[R] A whine and a request

2006-06-13 Thread John Vokey
guRus and useRs, As I instruct my students: "With R what is difficult in anything else, is easy, usually one line of code; but, what is easy in anything else, is *&^%$%#$... (translation: next to impossible) in R." I just ran into such a case that has, to put it mildly, driven me to use spr

Re: [R] Decimal series how to make.........

2006-06-13 Thread Simon Blomberg
?seq anil kumar rohilla wrote: > Hi List, > I am new to this Rsoftware, i want to make a sereis for example which > is having values like this, s<- 0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,1 > > i tryed this statement > s<-0:0.1:1 > but this giving an error megssage. > but by default increment 1 it is

Re: [R] Decimal series how to make.........

2006-06-13 Thread Niels Vestergaard Jensen
On 14 Jun 2006, anil kumar rohilla wrote: > Hi List, > I am new to this Rsoftware, i want to make a sereis for example which > is having values like this, s<- 0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,1 > > i tryed this statement > s<-0:0.1:1 > but this giving an error megssage. > but by default incremen

[R] Decimal series how to make.........

2006-06-13 Thread anil kumar rohilla
Hi List, I am new to this Rsoftware, i want to make a sereis for example which is having values like this, s<- 0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,1 i tryed this statement s<-0:0.1:1 but this giving an error megssage. but by default increment 1 it is taking ,so what to do ,, i want to use thi

Re: [R] R kicking us out

2006-06-13 Thread J Dougherty
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 13:00, Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R People: > > I am using R for teaching purposes in a large classroom. > > Each computer has its own copy of R. > > However, every once in a while, about half of us will get > thrown out of R, for no apparent reason. > > By the way, it has h

Re: [R] Multiple lag.plots per page

2006-06-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: >> >>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot several lag.plots on a page, however the second plot > rep

Re: [R] Multiple lag.plots per page

2006-06-13 Thread Gad Abraham
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: > >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: >>> Hi, I'm trying to plot several lag.plots on a page, however the second plot replaces the first one (although it only takes up the upp

Re: [R] data set size question

2006-06-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The restriction is that objects are kept in memory so if you have sufficient memory and your OS lets you access it then you should be ok. S-Plus is a commercial package similar to R but stores its objects in files and can handle larger data sets if you run into trouble. Given that R is free and o

[R] data set size question

2006-06-13 Thread Carl Hauser
Hi there, I'm very new to R and am only in the beginning stages of investigating it for possible use. A document by John Maindonald at the r-project website entitled "Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics: Introduction, Code and Commentary" contains the following paragraph, "The R system may stru

Re: [R] cumulative time durations of specified periods (chron)

2006-06-13 Thread Sebastian Luque
[sorry for my previous empty follow-up -- my fingers got messed up.] Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you try the following: > >> xto-xfrom > Time in days: > [1] 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 I wanted to find the total amount of time between a series of date/time's corresponding to particu

Re: [R] cumulative time durations of specified periods (chron)

2006-06-13 Thread Sebastian Luque
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:49:09 -0700, Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you try the following: > >> xto-xfrom > Time in days: > [1] 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 > Also, have you seen Gabor Grothendieck and Thomas Petzoldt. "R help desk: Date and time classes in R". R News, 4

Re: [R] cumulative time durations of specified periods (chron)

2006-06-13 Thread Spencer Graves
Did you try the following: > xto-xfrom Time in days: [1] 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 Also, have you seen Gabor Grothendieck and Thomas Petzoldt. "R help desk: Date and time classes in R". R News, 4(1):29-32, June 2004., downloadable from www.r-project.org -> "Documentation: Newsle

Re: [R] Multiple lag.plots per page

2006-06-13 Thread Gad Abraham
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: > >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: >>> Hi, I'm trying to plot several lag.plots on a page, however the second plot replaces the first one (although it only takes up the upp

Re: [R] Numerical print format and loading with RMySQL

2006-06-13 Thread dhinds
Nathan Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I constructed a data frame with columns corresponding to the table > fields, and tried with and without a null column for the auto- > increment internal id column. I also tried renaming all the column > names to match those of the table fields. Al

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/13/06, H. Paul Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, > That was the problem. I know about using the extra brackets but in the R > help manual it doesn't use brackets so I thought maybe R is different. The problem is not that you must use brackets -- you don't. The problem is that yo

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread H. Paul Benton
Thank you, That was the problem. I know about using the extra brackets but in the R help manual it doesn't use brackets so I thought maybe R is different. However, yes indeed, it was assigning the 'lgAB to 4'. I'm just starting to really learn R. Cheers, Paul PS thanks to the Patrick Burns who

Re: [R] Rosner's test

2006-06-13 Thread Berton Gunter
RSiteSearch('Rosner') ?RSiteSearch or search directly from CRAN. Incidentally, I'll repeat what I've said before. Don't do outlier tests. They're dangerous. Use robust methods instead. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician

Re: [R] automated data processing

2006-06-13 Thread Neuro LeSuperHéros
Hi, Put all you .dat files in one directory ('c:/data' for example) and do this: finaltable <-NULL folder <-dir('c:/data') for (i in folder){ table1 <-read.table(i) mean1 <-mean(table1$V1) var1 <-var(table1$V1) rowname <-paste(i) finaltable <-rbind(finaltable,c(rowname,mean1,var1)) } Neuro >Fr

Re: [R] automated data processing

2006-06-13 Thread jim holtman
Not sure what your increments are, but something like this might work: result <- NULL for (i in 4:5){ x <- read.table(paste('0.', i, '.dat', sep='')) E <- data$V1[1000:length(data$V1)] result <- rbind(result, c(paste('0.', i, sep=''), mean(E), var(E) } # you can then output 'result' to a

[R] Rosner's test

2006-06-13 Thread Robert Powell
My second request of the day, sorry to be such a bother. Can you tell me whether Rosner's test for outliers is available in any of the R packages and, if so, which one? I've tried but I can't find it. Thank you very much, Bob Powell __ R-help@stat

Re: [R] R kicking us out

2006-06-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jun-06 Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R People: > > I am using R for teaching purposes in a large classroom. > > Each computer has its own copy of R. > > However, every once in a while, about half of us will get > thrown out of R, for no apparent reason. > > By the way, it has happened in ot

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/13/06, Rolf Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H. Paul Benton wrote: > > > Umm sorry to bother everyone again but I'm having trouble with my if > > statement. I come from a perl background so that's probably my problem! :) > > So here is my code: > > > > if (any(lgAB>4) | any(lgAB<-4)){ > >

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread Rolf Turner
H. Paul Benton wrote: > Umm sorry to bother everyone again but I'm having trouble with my if > statement. I come from a perl background so that's probably my problem! :) > So here is my code: > > if (any(lgAB>4) | any(lgAB<-4)){ > freq_AB<-hist(lgAB, type="o", plot=F) > else > f

[R] Failed library(ncdf)

2006-06-13 Thread Waichler, Scott R
I am trying to use the ncdf package on a Mac OS X machine (10.4.6), but I get the following error message: > library(ncdf) Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/ncdf/libs/ppc/ncdf.so ':

[R] R kicking us out

2006-06-13 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I am using R for teaching purposes in a large classroom. Each computer has its own copy of R. However, every once in a while, about half of us will get thrown out of R, for no apparent reason. By the way, it has happened in other classrooms as well. Has anyone else run into th

[R] automated data processing

2006-06-13 Thread mw-u2
I have many files (0.4.dat, 0.5.dat, ...) of which I would like to calculate mean value and variance and save the output in a new file where each line shouldlook like: "0.4 mean(0.4.dat) var(0.4.dat)" and so on. Right now I got a a simple script that makes me unhappy: 1. I run it by "R --no-sav

Re: [R] 2 Courses Near You - (1) Introduction to R/S+ programming: Microarrays Analysis and Bioconductor, (2) R/Splus Fundamentals and Programming Techniques

2006-06-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
... and again I wonder which courses are "near". This leads at once to the question: "which metric is in use?". Probably some football related metric: FIFA WM takes place in Dortmund and commercials say something like "the world is our guest" ... Now, let's escape from football to Austria and Vi

[R] Cramer-von Mises normality test

2006-06-13 Thread Robert Powell
Hi, this is my first help request so please bear with me. I've been running some normality tests using the nortest package. For some of my datasets the Cramer-von Mises normality test generates an extremely high probability (e.g., 1.637e+31) and indicates normality when the other tests do no

[R] missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

2006-06-13 Thread Peter Lauren
I am using R 2.3.0 and trying to run the following code. BinCnt=round(ShorterVectorLength/10) BinMatrix=matrix(nrow=BinCnt, ncol=2) Increment=(VectorRange[2]-VectorRange[1])/BinCnt BinMatrix[1,1]=VectorRange[1] BinMatrix[1,2]=VectorRange[1]+Increment

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Sarah Goslee wrote: > You need more brackets: > > if(blah) { > do something > } else { > do something different > } > > Sarah > > PS Using underscores in variable names is not encouraged, and > can cause you problems in certain contexts. > Hi, Sarah, Why do you say this? And in what sit

Re: [R] underscores

2006-06-13 Thread Sarah Goslee
Since several people have commented to me, on and off list: On 6/13/06, Sarah Goslee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > PS Using underscores in variable names is not encouraged, and > > can cause you problems in certain contexts. I realize that it is now legal in R to use underscores, since they

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/13/06, Sarah Goslee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need more brackets: > > if(blah) { > do something > } else { > do something different > } > > Sarah > > PS Using underscores in variable names is not encouraged, and > can cause you problems in certain contexts. The only context I can thi

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread Gabor Csardi
replace 'else' with '} else {' Gabor On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:18:00AM -0700, H. Paul Benton wrote: > Umm sorry to bother everyone again but I'm having trouble with my if > statement. I come from a perl background so that's probably my problem! :) > So here is my code: > > if (any(lgAB>4) | any

Re: [R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread Sarah Goslee
You need more brackets: if(blah) { do something } else { do something different } Sarah PS Using underscores in variable names is not encouraged, and can cause you problems in certain contexts. On 6/13/06, H. Paul Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Umm sorry to bother everyone again but

[R] if syntax error :(

2006-06-13 Thread H. Paul Benton
Umm sorry to bother everyone again but I'm having trouble with my if statement. I come from a perl background so that's probably my problem! :) So here is my code: if (any(lgAB>4) | any(lgAB<-4)){ freq_AB<-hist(lgAB, type="o", plot=F) else freq_AB<-hist(lgAB, breaks=br,type

[R] 2 Courses Near You - (1) Introduction to R/S+ programming: Microarrays Analysis and Bioconductor, (2) R/Splus Fundamentals and Programming Techniques

2006-06-13 Thread elvis
XLSolutions Corporation (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) is proud to announce: (1) Introduction to R/S+ programming: Microarrays Analysis and Bioconductor *** San Francisco / July 17-18, 2006 *** *** Chicago / July 24-25, 2006 *** *** Baltim

[R] rqss.object

2006-06-13 Thread Julie MIKHALEVSKY-PERE
Hello, I am a new user and I am looking for the description of the output of rqss function (Additive Quantile Regression Smoothing). It is supposed to be in rqss.object but I could not find any reference to rqss.object anywhere. thanks a lot. Julia [[alternative HTML version deleted

Re: [R] Numerical print format and loading with RMySQL

2006-06-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Nathan Johnson wrote: > I'm new to R and have been resisting posting to the list thus far, > but I think I've exhausted my work around options. Have you asked the package maintainer: the posting guide suggests you do so first? He is by far the most likely source of help. >

[R] Numerical print format and loading with RMySQL

2006-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
Hi I'm new to R and have been resisting posting to the list thus far, but I think I've exhausted my work around options. I'm having a few problems with RMySQL and/or it's underlying packages. I'm doing a very simple vsn transformation on large datasets, using RMySQL to retrieve the data for

[R] DSC 2005 proceedings?

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin Wright
This page: http://depts.washington.edu/dsc2005/ says the proceedings for DSC 2005 will be published online and that the papers were due in final form by September 2005. Anyone know if the proceedings have been published yet or when (if?) they will be published? Thanks. Kevin Wright

[R] problem with write.table

2006-06-13 Thread David Hajage
Hello, I have a data frame : > linkptpn[1:6,] pedigree id fa mo sex status rs3789604 rs3811021 rs1217413 ss38346942 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 2 0 0 2 2 3 1 3 1 2 2 3 3/3 2/2 3/34/4 4 1 4 1 2 2 3 3/3

Re: [R] levelplot and source() problems

2006-06-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Niels Vestergaard Jensen wrote: > I have been using levelplot but have had trouble calling it inside > functions - something seems to go wrong when it's not called directly from > the R command prompt. Simplest reproducible example: > > $ R --vanilla >> library(lattice) >> lev

Re: [R] levelplot and source() problems

2006-06-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This is 7.22 of the R FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-do-lattice_002ftrellis-graphics-not-work_003f On 6/13/06, Niels Vestergaard Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using levelplot but have had trouble calling it inside > functions - something seems to go wrong

[R] levelplot and source() problems

2006-06-13 Thread Niels Vestergaard Jensen
I have been using levelplot but have had trouble calling it inside functions - something seems to go wrong when it's not called directly from the R command prompt. Simplest reproducible example: $ R --vanilla > library(lattice) > levelplot(matrix(1:4,2,2)) - This gives a nice plot in soothing pas

Re: [R] sorting matrix elements by given rownames and colnames

2006-06-13 Thread Chuck Cleland
Albert Vilella wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to know if it is possible to sort the columns and rows in > a matrix given a specified order of their colnames and rownames. For > example: > > I would like the original matrix: > > RNO FRU ANG CEL DAR PTR > RNO 3.45 1.35 2.16 2.25 1

[R] COX FRAILTY

2006-06-13 Thread denis lalountas
Dear R users, Suppose that I generate the following : library(survival) set.seed(123) n=200 x=rbinom(n,size=1,prob=0.5) v=rep(rgamma(n/2,shape=1,scale=1),2) w=rweibull(n,shape=1,scale=1) b=-log(2) t=exp(-x*b-log(v)+log(w)) c=rep(1,n) id=rep(seq(1:(n/2)),2) group=rep(1:(n/10),10) fit2=coxp

[R] sorting matrix elements by given rownames and colnames

2006-06-13 Thread Albert Vilella
Hi all, I would like to know if it is possible to sort the columns and rows in a matrix given a specified order of their colnames and rownames. For example: I would like the original matrix: RNO FRU ANG CEL DAR PTR RNO 3.45 1.35 2.16 2.25 1.43 1.20 FRU 1.31 Inf 2.22 2.36 1.34 1.4

[R] Slight fault in error messages

2006-06-13 Thread Yan Wong
Just a quick point which may be easy to correct. Whilst typing the wrong thing into R 2.2.1, I noticed the following error messages, which seem to have some stray quotation marks and commas in the list of available families. Perhaps they have been corrected in the latest version (sorry, I d

[R] bubbleplot for matrix

2006-06-13 Thread Albert Vilella
Hi all, I would like to ask if it is possible to use bubbleplot for a 20x20 matrix, instead of a dataframe with factors in columns. The idea would be to get a tabular representation with bubbles like in Rnews_2006_2 article, which look very nice. Thanks in advance, Albert.

[R] Garch Warning

2006-06-13 Thread Arun Kumar Saha
Dear all R-users, I wanted to fit a Garch(1,1) model to a dataset by: >garch1 = garch(na.omit(dat)) But I got a warning message while executing, which is: >Warning message: >NaNs produced in: sqrt(pred$e) The garch parameters that I got are: > garch1 Call: garch(x = na.omit(dat)) Coefficie

Re: [R] Predict with loess

2006-06-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Jouanin Celine wrote: I want to do a nonparametric regression. I’m using the function loess. The variable are the year from 1968 to 1977 and the dependant variable is a proportion P. The dependant variable have missing value (NA). The script is : year

Re: [R] plotting gaussian data

2006-06-13 Thread Jacques VESLOT
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[R] Predict with loess

2006-06-13 Thread Jouanin Celine
I want to do a nonparametric regression. I’m using the function loess. The variable are the year from 1968 to 1977 and the dependant variable is a proportion P. The dependant variable have missing value (NA). The script is : year <- 1969:2002 length(year)

Re: [R] plot two graphs with different length of data

2006-06-13 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
Eric Hu wrote: > Hi I am trying to plot two data set in the same picture window without > overlapping with each other. I am using the format plot(x1,y1,x2,y2) > but get the following error message: > >> plot(as.numeric(r0[,4]),as.numeric(r0[,7]),as.numeric(r0[,4]),as.numeric(r0[,7][ind[,1]])) > Er

Re: [R] R usage for log analysis

2006-06-13 Thread Gabriel Diaz
Hello thanks for the point, probably i saw DBMS as a need due to my ignorance about R. If i can process all files like you said, i would not use DBMS as i prefer to keep it simple and easy to manage and run, less software dependencies the better. thanks gabi On 6/12/06, bogdan romocea <[EMAIL

Re: [R] Multiple lag.plots per page

2006-06-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to plot several lag.plots on a page, however the second plot >>> replaces the first one (although it only takes up the upper half as it >>> should): >>> >>

Re: [R] Multiple lag.plots per page

2006-06-13 Thread Gad Abraham
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to plot several lag.plots on a page, however the second plot >> replaces the first one (although it only takes up the upper half as it >> should): >> >> par(mfrow=c(2,1)) >> a<-sin(1:100) >> b<-cos(1:100)

Re: [R] Multiple lag.plots per page

2006-06-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Gad Abraham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot several lag.plots on a page, however the second plot > replaces the first one (although it only takes up the upper half as it > should): > > par(mfrow=c(2,1)) > a<-sin(1:100) > b<-cos(1:100) > lag.plot(a) > lag.plot(b) > > What's