Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-24 Thread Xin Ge
> > -Original Message- > From: Ralf B [mailto:ralf.bie...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:14 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Three most useful R package > > Hi R-fans, > > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-05 Thread kMan
nteresting than a matrix. Sincerely, KeithC. -Original Message- From: Ralf B [mailto:ralf.bie...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:14 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Three most useful R package Hi R-fans, I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope it w

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Ehlers
I don't know if this is too long for a fortune, but it sure seems to be that it should be one. Anyway, thanks for the chuckle, Greg. -Peter Ehlers On 2010-03-04 13:29, Greg Snow wrote: Well, the HeadSlap package would of course require the esp package so that it could tell the difference bet

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-04 Thread Greg Snow
1.408.8111 > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 1:49 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Three most useful R package > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-04 Thread Ivan Calandra
Hi Matthew, Sorry that I've read your email a bit too late and answered to the thread before. You're right about Crantastic, it's a really good thing, and I actually voted for the packages I really use (even though a little). It was suggested to me by a r-helper some time ago. I was also sur

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-04 Thread Ivan Calandra
Hi all, 1) I mostly use the base packages. But if I should decide for three others, it would be - plyr: I've just started to use it in some specific cases, but it seems really powerful and practical - doBy is also quite good but I use only one function from it (summaryBy). For now I have what

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-04 Thread Jim Lemon
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:52:48 -0700 Greg Snow wrote: > I also want a package that when people misuse certain > functions/techniques it will cause a small door on the > side of their monitor/computer to open and a mechanical > hand will come out and slap them upside the head. But > that package will

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-04 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:52:48 -0700 Greg Snow wrote: > I also want a package that when people misuse certain functions/techniques > it will cause a small door on the side of their monitor/computer to > open and a mechanical hand will come out and slap them upside the > head. But that package will

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Greg Snow
n...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Ralf B > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:14 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Three most useful R package > > Hi R-fans, > > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope > it will create some feedback

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Matthew Dowle
Dieter, One way to check if a package is active, is by looking on r-forge. If you are referring to data.table you would have found it is actually very active at the moment and is far from abandoned. What you may be referring to is a warning, not an error, with v1.2 on R2.10+. That was fixed m

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Juliet Hannah
I use rms, lme4, ggplot2 frequently (also lattice and MASS). On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Ralf B wrote: > Hi R-fans, > > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope > it will create some feedback and discussion. > > 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? and > > 2)

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Ralf B
Correct. Ralf --- Ralf Bierig Post-Doctoral Associate School of Communication and Information Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071, USA On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > > > On 03/03/10 09:26, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:13:54 -05

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Cedrick W. Johnson
. A package for complex testing o f trading strategies would be nice, but it's hard to come up with a good design . Regards, Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:13:54 -0500 From: [1]ralf.bie...@gmail.com To: [2]r-h...@r-project.org Subject: [R] Three most useful R package Hi R-fans, I would like put out

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread kulwinder banipal
other than " base" : 1. XML & Rcurl2. lattice3. Hmisc > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Ralf B wrote: > > > Hi R-fans, > > > > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope > > it will create some feedback and discussion. > > > > 1) What are your 3

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread ivan popivanov
egies would be nice, but it's hard to come up with a good design. Regards, > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:13:54 -0500 > From: ralf.bie...@gmail.com > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Three most useful R package > > Hi R-fans, > > I would like put out a questi

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Dieter Menne
Rob Forler wrote: > > And data.table because it does aggregation about 50x times faster than > plyr > (which I used to use a lot). > > This is correct, from the error message its spits out one has to conclude that is was abandoned at R-version 2.4.x Dieter -- View this message in contex

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Corey Sparks
3 most used packages: 1)spdep (for spatial regression/statistics) 2)car 3)survival (which is recommended, so) 3.5) survey (for analysis of complex survey samples) Best to all, Corey - Corey Sparks, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Demography and Organization Studies University of Texas

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Rob Forler
Sorry to clear up the reasons why: RODBC because it allows me to seamlessly interact with all the databases at the place I work. And data.table because it does aggregation about 50x times faster than plyr (which I used to use a lot). Thanks, Rob On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Rob Forler wro

Re: [R] : Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:09:09 +0100 Frank Bloos wrote: > ad 2) A package to produce high quality tables with summary statistics > for publications in scientific journals. Doesn't Hmisc do that (the 'latex' function)? See http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf -- Ka

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Rob Forler
RODBC data.table On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Tony B wrote: > I only really need the base packages, but otherwise I suppose the most > useful for me are: > > (1) RCurl > (2) plyr > (3) XML > > On 2 Mar, 20:13, Ralf B wrote: > > Hi R-fans, > > > > I would like put out a question to all R user

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Tony B
I only really need the base packages, but otherwise I suppose the most useful for me are: (1) RCurl (2) plyr (3) XML On 2 Mar, 20:13, Ralf B wrote: > Hi R-fans, > > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope > it will create some feedback and discussion. > > 1) What are

Re: [R] : Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Bloos
ad 1) ggplot2, Hmisc, RODBC ad 2) A package to produce high quality tables with summary statistics for publications in scientific journals. Regards, Frank >>> Ralf B 02.03.2010 21:13 >>> Hi R-fans, I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope it will create some feedbac

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, The 3 packages I load most often are my own; typically I make a new package for every new job. It automatically loads other packages as dependencies (top-ranked are ggplot2, reshape, plyr) as well as my data and functions I'm currently working with. If some functions evolve further towards a

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Denslow
Hi Ralf, >> 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? Its hard to pick three but since you are making me... vegan rgdal (which will also get you sp, another favorite) rms Michael -- Michael Denslow I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON] Department of Biology Appalachian State University Boone,

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Graham Smith
> 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? On the assumption that we mean those packages that add some generic functionality, then plyr ggplot2 Car and Hmisc (i know that is four) So similar to others peoples list I have others that are always first to be installed, but specific to my interes

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:26:32 +0100 Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > > 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? and > > plyr > ggplot2 > lattice And since 'lattice' already is in the 'recommended' set, and therefore included in R by default, I'd like to add one more package: sos -- Karl Ove Huft

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Philippe Grosjean
On 03/03/10 09:26, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:13:54 -0500 Ralf B wrote: 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? and plyr ggplot2 lattice Well, as you ask the question, the three most useful R packages are: base, stats and methods ;-) ... But I guess you mean: th

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-03 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:13:54 -0500 Ralf B wrote: > 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? and plyr ggplot2 lattice -- Karl Ove Hufthammer __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting g

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-02 Thread Sharpie
Ralf B wrote: > > Hi R-fans, > > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope > it will create some feedback and discussion. > > 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? and > > 2) What R package do you still miss and why do you think it would make > a useful addition

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-02 Thread Cedrick Johnson
I think it depends on your particular domain, mine is in finance: Quantmod PerformanceAnalytics And Diethelm Wuertz's collection of packages (fOptions, fPortfolio,etc) Rgds, C On 3/2/10, Ralf B wrote: > Hi R-fans, > > I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope > it wil

Re: [R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-02 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Ralf, My list would probably be: reshape + plyr lattice / ggplot2 and maybe Car / Hmisc BUT, I think the real answer would come from further use of the community of: http://crantastic.org/ (Or if that website could have collected and presented some data automatically...) Tal ---

[R] Three most useful R package

2010-03-02 Thread Ralf B
Hi R-fans, I would like put out a question to all R users on this list and hope it will create some feedback and discussion. 1) What are your 3 most useful R package? and 2) What R package do you still miss and why do you think it would make a useful addition? Pulling answers together for these