Re: [R] How long is a day?

2003-07-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Laimonis Kavalieris wrote: Why is 19 March, 1947 a little longer than one day? A change from Daylight Savings Time in your time zone (unstated), according to your OS. Note, 0.04167 is exactly one hour, not `a little longer'. x - as.POSIXct(1947-04-16) julian(x,

Re: [R] Swedish characters in data frames

2003-07-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Neil White wrote: I have some data that was prepared while I was Sweden. The columns labelled using ä or å are fine, but for some reason ö is changed to a period. The reason is in ?data.frame and ?read.table so Blåbär stay the same, but Dödved becomes D.dved I'd

Unit of legend() coordinates (was: Re: [R] lines and legend)

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Lemmens
Dear all, I would like to make a suggestion for an improvement (IMHO) of ?legend. Please add a remark that the x,y positioning coordinates are in the units of the plot() itself, *not* in pixels or anything the like. It would have saved me a lot of time figuring out why my legend just wouldn't

Re: Unit of legend() coordinates (was: Re: [R] lines and legend)

2003-07-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Paul Lemmens wrote: I would like to make a suggestion for an improvement (IMHO) of ?legend. Please add a remark that the x,y positioning coordinates are in the units of the plot() itself, *not* in pixels or anything the like. That's true of all x-y coordinates of all R

[R] How to send a function to a slave from master and let the slaverun using rmpi?

2003-07-02 Thread Lun Li
Dear All, Can anyone help in how to send a function to a slave (not all slaves)from master and let the slave run using rmpi? Thanks. Lun Li __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

RE: [R] within group variance of the coeficients in LME

2003-07-02 Thread Andrej Kveder
Firstly let me thank all for your answers and suggestions. I would like to followup on your comments. Currently I'm implementing multilevel models within a simulation run. So I was looking for an estimate weather a covariate varies across second level units or not. I was using HLM before so I knew

[R] user mannual

2003-07-02 Thread Pankaj Kumar Srivastav
Dear Sir I have successfuly downloaded R package. Kindly let me know where i will get _/*user mannual*/_ for the same. awaiting a prompt reply with regards Pankaj @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL

Re: [R] user mannual

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Turner
Pankaj Kumar Srivastav wrote: Dear Sir I have successfuly downloaded R package. Kindly let me know where i will get _/*user mannual*/_ for the same. Please check the FAQ for further references. You'll find many helpful hints there, to this and other questions. Particularly:

Re: [R] user mannual

2003-07-02 Thread Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Hi, On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Pankaj Kumar Srivastav wrote: Kindly let me know where i will get _/*user mannual*/_ for the same. Where did you download R? I'm assuming you downloaded it from a CRAN mirror, if so then there is a section titled Documentation on the left panel. Perhaps it is an

RE: [R] within group variance of the coeficients in LME

2003-07-02 Thread Harold Doran
I think using the metrics provided (standard deviation units) one can assess the degree of variability and determine whether differences are large enough to be considered practically significant. I suppose Dr. Bates and others can comment further, but making decisions solely on the basis of

[R] Maximisation of likelihood of a discrete parameter

2003-07-02 Thread Anon.
Moi! I have a problem where I want to find the ML estimate of a discrete parameter. I just want a function like optim that finds the max/min value for a function. Does anyone know of such a function for R? Thanks. Bob -- Bob O'Hara Rolf Nevanlinna Institute P.O. Box 4 (Yliopistonkatu 5)

RE: [R] within group variance of the coeficients in LME

2003-07-02 Thread Andrej Kveder
I definetly agree on the use of the graphical tools to assess the importance of statistical results. However in my case I can't use the graphical tools, since it is part of a simulation run and the assessment of the results should be programmed into the code of the simulation. Therefore I'm

[R] error while runing Bioconductro install script

2003-07-02 Thread Berislav Bosnjak
Dear all! I had installed R 1.6.2. and I tried to download Bioconductor using Bioconductor install script. However, when I run the script in R it reports following: Error in getBioC(all) : Your R is not currently configured to allow HTTP connections, which is required for getBioC to work

RE: [R] within group variance of the coeficients in LME

2003-07-02 Thread J.R. Lockwood
I would appreciate your reflection on the following. I need a quantitative figure to evaluate weather the covariate varies across second level units in the process of simulation. Of course I will be running thousands of them and would need to program the condition in code. In one of the

[R] Using mva.dll

2003-07-02 Thread Khadhar, Sofiene
Hello, I would like to use mva package into a C++ (Studio 6) Is their any Visual Studio example using this package? If not is their any help documentation? Thanks. Sofiène KHADHAR [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL

Re: [R] within group variance of the coeficients in LME

2003-07-02 Thread Douglas Bates
Andrej Kveder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would appreciate your reflection on the following. I need a quantitative figure to evaluate weather the covariate varies across second level units in the process of simulation. Of course I will be running thousands of them and would need to program

Re: [R] Maximisation of likelihood of a discrete parameter

2003-07-02 Thread Spencer Graves
You may already know this, but in case you don't get a canned solutions, I'll mention that this is an integer programming problem. If you can first get a solution that it is not an integer, then you do an exhaustive search in a neighborhood near the maximum. In one dimension, this is easy:

[R] using [i] to plot label all vector elements

2003-07-02 Thread Robert Schick
I'm using 1.6.2 on a win 2k box. (I know I'm due for an upgrade.) I've used brute force to label a series of vectors, and I'm wondering if there's a better way to do this. I wanted to create a biplot of the 2nd 3rd PCs, and did this: test - edit(loadings(cv.prc.spr)) test.1 - test[,1] test.2 -

[R] order in lapply

2003-07-02 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Hi When using split is it possible to keep then same ordering of the factor on the output list ? Thanks EJ -- Ernesto Jardim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biólogo Marinho/Marine Biologist IPIMAR - Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e das Pescas IPIMAR - National Research Institute for Agriculture

Re: [R] using [i] to plot label all vector elements

2003-07-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Robert Schick wrote: I'm using 1.6.2 on a win 2k box. (I know I'm due for an upgrade.) I've used brute force to label a series of vectors, and I'm wondering if there's a better way to do this. I wanted to create a biplot of the 2nd 3rd PCs, and did this: You seem to be

Re: [R] using [i] to plot label all vector elements

2003-07-02 Thread Damon Wischik
Robert Schick wrote: I've used brute force to label a series of vectors, and I'm wondering if there's a better way to do this. I wanted to create a biplot of the 2nd 3rd PCs ... I was unhappy with the standard biplot routine (the arrows didn't have tick marks) so I wrote my own, a lattice

[R] Re: Fitting particular repeated measures model with lme()

2003-07-02 Thread J.R. Lockwood
Hello, A couple weeks ago I posted a message about using lme() to fit a model based on the following: Students are tested in two years, and are linked to teachers in the second year only. Thus students are not nested within teachers in the traditional sense. The model for student j in class i

[R] Batch files in R

2003-07-02 Thread Johanna Hardin
When I submit more than one batch file (same programs, different parameter values, huge simulations, different result names) the only results that get saved are from the *last* batch file to finish. They are all being run in the same subdirectory (so same .RData file?) I've done: R --save

Re: [R] order in lapply

2003-07-02 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Ernesto Jardim wrote: Hi When using split is it possible to keep then same ordering of the factor on the output list ? Thanks EJ There may be an easier way to do this but I would make the split variable ordered before calling split. As in: d = data.frame(a = 1:4, b = c(d, c)) sapply(d,

Re: [R] Batch files in R

2003-07-02 Thread A.J. Rossini
?save is your friend. Write out dataobjects with different filenames. Johanna Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I submit more than one batch file (same programs, different parameter values, huge simulations, different result names) the only results that get saved are from the *last*

[R] crossed random effects- clarified version

2003-07-02 Thread Sarah Mclean
Hi, here is a clarified version of my problem. I have a total of 4*74 observations on 74 different mums in 5 different populations of mums, subject to 6 treatments (2 moisture levels*3 substrate types). I want to know if mum interacts with moisture level or substrate type. Population, moisture

[R] Second Y axis

2003-07-02 Thread Depinay, Jean-marc (NIH/FIC)
I would like to add a second graph on the right y axis. Is it a way to do so with R? Thank you for your help, jmd [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] Second Y axis

2003-07-02 Thread Spencer Graves
?axis hope this helps. spencer graves Depinay, Jean-marc (NIH/FIC) wrote: I would like to add a second graph on the right y axis. Is it a way to do so with R? Thank you for your help, jmd [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] Notification of Virus Prevention Measures Taken - Please Readfor D etails

2003-07-02 Thread SAS Postmaster 62
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[R] DF in LME

2003-07-02 Thread Federico Calboli
Dear All, I know I am quite obsessive and downright annoying (I apologize about that, but it's the way I am), but I would like to get my understanding of the way nlme calculates degrees of freedom straight. For instance, on page 91 in Pinheiro and Bates (2000), on the examle of anova(fm2Machie),

Re: [R] DF in LME

2003-07-02 Thread Douglas Bates
Federico Calboli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear All, I know I am quite obsessive and downright annoying (I apologize about that, but it's the way I am), but I would like to get my understanding of the way nlme calculates degrees of freedom straight. For instance, on page 91 in Pinheiro

[R] fractional seconds from format.POSIXct

2003-07-02 Thread Dutky, Steve
Is there a format that yields fractional seconds from format.POSIXct and/or related methods? I'm attempting to use irts with millisecond events. Thanks, Steve Dutky TF Rockville Network Services 301-545-4113 desk 301-325-8146 cell __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[R] beginner gls (nlme) question

2003-07-02 Thread Simon Blomberg
Hi all, I am trying to get a handle on gls (package nlme). I have a toy problem: 3 fixed factors (A, B, C), two levels each, 5 replicates per treatment. The response variable is continuous, normal. I have a correlation matrix of the form: mat AB C A 1.00 0.75 0 B 0.75 1.00 0 C 0.00

RE: [R] Batch files in R

2003-07-02 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
You can use save(object1, file=lalala.1), save(object1, file=lalala.2), ... and the use load() to restore the object1 and object2. Or if you have many objects in a simulation to save, you can save all objects using save.image(sim1.result.R). Another option is to use write.table or zz -