Re: [R] Saving R files

2014-03-09 Thread David Parkhurst
the problem is with how backslashes are represented in R strings? Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ista Zahn Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 7:25 AM To: David Parkhurst Cc:

Re: [R] Saving R files

2014-03-08 Thread David Parkhurst
is in section 2.16 of the 'R for Windows FAQ'. Best, Ista On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:45 PM, David Parkhurst wrote: Sometimes I don't understand the details of writeups I get, with ?save and the like. Anyway, that's my problem now. Can I do this (in Windows 7) to save ever

[R] Saving R files

2014-03-08 Thread David Parkhurst
Sometimes I don't understand the details of writeups I get, with ?save and the like. Anyway, that's my problem now. Can I do this (in Windows 7) to save everything that comes up with ls(), guessed at by what I find with ?rm: save(list=ls(),file="C:\am\myfiles\ProjectA.RData") Or would I nee

Re: [R] Bootstrapping with Kendall's tau---Wild bootstrap

2014-03-07 Thread David Parkhurst
Thank you for the suggestion. Is there a function for doing that in R? David On 3/7/2014 9:50 AM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote: With respect to question 2, I use the wild bootstrap for tau. Wu, C.F.J. (1986). Jackknife, bootstrap and other resampling methods in regression analysis (wi

Re: [R] details of cor function

2014-03-07 Thread David Parkhurst
ng the difference), that would give some good evidence as to which is used. Or you could look at the source code, R is open source afterall. On the jittering question: are you comfortable with a method that would give a different answer every time you run it? On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Davi

[R] details of cor function

2014-03-06 Thread David Parkhurst
How can I find out whether the cor function with method="Kendall" computes Kendall's tau-a or tau-b. I understand that tau-b deals better with ties, and I'm wanting to look for correlation in two variables that have lots of ties (especially lots of zeroes for one of them). The information pro

[R] Another question about bootstrapping cor

2014-03-06 Thread David Parkhurst
When I use the fix that Arun K. provided to my earlier example, I wonder how to find out where in the 999 bootstrap repetitions the value for the actual data fits. Here is the fixed code: x <- 1:15 y <- c(2,4,1,3,5, 7,6, 9,10,8, 14, 13, 11, 15, 12) x[3] <- NA; x[11] <- NA; x[8] <- NA y[2] <- NA

[R] Bootstrapping with Kendall's tau

2014-03-06 Thread David Parkhurst
I want to bootstrap Kendall's tau correlation with data that have many NAs. I tried this example: x <- 1:15 y <- c(2,4,1,3,5, 7,6, 9,10,8, 14, 13, 11, 15, 12) x[3] <- NA; x[11] <- NA; x[8] <- NA y[2] <- NA; y[8] <- NA; y[12] <- NA cor(x,y,use="complete.obs",method="kendall") library(boot) tmpdf

[R] Three questions about plotting

2014-02-27 Thread David Parkhurst
I would like to plot three graphs, one above the other, of three “y” variables that have different scales against a common Date variable, as with the code below. Q1. If I understand correctly, I can't use lattice graphics because my y's have different scales. Is that correct? All the lattic

[R] Controlling plot axis for dates

2014-02-27 Thread David Parkhurst
I’d like to control the number of tick marks on the “x” axis of a plot, when the variable there is dates. I thought to use the xaxp parameter, but the documentation for par says “It [i.e., xaxp] is only relevant to default numeric axis systems, and not for example to dates.” My question, then

[R] Plots with Y axis split into two scales

2014-02-25 Thread David Parkhurst
I have a "Y" variable with many values less than 50, and many fewer between 50 and 250.I'd like to plot those Y's against an X, with two scales on the Y axis---maybe 60% of the axis height for 0-50 and the top 40% for 50-250.(I can't use log(Y) because there are many zeroes, and that is the mos

Re: [R] Problem getting the chron package

2014-02-24 Thread David Parkhurst
Thanks to Jeff, I seem to have the chron package in my computer now, but how do I get R to use it? : package ‘chron’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\DFP\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpYLbpgo\downloaded_packages > days(Date[1]) Error: could not f

[R] Problem getting the chron package

2014-02-24 Thread David Parkhurst
I'm trying to get the chron package into my system (in Windows 7) Using the packages menu, I chose MI chigan > chooseCRANmirror() > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() Then I went to install packages, and clicked on chron from the box that came up. A window popped up and asked "Would you like to use a per

[R] Plotting a loess line when the abcissa variable has numerous NA's

2014-02-08 Thread David Parkhurst
I have a situation in which I want to plot a variable Y against X, and then to add a loess line to that plot. My X variable is 366 elements long, and about 1/3 are NA's, scattered through the list. None of the corresponding Y's are NA's. Everything I’ve tried so far, by mimicking examples fr

[R] Plotting multiple time series with variables having different units

2014-02-02 Thread David Parkhurst
I've tried to figure out how to do this from what I read, but haven't been successful. Suppose I have a dataframe with variables Date, X, and Y (and maybe U, V, and Z) where X, Y, etc. have different units. I'd like to plot Y vs. Time above X vs. Time, above one another. For example, X is th

Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2014-01-01 Thread David Parkhurst
rd. On 12/31/2013 7:54 PM, Sarah Goslee wrote: Hi David, Your code is showing up here with an arrow symbols. If it's an actual cut and paste, that's your problem: assignment in R is the two-character <- and not an arrow symbol. Otherwise your code looks fine. Sarah On Tuesday

[R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
I've just uninstalled and then reinstalled R on my windows 7 machine. To test my understanding of data frames, I'm trying the following code. (I plan to do other things with it, if it would only work.) Here's the code, which seems pretty basic to me: ls() nums ← c(1,2,3,4,5) ltrs ← c(“a”,”b”,”c”,”

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go, with example

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
install R, then reinstall it, and redo my work so far (I've kept the commands elsewhere), and avoid using "attach," as someone else has suggested. David On 12/31/2013 11:32 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 13-12-31 9:48 AM, David Parkhurst wrote: >> Two or three respon

[R] Problem with http://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
This web page includes this information about turning off HTML in messages: http://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions General Instructions Note that you should configure your e-mail software in such a way as to send /only plain text/, i.e., *no HTML*. 'html-ified' messages are usual

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go, with example

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
Two or three respondents asked for an example of my problem. Here's what's happening to me now. I can't reproduce how I got to this point, though: > ls() [1] "All8" "All8Sites" "A" "B" "C" "i" "n" "D" "F" > X Error: object 'X' not found > attach(All8Sites) > ls() [1] "All8" "All

[R] Where did lost variables go

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
I have several variables in a data frame that aren't listed by ls() after I attach that data frame. Where did they go, and how can I stop the hidden ones from masking the local ones? Thanks for any help. David [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___