Re: [R] won't install properly on Mac 10.3.2

2003-12-22 Thread Mathieu
Le 19 déc. 03, à 23:44, Thomas Lumley a écrit : On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Hank Stevens wrote: R version 1.8.1, Mac OS X 10.3.2 I have tried searching for this problem and its fix, but to no avail. -Everything seems to download and unpack fine. I double click on StartR, however, and it just winks

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

2003-12-22 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi library(akima) function contour(interp(x,y,z)) is one possibility Cheers Petr On 19 Jan 2058 at 48:211, L Z wrote: Question: I have matrix (n x3) that represents discrete data. Each row of matrix is 3-D point (x,y,z). I would like to get contour map (z value) at two dimension (x,y).

[R] Problems with read.table()

2003-12-22 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
R version 1.8.1, OS Windows 98 Dear colleagues, if I import vegetation data (first row with column labels and first column with row labels) like 7MYRGERM;7AGRGIGA;7DRYOCTO;5MYRGERM;7SALELEA;7CHOCHON;7SALNIG°;... t401;5;2;2;3;4;2;2;2;1;2;1;2;2;1;2;2;2;1;2;1;0;0;..

RE: [R] Problems with read.table()

2003-12-22 Thread Simon Fear
This is a known bug (PR #3234), only affects Win98. The problem is the degree sign (or any nonstandard ASCII) in your first line (7SALNIG°) Mostly you can actually read these things in OK, but R crashes on printing. I get round it sometimes using something like dedegree - function(x) gsub(°,

Re: [R] Factor names levels

2003-12-22 Thread Damon Wischik
If its desired that name act on factors in the same way that names act on vectors and lists then the methods I provided would not be correct and, as Peter points out, the other factor methods would have to be examined, as well, to ensure that they all work properly with names. Thank

[R] error propagation - hope it is correct subject

2003-12-22 Thread Petr Pikal
Dear all Please, can you advice me how to compute an error, standard deviation or another measure of variability of computed value. I would like to do something like: var(y) = some.function(var(x1),var(x2),var(x3)) for level F1 (2,3,...) Let say I have some variables - x1, x2, x3 (two

[R] pkg-manual.dvi. How to generate the start page?

2003-12-22 Thread Wolski
Hi! On the cran package source page, to each package there are the reference manual in pdf format with a nice title page. I observed that during the R CMD check pkg a pkg-manual.div are generated in the pgk.Rcheck directory. But the nice title page are missing. During the package build and

Re: [R] error propagation - hope it is correct subject

2003-12-22 Thread Thomas W Blackwell
Petr - Very briefly, I think of three ways to approximate the standard deviation of y = f(x1,x2,x3). (1) linearise f() and use the covariance matrix of [x1,x2,x3]. (2) simulate draws from the joint distribution of [x1,x2,x3], then compute the sample std dev of resulting f()s. (3)

RE: [R] Problems with read.table()

2003-12-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I don't have Windows 98 to test it out but assuming that it causes read.table to crash but not readLines, you could try doing the preprocessing in R itself using Simon's dedegree like follows to see if it works: # dedegree is applied to text before it ever reaches read.table con -

[R] La.eigen hangs R when NaN/NA is present

2003-12-22 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Hi all, I discovered this problem when trying to use princomp in package:mva when a column (and row) in my matrix was all zeros and I set cor = TRUE, thus division by 0. Doing so hangs R, never to return. I have to shut down Rterm in the Task Manager and lose all work from the current image. I

Re: [R] draft of posting guide

2003-12-22 Thread Rolf Turner
This is in response to Gabor Grothendieck's commentary on Tony Plate's draft guidelines for question-askers, which was posted a couple of days ago. I disagree, from mildly to vehemently with just about everything in Grothendieck's posting. E.g. the ``tone'' of the draft should not be

Re: [R] draft of posting guide

2003-12-22 Thread Spencer Graves
I don't study carefully every piece of available documentation for everything (anything?) I do. A major challenge is how to provide a guide that will get used and will in the process improve the quality of questions and answers. Best Wishes, spencer graves Rolf Turner wrote:

Re: [R] draft of posting guide

2003-12-22 Thread Peter Flom
How about some sort of happy medium? e.g., in the posting guide include something like 'The people who wrote R, and the people who answers questions on R-help, are volunteers. R software is the product of thousands of hours of time by many highly trained and highly intelligent people. Please

Re: [R] varFixed

2003-12-22 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Harold Doran wrote: Dear List: Earlier this week I posted a question and received no response, and I continue to struggle with my model. My original question is pasted below. I am using lme and want to fix the variance of the within group residual at 1 (e~n(0,1). I

Re: [R] draft of posting guide

2003-12-22 Thread Wolski
Hi! The guide are in my opinion much to long. If someone posts a question to the mailing list its because he likes to get a answer (fast?). The Introduction proposed by Peter Flom and the Homework before posting section will do it in my opinion. The part: Homework before posting a question.

Re: [R] varFixed

2003-12-22 Thread Spencer Graves
If I had several days to work on this, I'd study Pinheiro and Bates (2000) Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus (Springer) to see if I could use lme or gls on this. If I expected to encounter many similar problems in the future, I might modify lme to accept a prior distribution over the

[R] Memory allocation

2003-12-22 Thread Richards, Thomas
Hello: I am trying to work with a couple of microarray data sets, using platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major1 minor8.1 year 2003 month11

Re: [R] draft of posting guide

2003-12-22 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:32:15 +0100 Wolski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! The guide are in my opinion much to long. If someone posts a question to the mailing list its because he likes to get a answer (fast?). The Introduction proposed by Peter Flom and the Homework before posting section

Re: [R] Memory allocation

2003-12-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Not really much hope here, but 1) If you have fast discs, try increasing --max-mem-size to more than your RAM, and 2) Try compiling up R-devel (see the FAQ for where to get it) as it has a potentially better memory allocator. I supect though that your problem is too big for R on 32-bit

[R] missing data and completed missing data

2003-12-22 Thread Raphael Schoenle
Hi, This is not exactly an R request, but does anyone know of a good dataset that contains missing and missing data that have been completed later (like from persistent in-person interview attempts)? (want it for some Bayesian regression analysis) Thanks!! -Raphael [[alternative

Re: [R] missing data and completed missing data

2003-12-22 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:55:58 -0500 Raphael Schoenle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is not exactly an R request, but does anyone know of a good dataset that contains missing and missing data that have been completed later (like from persistent in-person interview attempts)? (want it for

Re: [R] missing data and completed missing data

2003-12-22 Thread Murray Jorgensen
You might take a set of classified data, say Fisher's irises, and treat the classification as initially unknown. Murray Raphael Schoenle wrote: Hi, This is not exactly an R request, but does anyone know of a good dataset that contains missing and missing data that have been completed later

RE: [R] beginner programming question

2003-12-22 Thread Adrian Dusa
Thank you all! I did it, and it worked just fine. In the last week I've been torturing the syntaxes in various ways, until finally it was all clear. The subscripting solution opened new doors for me. Particularly, the reshape command gave me about three days of a head ache. I read the help

RE: [R] draft of posting guide

2003-12-22 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think there will always be disagreement when commenting about the appropriateness of social behaviour. So I think we will do well to understand the purpose of any proposed posting guide. It is not clear to me where the list is going with regards to this topic. If the aim is to produce a

Re: [R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

2003-12-22 Thread Eryk Wolski
Hi! Sorry. Please take my last mail to the account that it was monday and I had two hard birthday party's during the weekend. Probably all this caused the problem to express that the style of the mailing list guide shocked me. I asked this morning such a stupid(if you know the answer) question.

Re: [R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

2003-12-22 Thread A.J. Rossini
A few comments... Eryk Wolski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I said, the guide had given me the feeling that someone wants to censor me. Especially the first section of the Posting Guide: How to ask good questions that prompt useful answers does this. The guide starts with talking mainly

Re: Re: [R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

2003-12-22 Thread Tim Churches
A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the amount (and quality) of (freely-available, at least for the cost of download, which might not be free) documentation for R is simply incredible. The closest that I've seen, for freely available languages, is Python, for actual quality of