[R] nls() and arima()

2003-01-17 Thread Yan Yu
HI, Thank you all for the reply to my nls Q. after i put a variable at the left hand side of "~", and feed initial values of coefficients, it works now:) I have a related Q: I apply arima() and nls() on the same time series. and try to compare which one fits better. the result from nls() provides "

Re: [R] Negative Binomial modelling

2003-01-17 Thread kjetil brinchmann halvorsen
On 17 Jan 2003 at 15:59, Damon Wischik wrote: It seems like gnlr() in Jim Lindsay's package gnlm might help you. Kjetil Halvorsen > > I have some data which I am trying to fit with a negative binomial > distribution. I have found the glm.nb function from MASS. > > I have reason to believe that

Re: [R] contour plot

2003-01-17 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Friday 17 January 2003 12:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all > > I am fighting with contour plot. > > I have a continuous response and three factors. The formula argument in > function contourplot() does not like the factors. What I got is really > nonsense, loads of squares in the plot

[R] .Fortran error

2003-01-17 Thread Rodolfo Espino III
I am running R version (1.6.2-1) on Redhat Linux 8.0. I am unsuccesfully trying to compile Fortran code and then loading the created object into R. The following are the basic commands I have used to do this. #R CMD SHLIB -o file.f #R >dyn.load("file.so") In the above command I have been explicit

Re: [R] Overdispersed poisson - negative observation

2003-01-17 Thread Douglas Trainor
Some other techniques for overdispersed and underdispersed count data are described in: COUNT DATA REGRESSION USING SERIES EXPANSIONS: WITH APPLICATIONS by A. COLIN CAMERON and PER JOHANSSON in JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS, VOL 12, 203-223 (1997). http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~econ472/

[R] Re: check variables: a Q from a beginner

2003-01-17 Thread David Hinds
I played around a bit with the ls.objects() code posted by Petr Pikal yesterday and came up with the following that is a bit faster, shorter, and adds memory usage information. It combines an object's mode and class information into a "Type" column that seems more parsimonious, and adds an argume

Re: [R] Survr error

2003-01-17 Thread Juan Ramon Gonzalez
Dear Jonathan, This error appear when the number of censored time is not equal to different identifier numbers. E.g. It is possible you have not censored times for all subjects. In this case you have to add another data with the same identitier time equal to 0 and censored 0. For example: If you

RE: [R] contour plot

2003-01-17 Thread Liaw, Andy
When you have numerical "x" variables, rather than factors, you can make sensible contour plot. Short of that, nothing in this world will give you "beautiful curves". Andy > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:45 PM

[R] contour plot

2003-01-17 Thread huan . huang
Dear all I am fighting with contour plot. I have a continuous response and three factors. The formula argument in function contourplot() does not like the factors. What I got is really nonsense, loads of squares in the plot (exactly the same as what the help page says). I am wondering how I coul

[R] Survr error

2003-01-17 Thread Jonathan Williams
I am trying to analyse recurrent failure times using survfitr from the survrec package. To do this, I need to "Create a survival recurrent object" using Survr. But, when I do this, I get an error "Error in Survr(r1d[, 1], r1d[, 5], r1d[, 6]) : data doesn't match". Here, r1d[,1] is the identifier

[R] Negative Binomial modelling

2003-01-17 Thread Damon Wischik
I have some data which I am trying to fit with a negative binomial distribution. I have found the glm.nb function from MASS. I have reason to believe that the mean parameter mu depends on certain factors, and that the shape parameter theta depends on others. If, say, the factors are P and Q, it

Re: [R] Arguments of R- and C-side of internal functions

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Timur Elzhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Second, who pass the other, `call', `op' and `rho' parameters > to `do_optim() ?' You mean "why" I suppose. op: Some functions are mapped into the same C function (do_math2, for example) so you need to know which one. call: The whole call is passed m

[R] Arguments of R- and C-side of internal functions

2003-01-17 Thread Timur Elzhov
Dear R experts, I looked at the body of, say, `optim' function and found the call to the `.Internal', C optim function. It looks like this: .Internal(optim(par, fn1, gr1, method, con, lower, upper)) On the other hand, the C prototype of optim is: SEXP do_optim(SEXP call, SEXP op, SEXP args,

Re: [R] DBI/ROracle for remote database connection ?

2003-01-17 Thread David James
Hi, You may want to take a look at the file "README.client" under the main ROracle package directory. It describes how to access Oracle from an Oracle-less linux workstation. -- David Luke Whitaker wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed the ROracle and DBI packages, and I want to > access an

Re: [R] problems writing graphics

2003-01-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
Juan Ramon Gonzalez wrote: Hello R-listers, I am developing a function which needs to create jpeg files from some plots. To create the jpeg files I use the instruction dev.print(jpeg, file=c://graph.jpg",width=400,height=400). [won't work anyway] Until now everything has been fine, but now I ha

[R] DBI/ROracle for remote database connection ?

2003-01-17 Thread Luke Whitaker
Hello, I have installed the ROracle and DBI packages, and I want to access an Oracle database that is not on the same machine as the one I am running R on. I can access the database remotely with perl DBI and Java JDBC. Does anyone know if this is possible using R DBI/ROracle ? I have looked thr

Re: [R] nls

2003-01-17 Thread Douglas Bates
"kjetil brinchmann halvorsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Jan 2003 at 22:15, Yan Yu wrote: > > > HI, > > i have some prob when i try to use nls(). > > my data is 1D vector, I tried to use a polynomial function(order is 3) to > > fit it. > > the data series is stored in x. > > the a0, a1,

[R] problems writing graphics

2003-01-17 Thread Juan Ramon Gonzalez
Hello R-listers, I am developing a function which needs to create jpeg files from some plots. To create the jpeg files I use the instruction dev.print(jpeg, file=c://graph.jpg",width=400,height=400). Until now everything has been fine, but now I have a special plot which is formed by 3 separat

RE: [R] barplot plotting problem

2003-01-17 Thread Marc Schwartz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Butler > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] barplot plotting problem > > > Hi, > Is there any equivalent of type="n" when constructing > barplots

Re: [R] Re: Universal legend in plot

2003-01-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
Vumani Dlamini wrote: Dear R-users: I asked a question on how I can have a universal legend in a plot and received the following result. I tried using "layout" but I can't seem to work on the "empty" plot (where I have to have the legend). I tried "oma" but I couldn't improve the quality of th

Re: [R] difference between "external pointer" and "weak reference"

2003-01-17 Thread ripley
http://developer.r-project.org has the background papers. On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Vanguelov, Krassimir wrote: > Could you tell me where can I read more about the difference between > "external pointer"(EXTPTRSXP) and "weak reference"(WEAKREFSXP) in R and what > were they intended for? -- Brian D.

Re: [R] More info - S-Plus compatability

2003-01-17 Thread ripley
R's and S-PLUS's write.table functions have different arguments with different defaults: discussed in MASS4, for example. You appear to need sep = "," (and FLASE appears to be a typo). It would be better to use col.names=FALSE and omit the skip=1. Three other comments: _ is deprecated in bot

Re: [R] Re: Universal legend in plot

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
"Vumani Dlamini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear R-users: > > I asked a question on how I can have a universal legend in a plot and > received the following result. I tried using "layout" but I can't seem > to work on the "empty" plot (where I have to have the legend). I tried > "oma" but I co

[R] difference between "external pointer" and "weak reference"

2003-01-17 Thread Vanguelov, Krassimir
Dear R-help, Could you tell me where can I read more about the difference between "external pointer"(EXTPTRSXP) and "weak reference"(WEAKREFSXP) in R and what were they intended for? Regards, Krassimir Vanguelov ** This is

RE: [R] Re: Universal legend in plot

2003-01-17 Thread Andrew C. Ward
Is your data such that it can be restructured into a form amenable to a lattice plot, such as xyplot()? In that case, the legend (key in lattice) can be placed pretty much anywhere. Regards, Andrew C. Ward CAPE Centre Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Queensland Brisbane Ql

Re: [R] polynomial contrasts in R

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [Pet peeve] However, contr.poly *also* treats the factor as a numeric > > variable, it just assumes that the levels are equidistant. What other > > sense would a (say) linear term make? > > Not quite, it allocates scores to the factor levels, equally spaced > score

[R] More info - S-Plus compatability

2003-01-17 Thread Neil Shephard
Dear all, Thanks to those of you who have replied, the majority of the comments pointed out that the error caused by scan may originate from another function, and closer inspection of the output from traceback() reveals that it is in fact the read.table function where the error is originating

[R] Re: Universal legend in plot

2003-01-17 Thread Vumani Dlamini
Dear R-users: I asked a question on how I can have a universal legend in a plot and received the following result. I tried using "layout" but I can't seem to work on the "empty" plot (where I have to have the legend). I tried "oma" but I couldn't improve the quality of the plot, and that I didn

Re: [R] nls

2003-01-17 Thread kjetil brinchmann halvorsen
On 16 Jan 2003 at 22:15, Yan Yu wrote: > HI, > i have some prob when i try to use nls(). > my data is 1D vector, I tried to use a polynomial function(order is 3) to > fit it. > the data series is stored in x. > the a0, a1, a2, a3 below is coefficient, which i hope i can get from > calls "nls" >

Re: [R] Built-in R GUI type features

2003-01-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:40:14 -0500, you wrote: >All: > >The select.list() command brings up a "modal dialog box with a (scrollable) >list of items ..." etc. -- i.e., a GUI control. I also know about winDialog, >file.choose and the winMenu commands. What other such GUIisms are built into >** base *

Re: [R] polynomial contrasts in R

2003-01-17 Thread ripley
On 17 Jan 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I don't think you are describing contrasts for an ordered factor, but > > orthogonal polynomials in a numeric variable. The latter are computed by > > the function poly() in both R and S-PLUS. You could set them up to

Re: [R] polynomial contrasts in R

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't think you are describing contrasts for an ordered factor, but > orthogonal polynomials in a numeric variable. The latter are computed by > the function poly() in both R and S-PLUS. You could set them up to give a > contrasts matrix if you want, but not a co

[R] Trellis device automatism [was "X11 device now needs ..?"]

2003-01-17 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Deepayan" == Deepayan Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:20:20 -0600 writes: Deepayan> On Thursday 16 January 2003 02:10 pm, Patrick Connolly wrote: >> On Wed, 15-Jan-2003 at 10:47PM -0600, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: >> |> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 07:35

[R] Using R to analyze chromatograms

2003-01-17 Thread David Orme
Hi, I have a large number of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) datafiles that I was hoping to process using R. I couldn't find anything in the mailing list archives or the packages list but before I go around reinventing the wheel, has anyone on the list got any pointers or code th

Re: [R] kriging in R

2003-01-17 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Hi I'm working with geostatistics and I use geoR package, which I find very good. However it doesn't implement the classic geostatistics but a "model based geostatistics" as proposed by Peter Diggle and team. R news of June 2001 has an article about geoR by Paulo Ribeiro, the main developer, that

RE: [R] Multivariate regression in R [followup]

2003-01-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Jan-03 Ted Harding wrote: > Hence the multivariate regression model for the data could be > written in matrix form as > > Y = X*B + w1*W1 + w2*W2 + w3*W3 + e > [ Y Nxp ; X Nxk ; W1 W2 W3 Nxp matices of factor level indicators; B kxp ; w1, w2, w3 scalars ] > where e is 3-dim N(0,S), and

Re: [R] kriging in R

2003-01-17 Thread Roger Bivand
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Yan Yu wrote: > Hi, all, >Have anyone used kringing included in R? How is it? > Does it handle anisotropy data well? > How does it compare with Kriging in Arc/Info? or other geostatistics > software customized to do kriging or other geostatistics functions? Maybe help.se

Re: [R] kriging in R

2003-01-17 Thread ripley
Lots of questions! Kriging in geostatistics software often uses rather peculiar approximations to the exact theory, and `data' cannot be anisotropic (but models can). There is kriging in packages spatial, sgeostat and fields, at least, as a quick look at the FAQ would have shown you. It is unl

Re: if(grep(...) == 1) was [R] (no subject)

2003-01-17 Thread ripley
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, graham lawrence wrote: > Why does the second grep reject when the first grep accepts? > Why does regexpr accept what grep rejects? It's the if() that is different. grep returns an integer vector of matching indices, and numeric(0) == 1 is logical(0), which gives nothing to

Re: [R] polynomial contrasts in R

2003-01-17 Thread ripley
You are wrong about S-PLUS! contr.poly only takes as argument the number of levels required (and uses pre-computed sets for up to 12 levels). You get orthogonal polynomials for equally-space values from contr.poly in both systems, as documented. I don't think you are describing contrasts for an