Re: [R] "Missing value representation in Excel before extraction to R with RODBC"

2006-01-08 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi I believe it has something to do with the column identification decision. When R decides what is in a column it uses only some values from the beginning of a file. I do not use RODBC as read.delim("clipboard", ...) is usually more convenient but probably there is a way how to tell RODBC wha

Re: [R] R-help Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7

2006-01-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Evgeniy Kachalin wrote: > Uwe Ligges пишет: > >> Evgeniy Kachalin wrote: >> >>> Hello, dear participants! >>> >>> Could you tip me, is there any simple and nice way to build >>> scatter-plot for three different types of data (, and o and * - >>> signs, for example) with legend. >>> >>> Now i ca

[R] paste tab and print

2006-01-08 Thread vincent
Dear all, info = paste('a', 'b', sep='\t') print(info , quote=F) doesn't produce the same result with R201 and R220 (under Windows2000) R 2.0.1 : [1] a b R 2.2.0 : [1] a\tb I did read the CHANGESR220 file and tried also the search engine but couldn't find an answer. I certainly missed the poin

Re: [R] R-help Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7

2006-01-08 Thread Kyosti H Kurikka
Hi! Just use your factors for indexing c(15,16,17) and c("red","green","blue"). So, with the iris data: >with(iris, plot(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, pch=c(15,16,17)[as.integer(Species)], col=c("red","green","blue")[as.integer(Species)] )) Best regards, Kyosti Kurikka > > Evgeniy K

Re: [R] How to unload a package or "undo" library("package")

2006-01-08 Thread Ales Ziberna
If I do detach(package:blockmodeling) My package "blockmodeling" does not appear in (.packages()) [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" [7] "base" However, if I want to install a newer version from a local zip file, I get: utils:::menuInstallLocal() packa

[R] (sans objet)

2006-01-08 Thread PONSERO Alain
Dear R People: in the function loess, how can one add the weight of the points which is contained in the variable "nbtotal" Data : Nbtotal P_alim H_eau xyplot(P_alim ~ H_eau, auto.key = list(points = T, lines = F),data = data, type = c("p", "smooth"), span=.2, scales

Re: [R] Clustering and Rand Index - VS-KM

2006-01-08 Thread Ales Ziberna
You can comput tmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Hempelmann Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:43 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Clustering and Rand Index - VS-KM Dear WizaRds, I have been trying to compute the adjusted Rand index as by Hubert/ Arabie, and could not correct

Re: [R] Ordering boxplot factors; thank you!

2006-01-08 Thread Joseph LeBouton
Profs. Ripley and Schwartz, Thank you both very much for the suggestions! These are exactly what I was looking for. I'll re-read the boxplot help yet again; every time I read it something essential worms its way into my consciousness, but it enters more freely when I have a hint where to look

Re: [R] A comment about R:

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
[Uwe Ligges] >François Pinard wrote: >>[David Forrest] >>>[...] A few end-to-end tutorials on some interesting analyses would >>>be helpful. >>I'm in the process of learning R. While tutorials are undoubtedly >>very useful, and understanding that working and studying methods vary >>between indiv

[R] Clustering and Rand Index - VS-KM

2006-01-08 Thread Mark Hempelmann
Dear WizaRds, I have been trying to compute the adjusted Rand index as by Hubert/ Arabie, and could not correctly approach how to define a partition object as in my last request yesterday. With package fpc I try to work around the problem, using my original data: mat <- matrix( c(6,7,8,2,3,4,1

Re: [R] Wikis for R

2006-01-08 Thread David Forrest
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Detlef Steuer wrote: ... > Back to operating wikis:The wiki spamming is a serious problem, > especially because I HATE to login to read or edit anything. So the > choice is: take the wiki as seriously as work and have a look every > other day to remove the spam (or better: form

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
[hadley wickham] >> [...] according to comments I've read, MySQL does not seem to scale >> well with the database size according to the comments I've read, >> especially when records have to be decorated with random numbers and >> later sorted. >With SQL there is always a way to do what you want

Re: [R] repeat { readline() }

2006-01-08 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> Ctrl-Break works: see the rw-FAQ and README.rterm. (You'll need a return >> to see a new prompt.) >> >> It is related to your reading directly from the console, so Ctrl-C is >> getting sent to the wrong place, I believe.

Re: [R] Question about graphics in R

2006-01-08 Thread Jim Lemon
Martin Erwig wrote: > Considering the R function/plot shown below, I wonder whether > it is possible to do the following changes: > > (1) Change the color of each point to be picked from > list of colors according to its z-value. (The range > should be from blue (z=0) to red (z=1).) The grid > sho

Re: [R] lmer p-vales are sometimes too small

2006-01-08 Thread Douglas Bates
I have just uploaded version 0.99-6 of the Matrix package to the incoming area at CRAN. It should appear on the archives in the next day or two. In this version all degrees of freedom, test statistics and p-values have been removed from the summary, show and anova methods. I agree with John Main

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-08 Thread hadley wickham
> Thanks as well for these hints. Googling around as your suggested (yet > keeping my eyes in the MySQL direction, because this is what we use), > getting MySQL itself to do the selection is a bit discouraging, as > according to comments I've read, MySQL does not seem to scale well with > the data

Re: [R] How to unload a package or "undo" library("package")

2006-01-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here are some things to try: detach() - detach most recent attached package detach(2) - detach package which is in position 2 on search list. Same as detach() detach("package:mypackage") - mypackage from search list search() - display search list On 1/8/06, Aleš Žiberna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

[R] How to unload a package or "undo" library("package")

2006-01-08 Thread Aleš Žiberna
Hello! I would like to unload a package form a current R session. I tried datach(package:packagename), however it does not work. The reason I want to unload it is that I want to correct some files in the package and reinstall it without closing an R session. Best, Ales Ziberna PS: I am using R 2

Re: [R] maptools, write.polylistShape

2006-01-08 Thread Roger Bivand
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Patrick Giraudoux wrote: > Dear Roger, > > I am trying to use the write.polylistShape() function of maptools for > the first time and realize that it handles list of polygons of class > 'polylist'. However, it seems that no as.polylist() function exist in > the package. The

Re: [R] Finding R mailing list archives {was "Wikis etc."}

2006-01-08 Thread zzz haha
> I really wonder if adding yet another URL to the footer of every > message will be the solution; as others have correctly remarked, > the problem is that for many newbies it is more convenient to ask > rather than to first read something that contains more than three > words. ;-) hahaha. the bal

[R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-08 Thread Jack Tanner
Philippe's idea to start a wiki that grows out of the content on http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html is really great. Here's why. My hypothesis is that the basic reason that people ask questions on R-help rather than first looking elsewhere is that looking elsewhere doesn't get them the i

Re: [R] R-help Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7

2006-01-08 Thread Evgeniy Kachalin
Uwe Ligges пишет: > Evgeniy Kachalin wrote: > >> Hello, dear participants! >> >> Could you tip me, is there any simple and nice way to build >> scatter-plot for three different types of data (, and o and * - signs, >> for example) with legend. >> >> Now i can guess only that way: >> >> plot(x~y,

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
[Martin Maechler] >FrPi> Suppose the file (or tape) holds N records (N is not known >FrPi> in advance), from which we want a sample of M records at >FrPi> most. [...] If the algorithm is carefully designed, when >FrPi> the last (N'th) record of the file will have been processed >

[R] wicked wikis for R

2006-01-08 Thread Arin Basu
>Message: 41 >Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:52:33 +1100 > From: paul sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [R] Wikis etc. >To: Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,r-help > >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Frank E Harrell

[R] wicked wikis for R

2006-01-08 Thread Arin Basu
>Message: 41 >Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:52:33 +1100 > From: paul sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [R] Wikis etc. >To: Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,r-help > >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Frank E Harrell

Re: [R] lmer error message

2006-01-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Spencer: It is an option, not an argument, and sets the default for the lmerControl arguments msVerbose and EMverbose (see ?lmer) > options(verbose=TRUE) > fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy) EM iterations 0 1768.412 ( 3.75000 106.875 0.0:3.210.1740.

Re: [R] lmer error message

2006-01-08 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Doug: Thanks. My copy of the 'lmer' documentation does not list the 'verbose' argument. Is this something you plan to discontinue or modify, or was it recently added to the script but not to the documentation I have? Also, I just tried it modifying one of the examples

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
[Brian Ripley] >[François Pinard] >>[Brian Ripley] >>>One problem [...] is that R's I/O is not line-oriented but >>>stream-oriented. So selecting lines is not particularly easy in R. >>I understand that you mean random access to lines, instead of random >>selection of lines. >That was not my po

Re: [R] lmer error message

2006-01-08 Thread Douglas Bates
Also, please try setting options(verbose = TRUE) immediately before your call to lmer. This will provide verbose output on the progress of the iterations and will probably give an indication of where the problem lies. On 1/7/06, Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not fa

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-08 Thread phgrosjean
Hello all, Sorry for not taking part of this discussion earlier, and for not answering Detlef Steuer, Martin Maechler, and others that asked more direct questions to me. I am away from my office and my computer until the 16th of January. Just quick and partial answers: 1) I did not know about Ham

Re: [R] exporting methods/classes

2006-01-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R People: > > I'm still struggling with sending methods and classes as part of > creating a new package. > > Where does the .onLoad function go? Within R itself or in a file > in one of the new package directories? Simply save the .onLoad function in some .R file (e

Re: [R] packages and tex files

2006-01-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R People: > > I am trying to build a package (yet again!) > > I have both PCTex and WinEdt. I want the *.tex files to use WinEdt. Erin, please check the R Installation and Administration manual on how to set up a working environment to build and install packages.

[R] Filters in waveslim

2006-01-08 Thread Amir Safari
Dear R Users, For running wavelet functions using dwt( ), modwt( ), and mra( ), a wavelet filter algorithm is applied. For all these functions, default is "la8" and other possibility is "haar". In related documents, another possibilities like as symlet and coiflet ... are not cited.

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-08 Thread Kevin Gamble
Kris over at Wiki That! has a post today about what makes for a good wiki: http://www.wikithat.com/wiki_that/2006/01/wiki_of_the_wee_1.html > Most wikis I’ve looked at are in danger of facing the same fate as > most websites and CMS - death by boredom. They are focused on > content that is u

Re: [R] repeat { readline() }

2006-01-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Ctrl-Break works: see the rw-FAQ and README.rterm. (You'll need a return > to see a new prompt.) > > It is related to your reading directly from the console, so Ctrl-C is > getting sent to the wrong place, I believe. (There's a comment from Guido >

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] sudoku

2006-01-08 Thread Detlef Steuer
Hey, you spoiled my course! :-) I planned using this as an excersise. Alternative ideas anyone ... Detlef On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:43:44 -0500 "Brahm, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any doubts about R's big-league status should be put to rest, now that > we have a > Sudoku Puzzle Solver. Ta

Re: [R] Wikis etc.

2006-01-08 Thread Detlef Steuer
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:51:24 -0500 Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/07/06 12:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > So my $0.02 would be to a) go for it, if possible but b) make it > > visible, and closely tied to R Core / CRAN / R News / Which > > poses the chicken/egg problem of

Re: [R] repeat { readline() }

2006-01-08 Thread hadley wickham
On a related note, does anyone know how to exit: repeat { try( readline() ) } The try block captures Ctrl-C. Hadley __ 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-pr

Re: [R] repeat { readline() }

2006-01-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Ctrl-Break works: see the rw-FAQ and README.rterm. (You'll need a return to see a new prompt.) It is related to your reading directly from the console, so Ctrl-C is getting sent to the wrong place, I believe. (There's a comment from Guido somewhere in the sources about this, and this seems co