Re: [R] low resolution word map

Hi Ray, 2012/7/31 Ray Brownrigg : > On 07/28/12 23:46, Thomas Steiner wrote: >> Hi, >> I'd like to have a low resolution word map in R. >> The "maps" package has this option, but if I use the argument, the map >> looses sense: Russia and Australia get em

[R] low resolution word map

Hi, I'd like to have a low resolution word map in R. The "maps" package has this option, but if I use the argument, the map looses sense: Russia and Australia get empty etc library("maps") m=map(col="skyblue",fill=TRUE,plot=TRUE,resolution=10) length(m$x) If I drop the "fill=TRUE", the effect of

[R] low resolution word map

Hi, I'd like to have a low resolution word map in R. The "maps" package has this option, but if I use the argument, the map looses sense: Russia and Australia get empty etc library("maps") m=map(col="skyblue",fill=TRUE,plot=TRUE,resolution=10) length(m$x) If I drop the "fill=TRUE", the effect of

[R] add map to plot

Hi, I'd like to add a world map (equirectangular projection) in the background of a normal R-plot and the world map should be shifted (the center of the map should be c(163.87,23.581) where the center of the plot is c(180,35)): plot(c(0,360),c(0,70),type="n",main="My worldmap") m=map("world", proj

Re: [R] strange behaviour of CairoPNG

ting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and make sure at a minimum to report your sessionInfo(). That > increases your chances to get a response. > > /Henrik > > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Steiner > wrote: >> OK, no reply. :-( >

Re: [R] strange behaviour of CairoPNG

OK, no reply. :-( I'm more offensive: this is a bug! the font-parameter of the text fucntion does not work properly in the Cairo-package thomas 2010/6/4 Thomas Steiner : > Hi, > could it be that the text() fuction gives different output for normal > png() and CarioPNG()? >

Re: [R] plot polar coordinates

oordinates. An example result is attached. The negative vales where just a stupid try from my side, it does of course make no sense. Best, Thomas 2010/6/4 Jim Lemon : > On 06/04/2010 05:05 AM, Thomas Steiner wrote: >> >> Thank you Greg, >> >> I'll add 180 t

[R] strange behaviour of CairoPNG

Hi, could it be that the text() fuction gives different output for normal png() and CarioPNG()? See the following example and the attached images: the font=2 and font=3 seem to be exchanged! Thanks for help, Thomas CairoPNG("Test-cairo.png",width=750,height=690) #png("Test-normal.png",width=750,he

Re: [R] plot polar coordinates

tes. > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > greg.s...@imail.org > 801.408.8111 > > >> -Original Message- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- >> project.org] On Behalf

[R] plot polar coordinates

Hi, I'd like to plot in in polar coordinates a line which is given as a vector of lengths and angles. library("plotrix") polar.plot(length=c(1,-13,3,-1),polar.pos=c(20,20,45,55),rp.type="p",line.col="red",lwd=3,clockwise=TRUE,label.pos=seq(30,360,by=30),labels=c("ESE","SSE","S","SSW","WSW","W","WN

[R] pdf pagesize

Hi, when I create huge pdf files (width is 6meters) with R I cannot open them in Adobe Acrobat reader (I tried version 9 and some lower). I use pdf() of grDevices version 2.8.1 and CairoPDF from Cairo version 1.4-4. When I add the (perhaps since pdf version 1.7 pagesizes of more than 200in are poss

[R] Roman numerical output

I have integers and I want R to give them back/output as Roman numerals: s=c(7,17) format(s,roman=T) is obviously wrong. Is there any other way/function to do this? Thanks, Thomas __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo

Re: [R] fill map with gradient: package?

Thanks Paul. I'm still struggeling with some beginners issues on the ps-import (windows troubles with installing ghostscript), but when I resolved them I'm sure that I can use your example code which loos great to me. Thanks a lot, Thomas 2009/11/4 Paul Murrell : > Hi > > >

Re: [R] fill map with gradient: package?

Hi, I'd like to fill an existing svg (or png) map with gradient colors. In detail: The file http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karte_%C3%96sterreich_Bundesl%C3%A4nder.svg should be filled with the population density data from this table: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterreich#Verwaltungsg

[R] plotrix: reverse axis in polar.plot

Hi, how can I reverse the radius axis of plotrix's polar.plot function? Perhaps this sounds strange, but I use the radians for angles as well: In the center is zenith and the corresponding angle is 90°, not 0. See an example plot at http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/images/sun_chart_50_solar_polar.jpg d

Re: [R] package to convert coordiantes to timezone

Thanks you, this helps. Great, Thomas 2009/8/3 Michael Denslow : > Hi Thomas, > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Steiner wrote: >> Is there a R-package with a function that returns me the timezone, if >> I hand over longitude and latitude? >> I know o

[R] package to convert coordiantes to timezone

Is there a R-package with a function that returns me the timezone, if I hand over longitude and latitude? I know online services like http://ws.geonames.org/timezone?lat=-38.01&lng=147 and http://www.earthtools.org/webservices.htm#timezone and wodner if this exists for R too. Thanks for helping, th

Re: [R] unicode only works with a second one

Hi Greg and Paul, I tried several things, but I did not succeed: * I could not find the library(EBImage) on CRAN in Austria to open an png image in R. * I could not import the image via pixmap (read.pnm) as described on http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:graphics-misc:translucency

Re: [R] unicode only works with a second one

Hi, thanks for all your hints. > One of the points of my.symbols is that you can define your own symbols to > use with it (hence the my). I tried this and it works fine. I need all the symbols and I will probably not trace them, but copy the svg code and modify them from http://commons.wikimedia

Re: [R] unicode only works with a second one

unfortunately in my.symbols there are no zodiac signs, so I have to choose unicode which does not work for me yet. Thomas 2009/3/31 Thomas Steiner : > Thanks for the feedback. > I did now try Vista (2.8.1), XP (2.9.0alpha) and Win2000 (2.8.1) and > non did work compeletely, only on Vist

Re: [R] unicode only works with a second one

Thanks for the feedback. I did now try Vista (2.8.1), XP (2.9.0alpha) and Win2000 (2.8.1) and non did work compeletely, only on Vista/2.8.1 I got some symbols if I add the other sign. I will try the my.symbols later today, when i am at home. Thomas __ R-

Re: [R] unicode only works with a second one

ics grDevices utils datasets methods base and from http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg44163.html I learned that it depends on my runing OS / installation. I know that this is not an R question, but I have no idea how to proceed... Thomas 2009/3/29 Thomas Steiner : > I now t

Re: [R] unicode only works with a second one

I now tried a differnt R version under a drifferent OS, even worse: R version 2.9.0 alpha (2009-03-23 r48200) with Windwos XP does only show "\u2642". Do I need to install some fonts or so? Thanks Thomas 2009/3/28 Thomas Steiner : > I'd like to paste a zodiac sign on a graph,

[R] unicode only works with a second one

I'd like to paste a zodiac sign on a graph, but it only prints it when I add another unicode ( \u3030) to the desired \u2648 - why? See the examplecode (compare the orange with the skyblue): plot(c(-1,1),c(-4,-2),type="n") text(x=0,y=-3.0,labels="\u2648 \u3030",cex=2.3,col="skyblue") text(x=0,y=-3

[R] r online

Hi, I'd like to execute simple commands and functions in R through a website, is there any service like this somewhere? I only found http://www.osvisions.com/r-online/ but it does not work (last update 2003) and the links to releated websites only give errors (if I calculate 7+3). Thanks for help &

Re: [R] D'Hondt method

very cool, easier than I thought... (although I am not fully familiar with sapply() and friends) quick reality-check (no proof!) at http://icon.cat/util/elections/isuHqUyDYh shows that the results coincide: votes <- c(42201,38635,247736,170627,48236,117151,61379,35889,92321) dHont(c("BGLD","KTN",

[R] D'Hondt method

Is there a R function to calculate the seats in parliament given the total number of seats and the votes for each party -- for different methods including the method of D'Hont? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method Thanks, thomas __ R-help@r-proj

Re: [R] pass longer arguments to adj of text()

Brian, thank you for your reply. > Why do you expect this to be vectorized when the help page clearly says > otherwise? Sure, it's in line with the help, no problem there. I just asked if this feature is somehow possible. I expected it, because "pos" does take arrays and it "overrides any adj val

Re: [R] pass longer arguments to adj of text()

...and the offset argument can't handle arrays either: text(c(0,0),c(0,0),c("a","b"),pos=c(1,2),offset=c(1,0.5),col="darkgreen") The second argument does not have any effect. Can I pass arrays to text and use diffent locations? Thomas PS: I use R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) under Win2000. __

[R] pass longer arguments to adj of text()

Hi, text()'s pos does handle more dimensional labels, while adj does not - or how can I pass an array to text() and use the adj argument (skyblue text)? plot(-1:1,-1:1) text(c(0,0),c(0,0),c("a","b"),pos=c(1,2),col="red") text(c(0,0),c(0,0),c("a","b"),adj=cbind(c(1,2),c(1,1)),col="skyblue") Thoma

Re: [R] convert lines to inches

Ok, thanks Peter, I try to be more accurate: pdf("test.pdf",width=(20+2+4)/2.54,height=(10+3+1)/2.54) x=seq(0,pi,length=100) par( mai=c(2,3,4,1)/2.54 ) plot(x,cos(x),type="l",xlim=c(0,3),ylim=c(-1.2,1.2),xaxs="i",yaxs="i",asp=1) conv=par("mar")/par("mai") box("figure", col="darkblue") dev.off() T

[R] convert lines to inches

Hi, how can I convert the unit "lines" of par("mar") into inches? par("mai") could help, but does not (see code below). I want to plot a curve in a predefined size in pdf (I add some margin space to the plot width&height, everything is in cm): pdf("test.pdf",width=(20+2+4)/2.54,height=(10+3+1)/2.

Re: [R] draw a 5cm x 3cm rectangle

Thanks Erik, grid.lines() gives me exactly what I wanted. Have a nice weekend! Thomas library(grid) pdf("rect.pdf", paper="a4r") grid.lines(x=c(1,1,3),c(1,2,2),default.units="cm") grid.lines(x=c(1,1,3)+1,c(1,2,2)+0.5,default.units="cm",gp=gpar(col="blue")) dev.off() _

[R] draw a 5cm x 3cm rectangle

Hi I want to draw sth in a pdf file with a predefined defined size. Say a 5cm x 3cm rectangle (a ruler): pdf("rect.pdf", paper="a4") plot(c(1,5,5,1,1),c(1,1,3,3,1),asp=1,axes="n") dev.off() but how do I fix that one unit is 1cm? Thanks thomas __ R-help

Re: [R] fft: characteristic function to distribution

Matthias Kohl was so kind and provided me the following lines in this issue: library(distrEx) chf <- function(t, D){ E(D, function(x){exp(1i*t*x)}, useApply = FALSE) } ## Normalverteilung D <- Norm() t <- seq(-3, 3, by = 0.05) chf.norm <- sapply(t, chf, D = D) chf.exakt <- exp(-t^2/2) chf.diff

Re: [R] fft: characteristic function to distribution

Thank you Prof Ripley for your answer. > > The characteristic function is the inverse Fourier transform of the > > distribution function. The characteristic function of a normaly > > distributed random variable is exp(-t^2/2). > > > > The fft is a discrete Fourier transforn, not a continuous one.

[R] fft: characteristic function to distribution

The characteristic function is the inverse Fourier transform of the distribution function. The characteristic function of a normaly distributed random variable is exp(-t^2/2). x=seq(-2,2,length=100) fft(pnorm(x),inverse=T)/length(x) exp(-x^2/2) Why aren't the inverse fft and the mentioned functio

Re: [R] little subplot in corner

Wonderful, thanks a lot. I just have to call the plot first and then the rect (and then I can plot it again)... %D Have a nice day, Thomas __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] little subplot in corner

Henrique, Although your solution is perfect, I had later a problem with setting the background. Perhaps you know how to get this as well: set.seed(24032008) plot(rnorm(10),type="l",col="red") grid() front=c(0.5, .97, 0.5, .97) par(fig=front, new=T)#, bg="skyblue" does not work rec=c(par("usr")[1]

Re: [R] intraday OHLC plot

Dear all, thank you very much for continuing to look into this issue! I checked the versions and in Gabor's code the spaces and tabs, but still the problem remains (see code and error below). To install quantmod, I used this time Rforge and it did not work. I had to install the "Defaults" package

[R] update win FAQ q1?

Hi, on http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Where-can-I-find-the-latest-version_003f it says: ... The current release is distributed as an installer `R-2.6.1-win32.exe' of about 30Mb. ... however I find this file as well: http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.6.2-w

Re: [R] intraday OHLC plot

Dear Gabor and Jeff, thanks for your hint! I tried it out and played around but could not succeed completely: > library(quantmod) > raw=read.table(file="eurusd-id.csv",sep="\t",dec=",",header =T) > date.d=as.POSIXct(raw$Date..GMT) > z=zoo(cbind(raw$Open,raw$High,raw$Low,raw$Close),order.by=date.d

[R] intraday OHLC plot

I want to create a open/high/low/last plot of intraday data. I try to use the function plotOHLC from the tsteries package. I create my own multiple time series and then try to plot it. raw Data Format (file eurusd2.csv): "Date (GMT)""Open" "High" "Low" "Last" 17-03-2008 00:00:00 1,5764

Re: [R] little subplot in corner

perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot! many eggs to you... Thomas __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide c

[R] little subplot in corner

I want to draw a little subplot ("overview") into my detailed plot. It should be placed in say the top right corner and have the size of some legend (like legend(x="topright", inset=0.03, ...) #main plot plot(rnorm(100)) #give little density in corner plot(seq(-2,2,length=300),dnorm(seq(-2,2,lengt

Re: [R] legend: bold and color of border

Hi Jim, thank you very much for your answers! > > How do I write bold face in the legend - the function does not accept > > font=2 as argument? > par(font=2) perfect, thanks. > > How do I plot a legend box with a background color, but not a border? > > Or, better: How do I specify the col

[R] legend: bold and color of border

How do I write bold face in the legend - the function does not accept font=2 as argument? How do I plot a legend box with a background color, but not a border? Or, better: How do I specify the color of the legend-box-borderline? Okay, I abuse the legend, but have a look at http://de.wikipedia.org

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

Thank you Philipp for your suggestions. In Rprofile.site every line is commented out and I could not find any .Rprofile. I even tried starting R with additional cmdline arguments --no-environ and --no-init-file. Still > update.packages(ask='graphics') --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

Thanks Liviu, I am trying out what is proposed in the mentioned thread. I start R by "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy="http://proxy.haifis.org:8080"; Then I do the following (selecting "Austria" as mirror) > install.packages("package", method="wget") --- Please select a CRAN

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

> OK, that's perfect. Then the proxy configuration is still wrong. MAybe > you want to try the other way given in the R for Windows FAQs and > re-check your proxy settings. I did try the other ways and the above trial shows some progress: > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() --- Please select a CRAN mirror

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

> Which mirror do you use? As I am living in Vienna, I use "Austria". Which should I try? Thomas __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.ht

[R] internet proxy settings (win)

I cannot access internet through R. My IT-guys told me that I should set the proxy and the port and then everything will be fine. Where can I set them? I use R 2.6.2 under Windows 2000 and these settings are those of the Internet Explorer (no password). I read http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/win

Re: [R] R object as a function

Dear Duncan, thanks a lot for your answer. I was think a was distracted by the FED rate cut ;) Now it works. Have a nice day Thomas myfun1<-function(x,pa) { return(pa[1]*x^2+pa[2]*x+pa[3]) } myfun2<-function(x,param,myfunk1,pa) { return(param[1]*myfunk1(x,pa)+param[2]*myfunk1(-x,pa)) } test<-

Re: [R] R object as a function

Thank you very much Duncan for your quick answers. > You're not passing a function as myfunk1, you're passing mf, which is > the result of evaluating myfun1, so it's a numeric vector. Yes, this is exacty my problem. If I leave it away, the problem will not be resolved (it needs pa or not) myfun1

Re: [R] R object as a function

Okay, let me try to better say what I meant: myfun1<-function(x=5,pa) { return(pa[1]*x^2+pa[2]*x+pa[3]) } myfun2<-function(x=5,param,myfunk1) { return(param[1]*myfunk1(x)+param[2]*myfunk1(x)) } test<-function(pars1,pars2,lo,up){ mf=myfun1(x=2,pa=8*pars1) integ=integrate(f=myfun2,lower=lo,u

[R] R object as a function

I want to use a function as an argument to ingtegrate it twice. See the following (senseless) example of a double integration: test<-function(sf,lo,up,rest) { innerFkn<-function(sf,lo) { inte=integrate(f=sf,lower=lo,upper=4) return( inte$value ) } integral=integrate(f=innerFkn,lower=

[R] legend of type "b"

How can I choose the (line/plot) type "b"oth in the legend? plot(1:5,rnorm(1:5),type="b") legend("topright","random",lty=10) Thanks, Thomas __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting gui