Re: [R] No Comment?

2003-09-12 Thread kjetil brinchmann halvorsen
On 12 Sep 2003 at 15:53, len vir wrote: > Hi! > > Why is there no 'multiple-line comment code' in R, ¿Because the developers use ess and so see no need? Kjetil Halvorsen > like > /* > in C++ > or in > GAUSS > */ > > for example ? > > Just wondering! > > len > > > --

Re: [R] Playing with formulae

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Is attr(t, "variables")[[response+1]] always the right term, though it > may not be of class name if the response is an expression? Yes > > The "factors" attribute has row names corresponding to variables and > > column names corresponding to terms. > >

Re: [R] Playing with formulae

2003-09-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks. Not what I was hoping to hear, but it's good to know. Back to the drawing board(: Perhaps since I really don't want to allow interactions and other exotica, I should just have the names of the covariates passed in, and then construct the formula from that (with paste and as.formula?). A

Re: [R] Playing with formulae

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > First, thanks to everyone for their responses to my programming style > question. Second, I have some questions about some obscure corners of > the language. > > Let > f <- y~x+z > t <- terms(f). > > I want to do some manipulations of the formula that req

[R] No Comment?

2003-09-12 Thread len vir
Hi! Why is there no 'multiple-line comment code' in R, like /* in C++ or in GAUSS */ for example ? Just wondering! len - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

[R] Playing with formulae

2003-09-12 Thread Ross Boylan
First, thanks to everyone for their responses to my programming style question. Second, I have some questions about some obscure corners of the language. Let f <- y~x+z t <- terms(f). I want to do some manipulations of the formula that require getting the names of variables as character strings

Re: [R] converting dataframe columns to vector and missing values

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Spencer Graves wrote: > Have you considered: > > x <- Data[!is.na(Data[,n]), n] > > Does this do what you want? Vectors, arrays, and data.frame can be > indexed by number or by a logical vector -- and by names if such are > supplied. In this case, "!is.na(Data[,n])"

Re: [R] factor creation

2003-09-12 Thread TyagiAnupam
In a message dated 9/12/03 1:16:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Another newbie question > > I want to create a factor (say cT)from a numerical variable (sy temp) by > >regrouping the values in classes (say cT <390,

Re: [R] Converting character to function argument

2003-09-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
Henrik Bengtsson wrote: eval() and parse() are you friends here. Possibly also substitute(). Example: eval(parse(text="expand.grid(c(1,0),c(1,0))")) However, I would like to reply with a question to you. Why do you end up with a string that you need to convert in the first place? That's the que

RE: [R] Converting character to function argument

2003-09-12 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
eval() and parse() are you friends here. Possibly also substitute(). Example: eval(parse(text="expand.grid(c(1,0),c(1,0))")) However, I would like to reply with a question to you. Why do you end up with a string that you need to convert in the first place? Maybe you are more interested in a solu

Re: [R] Converting character to function argument

2003-09-12 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you considered eval(parse(text="expand.grid(c(1,0),c(1,0))")) There are other ways to get what you want, but this should work. hope this helps. spencer graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can one transform a character string into an argument of a function (which is not or I don't want i

Re: [R] converting dataframe columns to vector and missing values

2003-09-12 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you considered: x <- Data[!is.na(Data[,n]), n] Does this do what you want? Vectors, arrays, and data.frame can be indexed by number or by a logical vector -- and by names if such are supplied. In this case, "!is.na(Data[,n])" is a logical vector of length = number of rows of Data. h

[R] converting dataframe columns to vector and missing values

2003-09-12 Thread Bock, Michael
I am relatively new to R, but very pleased with what I can do with it so far. I am embarrassed to ask what seems like a simple question but I am at my wits end. Basically I have written a function to calculate a bootstrapped statistic on a list of values. The function works perfectly if I can feed

Re: [R] save object interactively

2003-09-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:43:43 -0300 (ART), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> f<-file.choose() >> save(nbre,file=f) > >But I should create the file before electing it, there is not form of >opening a window of I talk and to keep with a name that I can put in that >window? Does not something exist as

[R] Converting character to function argument

2003-09-12 Thread Alvaro . Antonio . Novo
How can one transform a character string into an argument of a function (which is not or I don't want it to be a character string)? Example: > expand.grid(c(1,0),c(1,0)) ## OK Var1 Var2 111 201 310 400 > paste(rep("c(0,1)",2),collapse=',') ## to be used below [

Re: [R] Sorting a vector by date

2003-09-12 Thread Laurent Faisnel
Michael Kirschbaum wrote: Hello out there Again I have a problem and I stuck... How can I sort a vector of dates? A look at ?sort could help... For example I have the vector a<-ISOdate(2001, 1, 1) + 70*86400*runif(10) How can this vector be sorted chronological? a is : [1] "2001-03-05 1

Re: [R] Sorting a vector by date

2003-09-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Michael Kirschbaum wrote: > Hello out there > > Again I have a problem and I stuck... > > How can I sort a vector of dates? > > For example I have the vector > > a<-ISOdate(2001, 1, 1) + 70*86400*runif(10) > How can this vector be sorted chronological? a[sort.list(a

[R] Sorting a vector by date

2003-09-12 Thread Michael Kirschbaum
Hello out there Again I have a problem and I stuck... How can I sort a vector of dates? For example I have the vector a<-ISOdate(2001, 1, 1) + 70*86400*runif(10) How can this vector be sorted chronological? And what's the function I should work with to handle these entries? (in sense of:

[R] libraries of Rgraphviz and rhdf5

2003-09-12 Thread N L
I just installed bioconductor via getBioC.R but there is 3 problems: apparently some libraries are missing and I don't know which one, and even the XML package add a error message like : 1:Installation of package Rgraphviz had non-zero exit status in: installPkg(fileName, pkg, pkgVer, type, lib, r

[R] save object interactively

2003-09-12 Thread solares
Hello, it wanted to know as I can keep to save a object of R in interactive form, in which I can put the name of the file in a window of I talk, and not to have to create it, a badly serious example: x<-c(1,2,3,4) > nbre<-"x.Rdata" > f<-file.choose() Error in file.choose() : file choice cancell

Re: [R] partial mantel

2003-09-12 Thread
Dean Urban at Duke University has an S+ library that will do full and partial Mantel Tests. I know that it has been ported to R sucessfully. ` EcoDist EcoDist is a library of functions for S-plus, to perform a variety of analyses based on ecolgical distance or dissi

Re: [R] nlme and simulation

2003-09-12 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you looked at Pinhiero and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects Models for S and S-Plus (Springer)? They describe the use of simulation to evaluate the sampling distribution when a parameter is at a boundary. For the cases they consider, they find that a mixture of chi-squares with different numbe

Re: [R] Flipping a heatmap

2003-09-12 Thread Michael Friendly
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:46:16 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote My feeling is that heatmap is not the right thing to use on a correlation matrix. The heatmap function expects a data matrix, and does a two-way clustering of cases and variables. It tries to rearrange the rows and columns so that similar

Re: [R] (structured) programming style

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > Where and what is the Bioconductor list? > See http://www.bioconductor.org. It's an open-source bioinformatics project using R. -thomas __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/

[R] partial mantel

2003-09-12 Thread Bouget Christophe
Dear all, Has anyone written R code for partial Mantel Tests- as described for instance in Legtendre & Legendre (1998) ? In other words, in a community ecology analysis, I would like to calculate the correlation between two dissimilarity matrices, controlling for a third distance matrix representin

[R] nlme and simulation

2003-09-12 Thread Dr. Peter Schlattmann
Dear all, I would like to simulate data from a nlme model using fixed effects and the variances of the random effects distribution. I scanned the help files and the mailing lists with no succes. Thanks for your help! Peter __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: [R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Kenneth Cabrera
Try as.numeric(gsub(",",".",a)) Hope it helps!! Best regards Kenneth On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:29:13 +0200, Michael Kirschbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Everyone. I have a simple problem but don't know, how to get along. how can I convert the vector a<-c("0,01","1,00") in a vector b<-c(0

Re: [R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Michael Kirschbaum schrieb: Hi Everyone. I have a simple problem but don't know, how to get along. how can I convert the vector a<-c("0,01","1,00") in a vector b<-c(0.01,1.00) Thank you for suggestions Ah, it seems to be a common German problem. My solution is: as.numeric(sub(",",".",a)) Th

RE: [R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Simon Fear
as.numeric(gsub(",", ".", a)) works if the locale is such that decimal points are used instead of commas, but you might seek a more generic solution and have R use a comma for decimal separation - see ?localeconv. > -Original Message- > From: Michael Kirschbaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
"Michael Kirschbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Everyone. > > I have a simple problem but don't know, how to get along. > > how can I convert the vector > > a<-c("0,01","1,00") > in a vector > b<-c(0.01,1.00) > > Thank you for suggestions [Expect about 10 people to chime in...] as.num

Re: [R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Laurent Faisnel
Michael Kirschbaum wrote: how can I convert the vector a<-c("0,01","1,00") in a vector b<-c(0.01,1.00) What is your decimal delimiter ? '.' or ',' ? If it is ',' you should change it into '.' and then as.numeric() works just fine. If it is '.' it won't work. HTH, Laurent __

Re: [R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Friday 12 September 2003 14:29, Michael Kirschbaum wrote: > Hi Everyone. > > I have a simple problem but don't know, how to get along. > > how can I convert the vector > > a<-c("0,01","1,00") > in a vector > b<-c(0.01,1.00) You can use as.numeric(), but you need to change the decimal delimiter

Re: [R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Ben Bolker
?as.numeric On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Michael Kirschbaum wrote: > Hi Everyone. > > I have a simple problem but don't know, how to get along. > > how can I convert the vector > > a<-c("0,01","1,00") > in a vector > b<-c(0.01,1.00) > > Thank you for suggestions > > M.Kirschbaum > > > >

[R] convert a Character-string to a number

2003-09-12 Thread Michael Kirschbaum
Hi Everyone. I have a simple problem but don't know, how to get along. how can I convert the vector a<-c("0,01","1,00") in a vector b<-c(0.01,1.00) Thank you for suggestions M.Kirschbaum [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PRO

Re: [R] Using the system command

2003-09-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > Suzy Smith wrote: > > Hello, I am currently taking a statistics course and we are to do a project > > producing a graph using multiple input files. > > > > In R, I'm trying to build a filelist based on a pattern. For some reason, if I do > > the

Re: [R] Using the system command

2003-09-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Suzy Smith wrote: Hello, I am currently taking a statistics course and we are to do a project producing a graph using multiple input files. In R, I'm trying to build a filelist based on a pattern. For some reason, if I do the command interactively and not assign it to an array variable I get wha

[R] Using the system command

2003-09-12 Thread Suzy Smith
Hello, I am currently taking a statistics course and we are to do a project producing a graph using multiple input files. In R, I'm trying to build a filelist based on a pattern. For some reason, if I do the command interactively and not assign it to an array variable I get what I thought I s

Re: [R] Using R for microarrays datas analysis by Mixed model ANOVA. lme function.

2003-09-12 Thread Laurent Gautier
Just a note about linear model fitting in Bioconductor. Biobase (in the devel section) has a feature to cast an exprSet to a data.frame. Althought this cannot compare with the very nice 'user-friendly' features in the pack 'limma', it lets one with experience and habits with data.frames (use of f

RE: [R] (structured) programming style

2003-09-12 Thread Simon Fear
Ross, it seems to me that a "non-R-like" part of your code is hinted at in > I'm thinking of a situation like > a <- array(0, dim=c(1, 10)) > and then I modify a one row at a time. > a[34,] <- newrow > So if I write directly to a, I just overwrite the row. My guess is you could be doing bette

Re: [R] Using R for microarrays datas analysis by Mixed model ANOVA. lme function.

2003-09-12 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Daphne, A couple of further comments: On Thursday 11 September 2003 22:05, Spencer Graves wrote: > 1. Have you consulted Pinhiero and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects Models in > S and S-Plus (Springer)? This is the standard (almost indispensible) > reference on "lme". > > 2. Are you familiar w

RE: [R] eof and svd calculus with NA's

2003-09-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Sep-03 antonio rodriguez wrote: > Im currently dealing with large datasets of some climatic parameters > and I'm performing some EOF analysis on them. The problem is that for > one of the datasets, the continents are labelled as NA's (since the > data was gathered over the oceans). I don't kn

Re: [R] factor creation

2003-09-12 Thread Laurent Faisnel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not find how to manipulate strings (I want to concatenete characters strings ("abkdas","chjw") into something like ("abkdas;chjw")what operators are available for strings manipulation and where do I find help?? Use the paste operator with specification of separator :

Re: [R] factor creation

2003-09-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another newbie question > I want to create a factor (say cT)from a numerical variable (sy temp) by > regrouping the values in classes (say cT <390, [390,400[,[400,409[...>=550) > > Is there a simple way of doing that using the factor function?

[R] factor creation

2003-09-12 Thread anne . piotet
Another newbie question I want to create a factor (say cT)from a numerical variable (sy temp) by regrouping the values in classes (say cT <390, [390,400[,[400,409[...>=550) Is there a simple way of doing that using the factor function? AND I do not find how to manipulate strings (I want to

[R] eof and svd calculus with NA's

2003-09-12 Thread antonio rodriguez
Hi, Im currently dealing with large datasets of some climatic parameters and I'm performing some EOF analysis on them. The problem is that for one of the datasets, the continents are labelled as NA's (since the data was gathered over the oceans). I don't know to which extent the dropping of those

[R] R update

2003-09-12 Thread N L
Hello, I used "fink" to install R but its version is the 1.7.0 and I want to install and update bioconductor packages with getBioC.R ; this script requires R1.7.1; Is there a way to just update it on my Mac osx? Thanks in advance Line __ [EMAIL PR

Re: [R] Getting greek letters in plot labels and title

2003-09-12 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Paul Delmar schrieb: Hi, Does any one knows how to include greek letters in plot labels and plot titles ? See ?plotmath and the demo in the base package demo(plotmath) (or demo(graphics) in some older versions) A small example: plot(pnorm(seq(-3,3,.1)), xlab="x", ylab=expression(

Re: [R] discrepancy between R & Splus lm.influence() for family=Gamma

2003-09-12 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Andrew" == Andrew Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:16:30 -0400 writes: Andrew> Hello, I am looking for an explanation and/or fix Andrew> for a discrepancy in the behaviour of the R Andrew> lm.influence() function [ version R 1.5.0 Andrew> (2002-04-29

Re: [R] Getting greek letters in plot labels and title

2003-09-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
Paul Delmar wrote: Hi, Does any one knows how to include greek letters in plot labels and plot titles ? Thanks a lot paul Yes, several people do know. See ?plotmath. Uwe Ligges __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mail

[R] Getting greek letters in plot labels and title

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Delmar
Hi, Does any one knows how to include greek letters in plot labels and plot titles ? Thanks a lot paul --- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help