Re: [R] Sweave problem

2004-02-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that ?scan says file: the name of a file to read data values from. If the specified file is '""', then input is taken from the keyboard and you want it to come from the file. So I would not have expected it to work. However, the help file is not totally accurate, as this wi

Re: [R] Sweave problem

2004-02-05 Thread Murray Jorgensen
Sorry, in an effort to be minimal I cut away some of my surrounding text: The first code block is meant to be typed in by the user, except for the numbers which are to be thought of as pasted in. I certainly do not wish to supply a file name to scan() for this particular example. Murray At 07:44

Re: [R] center or scale before analyzing using pls.pcr

2004-02-05 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Jinsong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found pls.pcr package will give different results if the data are > centered and scaled using scale(). Centering is done automatically by all implementations of PLSR I am aware of (including pls.pcr, afaics). > I am not sure about when I should scale

[R] Gamma Test package

2004-02-05 Thread Samuel Kemp
Hi, I have written a Gamma Test package. The Gamma Test (GT) is a non-parametric non-linear modelling tool that estimates the variance of the noise in an input/output dataset (including time series). The GT was recently given a rigourous mathematical proof in the Royal Society. All the papers

[R] (no subject)

2004-02-05 Thread meriema . aupetit
Hello, Splus contains the function intbin(x,l). This function allows to make a conversion from an integer x to a binary of length l. for example intbin(3,2) returns 11 intbin(3,3) returns 011 Do you know how to do it in R ? Thank you meriema __

[R] xyplot (lattice): colours of lines

2004-02-05 Thread Umberto Maggiore
using either one of the following codes: xyplot(X ~ time | center, type="l", panel=panel.superpose, groups=subject, col = treatment) xyplot(X ~ time | center, groups = subject, panel = function(x, y, ...){ panel.superpose(x, y, col = treatment, type = "l", ...) }) I get two different colo

[R] Test

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Re: [R] (no subject)

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > Splus contains the function intbin(x,l). > > This function allows to make a conversion from an integer x to a binary of > length l. > > for example > > intbin(3,2) returns 11 > > intbin(3,3) returns 011 > > Do you know how to do it in R ? How about this?

Re: [R] (no subject) -- integer to binary

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Wolf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Splus contains the function intbin(x,l). This function allows to make a conversion from an integer x to a binary of length l. for example intbin(3,2) returns 11 intbin(3,3) returns 011 Do you know how to do it in R ? Thank you meriema

Re: [R] Clustering with 'agnes'

2004-02-05 Thread Christian Hennig
Hi, the underlying principle of hierarchical clustering is *not* that the clusters can be represented by some centroid points. Most methods are distance based, i.e. they can be calculated also in absence of any R^p representation of the points. If you want to recover centroids, you should do kmea

RE: [R] Newbie question: histogram

2004-02-05 Thread Simon Fear
It's not world shattering but for the record the following is not true: > -Original Message- > From: John Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (snip) > In particular, although using with() is perhaps less ambiguous, it is > necessary to repeat it for each command. You can group as many comman

[R] Installing odesolve under MacOSX

2004-02-05 Thread Maartje Raijmakers
Installing odesolve in Raqua 1.8.0 or 1.8.1 under MacOSX gives the following message: Warning message: Installation of package odesolve had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(ui.pkgs, CRAN = getOption(where), lib = .libPaths()[1]) Moreover, in the source of odesolve is no makefile. Does a

Re: [R] Clustering with 'agnes'

2004-02-05 Thread Arnav Sheth
Hey Christian, That clarifies a lot of things. Thank you. With regards, Arnav - Original Message - From: "Christian Hennig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arnav Sheth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Uwe Ligges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:02 AM Subj

RE: [R] Newbie question: histogram

2004-02-05 Thread John Fox
Dear Simon, At 01:45 PM 2/5/2004 +, Simon Fear wrote: It's not world shattering but for the record the following is not true: > -Original Message- > From: John Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (snip) > In particular, although using with() is perhaps less ambiguous, it is > necessary to

[R] Savitzky-Golay smoothing for reflectance data

2004-02-05 Thread Andersson, Henrik
I got a question from a fellow PhD student that work with spectrum analysis in Excel and now he has lots of spectrums that needs to be smoothed, which would be nice to be able to do in batch. Is there an R package that can do: Savitzky-Golay smoothing for reflectance spectral data or a functi

[R] Multilevel in R

2004-02-05 Thread Fabrizio Consentino
Hello, I have difficulties to deal with multilevel model. My dataset is composed of 10910 observations, 1237 plants nested within 17 stations. The data set is not balanced. Response variable is binary and repeated. I tried to fit this model model<- glmmPQL( y ~ z1.lon*lun + z2.lat*lun + z1.lo

Re: [R] RE: error (fwd)

2004-02-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Cere M. Davis wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I've got this funny problem with R's foreign library when reading stata > files. One file consistently produces vector out of memory errors after > gobbling up 2.7G of memory. I parsed through the read.dta function and > figured out wher

Re: [R] Using huge datasets

2004-02-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Roger D. Peng wrote: > > As far as I know, R does not have a "memory limitation" -- > the only limit is the memory installed on your computer. > The only practical limitation is the pointer size of your machine, so 32-bit machine can't address more than 4Gb, and R probably won

Re: [R] xypplot (lattice): colours of lines

2004-02-05 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:03, Umberto Maggiore wrote: > Using data from a multicenter study with a parallel-group design comparing > two treatments, I plotted each subject's time change of X after stratifying > for center: > > xyplot(X ~ time | center, type="l", panel=panel.superpose, groups

[R] Available in S-plus, also in R1.8.1?

2004-02-05 Thread Hoeven, Maarten van der
Hello all, I'm looking for the R-equivalent of the S-option "Connect type: half horiz first". Link: http://miner.stern.nyu.edu/Splus/help/guihelp/__hhelp/connect_type.htm I'm plotting with type="s" or type="S"; this is giving me a stairstep starting, or ending with the value on the x-axis (as doc

[R] Re: multiple plots in different windows

2004-02-05 Thread Giampiero Salvi
Don't need to answer to my previous post: I found the functions in the meantime: dev.cur() dev.list() dev.next(which = dev.cur()) dev.prev(which = dev.cur()) dev.off(which = dev.cur()) dev.set(which = dev.next()) graphics.off() Thanks anyway, Giampiero On Thu,

Re: [R] Installing odesolve under MacOSX

2004-02-05 Thread Don MacQueen
I realize this may not be the most helpful, because I have R 1.8.1 installed from source code, not RAqua. Nonetheless, odesolve appears to install successfully, albeit with some warning messages about multiple symbol definitions. OS X 10.2.8.Were there *no* other error messages? -Don ver

Re: [R] Multilevel in R

2004-02-05 Thread Douglas Bates
"Fabrizio Consentino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have difficulties to deal with multilevel model. My dataset is composed > of 10910 observations, 1237 plants nested within 17 stations. The data set is not > balanced. Response variable is binary and repeated. > > I tried to fit

[R] multiple plots in different windows

2004-02-05 Thread Giampiero Salvi
Hi all, I'd like to generate a number of plots to compare different vectors I have stored in a list. To do this I do something like (in a linux system): for(i in 1:L) { X11() plot(listOfFunctions[[i]]) } First question is: is this the right way to create several plots (in different windows) ? S

RE: [R] Savitzky-Golay smoothing for reflectance data

2004-02-05 Thread Jesus Frias
Hi, Quote: "The Savitzky-Golay smoothing turns out to be exactly equivalent to fitting data to a polynomial as described" (Skoog, Holler and Nieman, Principles of Instrumental Analysis, pp 111) While R is not a tool for instrumental analysis, I am sure you can find smoothi

[R] What is the correct way of using function C() for factors:

2004-02-05 Thread Svetlana Eden
The funciton c() works differently for strings and for factors: For strings: > l = c('a', 'b') > l [1] "a" "b" For factors: > l = c(factor('a'), factor('b')) > l [1] 1 1 What should be the right technique for merging factors? -- Svetlana EdenBiostatistician IISchoo

Re: [R] What is the correct way of using function C() for factors:

2004-02-05 Thread Corey Moffet
try: l <- factor(c('a','b')) l At 12:15 PM 2/5/2004 -0600, Svetlana Eden wrote: > >The funciton c() works differently for strings and for factors: > > >For strings: > >> l = c('a', 'b') >> l >[1] "a" "b" > > >For factors: > >> l = c(factor('a'), factor('b')) >> l >[1] 1 1 > > >What should be the

[R] I am totally lost on how to install R . . .

2004-02-05 Thread Shoultz, Gerald
First . . . SUBSCRIBE (I want to subscribe to the list). Second, I am trying to install R on windows XP. In looking at the instruction manual I get the following: The simplest way is to use 'rw1081.exe' or 'miniR.exe'. Just double-click on the icon and follow the instructions. If you installed R

Re: [R] What is the correct way of using function C() for factors:

2004-02-05 Thread Spencer Graves
To combine objects that are already factors, the solution I've found is to first coerce them to mode character: > F1 <- factor("a") > F2 <- factor("b") > factor(c(as.character(F1), as.character(F2))) [1] a b Levels: a b hope this helps. spencer graves Corey Moffet wrote: try:

Re: [R] What is the correct way of using function C() for factors:

2004-02-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Did you mean the function c() or the function(C)? They are not the same thing! Also, R does not have `strings' but it does have character vectors. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Corey Moffet wrote: > try: > > l <- factor(c('a','b')) > l > > At 12:15 PM 2/5/2004 -0600, Svetlana Eden wrote: > > > >The f

Re: [R] What is the correct way to merge factors?

2004-02-05 Thread Svetlana Eden
I have two factors l1, l2, and I'd like to merge them. Function c() does not give me the result I want: > l1 = factor(c('a', 'b')) > l2 = factor(c('c', 'd')) > lMerge = c(l1, l2) > lMerge [1] 1 2 1 2 > I'd like to merge l1 and l2 and to get lMerge --

RE: [R] I am totally lost on how to install R . . .

2004-02-05 Thread Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shoultz, Gerald > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] I am totally lost on how to install R . . . > > Second, I am trying to install R on windows XP. In lookin

[R] xyplot (lattice): colours of lines

2004-02-05 Thread Umberto Maggiore
It works. However, now I get another odd result: in some plots there are straight lines connecting the end of a line with the beginning of another one. On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:03, Umberto Maggiore wrote: Using data from a multicenter study with a parallel-group design comparing two treat

[R] Thanks for help

2004-02-05 Thread Shoultz, Gerald
Thanks for the help in regard to the last email--I got R installed easily, once I got to the executable file. Take care, Gerald Shoultz [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailm

[R] correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Svetlana Eden
I have two factors l1, l2, and I'd like to merge them. (Remark: The factors can not be converted to charaters) Function c() does not give me the result I want: > l1 = factor(c('', '')) > l2 = factor(c('ccc', 'dd')) > lMerge = factor(c(l1, l2)) > lMerge [1] 1 2 1 2 Levels: 1 2 > I

RE: [R] What is the correct way to merge factors?

2004-02-05 Thread Liaw, Andy
You can do: factor(c(as.character(l1), as.character(l2))) HTH, Andy > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Svetlana Eden > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] What is the correct way to m

Re: [R] correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Spencer Graves
What about the following: > F1 <- factor(c("b", "a")) > F2 <- factor(c("c", "b")) > k1 <- length(F1) > k2 <- length(F2) > F12.lvls <- unique(c(levels(F1), levels(F2))) > F. <- factor(rep(F12.lvls[1], k1+k1), levels=F12.lvls) > F.[1:k1] <- F1 > F.[-(1:k1)] <- F2 > F. [1] b a c b Levels: a b c

Re: [R] correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread DJNordlund
>In a message dated 2/5/2004 12:25:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I have two factors l1, l2, and I'd like to merge them. > >(Remark: The factors can not be converted to charaters) > >Function c() does not give me the result I want: > > >> l1 = factor(c('', '

Re: [R] correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
How about simply F1 <- factor(c("b", "a")) F2 <- factor(c("c", "b")) F3 <- factor(c(levels(F1)[F1], levels(F2)[F2])) -sundar Spencer Graves wrote: What about the following: > F1 <- factor(c("b", "a")) > F2 <- factor(c("c", "b")) > k1 <- length(F1) > k2 <- length(F2) > F12.lvls <- uniqu

Re: [R] xyplot (lattice): colours of lines

2004-02-05 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
I would need a real example to figure this out. Could you send me your data as an rda file (saved using save() and your code ? (No guarantees as to how fast I can reply, though. I'm somewhat busy with other things.) On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:52 pm, Umberto Maggiore wrote: > It works. Howe

Re: [R] correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Spencer Graves
Sundar: Your solution is not only more elegant than mine, it's also faster, at least with this tiny example: > start.time <- proc.time() > k1 <- length(F1) > k2 <- length(F2) > F12.lvls <- unique(c(levels(F1), levels(F2))) > F. <- factor(rep(F12.lvls[1], k1+k1), levels=F12.lvls) > F.[1:k1]

RE: [R] correction to the previously asked question (about mergin g factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Liaw, Andy
First of all, I do not understand why conversion to characters are not allowed. That's what Sundar's solution is doing implicitly (but more elegantly). Here's a test of all three. See the function definitions below. > f1 <- factor(sample(letters[1:3], 1e4, replace=TRUE)) > f2 <- factor(sample(l

Re: [R] I am totally lost on how to install R . . .

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Prager
At 02:19 PM 2/5/2004, Shoultz, Gerald wrote: First . . . SUBSCRIBE (I want to subscribe to the list). Second, I am trying to install R on windows XP. In looking at the instruction manual I get the following: The simplest way is to use 'rw1081.exe' or 'miniR.exe'. Just double-click on the icon and

[R] (Novice-) Problem with the plot-function

2004-02-05 Thread Felix Eschenburg
Hello, i have written this little function to draw different normal distributions: n.Plot <- function(x,my,sigma) { e <- exp(1) names(x) <- x f.x <- (1/(sigma*sqrt(2*pi)))*e^(-1*(((x-my)^2)/2*(sigma^2))) plot(f.x,type="l",xlim=c(-5,5)) return(f.x) } if i define x like this: x <- seq(-5,5,0.01) N

[R] rgamma question

2004-02-05 Thread Icabalceta, Jorge L.
I was trying to generate random numbers with a gamma distribution. In R the function is: rgamma(n, shape, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate). My question is that if X~gamma(alpha, beta) and I want to generate one random number where do I plug alpha and beta in rgamma? and, what is the meaning and use of ra

[R] for help about MLE in R

2004-02-05 Thread Edward Sun
Dear Sir, I am using R to estimate two parameters in Normal distribution. I generated 100 normal distributed numbers, on which to estimate the parameter. The syntax is: fn<-function(x)-50*log((y)^2)+50*log(2*pi)-(1/2*(z^2))*(sum((x-y)^2)) out<-nlm(fn, x, hessian=TRUE) but it does not work. Coul

[R] Thank you for your answers: Re: correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Svetlana Eden
Thank you all very much for your attention and patience. The different answers made a lot of things clear to me. I've got the answer and learned a lot. -- Svetlana EdenBiostatistician IISchool of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt Universit

Re: [R] correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sundar: Your solution is not only more elegant than mine, it's > also faster, at least with this tiny example: > start.time <- > proc.time() > > k1 <- length(F1) > > k2 <- length(F2) > > F12.lvls <- unique(c(levels(F1), levels(F2))) > > F. <-

[R] Plotting question

2004-02-05 Thread Erin Hodgess
Hi Felix: How about this: > n1.Plot function(x,my=0,sigma=1) { f.x <- dnorm(x,mean=my,sd=sigma) plot(x,f.x,type="l",xlim=c(-5,5)) return(f.x) } Hope this helps! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have written this little function to draw different normal distributions: n.Plot

Re: [R] (Novice-) Problem with the plot-function

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix Eschenburg) writes: > Hello, > i have written this little function to draw different normal distributions: > > n.Plot <- function(x,my,sigma) { > e <- exp(1) > names(x) <- x > f.x <- (1/(sigma*sqrt(2*pi)))*e^(-1*(((x-my)^2)/2*(sigma^2))) > plot(f.x,type="l",xlim=c(-5,5))

Re: [R] rgamma question

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
"Icabalceta, Jorge L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was trying to generate random numbers with a gamma distribution. In R the > function is: > rgamma(n, shape, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate). My question is that if > X~gamma(alpha, beta) and I want to generate one random number where do I > plug al

Re: [R] (Novice-) Problem with the plot-function

2004-02-05 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
I think you meant to do plot(x, f.x, ...) BTW, you've re-invented the wheel. See ?dnorm for evaluating the normal pdf. Best, Sundar Felix Eschenburg wrote: Hello, i have written this little function to draw different normal distributions: n.Plot <- function(x,my,sigma) { e <- exp(1) names(x) <-

RE: [R] (Novice-) Problem with the plot-function

2004-02-05 Thread Andy Bunn
See ?range. And note that I changed plot to more explicitly show what is being plotted. HTH, Andy #~~ n.Plot <- function(x,my,sigma) { e <- exp(1) names(x) <- x f.x <- (1/(sigma*sqrt(2*pi)))*e^(-1*(((x-my)^2)/2*(sigma^2))) plot(x, f.x, type="l", xlim = range(x)) return(f.x) } n.P

Re: [R] rgamma question

2004-02-05 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Icabalceta, Jorge L. wrote: I was trying to generate random numbers with a gamma distribution. In R the function is: rgamma(n, shape, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate). My question is that if X~gamma(alpha, beta) and I want to generate one random number where do I plug alpha and beta in rgamma? and, what

Re: [R] (Novice-) Problem with the plot-function

2004-02-05 Thread Felix Eschenburg
Thank you all, that did the trick. Sometimes i can be a real blockhead. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix Eschenburg) writes: > > Hello, > > i have written this little function to draw different normal > > distributions: > > > > n.Plot <- function(x,my,sigma) { > > e <- exp(1) > > names(x) <- x > > f.

Re: [R] (Novice-) Problem with the plot-function

2004-02-05 Thread DJNordlund
Felix, there may be more elegant ways of plotting the normal curve, but given your current program, you can simply change your plot statment to use a formula: plot(f.x ~ x, type="l", xlim=c(-5,5)) Dan Nordlund -Original message-- In a message dated 2/5/2004 2:52:04 PM Pacific S

Re: [R] rgamma question

2004-02-05 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Icabalceta, Jorge L. wrote: > I was trying to generate random numbers with a gamma distribution. In R the > function is: > rgamma(n, shape, rate = 1, scale = 1/rate). My question is that if > X~gamma(alpha, beta) and I want to generate one random number where do I > plug alpha

Re: [R] rgamma question

2004-02-05 Thread Spencer Graves
Jorge: If I have trouble understanding documentation with something like this, I make plots, e.g., of dgamma vs. x for different values for shape and rate or scale. hope this helps. spencer graves Peter Dalgaard wrote: "Icabalceta, Jorge L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I was tr

Re: [R] correction to the previously asked question (about merging factors)

2004-02-05 Thread Spencer Graves
Thanks, Peter. So Sundar's more elegant solution is equivalent to my initial response to this question -- which shows how much one can lose trying to be too clever. Best Wishes, spencer graves Peter Dalgaard wrote: Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sunda

[R] Histograms by two factors

2004-02-05 Thread Briggs, Meredith M
Hi I am trying to print out means, STDs and histograms under two sets of factors. I can manage it for one set - see below but not for two sets. That is, I want ot print out the mean STD and Histogram for each ITEM code within each DELIVERABLE code. In addition I can only get to view the histo

Re: [R] for help about MLE in R

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
"Edward Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Sir, > > I am using R to estimate two parameters in Normal distribution. I > generated 100 normal distributed numbers, on which to estimate the > parameter. The syntax is: > > >fn<-function(x)-50*log((y)^2)+50*log(2*pi)-(1/2*(z^2))*(sum((x-y)^2)) >