Re: [R] R vs PYTHON vs SAS vs SPSS?

Yes On 30 November 2017 at 22:28, wrote: > I am a mature learner; 3 masters > some doctoral work “ statistics for social sciences; psychological > statistics “ > worked in spss and sas 2005 – 2006 > now have forgotten ; relearning > my question is this can I do everything in R and Python and SAS

[R] R vs PYTHON vs SAS vs SPSS?

I am a mature learner; 3 masters some doctoral work “ statistics for social sciences; psychological statistics “ worked in spss and sas 2005 – 2006 now have forgotten ; relearning my question is this can I do everything in R and Python and SAS studio that I did in SPSS and the paid variation of SAS

[R] Need Guidance

Respected Sir I hope you will be fine and enjoy good health. I am PhD student in Northeast Normal University, China. Kindly guide me, How can I extract a time series of variable for a specific location (specific longitude and latitude) from a CMIP5 experiment by using R? And I brief my query whic

Re: [R] Timezone problem with 3.4.2

>From Peter Dalgaard announcement earlier today. CHANGES IN R 3.4.3: INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE: * A workaround has been added for the changes in location of time-zone files in macOS 10.13 'High Sierra' and again in 10.13.1, so the default time zone is deduced correctly from the

Re: [R] Timezone problem with 3.4.2

Dennis, Brian Ripley pointed out shortly after 3.4.2 was released that the timezone was not being set correctly because of last minute changes to MacOS. You will have to install 3.4.3. I am waiting for the native installer, which will likely be out within a few days. Mark R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.

Re: [R] Timezone problem with 3.4.2

Mark Thanks for pointing this out. I did a default installation of R. Does this mean that I need to reinstall from the command line? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com > On Nov

[R] Timezone problem with 3.4.2

Colleagues I just installed 3.4.2 on a Mac running High Sierra. I encountered the following: R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) -- "Short Summer" Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Re: [R] Fwd: Wanted to learn R Language

Or try haven::read_xpt(): http://haven.tidyverse.org/reference/read_xpt.html Hadley On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Jim Lemon wrote: > Hi SAS_learner, > Have a look at the read.xport function in the foreign package. > > Jim > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:50 AM, SAS_learner wrote: >> Hello all ,

Re: [R] Fwd: Wanted to learn R Language

And if you have trouble with read.export(), then another option is to use SAS to export the data to a text file, then load it into R using R's read.table() function. I would suggest that the SAS export be to a tab-delimited file, with column headers, and no quotes around text fields, but there

Re: [R] Fwd: Wanted to learn R Language

Hi SAS_learner, Have a look at the read.xport function in the foreign package. Jim On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:50 AM, SAS_learner wrote: > Hello all , > > I am a SAS user for a while and wanted to learn to program in R . My > biggest hurdle to start, is to get the data (I work in clinical domain >

[R] Fwd: Wanted to learn R Language

Hello all , I am a SAS user for a while and wanted to learn to program in R . My biggest hurdle to start, is to get the data (I work in clinical domain ) that too inside VPN secured access. The only way I can learn during my work time is create my own data frames and create programs that can be us

[R] [R-pkgs] New package - bestNormalize

Hi R enthusiasts, I am happy to announce a new package available on CRAN, bestNormalize (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bestNormalize/). bestNormalize can be used for estimating a suite of normalizing transformations, including a new technique based on ranks which can guarantee normal

Re: [R] Removing a data subset

Thank Rainer and Jim!! The end result was: #Makes a new data set name "MyData_Minus_MW01" that contains all the data where the Location Column is not equal to MW01 and the comma after that ensures that all columns are copied into the amended data.frame. MyData_Minus_MW01 <- MyData[ MyData$Location

[R] [R-pkgs] bayesmeta 2.0 released

Dear R users, a new version (2.0) of the "bayesmeta" package for Bayesian random- effects meta-analysis is now available on CRAN; see here:   http://cran.r-project.org/package=bayesmeta Along with the package now comes an extensive introduction to the topic as well as the use of the package (als

Re: [R] Help avoiding setting column type two times

> On Nov 30, 2017, at 6:27 AM, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen > wrote: > > Hi, > I think and hope this a good place to ask for code review for a R > beginners? > > I have made a R script which generates a dataset based on 2009 danish > referendum and it does work. > > But I think the co

Re: [R] Help avoiding setting column type two times

See below. Am 30.11.2017 um 15:27 schrieb Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen: Hi, I think and hope this a good place to ask for code review for a R beginners? I have made a R script which generates a dataset based on 2009 danish referendum and it does work. But I think the code could b

[R] Help avoiding setting column type two times

Hi, I think and hope this a good place to ask for code review for a R beginners? I have made a R script which generates a dataset based on 2009 danish referendum and it does work. But I think the code could be better and I would any comments how the code can be improved. At least I would

[R] R 3.4.3 is released

The build system rolled up R-3.4.3.tar.gz (codename "Kite-Eating Tree") this morning. The list below details the changes in this release. You can get the source code from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.4.3.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries

Re: [R] Data cleaning & Data preparation, what do R users want?

I would agree that getting data into R from various sources is the biggest pain point. Even if there is an api, the results are not always consistent and you have to do lots of dimension checking to get it right. Or there isn't an open api at all and you have to hack it by web scraping or otherwise