Re: [R] unable to move temporary installation when install some packages

2014-09-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/09/2014 07:19, PO SU wrote: Dear expeRts, These days i and some of my friends often encount the same problem when installing packages, e.g. when i try to install.packages("stringi"), i will get : package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning in install.packages

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi You still do not disclose important info about details of your functions. However, when you want to perform indexing like you show, you maybe can get rid of NULL and use zero instead. > a<-1:5 > a[-c(1,3)] [1] 2 4 5 > a[-c(0,1,3)] [1] 2 4 5 > a[-c(1,0,3)] [1] 2 4 5 > a[-c(0,1,0,3,0)] [1] 2 4

[R] unable to move temporary installation when install some packages

2014-09-10 Thread PO SU
Dear expeRts, These days  i and some of my friends often encount   the same problem when installing packages, e.g. when i try to install.packages("stringi"), i will get : package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning in install.packages : unable to move temporary insta

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread PO SU
Tks, i think using logical index is a way, but to do that, i have to keep a vector as long as the original vector. that's, to exclude position 1 and 3 from a<-1:5 I have to let b<-c(F,T,F,T,T) and exec a[b], not a[-c(1,3)]. which c(1,3) is much shorter than b if a is a long vector. that's, b wo

Re: [R] How to plot soil moisture data as a contour plot

2014-09-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Thiago V. dos Santos wrote: > Dear all, > > This is my first message in this list, so please excuse any mistake. > > I am trying to plot moisture data for 11 soil layers over the course of the > year, but I am yet to find the correct function to do that. I am tryin

[R] How to plot soil moisture data as a contour plot

2014-09-10 Thread Thiago V. dos Santos
Dear all, This is my first message in this list, so please excuse any mistake. I am trying to plot moisture data for 11 soil layers over the course of the year, but I am yet to find the correct function to do that. I am trying to reproduce the lower figure in this panel: https://imageshack.com/

Re: [R] Building R for better performance

2014-09-10 Thread lejeczek
hi, I can confirm that MKL even with gcc (and on AMD Opterons) is damn fast! I tried R-benchmark-25 and MASS-ex but Intel's own link advisor is rubbish, I mean look at this: -Wl,--start-group $(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64/libmkl_intel_lp64.a $(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64/libmkl_core.a $(MKLROOT)/lib/inte

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/09/2014 12:20 PM, William Dunlap wrote: Can you make your example a bit more concrete? E.g., is your 'index vector' A an integer vector? If so, integer(0), an integer vector with no elements, would be a more reasonable return value than NULL, an object of class NULL with length 0, for the

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread William Dunlap
Can you make your example a bit more concrete? E.g., is your 'index vector' A an integer vector? If so, integer(0), an integer vector with no elements, would be a more reasonable return value than NULL, an object of class NULL with length 0, for the 'not found' case and you could check for that c

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread PO SU
May be i could add a extra elment to B,that's: F<-function( C ) { C<-C[-A] some processing... res<-NULL or some new index not included in A return(res) } so in a loop, C<-c(B,1) tmpindex<-length(C) A<-tmpindex for( i in 1:10) { D<-F(C) A<-c(A,D) } -- PO SU mail: desolato...@163.com M

Re: [R] Why does debugging print() change output of function?

2014-09-10 Thread William Dunlap
Another nice thing about using ~formula is that it stores the environment in which the formula was made along with the formula. Thus you know which envrionment should be used with evaluating it (and don't have to guess that parent.frame() may be the right environmnet). E.g., evalRHS <- function

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread PO SU
Tks for your  a <- list(ress = 1, res = NULL) And in my second question, let me explain it : Actually i have two vectors in global enviroment, called A and B .A is initialized to NULL which used to record some index in B. Then i would run a function F, and each time, i would get a index value o

Re: [R] Import data from Excel to R

2014-09-10 Thread Kevin Wright
Most of the time I would agree with csv being the best format. _If_ you are dealing with plain ASCII text. Having spent most of yesterday with an Excel spreadsheet containing Russian letters, I can say it is quite difficult to export the data to Unicode UTF-16 tab-delimited text and then successf

Re: [R] Import data from Excel to R

2014-09-10 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Although it may seem troublesome to export to csv, I have found that every direct access library for reading Excel files seems to come with some fiddly bits that confuse new users (and can show down an experienced user). For example, XLConnect can be a headache if your files are large because it

Re: [R] Import data from Excel to R

2014-09-10 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Omar André Gonzáles Díaz wrote: > The best way is to save the file as CSV... after you can simply import it > with this comand in R: > > read.csv(...) ... to know more about the read.csv comand use in R this: > ?read.csv. > > There are other packages to import EXCE

Re: [R] Import data from Excel to R

2014-09-10 Thread Omar André Gonzáles Díaz
The best way is to save the file as CSV... after you can simply import it with this comand in R: read.csv(...) ... to know more about the read.csv comand use in R this: ?read.csv. There are other packages to import EXCEL FILES, but the simplest way, its importing this as CSV. 2014-09-09 18:03 GM

Re: [R] R, Big Data and books

2014-09-10 Thread Angel Rodriguez
>From an email list: "R is well known in the world of Big Data and is increasing in popularity. A number of very useful resources are available for anyone undertaking data mining in R. For example, Luis Torgo has just published a book called Data Mining with R � learning with case studies (Torg

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/09/2014, 3:21 AM, PO SU wrote: > > Dear expeRts, > I have some programming questions about NULL in R.There are listed as > follows: > 1. I find i can't let a list have a element NULL: > a<-list() > a$ress<-1 > a$res<-NULL > a > str(a) You can do it using a <- list(ress = 1, res = NU

Re: [R] sequential input script dataframe process functionality

2014-09-10 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi > Now confused by "Choices"! :) What is my error please? Your main error is that you do not read help which was offered by Wiliam. Choices is not a function it is name of a variable. You can call it e.g. ctsanddogs if you wish. see in line > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun..

Re: [R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi I am puzzled about what do you want? You was discouraged using $ operator due to partial matching, however you still use it. In your example you do not have named element being NULL. Just check it yourself. > a<-list() > a$ress<-1 > a$res<-NULL > a $ress [1] 1 > str(a) List of 1 $ ress:

[R] some question about vector[-NULL]

2014-09-10 Thread PO SU
Dear expeRts,   I have some programming questions about NULL in R.There are listed as follows: 1. I find i can't let a list have a element NULL: a<-list() a$ress<-1 a$res<-NULL a str(a) How can i know i have a named element but it is NULL, not just get a$,a$,a$ there all get NUL