Re: [R] Creating very small plots (2.5 cm wide) in Sweave

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew Robinson
Dear Francisco, thanks for your solution. It turns out that it's best for me to use \setkeys{Gin}{width=0.15\textwidth} directly before I call the plot - that seems to work just fine. Andrwe On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:44:59AM +, Francisco J. Zagmutt wrote: > Others may propose more elegan

Re: [R] Interpolating / smoothing missing time series data

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Francisco J. Zagmutt wrote: > I don't have much experience in the subject but it seems that library(akima) > should be useful for your problem. Try library(help="akima") to see a list > of the functions available in the library. > > I hope this helps > > Francisco Yes, function aspline() of pa

Re: [R] Creating very small plots (2.5 cm wide) in Sweave

2005-09-07 Thread Francisco J. Zagmutt
Others may propose more elegant solutions but, in windows one quick an dirty option would be to change the argument 'pin' and 'fin' within par to get an image of exactly 1 inch (2.54 cm) i.e. y <- c(40, 46, 39, 44, 23, 36, 70, 39, 30, 73, 53, 74) x <- c(6, 4, 3, 6, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 8, 4, 6) par(pi

Re: [R] Interpolating / smoothing missing time series data

2005-09-07 Thread Francisco J. Zagmutt
I don't have much experience in the subject but it seems that library(akima) should be useful for your problem. Try library(help="akima") to see a list of the functions available in the library. I hope this helps Francisco >From: Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [R] RMySQL installation problem on FC4 x86_64

2005-09-07 Thread Seth Falcon
On 7 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # yum list installed mysql > Installed Packages > mysql.i3864.1.11-2 installed > mysql.x86_64 4.1.11-2 installed I would have thought that you need to have a mysql-dev.x86_64 rpm package installed in order to

[R] Prediction with multiple zeros in the dependent variable

2005-09-07 Thread John Sorkin
I have a batch of data in each line of data contains three values, calcium score, age, and sex. I would like to predict calcium scores as a function of age and sex, i.e. calcium=f(age,sex). Unfortunately the calcium scorers have a very "ugly distribution". There are multiple zeros, and multiple val

[R] Creating very small plots (2.5 cm wide) in Sweave

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has any code they could share for creating thumbnail plots in Sweave. For example, I'd like a plot like the following: y <- c(40, 46, 39, 44, 23, 36, 70, 39, 30, 73, 53, 74) x <- c(6, 4, 3, 6, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 8, 4, 6) opar <- par(mar=c(3,3,0,0)) plot(x, y, x

[R] Effect of data set size on calculation

2005-09-07 Thread Peter.Watkins
Dear listers, I have a piece of code which performs an ANOVA type of analysis on 2D GC data. The code is shown below: # ANOVA 2D GC analysis # maxc <- number of samples # nreps <- number of samples maxc <- 2 nreps <- 4 sscl <- NULL cmean <- NULL # # Initial stat. variable # d

Re: [R] Interpolating / smoothing missing time series data

2005-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/7/05, David James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The purpose of this email is to ask for pre-built procedures or > techniques for smoothing and interpolating missing time series data. > > I've made some headway on my problem in my spare time. I started > with an irregular time series with lots

Re: [R] (no subject)

2005-09-07 Thread Jim Lemon
Salang Pan wrote: > hi, > > Is it possible to draw a string text in a rectangle according the width of > this rectangle? that is, the fontsize of this string text can be adjusted > according the width of the rectangle. > How to set the cex parameter in text function? > > text (x, y = NU

[R] Experimental data analysis (eda) function

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew MacManes
Hello, I cant seen to find the equivalent function in version 2.1.1. This always served as a nice preliminary tool for looking visually at data. Thanks, Matt Matthew MacManes PhD Student Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Department of Integrative Biology UC-Berkeley Berkeley, CA. 94720 Office

[R] RMySQL installation problem on FC4 x86_64

2005-09-07 Thread bogdan romocea
Dear useRs, I'm having a hard time installing RMySQL on a FC4 x86_64 box (R 2.1.0 and MySQL 4.1.11-2 installed through yum). After an initial configuration error ("could not find the MySQL installation include and/or library directories") I managed to install RMySQL with # export PKG_LIBS="-L -

Re: [R] Crash with seasonal ARIMA

2005-09-07 Thread David James
Actually, I think period = 365 * 24 = 8760 is really what I need. That crashes arima as well. > I am using period = 365, which makes sense me to me. Is this wrong? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing li

Re: [R] graphics support in R help files

2005-09-07 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I cannot state this with the certainty that others might, but the Rd format is a text format. If you want to produce something else then you need to choose an alternative method. For instance, 1.4 of "Writing R Extensions" notes that "Documents in 'inst/doc' can be in arbitrary format, however w

[R] Crash with seasonal ARIMA

2005-09-07 Thread David James
The following command crashes my Mac OS X version of R: (I'm running R on a PowerMac G5, with 1 GB of RAM and dual processors.) > arima.0 <- arima(w3.ts,order=c(1,0,0),seasonal=list(order=c (1,0,0),period=365)) -David Here is some background: w3.ts is hourly temperature data with about 20%

[R] Interpolating / smoothing missing time series data

2005-09-07 Thread David James
The purpose of this email is to ask for pre-built procedures or techniques for smoothing and interpolating missing time series data. I've made some headway on my problem in my spare time. I started with an irregular time series with lots of missing data. It even had duplicated data. Thank

[R] control parameter for Nelder-Mead algorithm in optim()

2005-09-07 Thread Weijie Cai
Hi, In manual for optim() function, there are three control parameters for Nelder-Mead algorithm: alpha (reflection),beta(contraction) and gamma(expansion), but in the original paper, there is another parameter delta which controls shrinkage, how can I set this shrink parameter? Or is beta act

[R] graphics support in R help files

2005-09-07 Thread Leonard Kannapell
I looked through the "Writing R Extensions" pdf, and I don't see how graphics can be input in help files. For example, if I had a .eps plot that I wanted to include in a help file, what would the syntax be to include it in an R help file? If there is graphics support in help files, which format ar

Re: [R] R: optim

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Clark Allan wrote: > > $MLE$message > [1] "ERROR: ABNORMAL_TERMINATION_IN_LNSRCH" > > > WHAT DOES THIS ERROR MESSAGE MEAN??? > Looking at the code in optim() a little, it looks as though this error comes when the optimiser tries to do a line search in the steepest descent di

Re: [R] Fisher's method in discriminant analysis

2005-09-07 Thread Bernardo Rangel Tura
At 13:15 5/9/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > > I'm using mda library to solve a discriminant >analysis. I get results, but the thing is that I want >to use Fisher's method to obtain the classification >functions and I'm lost in what I should do: libraries >to use, ... Can anybody give me a clue?? Hi Ca

Re: [R] Language issue

2005-09-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Sebastien Durand wrote: > Dear all, > > I am running > R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Version 2.1.1 (2005-06-20), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 > Under Mac os X, a french version! > > I am preparing a package and I got the following issue > > I am trying to read dates tha

Re: [R] Leading in line-wrapped Lattice axis value and panel labels

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Tim Churches wrote: > Paul Murrell wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Deepayan Sarkar wrote: >> > On 9/7/05, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> Version 2.1.1 Platforms: all >> >> >> >> What is the trellis parameter (or is there a trellis parameter) to >> >> set the leading (the gap between

Re: [R] Predicting responses using ace

2005-09-07 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Luis Pineda wrote: > I sent this email before, but I got a r-help-bounce message and I don know > if it got to the m-list. Sorry if you had already seen it. > > I'm using the areg.boot function to do an ace regression. So far I've been > able to do some simple running tests to fit a model with s

Re: [R] Leading in line-wrapped Lattice axis value and panel labels

2005-09-07 Thread Tim Churches
Paul Murrell wrote: > Hi > > Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > > On 9/7/05, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Version 2.1.1 Platforms: all > >> > >> What is the trellis parameter (or is there a trellis parameter) to > >> set the leading (the gap between lines) when long axis values > >> labe

Re: [R] Using Tk table widget to display matrix

2005-09-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Has anyone written a matrix editor or data.entry() replacement using the Tk > table widget? I've been playing around with the examples at > > http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/tktable.html > > and making some progress, but I'd rather not spend much

Re: [R] Leading in line-wrapped Lattice value and panel labels

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On 9/7/05, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Version 2.1.1 Platforms: all >> >> What is the trellis parameter (or is there a trellis parameter) to >> set the leading (the gap between lines) when long axis values >> labels or panel header labels wrap o

[R] Language issue

2005-09-07 Thread Sebastien Durand
Dear all, I am running R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.1.1 (2005-06-20), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Under Mac os X, a french version! I am preparing a package and I got the following issue I am trying to read dates that are written in english and have them reco

Re: [R] Leading in line-wrapped Lattice value and panel labels

2005-09-07 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 9/7/05, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version 2.1.1 > Platforms: all > > What is the trellis parameter (or is there a trellis parameter) to set the > leading (the gap between lines) when long axis values labels or panel header > labels wrap over more than one line? By default, the

[R] Using Tk table widget to display matrix

2005-09-07 Thread jhallman
Has anyone written a matrix editor or data.entry() replacement using the Tk table widget? I've been playing around with the examples at http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/tktable.html and making some progress, but I'd rather not spend much time on this if someone else has alrea

Re: [R] Predicting responses using ace

2005-09-07 Thread Luis Pineda
I sent this email before, but I got a r-help-bounce message and I don know if it got to the m-list. Sorry if you had already seen it. I'm using the areg.boot function to do an ace regression. So far I've been able to do some simple running tests to fit a model with some input data, predict the

[R] [R-pkgs] Revised versions of the maptools and sp packages

2005-09-07 Thread Roger Bivand
Revised versions of maptools, a package for reading geographical data from shapefiles, and sp, a package with classes and methods for spatial data handling, have been released on CRAN. They are maptools release 0.5-1 and sp release 0.8-1. The maptools package now depends on sp (>= 0.8), so that us

Re: [R] Avoid Sweave from stopping on errors

2005-09-07 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Douglas Bates wrote: > On 9/7/05, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could use <>= and the code inside the chunk will not > > be evaluated. I suppose two other options could be to comment out the > > bad code inside the code chunk or to use verbatim to make it loo

Re: [R] FW: Re: Doubt about nested aov output

2005-09-07 Thread Douglas Bates
On 9/7/05, John Wilkinson (pipex) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ronaldo, > > Further to my previous posting on your Glycogen nested aov model. > > Having read Douglas Bates' response and Reflected on his lmer analysis > output of your aov nested model example as given.The Glycogen treatment has

[R] summary of problem with mCall function.

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Shipley
Last week I posted a question concerning the mCall function, which is used to create self-starting functions and is described in the book by Pinheiro, J.C. and Bates, D.M. (Mixed-effects models in S and S-PLUS). On page 345 one finds the following call: xy<-sortedXyData(mCall[["x"]], LHS,data)

Re: [R] Avoid Sweave from stopping on errors

2005-09-07 Thread Douglas Bates
On 9/7/05, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could use <>= and the code inside the chunk will not be > evaluated. I suppose two other options could be to comment out the bad code > inside the code chunk or to use verbatim to make it look like a code chunk in > your output. > > >

Re: [R] Avoid Sweave from stopping on errors

2005-09-07 Thread Doran, Harold
You could use <>= and the code inside the chunk will not be evaluated. I suppose two other options could be to comment out the bad code inside the code chunk or to use verbatim to make it look like a code chunk in your output. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

Re: [R] Course***R/Splus Programming Techniques***New York, September 2005

2005-09-07 Thread paul king
FYI XLSolutions Corporation (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) is proud to announce 2-day "R/S-plus Fundamentals and Programming Techniques" in New York City. www.xlsolutions-corp.com/Rfund.htm New York City September 22nd-23rd, 2005 Reserve your seat now at the early bi

Re: [R] Hotelling Test

2005-09-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Francisco J. Zagmutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Check some of the threads at RSiteSearch("Hotelling") > > Or use anova(lm(X~g), test="Hotelling"), where X is the matrix of > responses and g is the grouping factor. Oops, sorry. That is in r-d

Re: [R] Hotelling Test

2005-09-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
"Francisco J. Zagmutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check some of the threads at RSiteSearch("Hotelling") Or use anova(lm(X~g), test="Hotelling"), where X is the matrix of responses and g is the grouping factor. > Cheers > > Francisco > > >From: Bill Donner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: R-help@

Re: [R] Hotelling Test

2005-09-07 Thread Francisco J. Zagmutt
Check some of the threads at RSiteSearch("Hotelling") Cheers Francisco >From: Bill Donner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >Subject: [R] Hotelling Test >Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:48:06 -0700 (PDT) > >Hello R-users, > >I've been looking for a function performing one and two sample

Re: [R] using system()

2005-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/7/05, Thomas Petzoldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Omar Lakkis schrieb: > > Using system() is theer a way to make the R interpreter not wait for > > the command to finish? > > system("cmd", wait=FALSE) > > see ?system in online help. > Coincidentially I recently posted on r-devel a note p

[R] Avoid Sweave from stopping on errors

2005-09-07 Thread Vincent Goulet
Hi all, Is there an option in Sweave to avoid it from stopping on a code chunk with an error? (I purposefully want to include code with an error in class notes.) I suspect the answer is "no" and that I will be pointed to options("error"). That'd be fine, but which error parameter will just "do

Re: [R] using system()

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Omar Lakkis schrieb: > Using system() is theer a way to make the R interpreter not wait for > the command to finish? system("cmd", wait=FALSE) see ?system in online help. Thomas P. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/

[R] using system()

2005-09-07 Thread Omar Lakkis
Using system() is theer a way to make the R interpreter not wait for the command to finish? __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.htm

Re: [R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi what is wrong with matplot sines <- outer(1:20, 1:4, function(x, y) sin(x / 20 * pi * y)) matplot(sines, pch = 1:4, type = "o", col = rainbow(ncol(sines))) so you can use aditional parameters to exactly specify what type of point and/or line and in what colour you will plot. Or with plot/po

Re: [R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Romain Francois
Le 07.09.2005 16:00, Stéphane Mattei a écrit : >Thank you all for your answers. > >I eventually use the points command > >plot(MATRIX[,1]) >points(MATRIX[,2]) >points(MATRIX[,3]) >... > >with matplot I had numbers instead of points with type="p" and par(new=TRUE) >makes complications >with the ax

[R] variables from command line

2005-09-07 Thread Omar Lakkis
How can I pass parameters to an R script from the command line. And how can I read them from within the script? This is how I want to invoke the script: R CMD BATCH r.in r.out The script with read in the input values, process them and spit the output to r.out. _

Re: [R] solving a system of nonlinear equations

2005-09-07 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Olshansky,Moshe wrote: > What is the "classic" R function for solving a (possibly over > determined) system of non-linear equations? > > > > Thank you! > > > > Moshe Olshansky > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I'm not sure what your definition of '"classic"' is, but there are se

Re: [R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Stéphane Mattei
Selon Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 9/7/05, Stéphane Mattei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello ! > > > > > > There is something quite simple I want to do with R but I found nowhere in > > the help how to do > it. > > I just want to plot data which are in a matrix, every column be

[R] FW: Re: Doubt about nested aov output

2005-09-07 Thread John Wilkinson \(pipex\)
Ronaldo, Further to my previous posting on your Glycogen nested aov model. Having read Douglas Bates' response and Reflected on his lmer analysis output of your aov nested model example as given.The Glycogen treatment has to be a Fixed Effect.If a 'treatment' isn't a Fixed Effect what is ? If D

Re: [R] irregular time series prediction

2005-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > This is my first post, so allow me to introduce myself. > > But first, I'd like to thank all the authors and contributors to the R > software, > as I think that it is truly a great and very useful package. > > I am the author

Re: [R] Survival analysis with COXPH

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Basile Chaix wrote: > Dear all, > I would have some questions on the coxph function for survival analysis, > which I use with frailty terms. > > My model is: > mdcox<-coxph(Surv(time,censor)~ gender + age + frailty(area, dist='gauss'), > data) > I have a very large proportion o

[R] solving a system of nonlinear equations

2005-09-07 Thread Olshansky,Moshe
What is the "classic" R function for solving a (possibly over determined) system of non-linear equations? Thank you! Moshe Olshansky e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information transmitted is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confident

Re: [R] Hotelling Test

2005-09-07 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
some time ago I've written a function for the Hotelling test, maybe you could give it a try: hotel.test <- function(x, y = NULL, mu = 0) { if(!is.numeric(x) || !is.matrix(x)) stop("'x' must be a numeric matrix") n <- nrow(x) p <- ncol(x) xbar <- colMeans(x, na.rm = TRUE)

Re: [R] references in the manual to endnote and spanish versions of everything

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Chris Buddenhagen wrote: > > 1) I have been really pleased with R as a means of doing and learning > statistics. I work in a Spanish speaking country- and I wanted to pass on > the benefits of R to my Spanish speaking colleagues. There are a couple of > introductions to R in Spa

Re: [R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/7/05, Stéphane Mattei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello ! > > > There is something quite simple I want to do with R but I found nowhere in > the help how to do it. > I just want to plot data which are in a matrix, every column being a data set > and having the same > x-axis (just an index

[R] Survival analysis with COXPH

2005-09-07 Thread Basile Chaix
Dear all, I would have some questions on the coxph function for survival analysis, which I use with frailty terms. My model is: mdcox<-coxph(Surv(time,censor)~ gender + age + frailty(area, dist='gauss'), data) I have a very large proportion of censored observations. - If I understand correctly,

[R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Stéphane Mattei
Thank you all for your answers. I eventually use the points command plot(MATRIX[,1]) points(MATRIX[,2]) points(MATRIX[,3]) ... with matplot I had numbers instead of points with type="p" and par(new=TRUE) makes complications with the axis. __ R-help@s

[R] Hotelling Test

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Donner
Hello R-users, I've been looking for a function performing one and two sample Hotelling test for testing equality of mean vectors. Has anyone implemented such a function in R? thanks a lot, Bill == Bill Donner Statistician __ R-help@stat

Re: [R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Henrik Andersson
Have a look at ?matplot Stéphane Mattei wrote: > Hello ! > > > There is something quite simple I want to do with R but I found nowhere in > the help how to do it. > I just want to plot data which are in a matrix, every column being a data set > and having the same > x-axis (just an index). >

Re: [R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Romain Francois
Le 07.09.2005 15:28, Stéphane Mattei a écrit : >Hello ! > > >There is something quite simple I want to do with R but I found nowhere in the >help how to do it. >I just want to plot data which are in a matrix, every column being a data set >and having the same >x-axis (just an index). > >So for e

[R] references in the manual to endnote and spanish versions of everything

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Buddenhagen
Chris Buddenhagen, Botany Department, Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz,Galapagos. Mail: Charles Darwin Foundation, Casilla 17-01-3891 Avenida 6 de Diciembre N36-109 y Pasaje California Quito, ECUADOR Dear all 1) I have been really pleased with R as a means of doing and learning stat

Re: [R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/7/2005 9:28 AM, Stéphane Mattei wrote: > Hello ! > > > There is something quite simple I want to do with R but I found nowhere in > the help how to do it. > I just want to plot data which are in a matrix, every column being a data set > and having the same > x-axis (just an index). > > So

[R] Plot of multiple data sets

2005-09-07 Thread Stéphane Mattei
Hello ! There is something quite simple I want to do with R but I found nowhere in the help how to do it. I just want to plot data which are in a matrix, every column being a data set and having the same x-axis (just an index). So for example if I have a 50 x 6 matrix I want 6 set of points on

Re: [R] Lattice key seems to ignore the key list

2005-09-07 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Patrick Connolly wrote: > I've never had this problem before and can't see what could be > different from other times I've used keys with lattice. > > > > It appears that auto.key is being taken as TRUE when I specify a key > list. The list I specify seems to be ignored. > > Where can I plac

Re: [R] R: optim

2005-09-07 Thread Clark Allan
funny optim message: $MLE $MLE$par [1] -0.09554688 1.13100488 0.06651340 $MLE$value [1] 48.93381 $MLE$counts function gradient 100 100 $MLE$convergence [1] 52 $MLE$message [1] "ERROR: ABNORMAL_TERMINATION_IN_LNSRCH" WHAT DOES THIS ERROR MESSAGE MEAN??? hope some one can help.

Re: [R] fitting distribution tails

2005-09-07 Thread Ingmar Visser
Not an R-response, but see this reference: Dolan CV, van der Maas HLJ, Molenaar PCM A framework for ML estimation of parameters of (mixtures of) common reaction time distributions given optional truncation or censoring  BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS INSTRUMENTS & COMPUTERS 34 (3): 304-323 AUG 2002 o

[R] fitting distribution tails

2005-09-07 Thread Carsten Steinhoff
Hello, I want to fit a distribution to a dataset. Important is not the "overall" fitting but the fitting in the tail (e.g. all observations > x or the n highest values). Standard ML-estimation sometimes doesn't work here very well. We see that especially when we have truncated datasets the algori

[R] (no subject)

2005-09-07 Thread Salang Pan
hi, when I use bclust in R, bclust(dat,centers=5,minsize=3,base.centers=4) dat has 25 rows, there is an error as following: Error in knn1(object$allcenters, x, factor(1:nrow(object$allcenters))) : train and class have different lengths when I debug this function , I found the err

Re: [R] Doubt about nested aov output

2005-09-07 Thread John Wilkinson \(pipex\)
Ronaldo , It looks as though you have specified you model incorrectly. In the Rats example ,the Treatment is the only fixed effect,Rat and Liver are random effects In aov testing for sig of 'Means' of Random Effects is pointless and that is why 'p' values are not given.Further more the interacti

Re: [R] Sorting Text Frames

2005-09-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
Murray Jorgensen wrote: > > thanks <- read.fwf("C:\\Files\\Reading\\thankyou.txt", c(43,37)) [CCing R-help again: I have looked at Murray Jorgensen's data in the meantime] tord <- order(thanks$V2) sink("C:\\thanks.txt") thanks[tord,] sink() Works for me with R-2.1.1. --> Please upgrade your

[R] irregular time series prediction

2005-09-07 Thread jfontain
Hello. This is my first post, so allow me to introduce myself. But first, I'd like to thank all the authors and contributors to the R software, as I think that it is truly a great and very useful package. I am the author of moodss, a GPL modular monitoring application (http://moodss.sourceforge.

Re: [R] Sorting Text Frames

2005-09-07 Thread Murray Jorgensen
Uwe Ligges wrote: > I guess there is just too much space or some special characters in your > variables that cause problems when printing ... > Hence you have to "debug" your data yourself. > > Uwe Ligges However the problem persists when I don't try to print the fram "thanks" to a file. thank

Re: [R] Fisher's method in discriminant analysis

2005-09-07 Thread C NL
Hi, I read your answer and the message you pointed me at, and you talked about the page 347 of the book MASS 3 in your posting as a place where the Fisher's method was mentioned. The thing is that I don't have that book, so I would like to ask you if you can give me that information. If you don

Re: [R] (no subject)

2005-09-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
Salang Pan wrote: > hi, > > Is it possible to draw a string text in a rectangle according the width of > this rectangle? that is, the fontsize of this string text can be adjusted > according the width of the rectangle. > How to set the cex parameter in text function? > > text (x, y = N