[R] R and vim (gvim) on ubuntu

Dear all - I do fret this to be a revealing beginner question - fortunately, this mailing list have been good to me in the paste .-) I am looking for a good R editor/environment in ubuntu. To that end, I have decided to dive into gvim as the modality offered here seems to make sense for editing.

Re: [R] MDS with ranking data (and transformation)

Charles C. Berry wrote: > > Something like > > dat <- t( apply( your.data, 1 , order ) ) > colnames(dat) <- paste( 'philosopher', 1:10, sep='_' ) > > HTH, > Hi Chuck - thx - but I have trouble geting further. I think I need "rank" not "sort" - but this still doesnet solve my conundrum. I ha

[R] MDS with ranking data (and transformation)

Dear Sirs and madams :-) I am trying to teach myself multidimensional scaling. To that effect I have collected a survey asking people to rank 10 philosophers and politicians according to their preference. I have collected 61 answers. The data is organized in ten columns and 61 rows. the columns a

[R] cronbachs alpha - score.items(psych) vs reliability(Rcmdr)

Dear all, I like the way the Rcmdr package computes reliability. E.g reliability(cov(d[,c("q1", "q2", "q3", "q4", "q5", "q6")], use="complete.obs")) will not only give me the alpha score, but also for each variable, alpha.score if deleted. However - when writing scripts it's very tiresome to lo