Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2013-12-31 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Goslee > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:55 PM > To: David Parkhurst > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my > installati

[R] Fortune?

2013-12-31 Thread John Sorkin
Fortune? Where did lost variables go, with example Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 31, 2013, at 7:36 PM, "David Parkhurst " > wrote: > > Thank you. I've tried what you're suggesting, at an earlier suggestion > from another respondent, and I don't find my variable in any of lists > ls() through

Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2013-12-31 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi David, Your code is showing up here with an arrow symbols. If it's an actual cut and paste, that's your problem: assignment in R is the two-character <- and not an arrow symbol. Otherwise your code looks fine. Sarah On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, David Parkhurst wrote: > I've just uninstall

Re: [R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2013-12-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM, David Parkhurst wrote: > I've just uninstalled and then reinstalled R on my windows 7 machine. > To test my understanding of data frames, I'm trying the following code. > (I plan to do other things with it, if it would only work.) > Here's the code, which seems pre

[R] Basic misunderstanding, or problem with my installation?

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
I've just uninstalled and then reinstalled R on my windows 7 machine. To test my understanding of data frames, I'm trying the following code. (I plan to do other things with it, if it would only work.) Here's the code, which seems pretty basic to me: ls() nums ← c(1,2,3,4,5) ltrs ← c(“a”,”b”,”c”,”

Re: [R] cumulative incidence for mstate in Survival package in R

2013-12-31 Thread Jieyue Li
Thanks a lot for the reply! On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Göran Broström wrote: > On 12/30/2013 11:04 PM, Jieyue Li wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I want to have the cumulative incidence curves for 'mstate' data using >> Survival package in R. But I got some problems: >> I. Problem 1: >> 1. If I

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go, with example

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
Thank you. I've tried what you're suggesting, at an earlier suggestion from another respondent, and I don't find my variable in any of lists ls() through ls(7). I'm just going back to using R after being away from statistics for several years. I'm thinking I might uninstall R, then reinstall

Re: [R] seq_len and loops

2013-12-31 Thread Göran Broström
Thanks for the answers from Duncan, Bill, Gabor, and Henrik. You convinced me that 1. The solution if (x > 1){ for (x in 2:x){ ... is the easiest, most effective, and most easy-to-understand. 2. However, Bill (and Henrik) raised the question of replacing '1' with '1L'; I understan

Re: [R] cumulative incidence for mstate in Survival package in R

2013-12-31 Thread Göran Broström
On 12/31/2013 09:05 PM, Jieyue Li wrote: Thanks a lot for the reply! On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Göran Broström mailto:goran.brost...@umu.se>> wrote: On 12/30/2013 11:04 PM, Jieyue Li wrote: Dear All, I want to have the cumulative incidence curves for 'mstate' data

Re: [R] Working with Date

2013-12-31 Thread arun
Hi, Sorry, a correction: fun1 <- function(months, Given_date){  g1 <- format(Given_date, "%b")  indx1 <- match(months,month.abb)  indx2 <- match(g1, month.abb)  yr <- as.numeric(format(Given_date,"%Y")) if(any(indx1 < indx2)){  ifelse(indx1 < indx2, paste(months, yr+1,sep="-"), paste(months, yr,s

Re: [R] Working with Date

2013-12-31 Thread arun
Hi, May be this helps: fun1 <- function(months, Given_date){  g1 <- format(Given_date, "%b")  indx1 <- match(months,month.abb)  indx2 <- match(g1, month.abb)  yr <- as.numeric(format(Given_date,"%Y")) if(any(indx1 < indx2)){  ifelse(indx1 < indx2, paste(months, yr,sep="-"), paste(months, yr+1,sep=

Re: [R] Working with Date

2013-12-31 Thread Jim Lemon
On 01/01/2014 08:53 AM, Christofer Bogaso wrote: Hi again, Happy new year 2014 to every R gurus and users. I am struggling with some calculation with dates... Let say I have following vector of months: Months<- c("Jan", "Dec", "Mar") Now I need to assign year with them. This assignment will b

Re: [R] Working with Date

2013-12-31 Thread Ista Zahn
Use, format() to extract a character string representation of the year, then paste() it together with Months. Like this: paste(Months, format(Given_Date, format = "%Y"), sep = "-") See ?strftime for details. Best, Ista On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Christofer Bogaso wrote: > Hi again, > > H

Re: [R] cumulative incidence for mstate in Survival package in R

2013-12-31 Thread Terry Therneau
Question 1: How to get just 2 cumulative incidence curves when there are multiple covariates. I don't understand what you want. Assume that we have "liver transplant" and "death while waiting for a transplant" as my two events. There are overall curves (2), or one can create curves separate

Re: [R] How to ask a function to continuously print intermediate results

2013-12-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 31.12.2013 20:10, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 13-12-31 2:02 PM, Jun Shen wrote: Dear all, I have a print command to export some intermediate results from a user-defined function. It takes a while to run the function and I found I have to press a key to see the printed results on the screen. H

[R] Working with Date

2013-12-31 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hi again, Happy new year 2014 to every R gurus and users. I am struggling with some calculation with dates... Let say I have following vector of months: Months <- c("Jan", "Dec", "Mar") Now I need to assign year with them. This assignment will be based on some given date. Let say my given date

Re: [R] How to ask a function to continuously print intermediate results

2013-12-31 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-12-31 2:02 PM, Jun Shen wrote: Dear all, I have a print command to export some intermediate results from a user-defined function. It takes a while to run the function and I found I have to press a key to see the printed results on the screen. How can I ask the function to continuously prin

[R] How to ask a function to continuously print intermediate results

2013-12-31 Thread Jun Shen
Dear all, I have a print command to export some intermediate results from a user-defined function. It takes a while to run the function and I found I have to press a key to see the printed results on the screen. How can I ask the function to continuously print results on the screen without pressin

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go, with example

2013-12-31 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-12-31 11:38 AM, David Parkhurst wrote: Thank you. I've tried what you're suggesting, at an earlier suggestion from another respondent, and I don't find my variable in any of lists ls() through ls(7). Are you sure that "X" is really the name of a column in the dataframe? names(All8Sites)

Re: [R] Problem with http://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions

2013-12-31 Thread Uwe Ligges
Thanks for the report, if this is not a temporary problem, we will provide an alternative link. Some search engine suggests that it is mirrored here: http://linuxgazette.net/no-mime Best, Uwe Ligges On 31.12.2013 16:11, David Parkhurst wrote: This web page includes this information about tur

[R] Request for help regarding RWeka

2013-12-31 Thread Takatsugu Kobayashi
Hi Rusers, I am having a hard time understanding/finding a solution to this error message of RWeka. I just want to use Xmeans clustering command but when I typed "XMeans" then I get the following message: Error value[[3L]](cond) : Required Weka package 'XMeans' is not installed. So I tried to

Re: [R] Package dependencies in building R packages

2013-12-31 Thread Paul Gilbert
The responses to this seem to be assuming that you want users to have access to your tt() function, that is, you export it. Just in case the really simple case has been overlooked: if you are only using this function internally in your package there should be no problem. Your package's namespac

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go, with example

2013-12-31 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-12-31 9:48 AM, David Parkhurst wrote: Two or three respondents asked for an example of my problem. Here's what's happening to me now. I can't reproduce how I got to this point, though: > ls() [1] "All8" "All8Sites" "A" "B" "C" "i" "n" "D" "F" > X Error: object 'X' not found

[R] Problem with http://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
This web page includes this information about turning off HTML in messages: http://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions General Instructions Note that you should configure your e-mail software in such a way as to send /only plain text/, i.e., *no HTML*. 'html-ified' messages are usual

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go, with example

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
Two or three respondents asked for an example of my problem. Here's what's happening to me now. I can't reproduce how I got to this point, though: > ls() [1] "All8" "All8Sites" "A" "B" "C" "i" "n" "D" "F" > X Error: object 'X' not found > attach(All8Sites) > ls() [1] "All8" "All

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go

2013-12-31 Thread Bert Gunter
Gents: I would add that: 1) attach() should probably no longer be used in R, for all the reasons (and more) cited, 2) The preferred alternative these days is to use lists, including data frames, as containers and make liberal use of the ?with and ?within functions. Environments can also be us

Re: [R] format a matrix as fractions?

2013-12-31 Thread Bert Gunter
I find that google is usually a better search engine for R topics Google on "R fractions". (I got, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5046026/print-number-as-reduced-fraction-in-r ) -- Cheers, Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Informa

Re: [R] format a matrix as fractions?

2013-12-31 Thread arun
library(MASS)  fractions(outer(1/seq(1:3), 1/seq(1:3))) # [,1] [,2] [,3] #[1,]   1  1/2  1/3 #[2,] 1/2  1/4  1/6 #[3,] 1/3  1/6  1/9 A.K. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 10:27 AM, Michael Friendly wrote: Is there some way to format a matrix of fractions as fractions?  I think I've seen

[R] format a matrix as fractions?

2013-12-31 Thread Michael Friendly
Is there some way to format a matrix of fractions as fractions? I think I've seen this somewhere, but search on Rseek came up empty. Example: > outer(1/seq(1:3), 1/seq(1:3)) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1.000 0.500 0.333 [2,] 0.500 0.250 0.167 [3,] 0.333

Re: [R] Package dependencies in building R packages

2013-12-31 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Thanks for your kind response Duncan. To be more specific, I'm using the > function mvrnorm from MASS. The issue is that MASS depends on survival and > I have a function in my package named tt() which conflicts with a function > in survival of the same name. I can think of 2 alternatives solution

Re: [R] aes and parameter evaluation problems

2013-12-31 Thread Geoffrey
Thanks A.K. and Jeff, both answers helped me. (and of course gave me more homework!) On 31/12/13 16:04, Jeff Newmiller wrote: A.K. answered your question 1, but since you did say as question 2 that you wanted it done right... library(reshape2) ex3 <- function() { d <- data.frame(x=1:5,a=1:5

Re: [R] howto join matrices produced by rcorr()

2013-12-31 Thread Adams, Jean
Alex, Here's one way to do it, using for() loops. Jean library(Hmisc) # using Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data m <- data.matrix(swiss) output <- rcorr(m) varnames <- dimnames(m)[[2]] nvar <- length(varnames) # for loops through all possible pairs for(i in 1:(nvar-1)) {

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go

2013-12-31 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day David, On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:42:53 -0500 David Parkhurst wrote: Some wild guesses in the absence of a reproducible example. > I have several variables in a data frame that aren't listed by ls() > after I attach that data frame. ls() list the objects in the global environment. If you

Re: [R] cumulative incidence for mstate in Survival package in R

2013-12-31 Thread Göran Broström
On 12/30/2013 11:04 PM, Jieyue Li wrote: Dear All, I want to have the cumulative incidence curves for 'mstate' data using Survival package in R. But I got some problems: I. Problem 1: 1. If I only use intercept without any covariates, I can have 'right' cumulative incidence curves (2 for 2 compe

Re: [R] Where did lost variables go

2013-12-31 Thread Simon Zehnder
A reproducible example would do well here David Best Simon On 31 Dec 2013, at 02:42, David Parkhurst wrote: > I have several variables in a data frame that aren't listed by ls() > after I attach that data frame. Where did they go, and how can I stop > the hidden ones from masking the local o

Re: [R] Package dependencies in building R packages

2013-12-31 Thread Philippe Grosjean
On 30 Dec 2013, at 20:01, Axel Urbiz wrote: > Thanks for your kind response Duncan. To be more specific, I'm using the > function mvrnorm from MASS. The issue is that MASS depends on survival and > I have a function in my package named tt() which conflicts with a function > in survival of the sa

[R] Where did lost variables go

2013-12-31 Thread David Parkhurst
I have several variables in a data frame that aren't listed by ls() after I attach that data frame. Where did they go, and how can I stop the hidden ones from masking the local ones? Thanks for any help. David [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___