Re: rnorm works correctly (was [R] rnorm??)

2005-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Scholz, Fritz wrote: I am wondering whether there is a bug in rnorm. I am wondering if there is a bug in your procedures, or if you used a very old version of R. If you call `bug', do have the courtesy to present your reasons. See the posting guide for other missing

Re: [R] Treatment-Contrast Interactions

2005-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
se.contrast computes standard errors of contrasts. It does not compute the contrast itself, which is fairly simple to do directly. c1 - c(1,-1)[A]*c(1,-1,0)[B] sum(c1*score) [1] -18 se.contrast(fit, as.matrix(c1)) Contrast 1 14.24547 (18/14.24547)^2 [1] 1.596583 so the contrast has value -18,

Re: [R] problems with nonlinear fits using nls

2005-02-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Corey Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello colleagues, I am attempting to determine the nonlinear least-squares estimates of the nonlinear model parameters using nls. I have come across a common problem that R users have reported when I attempt to fit a particular 3-parameter

RE: [R] rnorm??

2005-02-22 Thread Oscar Rueda Palacio
Is it possible that you've mistyped sum(x-4) instead of sum(x -4)? Oscar -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de Adaikalavan Ramasamy Enviado el: martes, 22 de febrero de 2005 2:24 Para: Scholz, Fritz CC: R-help Asunto: Re: [R] rnorm?? 1) Why do you

Re: [R] rodbc or unixodbc error

2005-02-22 Thread Charles and Kimberly Maner
Hi Sebastian. Another option you may want to entertain is the Rdbi packages from GRASS, http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/r_and_dbms.html. This page begins with Postgresql but does have an option for MySQL. I'm running FreeBSD and unixODBC and never got RODBC running as it should. Also, the

[R] Reproducing SAS GLM in R

2005-02-22 Thread Bela Bauer
Hi, I'm still trying to figure out that GLM procedure in SAS. Let's start with the simple example: PROC GLM; MODEL col1 col3 col5 col7 col9 col11 col13 col15 col17 col19 col21 col23 =/nouni; repeated roi 6, ord 2/nom mean; TITLE 'ABDERUS lat ACC 300-500'; That's the same setup that I had in my

Re: [R] Reproducing SAS GLM in R

2005-02-22 Thread Bela Bauer
Bela Bauer wrote: snip A quick addition: I've read https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2000-November/007457.html but I really can't get around using those mechanisms because it will already be quite a transition for users to go from SAS to R...and I can't give them different results, too! I've

[R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

2005-02-22 Thread Gregor GORJANC
Hello! Those of you, who use Sweave a lot, will probably find my shell script usable. You can get it at: http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/programs/shell/Sweave.sh No warranty, however don't hesitate to contact me if you find an error or have a patch! -- Lep pozdrav / With regards,

Re: [R] Reproducing SAS GLM in R

2005-02-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Bela Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm still trying to figure out that GLM procedure in SAS. Let's start with the simple example: PROC GLM; MODEL col1 col3 col5 col7 col9 col11 col13 col15 col17 col19 col21 col23 =/nouni; repeated roi 6, ord 2/nom mean; TITLE 'ABDERUS lat ACC

Re: [R] Reproducing SAS GLM in R

2005-02-22 Thread Christophe Pallier
It seems that you want to do is in a Anova with the within factors factCond and factRoi, right? If this is correct, then you should try: summary(aov(vectdata~factCond*factRoi+Error(factCond*factRoi))) Christophe Pallier www.pallier.org Bela Bauer wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to figure out that

[R] Re: Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

2005-02-22 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:29:00 +0100, Gregor GORJANC (GG) wrote: Hello! Those of you, who use Sweave a lot, will probably find my shell script usable. You can get it at: http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/programs/shell/Sweave.sh No warranty, however don't hesitate to contact

[R] Loading C functions into R

2005-02-22 Thread Talita Leite
Hi everybody, I have the source of a C program that includes some archives .c and some libraries .h. I'm developing a program using R and I want it to load the C program I told before. How can I do that? I was looking for some function in R to do that and I found the .C() but I can't understand

[R] ERROR NaNs produced; when comparing two logistic regression models with the ANOVA CHI test

2005-02-22 Thread Jan Verbesselt
Dear R-list, *When comparing two logistic regression models with the anova CHi test, I obtain the following error: (there are no NA's in the time series). How can this be solved such that I can compare two models on the same dataset were different explanatory variables are used? l.KBDI -

[R] R-help

2005-02-22 Thread Luis Ridao Cruz
R-help, I am tring to create a plot with two y-axis. I found an example which is fine but the problem is that the range of the second y-axes appears in the first y-axes causing confusion. The example I refer to is : ## dev.off() ## start with a new graphics

Re: [R] Reproducing SAS GLM in R

2005-02-22 Thread Bela Bauer
Peter Dalgaard wrote: However, the real crucial thing here is that SAS is de facto fitting a mixed-effects model, with random effects being everything with Subject inside. So, except for the GG/HF business, you should get something similar if you try summary(aov(vecData ~ facCond*facRoi +

Re: [R] ERROR NaNs produced; when comparing two logistic regression models with the ANOVA CHI test

2005-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You need the models to be NESTED for this test to be valid. Look up `analysis of deviance' in your textbooks. You get the error because you have two unnested models with the same number of parameters, so the F numerator is divided by 0. (But this is merely a symptom of incorrect usage.) On

Re: [R] ERROR NaNs produced; when comparing two logistic regression models with the ANOVACHI test

2005-02-22 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
these models are not nested and thus LRT should not be used. You get no p-value because Df=0 in your case. As an alternative you could look at the deviances. I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris p.s., you referred to `non-linearity of the data' if you mean that the probability of positive responses

[R] R-help

2005-02-22 Thread Rob Steele
I am tring to create a plot with two y-axis. I found an example which is fine but the problem is that the range of the second y-axes appears in the first y-axes causing confusion. [...] The key is the ann = FALSE in the second plot(): n = 100 x = rnorm(n) y = rnorm(n) z = rnorm(n) * 250 par(mar =

RE: [R] R-help

2005-02-22 Thread abunn
This is what you are trying to get at I think: dev.off() ## start with a new graphics device # X11() or postscript() #par(mar = c(3,3,1,3), oma = c(0,0,0,0), mgp = c(2, 1, 0), bg = white) par(mar = rep(5,4)) plot(x-rnorm(100),y-rnorm(100), ylab = This is y, xlab = This is x) z-rnorm(100)*250

[R] using 'nice' with R

2005-02-22 Thread Robert Burrows
I would like to use the 'nice' command when running CPU-intensive R functions on a server. Will starting R with 'nice R' do the trick? -- Robert Burrows, PhD New England Biometrics [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] using 'nice' with R

2005-02-22 Thread Roger D. Peng
On a Unix like system you can do `nice +19 R' or perhaps `nice +19 R CMD BATCH commands.R'. -roger Robert Burrows wrote: I would like to use the 'nice' command when running CPU-intensive R functions on a server. Will starting R with 'nice R' do the trick? -- Roger D. Peng

[R] re: rnorm??

2005-02-22 Thread Scholz, Fritz
I was not able to reproduce the behavior reported in my message below. I was trying it on the same laptop in the same workspace using again R 2.0.0, but the low counts of 4 to 7 (witnesses by some of my colleagues) did not show up again. Please do not spend any more effort on this. I am

Re: [R] problem with se.contrast()

2005-02-22 Thread Christoph Buser
Dear Prof Ripley, Dear Prof Dalgaard Thank you both for your help. I tried it with helmert contrasts and got a result that is consistent with lme. I didn't realize that the parameterization of the model has an influence on the contrasts that I tried to test. It seems that I should read a little

[R] colorbar for image

2005-02-22 Thread Klaus Ladner
Dear colleges, Does anyone know, how to insert a color bar as used with filled.contour when using image? __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

Re: [R] problem with se.contrast()

2005-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Christoph Buser wrote: Dear Prof Ripley, Dear Prof Dalgaard Thank you both for your help. I tried it with helmert contrasts and got a result that is consistent with lme. I didn't realize that the parameterization of the model has an influence on the contrasts that I tried to

[R] Question about NA's

2005-02-22 Thread Matthias Tips
Hi, i got a little question about the NA's in vectors and matrices. When I want to do some operations on a matrix with some NA's it is possible to stripp them before the computation proceed (by na.rm=TRUE). But how can I stripp NA's when I want to proceed a 'if', 'for' or 'while' string?

[R] Error when using do.call

2005-02-22 Thread Brough, Tyler (FRS)
useRs, I'm using version 2.0.1 on Windows XP. I am a bit of a newbie and I am trying to learn the concept of computing on the language. I have an example that I think ought to work, but will not and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I would like to sort a data frame by a list of columns.

RE: [R] Categories or clusters for univariate data

2005-02-22 Thread Berton Gunter
bounds for each group. My question is, is there a function in R that can do the same thing for more complex and subtle groupings in univariate data, and ** provide a statistical basis for the result? ** No. Others have suggested useful ways to **generate** reasonable hypotheses

[R] Graphics

2005-02-22 Thread Cedric.Ginestet
Hi, The R platform that I installed on my Windows XP crashes everytime that I try to run some sophisticated graphics (e.g. Demo Graphics). Is that to do with the configuration? Shall I reinstall it? Thanks, --- Cedric E. Ginestet PsyPAG Chair Psychology Department Thames

Re: [R] Two-factorial Huynh-Feldt-Test

2005-02-22 Thread Michael Friendly
Bela Bauer wrote: I'm still looking for an efficient way to print the new summary. Is there any easy way to tell the summary or print functions about the corrected degrees of freedom? The standard way is not to print the adjusted df, but rather just the adjusted p-values (along with the

[R] The system command and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2005-02-22 Thread W.E. Wolski
Hi R-gurus, In my envirovment I have specified the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /data/opt/libmy/lib After starting R the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is changed. Sys.getenv(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) /data/opt/R-devel//lib/R/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/data/opt/libmy/lib The problem is that in

RE: [R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

2005-02-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
It might be possible to translate 90% of this into R leaving just a short shell portion in which case it would be easy to translate just that part into Windows batch making it available on that OS too. As someone already mentioned, using texi2dvi could be helpful too. Regards. Date: Tue,

Re: [R] Graphics

2005-02-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:50:51 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi, The R platform that I installed on my Windows XP crashes everytime that I try to run some sophisticated graphics (e.g. Demo Graphics). Is that to do with the configuration? Shall I reinstall it? You should say what version you

Re: [R] Graphics

2005-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The R platform that I installed on my Windows XP crashes everytime that I try to run some sophisticated graphics (e.g. Demo Graphics). Is that to do with the configuration? Shall I reinstall it? Please consult the rw-FAQ. It is likely to be a problem

Re: [R] colorbar for image

2005-02-22 Thread Rolf Turner
Klaus Ladner wrote: Does anyone know, how to insert a color bar as used with filled.contour when using image? See plot.im() (and im()) in the package spatstat. cheers, Rolf Turner

Re: [R] The system command and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2005-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, W.E. Wolski wrote: Hi R-gurus, In my envirovment I have specified the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /data/opt/libmy/lib After starting R the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is changed. Sys.getenv(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) /data/opt/R-devel//lib/R/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/data/opt/libmy/lib The

Re: [R] Categories or clusters for univariate data

2005-02-22 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:41:07 -0800 Berton Gunter wrote: bounds for each group. My question is, is there a function in R that can do the same thing for more complex and subtle groupings in univariate data, and ** provide a statistical basis for the result? ** No. Others

[R] round() - strange results

2005-02-22 Thread Dongseok Choi
Hello, I found that round() does not behave as I expected. Have you had similar experience as following? x-seq(0.5,10.5,by=1) x [1] 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 10.5 round(x) [1] 0 2 2 4 4 6 6 8 8 10 10 cbind(x,round(x)) x [1,] 0.5 0 [2,]

Re: [R] round() - strange results

2005-02-22 Thread Rolf Turner
This in NOT a bug. It is a convention (the IEEE standard). Read the help on round(). I.e. RTFM. cheers, Rolf Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [R] round() - strange results

2005-02-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dongseok Choi wrote: Hello, I found that round() does not behave as I expected. Have you had similar experience as following? You have found the DOCUMENTED round to even rule, hence not a bug... Uwe Ligges x-seq(0.5,10.5,by=1) x [1] 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 10.5

Re: [R] round() - strange results

2005-02-22 Thread Chuck Cleland
?round 'round' rounds the values in its first argument to the specified number of decimal places (default 0). Note that for rounding off a 5, the IEEE standard is used, _go to the even digit_. Therefore 'round(0.5)' is '0' and 'round(-1.5)' is '-2'. Dongseok Choi wrote: Hello, I found that

RE: [R] Error when using do.call

2005-02-22 Thread Liaw, Andy
Why not just do: do.call(order, A[, ind]) ?? A data frame is already a list. Andy From: Brough, Tyler (FRS) useRs, I'm using version 2.0.1 on Windows XP. I am a bit of a newbie and I am trying to learn the concept of computing on the language. I have an example that I think

Re: [R] Hosting a R Graph Gallery?

2005-02-22 Thread p . murrell
Hi Hi, About any graph gallery: Philippe Grojean and me did have made some work. Our goal was to add a clip library to the SciViews project that would offer access to a graph gallery. I was workiong on the production of the gallery, where as Philippe is still working on his GUI API.

[R] include C functions from nmath in my own C functions

2005-02-22 Thread yyan liu
Hi: I am writing a C program which need a gamma random number generator. I download the source file of R and compile, make it myself. There is a rgamma.c function in the installing directory of R(/home/zhliu/Backup/R-2.0.1/src/nmath/rgamma.c). My question is how to call this function in my own

Re: [R] Hosting a R Graph Gallery?

2005-02-22 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Paul Murrell wrote: Along similar lines, it would be useful if gallery entries could be submitted as a plain text or maybe an XML file. Something like: plot title=blah descyadda yadda/desc codeplot(1)/code /plot plot title=blah blah descyadda yadda yadda/desc codeplot(2)/code

RE: [R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

2005-02-22 Thread Gorjanc Gregor
Gabor, I definitely agree about use of R, however I am not so much in R as I am in Bash. It took me less than two hours to write this script. At home I use R under windows and I solve problem of portability with Cygwin. I know that this is not optimal solution for everyone but ... Can you

RE: [R] Sorting a matrix on two columns

2005-02-22 Thread davidr
Perhaps I read more into the question than others, but I thought he was asking about a stable sort. If that is the case, ?order says that the sort is stable except for method = quick. David L. Reiner -Original Message- From: Rau, Roland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February

Re: [R] include C functions from nmath in my own C functions

2005-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, yyan liu wrote: Hi: I am writing a C program which need a gamma random number generator. I download the source file of R and compile, make it myself. There is a rgamma.c function in the installing directory of R(/home/zhliu/Backup/R-2.0.1/src/nmath/rgamma.c). My question is

[R] innovative fun ways for teaching quality control

2005-02-22 Thread Singh, Avneet
Hello: I was looking for innovative a fun ways of teaching quality control. Could you suggest me a resource where i could find material that might help me develop something like this. Thank you avneet (something like the paper helicopter or catapult etc.) I have no data yet. It is a capital

Re: [R] round() - strange results

2005-02-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:10:58 -0800, Dongseok Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hello, I found that round() does not behave as I expected. Have you had similar experience as following? x-seq(0.5,10.5,by=1) x [1] 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 10.5 round(x) [1] 0 2 2

[R] Rdbi and ODBC

2005-02-22 Thread roger bos
I have been using RODBC for a while with no complaints (R 2.0.1 patched under WinXP), then I saw a link (http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/r_and_dbms.html) showing that Rdbi claims to run a query in 5 seconds that takes RODBC 4.3 minutes. That was hard enough for me to believe that I wanted to try

RE: [R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

2005-02-22 Thread Gorjanc Gregor
Friedrich, This texi2dvi is also very nice. Dou you know of any pros and cons in comparison to rubber? Is tex2dvi also shipped with R for windows? I am not able to find a binnary in my windows installation, however I found help page. Did I missed anything? I have 2.0.1 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005

RE: [R] Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

2005-02-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
There are two main TeX distributions for Windows, MiKTeX and fptex. texi2dvi.exe ships with MiKTeX but not fptex. I think fptex has a texi2dvi UNIX shell script that in principle could be used with the Cygwin shell on Windows though I have never tried it. Because of that MiKTeX is really the

[R] Re: R-help Digest, Vol 24, Issue 22

2005-02-22 Thread John Maindonald
You need to give the model formula that gave your output. There are two sources of variation (at least), within and between locations; though it looks as though your analysis may have tried to account for this (but if so, the terms are not laid out in a way that makes for ready interpretation. The

[R] ROracle installation

2005-02-22 Thread Liu, Jane
Can someone tell me how to install ROracle package to PC? I couldn't find it CRAN package list. And when I tried to install from zip file, it failed. Thanks, Jane __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

[R] Memory error in Mac OS X Aqua GUI v1.01 with cluster package functions

2005-02-22 Thread Betty Gilbert
I'm sorry if the answer to my problem is buried in the archives. I have limited experience with R and I couldn't find a solution to my particular problem. I am running Mac OS X Aqua GUI v1.01 on a new G5 running os 10.3.8 with a 1.8Ghz processor and 1GB of sdram. I just downloaded

[R] estimate the parameter of exponential distribution, etc.

2005-02-22 Thread Bickel, David
Given a numeric vector of observations, does R have any generic way to estimate the parameters of commonly used distributions (exponential, gamma, etc.) without numerically optimizing the likelihood function? Thanks, David ___ David R. Bickel

[R] Does R has the function for garch-t, gjr-garch, qgarch and egarch

2005-02-22 Thread NONGLUCK KLIBBUA
Dear all, I would like to know that R has the function for garch-t,gjr- garch,qgarch and egarch. Best Regards, Luck __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

[R] nonlinear least square fit of an unknown function

2005-02-22 Thread Eric Hu
Hi, I have a set of twelve points and wonder how I can get a function that can then be used to calculate the area under the curve (most important). Thanks. Eric __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

[R] Package pixmap breaks try() under circumstances

2005-02-22 Thread Christian Lederer
Dear R users, in some circumstances, try() shows a strange behaviour, when the pixmap package is loaded. The following piece of code works as expected, if it is either sourced in an interactive session or invoked via R CMD BATCH (the try-error is printed). However, if i invoke R using ``R

[R] Solving systems of non-linear equations in R

2005-02-22 Thread T Petersen
I'm about to write my thesis in economics and will need to setup and solve a system of non-linear equations. At our university we usually use GAMS for this, and though GAMS is a fine program, it bugs me a that I won't be able to run my code after I finish my thesis without buying a license for

RE: [R] Loading C functions into R

2005-02-22 Thread Talita Leite
Thanx very much! I got to load the program into R with no problem! Talita Perciano Costa Leite Graduanda em Ciência da Computação Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL Departamento de Tecnologia da Informação - TCI Construção de Conhecimento por Agrupamento de Dados - CoCADa From: Huntsinger,

[R] how to calculate density of multinormal distribution at a given point?

2005-02-22 Thread saverio vicario
Dear all, I am trying to estimate the point density of a posterior distribution (this to estimate a bayesian factor in aphylogenetic analysis ). The problem that I would like to look at several variable at the same time. From a quick look several of the paramaters that interest me are

[R] data.frame error message

2005-02-22 Thread Nic Ellis
Dear R users, I am using v2.0.1 on Windows 2000. I have read a .dat file with several vectors, including 2 factors (2 levels x 3 levels), and a vector of responses, into R. There are no unique row names. When I try plot(x,y) or lm(y~x) the following error is returned: Error in

Re: [R] Re: Run Sweave and LaTeX directly from command line

2005-02-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 22 February 2005 at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | side note 2: For make afficionados the follwing 2 rules in combination | with the Sweave script from the FAQ do almost the same (that's what I | use :-) Sure, but it requires a (arguably small) Makefile in every sweave project directory.

RE: [R] data.frame error message

2005-02-22 Thread Liaw, Andy
Following the suggestions in the Posting Guide would help us to help you much better. What command(s) did you use to get the data into R? What does the `.dat' file look like? What are `x' and `y'? Data frames in R, by definition, has to have (unique) rownames. If they are not present in the

Re: [R] Solving systems of non-linear equations in R

2005-02-22 Thread yutaka hamaoka
I believe library(systemfit) has nlsytemfit function. Yh T Petersen wrote: I'm about to write my thesis in economics and will need to setup and solve a system of non-linear equations. At our university we usually use GAMS for this, and though GAMS is a fine program, it bugs me a that I won't be

Re: [R] estimate the parameter of exponential distribution, etc.

2005-02-22 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le 22 Février 2005 18:01, Bickel, David a écrit : Given a numeric vector of observations, does R have any generic way to estimate the parameters of commonly used distributions (exponential, gamma, etc.) without numerically optimizing the likelihood function? Assuming you want to use maximum

[R] Memory problems

2005-02-22 Thread Konstantinos Kleisouris
Hi, I use R to do some ARIMA forecasting and R runs out of memory. The problem is that I have 20160 samples(which are quite alot) and when I try to fit the model it runs out of memory. I tried with memory.size() to change the limit, but it wouldn't work. Is there anything you can suggest? Is

Re: [R] Solving systems of non-linear equations in R

2005-02-22 Thread T Petersen
No, this doesn't seem right. What I look for is something that could solve nonlinear systems with n unknowns and n equations. So there will be zero degrees of freedom, and statistical methods can't be the right way forward. Specifically I can see that the litterature mentions's Scarf's

[R] Trying to get a side-by-side barplot of data with levels (Modified by List account)

2005-02-22 Thread List account
Greetings! This is probably a simple problem, but it's really got me flummoxed. I have some data, basically a vector with a factor, in the following format, which I read in via 'auth - read.table(authorship.csv, header=TRUE, sep=,)': normalized.thomistic,category 1,116.0381739855475264,1

Re: [R] Solving systems of non-linear equations in R

2005-02-22 Thread Spencer Graves
A system of n equations in n unknowns has a unique solution if the n equations are linear and linearly independent. If the system is nonlinear, then one must characterize the nonlinearity before saying anything about whether a solution exists and if so how many solutions are there?

[R] How to conctruct an inner grouping for nlme random statement?

2005-02-22 Thread JJ
Hello. Im hoping someone can help with a grouping question related to the random= statement within the nlme function. How do you specify that some grouping levels are inner to others? I tried several things, given below. Lets say I have a data frame with five variables, resp, cov1, ran1, ran2,

Re: [R] Memory problems

2005-02-22 Thread Thomas Schönhoff
Looking at the posting guide will increase the chance to get a helpful response from this list. No one knows what kind of operating system are you running: Is it Windows,MacOS or Linux (32 or 64 bit)? Memory related problems are reported daily so it could be much beneficial to browse the

Re: [R] ROracle installation

2005-02-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
Liu, Jane wrote: Can someone tell me how to install ROracle package to PC? I couldn't find it CRAN package list. And when I tried to install from zip file, it failed. Thanks, Jane __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Rdbi and ODBC

2005-02-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
roger bos wrote: I have been using RODBC for a while with no complaints (R 2.0.1 patched under WinXP), then I saw a link (http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/r_and_dbms.html) showing that Rdbi claims to run a query in 5 seconds that takes RODBC 4.3 minutes. That was hard enough for me to believe that