Re: [R] Forecast

2010-03-10 Thread Cedrick Johnson
?forecast Maybe ?xts or ?timeSeries if you need to adjust dates, etc. On 3/11/10, chinna wrote: > > sample report data that i want to forecast > > quarter quarter_index Revenue > 2007 Q1 1 $3,856,799 > 2007 Q2 2 $4,243,328 > 2007 Q3 3

Re: [R] cut.POSIXt misconception/feature/bug?

2010-03-10 Thread Petr PIKAL
Thanks You are second who responded. In my previous mail I suggested slight modification for cut.POSIXt help page to help those who do not use this too often to avoid this trap. Regards Petr Brian Diggs napsal dne 10.03.2010 20:47:49: > On 3/10/2010 1:01 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote: > > Dear all >

Re: [R] about IRT simulation

2010-03-10 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
have a look at function rmvlogis() from package ltm, e.g., library(ltm) p <- 5 n <- 10 a <- rnorm(p, 0.8, 0.04) b <- rnorm(p, 0, 1) ?rmvlogis rmvlogis(n, cbind(b, a)) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris On 3/11/2010 5:03 AM, Helena wrote: hello R: we have a two-parameter IRT simulation code.

Re: [R] Joining elements of an array into a single element

2010-03-10 Thread vega_l
Thank you very much Miguel ! I couldn't believe it was that easy. Luis Vega. --- On Wed, 3/10/10, Miguel Porto wrote: From: Miguel Porto Subject: Re: [R] Joining elements of an array into a single element To: veg...@yahoo.com Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8:57 PM H

[R] how does R compute Std. Error's?

2010-03-10 Thread Rnewb
i am trying to duplicate R's computation of standard errors but having some trouble. i loaded some data into R and ran summary(lm(y~x1+x2+x3+0, data=data)), but i am not sure how the "Std. Error" values are computed. let y be the nx1 vector of dependent variables and X be the nx3 matrix of indep

[R] about IRT simulation

2010-03-10 Thread Helena
hello R: we have a two-parameter IRT simulation code. The goal is to generate a response matrix.But the "for" part doesn't run. we don't know what is wrong with it. Thanks so much~~~ I <- 10 J <- 5 response <- matrix(0, 10, 5) pij <- function(a,b,theta) { a <- rnorm(J, 0.8, 0.04) a b <- rnorm(J

Re: [R] cut.POSIXt misconception/feature/bug?

2010-03-10 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi Thanks for clarification. Actually I knew that with first case I get some data with NAs at the beginning and at the end. Maybe my English is not good enough to understand that to get vector of dates split to several chunks I need to put also end date and last date to get the whole vector. T

Re: [R] Odp: Loop overwrite and data output problems

2010-03-10 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 10.03.2010 15:37:00: > > Hi Petr, > > Thanks again for your post the problem is now solved - thank you so much for > trying and trying to get this to work. > > So the final script that actually worked was: > > ##ALL SUBSET DATA > > #Create vector t

Re: [R] help about solving two equations

2010-03-10 Thread Berend Hasselman
Shaoqiong Zhao wrote: > > I have two matrix s1 and s2, each of them is 1000*1. > and I have two equations: > digamma(p)-digamma(p+q)=s1, > digamma(q)-digamma(p+q)=s2, > and I want to sovle these two equations to get the value of x and y, which > are also two 1000*1 matrices. > Besides BB there

[R] Forecast

2010-03-10 Thread chinna
sample report data that i want to forecast quarter quarter_index Revenue 2007 Q1 1 $3,856,799 2007 Q2 2 $4,243,328 2007 Q3 3 $4,930,369 2007 Q4 4 $5,443,579 2008 Q1

Re: [R] ANNOUNCE--Rdsm package, a threads-like environment for R

2010-03-10 Thread Guo-Hao Huang
I am interested in Rdsm package, but I have no idea about how to use it. Where can I find examples? regards Guo-Hao Huang -- From: "Norm Matloff" Sent: T

[R] ANNOUNCE--Rdsm package, a threads-like environment for R

2010-03-10 Thread Norm Matloff
My long-promised Rdsm package is now on CRAN. Some of you may recall that I made a prototype available on my own Web page last July. This is the official version, much evolved since I released the prototype. The CRAN description states: Provides a threads-like programming environment for

Re: [R] Trouble with plm in Ubuntu 9

2010-03-10 Thread Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
The example works fine for me. I am using the same version of R (2.9.2) from the Ubuntu 9.10 AMD-64 repositories and plm version 1.2-3 downloaded from CRAN. One point. The plm help example loads the "Produc" dataset from the package "plm" and not the package "Ecdat". Though I can get the example t

Re: [R] calling map() in xyplot()

2010-03-10 Thread Gurmeet
Thanks Felix and David. [Actually, don't go by variable name us.map, I was using an example I found online...] On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:43 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Gurmeet wrote: > > Hi All, >> >> I'm trying to add a map on the following lattice plot, but not >

Re: [R] About multivariate nonparametric local polynomial

2010-03-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Nai-Wei Chen wrote: Dear all, Is there any package about multivariate nonparametric local polynomial in R? Thank you so much. locfit -- David. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/list

[R] Constraining coefficients to be equal in svar

2010-03-10 Thread Downey, Patrick
Hello, I'm working on an structural VAR using the var command to estimate and the svar command on the resultant object (package: vars). I want to constrain coefficients to equal one another, but that value to be estimated. So for the A matrix, I want A[2,1]=A[1,2] to be my constraints. Can this b

[R] cluster analysis labels for dendrogram

2010-03-10 Thread Samantha
Hi, I am clustering data based on three numeric variables. I have a fourth variable that is categorical (site) which I would like to use to label the leaves of my dendrogram, so I can see how the different sites are grouped throughout the tree, but I do NOT want to use this variable in the clust

Re: [R] help about solving two equations

2010-03-10 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Here is how you can solve: fn <- function(x, s){ f <- rep(NA, length(x)) f[1] <- digamma(x[1]) - digamma(x[1]+x[2]) - s[1] f[2] <- digamma(x[2]) - digamma(x[1]+x[2]) - s[2] f } require(BB) # load this package for the nonlinear solver s <- c(-2, -4) # one row of s1 and s2 ans <- dfsane(par=c(1,

[R] About multivariate nonparametric local polynomial

2010-03-10 Thread Nai-Wei Chen
Dear all, Is there any package about multivariate nonparametric local polynomial in R? Thank you so much. Sincerely, Joe [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinf

[R] help about solving two equations

2010-03-10 Thread Shaoqiong Zhao
I have two matrix s1 and s2, each of them is 1000*1. and I have two equations: digamma(p)-digamma(p+q)=s1, digamma(q)-digamma(p+q)=s2, and I want to sovle these two equations to get the value of x and y, which are also two 1000*1 matrices. I write a program like this: f <- function(x) { p<- x[1]

Re: [R] modify the levels of a variable

2010-03-10 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
You can try this also: as.data.frame(lapply(subset(data, X == 'a'), '[', drop = TRUE)) On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:35 PM, clee wrote: > > If anyone can help with this, I would greatly appreciate it. > > When I subset a dataframe, and then create a table of on of the column > variables, the levels

Re: [R] How to take out the content of character string

2010-03-10 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, baptiste auguie wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> it's generally considered a bad practice but try this, >> >> eval(parse(text=AA)) >> >> library(fortunes) >> fortune(106) >> >> HTH, >> >> baptiste >> >> On 10 March 2010 07:46, jq81

Re: [R] How can I sort a character type vector?

2010-03-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
One other option is to use the mixedsort() function, which is in the gtools package on CRAN: library(gtools) x <- c(4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, "Y", 1, 13, 15, 16, 20, "X", 2, 3, 10, 14, 19, "XY", 7, 12, 18, 17, 22, 21) > mixedsort(x) [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10

Re: [R] How can I sort a character type vector?

2010-03-10 Thread Phil Spector
Soyeon - It sounds like you want a combination of a numerical sort and a lexigraphical sort. I think they need to be done separately, and then joined back together: myvec = scan(,what='') 1: 4 5 6 8 9 11 Y 1 13 15 16 20 X 2 3 10 14 19 XY 7 12 18 17 22 21 26: Read 25 items myv

Re: [R] colname of ... arguments

2010-03-10 Thread David Scott
ManInMoon wrote: I have writtn a function where I pass a variable number of arguments. I They are vectors and I can manipulate them, but I need to get hold of the name for a legend. niceplot<-function(...) { parms=list(...) for (x in parms) { DoSomethingWith(x) } } BUT how how can

Re: [R] colname of ... arguments

2010-03-10 Thread David Winsemius
I think you need to provide a richer example: niceplot<-function(...) { parms=list(...) for (x in parms) { cat(x) } } > e="e" > niceplot(e) e On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:21 PM, ManInMoon wrote: I have writtn a function where I pass a variable number of arguments. I They are vectors and I

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
ManInMoon wrote: Because I am asking for help... In the time it has taken for you to ask your question and wait for answers, you could have experimented yourself and actually learned something. The only way you will learn the language is to actually try using the language. On 10 March

Re: [R] Scripts from The Elements of Statistical Learning book

2010-03-10 Thread mramon
Thank you Ralf. I am starting with these things (just a couple of weeks). I have a data base with temperature records of 90 consecutive days (along the year) affecting the fertility (0 or 1) of animals and I want to identify what set of temperatures have more negative effect and what is the magnit

Re: [R] Numeric to Date

2010-03-10 Thread ManInMoon
numToPOSIXct <- function(v) { now <- Sys.time() Epoch <- now - as.numeric(now) Epoch + v } Try this - where v is your numeric version of date -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Numeric-to-Date-tp1588108p1588149.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabb

[R] colname of ... arguments

2010-03-10 Thread ManInMoon
I have writtn a function where I pass a variable number of arguments. I They are vectors and I can manipulate them, but I need to get hold of the name for a legend. niceplot<-function(...) { parms=list(...) for (x in parms) { DoSomethingWith(x) } } BUT how how can I get something l

[R] How can I sort a character type vector?

2010-03-10 Thread Soyeon Kim
Dear All, I want to sort a character type vector. the vector is [1] 4 5 6 8 9 11 Y 1 13 15 16 20 X 2 3 10 14 19 XY 7 12 18 17 22 [25] 21 and I want to sort 1-22 X Y XY or 1-22 X XY Y. How can I do that? Thanks, __ R-help@r-project.org mail

Re: [R] Shade area under curve

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
I use this to make illustration for some calculus notes. There are examples of shaded areas in there: ### Filename: Normal1_2009_plotmathExample.R ### Paul Johnson June 3, 2009 ### This code should be available somewhere in http://pj.freefaculty.org/R. If it is not ### email me ###Set mu and s

[R] Trouble with plm in Ubuntu 9

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen J. Barr
Hello, Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I am running R on Ubuntu 9. R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) I am trying to work with plm. I think the library is installed, as I can do > library(plm) Loading required package: kinship Loading required package: survival Loading required pac

[R] trouble with plm , Ubuntu 9?

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen J. Barr
Hello, Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I am running R on Ubuntu 9. R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) I am trying to work with plm. I think the library is installed, as I can do > library(plm) Loading required package: kinship Loading required package: survival Loading required pac

Re: [R] PCA

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Xanthe Walker wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to complete a PCA on a set of standardized ring widths from 8 > different sites (T10, T9, T8, T7, T6, T5, T3, and T2). > The following is a small portion of my data: > > T10 T9 T8 T7 T6 T5 T3 T2 1.33738 0.92669 0.91146

Re: [R] Shade area under curve

2010-03-10 Thread S Ellison
see http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=7 for an example that may help. >>> claytonmccandless 03/09/10 6:48 PM >>> I want to shade the area under the curve of the standard normal density. Specifically color to the left of -2 and on. How might i go about doing this? Th

Re: [R] How to take out the content of character string

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, baptiste auguie wrote: Hi, it's generally considered a bad practice but try this, eval(parse(text=AA)) library(fortunes) fortune(106) HTH, baptiste On 10 March 2010 07:46, jq81 wrote: My question is represented by the following example. For example, I have a charac

Re: [R] trouble getting multinimial logit model to work properly

2010-03-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
JR, You need to use as.factor() for the DV (even if it is already a factor). Also, your formula includes a variable not in your sample data, "IntDist", perhaps you meant "FwyDist"? Try: zelig(as.factor(SFsubM) ~ Slope + Exposure + FwyDist + RTotEmp + RTotHh, model="mlogit", data=TestData) Also,

[R] How to install dependent packages automatically

2010-03-10 Thread Raphael Aggio
Hi, I developed a package that requires 5 other packages. I was wondering if anyone knows how can I automatically download and install the required packages during the installation of my new package. My idea is to make this process easier to the final user. All the required packages are under bio

[R] PCA

2010-03-10 Thread Xanthe Walker
Hello, I am trying to complete a PCA on a set of standardized ring widths from 8 different sites (T10, T9, T8, T7, T6, T5, T3, and T2). The following is a small portion of my data: T10 T9 T8 T7 T6 T5 T3 T2 1.33738 0.92669 0.91146 0.98922 0.9308 0.88201 0.92287 0.91775 0.82181 1.05319 0.92908 0.97

Re: [R] modify the levels of a variable

2010-03-10 Thread milton ruser
Try data2$X<-factor(data2$X) By the way, avoid call data as "data", matrix as "matrix", vector as "vector". cheers milton On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM, clee wrote: > > If anyone can help with this, I would greatly appreciate it. > > When I subset a dataframe, and then create a table of on

Re: [R] pie EPS BB

2010-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Mar-10 22:19:13, Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Ted Harding wrote: > >> Greetings all! >> I'm facing a puzzle I have not been able to solve. >> I need to make an EPS of a pie-chart (Yes, I know; >> please don't bother to tell me! I just need to ...). >> >> I'm trying to

Re: [R] pie EPS BB

2010-03-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Ted Harding wrote: > Greetings all! > I'm facing a puzzle I have not been able to solve. > I need to make an EPS of a pie-chart (Yes, I know; > please don't bother to tell me! I just need to ...). > > I'm trying to do it with pie(), and I want to have > just the plain

[R] leaps error

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Scholz
R version: 2.10.0 platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu I'm trying to perform model selection from a data.frame object (creatively named "data") using the leaps function, and I run across the following error: > leaps(data[,3:7], data[,1], nbest = 10) Error in leaps.setup(x, y, wt = wt, nbest = nbest, nvmax

Re: [R] Numeric to Date

2010-03-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:29 PM, GULATI, BRIJESH (Global Markets FF&O NY) wrote: > Is there easy way to convert numeric to date? > > For example: > > If I have, > > a = as.Date("2010-03-04") > > And, if run > >> as.numeric(a) > [1] 14672 > > Is there any function that I can use to convert

[R] pie EPS BB

2010-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
Greetings all! I'm facing a puzzle I have not been able to solve. I need to make an EPS of a pie-chart (Yes, I know; please don't bother to tell me! I just need to ...). I'm trying to do it with pie(), and I want to have just the plain pie-chart with no annotations. So far so good: "labels=rep(NA,

Re: [R] Numeric to Date

2010-03-10 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, GULATI, BRIJESH (Global Markets FF&O NY) wrote: Is there easy way to convert numeric to date? For example: If I have, a = as.Date("2010-03-04") And, if run as.numeric(a) [1] 14672 Is there any function that I can use to convert 14672 back to the date. You c

[R] modify the levels of a variable

2010-03-10 Thread clee
If anyone can help with this, I would greatly appreciate it. When I subset a dataframe, and then create a table of on of the column variables, the levels of that variable are retained from the parent dataframe. Anyone know how to for example, say I have data like so: data: X Y a 2 b

[R] Numeric to Date

2010-03-10 Thread GULATI, BRIJESH (Global Markets FF&O NY)
Is there easy way to convert numeric to date? For example: If I have, a = as.Date("2010-03-04") And, if run > as.numeric(a) [1] 14672 Is there any function that I can use to convert 14672 back to the date. Thx in advance, Brijesh --

[R] trouble getting multinimial logit model to work properly

2010-03-10 Thread LCOG1
Greetings all, please consider the following data: #Build Data frame Slope<-c(1.291370, 12.208500, 2.110930, 0.578990, 5.019520, 0.807444, 0.554079 , 1.257080, 0.241504 , 0.184337 , 0.383044 , 0.342021) Exposure<-c(790.54, 1167.79 , 845.58 , 1082.47 , 1189.61 , 677.17 , 2058.56 , 469.09

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread ManInMoon
Thank you! On 10 March 2010 21:21, David Winsemius [via R] < ml-node+1588077-2145101402-180...@n4.nabble.com > wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:50 PM, ManInMoon wrote: > > > > > It does help much. > > > > Just one line about x[-1] > > > > Is there more comprehensive help anywhere? > > http://cra

[R] Incomplete refresh when plotting real-time data

2010-03-10 Thread Rafael Algara
Hello, I am trying to plot real-time data, refreshed at varying rates averaging once per second from a TCP socket, but the display behaves inconsistently. About 50% of the time, the plots (I have 3 in a single quartz display, via par(mfrow=c(3,1)) are refreshed correctly, but the other 50% of refr

[R] Data.frame Question (add constant to a row)

2010-03-10 Thread GULATI, BRIJESH (Global Markets FF&O NY)
> Hi: > I want to add a constant to an existing col of the data.frame. I > have the following dataset: > > > structure(list(x = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1), y = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1)), .Names = > c("x", > "y"), row.names = c(NA, 5L), class = "data.frame") > > > I want to add a constant to col 1 and c

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:50 PM, ManInMoon wrote: It does help much. Just one line about x[-1] Is there more comprehensive help anywhere? http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.html#Indexing -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Deltas-or-changes-tp1585960p1587939.htm

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread ManInMoon
Because I am asking for help... On 10 March 2010 20:19, Kevin E. Thorpe [via R] < ml-node+1587986-1699461774-180...@n4.nabble.com > wrote: > ManInMoon wrote: > > Hi, I am new to R. > > > > What does a negative amount in an index do? > > > > i.e. x[-lenght[x]] > > > Why don't you try it and see f

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread ManInMoon
It does help much. Just one line about x[-1] Is there more comprehensive help anywhere? -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Deltas-or-changes-tp1585960p1587939.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help

[R] Variable arguments to function

2010-03-10 Thread ManInMoon
I understand you can pass a variable number of arguments to a function that is written to accept "..." I have searched for any documentation on how to write such a function - could someone tell me where to look please -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Variable-arguments-to-f

[R] Color facets by z-level (solved by creating example)

2010-03-10 Thread David Winsemius
I am having trouble getting my facets colored with "concentric" colors by z level. This code give a fair representation of my problems dealing a real dataset cmtx <- matrix(, nrow=10, ncol=10) cc <- (row(cmtx)-5)^2 + (col(cmtx)-5)^2 cc #-- [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
ManInMoon wrote: Hi, I am new to R. What does a negative amount in an index do? i.e. x[-lenght[x]] Why don't you try it and see for yourself? -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Tor

Re: [R] help R non-parametric IRT simulation

2010-03-10 Thread Doran, Harold
There is no function in R AFAIK, where an IRT model is estimated using the NPMML method (non-parametric marginal maximum likelihood). All MML methods in R assume the population distribution is normal. Now, the jml function in the MiscPsycho package uses joint maximum likelihood for estimating

Re: [R] help R non-parametric IRT simulation

2010-03-10 Thread Helen Lisman
Hello R, I am looking for non-parametric simulation in IRT. Is there any IRT package that does non-parametric simulation? helen L [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: [R] ggplot2 rose diagram

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Howard
Got it. Thanks again so much for the help. Best, Tim >>> hadley wickham 3/10/2010 2:46 PM >>> > By Q2 I was trying to refer to the Y-axis labels. For the polar plot, the > Y-axis labels reside left of the panel. I was looking for a way to get the > Y-axis labels to radiate out from the cente

Re: [R] Help with aggregate and cor

2010-03-10 Thread hadley wickham
> Run that function hourly with plyr > > output.hourly <- dlply(df.i1,"tshour",cor.dat) Why not output.hourly <- ddply(df.i1,"tshour",cor.dat) ? Generally you want to work with data frames in R, if at all possible. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of St

Re: [R] sorting data whilst ignoring NA's

2010-03-10 Thread William Dunlap
Peter's suggestion qdata[order(qdata$flow, decreasing=TRUE), ] would work if qdata were a data.frame, where the $column syntax picks out a column. You probably have a matrix so use [,"flow"] instead of $flow to extract the column called "flow". qdata[order(qdata[,"flow"], decreasing=TRUE), ]

Re: [R] cut.POSIXt misconception/feature/bug?

2010-03-10 Thread Brian Diggs
On 3/10/2010 1:01 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote: > Dear all > recently I tried to split vector of dates according to some particular > date to 2 (more) chunks, but I was not able to perform correct setting. > > When I want split to 3 chunks it partially works however from help page I > supposed to get re

Re: [R] ggplot2 rose diagram

2010-03-10 Thread hadley wickham
> By Q2 I was trying to refer to the Y-axis labels. For the polar plot, the > Y-axis labels reside left of the panel. I was looking for a way to get the > Y-axis labels to radiate out from the center so it would be clear which line > each label refers to. I still can't find any reference to movi

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread Ista Zahn
Please learn to Read The Fine Manual: ?"[" will give you the answer. -Ista On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, ManInMoon wrote: > > Hi, I am new to R. > > What does a negative amount in an index do? > > i.e. x[-lenght[x]] > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Deltas-or-chan

Re: [R] Scripts from The Elements of Statistical Learning book

2010-03-10 Thread Ralf B
If you are interested in machine learning in general, you might also want to have a look at the CRAN Task View on Machine Learning & Statistical Learning that contains this package, as well as others: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MachineLearning.html Best, --- Ralf Bierig Post-Doctoral As

[R] ifelse logic and multiple assignments

2010-03-10 Thread David Young
I'm a fairly new R user and while I have a solution to my problem I'm wondering if there is a better one. In SAS it's common to use if/then logic along with a "do" statement to make several things happen. While I could do the same thing in R using a "for" loop, and "if" and {}, I've read that loo

Re: [R] Deltas or changes

2010-03-10 Thread ManInMoon
Hi, I am new to R. What does a negative amount in an index do? i.e. x[-lenght[x]] -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Deltas-or-changes-tp1585960p1587408.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-pro

Re: [R] Obtaining the true aspect ratio for a lattice plot

2010-03-10 Thread Ryan Hafen
Thanks much - very nice. I hadn't thought of that approach. I dug around in the lattice source and found another way to do it so for what it's worth, I'll post it - maybe it will be useful to someone. Basically, I made a function from code found in plot.trellis() that gets the grid layout

[R] Forecasting with Panel Data

2010-03-10 Thread Ricardo Gonçalves Silva
Dear Users, Can I perform panel data (fixed effects model) out of sample forecasts using R? Thanks in advance, Ricardo. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEA

Re: [R] Scripts from The Elements of Statistical Learning book

2010-03-10 Thread mramon
Thank you Gavin for your help. David, maybe I am not so clear on my question, sorry. My problem was that when I wanted to reproduce results (or graphs) present in the book, sometimes my results were quite different or I don not know how to repuduce them. I will have a look to the documentation of

Re: [R] using sprintf to pass a variable to a RMySQL query

2010-03-10 Thread alison waller
Thanks Gabor, As I said I would like to use gsubfn, but I am having problems installing it, which I assume are due to some conflict with the current tcltk package Below is the error I got after issuing install.packages("gsubfn") Any advice? ### * Installing *source* package 'gsu

Re: [R] Help with aggregate and cor

2010-03-10 Thread hvollmeier
James, you may post your question to the R-SIG finance group with a small example. If I understand your problem correctly it's like converting tick data of financial time series into aggregates. (to 1-minute, hourly, daily ... data sets ). There are packages available for this kind of task that

Re: [R] sorting data whilst ignoring NA's

2010-03-10 Thread emwater
Thanks for these suggestions. I tried them out and I get the error message: Error in qdata$flow : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors Can anyone offer further suggestions on how to extract the values from atomic vectors? Thanks again Emma -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble

Re: [R] Using R in a corporate envinronment

2010-03-10 Thread David M Smith
If you're looking for business and technical justifications for a business to adopt R, I wrote some up last year: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/02/how-to-get-it-to-accept-and-love-r.html In summary: R is mainstream R is supported R is high-quality R leads commercial packages in innovat

Re: [R] ggplot2 rose diagram

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Howard
Hadley, Thanks for chiming in. By Q2 I was trying to refer to the Y-axis labels. For the polar plot, the Y-axis labels reside left of the panel. I was looking for a way to get the Y-axis labels to radiate out from the center so it would be clear which line each label refers to. I still can't

Re: [R] Help with aggregate and cor

2010-03-10 Thread James Marca
Hi Ista, Many thanks, the plyr package was just what I needed. Because I did such a bad job with my question (no data, etc etc), here is my current solution: First, I grabbed my data from PostgreSQL as follows: library('RPostgreSQL') m <- dbDriver("PostgreSQL") con <- dbConnect(m,user="user",pa

Re: [R] Using R in a corporate envinronment

2010-03-10 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da Rosa wrote: > reason I'm writing you. If you have any examples (preferably with > references) and/or experience in a similar scenario please do write me. I've > There is a recent reference in The Economist (search the ML archives

Re: [R] Strange result in survey package: svyvar

2010-03-10 Thread Corey Sparks
Fair enough. CS - Corey Sparks, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Demography and Organization Studies University of Texas at San Antonio 501 West Durango Blvd Monterey Building 2.270C San Antonio, TX 78207 210-458-3166 corey.sparks 'at' utsa.edu https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/users/ozd504/ww

Re: [R] Strange result in survey package: svyvar

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Dowle
This list is the wrong place for that question. The posting guide tells you, in bold, to contact the package maintainer first. If you had already done that, and didn't hear back from him, then you should tell us, so that we know you followed the guide. "Corey Sparks" wrote in message news:

[R] Strange result in survey package: svyvar

2010-03-10 Thread Corey Sparks
Hi R users, I'm using the survey package to calculate summary statistics for a large health survey (the Demographic and Health Survey for Honduras, 2006), and when I try to calculate the variances for several variables, I get negative numbers. I thought it may be my data, so I ran the example on t

[R] Using R in a corporate envinronment

2010-03-10 Thread Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da Rosa
Dear r-useRs, After a couple of years in a 'R exile' of sorts, I've recently changed jobs and my current employer (an American multinational in the food manufacturing industry) is much more open than my past employer (which wouldn't even want to hear about anything that didn't begin with SAS...).

Re: [R] ifelse logic and multiple assignments

2010-03-10 Thread Bert Gunter
David: The best advice I can give is: read "An Introduction to R" carefully, taking particular note of the examples and the ideas of vectorization, factors, lists, etc The bottom line is: yes, you can mimic the way SAS or other ancient procedural languages do things in R (e.g. using nested ifelse(

Re: [R] Random Forest

2010-03-10 Thread Liaw, Andy
Thanks for providing the code that allows me to reproduce the problem. It looks like the prediction routine for some reason returns "0" as prediction for some trees, thus causing the problem observed. I'll look into it. Andy From: Dror > > Hi, > Thank you for your replies > as for the predic

Re: [R] Help with ANOVA in R

2010-03-10 Thread Vokey, John
> > Your line of code: > > zzz.aov <- aov(Intensity ~ Group + Error(Sample), data = zzzanova) > > indicates that you are trying to do a repeated measures ANOVA, not just an > ANOVA. The Error(Sample) term in your expression indicates that Sample is a > within subjects factor, which I presume is

Re: [R] ifelse logic and multiple assignments

2010-03-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:47 AM, David Young wrote: I'm a fairly new R user and while I have a solution to my problem I'm wondering if there is a better one. In SAS it's common to use if/then logic along with a "do" statement to make several things happen. While I could do the same thing in R us

Re: [R] function to create multiple matrices

2010-03-10 Thread jim holtman
Is this what you want: > yrData <- data.frame(year=sample(1990:2000, 100, TRUE), + species=sample(1:3,100,TRUE), loc=sample(1:2,100,TRUE)) > byYear <- split(yrData, yrData$year) > > byYear[1:3] $`1990` year species loc 39 1990 3 2 57 1990 3 1 62 1990 1 1 68 1990

Re: [R] trouble calculating rates--sometimes the denominator is missing

2010-03-10 Thread jim holtman
Here is how you can do the lookup: > # lookup up the school > lkup <- read.table(textConnection("1'BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ES' 465 + 2'CALVIN COOLIDGE SCHL'379 + 3'EAST MS' 590 + 4'HORACE MANN SCHL'374 + 5'MAC ARTHUR SCHL'

[R] function to create multiple matrices

2010-03-10 Thread Lanna Jin
Hi All, If given a dataframe (long form) with Year, Species, and Location, How would I write a function that would create a unique matrix of Species & Location for each Year? What I've tried doing is the following: data #dataframe dataT<-table(data$Species,data$Location,data$Year) #creates table

[R] R Graphic output files on Solaris 5.10

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Bryant
Hello Folks, I have a need to generate Graphic output files (gif, jpeg, pdf, etc..) on a Solaris Environment, however this environment does not have X11 setup and setting up X11 would be a last resort if required. I have attempted to install GDD and Cairo without success up to this point. Is

[R] ifelse logic and multiple assignments

2010-03-10 Thread David Young
I'm a fairly new R user and while I have a solution to my problem I'm wondering if there is a better one. In SAS it's common to use if/then logic along with a "do" statement to make several things happen. While I could do the same thing in R using a "for" loop, and "if" and {}, I've read that loo

Re: [R] Fine Tuning Plotrix

2010-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Apologies for the previous email, I think I got it sorted out now. Lorenzo rm(list=ls()) library(Cairo) set.seed(1234) trivial_matrix<-matrix(rnorm(25),nrow=5) CairoPDF("matrix2D.pdf") oldpar<-par( mar = c(4.5,5, 2, 1) + 0.1, cex.axis=1.4,cex.lab=1.6,cex.main=1.6) color2D.matplot(trivia

Re: [R] Fine Tuning Plotrix

2010-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Hi Jim, And thanks for helping. My (hopefully) last question concerns the use of a non-gray color scale. How do I use e.g. a rainbow colorscale? This issue has already been raised http://tinyurl.com/ylhcbra and over there it is dealt with by hand. I just wonder whether anything similar is doa

Re: [R] How to sum a list of matrices ?

2010-03-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Carlos Petti wrote: Dear list, I have a list of three matrices : i = list(matrix(1:4,2,2), matrix(3:6,2,2), matrix(9:12,2,2)) I would like to sum the matrices, as follows : [,1] [,2] [1,] 13 19 [2,] 16 22 > Reduce("+", i) [,1] [,2] [1,] 13 19 [2,]

Re: [R] nested subset for a dataframe

2010-03-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:30 AM, arnaud chozo wrote: Hi, I've a beginner question. I'm trying to extract data in my dataframe according to some nested rules. I have something like the dataframe test.df: test.df = data.frame(V1=c(rep("A",10), rep("B",10), rep("C",5)), V2=c(rep(1,5), rep(2,5), re

Re: [R] How to sum a list of matrices ?

2010-03-10 Thread Alain Guillet
Hi, Look at the R News 8/1 in the R Help Desk. Alain On 10-Mar-10 16:34, Carlos Petti wrote: Dear list, I have a list of three matrices : i = list(matrix(1:4,2,2), matrix(3:6,2,2), matrix(9:12,2,2)) I would like to sum the matrices, as follows : [,1] [,2] [1,] 13 19 [2,] 16 22 I used this

[R] trouble calculating rates--sometimes the denominator is missing

2010-03-10 Thread Christopher W. Ryan
One more bit: I got as far as this, thinking it might help: Using a data file that I know has all the necessary denominators, I created a dataframe of school names (as factor) and TotalStudentsEnrolled. data.frame(data$School[!duplicated(data$School)], data$TotalStudentsEnrolled[!duplicated

[R] How to sum a list of matrices ?

2010-03-10 Thread Carlos Petti
Dear list, I have a list of three matrices : i = list(matrix(1:4,2,2), matrix(3:6,2,2), matrix(9:12,2,2)) I would like to sum the matrices, as follows : [,1] [,2] [1,] 13 19 [2,] 16 22 I used this code : k <- i[[1]] for (j in (2:length(i))) { k <- k + i[[j]]} But, is it possible to sum witho

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