Re: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:33:33PM -0500, Mohamed Abdolell wrote: > Hi Tom, > > [1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and download r-base and > other > essential packages to your computer > [2] install packages using Xandros Networks; from the pull-down menu select > File-->Install D

RE: [R] Questions on Inserting R graphs in latex!

2005-01-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 21:48 -0500, Liaw, Andy wrote: > This is not an R problem, but LaTeX. > > Seems like the `slides' document class you're using doesn't recognize the > `figure' environment. You should check that. > > I seem to recall that you need to specify a driver option for graphicx, s

[R] glmm multinomial?

2005-01-13 Thread ecatchpole
I'm looking for something like Brian Ripley's glmmPQL that will handle multinomial data. Does anyone know of anything? Thanks, Ted. -- Dr E.A. Catchpole Visiting Fellow Univ of New South Wales at ADFA, Canberra, Australia and University of Kent, Canterbury, England - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ma

Re: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Mohamed Abdolell
Hi Tom, [1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and download r-base and other essential packages to your computer [2] install packages using Xandros Networks; from the pull-down menu select File-->Install DEB file... [3] once you have a functional R 2.0.1 working install the rest of the

Re: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Mohamed Abdolell
[1] go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/math/ and download the essential r-base packages to your hard drive [2] install downloaded files using xandros networks File --> Install DEB file ... [3] once it's working install remaining packages from within R using install.packages(pk

Re: [R] GAM: Remedial measures

2005-01-13 Thread Tim F Liao
Jean, The standard treatment of overdispersed data when using the Poisson distribution to model count data is to switch to the negative binomial distribution. Hope this helps, Tim Liao Original message >Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:22:29 -0500 >From: "Jean G. Orelien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [R] Finding seasonal peaks in a time series....

2005-01-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck myway.com> writes: : : Dr Carbon gmail.com> writes: : : : : : I have a seasonal time series. I want to calculate the annual mean : : value of the time series at its peak : : : : (say the mean of the three values before the peak, the peak, and the : : three values after th

Re: [R] Finding seasonal peaks in a time series....

2005-01-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Dr Carbon gmail.com> writes: : : I have a seasonal time series. I want to calculate the annual mean : value of the time series at its peak : : (say the mean of the three values before the peak, the peak, and the : three values after the peak). : : The peak of the time series might change cyc

RE: [R] Questions on Inserting R graphs in latex!

2005-01-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
This is not an R problem, but LaTeX. Seems like the `slides' document class you're using doesn't recognize the `figure' environment. You should check that. I seem to recall that you need to specify a driver option for graphicx, such as `epsfig' for some such. You should check the documentatio

[R] Questions on Inserting R graphs in latex!

2005-01-13 Thread Xianggui QU
Hi, I try to insert R graphs into a latex file and I am using a Texniccenter/MikTex combination in my Windows XP. Here are the errors I got. Could someone give me some clues? In R, I did > plot(sin(1:10), pch="+") > dev.print(device=postscript, "C:\\myFigure.eps",onefile=FALSE, > horizontal=F

Re: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Ulises M. Alvarez
Just for the sake of clarity: Ubuntu does include developer tools ('apt-get install build-essential'). Liaw, Andy wrote: If I have to guess, `desktop Linux' such as Xandros do not come with compilers and other development tools, so compiling from source will be a bit of a challenge. I recall havin

RE: [R] as.character methods

2005-01-13 Thread McGehee, Robert
Professor Ripley, You are quite correct, I did have some S3/S4 confusion. Thank you. By using an S3 method with the documented usage, I had no trouble writing an appropriate as.character method. I had also not absorbed the fact that S3 and S4 generics might (and do!) have different argument lists

RE: [R] Exact poisson confidence intervals

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
Federico: You might also look at Professor Agresti's observations on exact vs approximate, which appeared in the American Statistician a few years ago. (I believe it was the AS; my memory isn't what it once was.) Google produced this http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/index.cfm?fuseaction=agr

RE: [R] Lme and centered variables

2005-01-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
I'm by no means expert in such matter, but where did you get the idea that such manipulation is needed? If you center the response by its mean, that's the same as taking out the intercept. There's no reason to do that beforehand. As to centering by median, that's a first for me, and quite frankl

Re: [R] Exact poisson confidence intervals

2005-01-13 Thread Spencer Graves
"Exact confidence limits" are highly conservative. I have not studied this for the Poisson distribution, but for the binomial distribution, Brown, Cai and DasGupta (2001, 2002) showed that the exact coverage probabilities exhibit increasingly wild oscillations as the binomial probability

[R] problem on how R2.0 handle the RAM, maybe a bug

2005-01-13 Thread saverio vicario
Hi , I apologize to send again the message but I realized that i didn't put the subject and so people could not reply correctly >Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:29:09 -0500 >To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >From: saverio vicario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >Dear help desk an

RE: [R] Graph format: quality vs. file size

2005-01-13 Thread Berton Gunter
Given that you are doing a Q-Q plot, I strongly suspect that other then in the extreme tails, there will be no loss of visible information if you plot only 1 out of every 10 of the ordered values instead of all of them (as the ordered values are highly correlated). This makes the file size manageab

Re: [R] Graph format: quality vs. file size

2005-01-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:11 -0600, Jindan Zhou wrote: > Hello R-List, > > The question is related to R, but not strictly: > > I have generated a Q-Q plot with some 15,000 data points, when saved in > postscript format, the file became really large, which is not good to be > included in a LaTex fi

[R] GAM: Remedial measures

2005-01-13 Thread Jean G. Orelien
I fitted a GAM model with Poisson distribution to a data with about 200 observations. I noticed that the plot of the residuals versus fitted values show a trend. Residuals tend to be lower for higher fitted values. Because, I'm dealing with count data, I'm thinking that this might be due to overd

[R] Graph format: quality vs. file size

2005-01-13 Thread Jindan Zhou
Hello R-List, The question is related to R, but not strictly: I have generated a Q-Q plot with some 15,000 data points, when saved in postscript format, the file became really large, which is not good to be included in a LaTex file, as the output pdf file will be too big in file size, too. If I s

Re: [R] as.character methods

2005-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You seem to be confusing `generic' with `S4 generic', and `method' with `S4 method'. Note that all references to `generic' and `method' outside the `methods' package are not to S4 concepts unless explicitly stated. On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote: Hello, ?as.character says that the a

Re: [R] zero index and lazy evaluation in ifelse()

2005-01-13 Thread White . Denis
Thanks to all for clarifying that it isn't an element by element test and evaluation, rather an "any" test as the code says. Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2005-01-13 14:22:50: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > This seems to contradict the help file. > > > > "... 'yes' will be evalu

[R] grid graphics

2005-01-13 Thread Jeroen Van Houtte UCD
Thank you, Uwe, I probably phrased my question wrong, but I'm not into compiling my own software. Thank you Martin, It was definitely worth the few weeks spent learning to use the grid package. I want to share with others making that same step some of the functions I wrote as I tried to convert f

Re: [R] (no subject)

2005-01-13 Thread Anne
Hi Angela I'm not sure what you want to do with these 2 plots: 1) getting them on the same screen ( >par(mfrow=c(1,2)) 2) if you need them on separate files try the appropiate Hmisc functions (for instance psslide(), whih are in the words of the author "Postscript and Adobe PDF Setup for 35mm S

RE: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:06 -0500, Liaw, Andy wrote: > If I have to guess, `desktop Linux' such as Xandros do not come with > compilers and other development tools, so compiling from source will be a > bit of a challenge. I recall having played with Corel Linux during its > rather short lifetime (

Re: [R] Exact poisson confidence intervals

2005-01-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
Federico Gherardini wrote: Hi all, Is there any R function to compute exact confidence limits for a Poisson distribution with a given Lambda? For sure you are looking for certain quantiles of the poisson distribution? See ?Poisson. Uwe Ligges Thanks in advance Federico _

Re: [R] zero index and lazy evaluation in ifelse()

2005-01-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to contradict the help file. "... 'yes' will be evaluated if and only if any element of 'test' is true, and analogously for 'no'..." Note: "Evaluated", not "returned"! So both "0" and "b[a]" are evaluated, because a==0 is true for a[1], and false for a[2], a[3]

RE: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
If I have to guess, `desktop Linux' such as Xandros do not come with compilers and other development tools, so compiling from source will be a bit of a challenge. I recall having played with Corel Linux during its rather short lifetime (also Debian based), and was horrified to find it lacking GCC.

Re: [R] using created R objects in a program

2005-01-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
Das, Rajdeep wrote: Hi, I am running a program in --vanilla mode. What does "program" refer to? Is the "program" called "R", or do you mean some R code you are trying to run within R? I would like to know how to load saved functions in the program that it calls. EVerytime I call those objects i

[R] as.character methods

2005-01-13 Thread McGehee, Robert
Hello, ?as.character says that the as.character function is a generic with usage: as.character(x, ...). So, I want to create an S4 object with an as.character method following the above usage, but I get the below error telling me that ... isn't in the generic for as.character. > setClass("tmp", "n

Re: [R] how to use solve.QP [SOLVED - ANSWER AVAIL]

2005-01-13 Thread roger bos
Thanks to Zeileis and Spencer for commenting. I case anyone wants to see an example of portfolio optimization using solve.QP directly and verify that the answer matches that of portfolio.optim, here is the code: library(quadprog, lib.loc="C:\\Program Files\\R\\tools") library(MASS, lib.loc="C:\\P

Re: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
Thomas W Volscho wrote: Dear List, After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? No, but I'd try to install like on Debian, either using apt-ge

Re: [R] zero index and lazy evaluation in ifelse()

2005-01-13 Thread White . Denis
This seems to contradict the help file. "... 'yes' will be evaluated if and only if any element of 'test' is true, and analogously for 'no'..." Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2005-01-13 13:24:31: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I don't understand this behavior: > > > > > a <- c(0

Re: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:15 -0500, Thomas W Volscho wrote: > Dear List, > After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed > Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. > > Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? > > Thank you fo

Re: [R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Roger D. Peng
I'm guessing this is a Linux based system. Does ./configure make make install work? -roger Thomas W Volscho wrote: Dear List, After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. Does anyone know

Re: [R] zero index and lazy evaluation in ifelse()

2005-01-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't understand this behavior: > > > a <- c(0, 1, 2, 3) > > b <- c(1, 2, 3, 4) > > ifelse (a == 0, 0, b[a]) > [1] 0 2 3 1 > > rather than the desired 0 1 2 3. Thanks for any explanation. b[a] is c(1,2,3), recycling to length 4 gives c(1,2,3,1), get it? -- O_

[R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas W Volscho
Dear List, After obtaining a second-hand PC and because XP costs too much, I installed Xandros 3.0 (based on Debian) but pretty easy to use if migrating from WinXP. Does anyone know how to install R on this OS? Thank you for your time, Tom Volscho Th

RE: [R] zero index and lazy evaluation in ifelse()

2005-01-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Denis, b[a] gives you c(1, 2, 3) (try it), which is recycled as c(1, 2, 3, 1); the elements in positions 2, 3, and 4 of this vector (i.e., where a != 0) are 2, 3, 1. Regards, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada

[R] using created R objects in a program

2005-01-13 Thread Das, Rajdeep
Hi, I am running a program in --vanilla mode. I would like to know how to load saved functions in the program that it calls. EVerytime I call those objects it returns error and complains that it cannot find the function object I am calling. Please let me know. Thanks in advance. Regards, Raj __

Re: [R] zero index and lazy evaluation in ifelse()

2005-01-13 Thread Ray Brownrigg
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:42:59 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I don't understand this behavior: > > > a <- c(0, 1, 2, 3) > > b <- c(1, 2, 3, 4) > > ifelse (a == 0, 0, b[a]) > [1] 0 2 3 1 > > rather than the desired 0 1 2 3. Thanks for any explanation. > Look at b[a]. Ray

[R] zero index and lazy evaluation in ifelse()

2005-01-13 Thread White . Denis
I don't understand this behavior: > a <- c(0, 1, 2, 3) > b <- c(1, 2, 3, 4) > ifelse (a == 0, 0, b[a]) [1] 0 2 3 1 rather than the desired 0 1 2 3. Thanks for any explanation. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listi

Re: [R] Nested ifelse - is there a better way?

2005-01-13 Thread Charles C. Berry
Jeff> I'm interested in finding a better way to add a column to a data Jeff> frame when calculating the new column requires more than one Jeff> conditional. [description of doing this with lots of ifelse's deleted] Jeff If all you are doing is slicing one quantitative variable into categories, t

[R] Lme and centered variables

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Julien
I want to fit a linear mixed-model with my data but I want to know if I have to center all my responses variables on their median and why I have to do it? Thank Julien Martin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] chisq.test() as a goodness of fit test

2005-01-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
(Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is not more difficult, since the hard work is in > calculating the elements of p. After that, with E=N*p, > > X2 <- sum(((O-E)^2)/E) > > has the chi-squared distribution with df=(k-r) d.f. where > k is the number of "bins" and r is the number of

Re: [R] load object

2005-01-13 Thread Weiwei Shi
Hi, thanks for everyone. I think function "get" is what I wanted. ?get returns like: Description: Search for an R object with a given name and return it. Actually I need such reference to handle this obj. Sorry if there is a misleading description in my previous email. weiwei --- Ray Brownrigg <

Re: [R] load object

2005-01-13 Thread Ray Brownrigg
> From: Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri Jan 14 08:35:33 2005 > > Weiwei Shi wrote: > > Hi, > > I happen to re-write my codes to save memory and my > > approach is write my obj into file first and later I > > load it. > > > > However, it seems like: > > load(filename) can load the object but

Re: [R] how to use solve.QP

2005-01-13 Thread Spencer Graves
Also, ' methods("portfolio.optim")' revealed 2 functions for this generic: [1] portfolio.optim.default portfolio.optim.ts Typing "portfolio.optim.ts" exposes the code for the second one. If the class of the first argument "x" is "ts", R dispatches "portfiolio.optim(x, ...)" to

Re: [R] load object

2005-01-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:00 -0800, Weiwei Shi wrote: > Hi, > I happen to re-write my codes to save memory and my > approach is write my obj into file first and later I > load it. > > However, it seems like: > load(filename) can load the object but the function > returns the name of the object inst

[R] Balanced Arrays!

2005-01-13 Thread qu
Hi, Does anyone know whether there is an R program constructing optimal balanced arrays in experimental design? Thanks a lot! Harvey. Xianggui (Harvey) Qu Assistant Professor in Statistics Department of Mathematics & Statistics Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309 Tel. 248-370-4029 (O) _

Re: [R] load object

2005-01-13 Thread Douglas Bates
Weiwei Shi wrote: Hi, I happen to re-write my codes to save memory and my approach is write my obj into file first and later I load it. However, it seems like: load(filename) can load the object but the function returns the name of the object instead of the reference to it. For example, I have an o

Re: [R] how to use solve.QP

2005-01-13 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:07:29 -0500 roger bos wrote: > Zeileis, > > Thanks, I didn't know about "portfolio.optim". I wanted to see how it > works, but when I try showMethods, it doesn't show it to me. Does > that mean I am not allowed to see the inner workings? 1. All of this is open source, so

[R] Online course: DNA Microarray Data Analysis starts Jan. 28

2005-01-13 Thread Peter C. Bruce
Prof. Javier Cabrera will be giving the online course “DNA Microarray Data Analysis” from Jan. 28 – Feb. 25 at statistics.com. Dr. Cabrera is co-author of “Exploration and Analysis of DNA Microarray and Protein Array Data” (the course text; Wiley) and has published a number of articles on gene

[R] Optim simplex start size problem

2005-01-13 Thread Scott Brown
Hi R Users, I've struck a problem with 'optim', which has previously worked very well for me. I cannot find a way to set the size of starting simplex when using the Nelder Mead method. The "parscale" argument will control the relative sizes of sides, but not the global magnitude. A short exam

Re: [R] how to use solve.QP

2005-01-13 Thread roger bos
Zeileis, Thanks, I didn't know about "portfolio.optim". I wanted to see how it works, but when I try showMethods, it doesn't show it to me. Does that mean I am not allowed to see the inner workings? Thanks, Roger > showMethods("portfolio.optim") Function "portfolio.optim": > On Thu, 13 J

[R] load object

2005-01-13 Thread Weiwei Shi
Hi, I happen to re-write my codes to save memory and my approach is write my obj into file first and later I load it. However, it seems like: load(filename) can load the object but the function returns the name of the object instead of the reference to it. For example, I have an object called r0.p

Re: [R] how to use solve.QP

2005-01-13 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:44:58 -0500 roger bos wrote: > At the risk of ridicule for my deficient linear algebra skills, I ask > for help using the solve.QP function to do portfolio optimization. I > am trying to following a textbook example and need help converting the > problem into the format req

RE: [R] chisq.test() as a goodness of fit test

2005-01-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jan-05 Vito Ricci wrote: > Dear R-Users, > > How can I use chisq.test() as a goodness of fit test? > Reading man-page I've some doubts that kind of test is > available with this statement. Am I wrong? > > > X2=sum((O-E)^2)/E) > > O=empirical frequencies > E=expected freq. calculated with

[R] how to use solve.QP

2005-01-13 Thread roger bos
At the risk of ridicule for my deficient linear algebra skills, I ask for help using the solve.QP function to do portfolio optimization. I am trying to following a textbook example and need help converting the problem into the format required by solve.QP. Below is my sample code if anyone is will

Re: [R] chisq.test() as a goodness of fit test

2005-01-13 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:23:37 +0100 (CET) Vito Ricci wrote: > Dear R-Users, > > How can I use chisq.test() as a goodness of fit test? > Reading man-page I’ve some doubts that kind of test is > available with this statement. Am I wrong? > > X2=sum((O-E)^2)/E) > > O=empirical frequencies > E=expec

Re: [R] Space between bars in barplot

2005-01-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:43 +, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to understand the "space" argument to barplot() and I think > it is not working as stated. The docs say: > > space: the amount of space (as a fraction of the average bar width) > left before each ba

[R] Re: multivariate diagnostics

2005-01-13 Thread Maria Rizzo
Yulei, There are tests for multivariate normality and for equal multivariate distributions in the energy package. The reference mentioned in the help file for the multivariate normality test is in JMVA March 2005 Vol. 93(1), 58-80. Some other tests for multivariate normality include Mardia's mu

RE: [R] R, postgresql, windows & bsd

2005-01-13 Thread dr mike
You can do this in Perl (see e.g. Interchange, using Perl-DBI and TCP-IP instead of sockets). If you're familiar with Perl, that is .. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2005 14:07

Re: [R] R, postgresql, windows & bsd

2005-01-13 Thread Jim McLoughlin
On Jan 13, 2005, at 6:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually work with R on a windows querying data through RODBC from a postgresql db on a freebsd machine on my offcie lan. Now I have the chance to use R also on a linux gentoo client box and to connect to the same db. I know that I can install

[R] Exact poisson confidence intervals

2005-01-13 Thread Federico Gherardini
Hi all, Is there any R function to compute exact confidence limits for a Poisson distribution with a given Lambda? Thanks in advance Federico __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the postin

RE: [R] Finding seasonal peaks in a time series....

2005-01-13 Thread Andy Bunn
This is inelegant, but works: # (following the example) nPts <- 254 foo <- sin((2 * pi * 1/24) * 1:nPts) foo <- foo + rnorm(nPts, 0, 0.05) bar <- ts(foo, start = c(1980,3), frequency = 24) mean.in.i <- numeric(length(start(bar)[1]:end(bar)[1])) peak.ts <- ts(rep(NA, length(foo)), start = c(1980,

[R] chisq.test() as a goodness of fit test

2005-01-13 Thread Vito Ricci
Dear R-Users, How can I use chisq.test() as a goodness of fit test? Reading man-page I’ve some doubts that kind of test is available with this statement. Am I wrong? X2=sum((O-E)^2)/E) O=empirical frequencies E=expected freq. calculated with the model (such as normal distribution) See: http://

RE: [R] global objects not overwritten within function

2005-01-13 Thread Huntsinger, Reid
This got rejected by SpamCop but I didn't see another reply so am trying again. -Original Message- From: Huntsinger, Reid Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:29 PM To: 'bogdan romocea'; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] global objects not overwritten within function Assigning vi

Re: [R] Naming Convention

2005-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Spencer Graves wrote: Also, while any character string is allowed, the use of strings that are not legal names limits their utility, especially for the columns of a data.frame, which could normally be used in a formula for something like "lm" or even more general using "

[R] Space between bars in barplot

2005-01-13 Thread michael watson \(IAH-C\)
Hi I am trying to understand the "space" argument to barplot() and I think it is not working as stated. The docs say: space: the amount of space (as a fraction of the average bar width) left before each bar. Which means that I can pass a vector, the same length as the no. of bars, a

Re: [R] Naming Convention

2005-01-13 Thread Spencer Graves
Also, while any character string is allowed, the use of strings that are not legal names limits their utility, especially for the columns of a data.frame, which could normally be used in a formula for something like "lm" or even more general using "with" or "attach". hope this helps.

[R] (no subject)

2005-01-13 Thread Angela Re
Good morning, I wrote a little code in R which has to show two graphs but I can get only one. How can I adress the graphs in two files? Second, I'd like, always in the same code, to add a legend to a graph. Better, I'd like to put in such a legend a new item whose color could remind t

Re: [R] coxph() and intervening events

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Vegard Andersen wrote: Hello! I am using the coxph() function for counting process data. I want to include an intervening event as one of my covariates. In order to do this I have split the relevant observations in my data at the time of intervention. But I have not found an

[R] (no subject)

2005-01-13 Thread Angela Re
Good morning, I wrote a little code in R which has to show two graphs but I can get only one. How can I adress the graphs in two files? Second, I'd like, always in the same code, to add a legend to a graph. Better, I'd like to put in such a legend a new item whose color could remind t

[R] R, postgresql, windows & bsd

2005-01-13 Thread v . demartino2
I usually work with R on a windows querying data through RODBC from a postgresql db on a freebsd machine on my offcie lan. Now I have the chance to use R also on a linux gentoo client box and to connect to the same db. I know that I can install the unixodbc stuff and stick to RODBC, BUT my quest

Re: [R] random samples

2005-01-13 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:50:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to divide the array > > > A<-c(1:200) > > into two subsets at random. Therefore I use the function "sample" in R: I suggest a slightly different approach which is probably faster than using setdif() or %in% and friends

RE: [R] random samples

2005-01-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Nicolas, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:51 AM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] random samples > > hi, > I am encoutering a very little problem that seemed

Re: [R] Re:Time-Series

2005-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Achim Zeileis wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:54:43 +0100 (CET) Vito Ricci wrote: you can address to a single ts in a multivariate ts object by namets[,index]. See this example: Note, that index can also be a string and not only the index number. You wanted to have the analogue o

Re: [R] Re:Time-Series

2005-01-13 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:54:43 +0100 (CET) Vito Ricci wrote: > Hi, > > you can address to a single ts in a multivariate ts > object by namets[,index]. See this example: Note, that index can also be a string and not only the index number. You wanted to have the analogue of z$energy which could also

Re: [R] subsetting like in SAS

2005-01-13 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi Denis maybe unique() can choose unique entries from your data set without need for sorting. Cheers Petr On 13 Jan 2005 at 11:52, Denis Chabot wrote: > Hi, > > Being in the process of translating some of my SAS programs to R, I > encountered one difficulty. I have a solution, but it is not

RE: [R] random samples

2005-01-13 Thread Liaw, Andy
See ?setdiff. Andy > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > hi, > I am encoutering a very little problem that seemed to be so > easy to solve > I need to divide the array > > > A<-c(1:200) > > into two subsets at random. Therefore I use the function > "sample" in R: > > > S<-sample(A,100) > > f

Re: [R] random samples

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin Wang
Hi, On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A<-c(1:200) > > S<-sample(A,100) > selected in S to be put in another array, there is my problem! > Is there anyway to do this with a function of R or should I do one by myself? Something like: A[-S] should do, I think. Kev --

Re: [R] random samples

2005-01-13 Thread TEMPL Matthias
which(A%in%S==FALSE) Best Matthias > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Jänner 2005 13:51 > An: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Betreff: [R] random samples > > > hi, > I am encouterin

Re: [R] random samples

2005-01-13 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
try this: S. <- A[!A%in%S] I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/16/336899 Fax: +32/16/337015 Web: http://www.med.kuleuven.ac.be/biostat

[R] Re:Time-Series

2005-01-13 Thread Vito Ricci
Hi, you can address to a single ts in a multivariate ts object by namets[,index]. See this example: > dati X Y 1 100 200 2 150 210 3 180 220 4 200 230 5 220 250 > serie<-ts(dati,start=1999) > serie Time Series: Start = 1999 End = 2003 Frequency = 1 X Y 1999 100 200 2000 150 210

[R] random samples

2005-01-13 Thread nicolas . deig
hi, I am encoutering a very little problem that seemed to be so easy to solve I need to divide the array > A<-c(1:200) into two subsets at random. Therefore I use the function "sample" in R: > S<-sample(A,100) for a random sample of size 100. Then I need the values in A that are not selec

[R] Time-Series

2005-01-13 Thread Vittorio
In a dataframe you call one of the variable (or the column) connecting the name of the column to the dataframe name by means of the $ sign: so z$energy is the column named energy in the dataframe z. I don't know how to do the same with a multi-variable time-series. I tried both z.energy, z$ener

RE: [R] coxph() and intervening events

2005-01-13 Thread BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
Unless you have repeated events per person, you do not need to keep tack of which follow-up belongs to whom. The likelihood contribution from the two parts is a product. See any textbook on survival anlysis or p. 50 ff. of: http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~bxc/Melbourne/Staff/foils.pdf or another of

[R] coxph() and intervening events

2005-01-13 Thread Vegard Andersen
Hello! I am using the coxph() function for counting process data. I want to include an intervening event as one of my covariates. In order to do this I have split the relevant observations in my data at the time of intervention. But I have not found any way to "inform" coxph() of the id of

Re: [R] Changing the ranges for the axis in image()

2005-01-13 Thread Costas Vorlow
Thanks to Tom for this. It was simpler than I thought. Apparently "at" will do the trick very simply. It was not entirely clear to me (from the help pages) whether the axis parameters can operate independently of the dimensions/resolution of the diagrams Here is an example for future ref.:

[R] subsetting like in SAS

2005-01-13 Thread Denis Chabot
Hi, Being in the process of translating some of my SAS programs to R, I encountered one difficulty. I have a solution, but it is not elegant (and not pleasant to implement). I have a large dataset with many variables needed to identify the origin of a sample, many to describe sample characteris

Re: [R] Naming Convention

2005-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Romain François wrote: Christoph Scherber a écrit : Dear Reinhold, All entries are allowed except "price swap" or "price_swap" As a matter of fact, the syntax price_swap is now allowed (since R 1.9.1 I think). The rest is a choice issue ... deprends on you. Even "

Re: [R] Naming Convention

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Lecoutre
Hi, Not right: any entry is allowed as long as it is a character. Though, some are not recommanded... See: > M=diag(2) > rownames(M)=c("with a space", "without") > colnames(M) <- c("%*%","~") > M %*% ~ with a space 1 0 without0 1 Problem araised for data.frame if you want t

Re: [R] Naming Convention

2005-01-13 Thread Romain François
Christoph Scherber a écrit : Dear Reinhold, All entries are allowed except "price swap" or "price_swap" Hi, As a matter of fact, the syntax price_swap is now allowed (since R 1.9.1 I think). The rest is a choice issue ... deprends on you. Romain. Of course it´s most convenient to use short nam

Re: [R] Naming Convention

2005-01-13 Thread Christoph Scherber
Dear Reinhold, All entries are allowed except "price swap" or "price_swap" Of course it´s most convenient to use short names and small letters for quicker typing. Regards Christoph Quoting "Hafner, Reinhold (Risklab)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was wondering whether there exists a naming conve

[R] Setting the width and height of a Sweave figure

2005-01-13 Thread Henrik Andersson
Hello R-people, I have a function which plots two figures next to each other using if(dev.cur()==1) x11(width=14,height=7) to create a new window and set the size of the window automatically if no device is open. This works fine in interactive mode but I don't know how Sweave gets the parameter

[R] Naming Convention

2005-01-13 Thread Hafner, Reinhold (Risklab)
I was wondering whether there exists a naming convention for row and column names in R data frames and matrices. E.g: PriceSwap or PRICESWAP or PRICE.SWAP Many thanks. Reinhold [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch m

[R] Re: multivariate diagnostics

2005-01-13 Thread Vito Ricci
Hi, give a look to the package: mvnormtest Normality test for multivariate variables http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/Descriptions/mvnormtest.html it includes a multivariate extention of Shapiro test. I believe in statistical literature, I read somewhere, exists a multiva