Re: [R] Confidence Interval

2008-02-02 Thread Bill.Venables
Your question is not clear. Confidence intervals apply to parameters. What you set out below is a simulation strategy. x is a simulated sample and y is a statistic based on it. There is no 'model' in any statistical sense. What is the parameter for which you want a confidence interval? What

[R] Call for papers for CMG'08

2008-02-02 Thread jim holtman
UseR, I am on the conference committee for CMG'08 (Computer Measurement Group - www.cmg.org). At the last several conferences I have presented papers, and workshops, on the use of R in computer performance analysis and visualization. I am sending this out to see if anyone would be interested in

[R] Confidence Interval

2008-02-02 Thread Jacques Wagnor
I have a model as follows: x <- replicate(100, sum(rlnorm(rpois(1,5), 0,1))) y <- quantile(x, 0.99)) How would one go about estimating the boundaries of a 95% confidence interval for y? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Bill.Venables
Two small points for this discussion. Emacs + ESS is brilliant, but it does require some investment of time for people to become comfortable with it. You really need to grok Emacs first. It is protable across platforms, as pointed out below, but if you are trying to get a neophyte class on si

Re: [R] Confidence Interval

2008-02-02 Thread David Winsemius
David Winsemius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > "Jacques Wagnor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> I have a model as follows: >> >> x <- replicate(100, sum(rlnorm(rpois(1,5), 0,1))) >> y <- quantile(x, 0.99)) >> >> How would one go about estima

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Stefan Grosse wrote: > On Saturday 02 February 2008 07:51:00 pm you wrote: > FE> I'm using the standard Ubuntu debian repositories. > FE> Frank > FE> > > Try the 0.4.9 etch package from the project: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50231&package_id=43758&release_id=568604 T

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 2 February 2008 at 20:15, Stefan Grosse wrote: | On Saturday 02 February 2008 07:51:00 pm you wrote: | FE> I'm using the standard Ubuntu debian repositories. | FE> Frank | FE> | | Try the 0.4.9 etch package from the project: | http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50231&packag

Re: [R] using (g)sub for efficient string handling (was Re: transforming one column into 2 columns)

2008-02-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This does not answer your question directly but note that strapply in the gsubfn package can be used to select strings by content: > library(gsubfn) > (x <- strapply(txt, "Variation_", simplify = c)) [1] "Variation_0001" "Variation_5452" "Variation_4192" "Variation_4193" [5] "Variation_8246" "

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Stefan Grosse
On Saturday 02 February 2008 07:51:00 pm you wrote: FE> I'm using the standard Ubuntu debian repositories. FE> Frank FE> Try the 0.4.9 etch package from the project: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50231&package_id=43758&release_id=568604 for gutsy the latest package is 0.4.

Re: [R] Saving a big table or matrix

2008-02-02 Thread mel
Atte Tenkanen a écrit : > Dear R-users, > How do you save a big table or matrix I use write.table() to save and read.table() to read __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http:

[R] using (g)sub for efficient string handling (was Re: transforming one column into 2 columns)

2008-02-02 Thread Benilton Carvalho
That actually reminds me of a problem I had to tackle a while ago. Say I have the following: txt <- c("Variation_0001 // chr1:1083805-1283805 // Array CGH // 15286789 // Iafrate et al. (2004) // CopyNumber /// Variation_5452 // chr1:1142956-1147823 // Computational mapping of resequencing

Re: [R] transforming one column into 2 columns

2008-02-02 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
hits=-2.5 tests�YES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-USF-Spam-Flag: NO try this: dat <- data.frame(Col = c("chr1:71310034", "chr14:23354088", "chr15:37759058", "chr22:18262638", "chrUn:31337214", "chr10_random:4369261", "chrUn:3545097")) vals <- strsplit(as.character(dat$Col), ":") dat$"Col_a" <-

Re: [R] transforming one column into 2 columns

2008-02-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Benilton Carvalho wrote: > help("strsplit") > b > Yes, but... The postprocessing gets a bit awkward. It might be easier to use sub() to get rid of the first/last bit of the string i.e. C2 <- sub("^.*:", "", Col) C1 <- sub(":.*$", "", Col) An orthogonal idea is con <- textConnection("Col") re

Re: [R] Meaning of Error Message from decompose

2008-02-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please note the request for a reproucible example at the foot of this (and every) message. Your 'x' looks like a data frame, double-spaced by your mailer (and your sent HTML when asked not to, probably the cause). However, > x <- ts(c(36,44,45,106,38,46,47,112,42,49,48,118,42,50,51,118), +

Re: [R] transforming one column into 2 columns

2008-02-02 Thread Benilton Carvalho
help("strsplit") b On Feb 2, 2008, at 12:43 PM, joseph wrote: Hello I have a data frame and one of its columns is as follows: Col chr1:71310034 chr14:23354088 chr15:37759058 chr22:18262638 chrUn:31337214 chr10_random:4369261 chrUn:3545097 I would like to get rid of col

[R] transforming one column into 2 columns

2008-02-02 Thread joseph
Hello I have a data frame and one of its columns is as follows: Col chr1:71310034 chr14:23354088 chr15:37759058 chr22:18262638 chrUn:31337214 chr10_random:4369261 chrUn:3545097 I would like to get rid of colon (:) and replace this column with two new columns containing th

Re: [R] ARCH LM test for univariant time series

2008-02-02 Thread Spencer Graves
tom soyer wrote: > Spencer, > > The warning message is sent from VAR, it basically lets you know that the > data it used had no column names and it had to supply them using y1, y2, y3, > etc. It can be suppressed by including options(warn=-1) in the function. > > Anyway, it seems that the p

Re: [R] Confidence Interval

2008-02-02 Thread David Winsemius
"Jacques Wagnor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have a model as follows: > > x <- replicate(100, sum(rlnorm(rpois(1,5), 0,1))) > y <- quantile(x, 0.99)) > > How would one go about estimating the boundaries of a 95% confidence > interval for y? > > Any pointers would b

Re: [R] ARCH LM test for univariant time series

2008-02-02 Thread tom soyer
Spencer, The warning message is sent from VAR, it basically lets you know that the data it used had no column names and it had to supply them using y1, y2, y3, etc. It can be suppressed by including options(warn=-1) in the function. Anyway, it seems that the p value from my function does not matc

Re: [R] ARCH LM test for univariant time series

2008-02-02 Thread Spencer Graves
Dear Tom: Your revised function eliminates the discrepancy in the degrees of freedom but is still very different from the numbers reports on Tsay, p. 102: archTest(log(1+as.numeric(m.intc7303)), lag=12) ARCH test (univariate) data: Residual of y1 equation Chi-squared = 13.1483,

Re: [R] ARCH LM test for univariant time series

2008-02-02 Thread tom soyer
OK, it's no good. Here is the result: > data(m.intc7303) > archTest(log(1+as.numeric(m.intc7303)), lags=12) ARCH test (univariate) data: Residual of y1 equation Chi-squared = 13.1483, df = 12, p-value = 0.3584 On 2/2/08, tom soyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Spencer, > > Sorry, I

[R] [OT?] Question on bootstrapping

2008-02-02 Thread Matthias Gondan
Dear list, This is off-topic, but perhaps there is an expert out there who can help me in a bootstrapping test. I have two samples A, B from, say, a normal distribution. A third sample R is the vector of pairwise minima of the same random variables: A = rnorm(100) B = rnorm(100) A2 = rnorm(10

Re: [R] ARCH LM test for univariant time series

2008-02-02 Thread tom soyer
Spencer, Sorry, I forgot that the default lag in arch is 16. Here is the fix. Can you try it again and see if it gives the correct (or at least similar compared to a true LM test) result? archTest=function(x, lags=12){ #x is a vector require(vars) s=embed(x,lags) y=VAR(s,p=1,type="const") re

Re: [R] ARCH LM test for univariant time series

2008-02-02 Thread Spencer Graves
Dear Tom, Bernhard, Ruey: I can't get that to match Tsay's example, but I have other questions about that. 1. I got the following using Tom's 'archTest' function (below): > archTest(log(1+as.numeric(m.intc7303)), lags=12) ARCH test (univariate) data: Residual of y1 equat

Re: [R] Question in R

2008-02-02 Thread Patrick Burns
Perhaps the 'page' function? Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Oliver Herbst wrote: >HI, > > > >can anybody help me how to observe or read the output of an r command >pagewise? (E.g. to make a

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Stefan Grosse
On Saturday 02 February 2008 03:21:24 pm Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: FE> I have tried installing rkward on three different ubuntu systems and FE> have never gotten past this error: FE> FE> rkward FE> /usr/bin/rkward.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/rkward.bin: undefined FE> symbol: R_LastvalueSymbo

Re: [R] Ignore error t.test in a loop

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Ritz
Hi, have a look at ?try which leads to using a construct of the following form: myTtest <- try(t.test(...)) if (inherits(myTtest, "try-error")) { cat(myTtest) myTtest <- NA } Christian __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz

[R] Looking for volunteer moderators for R-help

2008-02-02 Thread Martin Maechler
As mentioned three days ago, the R-help mailing list is now only accepting postings from subscribers (more or less) unconditionally. Non-subscriber postings are currently held for moderation which we would like to "out source". To this end, we look for volunteers who are willing to share the load

Re: [R] Question in R

2008-02-02 Thread John Fox
NO Dear Oliver, I'm not sure why you'd want to do this rather than just scrolling the console after the output is completed (assuming, of course, that you can scroll your console), but here's a function (not extensively tested) that might do what you want: more <- function(command, lines=20){

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Stefan Grosse wrote: > On Saturday 02 February 2008 04:06:38 am Wade Wall wrote: > WW> I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if > WW> anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works > WW> well with R. > > Beside the aforementioned emacs+ESS

[R] Meaning of Error Message from decompose

2008-02-02 Thread Tom La Bone
Greetings, For the following quarterly data I did a classical decomposition by hand in a spreadsheet and got reasonably similar results using Minitab 15. x 1 36 2 44 3 45 4 106 5 38 6 46 7 47 8 112

[R] Question in R

2008-02-02 Thread Oliver Herbst
HI, can anybody help me how to observe or read the output of an r command pagewise? (E.g. to make a break after the first page of output data and then continue by putting a key on the console) Thanks a lot. Oliver [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Tom La Bone
I am in a similar situation and found that Kate combined with Konsole operates very much like Tinn-R. I actually use Kate for all interpreters like Python, R, and Octave under linux. Tom Wade Wall wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if

Re: [R] calculation fraction/ratio

2008-02-02 Thread jim holtman
Is this what you want? > x <- read.table(textConnection("Index A + 1 1 + 1 2 + 1 3 + 2 4 + 2 3 + 3 7 + 3 9 + 3 3 + 3 1"), header=TRUE) > data.frame(x, value=ave(x$A, x$Index, FUN=function(z) z / sum(z))) Index A value 1 1 1 0.167 2 1 2 0.333 3 1 3 0.500 4 2 4 0.57

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le sam. 02 févr. à 05:49, 宋时歌 a écrit : > On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS. To me, an added bonus of Emacs + ESS is that you can remove the "On Linux platform", above. Emacs is one of the very few (only?) programmer's text editor with a good R mode that runs on all platforms whe

Re: [R] Ignore error t.test in a loop

2008-02-02 Thread jim holtman
?try e.g., for(i in x) try(t.test(...)) On Feb 2, 2008 7:43 AM, My Coyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I place a t.test in a loop and would like to continue to process the loop > even when t.test encounter error. How do I do that?For example, in one > iteration, the data is complet

Re: [R] Plotting 3 vectors on one graph.

2008-02-02 Thread jim holtman
What you want to do is to use 'plot' for the initial vector and then "lines" to add the other two. You will have to set the range of the y-axis in the initial call to "plot". The sequence would probably look like this: plot(a, ylim=range(a, b, c), col='black') lines(b, col='red') lines(c, col='g

[R] Ignore error t.test in a loop

2008-02-02 Thread My Coyne
Hi, I place a t.test in a loop and would like to continue to process the loop even when t.test encounter error. How do I do that?For example, in one iteration, the data is completely constant and t.test gives error, the entire program terminates. I would like to write the information out to

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread chaogai
After to much windows contamination, my brain does not do the cryptic part of Emacs+ESS C-x M-c M-headache. Eclipse is is currently my choice. (But the installation instructions could be better) Kees On Saturday 02 February 2008 05:49:10 am 宋时歌 wrote: > On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs +

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Stefan Grosse
On Saturday 02 February 2008 04:06:38 am Wade Wall wrote: WW> I know this question has been asked in the past, but I am wondering if WW> anyone running R on Linux has any guidance as to a text editor that works WW> well with R. Beside the aforementioned emacs+ESS there exists another good editor

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/02/2008 11:49 PM, 宋时歌 wrote: > On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS. This discussion may be relevant: http://xkcd.com/378/ Duncan Murdoch __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read th

[R] Confidence Interval

2008-02-02 Thread Jacques Wagnor
I have a model as follows: x <- replicate(100, sum(rlnorm(rpois(1,5), 0,1))) y <- quantile(x, 0.99)) How would one go about estimating the boundaries of a 95% confidence interval for y? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i

[R] Plotting 3 vectors on one graph.

2008-02-02 Thread cvandy
I'm an R newbie and am trying to plot 3 vectors, say a,b,c. I have downloaded 3 R manuals and searched your forum. There are plenty of X vs Y examples, but cannot find how to plot 3, or more vectors one one graph. I'm sure I overlooked something. Thanks for any help. CHV -- View this message i

[R] calculation fraction/ratio

2008-02-02 Thread YIHSU CHEN
Dear R users I wonder if there is a quick way to calculate the ratio/fraction of a list/data frame. For example, if I have a data frame with two fields: "Index" and "A". I would like to know the fractions of A's within the same "Index". That is, for Index =1, three fractions will be "1/(1+2+3)

Re: [R] best text editor for Linux?

2008-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/2/08, 宋时歌 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Linux platform, nothing beats Emacs + ESS. Another text editor would be Bluefish. I believe it would lack functionality compared to the Emacs + ESS. Liviu __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.e