Re: [R] creating a database

2007-12-18 Thread elw
> Can a simple matrix be used for this or would it be better and more > efficient to create an external database to hold the data. If so, > should the database be created using C and how would I do this (seeing > as that I have never programmed in C)? You don't want to be down at the C level

Re: [R] connection diagram

2007-11-26 Thread elw
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Manal Helal wrote: > Dimn Waves Tot. Parts In Wave Wave NoSerial Index W Order > M > Index DepTot. D1-Serial D1-IndexD1-OrderD1-M > Index D2-Serial D2-IndexD2-OrderD2-M Index > 2 7 1 0 1

Re: [R] Any useR conference in US in YR2008

2007-11-25 Thread elw
Something like this - alternating among continents - happens with AoIR, the Association for Internet Research. A real effort has been made to make sure that the conference is in North America no more than every other year, with alternating slots going to Europe and (once so far..) to Austra

Re: [R] biocep project (R for the Web and the Virtual R Workbench)

2007-11-21 Thread elw
Some of the bits and pieces in this look like very strong candidates for breaking off into CRAN packages, if you haven't done so already. This looks like very nice work - you should be proud! :-) --elijah On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Karim Chine wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:44:51 + > Fr

Re: [R] connection diagram

2007-11-12 Thread elw
hi, You should probably be looking at the functions in the following packages: sna network(s) graph dynamicgraph mathgraph igraph Matrix and a few others ;) what you're describing sounds like, to my ear, a restricted social network diagram; many of the problems you describe are typical of s

Re: [R] PVM error message

2007-11-07 Thread elw
> I am working with a Fedora Core 6 OS and R 2.5. I have just finished > I am using PVM3.4.5+6-WIN32.tar.gz Isn't that supposed to be the wad of files for Windows machines? there's a different link on the PVM homepage to the source for unices... --elijah _

Re: [R] Mac OS X Leopard and C compiling

2007-11-05 Thread elw
Notable that your commandline is trying to use the 10.4u sdk, while ld is trying to use libdylib "10.5" - aka leopard dynamic linker. The two probably don't go all that groovily together... :) is the -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk bit being generated by R CMD SHLIB? Where'd the R

Re: [R] Implementing R through Oracle

2007-11-05 Thread elw
> I have looked through all the ROracle documentation, R-help, R-dev, > Googled the world and still cannot figure out this issue. Everything I > read it is about connecting to an Oracle database and pulling data, > processing it, and then pushing it back to Oracle. I am running in > pl/sql co

Re: [R] DBI Package

2007-10-31 Thread elw
I have some problems with DBI package, I want to connect to PostgreSQL database but I don't know the way to do it. pg <- dbDriver("PostgreSQL") ... nope. That won't work. you need the RdbiPgSQL package from Bioconductor. Along with DBI, as I recall. --elijah

Re: [R] Implementing R through Oracle

2007-10-30 Thread elw
> I have been looking for a statistical package that I can implement in > our application and I came across R. We run an n-Tier environment with > an Oracle 10g backend. Our design is to keep all business logic in the > backend. What I would like to do is call R from pl/sql. I noticed that >

Re: [R] Cannot install 'rgl'

2007-10-29 Thread elw
Do you have the X11 devel packages installed? You probably do not. --elijah On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Metaxab wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:45:33 -0700 (PDT) > From: Metaxab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Cannot install 'rgl' > > > Hello I have the follo

Re: [R] Cluster Analysis

2007-10-29 Thread elw
> Subject: [R] Cluster Analysis > > Dear all, > > I would like to know if I can do a hierarchical cluster analysis in R > using my own similarity matrix and how. Thanks. Katia Freire. Yes. ;) Reading the help for dist() and hclust() should make the procedure for doing this appear fairly str

Re: [R] pseudo code

2007-10-09 Thread elw
> Requires: T = cluster(X): A hierarchical clustering algorithm > L = cut-tree(T; k): produces a partition with k non-singleton clusters The functions you'll want to read the documentation to, here, are "hclust()" and "cutree()". They're fairly straightforward and nicely documented. It looks

Re: [R] igraph and plotting connected components

2007-10-08 Thread elw
>> Hello there, >> >> I am using the igraph package to build graphs from my data. If I plot >> a graph though, it's not easy for me to see what's going on. Does >> anybody know how to rearrange a graph to get a plot without too many >> crossing lines? Maybe other packages? Edge-crossing mi

Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-26 Thread elw
> The idea is that you're modeling an irregular shaped object, a body of > water, a river or estuary, say. It's fairly common practice to use a > grid squished and rotated so that the main flow is along one axis, and > the other axis spans the flow in most spots. So there is a single > trans

Re: [R] Connecting R to PostgreSQL via RODBC, on Windows

2007-09-26 Thread elw
> I feel like I must be missing something rather plain, but I don't get > it. how is one supposed to use R as a PgSQL client on Windows? Assume > my windows desktop is on the same network as a PgSQL server, and I just > need to use R to connect and pull down some data. > > The thing that is co

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-26 Thread elw
> So I applied my corrected margins to Tim's Cairo trick and voila: > http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rlogo_swiss.png > This is hands-down the best version, in my opinion! Yes, it is definitely much nicer than the version on www.r-project.org now. :-) --e __

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-26 Thread elw
>> http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg > If you run Eric Lecoutre's code to produce the graphic, available at > http://www.r-project.org/misc/acpclust.R, unchanged except for the > addition of these lines: > > library(Cairo) > Cairo(600,400,file="Rlogo_swiss.png",type="png",bg="white")

Re: [R] Network Construction in R

2007-09-23 Thread elw
> I am trying to construct a social network from a data frame with rows > >acra numa acrb numb yearexpab eaboimpab iabo > 10 USA2 CAN 20 1957 4017.000 0.0 3187.000 0.0 > 91 USA2 CUB 40 1957 628.000 0.0 526.000 0.0 > 144 USA2 HAI 41 1957

Re: [R] problem with generalized singular value decomposition using LAPACK

2007-09-20 Thread elw
> I'm trying to run generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD) > function from LAPACK library. Basically my problem is that I can not run > it for large matrices, I get a memory error. I'm using R 2.5.1. I tried > this on intel centos5 machines with 2 GB memory and 8 GB memory. I have >