[R] About zero-inflation poisson model

2009-12-11 Thread Xiongqing Zhang
Hello all, I am Xiongqing Zhang, come from Beijing of China. I know you from the web site: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2008-February/154627.html. I am not very clear about the R-project software. But I want to estimate the parameters and errors of zero-inflation poisson model. Can you h

[R] help with graphing -- Points in my graph are not apparent, always displayed in steps

2009-12-11 Thread philip robinson
I am trying to graphically represent a large set of data who's result is not strictly uniform. http://n4.nabble.com/file/n961629/egraph_rules_list_2.png The scatter plot to the left has all of the data rising in steps however I know that there are cases within my data that do not fit the dotted

[R] How to get the right ASH using "ash" package

2009-12-11 Thread Saji Ren
hi,everybody: I want to get the "average shifted histogram" or ASH for my own data. I choose to use the package "ash" to compute the ASH . But there is NA values in my data, and when using the command "bin1" for computing the bin counts, I was told that the command can't handle NA/NaN/Inf data.

Re: [R] Have you used RGoogleDocs and RGoogleData?

2009-12-11 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
It Works! Thanks a lot! Its great. What were your "few minor, but important, changes" - in a nutshell. I will not understand unless you describe it as high level issues. Farrel Buchinsky Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870 On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 19:07, Duncan Temple Lang wrote: > > Hi Farrel > >

Re: [R] Frequency tables.

2009-12-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 11, 2009, at 10:48 PM, Kim Jung Hwa wrote: Thank you David and Ista for your suggestions. I got the latex part. But, this may be stupid, I got the html code using following command, how can I make use of it? Thanks anyways. On my computer just copying that to a text editor and ope

Re: [R] Frequency tables.

2009-12-11 Thread Kim Jung Hwa
Thank you David and Ista for your suggestions. I got the latex part. But, this may be stupid, I got the html code using following command, how can I make use of it? Thanks anyways. temp<-xtable(summary(Orange)) print(temp, type="html") Treeage circumference 1 3:7 M

Re: [R] some problems with ram usage and warnings

2009-12-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 11, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Tom Knockinger wrote: Hi, i am new to the R-project but until now i have found solutions for every problem in toturials, R Wikis and this mailing list, but now i have some problems which I can't solve with this knowledge. I have some data like this: # sample

Re: [R] Frequency tables.

2009-12-11 Thread Ista Zahn
There are a variety of packages that help format output using either LaTeX or html. I've grown to prefer the latex() function in the Hmisc packages, but you might also be interested in xtable (can output either to LaTeX or html), R2html, or prettyR. -Ista On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Kim Jung

Re: [R] Frequency tables.

2009-12-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 11, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Kim Jung Hwa wrote: library(datasets) Orange summary(Orange) > library(xtable) > xtable(summary(Orange)) % latex table generated in R 2.10.1 by xtable 1.5-6 package % Fri Dec 11 21:39:50 2009 \begin{table}[ht] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{rlll} \hline & Tree

Re: [R] how can generate from trunceted gamma distribution in R ?

2009-12-11 Thread David Scott
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 11/12/2009 7:12 AM, khaz...@ceremade.dauphine.fr wrote: Hi, all How can generate a sample from truncated inverse gamma distribution in R? Using the inverse CDF method or rejection sampling are possible, depending on what your truncation is like. If your truncation f

Re: [R] Export R output to Word/RTF?

2009-12-11 Thread Don MacQueen
At 6:28 PM -0500 12/11/09, Wenjie Lee wrote: Hi R Experts, I'm aware of pdf(), jpeg(),... functions. But, 1. Is it also possible to export graphs directly to word or RTF? I use to copy and paste graphs but resolutions are not so great. I save graphs as png files, then use Word's Insert Pictu

Re: [R] Problems with Rcmd install package

2009-12-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/12/2009 1:34 PM, Keshk, Omar wrote: Dear all I have tried several times to make and install an R package that i created. However, whenever i get to the last step and try to install the package i get the following error: C:\Rtools\bin>rcmd install "C:\program files\R\R-2.9.2\bin\Test_1.0

Re: [R] "subset" or "condition" as argument to a function

2009-12-11 Thread Santosh
Thanks so much for the tips, I was able to use both parse() and eval()... I found eval(), quote(), bquote() easier and more flexible to use and to pass as arguments to a function. I can't say enough that you really made my day! :) Thanks, Santosh On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:36 AM, baptiste auguie <

Re: [R] get the enclosing function name

2009-12-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/12/2009 8:50 AM, Hao Cen wrote: Hi, Is there a way to get the enclosing function name within a function? You confused me at first with "enclosing function", but I think you can do what you want using something like f <- function() { print(sys.call()[[1]]) } f() Duncan Murdoch F

Re: [R] how can generate from trunceted gamma distribution in R ?

2009-12-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/12/2009 7:12 AM, khaz...@ceremade.dauphine.fr wrote: Hi, all How can generate a sample from truncated inverse gamma distribution in R? Using the inverse CDF method or rejection sampling are possible, depending on what your truncation is like. If your truncation forces the observations

Re: [R] Have you used RGoogleDocs and RGoogleData?

2009-12-11 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Hi Farrel I have taken a look at the problems using RGoogleDocs to read spreadsheets and was able to reproduce the problem I believe you were having. A few minor, but important, changes and I can read spreadsheets again and apparently still other types of documents. I have put an updated versio

Re: [R] Export R output to Word/RTF?

2009-12-11 Thread Sharpie
Wenjie Lee wrote: > > Hi R Experts, > > I'm aware of pdf(), jpeg(),... functions. But, > > 1. Is it also possible to export graphs directly to word or RTF? I use to > copy and paste graphs but resolutions are not so great. > > 2. Also, is it possible to export your out to word file? I use si

[R] Frequency tables.

2009-12-11 Thread Kim Jung Hwa
Hi All, I'm a SAS user but I'm very much interested in learning R. I use ODS system in SAS to make nice frequency tables. Is it possible to export the output of table() [in TABULAR FORM]? So, that I can use those directly for publications? Thank you. # R Code: library(datasets) Orange summary(Or

Re: [R] Regularized gamma function/ incomplete gamma function

2009-12-11 Thread Ravi Varadhan
You can do this using the package "numDeriv". require(zipfR) require(numDeriv) fn <- function(x, y) Rgamma.inv(x, y) gRgamma.inv <- function(y, k) sapply(y, function(y) grad(x=k, func=fn, y=y)) plot(gRgamma.inv(y=seq(0,1, length=200), k=1), type="l", xlab="x", ylab="Derivative of Rgamma.inv w

Re: [R] Export R output to Word/RTF?

2009-12-11 Thread Wenjie Lee
Please read this: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Wenjie Lee wrote: > Hi R Experts, > > I'm aware of pdf(), jpeg(),... functions. But, > > 1. Is it also possible to export graphs directly to word or RTF? I use to > copy and paste graphs but resolutions are not so great. > > 2. Also, is it possib

Re: [R] Correcting for missing data combinations

2009-12-11 Thread Gray Calhoun
This is nice; the matching could be shortened by using merge: ### quoted from the previous message > #generate data - two factors - 4 levels in factor1, 26 levels in factor2 > df <- data.frame(factor1 = sample(LETTERS[1:4], 100, replace=T), >factor2 = sample(letters, 100, replace=T), value = r

[R] Export R output to Word/RTF?

2009-12-11 Thread Wenjie Lee
Hi R Experts, I'm aware of pdf(), jpeg(),... functions. But, 1. Is it also possible to export graphs directly to word or RTF? I use to copy and paste graphs but resolutions are not so great. 2. Also, is it possible to export your out to word file? I use sink() function to export it text files.

[R] random effects in mixed model not that 'random'

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Mang
Hi, I have the following conceptual / interpretative question regarding random effects: A mixed effects model was fit on biological data, with observations coming from different species. There is a clear overall effect of certain predictors (entering the model as fixed effect), but as diffe

Re: [R] Regularized gamma function/ incomplete gamma function

2009-12-11 Thread Stefan Evert
I would be very grateful if you could help me with: Given the regularized gamma function Reg=int_0^r (x^(k-1)e^(-x))dx/ int_0^Inf (x^(k-1)e^(-x))dx ; 0of the Incomplete gamma function by the gamma function), does anyone know of a package in R that would evaluate the derivative of the inverse

Re: [R] extracting vectors from lists of lists

2009-12-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 11, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Jennifer Young wrote: Good evening I often have as output from simulations a list of various values, vectors and matrices. Supposing that I then run said simulation several times, I often want to extract a particular result from each simulation for plotting a

Re: [R] extracting vectors from lists of lists

2009-12-11 Thread Benilton Carvalho
oh.. and i just saw the bonus part... just replace lapply() by sapply(). b On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Jennifer Young wrote: > Good evening > > I often have as output from simulations a list of various values, vectors > and matrices. > Supposing that I then run said simulation several times, I

Re: [R] extracting vectors from lists of lists

2009-12-11 Thread Phil Spector
Jennifer - Does this do what you want? v1 = sapply(output,'[[','vec') v2 = sapply(output,'[[','other') v1 [,1] [,2] [1,]16 [2,]27 [3,]38 [4,]49 [5,]5 10 v2 [1] "stuff" "stuff" (in more readable form: v1 = sapply(output,function(x)x$vec) v2 = sap

Re: [R] extracting vectors from lists of lists

2009-12-11 Thread Benilton Carvalho
lapply(output, "[[", "vec") b On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Jennifer Young wrote: > Good evening > > I often have as output from simulations a list of various values, vectors > and matrices. > Supposing that I then run said simulation several times, I often want to > extract a particular result

Re: [R] R download

2009-12-11 Thread Jose Narillos de Santos
Sorry about the last question I ´m reading the solution. Sorry again. 2009/12/11 Jose Narillos de Santos > Hi all I want to make a copy about R in a external disk. > > How many bytes will occupe if I could dowload all disposable libraries? > > Is it possible? How should I proceed? > [

Re: [R] Notification of false convergence with lmer()

2009-12-11 Thread Ben Bolker
jjh gmail.com> writes: > > > I am running the lmer() command in a for loop and occasionally a particular > iteration is producing the false convergence warning. I would like to be > able to mark these iterations with a dummy variable, but I can't find any > other notification besides the warnin

[R] extracting vectors from lists of lists

2009-12-11 Thread Jennifer Young
Good evening I often have as output from simulations a list of various values, vectors and matrices. Supposing that I then run said simulation several times, I often want to extract a particular result from each simulation for plotting and, ideally, put it in a matrix. A simple example v1 <- 1:5

Re: [R] how to simulate brown, white and pink noise time series

2009-12-11 Thread Ben Bolker
Enrico R. Crema gmail.com> writes: > > Dear List, > Is it possible to simulate a time-series in R based on 1/f noise? > http://people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker/landsc.html gives some information on simulating fractal landscapes. I think you could treat a 1-D landscape as a time series. Ben

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steve Lianoglou > wrote: >> >> On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen >>> wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > > Ho

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Peng Yu wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Peng Yu wrote: How do you figure out all the po

Re: [R] Data

2009-12-11 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi Jose, Here is a suggestion using tapply(): R> x <- read.table(textConnection("Pepe 2 + Pepe 3 + Pepe 4 + Jose 2 + Jose 5 + Manuel 4 + Manuel 2"), header = FALSE) R> closeAllConnections() R> x V1 V2 1 Pepe 2 2 Pepe 3 3 Pepe 4 4 Jose 2 5 Jose 5 6 Manuel 4 7 Manuel 2 R> R>

Re: [R] Data

2009-12-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Jose Narillos de Santos wrote: Hi all, Imagine I have a matrix and the first colum is a list that repeats the same names, I want to sum the second column on each unique name on first column. Imagine this: Pepe 2 Pepe 3 Pepe 4 Jose 2 Jose 5 Manuel 4 Manuel 2

[R] R download

2009-12-11 Thread Jose Narillos de Santos
Hi all I want to make a copy about R in a external disk. How many bytes will occupe if I could dowload all disposable libraries? Is it possible? How should I proceed? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list ht

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Peng Yu wrote: How do you figure out all the possibilities? >>> >>> Well, the

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen > wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>> How do you figure out all the possibilities? >> >> Well, the "Value" section of the third party function's help page should >>

Re: [R] Correcting for missing data combinations

2009-12-11 Thread Greg Hirson
One approach would be to use expand.grid to generate all combinations and then match against what you have. A short example: #generate data - two factors - 4 levels in factor1, 26 levels in factor2 df <- data.frame(factor1 = sample(LETTERS[1:4], 100, replace=T), factor2 = sample(letters, 10

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> How do you figure out all the possibilities? > > Well, the "Value" section of the third party function's help page should > outline the return types it produces.  If it doesn't cove

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Don MacQueen wrote: > I would study the third party function and learn all the types it can > return. > > After all if you don't know what type it's going to return, how can you > possibly make *any* confident use of its output? > > Do you actually have this situat

[R] Data

2009-12-11 Thread Jose Narillos de Santos
Hi all, Imagine I have a matrix and the first colum is a list that repeats the same names, I want to sum the second column on each unique name on first column. Imagine this: Pepe 2 Pepe 3 Pepe 4 Jose 2 Jose 5 Manuel 4 Manuel 2 I want to make a new matrix that calculates and recognizes that ther

Re: [R] Correcting for missing data combinations

2009-12-11 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, GL wrote: I can think of many brute-force ways to do this outside of R, but was wondering if there was a simple/elegant solution within R instead. I have a table that looks something like the following: Factor1 Factor2 Value A 11/11/2009 5 A 11/12

Re: [R] Please help with a basic function

2009-12-11 Thread Don MacQueen
At 8:19 AM -0600 12/11/09, Mark Na wrote: Hello, I am learning how to use functions, but I'm running into a roadblock. I would like my function to do two things: 1) convert an object to a dataframe, 2) and then subset the dataframe. Both of these commands work fine outside the function, but I w

Re: [R] Problem with calibrate function

2009-12-11 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Rodrigo wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Rodrigo wrote: Hi, I´m trying to use the calibrate function from rms package (made by prof. Harrell) after fitting a model using cph. But it returns the following error message: calibrate(modelo1,B=200,bw=F,u=13) Using Cox survival estimates at 13

Re: [R] library(survival)-- cluster

2009-12-11 Thread Terry Therneau
The query was why survreg() with a cluster() statement fails. The answer: a bug. A call to resid() preceded setting the class of the result to 'survreg'. I am currently adding another case to the test suite so that this does not happen again, and to formally validate that the numeric valu

[R] Correcting for missing data combinations

2009-12-11 Thread GL
I can think of many brute-force ways to do this outside of R, but was wondering if there was a simple/elegant solution within R instead. I have a table that looks something like the following: Factor1 Factor2 Value A 11/11/2009 5 A 11/12/2009 4 B 11/11/2009

Re: [R] Problem with calibrate function

2009-12-11 Thread Rodrigo
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > > Rodrigo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I´m trying to use the calibrate function from rms package (made by prof. >> Harrell) after fitting a model using cph. But it returns the following >> error >> message: >> >>> calibrate(modelo1,B=200,bw=F,u=13) >> >> Using Cox survival

[R] Calculation of slope for Poisson regression

2009-12-11 Thread borealis_north
Hello, I am analyzing time-series data for multiple songbird species in northern Canada where data were collected at 3 point count stations within a stand (~150 stations) visited twice a year and with multiple observers. I am using a linear mixed effects model (lme4) that includes year as a fixed

Re: [R] Labeling plot points

2009-12-11 Thread Doug Hill
Greg, I tried installing v2.5 using the instructions on R-forge but ran into errors: > install.packages("TeachingDemos", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";) Warning: unable to access index for repository http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.10 Warning message: In getDependencies(

Re: [R] Labeling plot points

2009-12-11 Thread Doug Hill
Hi, again. False alarm, I thought I'd call lattice.demo() as a quick check of my install, but that was a bad idea and the errors were a red herring. Looked at you HWidentify() directly and now I get it - thanks! Doug Greg Snow-2 wrote: > > There are 2 functions in the development version of th

[R] Problems with Rcmd install package

2009-12-11 Thread Keshk, Omar
Dear all I have tried several times to make and install an R package that i created. However, whenever i get to the last step and try to install the package i get the following error: C:\Rtools\bin>rcmd install "C:\program files\R\R-2.9.2\bin\Test_1.0.tar.gz" Can't open perl script "C:\PROGRA

[R] Regularized gamma function/ incomplete gamma function

2009-12-11 Thread A.Noufaily
Dear all, I would be very grateful if you could help me with: Given the regularized gamma function Reg=int_0^r (x^(k-1)e^(-x))dx/int_0^Inf (x^(k-1)e^(-x))dx ; 0https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide

[R] how to simulate brown, white and pink noise time series

2009-12-11 Thread Enrico R. Crema
Dear List, Is it possible to simulate a time-series in R based on 1/f noise? Many Thanks Enrico Crema --- Enrico R. Crema PhD Candidate Institute of Archaeology, UCL AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, U

Re: [R] how can generate from trunceted gamma distribution in R ?

2009-12-11 Thread Greg Snow
One approach is to sample from a non-truncated inverse gamma, then if the observation is in the part you want truncated, throw it away and generate a new value. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -Original Me

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Don MacQueen
I would study the third party function and learn all the types it can return. After all if you don't know what type it's going to return, how can you possibly make *any* confident use of its output? Do you actually have this situation? A third part function that is so poorly documented that y

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Charlie Sharpsteen
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > > How do you figure out all the possibilities? Well, the "Value" section of the third party function's help page should outline the return types it produces. If it doesn't cover all cases, write a letter to the package maintainer. If you are

Re: [R] How to calculte the power of a matrix

2009-12-11 Thread William Dunlap
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Moohwan Kim > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:01 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] How to calculte the power of a matrix > > Dear R family > > I have a following question. > Suppose I have a

Re: [R] How to calculte the power of a matrix

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Dec 11, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Moohwan Kim wrote: > Dear R family > > I have a following question. > Suppose I have a matrix as follows, for instance: > tau= > 0 1 0 0 0 > 0 0 1 0 0 > 0 0 0 1 0 > 0 0 0 0 1 > 1 0 0 0 0 > > I want to calculate (-m) power of tau, for example, m=893. > > When I

Re: [R] Literature analysis

2009-12-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 12/11/09, Schwan wrote: > However, I dont know how to tell R that it just should look for e.g. > author,keywords and year and how to plot these for example on x axis the > author and y axis the keywords and on z axis the year? > I suggest that you try to get going in R with the Rcmdr

[R] How to calculte the power of a matrix

2009-12-11 Thread Moohwan Kim
Dear R family I have a following question. Suppose I have a matrix as follows, for instance: tau= 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 I want to calculate (-m) power of tau, for example, m=893. When I run tau^2, the outcome is just tau. Any help would be appreciated. thank

Re: [R] cluster size

2009-12-11 Thread Tal Galili
Hello Karuna, Christian answer was great and very detailed. One more approach you might want to try is using the K-medoids algorithm instead of the K-means. That can be used through the pam command (from the cluster package) See more here: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/cluster/htm

Re: [R] The correct way to set an element in a list to NULL? (FAQ is not clear)

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Steve Lianoglou > wrote: >> >> On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> [snip] >> > What seems confusing to me is: > even 'x[i]<-list(NULL)' and 'x[[i]]<-list(NULL)' are different, why > x[i]<-NU

Re: [R] Please help with a basic function

2009-12-11 Thread Mark Na
Many thanks for the replies to my call for help this morning. I didn't know about return() and that helped quite a bit. Best, Mark On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Paul Hiemstra wrote: > Hi Mark, > > This question would probably be better suited for the r-sig-geo mailing > list. In addition, pl

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM, hadley wickham wrote: >> A very common situation is that the users don't know all the possible >> return types of 'some_third_party_function()'. If the users don't know >> all the return types, he/she can not make sure the return type of >> function(x) {...} be al

Re: [R] The correct way to set an element in a list to NULL? (FAQ is not clear)

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > [snip] > What seems confusing to me is: even 'x[i]<-list(NULL)' and 'x[[i]]<-list(NULL)' are different, why x[i]<-NULL and x[[i]]<-NULL are the same? Shouldn't the m

Re: [R] ggplot: Problem with legend background

2009-12-11 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Luc, You want: legend.title=theme_text(size=20, hjust = 0) So the legend title is left aligned, not centred. Hadley On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:26 AM, MUHC_Research wrote: > > Dear R-users, > > I am preparing graphs for an upcoming article using the different functions > of the ggplot2 pack

Re: [R] confint for glm (general linear model)

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Ehlers
I suspect that you don't know about 'profile' confidence intervals. If that's true then I can recommend the discussion in MASS (the book) in section 8.4. In a nutshell, I don't think that you want to do a profile confint calculation manually (unless typing instructions that use the function profil

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread hadley wickham
> A very common situation is that the users don't know all the possible > return types of 'some_third_party_function()'. If the users don't know > all the return types, he/she can not make sure the return type of > function(x) {...} be always the same. How do you deal with this case? It's not that

Re: [R] Sources for open sourced homework questions for R?

2009-12-11 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Dave, I have a few drills available from http://had.co.nz/stat405 - see the right hand column, about half way down. They seem similar in spirit to what you're thinking of. You might want to look at the "Little Schemer" for a similar approach with a different programming language. However, I'm

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM, William Dunlap wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peng Yu >> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:18 AM >> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: Re: [R] Why a list of NUL

Re: [R] The correct way to set an element in a list to NULL? (FAQ is not clear)

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Peng Yu wrote: [snip] >>> What seems confusing to me is: >>> even 'x[i]<-list(NULL)' and 'x[[i]]<-list(NULL)' are different, why >>> x[i]<-NULL and x[[i]]<-NULL are the same? >>> >>> Shouldn't the meaning of 'x[[i]]<-NULL' be defined as the set the i'th >>> element

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peng Yu > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:18 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL? > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Re: [R] The correct way to set an element in a list to NULL? (FAQ is not clear)

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > Hi, > > On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-set-components-of-a-list-to-NULL_003f >> >> The explanation on this FAQ entry is not clear. It says '... similarly >> for name

Re: [R] The correct way to set an element in a list to NULL? (FAQ is not clear)

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-set-components-of-a-list-to-NULL_003f > > The explanation on this FAQ entry is not clear. It says '... similarly > for named components...'. What I understood was x[i]<-list(NULL) is > the s

Re: [R] shared axes in multipanel plot

2009-12-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this using xyplot.zoo in the zoo package. We define the baseline and a panel function. The panel function just performs the default action to display the graphs and adds the baseline. The screens variable is 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4. We create a zoo object from dat and use screens to name the colu

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:01 AM, William Dunlap wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peng Yu >> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:44 AM >> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: [R] Why a list of NULL's

Re: [R] SVM regression

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Eleni, On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Eleni Christodoulou wrote: > Dear R users, > > I am trying to apply SVM regression for a set of microarray data. I am using > the function svm() under the package {e1071}. Can anyone tell me what > the *residuals > *value represents? I have some observed v

Re: [R] How to figure out which the version of split is used?

2009-12-11 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Karl Ove Hufthammer > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:46 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] How to figure out which the version of split is used? > > On Wed

[R] The correct way to set an element in a list to NULL? (FAQ is not clear)

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-set-components-of-a-list-to-NULL_003f The explanation on this FAQ entry is not clear. It says '... similarly for named components...'. What I understood was x[i]<-list(NULL) is the same as x$a_name<-list(NULL). But, they are not. As the exampl

[R] SVM regression

2009-12-11 Thread Eleni Christodoulou
Dear R users, I am trying to apply SVM regression for a set of microarray data. I am using the function svm() under the package {e1071}. Can anyone tell me what the *residuals *value represents? I have some observed values *y_obs* for the parameter that I want to estimate and I would expect that *

[R] Looking for categorization method/module in R

2009-12-11 Thread James Mcininch
All, I'm relatively new to using R, having used it thus far for some simple statistics and plotting. However, I'm not new to programming by any measure. I've been looking at the various modules available for clustering, factor analysis, etc. and find that I need advice on which modules I should b

Re: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peng Yu > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:44 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL? > > The following examples are confusing

[R] Sources for open sourced homework questions for R?

2009-12-11 Thread David Kane
Hi, I am teaching a one month class in applied statistics and want to bring my students up to speed in R without devoting much/any lecture time to R instruction. I think that the best way to do this is to provide them with a lot of R questions for homework. These questions would be numerous (there

[R] Why a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL?

2009-12-11 Thread Peng Yu
The following examples are confusing to me. It is OK, to assigned NULL to one element in a list. The result is still a list. However, a list of NULL's are reduced to NULL. I don't understand how this conversion occurs. Could somebody let me know what is going on? > X=matrix(1:8, nr=4) > apply(X,1,

Re: [R] How could I find the inverse of a matrix?

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Moohwan, On Dec 11, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Moohwan Kim wrote: > Dear R family > > I have a following question. > Suppose I have a matrix as follows, for instance: > tau= > 0 0 0 0 1 > 1 0 0 0 0 > 0 1 0 0 0 > 0 0 1 0 0 > 0 0 0 1 0 > > I want to have the inverse of the above matrix and then add so

Re: [R] memory problem on Suse

2009-12-11 Thread Martin Morgan
Ask on the bioconductpr mailing list, where you will be diirected to several solutions for analyzing what I guess are 100's is cel files http://bioconductor.org -- Martin Morgan On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Dec 11, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Ambrosi Alessandro wrote: Dear

[R] How could I find the inverse of a matrix?

2009-12-11 Thread Moohwan Kim
Dear R family I have a following question. Suppose I have a matrix as follows, for instance: tau= 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 I want to have the inverse of the above matrix and then add some exponent to it. That is, I want to calculate tau to the (-m). For example, m=893. T

Re: [R] Problem with calibrate function

2009-12-11 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Rodrigo wrote: Hi, I´m trying to use the calibrate function from rms package (made by prof. Harrell) after fitting a model using cph. But it returns the following error message: calibrate(modelo1,B=200,bw=F,u=13) Using Cox survival estimates at 13 Days Convergence problems stopping addi

[R] obtain intermediate estimate using optim

2009-12-11 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Doing a hessian estimate at each Nelder-Mead iteration is rather like going from den Haag to Delft as a pedestrian walking and swimming via San Francisco. The structure of the algorithm means the Hessian estimate is done in addition to the NM work. While my NM code was used for optim(), I did

Re: [R] how to creat a matrix

2009-12-11 Thread milton ruser
Hi Him. Did you read the Help/Manual in PDF/A Instroduction to R.PDF? MyVect<-scan() 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 MyVect MyMat<-matrix(MyVect, ncol=5, byrow=T) MyMat bests milton On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Moohwan Kim wrote: > Dear R family > > I am attempting

Re: [R] how to creat a matrix

2009-12-11 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi try R> library(magic) R> ashift(diag(5),1) HTH rksh enrique Dallazuanna wrote: Try this: N <- 5 diag(1, N)[c(N, 1:(N - 1)),] On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Moohwan Kim wrote: Dear R family I am attempting to create a matrix. e.g., 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

[R] some problems with ram usage and warnings

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Knockinger
Hi, i am new to the R-project but until now i have found solutions for every problem in toturials, R Wikis and this mailing list, but now i have some problems which I can't solve with this knowledge. I have some data like this: # sample data head1 = "a;b;c;d;e;f;g;h;i;k;l;m;n;o" data1 = "1;1;1

[R] (no subject)

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Knockinger
Hi, i am new to the R-project but until now i have found solutions for every problem in toturials, R Wikis and this mailing list, but now i have some problems which I can't solve with this knowledge. I have some data like this: # sample data head1 = "a;b;c;d;e;f;g;h;i;k;l;m;n;o" data1 = "1;1;1

Re: [R] how to creat a matrix

2009-12-11 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: N <- 5 diag(1, N)[c(N, 1:(N - 1)),] On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Moohwan Kim wrote: > Dear R family > >  I am attempting to create a matrix. e.g., >  0 0 0 0 1 >  1 0 0 0 0 >  0 1 0 0 0 >  0 0 1 0 0 >  0 0 0 1 0 >  How could I write a R program? >  Later I want to extend it to a N

Re: [R] memory problem on Suse

2009-12-11 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Dec 11, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Ambrosi Alessandro wrote: Dear all, I am meeting some problems with memory allocation. I know it is an old issue, I'm sorry. I looked for a solution in the FAQs and manuals, mails, but without finding the working answer. I really hope you can help me. For inst

Re: [R] Please help with a basic function

2009-12-11 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Hi Mark, This question would probably be better suited for the r-sig-geo mailing list. In addition, please read the posting guide and provide a piece of code that reproduces the problem. library(sp) convert<-function(d) { d<-data.frame(d); #convert object to dataframe d<-subset(d,select=c(zi

[R] how to creat a matrix

2009-12-11 Thread Moohwan Kim
Dear R family I am attempting to create a matrix. e.g., 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 How could I write a R program? Later I want to extend it to a N by N case. Thanks in advance best Moohwan __ R-help@r-projec

Re: [R] cluster size

2009-12-11 Thread Christian Hennig
Dear Ms Karunambigai, the kmeans algorithm depends on random initialisation. There are two basic strategies that can be applied in order to make your results reproducible: 1) Fix the random number generator by means of set.seed (see ?set.seed) before you run kmeans. The problem with this is tha

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