Re: [R] Tool for update

2005-03-23 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2005 06:12 schrieb Yuandan Zhang: Hi, Is there any tool to check if there is update version of a package available? I look for things alike YUM for linux? Start R --no-save on a root console and launch update.packages() from within R-Enviroment. Surely, this is

Re: [R] Clustering of Binary data in R

2005-03-05 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, Am Freitag, 4. März 2005 15:51 schrieb sima fakheran: Good afternoon! I would like to ask you about similarity measures and clustering in R for Binary data. Would you please kindly help me and let me know about that commands in R? help.seach(cluster) will give you an overview of

Re: [R] running out of memory

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, Am Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2005 20:48 schrieb Stephen Choularton: Hi I am trying to do a large glm and running into this message. Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3725426 Kb In addition: Warning message: Reached total allocation of 494Mb: see help(memory.size) Am I simply out

Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, Thomas W Volscho schrieb: Dear List, I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it. I am trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for using R 2.0.1? R is developed on Linux, so there shouldn't be too much restrictions on whatever distri you're going

Re: [R] Protocol for answering basic questions

2004-12-03 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, Liaw, Andy schrieb: Apologies to those who are tired of these rather off-topic discussions. I'll try to be brief. I will toss in my perspective, instead of speaking for others. To me, it's not how basic the questions are, but how they are being asked. It's been pointed out by several

Re: [R] SAS or R software

2004-11-21 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) schrieb: Two major advantages of SAS that seems to have been overlooked in the previous replies are: 1) The data-set language is SAS for data manipulation is more human-readable than R-code in general. R is not a definite write-only laguage as APL, but in

Re: [R] Power sampling

2004-11-18 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello Uwe, Uwe Ligges schrieb: Thomas Schönhoff wrote: You have to tell us for which test you are going to calculate the power ... (and there might be nothing, since calculating the power precisely is not always that easy). Given my example from the first message I asked for a function which

Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

2004-11-18 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Tim Cutts schrieb: Any GUI to R could (and should) be able to store the command line equivalent to what it has just done, to satisfy the reproducible criterion above, but I suspect it could still lead to some pretty shoddy work being done by careless and lazy scientists, and we get enough of

[R] Power sampling

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, after a unsuccessful search in lists maliarchive I wonder how I could estimate the power of a sample size related to an unknown population. Given the following (fake))situation: I do have a database containing about 5 millions observations over 70 variables. I would like to compute (as

[R] Using GNU R on a two box cluster

2004-11-07 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, right now I'm thinking about running R 2.0.0 on box A (Debian SID) but at the same time having access to the ressources of box B (Ubuntu Linux) regarding disk capacity, RAM, idle CPU cycles . Is there anyone of you that has already installed and administred such a tiny (home based)

[R] Error message from vignette strucchange-intro example

2004-11-05 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, I am just studying the following example from vignette: strucchange-intro, contineousely ending up in an error. This is the given code: 1. library(strucchange) 2. data(USIncExp) 3. if (!package:stats %in% search()) library(ts) 4. USIncExp2 - window(USIncExp, start = c(1985, 12))

Re: [R] Revision: post on Intro to R lecture

2004-10-26 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hi, Arin Basu schrieb: This follows my earlier post on webized slides on lecture presentation on introducing R. I learned that in Mozilla (Firefox) browsers, the slides did not show up. Sorry for the no show. As a reluctant windows user, I kind of carelessly clicked through Powerpoint to

Re: [R] Can't load rgl library

2004-09-30 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I've installed rgl package through R CMD INSTALL on a Debian-Sarge machine (PIV) without any compiling error (see attached file), but when trying to load this package within R (and also Rcmdr library) I get: library(rgl) RGL: GLX extension missing on server

Re: [R] Can't load rgl library

2004-09-30 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I've installed rgl package through R CMD INSTALL on a Debian-Sarge machine (PIV) without any compiling error (see attached file), but when trying to load this package within R (and also Rcmdr library) I get: library(rgl) RGL: GLX extension missing on server

[R] how to set options (variables) permanently

2004-09-26 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hi, after starting Emacs/ESS/R environment I tried to launch edit or fix. This normally should fire up the $editor, isn't it. Instead of this I regularily I run into an error that there something wrong with $editor. --- op - options(); str(op)

[R] fix and edit don't work the expected way

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, I am tinkering a bit with options(), namely, how to query and set them up to suit my needs. 1) The basic problem seems that the editor entry in options looks like this: options() - $editor [1] emacsclient

[R] debugging functions within Emacs/ESS/R

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hi, I currently following some introductory material Data mining with R, which was highly reccommended to me (its really great!). During my studies I tried to run a given function to identify and substitute unknown values. Seemingly, running this function (page 57) did not work and gives me an

[R] WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2004-09-19 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, first trials to run R from inside of Emacs repeatedly gives me: ?sink WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN) - Seems like this is going to

[R] library functions looks up wrong directory

2004-09-17 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, I just encountered this error from within R: -- library() Warning message: library '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' contains no package in: library() --- which is

Re: [R] loading error of the Rcmdr library on Debian Sid

2004-09-15 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, A.J. Rossini schrieb: You can apt-get RGL in sid. An apt-cache search or (Synaptic search) RGL gives me r-cran-rgl 0.64.13-1. This package is already installed! regards Thomas __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?

2004-09-14 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hi, I am fairly new to GNU R ! At the moment I am doing an intensive learning on the basics of GNU R-1.91, especially graphics like plots and alike, by reading the introductory docs! Well, except some occasional glitches (X11 output errors) everything seems to be fine, thanks to developers for

Re: [R] Howto enlarge fonts size in R- Graphics?

2004-09-14 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello, Thomas Schönhoff wrote: Well, thanks, I'll have a look at your advices. regards Thomas __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html