[R] Get message cannot do complex assignments in base namespace error

2003-12-21 Thread Thon de Boer
I am constantly running into the problem where I get error messages like cannot do complex assignments in base namespace. It might have something to do with the fact that R has not started up completely, since I am trying to run some R script using Rterm Rscript.R. When I perform the same

Re: [R] Get message cannot do complex assignments in base namespace error

2003-12-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Could you 1) Try with --vanilla. 2) Show us a small example. In general user code should not be assigning in base (are you using - by any chance?), but there is no difference when redirecting input in Rterm as to where code is run. (Your command-line flags may well affect it, though.) On Sat,

Re: [R] varFixed

2003-12-21 Thread Spencer Graves
Can you provide a toy example including a data.frame statement with one or more of the primary variants you have tried with the error message(s) or other problems you encountered? You are more likely to get a useful response if an interested reader can copy a few lines from your email

Re: [R] Get message cannot do complex assignments in base namespace error

2003-12-21 Thread Thon de Boer
Thanks for the fast reply. When I use --vanilla for Rterm.exe (Using windows here) I do not get the problem anymore, so that solved half my problems. Thanks (I had used --slave --no-save --no-restore) But I seem to have the problem of getting the error message cannot do complex assignments in

Re: [R] Get message cannot do complex assignments in base namespaceerror

2003-12-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
Thon de Boer wrote: Thanks for the fast reply. When I use --vanilla for Rterm.exe (Using windows here) I do not get the problem anymore, so that solved half my problems. Thanks (I had used --slave --no-save --no-restore) But I seem to have the problem of getting the error message

Re: [R] Get message cannot do complex assignments in base namespaceerror

2003-12-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Uwe Ligges wrote: And that's the point! Don't use Rprofile to execute scripts, because everything assigned in there will be loaded into base on startup. (See ?Startup) For running scripts I'd recommend to use Rcmd BATCH (you will need Perl, though), but it's also

Re: [R] Factor names levels

2003-12-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I agree it may not be 100% clear but ?names does say The default methods get and set the 'names' attribute of a vector or list. and if you issue the command: methods(names) you find that the only non-default method is names.dist. Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:54:25 + (GMT) From: Damon

Re: [R] [Mailman] question: contour plot for discrete data

2003-12-21 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Dear L Z - Before using contour() one needs to interpolate the z values to all points in a rectangular grid. 2D interpolation is not trivial. The package KernSmooth (case-sensitive) will do this for a density estimate but not, apparently, when z values are given. Perhaps packages splines or

Re: [R] [Mailman] question: contour plot for discrete data

2003-12-21 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you considered interp, as in the following example: XY - expand.grid(x=1:11, y=1:11) XY$z - XY$x+XY$y contour(interp(XY$x, XY$y, XY$z)) hope this helps. spencer graves Thomas W Blackwell wrote: Dear L Z - Before using contour() one needs to interpolate the z values to all points in a

Re: [R] Get message cannot do complex assignments in base namespace error

2003-12-21 Thread Thon de Boer
Good...It is getting clearer now and I indeed read ?Startup so that is why I knew i had to use local() blocks (or use the .First function, but that does not seem to work in Rterm) in the first place. The problem there, is that any of the objects that are created in the local block are afcourse no

RE: [R] Contrasts for MANOVA

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Bunn
Prof. Ripley: Thanks for the response. My imperfect understanding is that contrasts are a special kind of linear combination that can be done a priori. Here's an example that is similar to what she wants to do: ## START EXAMPLE # Toy data: y1 - rnorm(15,0,2) y2 - runif(15) y3 - rnorm(15,2,1)

RE: [R] Sweave/LaTeX Problem with EPS PDF

2003-12-21 Thread Harold Doran
Yes, they were lattice and your suggestion did the trick. Many thanks! -Original Message- From: Jason Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 12/21/2003 12:30 AM To: Harold Doran Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Sweave/LaTeX

Re: [R] Factor names levels

2003-12-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For it to be well defined, there would need to be a names method and a names- method for the factor class or else the default methods would have to be able to handle factors. Not only that but other methods for factors need to know about the names

Re: [R] Factor names levels

2003-12-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Based on Peter's response, I think I may have misinterpreted Damon's query. The methods I displayed in my last post in this thread were intended to make name a synonym for level. If its desired that name act on factors in the same way that names act on vectors and lists then the methods I