RE: [R] Sweave: pass scale parameter to includegraphics?

2003-07-28 Thread Christophe Declercq
Peter, To set the width of included graphics in your LaTeX document, see the Sweave manual: http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/Sweave-manual-20030624.pdf 'It also sets the default LATEX figure width (which is independent of the size of the generated EPS and PDF files). The current default

Re: [R] Problems with Rcmd build --- windows

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please note (because you keep saying it): this is not Rcmd. Rcmd runs Perl to run the Perl script build. The perl script build --binary runs INSTALL to install your package. INSTALL runs Rdconv, and it is Rdconv which is complaining. So the problem is installing your package: did you try instal

[R] Sweave: pass scale parameter to includegraphics?

2003-07-28 Thread Peter Dunn
Hi all I'm using Sweave and find it a treat. But one question: I use Sweave to create my pictures which are automatically included into LaTeX. For example, in the file test.Snw, I may have: % LaTeX stuff \begin{figure} <>= x1 <- seq(1,5, length=10) x2 <- sin(x1) plot(x1,x2) @ \caption{Plot}

[R] Problems with Rcmd build --- windows

2003-07-28 Thread kjetil brinchmann halvorsen
Hola! I am using Rcmd build --binary ... on a windows XP system, and am encountering a strange problem. Rcmd claims there are syntax errors in one of mine .Rd files *** Syntax error: mismatched or missing brackets in I take "brackets" to mean [], and I have none of them in the file, and d

Re: [R] Tktable change cell values

2003-07-28 Thread James Wettenhall
Thomas Sudler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And my last question: How can I change the value of a cell? (I mean not by > clicking into the cell... I mean how I can change the value with a > command). Thomas, Currently there is no official interface between R arrays and Tcl arrays, so you have t

Re: [R] Tktable disable cell

2003-07-28 Thread James Wettenhall
Thomas Sudler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to "block" a cell (I mean, that you can't make an entry)? > How can I program this? And how can I deactivate a cell when the cell is > activated? (command?) Thomas, Try this. (Note that pasting in Tcl commands to set arrays is not very

Re: [R] Tktable cell colors

2003-07-28 Thread James Wettenhall
Thomas Sudler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > color of all the cells, that's no problem. But is it also possible to define > another color for different cells? (example: Cell at position [1,1]:red, Thomas, Try this: require(tcltk) tclRequire("Tktable") tt <- tktoplevel() table1 <- tkwidget(tt,"ta

Re: [R] Tktable active cell

2003-07-28 Thread James Wettenhall
Thomas Sudler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to start an action when i click into a cell. Example: When I click > into a cell, a message box should open with the information of the > location of the cell where I clicked in. So I only > need to know how to get the possition of the active cel

Re: [R] data manipulation: getting mean value every 5 rows

2003-07-28 Thread Federico Calboli
Dear All, thanks for exceptional and speedy help. In particular, thanks to J. R. Lockwood, Sue Paul, Spencer Graves, Dennis J. Murphy and Tony Plate. regards, Federico Calboli = Federico C.F. Calboli Department of Biology University College London Room 327 Darwin Bui

Re: [R] data manipulation: getting mean value every 5 rows

2003-07-28 Thread Tony Plate
> x <- read.table(file("clipboard"), header=T) > # add an extra field to define groups of 5 sequential rows > x[,"code"] <- rep(seq(len=nrow(x)/5), each=5) > x temp line cage number code 118 181 6678.6301 218 181 7774.4581 318 181 7845.9021 418 1

Re: [R] data manipulation: getting mean value every 5 rows

2003-07-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you considered "aggregate" [documented in help(aggregate) or "www.r-project.org" -> search -> "R site search" or Venables and Ripley, Modern Applied Statistics with S]? hope this helps. spencer graves Federico Calboli wrote: Dear All, I would like to ask you how to accomplish a little tr

[R] data manipulation: getting mean value every 5 rows

2003-07-28 Thread Federico Calboli
Dear All, I would like to ask you how to accomplish a little tricky data manipulation. I have a large dataset, looking something like: templinecagenumber 18 18 1 6678.63 18 18 1 7774.458 18 18 1 7845.902 18 18 1 9483.578

Re: [R] Reading a file every t seg.

2003-07-28 Thread Don MacQueen
Is data being appended to the file, or is the file being overwritten with the new data? For the former case, I use the $size element returned by file.info() to watch for changes in size, and when the size has changed, use pipe() and the unix tail command to get the latest data. My data, howeve

Re: [R] RE: how to use R to model Reliability problem

2003-07-28 Thread Spencer Graves
Did you try "www.r-project.org" -> search -> "R site search" for "varcomp"? If yes, could you please explain why that does not answer your question? Please include in your reply a toy example including a "data.frame" statement, preferably with something closer to 6 numbers than 40 AND some R

[R] Eclipse

2003-07-28 Thread Carl Husa
Is anyone aware of an R plug-in for the Eclipse IDE? __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

[R] RE: how to use R to model Reliability problem

2003-07-28 Thread liping
Dear R users: I am having problem with following datasets: 4 true measurement: 2 10 15 20 10 repeated measurements for each true measurement 1.9 9.8 14.5 20.2 2.1 10 1520.1

[R] cut.POSIXt - bug?

2003-07-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In the following session, the output vector has an NA in the last position even though intervals are supposed to be open-closed in cut: > dat <- seq(ISOdate(2003,6,28),length=5,by="days") > cut(dat,dat[c(2,5)]) [1] 2003-06-29 08:00:00 2003-06-29 08:00:00 [4] 2003-06-29 08:00:00

[R] Reading a file every t seg.

2003-07-28 Thread Marlon Martins dos Reis
Dear all, I'm writing a small program to read a file that receives data every time (e.g. every 1second ). During the execution of my program I get the message: " Error in read.table("file.txt", header = T, sep = ";") : no lines available in input " I suppose that it happens when I try to re

Re: [R] Ideas for remote collaboration on statistical analyses

2003-07-28 Thread A.J. Rossini
Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 07/28/03 12:12, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: >>I would like to also have a way to collaborate >>with remote clients using a phone and a web server. > > One idea - which I have yet to convince any of my many remote > collaborators to try - is to use Vnc

Re: [R] Ideas for remote collaboration on statistical analyses

2003-07-28 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 07/28/03 12:12, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: >I would like to also have a way to collaborate >with remote clients using a phone and a web server. One idea - which I have yet to convince any of my many remote collaborators to try - is to use Vnc to allow you and the client/collaborator to view the

[R] Ideas for remote collaboration on statistical analyses

2003-07-28 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
I plan to use Sweave for most of the statistical reports I write for general statistical consulting projects. I would like to also have a way to collaborate with remote clients using a phone and a web server. This might involve a more incremental output process than Sweave uses. One could, fo

Re: [R] multiple imputation with fit.mult.impute in Hmisc

2003-07-28 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:18:09 -0400 Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply! One more question, below. > > On 07/27/03 22:20, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > >On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:47:30 -0400 > >Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I have always avoided

Re: [R] linear model coefficients

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Joerg Schaber wrote: > I wonder if there is a possibility to avoid that R sets one level of a > factor equal zero in a model fit. > > More precisely, I want to fit a two-way unbalanced linear model: o ~ 0 + > x + y > x is a factor with 10 levels, y is a factor with 9 levels

Re: [R] R compilation error on Solaris

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Looks like a gcc/as mismatch. You are using a version of gcc compiled on that machine with those exact paths (and not one using GNU as or a different version of Solaris)? BTW, qtl does compile on a properly installed Solaris 8 system using gcc 3.3: I've just checked. On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Saun

[R] linear model coefficients

2003-07-28 Thread Joerg Schaber
Hi, I wonder if there is a possibility to avoid that R sets one level of a factor equal zero in a model fit. More precisely, I want to fit a two-way unbalanced linear model: o ~ 0 + x + y x is a factor with 10 levels, y is a factor with 9 levels. In order to get a unique solution i set the int

Re: [R] R compilation error on Solaris

2003-07-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Saunak Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello... > > I tried to compile an R addon package, R/qtl on a Solaris machine and > I get this error. I know that R/qtl complies correctly on other > platforms (Windows, Mac, Linuxes, etc), so I am wondering what the > problem might be. > > Any ideas?

[R] R compilation error on Solaris

2003-07-28 Thread Saunak Sen
Hello... I tried to compile an R addon package, R/qtl on a Solaris machine and I get this error. I know that R/qtl complies correctly on other platforms (Windows, Mac, Linuxes, etc), so I am wondering what the problem might be. Any ideas? Thanks, Saunak ---

Re: [R] Optimization failed in fitting mixture 3-parameter Weibulldistri bution using fitdistr()

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I don't think that is the right density: haven't you forgotten I(x > a)? So you need a constraint on a in the optimization, or at least to return density 0 if a >= min(x_i) (but I suspect the mle may well occur at the boundary). Without that constraint you don't have a valid optimization problem

[R] Optimization failed in fitting mixture 3-parameter Weibulldistri bution using fitdistr()

2003-07-28 Thread Yang, Richard
Dear All; I tried to use fitdistr() in the MASS library to fit a mixture distribution of the 3-parameter Weibull, but the optimization failed. Looking at the source code, it seems to indicate the error occurs at if (res$convergence > 0) stop("optimization failed")

[R] cran.us.r-project.org and www.omegahat.org back on line

2003-07-28 Thread Douglas Bates
We had two power failures Saturday morning that brought down the machine that serves as cran.us.r-project.org and as www.omegahat.org. The automatic reboot was unsuccessful because one of the file systems required a manual file system check. I was blissfully unaware of this until this morning. Th

[R] survey package

2003-07-28 Thread Thomas Lumley
Version 1.9 of the survey package, now percolating through CRAN, adds a beta implementation of replication weights. These can either be created from a survey design (using BRR, JK1, or JKn schemes) or provided by the user. These have been tested on only a few examples so far: there seem to be re

Re: [R] How to make "<-" generic?

2003-07-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - not evaluating the left side of the operator. This is no problem in > principle, since generic functions can have a signature (see > ?setGeneric); if the signature omits the first argument, methods can be > dispatched without evaluating that argument.

Re: [R] How to make "<-" generic?

2003-07-28 Thread John Chambers
The problem with having methods for "<-" is a practical one, not one of principle. 1. The current code does not evaluate the <- operator as a function (This is less serious than it sounds, since certain "functions" are intercepted specially in the C code for method dispatch already.) 2. Assign

Re: [R] http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML

2003-07-28 Thread Jason Turner
Marc Mamin wrote: Hi, As the server www.omegahat.org seems to be down since quite a while, could someone send me the RSXML library for Windows2000 ? Many thanks, Marc Mamin According to Prof. Brian D. Ripley, earlier today... > There's a mirror of the software in the Omegahat area on CRAN. I j

RE: [R] http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML

2003-07-28 Thread Marc Mamin
Thank you for your information (R is very new for me...) I've got the package installed by now. Marc Mamin -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:23 PM To: Marc Mamin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] http://www.omegahat.

Re: [R] defining and plotting functions thanks to equation

2003-07-28 Thread Alec Stephenson
The cdf of the Gumbel distribution is exp(-exp(-x)), not the density. The easiest way to plot the density is probably to download package evd and use library(evd) plot(dgumbel, -2, 5) Alec Stephensontel +44 (0) 1524 593950 Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Re: [R] http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Marc Mamin wrote: > As the server www.omegahat.org seems to be down since quite a while, only since Sat morning: don't be impatient. (And this is not the omegahat list.) > could someone send me the RSXML library for Windows2000 ? It's not there anyway. If you want it for

Re: [R] aregImpute: warning message re: acepack and mace

2003-07-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm trying to learn how to use aregImpute by doing the examples provided with the package, and after installing Hmisc.1.6-1.zip (for Windows), Hmisc_2.0-0 is current. use e.g. update.packages() to update to the recent version. and running the very first example on R

[R] defining and plotting functions thanks to equation

2003-07-28 Thread vincent . stoliaroff
Hi R lovers! Are there any means to define and plot a function given the equation that specifies the function? For example I'd like to plot and work with the Gumbel Distribution density defined by Lambda(x)=exp(-exp(-x)) My question may appear very simple but I haven't got an idea yet about how

Re: [R] aregImpute: warning message re: acepack and mace

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm trying to learn how to use aregImpute by doing the examples provided with > the package, and after installing Hmisc.1.6-1.zip (for Windows), > and running the very first example on R 1.7.1, i get an error message warning > me about "mace" (see b

[R] http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML

2003-07-28 Thread Marc Mamin
Hi, As the server www.omegahat.org seems to be down since quite a while, could someone send me the RSXML library for Windows2000 ? Many thanks, Marc Mamin __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] Rcmd nuisance (windows XP)

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote: > Hola! > > When running > Rcmd build --binary , > > the run always end with > > zip warning: name not matched: DESCRIPTION > > The package seems to work fine. This happens whith all packages, mine > as well as CRAN ones. > >

[R] Rcmd nuisance (windows XP)

2003-07-28 Thread kjetil brinchmann halvorsen
Hola! When running Rcmd build --binary , the run always end with zip warning: name not matched: DESCRIPTION The package seems to work fine. This happens whith all packages, mine as well as CRAN ones. Whats happening? Kjetil Halvorsen

[R] aregImpute: warning message re: acepack and mace

2003-07-28 Thread adiamond
hi, i'm trying to learn how to use aregImpute by doing the examples provided with the package, and after installing Hmisc.1.6-1.zip (for Windows), and running the very first example on R 1.7.1, i get an error message warning me about "mace" (see below) and acepack. i found the acepack package

Re: [R] multiple imputation with fit.mult.impute in Hmisc

2003-07-28 Thread Jonathan Baron
Thanks for the quick reply! One more question, below. On 07/27/03 22:20, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: >On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:47:30 -0400 >Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have always avoided missing data by keeping my distance from >> the real world. But I have a student who is doi

Re: [R] hi

2003-07-28 Thread Patrick Burns
If you are the impatient type, you might want to have a look at "A Guide for the Unwilling S User". It is in the contributed documentation on the R website and on my company website. Patrick Burns Burns Statistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry a

Re: [R] hi

2003-07-28 Thread Philipp Pagel
Hi! > I have no clue what i am doing/ meant to do with R. i have just begun > statistics for uni and all commands don't seem to work, they say > syntax error, we are meant to put a hist.r in but ? I guess you should have a look at the manuals. You can find them at the R-Project w

Re: [R] Perl

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Jason Turner wrote: > Pierre-Olivier Chasset wrote: > > Dear Helpers, > > > > I would like to know if I can call other use R-method within Perl scripts. > > I have not found any module in CPAN (Perl Archive). > > Thanks, > > > > The server's not responding right now, but ch

Re: [R] Plotting (mixed) line types and legends

2003-07-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 28 Jul 2003, Peter Dunn wrote: > I have a question about plotting line types and > legends. Here's a short piece of code to > demonstrate: > > x <- y <- seq(1,10) > plot(x,y, type ="l", lty="33") > lines(x,y+1, lty=1) > legend( 8,2,legend=c("lty=1","lty=\"33\""), lty=c(1,"33") ) > > On my s

Re: [R] hi [should be 'getting started']

2003-07-28 Thread Richard Rowe
At 16:08 28/07/03 +1000, you wrote: Guess what I have no clue what i am doing/ meant to do with R. i have just begun statistics for uni and all commands don't seem to work, they say syntax error, we are meant to put a hist.r in but ? please help, step by step, to use this program i would turn it

Re: [R] Perl

2003-07-28 Thread Jason Turner
Pierre-Olivier Chasset wrote: Dear Helpers, I would like to know if I can call other use R-method within Perl scripts. I have not found any module in CPAN (Perl Archive). Thanks, The server's not responding right now, but check out RSPerl on Omegahat: http://www.omegahat.org Cheers Jason -- Indig

Re: [R] hi

2003-07-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
jill irwin wrote: Guess what I have no clue what i am doing/ meant to do with R. Ask your teacher (he/she certainly already told you!), we don't know either Please use a relevant subject line! Please tell your mailtool to break lines! i have just begun statistics for uni and all commands

[R] Plotting (mixed) line types and legends

2003-07-28 Thread Peter Dunn
Hi all I have a question about plotting line types and legends. Here's a short piece of code to demonstrate: x <- y <- seq(1,10) plot(x,y, type ="l", lty="33") lines(x,y+1, lty=1) legend( 8,2,legend=c("lty=1","lty=\"33\""), lty=c(1,"33") ) On my system (see below), the line types in the legend

Re: [R] hi

2003-07-28 Thread Andrew C. Ward
Dear Jill, Assuming you have installed R correctly, several manuals in PDF will have been installed. Perhaps the most useful for you is "An Introduction to R" which answers all of your questions (and more). If you've installed the Windows version, you can view this by following the menus Help->Man

Re: [R] citing an R help file

2003-07-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: What is the correct way to cite help files for a function in R, please? The R Reference Index manual "The R Environment for Statistical Computing and Graphics" seems to be the appropriate document. I'm using @MANUAL{r-ref, author = {{R Development Core