[R] install.packages and warnings

2004-04-20 Thread Göran Broström
When I install packages from CRAN I sometimes get a hint about warnings: --- > install.packages(c("Hmisc", "Design")) .. which.influence texthtmllatex example There were 14 warnings (use warnings() to see them) * DONE (Design)

Re: [R] Assigning functions in Rprofile

2004-04-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
Robert King wrote: I use the ugly hack shown below as my .Rprofile (mainly because I couldn't find any other way to spawn a new mozilla window on starting R or calling help.start(), but then send all the help html documents to that new window). With a recent change from a cvs checkout to the relea

Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

2004-04-20 Thread Martin Maechler
> "DScottNZ" == David Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:45:31 +1200 (NZST) writes: DScottNZ> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Brett Melbourne wrote: >> That exact same thing is happening to me too. It seems to >> be intermittent. After a reboot, it might (but might

Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

2004-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Has this anything to do with `Invalid HOMEDRIVE', as given in the subject line? R can only fail with one error message, so which is it, please? On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, David Scott wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Brett Melbourne wrote: > > > That exact same thing is happening to me too. It seems to

[OT] Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

2004-04-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
David Scott wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Brett Melbourne wrote: That exact same thing is happening to me too. It seems to be intermittent. After a reboot, it might (but might not) fix itself. My older versions of R also no longer work. R1.8.1 fails with the windows message "R for Windows GUI fron

[R] two stage level least square in R

2004-04-20 Thread VUILLEUMIER Mathieu
I m in front of a problem of simultaneity bias between two equations and would like to apply the two stage level least squareIs there a special command in R ? I didn't found something about that in the R help. Thanks for your help *

[R] Assigning functions in Rprofile

2004-04-20 Thread Robert King
I use the ugly hack shown below as my .Rprofile (mainly because I couldn't find any other way to spawn a new mozilla window on starting R or calling help.start(), but then send all the help html documents to that new window). With a recent change from a cvs checkout to the released 1.9.0 I find th

Re: [R] Extracting information from webpages

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out get.hist.quote in package tseries. Scott Waichler verizon.net> writes: : : > Hello R Community, : > : > I would like to be able to download recent (yesterday's close is fine) : > stock and : > mutual fund prices from somewhere and use them for a personal finance : > project. : > I

[R] Extracting information from webpages

2004-04-20 Thread Scott Waichler
> Hello R Community, > > I would like to be able to download recent (yesterday's close is fine) > stock and > mutual fund prices from somewhere and use them for a personal finance > project. > Ideally, I would do this at a website of my choosing (e.g. > morningstar.com) and > have the possibilit

[R] difference between coxph and cph

2004-04-20 Thread Deb Montgomery
Hi. I am using Windows version of R 1.8.1. Being somewhat new to survival analysis, I am trying to compare cph (Design) with coxph (survival) for use with a survival data set. I was wondering why cph and coxph provide me with different confidence intervals for the hazard ratios for one of the vari

Re: [R] Debug problem

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Excellent! Thanks. Duncan Murdoch pair.com> writes: : : On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:47:55 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : myway.com> wrote: : : >Thanks. Your hypothesis does seem likely. In : > : >g <- f; environment(g) <- new.env() : > : >is there any way that I can automatically set g to h

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2004-04-20 Thread eugene dalt
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Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Bob Cain
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Note that you can already access r-help via http or nntp using gmane. The http and nntp interfacs are here, respectively: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general Not quite as good as having it part of the st

Re: [R] Debug problem

2004-04-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:47:55 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks. Your hypothesis does seem likely. In > >g <- f; environment(g) <- new.env() > >is there any way that I can automatically set g to have debugging >iff f has it? undebug() gives a warning if the fun

RE: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
"Philippe Grosjean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A last comment/question: would it be possible to add some code in R that does the following: ["calls home" to say that it is being used/asks for updates/&c] There are all sorts of things the R developers might like to know abo

Re: [R] Debug problem

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Thomas Lumley u.washington.edu> writes: : On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: : > Consider the following R session under Windows XP Pro. Note that : > if we set debugging for function : > f then even if we reset its environment it still has debugging on. : > Also if we copy f to g then

Re: [R] FW: Aligning different trellis plots

2004-04-20 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 14:31, Wiener, Matthew wrote: > All -- > > I am trying to combine trellis plots and having a couple of small > problems. > > I'm trying to combine two trellis plots that display data of > different kinds. Each has a single row of plots, and I'd like to > display them over

Re: [R] Debug problem

2004-04-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > > > Consider the following R session under Windows XP Pro. Note that > if we set debugging for function > f then even if we reset its environment it still has debugging on. > Also if we copy f to g then g has debugging; however, if we change > g'

Re: [R] Debug problem

2004-04-20 Thread Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
> P.S. Here is just the input if you want to try it yourself by copying > and pasting into an R session: If you are using Windows RGUI and you haven't noticed the new "Paste commands only" in the Edit menu of R1.9.0, check it out. It is a fantastic time saver. Rob _

Re: [R] multi-user engine

2004-04-20 Thread A.J. Rossini
"zubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am presently a SAS user and wanted to configure R to work in a multi-user > enteprise environment. Client - Server. Where we have a strong LINUX > server supporting about 10 statisticians with R. Anyone have any backround > or information they can share t

[R] Debug problem

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Consider the following R session under Windows XP Pro. Note that if we set debugging for function f then even if we reset its environment it still has debugging on. Also if we copy f to g then g has debugging; however, if we change g's environment then g no longer has debugging.Why did f r

Re: [R] Creating variable names

2004-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Gene Hammel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My apologies for asking what is doubtless a dumb question, but I have > scant experience in R. > > It would be very convenient in doing lots of plots to be able to do > them in a loop that stepped through a vector of variable names. For > example one coul

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2004-04-20 Thread elvis
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Re: [R] Creating variable names

2004-04-20 Thread Pierre Kleiber
If I understand your problem, it's easy in R too > x<-("mydates") > y<-c("foo1","foo2","foo3") #where "foon" were vectors > plot(x,y[1],type="n") > for(i in seq(length(y))) points(x, get(y[1]), pch=i) > Cheers, Pierre Gene Hammel wrote: My apologies for asking what is doubtless a dumb questio

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick Burns
I disagree with Martin. I think his confidence interval is sufficient for management decisions. There are three basic questions that should be answered: 1) Does it do what we want? 2) Will it disappear? 3) Is the quality sufficient? Question 1 can only be answered within the organization. Qu

[R] multi-user engine

2004-04-20 Thread zubin
hello, i just got introduced to R - WOW its beautiful.. I am presently a SAS user and wanted to configure R to work in a multi-user enteprise environment. Client - Server. Where we have a strong LINUX server supporting about 10 statisticians with R. Anyone have any backround or information th

[R] Creating variable names

2004-04-20 Thread Gene Hammel
My apologies for asking what is doubtless a dumb question, but I have scant experience in R. It would be very convenient in doing lots of plots to be able to do them in a loop that stepped through a vector of variable names. For example one could say x<-("mydates") y<-c("foo1","foo2","foo3") #w

Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

2004-04-20 Thread David Scott
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Brett Melbourne wrote: > That exact same thing is happening to me too. It seems to be intermittent. > After a reboot, it might (but might not) fix itself. My older versions of R > also no longer work. R1.8.1 fails with the windows message "R for Windows > GUI front-end has enc

Re: [R] polygon

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all In order to clearly mark values wich are larger than a treshold value, I would like to color the surface below the line given by plot (yy~xx). To color is only the surface between abline (treshold) and yy if they are larger than the specific limit. I guess

[R] How to get the threshold value for hierarchical clustering algorithms?

2004-04-20 Thread Feng Zhang
Dear R users, I am now working on the hierarchical clustering methods, and confused about the following problem. As you know, to form clustering from the hierarchical tree generated by the pairwise distance bw the elements, we have to set a threshold value to cut the tree horizonally such that t

Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

2004-04-20 Thread Brett Melbourne
That exact same thing is happening to me too. It seems to be intermittent. After a reboot, it might (but might not) fix itself. My older versions of R also no longer work. R1.8.1 fails with the windows message "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry

Re: [R] contributed packages and downloads questions

2004-04-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:13:09 -0400, "Hanna Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Hello, > >I am trying to download two library files: multiv and e1071 to do principal >components analysis. I was able to unzip the folders to my R directory, but >when I type library(multiv) in the console I get an err

[R] contributed packages and downloads questions

2004-04-20 Thread Hanna Craig
Hello, I am trying to download two library files: multiv and e1071 to do principal components analysis. I was able to unzip the folders to my R directory, but when I type library(multiv) in the console I get an error message: Error in testRversion(descfields) : This package has not been installed

Re: [R] I have a question!!!! Help me!!

2004-04-20 Thread Christophe Pallier
We want to solve X's and Y's value!! When we have two equation: For example: 2X+3Y=5 X+Y=2 solve(matrix(c(2,1,3,1),2,2),c(5,2)) yields the solution. see '?solve' (you have to know about matrix algebra to understand this function) Christophe Pallier

[R] FW: Aligning different trellis plots

2004-04-20 Thread Wiener, Matthew
All -- I am trying to combine trellis plots and having a couple of small problems. I'm trying to combine two trellis plots that display data of different kinds. Each has a single row of plots, and I'd like to display them over one another. So I use print(plot1, split = c(1,1,2,1), more = TRUE

Re: [R] benchmark dual amd opteron

2004-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
"Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't run as is in R-1.9.0. R-1.9.0 doesn't like `eigen.default()', > and after changing that to `eigen()', it can't find Matrix.class(). I've changed the Matrix package since that benchmark was written. I'll rewrite the benchmark and submit it to

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2004-04-20 Thread elvis
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Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread cstrato
At first I want to make clear that I have always paid for the software that I use, I am even paying for the shareware that I use. After this statement let me come to the current discussion: It is really shocking that some people even think about integrating a spyware system into an open source soft

RE: [R] benchmark dual amd opteron

2004-04-20 Thread Liaw, Andy
It doesn't run as is in R-1.9.0. R-1.9.0 doesn't like `eigen.default()', and after changing that to `eigen()', it can't find Matrix.class(). Andy > From: Christian Schulz > > Hi, > > is it possible to get the benchmark-results from > anybody is using a common amd dual opteron with windows > o

[R] benchmark dual amd opteron

2004-04-20 Thread Christian Schulz
Hi, is it possible to get the benchmark-results from anybody is using a common amd dual opteron with windows or linux, R.1.8.1 or 1.9.0? http://www.sciviews.org/other/benchmark/R2.R many thanks & regards, christian __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[R] polygon

2004-04-20 Thread mike . campana
Dear all I try once again. In order to clearly mark values wich are larger than a treshold value, I would like to color the surface below the line given by plot (yy~xx). To color is only the surface between abline (treshold) and yy if they are larger than the specific limit. I guess I can use t

Re: [R] New unique name

2004-04-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:31:20 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A.J. Rossini) wrote : >One possibility would be the Ruuid library in BioConductor. I'm not >sure if the uuid library is available (or compilable) under MS >Windows, though. I'll be checking in a bit (weeks) if no one else >does. It is one

Re: [R] Error message during debug

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Sundar Dorai-Raj PDF.COM> writes: : : Gabor Grothendieck wrote: : > : > In R 1.9.0 on Windows XP Pro I get an error if I try to : > debug the identity function f shown: : > : > > f <- function(x)x : > > debug(f) : > > f(1) : > debugging in: f(1) : > Error in f(1) : Unimplemented feature i

Re: [R] I have a question!!!! Help me!!

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check out ?solve: m <- matrix(c(2,1,3,1),2) # create 2x2 matrix b <- c(5,2) solve(m,b) ççå tknet.tku.edu.tw> writes: : : Dearing author: : I am a student. : I am a beginner in learning R-project. : I have a queation!! : If we want to solve following equation, how can i do first?? : We want to

Re: [R] Error message during debug

2004-04-20 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: In R 1.9.0 on Windows XP Pro I get an error if I try to debug the identity function f shown: > f <- function(x)x > debug(f) > f(1) debugging in: f(1) Error in f(1) : Unimplemented feature in eval > R.version.string [1] "R version 1.9.0, 2004-04-12" Without debuggg

[R] Error message during debug

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In R 1.9.0 on Windows XP Pro I get an error if I try to debug the identity function f shown: > f <- function(x)x > debug(f) > f(1) debugging in: f(1) Error in f(1) : Unimplemented feature in eval > R.version.string [1] "R version 1.9.0, 2004-04-12" Without debuggging its ok. _

Re: [R] panel.grid

2004-04-20 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:16, W. C. Thacker wrote: > Is there a way to get panel.grid to put the grid lines at specific > locations? It would be nice to have them correspond to selected tick > marks. ?panel.grid says: Arguments: h,v: For panel.abline, numerical vectors giving y and x loc

[R] panel.grid

2004-04-20 Thread W. C. Thacker
Is there a way to get panel.grid to put the grid lines at specific locations? It would be nice to have them correspond to selected tick marks. Thanks, Carlisle -- William Carlisle Thacker Atlantic Oceanographic an

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Bob Cain arcanemethods.com> writes: > Maybe it's time for a comp.lang.r usenet group (and > application subtree). Note that you can already access r-help via http or nntp using gmane. The http and nntp interfacs are here, respectively: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general nnt

[R] I have a question!!!! Help me!!

2004-04-20 Thread 王睿君
Dearing author: I am a student. I am a beginner in learning R-project. I have a queation!! If we want to solve following equation, how can i do first?? We want to solve X's and Y's value!! When we have two equation: For example: 2X+3Y=5 X+Y=2 I just take a simple example!! MY form is more diffic

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Mihai Nica
Well, it's a matter of taste. However, both the topic and the target group would be totally different. Hopefully :-). - Original Message - From: "Duncan Murdoch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mihai Nica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:06 AM Subject

Re: [R] compile Fortran code which calls C subroutine

2004-04-20 Thread Roger D. Peng
What happens if you do R CMD SHLIB filename1.f filename2.c Does that work? -roger Zhijin Wu wrote: I used "R CMD SHLIB" to compile the fortran filename.f file and the filename.so is generated. But since in filename.f it calls another subroutine written in C, i had problem in "dyn.

[R] How to debug S4 method

2004-04-20 Thread Ernesto Jardim
Hi, I'm starting with S4 ... I wrote a simple generic function and one method "catch". Now I want to debug the method using "debug" and when I call debug(catch) it tries to debug the generic function not the method (as expected). How can I call debug on the method ? Thanks EJ

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Alberto Murta
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 15:02, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > No software is eternel. I think a good picture of the change in time of R > users would be an interesting tool to have an idea on how well it fits or > don't fit users' needs. Moreover, if you develop for both R and S-PLUS, and > think to

Re: [R] compile Fortran code which calls C subroutine

2004-04-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:47:17 -0400 (EDT), Zhijin Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used "R CMD SHLIB" to compile the fortran filename.f file and the >filename.so is generated. But since in filename.f it calls >another subroutine written in C, i had problem in "dyn.load" because it >

Re: [R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Seth Falcon
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:25:27PM +0200, Tamas Papp wrote: > Sorry for not mentioning that, but variables sometimes have different > names. I am looking for something like this: > > loadIntoList <- function(file) { > load(file) > v <- list() > ## for each variable name 'i' in ls(), assign

[R] Re: [openMosix-general] openMosix and R: File I/O issues?

2004-04-20 Thread A.J. Rossini
Other than OpenMOSIX disliking I/O, I havn't seen any problems. I would suspect network hardware and drivers -- while generally robust, cluster computations stress it much more than daily use, with less tolerance for problems. best, -tony Jim Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > >

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Bob Cain
Liaw, Andy wrote: How about those poor students who don't know how lucky they are to have instructors forcing R upon them for a course? I'd bet they are very unlikely to subscribe to the list(s). Although I don't know if one would want to include them as `R users'... I certainly would, and as

[R] [JOB] Toxicogenomics Statistician

2004-04-20 Thread Warnes, Gregory R
> Toxicogenomics Statistician > > The successful candidate will provide statistical support to nonclinical > areas of R&D, especially in the areas of investigative toxicology, safety > biomarkers, and toxicogenomics. The candidate will collaborate with > scientists to plan meaningful experimenta

Re: RE: [R] import Excel file ?

2004-04-20 Thread mike . campana
You can also find different examples in the manual R for Beginners by Emmanuel Paradis (that you can easily download from the internet) under http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html you find a lot of information about R in french, which is also very useful Mike --- --- --- --- ___

[R] compile Fortran code which calls C subroutine

2004-04-20 Thread Zhijin Wu
I used "R CMD SHLIB" to compile the fortran filename.f file and the filename.so is generated. But since in filename.f it calls another subroutine written in C, i had problem in "dyn.load" because it could not find the C subroutine. I have the .c file but don't know how to t

Re: [R] R1.9.0

2004-04-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
Luis Rideau Cruz wrote: I have just installed R 1.9.0 on my computer(Windows XP) and uninstalled 1.8.1 When Itry to execute .RData I'm asked to specify the program to open it.But whe I do it I get a message ".RData is not a valid Win32 program" Can anyone help please? You just need to fix your

[R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

2004-04-20 Thread Joann Williamson
I installed R project 1.9.0 on Windows XP. The installation went well. Then, I rebooted. Next, I clicked the icon under Programs in the Start menu and received this error, "Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE". I clicked OK to the error message. The program does not start. I went to a DOS prompt an

Re: [R] Creating a package in R 1.9.0

2004-04-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:12:07 +0100, Dimitrios Stasinopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear all > >I am trying to create a package in R 1.9.0 and I a getting an >error message which I do not understand. (I am using R in Windows >XP and 2000) > >For example the following works well in 1.8.1 > > C

Re: [R] import Excel file ?

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Emilie Haon.Lasportes beaulieu.rennes.inra.fr> > writes: > > I would like to know how can I import Excel files in R ? Do I have to > > transform them in text files (.txt) ? > > The easiest way for one time use is to select the data in Excel, >

[R] R1.9.0

2004-04-20 Thread Luis Rideau Cruz
I have just installed R 1.9.0 on my computer(Windows XP) and uninstalled 1.8.1 When Itry to execute .RData I'm asked to specify the program to open it.But whe I do it I get a message ".RData is not a valid Win32 program" Can anyone help please? Luis Ridao Cruz Fiskirannsóknarstovan Nóatún 1 P.O

Re: [R] Creating a package in R 1.9.0

2004-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note the capitalized FIND, which is a Windows command. See file readme.packages, which says To avoid frustration, please use our tool set, and make sure it is at the front of your path (including beofre the Windows system directories). I believe you haven't done so. On Tue, 20 Apr 2004,

[R] openMosix and R: File I/O issues?

2004-04-20 Thread Jim Thomas
Hi there, We're attempting to run an LVQ analysis over a cluster of machines via R and openMosix. R spawns several child processes simply by writing commands to several files and using system() to start a slave process. The processes migrate perfectly, and often finish with no reported errors

Re: [R] import Excel file ?

2004-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Emilie Haon.Lasportes beaulieu.rennes.inra.fr> writes: > I would like to know how can I import Excel files in R ? Do I have to > transform them in text files (.txt) ? The easiest way for one time use is to select the data in Excel, press ctrl-c to copy it to the clipboard and then use the fol

[R] Creating a package in R 1.9.0

2004-04-20 Thread Dimitrios Stasinopoulos
Dear all I am trying to create a package in R 1.9.0 and I a getting an error message which I do not understand. (I am using R in Windows XP and 2000) For example the following works well in 1.8.1 C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\src\gnuwin32>make pkg-gamlss -- Making package gamlss -

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:37:44 -0500, "Mihai Nica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why not ask those downloading rw1091 to complete (at their choice) a small >survey (including questions such as 'will it be used by a group or an >individual'). It would provide some data that could lead to an estimate as

RE: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Philippe Grosjean
>On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:47:06AM +0200, Philippe Grosjean wrote: >> The main role of this code would be, of course, to warn users that an update >> is available. One side effect would be that it should be possible to monitor >> access to the link in the centralized web site and to know: Tamas

RE: [R] import Excel file ?

2004-04-20 Thread Pfaff, Bernhard
> > Good afternoon, > > I would like to know how can I import Excel files in R ? Do I have to > transform them in text files (.txt) ? > Thank you Hello Emilie, two possibilities come to my mind: 1) Save your execl file as csv and use read.csv() 2) Use the contributed package "RODBC" library(

RE: [R] import Excel file ?

2004-04-20 Thread Shawn Way
If you want to just import the data and go, saving as a .csv file and using read.csv (something like this) is the way to go. If you are using a real-time file (open) or using a large excel file, you may want to look at RODBC. While this is a little harder to figure out, it allows one to use SQL q

[R] import Excel file ?

2004-04-20 Thread Emilie Haon.Lasportes
Good afternoon, I would like to know how can I import Excel files in R ? Do I have to transform them in text files (.txt) ? Thank you Emilie Haon-Lasportes __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Tamas Papp
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:57:13PM +0200, Achim Zeileis wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:39:07 +0200 Tamas Papp wrote: > > > I have the following problem. > > > > Use the same algorithm (with different parameters) to generate > > simulation results. I store these in variables, eg A, B, C, which

Re: [R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Roger D. Peng
Or maybe loadIntoList <- function(filename) { e <- new.env() load(filename, envir = e) mget(ls(e), envir = e) } -roger Achim Zeileis wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:39:07 +0200 Tamas Papp wrote: I have the following problem. Use the same algorithm (with different paramete

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Stephan Matthiesen
Hello, Am Montag, 19. April 2004 19:12 schrieb Kevin S. Van Horn: > 1. It appears that there are about 100,000 S-PLUS users. Let me add one thought that I haven't seen in the discussion yet: To estimate the user base, one should perhaps not only look at S-Plus for comparison. R can be used for

Re: [R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian D Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try .saveRDS/.readRDS which enable you to save and load unnamed objects (in > your case list(A, B, C)). Or, consider whether an environment wouldn't suit your purposes just as well as a list: e <- new.env() load("foo.Rdata",e) ls(e) e$A ..etc..

Re: [R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Roger D. Peng
I can think of two possible solutions. One is to load the .Rdata file into an environment and then use the $ and [[ operators to access elements. > x <- 1; y <- 2 > save(x, y, file = "xy.RData") > e <- new.env() > load("xy.RData", envir = e) > rm(x, y) > e$x [1] 1 > e$y [1] 2 Another way, if yo

Re: [R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:39:07 +0200 Tamas Papp wrote: > I have the following problem. > > Use the same algorithm (with different parameters) to generate > simulation results. I store these in variables, eg A, B, C, which I > save into a file with > > save(A, B, C, file="solution001.Rdata") > >

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:33:20PM +0200, Tamas Papp wrote: [...] > data would be anonymized -- it is a matter of principle. Note that I > am using Debian's popularity-contest package, but that was my choice, Background: popularity-contest sends (IIRC) weekly listings of which of the over ten th

[R] random effects structure in lme

2004-04-20 Thread Vito Muggeo
Dear all, In using the lme() function from the nlme package, I would like to specify a particular correlation structure for the random effects. For instance, for a 3 by 3 matrix, say, I am interested in assuming a `quasi-diagonal' matrix having zero entries in all but the first column (and the main

Re: [R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
Try .saveRDS/.readRDS which enable you to save and load unnamed objects (in your case list(A, B, C)). On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Tamas Papp wrote: > I have the following problem. > > Use the same algorithm (with different parameters) to generate > simulation results. I store these in variables, eg A,

Re: [R] specifying as.svrepdesign with odd number PSUs

2004-04-20 Thread Fred Rohde
Thanks. I misunderstood the code and help file for as.svrepdesign(). I thought when you specified large="merge" on brrweights(), it would assign the PSUs within each stratum to 1 of 2 new super PSUs within the stratum. So if stratum 1 had 7 PSUs, they would each be assigned to super PSU 1 or

[R] loading into a list

2004-04-20 Thread Tamas Papp
I have the following problem. Use the same algorithm (with different parameters) to generate simulation results. I store these in variables, eg A, B, C, which I save into a file with save(A, B, C, file="solution001.Rdata") I do this many times. Then I would like to load the above, but in such

[R] strange result with contrasts

2004-04-20 Thread Arne.Muller
Hello, I'm trying to reproduce some SAS result wit R (after I got suspicious with the result in R). I struggle with the contrasts in a linear model. I've got three factors > d$dose <- as.factor(d$dose) # 5 levels > d$time <- as.factor(d$time) # 2 levels > d$batch <- as.factor(d$batch) # 3 l

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Tamas Papp
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:47:06AM +0200, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > The main role of this code would be, of course, to warn users that an update > is available. One side effect would be that it should be possible to monitor > access to the link in the centralized web site and to know: I apprecia

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 20/04/04, Prof Brian Ripley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - the number will be a serious underestimate due to the prevalence of > caches. (Once anyone in .ac.uk or on my ISP .ntl.com downloads it, it > is likely to be grabbed from the cache for the next week at least.) And a lot of people must

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Mihai Nica
Why not ask those downloading rw1091 to complete (at their choice) a small survey (including questions such as 'will it be used by a group or an individual'). It would provide some data that could lead to an estimate as good as anything else. Mihai - Original Message - From: "Prof Brian

[R] experimental design

2004-04-20 Thread angel hellraiser
Hi R users: Anyone knows like to obtain software for experimental design? I need to get Aliasing structure like SAS does. Anything for windows. Thanks in advance. My e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ ¿Vas a comprar algo a través de Int

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
On 20 Apr 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > On 20 Apr 2004 at 10:47, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > > > > Of course, this will only work with computers connected to the > > > internet,... but at least, it could be one way to evaluate the number > > > of R users. Would that

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Jonathan Baron
I looked at the number of unique IP addresses who come to my R search site (in sig below). The result was surpising, and I fear I did it wrong. I have been doing it each week, and typical numbers are around 700. (Sometimes as high as 900 when I do something like this, which reminds people of its

Re: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 20 Apr 2004 at 10:47, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > > Of course, this will only work with computers connected to the > > internet,... but at least, it could be one way to evaluate the number > > of R users. Would that be an infringment of Open Source, or any other > >

RE: [R] Size of R user base. It's not what you've got it's what you do with it

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Mulholland
While reading all of these comments I started thinking about how you might collect the data. As pointed out, in many ways, there are immediate problems with the validity of what's collected. That is what is the concept that we are trying to measure. So, that was always going to make it hard, but a

Re: [R] R-1.9.0: configure/install problem

2004-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It is not an R issue but a bash issue: it is sh not R that is reporting the error. It might be that the paths R sets are part of the problem: are you sure there is no libreadline in /usr/local/lib, for example? Earlier versions of readline are static libraries, precisely to avoid this kind of

RE: [R] Size of R user base

2004-04-20 Thread kjetil
On 20 Apr 2004 at 10:47, Philippe Grosjean wrote: . . . . > Of course, this will only work with computers connected to the > internet,... but at least, it could be one way to evaluate the number > of R users. Would that be an infringment of Open Source, or any other > rule of freedom? I don't know

Re: [R] R-1.9.0: configure/install problem

2004-04-20 Thread Ulrich Flenker
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > This looks like a readline version problem for the shell /bin/sh > (presumably actually bash) you have installed. Do you have an older > version of readline somewhere on your system? > Thanks for the quick reply! /bin/sh is a symbolic link to /bi

Re: [R] R-1.9.0: configure/install problem

2004-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This looks like a readline version problem for the shell /bin/sh (presumably actually bash) you have installed. Do you have an older version of readline somewhere on your system? On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Ulrich Flenker wrote: > Dear R-helpers, > > for the first time since R-0.6x I have to face ins

[R] R-1.9.0: configure/install problem

2004-04-20 Thread Ulrich Flenker
Dear R-helpers, for the first time since R-0.6x I have to face installation problem. I switched to a new Linux-box (SuSE 9.0) and installed as many libraries as possible. R-1.9.0.tgz went to /usr/local/lib and was extracted without problems. After running properly for a while, 'configure' (calle

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