Re: [R] Bug in formals-

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Frank E Harrell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Deepayan Sarkar wrote: On 9/26/06, Frank E Harrell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is new since a previous version of R: h - function(x, trantab) trantab[x] w - 6:4 names(w) - c('cat','dog','giraffe') w cat

[R] multiple imputation

2006-09-27 Thread ozric
Hi, is it correct that multiple-Imputation like mice http://www.imputation.com can't understand as a standard data-mining task, beacuse i haven't a generalization mechanism perform the model on complete new and bigger dataset with a predict method!? many thanks regards, christian

Re: [R] New project: littler for GNU R

2006-09-27 Thread Seth Falcon
Jeffrey Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seth Falcon wrote: Wow, looks neat. OS X users will be unhappy with your naming choice as the default filesystem there is not case-sensitive :-( IOW, r and R do the same thing. I would expect it to otherwise work on OS X so a change of some sort

[R] exact 95% confidence intervals

2006-09-27 Thread XinMeng
Hello sir: As to the 2*2 table format for reporting results comparing a new test to true diagnosis,when I got the sensitivity and specificity,how can I calculate the exact 95% confidence intervals (based on the binomial distribution) for sensitivity and specificity via R? Thanks a lot! My

[R] How to pass expression as an argument

2006-09-27 Thread Tong Wang
Hi, I am writing a function and need to pass a function expression as an argument, for instance, myfun - function( express) { x- c(1,2,3) y-express } if I call the above function by myfun( x*2 ), I get 2 as the result,

Re: [R] How to pass expression as an argument

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Tong Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am writing a function and need to pass a function expression as an argument, for instance, myfun - function( express) { x- c(1,2,3) y-express } if I call the above function

Re: [R] Accessing C- source code of R

2006-09-27 Thread Gunther Höning
That's exactly what I was looking for... Thanks! Gunther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Uwe Ligges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. September 2006 10:13 An: Gunther Höning Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Betreff: Re: [R] Accessing C- source code of R Gunther Höning

Re: [R] exact 95% confidence intervals

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
XinMeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello sir: As to the 2*2 table format for reporting results comparing a new test to true diagnosis,when I got the sensitivity and specificity,how can I calculate the exact 95% confidence intervals (based on the binomial distribution) for sensitivity and

[R] Impossible to merge with a zero rows data frame?

2006-09-27 Thread Bonfigli Sandro
I'm trying to merge two data frames. One of them is a zero rows data frame. I'm using the merge parameter 'all.x = TRUE' so I'd expect to obtain all the rows of x. In fact the merge help says: all.x: logical; if 'TRUE', then extra rows will be added to the output, one for each row in

[R] Any hot-deck imputation packages?

2006-09-27 Thread Eleni Rapsomaniki
Hi I found on google that there is an implementation of hot-deck imputation in SAS: http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s366901.html Is there anything similar in R? Many Thanks Eleni Rapsomaniki __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Any hot-deck imputation packages?

2006-09-27 Thread David Barron
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're after, but it might be worth looking at aregImpute in the Hmisc package. On 27/09/06, Eleni Rapsomaniki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I found on google that there is an implementation of hot-deck imputation in SAS:

[R] Constrained OLS regression

2006-09-27 Thread Mesomeris, Spyros [CIR]
Hello R helpers, I am trying to do a linear OLS regression of y on two variables x1 and x2. I want to constrain the coefficients of x1 and x2 to sum up to 1. and therefore run a constrained OLS. Can anybody help with this? (I have seen some answers to similar questions but it was not clear to me

Re: [R] Constrained OLS regression

2006-09-27 Thread David Barron
Have a look at the linear.hypothesis function in the car package. For example: mod.duncan - lm(prestige ~ income + education, data=Duncan) linear.hypothesis(mod.duncan, income + education = 1) Linear hypothesis test Hypothesis: income + education = 1 Model 1: prestige ~ income + education

Re: [R] New project: littler for GNU R

2006-09-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I think this is quoted out of context. I was referring to Duncan's post which shows an example of piping R code. No, that was Jeffrey's post that showed the pipe. All that was in my post was a question about why this isn't a patch to the standard R script. I

Re: [R] New project: littler for GNU R

2006-09-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Jeffrey Horner wrote: Seth Falcon wrote: Jeffrey Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] littler will install into /usr/local/bin by default, so I don't think there's a clash with the Mac binary provided by CRAN, right? It depends what you mean by clash :-) If both

Re: [R] Constrained OLS regression

2006-09-27 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
you could reparameterize, e.g., x1 - runif(100, -4, 4) x2 - runif(100, -4, 4) X - cbind(1, x1 , x2) y - rnorm(100, as.vector(X %*% c(5, -3, 4)), 2) ## fn - function(betas){ betas - c(betas, 1 - betas[2]) crossprod(y - X %*% betas)[1, ] } opt - optim(c(5, -3), fn,

Re: [R] How to pass expression as an argument

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 27 Sep 2006 10:57:15 +0200, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tong Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am writing a function and need to pass a function expression as an argument, for instance, myfun - function( express) { x- c(1,2,3)

Re: [R] New project: littler for GNU R

2006-09-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/27/2006 7:06 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I think this is quoted out of context. I was referring to Duncan's post which shows an example of piping R code. No, that was Jeffrey's post that showed the pipe. All that was in my post was a question about why

Re: [R] multiple imputation

2006-09-27 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is it correct that multiple-Imputation like mice http://www.imputation.com can't understand as a standard data-mining task, beacuse i haven't a generalization mechanism perform the model on complete new and bigger dataset with a predict method!? many

Re: [R] exact 95% confidence intervals

2006-09-27 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Peter Dalgaard wrote: XinMeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello sir: As to the 2*2 table format for reporting results comparing a new test to true diagnosis,when I got the sensitivity and specificity,how can I calculate the exact 95% confidence intervals (based on the binomial

[R] equivalent of model.tables for an lm.object?

2006-09-27 Thread Henrik Parn
Dear all, I run a linear model with three significant explanatory variabels x1: a factor with 4 levels x2 and x3: factors with two levels each x4: continuous model - lm(y ~ x1 + x2 * x3 + x4) The data is not perfectly balanced between the different factor-combinations and I use treatment

[R] pdf and postscript sizes - change on each page?

2006-09-27 Thread Alex Brown
Hi All The device commands pdf and postscript allow you to specify the width and height of a page. However, each subsequent plot is drawn on a separate page. Is there a way to change the page size part way through? For instance, is there an equivalent to the function pdfresize below?

Re: [R] exact 95% confidence intervals

2006-09-27 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
check package binom. 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/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/

Re: [R] equivalent of model.tables for an lm.object?

2006-09-27 Thread Chuck Cleland
Henrik Parn wrote: Dear all, I run a linear model with three significant explanatory variabels x1: a factor with 4 levels x2 and x3: factors with two levels each x4: continuous model - lm(y ~ x1 + x2 * x3 + x4) The data is not perfectly balanced between the different

[R] Searching for keyword values in a text (configuration) file

2006-09-27 Thread Andre Jung
Hi, I would like to read values from an ASCII text file that contains information in the following format: DEVICE = 'PC' CPU_SPEED = '1999', '233' ... It's like a config file. How can I e.g. get R to read the 2nd value of CPU_SPEED? How do I go through text files and search for keywords and

[R] Searching for keyword values in a text (configuration) file

2006-09-27 Thread Andre Jung
Hi, I would like to read values from an ASCII text file that contains information in the following format: DEVICE = 'PC' CPU_SPEED = '1999', '233' ... It's like a config file. How can I e.g. get R to read the 2nd value of CPU_SPEED? How do I go through text files and search for keywords and

Re: [R] exponential fitting

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
# using this test data set.seed(1) x - 1:20/20 y - exp(2 + 3 * x) + rnorm(20) # if its ok to fit logs so that its linear exp(fitted(lm(log(y) ~ x))) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8.55615 9.94692 11.56376 13.44340 15.62857 18.16894

Re: [R] exact 95% confidence intervals

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Frank E Harrell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Dalgaard wrote: XinMeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello sir: As to the 2*2 table format for reporting results comparing a new test to true diagnosis,when I got the sensitivity and specificity,how can I calculate the exact 95%

Re: [R] Impossible to merge with a zero rows data frame?

2006-09-27 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi you have two options: change the source code for merge or use some modified function like my.merge - function(x,y, ...) if(all(dim(x)[1]0, dim(y)[1]0)) merge(x,y) else print (No merge or whatever action which is suitable) HTH Petr On 27 Sep 2006 at 11:55, Bonfigli Sandro wrote: Date

Re: [R] Searching for keyword values in a text (configuration) file

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Read in data using readLines and replace = with comma and delete all spaces. Then reread using read.table and set the rownames to column 1 removing column 1. # test data Lines0 - DEVICE = 'PC' CPU_SPEED = '1999', '233' # if reading from a file then # replace next line with something like Lines

[R] Testing the equality of correlations

2006-09-27 Thread Marc Bernard
Dear All, I wonder if there is any implemented statistical test in R to test the equality between many correlations. As an example, let X1, X2, X3 X4 be four random variables. let Phi(X1,X2) , Phi(X1,X3) and Phi(X1,X4) be the corresponding correlations. How to test Phi(X1,X2) =

Re: [R] Searching for keyword values in a text (configuration) file

2006-09-27 Thread David Barron
Something like this? library(Hmisc) t - readLines(clipboard) t [1] DEVICE = 'PC' CPU_SPEED = '1999', '233' ix - grep(CPU_SPEED,t) loc - substring.location(t[ix],,) cpu - substring(t[ix],loc$first+2) cpu [1] '233' On 27/09/06, Andre Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I

Re: [R] Searching for keyword values in a text (configuration) file

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is one more solution using the same Lines0 from last time. This one uses strapply from gsubfn to pick out all the fields in each line creating a list named by the keywords (rather than a data frame as in the previous solution). The names of the components are the keywords so we remove them

[R] PDE

2006-09-27 Thread Christophe Nguyen
Dear all, Does any know how to solve PDE with R? The archive list refers to the use of ODE if PDE are parabolic. I am not a mathematician and this does not mean anything for me! help would be very appreciated. Many thanks -- ___ Christophe

Re: [R] Searching for keyword values in a text (configuration) file

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is a slight simplification of this one using row.names= in the read.table to avoid the subsequent manipulations. We use Lines0 defined in the earlier post: # replace next line with something like Lines - readLines(myfile.dat) Lines - readLines(textConnection(Lines0)) Lines - gsub(=, ,,

[R] t-stat Curve

2006-09-27 Thread Isaac Barjis
Number of subjects = 25 Mean of Sample = 77 Standard Deviation (s) = 12 sem = 2.4 df = 24 The claim is that population mean is less than 80 * 80 So our H0 (null hupotheis) is * 80 qt(.95,24) [1] 1.710882 qt(0.05, 24) [1] -1.710882 tstat = -1.25 on t24 falls between 1.711 (.95,24) and

Re: [R] Testing the equality of correlations

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Hewson
Marc, Off the top my head (i.e. this could all be horribly wrong), I think Anderson gave an asymptotic version for such a test, whereby under the null hypothesis, the difference between Fisher's z for each sample, z1 - z2, is normal with zero mean. If I recall correctly, the 1984 edition gave a

[R] multidimensional lists

2006-09-27 Thread Evan Cooch
In the process of moving a number of my scripts from MATLAB - R, I've discovered that there is no 'pure' equivalent of MATLAB's cell arrays, which I use quite often. Basically, I create matrices (as a cell array) where each element of the matrix is itself a matrix (e.g., 2x2 cell array where

Re: [R] t-stat Curve

2006-09-27 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:r-help- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isaac Barjis Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:08 AM To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] t-stat Curve Number of subjects = 25 Mean of Sample = 77 Standard Deviation (s) = 12 sem

[R] package e1071 - class probabilities

2006-09-27 Thread Vincent Negre
Hello, I use the package e1071 for svm classification. I would like to get probabilities associated with predictions. But when I change the argument 'probability' (TRUE or FALSE) in functions svm.model() and predict() , I don't have the same prediction. Do you know why there are these

Re: [R] multidimensional lists

2006-09-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
matrix(some_list, nr, nc, byrow=TRUE) may be what you are looking for. R arrays can be of any vector type, including list. I'd get used to R's Fortran ordering rather than force transposes all the time. On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Evan Cooch wrote: In the process of moving a number of my scripts

Re: [R] multidimensional lists

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: AA - matrix(list(A, 10*A, 100*A, 1000*A), 2, byrow = TRUE) AA[1,2] On 9/27/06, Evan Cooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of moving a number of my scripts from MATLAB - R, I've discovered that there is no 'pure' equivalent of MATLAB's cell arrays, which I use quite often.

[R] panel.curve

2006-09-27 Thread jessica . gervais
Hi, I am trying to fit experimental points by exponemtial curve my data are stored into a matrix data the first column is the geographical point (a number = data[,1] ) ( I would like to plot several graphes at the same time) the second column is the time of measurement (x in the plot) the

Re: [R] t-stat Curve

2006-09-27 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
Isaac: You will likely find something helpful here: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php I also recently came across this code (I thought it was at the URL above, but I can't find it now) that may be useful with modification. I apologize to the code-writer for having lost the

Re: [R] panel.curve

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Look at the arguments to panel.curve ?panel.curve and try RSiteSearch(panel.curve) for some examples. On 9/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to fit experimental points by exponemtial curve my data are stored into a matrix data the first column is the

Re: [R] multidimensional lists

2006-09-27 Thread Evan Cooch
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: matrix(some_list, nr, nc, byrow=TRUE) may be what you are looking for. R arrays can be of any vector type, including list. I'd get used to R's Fortran ordering rather than force transposes all the time. Thanks very much. And I thought I'd left some aspects of my

Re: [R] multidimensional lists

2006-09-27 Thread Evan Cooch
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Try this: AA - matrix(list(A, 10*A, 100*A, 1000*A), 2, byrow = TRUE) AA[1,2] Seems to do the trick. Thanks! __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] exact 95% confidence intervals

2006-09-27 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Dalgaard wrote: XinMeng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello sir: As to the 2*2 table format for reporting results comparing a new test to true diagnosis,when I got the sensitivity and specificity,how can I calculate the

Re: [R] multidimensional lists

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Just one other comment if the matrices have the same dimensions: they could alternately be represented as a 4d array: A - matrix(1:4, 2) AA - matrix(list(A, 10*A, 100*A, 1000*A), 2, byrow = TRUE) AA[1,2] AAA - array(unlist(AA), c(2,2,2,2)) AAA[,,1,2] # same This could have an

Re: [R] multidimensional lists

2006-09-27 Thread Evan Cooch
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Just one other comment if the matrices have the same dimensions: Indeed - that is quite often the case - thanks for the further suggestion(s). they could alternately be represented as a 4d array: A - matrix(1:4, 2) AA - matrix(list(A, 10*A, 100*A, 1000*A), 2,

[R] AIC Methods

2006-09-27 Thread Benjamin Zuckerberg
I am having trouble with getting AIC statistics. I have developed a number of ancova models using the lm function. I am trying to get a number of AIC statistics suggested by Burnham and Anderson (2002) including raw AIC values, AICc values, Akaike weights, and Delta AIC. When I use the

Re: [R] PDE

2006-09-27 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi Christophe, What is the PDE that you are trying to solve? Is it parabolic/hyperbolic/elliptical/somethingelse? Is it linear/nonlinear? If time is one of the independent variables, you can transform the PDE into an initial value problem (system of ODEs) by using finite difference

[R] Single Precision (4 byte) floats with readBin

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Lauren
I would like to use readBin to read a binary data file. Most of the data is 4-byte floating point but, for some reason, only double precision appears to be offered. I tried fVariable=readBin(iFile,what=single()); and got 35.87879 which looks believable except that the correct value is 3.030303.

[R] how to retain time zone when doing c(POSIXct)

2006-09-27 Thread Sebastian P. Luque
Hello, What is the best way to concatenate POSIXct objects keeping the time zone attribute in a program? For example: R xx - as.POSIXct(strptime(c(2006-09-26 12:00:00, 2006-09-26 13:00:00), + format=%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S), tz=GMT) R xx [1] 2006-09-26 12:00:00 GMT

Re: [R] Single Precision (4 byte) floats with readBin

2006-09-27 Thread Sundar Dorai-Raj
Peter Lauren said the following on 9/27/2006 3:11 PM: I would like to use readBin to read a binary data file. Most of the data is 4-byte floating point but, for some reason, only double precision appears to be offered. I tried fVariable=readBin(iFile,what=single()); and got 35.87879

Re: [R] Single Precision (4 byte) floats with readBin

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Lauren
--- Sundar Dorai-Raj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Lauren said the following on 9/27/2006 3:11 PM: I would like to use readBin to read a binary data file. Most of the data is 4-byte floating point but, for some reason, only double precision appears to be offered. I tried

[R] Converting text to numbers

2006-09-27 Thread Dan Chan
Hi, I have Forecast Class and Observed Class in a data matrix as below. Sample1 FCT OBS 1 1 5 2 2 4 3 3- 3+ 4 3 3 5 3+ 3- 6 4 2 7 5 1 I want to find the difference between Observed and Forecast Classes. How can I get this done? I tried to following to convert the 1

Re: [R] t-stat Curve

2006-09-27 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
## There is some ambiguity in your example. ## You stated a one-sided hypothesis and calculated qt() values for both sides. ## I show both the one-sided and two-sided displays. library(HH) ## HH_1.5 is available from CRAN for R-2.3.1 ## ## HH_1.5 ignores the df.t argument and interprets the

[R] Space required by object?

2006-09-27 Thread Ben Fairbank
Does R provide a function analogous to LS() or str() that reports the storage space, on disk or in memory, required by objects? Ben Fairbank __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

Re: [R] Converting text to numbers

2006-09-27 Thread David Barron
Then, I tried to convert them to numbers using the following. Sample1$FCT2 - as.numeric(Sample1$FCT2) Sample1$OBS2 - as.numeric(Sample1$OBS2) This is actually an FAQ. Do the following and it should be fine: Sample1$FCT2 - as.numeric(as.character(Sample1$FCT2)) Sample1$OBS2 -

Re: [R] Space required by object?

2006-09-27 Thread jim holtman
Here is a function I use: my.ls - function(pos=1, sorted=F){ .result - sapply(ls(pos=pos, all.names=TRUE), function(..x)object.size(eval(as.symbol(..x if (sorted){ .result - rev(sort(.result)) } .ls - as.data.frame(rbind(as.matrix(.result),**Total=sum(.result)))

Re: [R] Space required by object?

2006-09-27 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
See ll() in the R.oo package. /Henrik On 9/27/06, Ben Fairbank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does R provide a function analogous to LS() or str() that reports the storage space, on disk or in memory, required by objects? Ben Fairbank __

[R] Histogram

2006-09-27 Thread Mohsen Jafarikia
Dear all, I want to design a histogram and I need to have the frequency at certain points. For example I have the following 2 columns: *X Y* 0.125 0.422 0.45 11 0.55 21 I want the chart to have 4 columns. First column is from 0.0-0.1 (on X) and frequency is 25. Next colum is

Re: [R] Histogram

2006-09-27 Thread Ritwik Sinha
Hi, There may be an easier way but here is one way you can do it. # create vector that has Y[i] X[i]s new.data - rep(X,Y) hist(new.data, breaks=c(0,.1,.4,.6)) # or something like that look at what exactly breaks should be. Ritwik. On 9/27/06, Mohsen Jafarikia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear

Re: [R] Histogram

2006-09-27 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 18:29 -0400, Mohsen Jafarikia wrote: Dear all, I want to design a histogram and I need to have the frequency at certain points. For example I have the following 2 columns: *X Y* 0.125 0.422 0.45 11 0.55 21 I want the chart to have 4 columns.

Re: [R] Best use of LaTeX listings package for pretty printing R code

2006-09-27 Thread Michael Kubovy
I tried to use Frank's formatting improvements to compile Sweave- produced .tex, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Advice? On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: This is what I have been using. Does anyone have a better way? In particular I would like to see letters

[R] recode problem - unexplained values

2006-09-27 Thread bgreen
I am hoping for some advice regarding the difficulties I have been having recoding variables which are contained in a csv file. Table 1 (below) shows there are two types of blanks - as reported in the first two columns. I am using windows XP the latets version of R. When blanks cells are

[R] Nonlinear fitting - reparametrization help

2006-09-27 Thread Suresh Krishna
Hi, I am trying to fit a function of the form: y = A0 + A1 * exp( -0.5* ( (X - Mu1) / Sigma1 )^2 ) - A2 * exp ( -0.5* ( (X-Mu2)/Sigma2 )^2 ) i.e. a mean term (A0) + a difference between two gaussians. The constraints are A1,A2 0, Sigma1,Sigma20, and usually Sigma2Sigma1. The plot looks

Re: [R] Nonlinear fitting - reparametrization help

2006-09-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Similar question was recently asked. See this thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/69592 On 9/28/06, Suresh Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to fit a function of the form: y = A0 + A1 * exp( -0.5* ( (X - Mu1) / Sigma1 )^2 ) - A2 * exp ( -0.5* (

Re: [R] recode problem - unexplained values

2006-09-27 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
I can propose a strategy. This example shows that there are different types of blanks when you look at character data. as.character(c(, , ,)) Your test for found only one of them. Look at the data as read.csv produces it. That will probably give you some clues. mydata -