[R] Data mining tools

2007-07-31 Thread gerald . jean
Hello there, apologies for cross-posting my question is not an S/R question but there is so much knowledge concentrated in those lists that I thought someone could point me in the right direction. A few months ago I read an article in a referenced journal comparing some data mining programs, amon

[R] Large data sets and memory management in R.

2004-01-28 Thread gerald . jean
Hello R-users, First my settings: R-1.8.1, compiled as a 64bit application for a Solaris 5.8, 64 bit. The OS has 8Gb of RAM available and I am the sole user of the machine, hence pretty much all the 8Gb are available to R. I am pretty new to R and I am having a hard time to work with large data

Réf. : [R] Packages debug and mvbutils

2004-01-22 Thread gerald . jean
If you want to access these utilities before M.Bravington post them on CRAN they are available on his site: (ftp://ftp.marine.csiro.au/software/bravington/) Gérald Jean Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat télephone: (418) 835-4900 poste (7639) télecopieur : (418) 835-

[R] Summary: Changing workspace from within an R session

2004-01-21 Thread gerald . jean
Thanks to Frank Harrell, Brian Ripley, Andy Liaw, Jeff Laake and Sean Davis for their usefull comments regarding "navigation" between valid R directories. Jeff recommanded the Mark Bravington package that can be found at: (ftp://ftp.marine.csiro.au/software/bravington/). I looked at the package

[R] Changing workspace from within an R session

2004-01-20 Thread gerald . jean
gt; objects(pos = 2) character(0) The little function, mentioned above, and used in Splus. "chdir" <- function(datadir, default.path = '/actuaria/jeg002/') { # Author : Gerald Jean # Date: May 1999 # Purpose : "newdir" will be attached at position 1, and the S d

[R] Summary: Installing the Rcmdr and tcltk

2004-01-16 Thread Gerald . Jean
Hello R-users, thanks to Brian Ripley, who guided me through this process, the "tcltk" package is now working and hence the "Rcmdr" package as well. The secrets were to first rebuild the Tcl and Tk packages from the sources files, making sure the same C compiler was used as the one used in subseq

Re: [R]Update on: Installing the Rcmdr and tclk package

2004-01-14 Thread Gerald . Jean
Hello R-users, first thanks to all who responded my questions regarding the installation of the Rcmdr and tcltk packages. The problem is with the tclk package on which Rcmdr depends. Following Prof Ripley's advice I re-installed Tcl and Tk, compiling from sources and making sure the "--enable-64

Réf. : [R] email problem

2004-01-14 Thread Gerald . Jean
Hello R-users, same here no PM (EST) mail. I posted a message and never saw it appear in my mail box and no other R-mail in the afternoon yesterday. Gérald Jean Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat télephone: (418) 835-4900 poste (7639) télecopieur : (418) 835-6657 co

[R] Installing the Rcmdr and tclk package

2004-01-14 Thread Gerald . Jean
Hello R-users, Version 1.8.1 on a 64-bit Solaris 5.8 OS I am trying to instal the Rcmdr package for which the tclk package is required. Once both package installed I issued the command: > library(tcltk) and received the following error message Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :

Re: [R] Installing R on 64-bit Solaris 2.8 --- I am up and running thanks to all

2004-01-08 Thread Gerald . Jean
Thank you to all respondants, quite a few. To solution for the documentation was simple. Looks like I had not done my homework properly, never crossed my mind to lookup CRAN, I apologize for that. Thanks again, Gérald Jean Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat télephone: (418)

[R] Installing R on 64-bit Solaris 2.8 --- follow-up

2004-01-08 Thread Gerald . Jean
Hello R-users, thanks to Brian Ripley and Roger Peng for there prompt replies on installing R on a Solaris 64-bit machine. R is now running and seems to be doing fine. I realy would like to have access to the manuals so I can climb most of the learning curve on my own -- I am a long time user of

[R] Installing R on 64-bit Solaris 2.8

2004-01-07 Thread Gerald . Jean
Hello, I am installing R on a Sun Solaris 64-bit machine. I followed the instructions in the "R Installation and Administration" guide. I am amazed at how much is going on during the installation process and I congratulate the people who have put all this together for the ones amongst us who don

[R] GUI's for R

2003-12-05 Thread Gerald . Jean
Hello, I am not currently using R but I have been using S+ for sevaral years. I think that I fit in the category of power users, never using the GUI prefering the flexibility of a command line interface (CLI). In a short while I will try to move to R, that is if we can convince our IT people tha