Re: [R] Solve an ordinary or generalized eigenvalue problem in R?

2012-04-19 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 19-04-2012, at 20:50, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > Folks: > > I'm trying to port some code from python over to R, and I'm running into a > wall finding R code that can solve a generalized eigenvalue problem > following this function model: > > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generat

Re: [R] Trouble with [sv]apply

2012-04-19 Thread Bert Gunter
?? Maybe: do.call(rbind, list.of.your;matrices) ?do.call (if you can't do it with explicit loops (i.e. for(), while()), apply type functions are probably not what you want). -- Bert On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Worik R wrote: > Friends > > I clearly donot understand how sapply and vapply

Re: [R] Find position of asymptote

2012-04-19 Thread Bert Gunter
Katrina: > > Is there a better way to then pick off the change points or find the > asymptotes of a function in R? Basic calculus? (if parametrically specified). Otherwise, probably best to consult your local statistician (or maybe a numerical analyst). -- Bert > > Thank you. > > Katrina > >

Re: [R] PCA sensitive to outliers?

2012-04-19 Thread Bert Gunter
Michael: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Michael wrote: > Hi all, > > I found that the PCA gave chaotic results when there are big changes in a > few data points. Yup. > > Are there "improved" versions of PCA in R that can help with this problem? Yup. Consult the "Robust" task view on CRAN. Yo

Re: [R] what is the maximum number of records that we can load using dbwrite

2012-04-19 Thread Jeff Newmiller
This doesn't sound like a question we can answer for you, as it would likely depend on your RAM, virtual memory, OS, and other processes. I would be willing to bet you can load one record at a time. You already know that ten million won't work. Why don't you read http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/

[R] what is the maximum number of records that we can load using dbwrite

2012-04-19 Thread arunkumar1111
Hi I'm using the dbwrite to insert a large dataset. There are about 10 million rows. But i'm not able to load the records. Please can anyone tell me the way to load or maximum number of records that dbwrite does. so that i can load it in batches - Thanks in Advance Arun -- View this

[R] want to forecast AR model & calculate R square (but which method is good)

2012-04-19 Thread sagarnikam123
i used "itsmr" package , want to forecast AR model & calculate R square to judge my forecasting/prediction ,that is it good or not ? i take original model(i) & make example/demo model(j) ( 20 numbers less from original model) #AR model forecasting i<-read.table(file.choose(),skip=1) #taking t

Re: [R] Trouble with [sv]apply

2012-04-19 Thread Jeff Newmiller
If you read the help, it talks about compiling vectors into matrices, or scalars into vectors. It does not say anything about combining matrices. For the error about 14 elements, you should keep in mind that matrices are just vectors with dim attributes that indicate how the linear memory is to

[R] PCA sensitive to outliers?

2012-04-19 Thread Michael
Hi all, I found that the PCA gave chaotic results when there are big changes in a few data points. Are there "improved" versions of PCA in R that can help with this problem? Please give me some pointers... Thank you! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___

Re: [R] Find position of asymptote

2012-04-19 Thread Katrina Bennett
Dear R Help, Sorry I wasn't more clear before. Here is another crack at this. What I am still trying to do is estimate the point on a line when the slope changes or asymptotes. I have found some similar postings talking about this but no answers. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-Januar

[R] depmixS4+transition

2012-04-19 Thread nglthu
Dear helpers, is there any possible that transition (in depmixS4) is in scale of two variable, e.g transition=~scale(x1,x2)? If it can be, how transition of two variable (covariate time) can be worked in depmixS4-hidden markov model for time series. Many thanks, nglthu -- View this message in con

Re: [R] Dependency-aware scripting tools for R

2012-04-19 Thread Aaron Mackey
shameless self-plug: we break out of R to do this, and after many painful years developing and maintaining idiosyncratic Makefiles, we are now using Taverna to (visually) glue together UNIX commands (including R scripts) -- the benefits of which (over make and brethren) is that you can actually *se

Re: [R] question about lists

2012-04-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-04-19 3:11 PM, harry mamaysky wrote: I am new to R, and I have been running into the following situation when I mistype a variable name in some code: list1<- list( a=1, b=2 ) list2<- list( a=1 ) list2$b<- list1$c list2 $a [1] 1 I would think at the point where I am trying to reference a

Re: [R] Fwd: User defined panel functions in lattice

2012-04-19 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi ilai Thank you for your suggestions. I do not know what happened yesterday I must have omitted a few changes out in going from R to email and apologies for the double posting - I had troubles sending it as my ISP gave a message of not being connected for email but was for the web I was t

Re: [R] mlogit learning error

2012-04-19 Thread geek girl
I found out that this error means there is an underflow that is not handled by the default solve. The suggested solution is to use qr.solve() or svd instead of default.solve(). How can I modify mlogit to use qr.solve() instead of solve.default()? Thanks On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:10 PM, geek gir

Re: [R] mlogit learning error

2012-04-19 Thread geek girl
Thank you for your response. Each v can take a a value from 1 to 100. Input data subset: v1.data v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 1 1591 5152 2 1591783 3 1591 4611 4 1991 8411 5 1591 31 4 6 1

[R] Trouble with [sv]apply

2012-04-19 Thread Worik R
Friends I clearly donot understand how sapply and vapply work. What I have is a function that returns a matrix with an indeterminate number of rows (some times zero) but a constant number of columns. I cannot reliably use an apply function to assemble the matrices into a matrix. I am not sure i

[R] Thanks-solved:RE: problem extracting data from a set of list vectors

2012-04-19 Thread Vining, Kelly
Thanks Don and Jim, "Get" did the trick! That command is new to me, and is exactly what this problem needed. The syntax that worked is actually slightly simpler than what was suggested. This is what worked: all.comps <- ls(pattern="^res") for(i in all.comps){ obj = get(i); ... Thanks again. --

Re: [R] How to "flatten" a multidimensional array into a dataframe?

2012-04-19 Thread baptiste auguie
library(plyr) adply(my.array,1:3) HTH, baptiste On 20 April 2012 08:46, Emmanuel Levy wrote: > Hi, > > I have a three dimensional array, e.g., > > my.array = array(0, dim=c(2,3,4), dimnames=list( d1=c("A1","A2"), > d2=c("B1","B2","B3"), d3=c("C1","C2","C3","C4")) ) > > what I would like to get

Re: [R] How to "flatten" a multidimensional array into a dataframe?

2012-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Levy
OK, it seems that the array2df function from arrayhelpers package does the job :) On 19 April 2012 16:46, Emmanuel Levy wrote: > Hi, > > I have a three dimensional array, e.g., > > my.array = array(0, dim=c(2,3,4), dimnames=list( d1=c("A1","A2"), > d2=c("B1","B2","B3"), d3=c("C1","C2","C3","C4")

Re: [R] working with environments to ensure code quality for long R scripts

2012-04-19 Thread Bert Gunter
Comment (caveat emptor): If I understand correctly, your difficulties all stem from your use of the word "script," which betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of R as a programming language. R is based (mostly) on the concepts of functional programming. So instead of doing what as

Re: [R] How to "flatten" a multidimensional array into a dataframe?

2012-04-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Emmanuel Levy wrote: > Hi, > > I have a three dimensional array, e.g., > > my.array = array(0, dim=c(2,3,4), dimnames=list( d1=c("A1","A2"), > d2=c("B1","B2","B3"), d3=c("C1","C2","C3","C4")) ) > > what I would like to get is then a dataframe: > > d1 d2 d3 value >

Re: [R] working with environments to ensure code quality for long R scripts

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander
Thank you for the idea with caching... Alexander Alexander wrote > > Hi > > thank you for your suggestions, but I am not sure if I explained my > problem well enough. Lets asume, that I have 30 different script files and > 1 script which calls these 30 scripts one after the other by "source".

[R] How to "flatten" a multidimensional array into a dataframe?

2012-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Levy
Hi, I have a three dimensional array, e.g., my.array = array(0, dim=c(2,3,4), dimnames=list( d1=c("A1","A2"), d2=c("B1","B2","B3"), d3=c("C1","C2","C3","C4")) ) what I would like to get is then a dataframe: d1 d2 d3 value A1 B1 C1 0 A2 B1 C1 0 . . . A2 B3 C4 0 I'm sure there is one function t

Re: [R] suggested method to transform list to a matrix

2012-04-19 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 19, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Tim Stutt wrote: I have data in the following list format: USER,VARIABLE,COUNT user1, var1, 3 user1, var2, 4 user2, var1, 7 userN, var12, 5 And would like to have it format as a matrix: var1var2var12 user1 3

Re: [R] call object from character?

2012-04-19 Thread Greg Snow
Almost always when people ask this question (it and its answer are FAQ 7.21) it is because they want to do things the wrong way (just don't know there is a better way). The better way is to put the variables that you want to access in this way into a list, then you can easily access the objects in

Re: [R] Reading a file with random whitespace

2012-04-19 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
It looks like you might want to use read.fwf for fixed width files Michael On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:45 PM, John S wrote: > Dear R-users, > > I have a large data file that I am trying to read in R where the file has a > white space at the begging and at random places. The whitespace is actually

Re: [R] mlogit learning error

2012-04-19 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
There's something in your data that makes the model computationally singular when you take the various subsettings... Can you provide a small reproducible example so we can help narrow it down? It looks like you're using different data for each mlogit though so I'm not sure how the comparison that

[R] ANOVA in quantreg - faulty test for 'nesting'?

2012-04-19 Thread galen
I am trying to implement an ANOVA on a pair of quantile regression models in R. The anova.rq() function performs a basic check to see whether the models are nested, but I think this check is failing in my case. I think my models are nested despite the anova.rqlist() function saying otherwise. Here

Re: [R] suggested method to transform list to a matrix

2012-04-19 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Use matrix subsetting like this: x <- matrix(1:9,3) rownames(x) <- letters[1:3] colnames(x) <- LETTERS[1:3] print(x) usrs <- c("a","b","a") vars <- c("C","C","A") counts <- c(10,11,12) x[cbind(usrs, vars)] <- counts print(x) Hope this helps, Michael On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Tim Stutt

Re: [R] working with environments to ensure code quality for long R scripts

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander
Hi thank you for your suggestions, but I am not sure if I explained my problem well enough. Lets asume, that I have 30 different script files and 1 script which calls these 30 scripts one after the other by "source". Some of the 30 scripts only contain definitions of functions which are called in

[R] Performing repeated T tests in R

2012-04-19 Thread John Smith
I need to perform 1 T tests #I have two populations with different means Popc1<-rnorm(10,10,2) Popc2<-rnorm(10,8,2) #I created two sets of samples - each set has 1 samples, and I made a matrix of 20 rows and 1 columns to fit the data sampc1<-matrix(,20,1) for(j in 1:1

[R] mlogit learning error 2

2012-04-19 Thread geek girl
I forgot to say that the models for v2 and v5 worked fine on a smaller dataset, but gave me this error on a larger dataset. Thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: [R] Help in using unique count by match function

2012-04-19 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, arunkumar wrote > > Hi > > My code looks like this > > I have two parameters x and par1. X contains values and par1 contains the > function which i required to use > > if par1 is max then output should be max(x). > > FUN <- match.fun(par1) > result=FUN

[R] Reading a file with random whitespace

2012-04-19 Thread John S
Dear R-users, I have a large data file that I am trying to read in R where the file has a white space at the begging and at random places. The whitespace is actually NA so I am trying to read the file using scan but with no success!! Please help Here are some example rows from the data file.

[R] Performing t tests between matrices

2012-04-19 Thread Nirmal Nair
I need to perform 1 T tests #I have two populations with different means Popc1<-rnorm(10,10,2) Popc2<-rnorm(10,8,2) #I created two sets of samples - each set has 1 samples, and I made a matrix of 20 rows and 1 columns to fit the data sampc1<-matrix(,20,1) for(j in 1:1

[R] Performing t tests between matrices

2012-04-19 Thread John Smith
I need to perform 1 T tests #I have two populations with different means Popc1<-rnorm(10,10,2) Popc2<-rnorm(10,8,2) #I created two sets of samples - each set has 1 samples, and I made a matrix of 20 rows and 1 columns to fit the data sampc1<-matrix(,20,1) for(j in 1:10

Re: [R] Performing repeated T tests in R

2012-04-19 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, > > #I wrote a blank matrix with 1 row and 1 columns. > Why not a vector? (It would be a column vector, which might not fit your needs.) And though not really a problem, the matrix is called 't', the name of R's transpose function. I can become confusing, maybe you could call it 'tsta

[R] question about lists

2012-04-19 Thread harry mamaysky
I am new to R, and I have been running into the following situation when I mistype a variable name in some code: > list1 <- list( a=1, b=2 ) > list2 <- list( a=1 ) > list2$b <- list1$c > list2 $a [1] 1 I would think at the point where I am trying to reference a field called "c" -- that does not e

[R] suggested method to transform list to a matrix

2012-04-19 Thread Tim Stutt
I have data in the following list format: USER,VARIABLE,COUNT user1, var1, 3 user1, var2, 4 user2, var1, 7 userN, var12, 5 And would like to have it format as a matrix: var1var2var12 user1 3 4 user2 7 userN

[R] mlogit learning error

2012-04-19 Thread geek girl
I am learning five mlogits as follows v1.model<-mlogit(v1~1|v2+v3+v4+v5, data=mlogit.v1.data, reflevel="1") v2.model<-mlogit(v2~1|v1+v3+v4+v5, data=mlogit.v2.data, reflevel="1") v3.model<-mlogit(v3~1|v1+v2+v4+v5, data=mlogit.v3.data, reflevel="1") v4.model<-mlogit(v4~1|v1+v2+v3+v5, data=mlogit.v4.

[R] Problem with integration on Heston model

2012-04-19 Thread Guaramy
Hi , I am writing some code to evaluate a price of an option with heston model. My problem is that i need one variable to be generic . Hestonf = function(phi,kappa,theta,sigma,rho,v0,r,T,s0,type) { if (type == 1) { u = 0.5; b = kappa-rho*sigma; } else { u = 0.5;

Re: [R] SmoothTrend in OpenAir

2012-04-19 Thread Clint Bowman
I was able to get the plot by converting the dates in the "date" column to dates, e.g., mytable<-read.csv("MCNP-pH.csv") newdate<-with(mytable,strptime(date,"%m/%d/%Y")) mytable$date<-newdate smoothTrend(mytable, pollutant = "pH") Clint BowmanINTERNET: cl...@ecy.wa.gov

Re: [R] Pierce's criterion

2012-04-19 Thread Greg Snow
Determining what is an outlier is complicated regardless of the tools used (this is a philosophical issue rather than an R issue). You need to make some assumptions and definitions based on the science that produces the data rather than the data itself before even approaching the question of outli

Re: [R] non-numeric argument in mle2

2012-04-19 Thread Ben Bolker
peter dalgaard gmail.com> writes: > > > On Apr 19, 2012, at 09:52 , Joachim Audenaert wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have some problems with the mle2 function > > > > > >> RogersIIbinom <- function(N0,attackR3_B,Th3_B) > {N0-lambertW(attackR3_B*Th3_B*N0*exp(-attackR3_B*(24-Th3_B*N0)))/ >

Re: [R] Dependency-aware scripting tools for R

2012-04-19 Thread Ben Bolker
Sean Davis mail.nih.gov> writes: > > There are numerous tools like scons, make, ruffus, ant, rake, etc. > that can be used to build complex pipelines based on task > dependencies. These tools are written in a variety of languages, but > I have not seen such a thing for R. Is anyone aware of a

[R] SmoothTrend in OpenAir

2012-04-19 Thread David Doyle
I'm trying to plot smooth trend using smoothTrend in OpenAir but I'm having problems. I used the following code. - #Set my working dir to the dir with my files setwd("c:/R") #Load the openair library library(openair)

[R] Dependency-aware scripting tools for R

2012-04-19 Thread Sean Davis
There are numerous tools like scons, make, ruffus, ant, rake, etc. that can be used to build complex pipelines based on task dependencies. These tools are written in a variety of languages, but I have not seen such a thing for R. Is anyone aware of a package available? The goal is to be able to

[R] Solve an ordinary or generalized eigenvalue problem in R?

2012-04-19 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Folks: I'm trying to port some code from python over to R, and I'm running into a wall finding R code that can solve a generalized eigenvalue problem following this function model: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.linalg.eig.html Any ideas? I don't want to call python f

Re: [R] problem extracting data from a set of list vectors

2012-04-19 Thread MacQueen, Don
This looks like a correct correction. Thanks -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 4/19/12 10:14 AM, "jim holtman" wrote: >I think that instead of: > >obj = all.comps[[i]]; > >you should have > >obj <- get(al

Re: [R] Bivariate normal integral

2012-04-19 Thread peter dalgaard
On Apr 19, 2012, at 16:08 , juliane0212 wrote: > hello, > > I'm trying to improve the speed of my calculation but didn't get to a > satisfying result. > > It's about the numerical Integration of a bivariate normal distribution. > > The code I'm currently using > > x <- > qnorm(seq(.

[R] to know observations and groups used in a mixed model using gee package

2012-04-19 Thread david oseguera montiel
Does anyone know how to find the number of observations and groups used in a mixed model with gee package? The summary function in gee package does not provide this information. e.g. data(warpbreaks) summary(gee(breaks ~ tension, id=wool, data=warpbreaks, corstr="exchangeable")) I much appreci

Re: [R] Compare String Similarity

2012-04-19 Thread Prof. Dr. Matthias Kohl
you should also look at Bioconductor Package Biostrings hth Matthias Am 19.04.2012 18:01, schrieb R. Michael Weylandt: Though if you do decide to use Levenstein, it's implemented here in R: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/RecordLinkage/html/strcmp.html I'm pretty sure this is in C code s

Re: [R] problem extracting data from a set of list vectors

2012-04-19 Thread jim holtman
I think that instead of: obj = all.comps[[i]]; you should have obj <- get(all.comps[i]) Test out your programs step by step manually. Use the 'all.comps' object and see what happens with the various indexing modes. This is "debugging 101". On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Vining, Kelly wrot

Re: [R] problem extracting data from a set of list vectors

2012-04-19 Thread Vining, Kelly
Thanks for the help, Don. Lots of good suggestions there. Unfortunately, I'm still not able to access the data object. Still looking for a solution. Here's the error I'm getting when I try your suggestion: [1] "res.Callus.Explant" "res.Callus.Regen" "res.Explant.Regen" > all.comps <- ls(patte

Re: [R] How to find a root for a polynomial between [-inf, -3]?

2012-04-19 Thread Petr Savicky
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 08:59:34AM -0500, Michael wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a polynomial (a big one) and I would like to find a root of it > between [-inf, -3] (it's known there is one root in this interval)... > > How to find that root? > > In using "uniroot" I need to supply the bounds

Re: [R] Study design question; MLB; pay and performance.

2012-04-19 Thread Albyn Jones
There is an ASA section on statistics in sports, you might start looking there... http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/ albyn On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:05:39AM -0500, N. S. Miceli, Ph.D. wrote: > Dear List Members, > > I am in the process of designing a study examining pay and > performance in M

Re: [R] Find position of asymptote

2012-04-19 Thread Katrina Bennett
Hi David, thanks for the reply. This is not a homework problem, although it may sound like one :) I was trying to provide a reproducible example of what I am trying to do. The problem is something I am trying to work on for my PhD program. I've been using the nls() function to derive a self-start

[R] Multiple equation models in time-series cross-section (panel) data

2012-04-19 Thread David A. Kim
Hello, Could anyone recommend a package for multiple (i.e., structurally linked) equation models for time-series cross-section data? I've been using the "plm" package for single-equation, fixed effects models, but have not been able to find a package with similar functionality for models with mul

Re: [R] working with environments to ensure code quality for long R scripts

2012-04-19 Thread cberry
Alexander, If Tal's suggestion to use caching in Sweave doesn't appeal to you, you might look at 'R.cache' and other packages mentioned in http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html under 'Caching of R Objects'. However, an advantage of the Sweave-like approaches is that y

Re: [R] Compare String Similarity

2012-04-19 Thread Alekseiy Beloshitskiy
Thank you, Michael, Right, I m looking for R implementation of Leventstein or or any other similar approaches. Will try it. Thank you again! -Alex From: R. Michael Weylandt [michael.weyla...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 April 2012 19:01 Cc: Alekseiy Beloshitskiy;

[R] Fwd: User defined panel functions in lattice

2012-04-19 Thread ilai
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Duncan Mackay wrote: > Hi > >  xyplot(y ~x|Farm,xx, >         groups = Padd, >         panel = panel.superpose, >         panel.groups=function(x,y, ...){ >                        panel.Locfit(x,y,...) >                        panel.xyplot(x,y,...) >              

Re: [R] Compare String Similarity

2012-04-19 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Though if you do decide to use Levenstein, it's implemented here in R: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/RecordLinkage/html/strcmp.html I'm pretty sure this is in C code so it should be mighty fast. Michael On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Wrong list.This is R, not st

Re: [R] Bivariate normal integral

2012-04-19 Thread juliane0212
I also tried: m1 <- length(x)-1 X1<- cbind(x[1:m1],x1[2:length(x)]) X2<- cbind(x[1:m1],x1[2:length(x)]) integral <- function(rho){ m1 <- length(x1)-1 integral <- apply(X2,1,function(y) apply(X1,1,function(x) pmvno

Re: [R] Compare String Similarity

2012-04-19 Thread Bert Gunter
Wrong list.This is R, not statistics (or linguistics?).Please post elsewhere. -- Bert On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Alekseiy Beloshitskiy wrote: > Dear All, > > I need to estimate the level of similarity of two strings. For example: > string1 <- c("depending","audience","research", "school");

Re: [R] Study design question; MLB; pay and performance.

2012-04-19 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:05 AM, N. S. Miceli, Ph.D. wrote: Dear List Members, I am in the process of designing a study examining pay and performance in Major League Baseball across several seasons, and before I get too deeply into it, I'd like to ask whether the group members think that pe

[R] Study design question; MLB; pay and performance.

2012-04-19 Thread N. S. Miceli, Ph.D.
Dear List Members, I am in the process of designing a study examining pay and performance in Major League Baseball across several seasons, and before I get too deeply into it, I'd like to ask whether the group members think that performance across seasons is independent, or if it needs to be t

Re: [R] Print warning messages and save them automatically in a file

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander
My temporary solution to the problem is "trace": trace(warning,tracer=quote({ tmp<-try(cat(paste(...),"warning.log",append=TRUE,fill=TRUE)) if(is(tmp,"try-error")){ print(sys.call()) print(unlist(...)) } })) with best regards Alexander wro

Re: [R] Cluster Analysis

2012-04-19 Thread Alekseiy Beloshitskiy
Hi, Taisa, It depends on many paramfactors, e.g. nature of your data, volume of data set etc. The analog of SAS fastclus in R - kmeans (for practical example check slide #35 here: http://www.slideshare.net/whitish/textmining-with-r) Check also kmedoids (pam) and hclust. Good luck, -Alex __

[R] Compare String Similarity

2012-04-19 Thread Alekseiy Beloshitskiy
Dear All, I need to estimate the level of similarity of two strings. For example: string1 <- c("depending","audience","research", "school"); string2 <- c("audience","push","drama","button","depending"); The words in string may occur in different order though. What function would you recommend to

[R] Bivariate normal integral

2012-04-19 Thread juliane0212
hello, I'm trying to improve the speed of my calculation but didn't get to a satisfying result. It's about the numerical Integration of a bivariate normal distribution. The code I'm currently using x <- qnorm(seq(.Machine$double.xmin,c(1-2*.Machine$double.eps),by=0.01), mean=0,sd=1)

Re: [R] introducing R to high school students

2012-04-19 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
see below. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> If the students are in a "science research" class, does that mean they >> have data from their own research that they would want to understand >> better?  I think that would be much more motivating than anything else. > > It mig

Re: [R] Help in using unique count by match function

2012-04-19 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
I think the OP is looking for the construct length(unique(x)) but not really sure what the rest of the question is. Michael On Apr 19, 2012, at 2:12 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote: > Hi > > Your question is rather cryptic. Why the output shall be 3? What has > unique count to do with match function?

[R] How to find a root for a polynomial between [-inf, -3]?

2012-04-19 Thread Michael
Hi all, I have a polynomial (a big one) and I would like to find a root of it between [-inf, -3] (it's known there is one root in this interval)... How to find that root? In using "uniroot" I need to supply the bounds In using "polyroot" I need to write it in the strict sens polynomial form

Re: [R] Don't collapse degenerate array indices

2012-04-19 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: On 19/04/12 15:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 19/04/2012 9:14 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: Hi, I want to prohibit the automatic collapsing of degenerate array indices: str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1)) ) num [1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1, 1] 1 1

Re: [R] normal distribution assumption for multi-level modelling

2012-04-19 Thread Cecile De Cat
Thanks.   I appreciate this isn't strictly an R question and will pursue on another list. The procedure I followed was inspired from @article{    Author = {Baayen, R. Harald and Milin, Petar},    Title = {Analysing Reaction Times},    Journal = {International Journal of Psychological Research},  

Re: [R] Displaying data in Trellis

2012-04-19 Thread ilai
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:55 AM, ce41188 wrote: > Thank you for the reply. > > The more I look at this, the more confused I become. I was wondering if you > could walk me through this a little more in detail, in particular the panel > method function of doing things. It may be obvious to many, but

Re: [R] Don't collapse degenerate array indices

2012-04-19 Thread Sebastian Schubert
On 19/04/12 15:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 19/04/2012 9:14 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to prohibit the automatic collapsing of degenerate array indices: >> >> > str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1)) ) >> num [1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1, 1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... >> > str( array(1,dim=c

Re: [R] Don't collapse degenerate array indices

2012-04-19 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: Compare str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1))[2:3,1:3,4:5,,] > str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1))[2:3,1:3,4:5,,,drop=FALSE] ) num [1:2, 1:3, 1:2, 1, 1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT

Re: [R] Don't collapse degenerate array indices

2012-04-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/04/2012 9:14 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: Hi, I want to prohibit the automatic collapsing of degenerate array indices: > str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1)) ) num [1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1, 1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... > str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1))[2:3,1:3,4:5,,] ) num [1:2, 1:3, 1:2] 1 1 1 1

[R] Don't collapse degenerate array indices

2012-04-19 Thread Sebastian Schubert
Hi, I want to prohibit the automatic collapsing of degenerate array indices: > str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1)) ) num [1:3, 1:4, 1:5, 1, 1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... > str( array(1,dim=c(3,4,5,1,1))[2:3,1:3,4:5,,] ) num [1:2, 1:3, 1:2] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... The last command removed the degenerat

Re: [R] Reading SPSS: underlying numerical codes

2012-04-19 Thread Paul Bivand
You didn't say that your workflow involved going backwards and forwards between SPSS and R. Importing from legacy formats like SPSS .sav is well developed, with additional resources from packages Hmisc (spss.get) and memisc (spss.system.file) with, in the latter case, support for reading subsets o

Re: [R] Find position of asymptote

2012-04-19 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 19, 2012, at 4:41 AM, Katrina Bennett wrote: Hi all, I would like to find the x position of an two asymptotes. Here is a sample of what I would like to do: x <- seq(1, 153,, 153) a <- 85 m <- 65 s =-1.5 fn <- function (x, a, m, s) { a * (exp((m - x)/s) * (1/s))/((1 + exp((m - x)/s)))^

Re: [R] Reading SPSS: underlying numerical codes

2012-04-19 Thread Marion Wenty
Dear Michael and Ista, thank you very much for your answers! Sorry, I think I wasn't clear about what I need. I will use an example to explain it again: I have imported the following data.frame with the following command using the foreign package: mz1<-read.spss("myfile.sav",to.data.frame=T)

Re: [R] ggplot2: scale_shape_manual

2012-04-19 Thread Brian Smith
Thanks Brian. That worked. I also wanted to increase the size of the 'points' on the graph. Is there any way I can get rid of the 'legend' (in this case '3') appearing on the plot? === code library(ggplot2) leaves <- letters[1:8] mat <- matrix(sample(1:1000,32),nrow=16,ncol=2

Re: [R] non-numeric argument in mle2

2012-04-19 Thread peter dalgaard
On Apr 19, 2012, at 09:52 , Joachim Audenaert wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some problems with the mle2 function > > >> RogersIIbinom <- function(N0,attackR3_B,Th3_B) > {N0-lambertW(attackR3_B*Th3_B*N0*exp(-attackR3_B*(24-Th3_B*N0)))/(attackR3_B*Th3_B)} >> RogersII_B <- > mle2(FR~dbinom(size=N

Re: [R] Displaying data in Trellis

2012-04-19 Thread ce41188
Thank you for the reply. The more I look at this, the more confused I become. I was wondering if you could walk me through this a little more in detail, in particular the panel method function of doing things. It may be obvious to many, but I haven't really used Trellis before, so I'm still at the

[R] Find position of asymptote

2012-04-19 Thread Katrina Bennett
Hi all, I would like to find the x position of an two asymptotes. Here is a sample of what I would like to do: x <- seq(1, 153,, 153) a <- 85 m <- 65 s =-1.5 fn <- function (x, a, m, s) { a * (exp((m - x)/s) * (1/s))/((1 + exp((m - x)/s)))^2 } plot.deriv1 <- fn(1:153, a, m, s) I can find the mi

Re: [R] Add covariate in nlme?

2012-04-19 Thread hwouters
Hi all, I solved my problem: The reason for the error was that my initial values were not correctly chosen. In the previous code: nlme.model001epr <- nlme(result ~ A0 * exp(- ( exp(A1) * exp(-Ea / (0.0083144*TEMP.K)) * exp(eps)) * time), data = Parameterg, fi

Re: [R] Can I use random Forest package?

2012-04-19 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi Graeme, We need more information, at the very least str(train) and better would be enough of train included in your email using dput() that we could try your code. It's likely that you do have missing data, or that your data are in the wrong format. Sarah On Apr 18, 2012, at 7:46 PM, vilik

Re: [R] $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

2012-04-19 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 19 avril 2012 à 09:34 +0300, Ana-Maria Dobre a écrit : > I have got the following statement: > > *> overview.domains$sample.var <- aggregate(migr$amigo.migr, > by=list(siruta=amigo$siruta), var)[,-1]/overview.domains$n.i.* > *Error in migr$amigo.migr : $ operator is invalid for atomic vec

[R] Hong Kong R user group

2012-04-19 Thread C.H.
Dear R users in Hong Kong, Please join the HKRUG and we are organizing our 1st meeting. https://groups.google.com/d/forum/hkrug Thank you. CH __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] working with environments to ensure code quality for long R scripts

2012-04-19 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Alexander, Saving full environments is possible, but it is very easy to start loosing track on where each variable came from. You might want to use this process: http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-better-way-of-saving-and-loading-objects-in-r/ It depends on how many variables you work with, but it migh

[R] User defined panel functions in lattice

2012-04-19 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi I have a problem with passing line and symbol parameters to user defined panel functions I had a look at the archives and created a panel function on what was shown and on panel.loess. I could not to get panel.locfit to work for what I intend it for. There is another layer to work with befo

[R] working with environments to ensure code quality for long R scripts

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander
Hello, I am working under R2.11 Windows and currently I work on a big R progjet which executes different R script in a row. Every R script represents a module. As every module depends of the variables created in the modules previously executed, I want to be shure, that I don't create or change a va

[R] User defined panel functions in lattice

2012-04-19 Thread Duncan Mackay
Hi I have a problem with passing line and symbol parameters to user defined panel functions I had a look at the archives and created a panel function on what was shown and on panel.loess. I could not to get panel.locfit to work for what I intend it for. There is another layer to work with befo

[R] Print warning messages and save them automatically in a file

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander
Hello, I am working under R2.11.0 Windows and I would like to ask you if you know a way to save all warning messages obtained by the R function "warning" in a file and keeping the functionalities of the base-function warning. For example if I use external code, I don't want to replace all lines con

[R] $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

2012-04-19 Thread Ana-Maria Dobre
I have got the following statement: *> overview.domains$sample.var <- aggregate(migr$amigo.migr, by=list(siruta=amigo$siruta), var)[,-1]/overview.domains$n.i.* *Error in migr$amigo.migr : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors* What should i do to solve this error? Thank you. Kind regards,

Re: [R] Add covariate in nlme?

2012-04-19 Thread hwouters
Dear Ben, Thanks for your useful information. Now I know at least what I do not want ;-) The sas-code that corresponds to what I want is: proc nlmixed data=stab.BatchdataParameter ; parms Ea=92 A0=93 A1=34.5 e=10 s2=10 A11=1 A12=1; k= exp(A1)*exp(-Ea/(.0083144*tempK))*exp(eps1)*ex

[R] non-numeric argument in mle2

2012-04-19 Thread Joachim Audenaert
Hi all, I have some problems with the mle2 function > RogersIIbinom <- function(N0,attackR3_B,Th3_B) {N0-lambertW(attackR3_B*Th3_B*N0*exp(-attackR3_B*(24-Th3_B*N0)))/(attackR3_B*Th3_B)} > RogersII_B <- mle2(FR~dbinom(size=N0,prob=RogersIIbinom(N0,attackR3_B,Th3_B)/N0),start=list(attackR3_B=1.5

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