Re: [R] error message

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
forkusam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > Can someone please tell me what such an error message > could mean. i.e where a problem must have arised. > > Error in uniroot(function(n) eval(p.body) - power, > c(2, 1e+07)) : > f() values at end points not of opposite sign Looks like the

[R] Combining Factors in model.matrix

2004-01-21 Thread paul . boutros
Hello, I want to be able to create a design matrix with two factors. For instance, if I have: > t1 <- factor(c(1,1,2,2)); > t2 <- factor(c(1,2,1,2)); > design <- model.matrix(~ -1 + (t1+t2)); > design; t11 t12 t22 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 4 0 1 1 But the design matrix

Re: [R] Problem with lme, ns and df (variable scoping problem?)

2004-01-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
That makes sense - obviously when I used this formulation in the past (eg. with lm) I've been lucky enough not to run into problems, but it makes sense that the formula needs some help to determine that df comes from a different environment from the other variables. Thanks for your help, Hadle

Re: [R] Problem with lme, ns and df (variable scoping problem?)

2004-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Use substitute, something like lml <- eval(substitute(lmList(y ~ ns(x,df=d.f) | c, a), list(d.f.=df))) This sort of thing is in any case necessary to get a sensible call component recorded in the fitted object. On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Hadley Wickham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with random

Re: [R] Mac OS X and R

2004-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
malloc.h can normally be replaced by stdlib.h on an ISO C system. That file has #include #ifndef Macintosh #include #endif and I believe that should be #include #include since the aim appears to be to have malloc() declared. Martin M (as Maintainer) please note. On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Da

[R] error message

2004-01-21 Thread forkusam
Hi, Can someone please tell me what such an error message could mean. i.e where a problem must have arised. Error in uniroot(function(n) eval(p.body) - power, c(2, 1e+07)) : f() values at end points not of opposite sign Thank you cilver = = Sylvie B. Forkusam E

Re: [R] nonlinear regression and Excel solver

2004-01-21 Thread Mike Prager
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 19:57, Kristian Omland wrote: > [snip] > > Is Excel's Solver an adequate tool for numerical approximation in general > and nonlinear regression in particular? Or should I push on writing > S-Plus code? From what I've heard (and I know some expert users), Excel's solver

[R] Problem with lme, ns and df (variable scoping problem?)

2004-01-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi, I'm experimenting with random effect natural splines, and I've encountered an odd problem. library(nlme); library(splines) a <- data.frame(x = 1:10, y = 1:10 + runif(10, min=-3, max=3), c = rep(c(1,2),5)) df <- 10 lml <- lmList(y ~ ns(x,df=df) | c, a) Error in df - 1 : non-numeric argum

Re: [R] Mac OS X and R

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (A.J. Rossini) writes: > Vincent Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Le 21 janv. 2004, à 15:19, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : > > > >> - the MacOS X platform is a rather (very?) unusual Unix-alike. > >> > > > > Why is that? Isn't Darwin (the Unix core of OSX) a standard Free

[R] storage.mode and argument duplication

2004-01-21 Thread Paul Gilbert
I have a function which passes an element of a fairly large list to a fortran call. In a function, when I use storage.mode on an element of a list that is in the function argument, does this force the whole list to be duplicated? More specifically, which of these should result in less extra cop

Re: [R] Mac OS X and R

2004-01-21 Thread A.J. Rossini
Vincent Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le 21 janv. 2004, à 15:19, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : > >> - the MacOS X platform is a rather (very?) unusual Unix-alike. >> > > Why is that? Isn't Darwin (the Unix core of OSX) a standard FreeBSD > Unix system? Sure, but you aren't just using the co

[R] intervals in lme() and ill-defined models

2004-01-21 Thread Manuel A. Morales
There has been some recent discussion on this list about the value of using intervals with lme() to check for whether a model is ill-defined. My question is, what else can drive very large confidence intervals for the variance components (or cause the error message "Error in intervals.lme(Object) :

Re: [R] Mac OS X and R

2004-01-21 Thread David Firth
I can confirm that wavethresh doesn't install under (my) Mac OS 10.2.8: > install.packages("wavethresh") ...(snip)... * Installing *source* package 'wavethresh' ... ** libs gcc -no-cpp-precomp -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I/sw/include -fno-common -g -O2 -c ImageDecomposeStep.c -o ImageDecompos

Re: [R] Mac OS X and R

2004-01-21 Thread Vincent Philion
Le 21 janv. 2004, à 15:19, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : - the MacOS X platform is a rather (very?) unusual Unix-alike. Why is that? Isn't Darwin (the Unix core of OSX) a standard FreeBSD Unix system? Vincent __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://w

[R] silhoutte.default bugs

2004-01-21 Thread Murad Nayal
Hello all, This might have been fixed in later versions (I am using R1.7.0), r-help archive contains messages reporting similar problems but no reports of codes fixes. I have encountered a couple of problems using the silhouette function. one occurs when the clustering contains clusters compose

Re: [R] Mac OS X and R

2004-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Peter Wickham wrote: > My Windows machine has gone "kaput" and I am trying to see how R might > work on my Mac. I am interested in using the contributed packages, > especially "waveslim" and "wavethresh". Are all packages available > under either Windows, Mac, or Unix? I ca

[R] Mac OS X and R

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Wickham
My Windows machine has gone "kaput" and I am trying to see how R might work on my Mac. I am interested in using the contributed packages, especially "waveslim" and "wavethresh". Are all packages available under either Windows, Mac, or Unix? I can't seem to tell from the documentation whether th

[R] Summary: Changing workspace from within an R session

2004-01-21 Thread gerald . jean
Thanks to Frank Harrell, Brian Ripley, Andy Liaw, Jeff Laake and Sean Davis for their usefull comments regarding "navigation" between valid R directories. Jeff recommanded the Mark Bravington package that can be found at: (ftp://ftp.marine.csiro.au/software/bravington/). I looked at the package

RE: [R] Changing workspace from within an R session

2004-01-21 Thread Cliff Lunneborg
I have found a pair of functions, move and rm.sv, written by my colleague John Miyamoto very useful in managing one's workspace. They may be inspected and downloaded from http://faculty.washington.edu/jmiyamot/psych500.htm ** Cliff Lunnebor

Re: [R] matrix exponential: M^0

2004-01-21 Thread Federico Calboli
Dear All, Thanks for all the help. I tried to implement Stephane Dray's suggestion and Erin Hodgess function with the following matrices: > A [,1] [,2] [1,]21 [2,]13 > P [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,]123 [2,]456 [3,]234 > D [,1] [,2] [,3] [1

Re: [R] matrix exponential: M^0

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Martyn Plummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Calculating the matrix exponential is harder than it looks (I'm sure > Peter knows this). In fact there is a classic paper by Moler and Van > Loan from the 1970s called "Nineteen dubious ways to calculate the > exponential of a matrix", which they updat

RE: [R] Better way to find function

2004-01-21 Thread nuvo nuvo
>From: "Liaw, Andy" >To: "'nuvo nuvo'" ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [R] Better way to find function >Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:10:06 -0500 > >For #1, could you clarify what you mean by `function', an R function, or a >regression function? I mean to choose a functio

Re: [R] outlier identification: is there a redundancy-invariant substitution for mahalanobis distances?

2004-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Your extra column is not redundant: it adds an extra column of information, and outliers in that column after removing the effects of the other columns are still multivariate outliers. Effectively you have added one more dimension to the sphered point cloud, and mahalanobis distance is Euclidea

Re: [R] fedora and yum

2004-01-21 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 01:53, Erich Neuwirth wrote: > I just installed Fedora in VMWare. > Can somebopdy tell me what lines i have to put in > yum.conf > so R will be automatically integrated in the package system > and updated when a new release is available? I don't think this is possible, yet. M

[R] weighted hierarchical cluster analysis

2004-01-21 Thread Moritz Lennert
Hello, After an exchange of mail with Martin Maechler, I turn to the list on hist demand, trying to reformulate my question to make it clearer. We are trying to submit data to a hierarchical cluster analysis which weights each observation by a value given for each observation. The weighting shou

Re: [R] matrix exponential: M^0

2004-01-21 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 16:58, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Federico Calboli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Dear All, > > > > I would like to ask why the zeroeth power of a matrix gives me a matrix > > of ones rather than the identity matrix: > > Because arithmetic on a matrix works element-wise. M

Re: [R] varimax rotaion

2004-01-21 Thread Spencer Graves
Have you read the posting guide! "http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html";? From www.r-project.org -> search -> R site search -> "varimax" produced 29 hits for me just now. I would expect you should find several ways to approach your problem among the results there. ("help.search('

RE: [R] evaluation of discriminant functions+multivariate homosce dasticity

2004-01-21 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 07:58 AM 1/21/2004, Dave Andrae wrote: >I seem to remember, from a course in which I used SPSS for LDA, that >Box's M is an ultra-sensitive test as well and that in almost all >practical applications it's not useful, so Prof. Ripley's comments >apply to that test, too. Professor Ripley is quite

[R] outlier identification: is there a redundancy-invariant substitution for mahalanobis distances?

2004-01-21 Thread "Jens Oehlschlägel"
Dear R-experts, Searching the help archives I found a recommendation to do multivariate outlier identification by mahalanobis distances based on a robustly estimated covariance matrix and compare the resulting distances to a chi^2-distribution with p (number of your variables) degrees of freedom

[R] varimax rotaion

2004-01-21 Thread Martin Olvier
Hi all, Does anyone know where I can find a program to perform a "varimax" (i.e. a maximum variance) rotation of the principal component vectors? Thanks in advance. Olivier __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinf

RE: [R] evaluation of discriminant functions+multivariate homosce dasticity

2004-01-21 Thread Dave Andrae
I seem to remember, from a course in which I used SPSS for LDA, that Box's M is an ultra-sensitive test as well and that in almost all practical applications it's not useful, so Prof. Ripley's comments apply to that test, too. HTH, Dave --- "Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I don'

RE: [R] invoking R scripts from a linux shell ?

2004-01-21 Thread vfasciani
Ciao Enrico, I think you can skip to use a shell as you described. There are some ways to include R script in a perl script. I included below two examples I wrote for better understand. ## prova1.pl ### #!/usr/local/bin/perl open (FILE, ">test.txt"); print FILE "a,b,c,d,e\n1,2,3,4,5"; c

RE: [R] Better way to find function

2004-01-21 Thread Liaw, Andy
For #1, could you clarify what you mean by `function', an R function, or a regression function? For #2, there are several packages on CRAN (and in the R distribution itself) that fit regression splines, if that's what you meant by `piecewise regression'. For logistic regression, you can either us

Re: [R] subset select within a function

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Wolf
juli g. pausas wrote: Dear all, I'd like to subset a df within a function, and use select for choosing the variable. Something like (simplified example): mydf <- data.frame(a= 0:9, b= 10:19) ttt <- function(vv) { tmpdf <- subset(mydf, select= vv) mean(tmpdf$vv) } ttt(mydf$b) But this is not

Re: [R] subset select within a function

2004-01-21 Thread Sean Davis
Juli, Check again in the help about how to use the select parameter. You need to pass the column name for the column of interest, not the actual column. Also, your tmpdf will already have the column selected, so there is no need to index the column further, at least in this toy example. In this

[R] repeated measurements with R

2004-01-21 Thread Pallier Christophe-INSERM U.562
The problem is the following: We have 2 different solutions (samples), which are filtered and then the concentration of the filtrate is measured. We want to evaluate how the filter proces and the concentration measurement influences the detection of the difference of the two solutions and which s

Re: [R] Oracle RODBC/ROracle(W2k)

2004-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Christian Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > trying the access to Oracle via ODBC in Win2k/1.8.1 i have only 2 problems. > (1) number(x,y) formats in oracle result in R-Project as a factor with more > than 20.000 levels for every distinct value. > My coversion attempts until now fail

[R] Hello

2004-01-21 Thread Wassim Kamoum
Hello I'm working on STARMA model (Space-time ARMA model) , in this model it's the same procedure like the Box and Jenkins procedure for estimate and the diagnostic checking of this model. If somebody have worked with this model, please send the algorithm for estimate the Space-time ACF (ST

[R] subset select within a function

2004-01-21 Thread juli g. pausas
Dear all, I'd like to subset a df within a function, and use select for choosing the variable. Something like (simplified example): mydf <- data.frame(a= 0:9, b= 10:19) ttt <- function(vv) { tmpdf <- subset(mydf, select= vv) mean(tmpdf$vv) } ttt(mydf$b) But this is not the correct way. Any he

[R] derivative of atan(x) and similar functions

2004-01-21 Thread Timur Elzhov
Dear R experts. 'D()' function recognizes some of the analitical functions, such as sin, cos, etc. But I'd like to take analytical derivatives from asin, atan etc. functions. Are there any R packages providing that features? Thanks. -- Timur. __ [EMAI

[R] Oracle RODBC/ROracle(W2k)

2004-01-21 Thread Christian Schulz
Hi, trying the access to Oracle via ODBC in Win2k/1.8.1 i have only 2 problems. (1) number(x,y) formats in oracle result in R-Project as a factor with more than 20.000 levels for every distinct value. My coversion attempts until now failed, i.e. as.numeric(money) result in a: Error in as.doub

[R] R News Volume 3/3

2004-01-21 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
We have published the 2003/3 issue of R News on http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews where you can download the newsletter as PDF or Postscript file. It will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within a day or two. Contents of this issue: Dimensional Reduction for Data Mapping R as a Simulati

Re: [R] remote data I/O

2004-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Giampiero Salvi wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if it is possible to read data on another computer (unix like system) > using ssh (I mean any of ssh, scp, sftp). I saw that R has no problem reading > files across the net (for example read.table(url("http://www...";)) ), but what > if

Re: [R] remote data I/O

2004-01-21 Thread Giampiero Salvi
I solved my problem this way (if somebody is interested): pipe("ssh hostname 'cat path/filename'")) I guess I could even use gzip instead of cat or the ssh option -C to compress the data that has to be transferred. R rocks! Giampiero On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Giampiero Salvi wrote: > Hi, > I wonde

[R] remote data I/O

2004-01-21 Thread Giampiero Salvi
Hi, I wonder if it is possible to read data on another computer (unix like system) using ssh (I mean any of ssh, scp, sftp). I saw that R has no problem reading files across the net (for example read.table(url("http://www...";)) ), but what if the file is on a local disk of another machine? For sec

Re: Re: [R] How can I test if time series residuals' are uncorrelated ?

2004-01-21 Thread Adrian Trapletti
Adrian Trapletti wrote: Ok I made Jarque-Bera test to the residuals (merv.reg$residual) library(tseries) jarque.bera.test(merv.reg$residual) X-squared = 1772.369, df = 2, p-value = < 2.2e-16 And I reject the null hypotesis (H0: merv.reg$residual are normally distributed) So I know that: 1 - mer

[R] Relative risk using GAM

2004-01-21 Thread Gomez J. Edison
I am a new user of R. I am trying to fit gam model with our air pollution data. I used Foreign package to call data from SPSS and used MGCV package to fit gam. The following are the steps I used: > dust<- read.spss("a:dust9600jan.sav") > c<-gam(MRESPALL~s(DUSTM)+s(TEMP)+s(RH),family=poisson,data=

Re: [R] MODREG source

2004-01-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the fortran source code for the MODREG package available? If so can someone send me a zip file or point to a web address? It's one of the "base" packages, hence in the R sources: PathToR/R/src/library/modreg Uwe Ligges __ [