Re: [R] MDS with missing data? (change topic - isomap)

2006-06-15 Thread context grey
Thanks for the isoMDS pointer. I found one implementation of isomap at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~astro/kmethods though the web page suggests the code may be immature. --- Jari Oksanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:13 +0300, Jari Oksanen wrote: 1) use

[R] individual scales in random subset of pairwise distance survey

2006-06-15 Thread context grey
Hello, I'm curious if anyone has encounted a version of this problem (and it's solution) involving finding a consistent set of scales for subsets of survey data. The goal is to obtain peoples' rankings of pairwise similarity of a large number of items, on a 1..5 scale for example, and average

[R] MDS with missing data?

2006-06-14 Thread context grey
Hello I will be applying MDS (actually Isomap) to make a psychological concept map of the similarities between N concepts. I would like to scale to a large number of concepts, however, the resulting N*(N-1) pairwise similarities is prohibitive for a user survey. I'm thinking of giving people

[R] stat problem: scaling of random subset of survey?

2006-05-05 Thread context grey
Hello, I'm curious if anyone has encounted a version of this problem (and it's solution) involving finding a consistent set of scales for subsets of survey data. The goal is to obtain peoples' rankings of pairwise similarity of a large number of items, on a 1..5 scale for example. How

Re: [R] How to get correct proportions/bounding box for latex figure?

2006-03-19 Thread context grey
Thanks for your time, this is the answer I was looking for. I would say that R is rather bad at calculating the bounding box in this case - it seems to not understand the basic aspect ratio of the plot. But, knowing this, fixing it is possible; it was the vague feeling that I must be doing

[R] discrete entropy is not rotation invariant?

2006-03-19 Thread context grey
Hello, suppose one is forming a probability p(x,y), where the x,y axes are somewhat accidental and rotation is possible. I'm thinking about whether the discrete entropy H(x,y) should change if the probability is rotated in the x,y plane. My current conclusion is that it _does_ change, at

Re: [R] How to get correct proportions/bounding box for latex figure?

2006-03-15 Thread context grey
and type specified in trellis.device call). Martin On 15/03/2006, at 2:44 PM, context grey wrote: --- Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The R graphics model is that the drawing surface is established first, then the things you draw are adjusted to fit in it. R won't

[R] How to get correct proportions/bounding box for latex figure?

2006-03-14 Thread context grey
Hello, I recently posted a question about my troubles with importing a lattice/trellis figure into latex. To recap, The figure contains 3 scatterplots, so it should have roughly a 1:3 sort of aspect ratio, in order to make each of the scatterplots square. Instead, the whole figure comes out

Re: [R] How to get correct proportions/bounding box for latex figure?

2006-03-14 Thread context grey
Thank you. However I don't think I understand the response here. In what sense do I want a nonstandard layout? Is because I am specify aspect=1/1 in the xyplot() ? If so, then is there some other way to cause the scatterplot to be rougly square? I took this out and looked at the result

Re: [R] How to get correct proportions/bounding box for latex figure?

2006-03-14 Thread context grey
--- Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The R graphics model is that the drawing surface is established first, then the things you draw are adjusted to fit in it. R won't change the shape of the display because you are drawing more things on it. Thanks, this comment clarifies

[R] postscript bounding box in trellis/lattice plot is wrong ?

2006-03-01 Thread context grey
Hi, a problem involving postscript bounding boxes: I'm composing three scatterplots into a single figure, postsript for publication. The individual scatterplots should be square, so the overall figure should have a roughly 1:3 sort of aspect ratio. By default however, the overall figure comes

[R] classifier for histograms?

2006-01-31 Thread context grey
Hi, Apology for this question being off the topic (OT) of R, though I expect this list might be the best place on the net to ask this question. In brief, the question is: what classification algorithm can one use if the features are histograms? I have a classification problem, and believe

[R] beginner Q: hashtable or dictionary?

2006-01-29 Thread context grey
Hi, Is there something like a hashtable or (python) dictionary in R/Splus? (If not, is there a reason why it's not needed / typical way to accomplish the same thing?) Thank you __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list