Re: [R] R in Industry

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Wed, 07-Feb-2007 at 07:07PM +1100, Jim Lemon wrote: |> Matthew Keller wrote: |> > Far from flaming you, I think you made a good point - one that I |> > imagine most people who use R have come across. The name "R" is a big |> > impediment to effective online searches. As a check, I entered "R

[R] Rdonlp2 - an extension library for constrained optimization

2007-02-11 Thread ry . tamura
Hello R-lists, I have created an extension library called "Rdonlp2". This is a wrapper for Peter Spellucci's DONLP2: http://plato.la.asu.edu/donlp2.html DONLP2 is a standalone C program that can solve following minimization problem: min f(x) subject to * parameter bounds * linear (equality) cons

Re: [R] Boxplot: quartiles/outliers

2007-02-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If you look at boxplot.default you will see that it calls boxplot.stats to compute the statistics used. So you can make renamed copies of both functions and alter them to behave as you like. (Because of namespace issues, you cannot just use your own boxplot.stats.) I am not sure why you would

Re: [R] Trying to replicate error message in subset()

2007-02-11 Thread Petr Pikal
Hi it is not error it is just warning (Beeping a tea kettle with boiling water is also not an error :-) and it tells you pretty explicitly what is wrong see length of your objects > a<-c("D", "F", "A") > new.dat<-subset(ex.dat, x1 == a) Warning messages: 1: longer object length is not a

Re: [R] spss file import

2007-02-11 Thread Ndoye Souleymane
Hi, Let me suggest you to save your spss file in txt and use the read.table function to load your file in R. That is what I use to do. Souleymane >From: Federico Calboli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: r-help >Subject: [R] spss file import >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 16:16:14 + > >Hi All, > >does any

[R] Trying to replicate error message in subset()

2007-02-11 Thread Michael Rennie
Hi, there I am trying to replicate an error message in subset() to see what it is that I'm doing wrong with the datasets I am trying to work with. Essentially, I am trying to pass a string vector to subset() in order to select a specific collection of cases (i.e., I have data for these cases i

[R] Boxplot: quartiles/outliers

2007-02-11 Thread Cecilia Alm
For boxplot(), is it possible to pass in a parameter to change the default way that the 1st and 3rd quartiles are computed? (specifically, I'd like to use type 6 described in the quantile function). Also, what are the options for how outliers are computed, and how can one change them? Thank you

[R] lmer

2007-02-11 Thread estrain
Dear R, I am current working on a mixed effects model, family poisson. Could someone please explain to me how to check the residuals? I have read another post with the same question but no answer unfotunately. I have tried resid and qqnorm. Many thanks Beth Strain ___

Re: [R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/11/2007 8:57 PM, Mark W Kimpel wrote: > Duncan, > > Both yours and Gabor's methods were far superior to mine. I am curious > why you like Gabor's better than yours. From the perspective of someone > who uses R regularly but has only read about C, yours seems more > "R-like". Would Gabor's

Re: [R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Mark W Kimpel wrote: > Duncan, > > Both yours and Gabor's methods were far superior to mine. I am curious > why you like Gabor's better than yours. Don't know if the following is why Duncan prefers Gabor's method, but here is why I would avoid the eval version: In ge

Re: [R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Mark W Kimpel
Duncan, Both yours and Gabor's methods were far superior to mine. I am curious why you like Gabor's better than yours. From the perspective of someone who uses R regularly but has only read about C, yours seems more "R-like". Would Gabor's be more computationally efficient if the loop was big

Re: [R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Andrew Gelman
Doug Reinstalling R did the trick. Thanks. Andrew Douglas Bates wrote: > On 2/11/07, Andrew Gelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Doug >> Yes, it's R 2.4.1. I'm trying to keep up with Matrix for various >> reasons, most immediately that our "arm" package requires Matrix. >> Andrew > > The source

Re: [R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/11/2007 4:17 PM, Robert McFadden wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> eval(parse(text=my.data)) >> > > I would like to thank everybody very much for help, but especially for > Duncan - it works wonderful. You're welcome, but I h

[R] problem with rinvgamma ?

2007-02-11 Thread Tong Wang
Hi, By rinvgamma(1,1.33,2.33) , am I supposed to get a var=3 ? Tried it many times , not even close. Why is this? thanks a lot . best __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the

Re: [R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-11 Thread Jessi Brown
Hmmm.. I had actually at one point tried the newer (>R 2.4.0) method of specifying only a logexp link function and using it with the binomial family, and once again, it seems to work as expected for glm's, and not so much with LMER. The error message when using summary() was the same. Here's output

Re: [R] dyn.load problem under linux

2007-02-11 Thread Domenico Vistocco
Dear All, thanks for your help. I have misreaded the error message (I am sorry). The message of Phil Spector solved the problem. I think it was posted out of the list: I copy it below (it could be useful to someone else). Thanks a lot, domenico ---

[R] echo vs. print (for loop)

2007-02-11 Thread Cecilia Alm
When calling a script, I want to print the code expressions and their results using echo=T as in: > source("myscript.r", echo = T) This seems to do pretty much same as print() if the script only lists expressions like "mean(data)", and echo seems nicer since it avoids extra print statements. But

[R] echo vs. print (for loop)

2007-02-11 Thread Cecilia Alm
When calling a script, I want to print the code expressions and their results using echo=T as in: > source("myscript.r", echo = T) This seems to do pretty much same as print() if the script only lists expressions like "mean(data)", and echo seems nicer since it avoids extra print statements. But

Re: [R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: my.data <- M3[[sprintf("N%04d", 1)]] On 2/11/07, Robert McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to merge two parts of words to get a name of the data. First > M3$N (invariable) and second is a number from 0001 to 3003 - > M3$N0001,M3$N0002,...,M3$N3003. For example if I do it

Re: [R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Robert McFadden
> -Original Message- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > eval(parse(text=my.data)) > I would like to thank everybody very much for help, but especially for Duncan - it works wonderful. Rob __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mail

Re: [R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/11/2007 3:39 PM, Robert McFadden wrote: > I would like to merge two parts of words to get a name of the data. First > M3$N (invariable) and second is a number from 0001 to 3003 - > M3$N0001,M3$N0002,...,M3$N3003. For example if I do it like this: > my.data <- paste("M3$N",2456,sep="") > I get

[R] merge words=data name

2007-02-11 Thread Robert McFadden
I would like to merge two parts of words to get a name of the data. First M3$N (invariable) and second is a number from 0001 to 3003 - M3$N0001,M3$N0002,...,M3$N3003. For example if I do it like this: my.data <- paste("M3$N",2456,sep="") I get > my.data [1] "M3$N2456" But I want to get something eq

Re: [R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Andrew Gelman
Doug Yes, it's R 2.4.1. I'm trying to keep up with Matrix for various reasons, most immediately that our "arm" package requires Matrix. Andrew Douglas Bates wrote: > On 2/11/07, Andrew Gelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I decided to update my packages and then had a problem with loading the >>

Re: [R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/11/07, Andrew Gelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug > Yes, it's R 2.4.1. I'm trying to keep up with Matrix for various > reasons, most immediately that our "arm" package requires Matrix. > Andrew The source package for version 0.9975-10 Matrix has just been moved onto CRAN. Binary versio

[R] [R-pkgs] randomSurvivalForest 2.0.0 now available

2007-02-11 Thread K. B. Udaya
Dear useRs: Release 2.0.0 of the randomSurvivalForest package is now available. - CHANGES TO RELEASE 2.0.0 Release 2.0.0 represents a major upgrade in the functionality and stability of the original 1.0.0 release. K

Re: [R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Halim Damerdji
I once had a problem upgrading to a newer R version, problem which had to do with Env-ironment. The root cause was a .Renviron file in my home directory pointing to an older R version. Removing that file helped. That was on linux. -Halim On 2/11/07, Andrew Gelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I

[R] help with linear mixed models

2007-02-11 Thread Adela González Megías
Dear all, I want to evaluate a full-factorial linear mixed model with two fixed factors (S, T) and a random factor (TM. I have tried to do the model in lmer but at the moment this function do not provide for the F and p-values of the fixed factors. I tried: lmer (Arc~S*T*(1|TM), data=b, I also

Re: [R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/11/07, Andrew Gelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to update my packages and then had a problem with loading the > Matrix package > http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Matrix_0.9975-9.zip > This is what happened when I tried to load it in: > > > library("Matrix") > E

[R] problem with Matrix package

2007-02-11 Thread Andrew Gelman
I decided to update my packages and then had a problem with loading the Matrix package http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.4/Matrix_0.9975-9.zip This is what happened when I tried to load it in: > library("Matrix") Error in importIntoEnv(impenv, impnames, ns, impvars) : ob

Re: [R] Extract NULL column in a matrix e.g. matrix[,-NULL]

2007-02-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try: aa[, !seq(ncol(aa)) %in% NULL] On 2/11/07, Pierre Lapointe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I need to remove columns in a matrix. The number of columns varies from 0 > to n. I can't figure out how to specify the zero case. > > > > aa <-matrix(runif(5^2),5,5) > > > > #remove colu

Re: [R] Extract NULL column in a matrix e.g. matrix[,-NULL]

2007-02-11 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le 07-02-11 à 11:42, Pierre Lapointe a écrit : > Hello, > > I need to remove columns in a matrix. The number of columns varies > from 0 > to n. I can't figure out how to specify the zero case. > > aa <-matrix(runif(5^2),5,5) > > #remove column 3 > > aa[,-3] > > #remove no column > > aa[,-NULL

[R] Extract NULL column in a matrix e.g. matrix[,-NULL]

2007-02-11 Thread Pierre Lapointe
Hello, I need to remove columns in a matrix. The number of columns varies from 0 to n. I can't figure out how to specify the zero case. aa <-matrix(runif(5^2),5,5) #remove column 3 aa[,-3] #remove no column aa[,-NULL] Error in -NULL : invalid argument to unary operator I kn

Re: [R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-11 Thread Ken Knoblauch
Well, you can just check directly, ?family, but it doesn't look like it. It looks to me (and I am admittedly no expert) as if make.link is only returning the standard glm links. In ?make.link, it says, link character or numeric; one of "logit", "probit", "cloglog", "identity", "log", "sqrt"

Re: [R] Near function?

2007-02-11 Thread Bart Joosen
Dear all, Wolfgang, that's yet another way of calculating, which is also interesting. But this afternoon, I did a few tries, and this is what I get: near <- function (x,th=3){ aant <- NROW(x) y <- 1:aant y <- y[order(x)] x <- x[y] for (i in 1:(aant-1)) { for (j in (i

Re: [R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
Was make.link() used in the example code? On 2/11/07, Ken Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't it the case, that since R 2.40 that all one ought to need do is > define one's own link and pass it to the family, rather re-defining the whole > family? > > CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.4.0 > > ...

Re: [R] Near function?

2007-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Dear Bart, "hclust" might be useful for this as well: dat = c(1,20,2,21) hc = hclust(dist(dat)) thresh = 2 ct = cutree(hc, h=thresh) clusteredNumbers = split(dat, ct) firstOne = dat[!duplicated(ct)] > clusteredNumbers $`1` [1] 1 2 $`2` [1] 20 21 > firstOne [1] 1 20

[R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-11 Thread Ken Knoblauch
Isn't it the case, that since R 2.40 that all one ought to need do is define one's own link and pass it to the family, rather re-defining the whole family? CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.4.0 ... o make.link() now returns an object of class "link-glm". The GLM families accept an object of

Re: [R] deleting row when any col is.na

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On 2/11/07, Milton Cezar Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I delete rows from a data.frame where almost one column is.na()? The na.omit function does this. > set.seed(123454321) > x <- matrix(rnorm(50, mean = 1), ncol = 5) > x[x < 0] <- NA > df <- data.frame(x) > df X1

[R] useR! 2007

2007-02-11 Thread Dianne Cook
R Users and Developers, Plans are being made to hold the first North American useR! will be held at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, August 8–10, 2007, which will be a week after JSM'07. This follows successful meetings in Vienna, Austria, in 2006 and 2004, and also Directions in Statistical Co

Re: [R] error using user-defined link function with mixed models (LMER)

2007-02-11 Thread Douglas Bates
Look at the 'link' component of the two lists. In the binomial family object the link component is a character vector of link 1. In your logexposure family object it is a list of length 5. On 2/10/07, Jessi Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I've tried checking out the structure of the binom

Re: [R] deleting row when any col is.na

2007-02-11 Thread John Kane
--- Milton Cezar Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I delete rows from a data.frame where almost > one collumns is.na()? > > Kind regards, > > miltinho Can you explain a bit more and provide as simple example of the problem? It is not clear what importance the column with NA's has.

[R] deleting row when any col is.na

2007-02-11 Thread Milton Cezar Ribeiro
Hello everyone, How can I delete rows from a data.frame where almost one collumns is.na()? Kind regards, miltinho __ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing li

Re: [R] Suppresing default text in pairs.lmList() in package = nlme

2007-02-11 Thread Michael Kubovy
Thanks Ken and Dieter, I added xlab = '' and the text 'Scatter Plot Matrix' produced by pairs () applied to an lmList object (in nlme) went away. Skip the rest --- which is mainly autobiographical --- unless you're curious. On Feb 11, 2007, at 4:25 AM, Dieter Menne wrote: > Michael Kubovy vi

[R] Suppresing default text in pairs.lmList() in package = nlme

2007-02-11 Thread Ken Knoblauch
It looks like you get this default xlab with splom so the title is misleading, though pairs.lmList calls splom in some cases, see near the end of the function where plotfun is assigned a value of either "xyplot" or "splom". I was able to get the xlab to change by providing an explicit xlab = "machi

Re: [R] Suppresing default text in pairs.lmList() in package = nlme

2007-02-11 Thread Dieter Menne
Michael Kubovy virginia.edu> writes: > > I would like to suppress the text 'Scatter Plot Matrix' that appears > under the plot. Could someone please suggest how? Must be as special Virginia Brand of lmList. That Test does not turn up in my output, and the only place I found it in the sources

Re: [R] Near function?

2007-02-11 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
maybe you could try something along these lines: x <- c(1, 3, 2, 5, 11) thr <- 3 ### ind <- t(combn(x, 2)) unique(c(ind[abs(ind[, 1] - ind[, 2]) <= thr, ])) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University