Re: [R] R equivalent to MATLAB's "whos" Command?

2009-03-10 Thread Scillieri, John
Something similar in case anyone is interested, my own 'lls' command: # This function performs a similar operation to the Unix command 'ls -l' # It works like ls() in R except that it will also display object class,

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Scillieri, John
Looks like you can sign up to get XML feed data from Weather.com http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html Hope it works out! -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of James Muller Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:57 PM

[R] R on the Freakonomics Blog

2008-10-06 Thread Scillieri, John
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/free-super-crunching-so ftware/ >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the

Re: [R] Sweave: problem withusepackage{C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-27~1.0/share/texmf/Sweave}

2008-06-17 Thread Scillieri, John
Try moving your R directory out of the C:\Program Files directory. I ended up setting up a C:\programs\ and putting all my unix-happy programs (R, latex, etc) there to ensure path spaces don't screw me up when running under windows. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

Re: [R] strip white in character strings

2008-05-14 Thread Scillieri, John
> a = " United Kingdom " > gsub( " ", "", a, fixed=TRUE ) [1] "UnitedKingdom" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremiah Rounds Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:48 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [R] strip white in character strings

Re: [R] R and condor

2008-04-25 Thread Scillieri, John
Paul, This is what some of our condor files look like. The script actually goes through and cleans out our log directory (hence the name): --- CleanCondorLogs.condor --- JobName = CleanCondorLogs LogHeader = $(JobName).$(Cluster).$(Process).$$(Machine) input = /CleanCondorL

Re: [R] R programming style

2008-02-11 Thread Scillieri, John
I second that, Code Complete is a great book! For anyone interested in improving their code no matter what language, (it has a C++/Java-type focus but is definitely applicable to R), it would definitely be a good place to start. I've read some negative reviews claiming that everything he writes is

Re: [R] Viable Approach to Parallel R?

2008-02-11 Thread Scillieri, John
We've also had substantial success with the Condor project [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/], not just with R, but as a generic computation grid. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewis, Daniel (IS Consultant) Sent: Monday, February 11,

Re: [R] SAS ODBC

2008-02-05 Thread Scillieri, John
That did it, thanks. -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:28 PM To: Scillieri, John Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] SAS ODBC See the help page for odbcConnect. I have no experience with that ODBC driver, but a

[R] SAS ODBC

2008-02-05 Thread Scillieri, John
All, I'm trying to connect to a remote SAS server using SAS's 9.1 ODBC driver and the RODBC package. I'm running R-2.6.1 on Win XP. I can successfully connect to the database, but no matter which table I query, I get back an empty table with only the column headers. For example: > sqlQuer

[R] ROracle and R 2.5.1 on Windows

2007-09-13 Thread Scillieri, John
Has anyone had any luck using the Windows ROracle package binary from http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI/index.html? It's version 0.5-7 and I've tried it with DBI version 0.1-10 (found on the site) as well as the newest 0.2-3. With both versions I get the following error: > require(ROracle) Loading