[R] RE: Giving a first good impression of R to Social Scientists

2004-08-13 Thread Olivia Lau
Dear Roland, Have you looked at Zelig (http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig)? Several professors in my department are going to use it to teach R to political science undergraduates and graduate students this fall. We just presented it at the Political Methodology meeting, and will present it again at t

RE: [R] numerical accuracy, dumb question

2004-08-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
Part of that decision may depend upon how big the dataset is and what is intended to be done with the ID's: > object.size(1011001001001) [1] 36 > object.size("1011001001001") [1] 52 > object.size(factor("1011001001001")) [1] 244 They will by default, as Andy indicates, be read and stored as do

Re: [R] Giving a first good impression of R to Social Scientists

2004-08-13 Thread Spencer Graves
I think I agree with Prof. Lumley: For me, R would likely be the platform of choice for most new statistical algorithm development. It has a steep learning curve, and I would therefore not recommend it for anyone who would not likely be involved in this kind of activity (unless my targe

[R] SPSS, social science majors, and R

2004-08-13 Thread data Analytics
Hi Roland and folks: Roland's and Susanna's comments were very interesting. I think we need to keep in mind that unlike SPSS, R is more than a statistical package. It's a tool. SPSS does indeed make life easy, particularly for data preprocessing (or data "cleaning"), something that is perhaps n

Re: [R] Private methods

2004-08-13 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Matthew Walker wrote: > I have read (in a very recent email to r-help) that R's methods package > does not support private methods. However, I also looked at the source > for the function "is": > > > is > function (object, class2) > { > cl <- .class1(object) > if (mis

RE: [R] numerical accuracy, dumb question

2004-08-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
If I'm not mistaken, numerics are read in as doubles, so that shouldn't be a problem. However, I'd try using factor or character. Andy > From: Dan Bolser > > I store an id as a big number, could this be a problem? > > Should I convert to at string when I use read.table(... > > example id's >

RE: [R] Private methods

2004-08-13 Thread Austin, Matt
.class1 is an 'internal' method in the namespace of the package 'methods'. It can be accessed with the ::: operator. A good start for documentation may be Vol 3/1 of R-News. >methods:::.class1 function (x) class(x)[[1]] --Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

[R] numerical accuracy, dumb question

2004-08-13 Thread Dan Bolser
I store an id as a big number, could this be a problem? Should I convert to at string when I use read.table(... example id's 1001001001001 1001001001002 ... 1002001002005 Bigest is probably 1011001001001 Ta, Dan. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

[R] Private methods

2004-08-13 Thread Matthew Walker
Hi, I'm trying to understand R's object oriented abilities. I have read (in a very recent email to r-help) that R's methods package does not support private methods. However, I also looked at the source for the function "is": > is function (object, class2) { cl <- .class1(object) if (miss

Re: [R] Tutorials on R

2004-08-13 Thread Jim Brennan
There are quite a few helpful free contributions--under contributed go figure-- on the R site. "Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics" by John Maindonald (PDF [702kB], data sets and scripts are available at JM's homepage). I found this a big help( Thanks to John Maindonald) as well as trying to s

Re: [R] how to plot an array with labels

2004-08-13 Thread Pierre BADY
Hello to all, There are several functions to perform scatter diagrams with labels in the library 'ade4'. # library(ade4) bob <- as.data.frame((array(1:5, c(4,2 row.names(bob) row.names(bob) <- paste("row",1:4,sep=".") row.names(bob) par(mfrow=c(1,2)) s.label(bob, su

Re: [R] Tutorials on R

2004-08-13 Thread Berton Gunter
"An Introduction to R" by Venables, Smith, and the R Development Core Team is a nicely written little paperback that is even easier on the pocketbook ($14 on Amazon.com) than Dalgaard's . It's a nicely written basic introduction the the language that makes no attempt to teach statistics. Cheers, B

RE: [R] Tutorials on R

2004-08-13 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
There are a number of resources but I believe the best for starters is _Introductory Statistics with R_, by Peter Dalgaard. It's inexpensive ($35) and very well written, easy to read and understand even if you don't know a lot of statistics. In fact the book's intention is to teach you stats by w

Re: [R] Tutorials on R

2004-08-13 Thread Roger D. Peng
An Introduction to R is pretty good (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf). And there are many others available at http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html -roger T. Murlidharan Nair wrote: Hi !! Is there a good tutorial for the R language ? I really find it hard to find methods

[R] Tutorials on R

2004-08-13 Thread T. Murlidharan Nair
Hi !! Is there a good tutorial for the R language ? I really find it hard to find methods in R. Thanks and Cheers ../Murli __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-proj

Re: [R] cell counting in R

2004-08-13 Thread Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
You might find it easier to do this type of thing with an open-source image analysis program such as ImageJ: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ Rob - Original Message - From: "Doug Bourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 1:10 PM Subject: [R] cell count

[R] cell counting in R

2004-08-13 Thread Doug Bourne
I have a bunch of jpg files that I need to count cells on. Some cells are green and some cells are red. Is there a function like locator that I could use to manually count the cells? I would like to be able to click on a cell, have it marked so I don't count it again and have a counter keep t

RE: [R] Question from Newbie on PostScript and Multiple Plots

2004-08-13 Thread Johnson, Heather
Marc and Partha, Thank you both for your suggestions of using par("mfrow"), that's exactly what I needed to do. In fact I already had it in the code (which I didn't write originally) and simply had to put my postscript statement in front of it. :) It works great now! Thanks for the quick respon

Re: [R] Question from Newbie on PostScript and Multiple Plots

2004-08-13 Thread partha_bagchi
Have you looked at ?par("mfrow") ? "Johnson, Heather" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/2004 12:28 PM To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:[R] Question from Newbie on PostScript and Multiple Plots Hi, As I'm pr

Re: [R] Question from Newbie on PostScript and Multiple Plots

2004-08-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:28, Johnson, Heather wrote: > Hi, > > As I'm pretty new to R I hope this question isn't too basic. > > I am currently looping through my dataset and for each iteration am > producing three separate plots. When I output these plots to the screen > they are nicely grou

[R] Question from Newbie on PostScript and Multiple Plots

2004-08-13 Thread Johnson, Heather
Hi, As I'm pretty new to R I hope this question isn't too basic. I am currently looping through my dataset and for each iteration am producing three separate plots. When I output these plots to the screen they are nicely grouped as three plots per page, however, when I try to send it to a Po

Re: [R] coxph question

2004-08-13 Thread Mayeul KAUFFMANN
Chris, I understood the following: you want to try every single covariate in a cox model with only one covariate, then take the best ones according to p-value. Assume your columns look like: stop status event x1 x2 x3 etc You want to add column 3 (x1), then 4, etc. I suggest a for() loop: z<-NU

R: [R] removing observations

2004-08-13 Thread 8rino-Luca Pantani
"by" is perhaps what you looking for try to write "?by" for help >I have a panel data set (25 years) and I would like to break >it up by year, and run a few tests. How is this done in R? >In STATA it is quite simple (keep if year =1970). If someone >could give me an example of how to do it f

Re: [R] removing observations

2004-08-13 Thread Roger D. Peng
You probably want something like subset(dataset, year == 1970) and loop through the years. Or, perhaps even classier, would be datalist <- split(dataset, as.factor(year)) results <- lapply(datalist, myAnalysisFunction) -roger Justin G. Gardner wrote: Hello R list. I am sure this is an easy question

Re: [R] How to use the whole dataset (including between events) in Cox model (time-varying covariates) ?

2004-08-13 Thread Mayeul KAUFFMANN
>First, I do not know how to specify such a link function in R. >Second, if I can specify such alink, I could use (in place of d*j), the >smooth baseline estimated after doing a Cox regression. But I don't know >how to fit (for instance) a piecewise constant baseline hazard with a >Poison glm I fo

Re: [R] barplot and names.arg

2004-08-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:22, Luis Rideau Cruz wrote: > R-help > > Is there any option to get closer the x-axis and names.arg from barplot? > > Thank you Using mtext() you can do something like the following: data(VADeaths) # Now place labels closer to the x axis # set 'axisnames' to FALSE so t

Re: [R] truly object oriented programming in R Thank you all

2004-08-13 Thread Jason Liao
My deep appreciation to everyone who responded to my question. I am digesting your proposals (a little distracted by my governor's dramatic resignation in New Jersey). It seems that I am able to implement the algorithm in R (with the framework kindly provided by Thomas). I will post the code when i

Re: [R] removing observations

2004-08-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
"Justin G. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello R list. > > I am sure this is an easy question, please forgive my > ignorance of R. > > > I have a panel data set (25 years) and I would like to break > it up by year, and run a few tests. How is this done in R? > In STATA it is quite

RE: [R] coxph question

2004-08-13 Thread Man, Chris T.
Thanks Mayeul, I actually would like to test each variable individually and use those have low p-value to build a classifier (not in cox model). Therefore, I need to write a function to subset those low p-value variables, instead of putting them as covariates. Any ideas? Chris -Original M

[R] removing observations

2004-08-13 Thread Justin G. Gardner
Hello R list. I am sure this is an easy question, please forgive my ignorance of R. I have a panel data set (25 years) and I would like to break it up by year, and run a few tests. How is this done in R? In STATA it is quite simple (keep if year =1970). If someone could give me an example

[R] barplot and names.arg

2004-08-13 Thread Luis Rideau Cruz
R-help Is there any option to get closer the x-axis and names.arg from barplot? Thank you Luis Ridao Cruz Fiskirannsóknarstovan Nóatún 1 P.O. Box 3051 FR-110 Tórshavn Faroe Islands Phone: +298 353900 Phone(direct): +298 353912 Mobile: +298 580800 Fax: +298

Re: [R] How to use the whole dataset (including between events) in Cox model (time-varying covariates) ?

2004-08-13 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Mayeul KAUFFMANN wrote: > > > you can always use parametric models and a > > full likelihood (but you may have to program them yourself). > > Prof Brian Ripley > > I started trying this but I could not make the counting process notation > work on this. > (Andersen, P.K. and Gi

Re: [R] Install R for Windows

2004-08-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
Clécio da Silva Ferreira wrote: Hi I'm a Brazilian student and I'd like to work with R. But, I had some problems to install R for windows with shortcut of the statisticals packages in tool bar. What do you mean with "shortcut of the statisticals packages in tool bar." What are the "statistical

Re: [R] How to use the whole dataset (including between events) in Cox model (time-varying covariates) ?

2004-08-13 Thread Mayeul KAUFFMANN
> > coxph does not use any information that are in the dataset between event > > times (or "death times") , since computation only occurs at event times. > This is the consequence of the use of partial likelihood in the Cox model. >[...] >You need to make more assumptions, such as a >smooth baselin

[R] Install R for Windows

2004-08-13 Thread Clécio da Silva Ferreira
Hi I'm a Brazilian student and I'd like to work with R. But, I had some problems to install R for windows with shortcut of the statisticals packages in tool bar. I'll be glad if you could help me to install it without miss the additionals packages I had install (more than 50!!) Thanks! Cléc

Re: [R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Torsten Hothorn
> Yes, but my control group is not always in the first colonne. > So, I can have to a matrix like this: > 1 0 0 -1 0 > 0 1 0 -1 0 > 0 0 1 -1 0 > 0 0 0 -1 0 > see the `base' argument to `contrMat'. Torsten > Laurent Houdusse > Analyste Programmeur > > > > -Message d'origine--

RE : RE : [R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Laurent Houdusse
Ok, I use simtest because i retrieve the same result But i don't know how to do the comparaison of P Laurent Houdusse Analyste Programmeur -Message d'origine- De : Liaw, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 13 août 2004 14:24 À : Laurent Houdusse; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet

RE: RE : [R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
> From: Laurent Houdusse > > However, on several tests, my results are correct: > The t-value seems always to correspond to the q'value calculated by > SigmaStat... > > So,What do I have to use to find the same results as > SigmaStat (value and > comparaison)? Seems like you don't have much

[R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Laurent Houdusse
Yes, but my control group is not always in the first colonne. So, I can have to a matrix like this: 1 0 0 -1 0 0 1 0 -1 0 0 0 1 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 Laurent Houdusse Analyste Programmeur -Message d'origine- De : Torsten Hothorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 13

RE: [R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Torsten Hothorn
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote: > Before you do any of that, you should realize the fact that simtest does > _not_ do Dunnett's test: It can use `Dunnett' _contrasts_ to do comparisons > with a control, but the actual procedure is different. You are unlikely to > get the same result as o

RE : [R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Laurent Houdusse
However, on several tests, my results are correct: The t-value seems always to correspond to the q'value calculated by SigmaStat... So,What do I have to use to find the same results as SigmaStat (value and comparaison)? Laurent Houdusse Analyste Programmeur -Message d'origine- De :

RE: [R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
Before you do any of that, you should realize the fact that simtest does _not_ do Dunnett's test: It can use `Dunnett' _contrasts_ to do comparisons with a control, but the actual procedure is different. You are unlikely to get the same result as other packages that perform standard Dunnett's tes

[R] simtest for Dunnett's test

2004-08-13 Thread Laurent Houdusse
Hi! I use simtest fonction of multcomp package to compile a Dunnett's test. I have 10 treatments and one control group, so i create a matrix with: m<-matrix(0,10,11) m[1,1]<--1 m[1,2]<-1 m[2,1]<--1 m[2,3]<-1 m[3,1]<--1 m[3,4]<-1 m[4,1]<--1 m[4,5]<-1 m[5,1]<--1 m[5,6]<-1 m[6,1]<--1 m[6,7]<-1 m[7,1

Re: [R] lapply problem

2004-08-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
"Luis Rideau Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > R-help, > > I wish to replace NULL elements(or missing) in the following list : ... > If I use > lapply(z2,function(x) ifelse(is.null(x),0,as.numeric(x))) ... > i.e,only the first element in z2 ifelse() gives a result that is the same length

Re: [R] lapply problem

2004-08-13 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
Hi Luis, try to use, lapply(z2, function(x) if(is.null(x)) c(0,0) else x) I hope this helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Doctoral Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/16/396887 Fa

[R] lapply problem

2004-08-13 Thread Luis Rideau Cruz
R-help, I wish to replace NULL elements(or missing) in the following list : > z2 $cod mean sd 62.56190 12.65452 $haddock mean sd 36.61490 11.50365 $ling mean sd 86.17949 20.43587 $saithe meansd 50.275847 5.453606 $whiting NULL $"norway pout"

[R] how to plot an array with labels

2004-08-13 Thread Mayeul KAUFFMANN
>How can i plot an array and instead of having on the x labels the >indexes of the array I want to display an other String array of the >same length Do this: > plot(myarray,xaxt="n",xlab="") > axis(1,at=1:length(myarray),lab=my.vector.of.names) __ [EM

Re: [R] Robust R^2

2004-08-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you know if there is any function in R available which calculates an R^2 > for a robust MM-regression? It's very easy to do, *but* why would you want a non-robust measure for a robust fit? [Just 1 - sum(residuals(fit)^2)/sum((y-mean(y))^2), for

Re: [R] How to use the whole dataset (including between events) in Cox model (time-varying covariates) ?

2004-08-13 Thread Mayeul KAUFFMANN
> you can always use parametric models and a > full likelihood (but you may have to program them yourself). > Prof Brian Ripley I started trying this but I could not make the counting process notation work on this. (Andersen, P.K. and Gill, R.D. (1982). Cox's regression model for counting process

[R] Re: extracting datasets from aregImpute objects

2004-08-13 Thread david_foreman
I've tried doing this by specifying x=TRUE, which provides me with a single imputation, that has been useful. However, the help file possibly suggests that I should get a flat-file matrix of n.impute imputations, presumably with indexing. I'm a bit stuck using alternatives to aregImpute, as ne

[R] how to plot an array with labels

2004-08-13 Thread luc
How can i plot an array and instead of having on the x labels the indexes of the array I want to display an other String array of the same length __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] truly object oriented programming in R

2004-08-13 Thread "Jens Oehlschlägel"
Dear Jason, Of course you can do almost eveything in R, but I have rarely seen someone prototyping something in Java to then implement it in R. KD-trees are for performance, and interpreted R is not really fast. So interfacing some foreign code might really be the better choice here. Opportunity

Re: [R] rgl snapshot command

2004-08-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
Joern Kamradt wrote: Hi, I am using the rgl package for 3D display. Unfortunately, I am not able to get the snapshot command running. I tried the following: > example(rgl.surface) rgl.sr> data(volcano) rgl.sr> y <- 2 * volcano rgl.sr> x <- 10 * (1:nrow(y)) rgl.sr> z <- 10 * (1:ncol(y)) rgl.sr> y

[R] Robust R^2

2004-08-13 Thread Carsten . Colombier
Dear R-users, Do you know if there is any function in R available which calculates an R^2 for a robust MM-regression? With best regards, Carsten Colombier Dr. Carsten Colombier Economist Group of Economic Advisers Swiss Federal Finance Administration Bundesgasse 3 CH-3003 Bern phone +41 31 322