6,1), aspect=.7, ylab = "Barley Yield (bushels/acre)", scal

Re: [R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gaurav Moghe > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:56 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Split comma separated list > > Hi all, > > I'm a beginner user of R. I am stuc

Re: [R] {Lattice} help.

2009-12-08 Thread Greg Snow
Here are a couple of others to try (using the lattice package): dotplot(Factor1 ~ Value | Factor2, data=foo, groups=Factor3, auto.key=T) dotplot(Factor1 ~ jitter(Value) | Factor2, data=foo, groups=Factor3, auto.key=T) dotplot(Factor3 ~ Value | Factor2*Factor1, data=foo ) dotplot(Factor1:Factor3 ~

Re: [R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread Gaurav Moghe
Hi David, 1) My code is as follows: x=read.table("file",sep="\t") prate<-x[,2] lrates<-(x[,3]) When I do: print (typeof(lrates)): I get "integer" When I do: for (line1 in lrates) { lsp<-unlist(strsplit(line1,"\\,")) } I get some in

Re: [R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread Stephan Kolassa
Hi Gaurav, 1) tell R when reading the data to consider the third column as "character" via the colClasses argument to read.table() 2) foo <- as.numeric(strplit(dataset$List_of_values,",")) 3) unlist(foo) or some such HTH, Stephan Gaurav Moghe schrieb: Hi all, I'm a beginner user of R. I

Re: [R] Quadratcount problem in spatstat

2009-12-08 Thread Rolf Turner
Sebastian: Can you send me (off-list) your point pattern (ppp_cameroon) so that I can experiment with it and try to figure out what's going wrong? (I am one of the maintainers of spatstat.) Save the point pattern using dput(), e.g. dput(ppp_cameroon,"cameroon.dput") and then attach `

Re: [R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread Phil Spector
Gaurav - Here's one way: x = textConnection('ID1 0.342 0.01,1.2,0,0.323,0.67 + ID2 0.010 0.987,0.056,1.3,1.5,0.4 + ID3 0.146 0.1173,0.1494,0.211,0.1257 + + ') y = read.table(x,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) res = apply(y,1,function(x)

Re: [R] Changing border width in barplot ?

2009-12-08 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Marc, You answered my question in depth, leaving me to go with another solution. Thank you for the detailed answer! Best, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com

Re: [R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
Two questions: What is your code? What do you get with: > options()$dec decimal_point "." -- David On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Gaurav Moghe wrote: Hi all, I'm a beginner user of R. I am stuck at what I thought was a very obvious problem, but surprisingly, I havent found any

[R] Split comma separated list

2009-12-08 Thread Gaurav Moghe
Hi all, I'm a beginner user of R. I am stuck at what I thought was a very obvious problem, but surprisingly, I havent found any solution on the forum or online till now. My problem is simple. I have a file which has entries like the following: #ID Value1List_of_values ID1

Re: [R] Upgrading To 2.10 from 2.6.2

2009-12-08 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM,   wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> After running the script >> >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install r-base >> >> I launch R and find the it still refers to R 2.6.2. >> >> How do I insure tha

Re: [R] arrow plots

2009-12-08 Thread Greg Snow
You can use the grconvertX and/or grconvertY functions to help find the coordinates for your arrow (for plotting in the margin). -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun..

Re: [R] Changing border width in barplot ?

2009-12-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Tal Galili wrote: Is it possible? I was hoping to find something like: lwd for the different bars in the barplot but couldn't find it. Does it exist ? Thanks, Tal barplot() calls rect() via a wrapper function internally to draw the rectangles. rect() uses par(

Re: [R] Changing border width in barplot ?

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Tal Galili wrote: Is it possible? I was hoping to find something like: lwd for the different bars in the barplot but couldn't find it. Does it exist ? ?box Thanks, Tal -- David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT __

[R] Quadratcount problem in spatstat

2009-12-08 Thread Sebastian Schutte
Hi, I know there are older threads discussing the quadratcount function in spatstat. Unfortunately, I could not find a solution to my problem there. I'm analyzing a point pattern in an irregular polygonal window. Both the window (an entire country) and the points are projected using WGS84. W

[R] Changing border width in barplot ?

2009-12-08 Thread Tal Galili
Is it possible? I was hoping to find something like: lwd for the different bars in the barplot but couldn't find it. Does it exist ? Thanks, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: w

[R] data.frame is slower than matrix?

2009-12-08 Thread Peng Yu
I'm doing some data manipulations. I thought originally that I should use data.frame, as the elements in a data.frame can have multiple types but the elements in a matrix has to be the same, which all the data have to convert to strings if there is a single column that is string. However, when I

Re: [R] Forest Plot

2009-12-08 Thread Xin Ge
Thank you for your help! On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) < wolfgang.viechtba...@stat.unimaas.nl> wrote: > If you just want a forest plot, then the forest() function. > > If you have the betas and corresponding variances, then you can create a > forest plot with: > > fo

[R] problem in labeling the nodes of tree drawn by rpart

2009-12-08 Thread kaida ning
Hi all, I used rpart to fit a model, where the covariates are categorical variables. Then I plotted the tree (mytree) and used the command "text" to add labels to the tree. In the nodes of the tree, the values of the covariates are represented with a, b or c (tree attached). Is there a way to sho

Re: [R] arrow plots

2009-12-08 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 13:42 -0500, Cable, Samuel B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote: > Am doing some vector plots with the arrows() function. Works well. But > what I need to do is supply an arrow for scaling for the reader. I need > to plot an arrow of some known magnitude somewhere on the page >

[R] arrow plots

2009-12-08 Thread Cable, Samuel B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI
Am doing some vector plots with the arrows() function. Works well. But what I need to do is supply an arrow for scaling for the reader. I need to plot an arrow of some known magnitude somewhere on the page (preferably outside the bounds of the plot, so that it can be seen clearly) with some text

Re: [R] Upgrading To 2.10 from 2.6.2

2009-12-08 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 PM, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Iain Gallagher > wrote: >> >> Hi Steve >> >> Have you tried: >> >> apt-cache search gfortran >> >> in a terminal window. >> >> Then >> >> sudo apt-get install theRelevantPackage >> >> I thi

Re: [R] Upgrading To 2.10 from 2.6.2

2009-12-08 Thread Steve_Friedman
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Re: [R] Upgrading To 2.10 from 2.6.2

2009-12-08 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Iain Gallagher < iaingallag...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Hi Steve > > Have you tried: > > apt-cache search gfortran > > in a terminal window. > > Then > > sudo apt-get install theRelevantPackage > > I think you also need the Universe repos enabled. > > HTH > > Iain

Re: [R] coefficients of each local polynomial from locfit

2009-12-08 Thread Liaw, Andy
I believe the prediction is done some some sort of grid, then interpolated to fill in the rest. This is, however, purely for computational reason, and not for any threoretical reasons. The formal definition of local polynomials is to do a weighted fit of polynomial at each point. Andy > -O

Re: [R] lm: RME vs. ML

2009-12-08 Thread Ravi Varadhan
"worrying about df (ml vs reml) is just a silly obsession of statisticians (of which I'm one)" I too have often wondered about the importance of such tertiary issues. My half-baked understanding is that the main "practical" difference between ML vs REML is with regards to ease of computing th

Re: [R] coefficients of each local polynomial from locfit

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:33 PM, David Grabiner wrote: Hi list, This was asked a couple of years ago but I can't find a resolution. Is there any way to get the coefficients from one of the local polynomial fits in locfit. I realize that locfit only constructs polynomials at a handful of in

Re: [R] Announcing a new R news site: R-bloggers.com

2009-12-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 December 2009 at 12:24, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | I am not sure if its still the case but one of the problems with the | Planet R feed was that it had material in it not related to R or | statistics or any technical subject at all so if you harvest it be | sure to exclude such sources. Thi

[R] coefficients of each local polynomial from locfit

2009-12-08 Thread David Grabiner
Hi list, This was asked a couple of years ago but I can't find a resolution. Is there any way to get the coefficients from one of the local polynomial fits in locfit. I realize that locfit only constructs polynomials at a handful of intelligently selected points and uses interpolation to predict

Re: [R] "prodlim" problem with censor ticks in stratified KM plot

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:17 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:49 AM, bnorth wrote: I am having a problem with the censor tick marks with plot and prodlim I am using the example code from ?prodlim but I have added mark.time=T to the plot command to get tick marks at censor t

Re: [R] Announcing a new R news site: R-bloggers.com

2009-12-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I am not sure if its still the case but one of the problems with the Planet R feed was that it had material in it not related to R or statistics or any technical subject at all so if you harvest it be sure to exclude such sources. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Elijah Wright wrote: > Hi Tal! >

[R] Job Opportunity

2009-12-08 Thread David . Siev
Statistical Programmer - USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics The USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics is seeking a statistical programmer with good R skills. The position is a two-year term position in the CVB Statistics Section with the possibility of becoming permanent. Applicants must be Unit

Re: [R] "prodlim" problem with censor ticks in stratified KM plot

2009-12-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:49 AM, bnorth wrote: I am having a problem with the censor tick marks with plot and prodlim I am using the example code from ?prodlim but I have added mark.time=T to the plot command to get tick marks at censor times. The problem is the tick marks occur at exactly the

Re: [R] Announcing a new R news site: R-bloggers.com

2009-12-08 Thread Elijah Wright
Hi Tal! First let me say that I deeply appreciate the work that you're putting into this. You're doing good things for our community, and that's great! I put the planet-R stuff together rather hastily a few years ago, as a way of seeing whether it was of enough use for the community for it to be

[R] "prodlim" problem with censor ticks in stratified KM plot

2009-12-08 Thread bnorth
I am having a problem with the censor tick marks with plot and prodlim I am using the example code from ?prodlim but I have added mark.time=T to the plot command to get tick marks at censor times. The problem is the tick marks occur at exactly the same point in each of the arms. This seems wrong

Re: [R] lm: RME vs. ML

2009-12-08 Thread Bert Gunter
A contrarian point of view: If you have so little data (relative to the number of parameters to be estimated, especially NONLINEAR parameters like covariance estimates)that the ml vs reml bias could be large, then there's so little information anyway that such bias is the least of your problems (i

[R] Opps Correct Version of Holiday Regressor Perl Script

2009-12-08 Thread Idgarad
Here is the correct version. The old version is the redirect only version of the script. ### BEGIN SCRIPT #!/usr/bin/perl ## # --start, -s = The date you would like to start generating regressors #--end, -e = When to stop generating holiday regressros # --scope, -c = D, W for Daily or We

Re: [R] conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

2009-12-08 Thread Titus von der Malsburg
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Gray Calhoun wrote: > I think there might be a problem with this approach if roi, tid, rt, > and mood are the same for nonconsecutive rows. True, but I can use the index of my reshape solution. Aggregate was the crucial ingredient. Thanks both! For the record, th

[R] Holiday Gift Perl Script for US Holiday Dummy Regressors

2009-12-08 Thread Idgarad
# BEGIN CODE ## #!/usr/bin/perl ## # # --start, -s = The date you would like to start generating regressors #--end, -e = When to stop generating holiday regressros # --scope, -c = D, W for Daily or Weekly respectively (e.g. Does this week have a particular holiday) # --file, -f = Umm

Re: [R] conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

2009-12-08 Thread Gray Calhoun
I think there might be a problem with this approach if roi, tid, rt, and mood are the same for nonconsecutive rows. --Gray On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Nikhil Kaza wrote: > How about creating an index using multiple columns. > >  a <- with(d, aggregate(dur, list(rt=rt,tid=tid,mood=mood,roi=roi

[R] Error of Cox model

2009-12-08 Thread Nick Fankhauser
I have a set of parameter estimates for a multivariable Cox model predicting survival duration and a data-frame of new measurements for the variables in the model, as well as the actual survival duration. Is there a function to estimate the error the model has on predicting survival on this new se

Re: [R] conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

2009-12-08 Thread Nikhil Kaza
How about creating an index using multiple columns. a <- with(d, aggregate(dur, list(rt=rt,tid=tid,mood=mood,roi=roi), sum)) b <- with(d, aggregate(x, list(rt=rt,tid=tid,mood=mood,roi=roi), mean)) c <- merge(a, b, by=c("rt","tid","mood", "roi")) I suppose one could save some time by not r

Re: [R] lm: RME vs. ML

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
jlu...@ria.buffalo.edu wrote: > You need to give your criteria for "preferable". For normal-linear > models, REML estimates of variances are unbiased, whereas ML estimates are > downwardly biased. I suspect that you can't actually say anything general about the direction of the bias, except f

Re: [R] lm: RME vs. ML

2009-12-08 Thread John Sorkin
Your question is well taken. I did not give any criteria because I realized there might be different answers based upon different criteria. Certainly one fundamental criteria would be that the estimates are BLUE, but this is not the only criteria one might be used. John -Original Message---

[R] Difference in S.E. gee/yags and geeglm(/geese)

2009-12-08 Thread Torleif Markussen Lunde
Hi A quick question. Standard errors reported by gee/yags differs from the ones in geeglm (geepack). require(gee) require(geepack) require(yags) mm <- gee(breaks ~ tension, id=wool, data=warpbreaks, corstr="exchangeable") mm2 <- geeglm(breaks ~ tension, id=wool, data=warpbreaks,

[R] Error of Cox model

2009-12-08 Thread Nick Fankhauser
I have a set of parameter estimates for a multivariable Cox model predicting survival duration and a data-frame of new measurements for the variables in the model, as well as the actual survival duration. Is there a function to estimate the error the model has on predicting survival on this new se

Re: [R] Serial Correlation in panel data regression

2009-12-08 Thread Millo Giovanni
Dear Sayan, there is a vcovHC method for panel models doing the White-Arellano covariance matrix, which is robust vs. heteroskedasticity *and* serial correlation, although in a different way from that of vcovHAC. You can supply it to coeftest as well, just as you did. The point is in estimating

[R] Fwd: conditionally merging adjacent rows in a data frame

2009-12-08 Thread Gray Calhoun
I think I forgot to send the original to the mailing list, so I'm forwarding it (see below). Sorry about that (and sorry if I did remember and this is a duplicate). After a few more minutes of thought, I realized that you should probably make sure that rt, tid, and mood are also the same in conse

Re: [R] Modula Generators

2009-12-08 Thread Hans W Borchers
Sam K yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > Hi all, > > Is there function on R for calculating Modula generators? For example for > primes above 100, e.g 157, i want > to know which number generates the group under multiplication mod 157. i.e i > want to find an element whose > order is 156. The problem I

[R] Printing 'k' levels of factors 'n' times each, but 'n' is unequal for all levels ?

2009-12-08 Thread A Singh
Dear List, I need to print out each of 'k' levels of a factor 'n' times each, where 'n' is the number of elements belonging to each factor. I know that this can normally be done using the gl() command, but in my case, each level 'k' has an unequal number of elements. Example with code is as b

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