[R] Problems installing/updating packages in Linux

2009-02-07 Thread Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Hi all, I feel very comfortable with R in Windows, and am trying to switch over to Linux. I have R 2.8.1 on Linux and it works great (so far), except for instalilng/updating packages. For example, using Emacs with ESS as a text editor, I entered: > update.packages() Here are some error message

[R] Yahoo data downloading problem

2009-02-07 Thread Bogaso
Hi, I got some problems while was trying to download data from Yahoo using yahoo.get.hist.quote() function. My script is as follows : app <- yahoo.get.hist.quote("aapl", start="02/07/09", end="02/07/06", quote="close") However I got following error : trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.cs

Re: [R] Problems installing/updating packages in Linux

2009-02-07 Thread Stefan Grosse
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:12:09 -0800 (PST) Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: PHD> I feel very comfortable with R in Windows, and am trying to switch PHD> over to Linux. I have R 2.8.1 on Linux and it works great (so PHD> far), except for instalilng/updating packages. For example, using PHD> Emacs with

Re: [R] Problems installing/updating packages in Linux

2009-02-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: Hi all, I feel very comfortable with R in Windows, and am trying to switch over to Linux. I have R 2.8.1 on Linux and it works great (so far), except for I suspect you didn't install it in any of the ways described in the R-admin manual. An

Re: [R] Output results to a single postscript document

2009-02-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Pele yahoo.com> writes: > I have been trying to output all my results (text, plots, etc) into the same > postscript file as > > one document, but have been unable to...Can anyone help me improve my code > below so that I can > > accomplish this? Currently I have to output them separately the

Re: [R] Target Plot?

2009-02-07 Thread Jim Lemon
Jason Rupert wrote: ... Also, do you know how to make the radial rings "black" and a little thicker? A co-worker requested that the be made a little darker and easier to see. Hi Jason, You can make the radial grid black with grid.col="black", but unfortunately there is no option for a th

Re: [R] Output results to a single postscript document

2009-02-07 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Pele, >> I have been trying to output all my results (text, plots, etc) into the >> same postscript file... Surely I missed something? Is it not simply that you are turning off the postscript device in the wrong place? At the moment you only seem to be using the postscript device in the plott

Re: [R] Plot with x-axis dates

2009-02-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/02/2009 4:48 PM, Paul Warren Simonin wrote: Hello, I am attempting to create plots using two continuous variables and it seems I should be able to use the simple "plot" command. However, my x-axis values are dates, and I believe this could be the reason I am receiving error message

Re: [R] Plot with x-axis dates

2009-02-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 06/02/2009 4:48 PM, Paul Warren Simonin wrote: >> >> Hello, >> I am attempting to create plots using two continuous variables and it >> seems I should be able to use the simple "plot" command. However, my x-axis >> values are dates, an

Re: [R] Output results to a single postscript document

2009-02-07 Thread Pele
Hello R users, Below is the code and output of what I am trying to do. My goal is to insert/print all items in the chart function into a pdf document. Only the acf and pacf charts gets printed. Again, thanks in advance for any help I can get! options (scipe

Re: [R] Output results to a single postscript document

2009-02-07 Thread David Winsemius
I don't see anywhere that you opened a pdf device. When I try : pdf("test.pdf") and then run your code I get what looks like the desired output sitting in my working directory: test.pdf is attached below but my Mac email client sometimes does unexpected (to me anyway) things to graphics att

Re: [R] Yahoo data downloading problem

2009-02-07 Thread Jeff Ryan
I didn't look into the yahoo.get.hist.quote, but the quantmod package has a working simple solution with getSymbols: library(quantmod) getSymbols("AAPL") > head(AAPL) AAPL.Open AAPL.High AAPL.Low AAPL.Close AAPL.Volume AAPL.Adjusted 2007-01-03 86.29 86.5881.90 83.80

[R] princomp - how to take out part result

2009-02-07 Thread Nash
Dear all, i have two problems if i have a principal components analysis report as follows: ?princomp problem one. > pc.cr <- princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE) > pc.cr i want to export a txt file (*.txt) to save "pc.cr" report ### Call: princomp(x = USArr

[R] Performing a glm binomial model

2009-02-07 Thread Alberto Maceda
Hello R-users, My first consult is that I would like to tackle the relationship between a dependent variable and four environmental factors using a glm binomial model. The problem is that I want to test the interaction between factors too and I would like to learn some way to do it automatically.

[R] lme() direction

2009-02-07 Thread Mike Lawrence
Hi guRus, I'm looking for advice on a good way to approach analysis of some multi-level data I've obtained. I had humans classify words and measured response time. Words were 10 positive words ("happy", "joy", etc) and 10 negative words ("sad","grumpy", etc). Words were also presented in either wh

Re: [R] Output results to a single postscript document

2009-02-07 Thread David Winsemius
Sorry. I now see that you did open a pdf device and attached results. So your request is for results of summary and AIC to appear in the pdf output? The plotrix library has functions capable of adding tables or textboxes to plots. The Sweave and odfWeave packages provide a general approach

Re: [R] Output results to a single postscript document

2009-02-07 Thread Mark Difford
Hi David, Pele: David Winsemius wrote: > >>> I don't see anywhere that you opened a pdf device. When I try : > >>> pdf("test.pdf") and then run your code I get what looks like the >>> desired output sitting in my working directory: > > Pele does open a PDF device (previously it was a postsc

Re: [R] Output results to a single postscript document

2009-02-07 Thread Mark Difford
Sorry, the message seems to have got botched. Here it is again: Pele does open a PDF device (previously it was a postscript device). It looks like what Pele is trying to do is "plot" the printed results of the summary of a model + the AIC, together with the acf() and pacf() plots. As Dieter ind

Re: [R] Performing a glm binomial model

2009-02-07 Thread David Winsemius
In R using: formula = (ENF/TOT) ~ (VAR1 + VAR2 + VAR3 + VAR4)^2 would give you all the main effects and 2 way interactions. What do you mean by the R^2 for a binary model? It is not constructed simply by minimizing the squared distances from the 0,1 outcomes. There are analogues to R^2 (a

Re: [R] princomp - how to take out part result

2009-02-07 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 7, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Nash wrote: Dear all, i have two problems if i have a principal components analysis report as follows: ?princomp problem one. pc.cr <- princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE) pc.cr i want to export a txt file (*.txt) to save "pc.cr" report

Re: [R] lme() direction

2009-02-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Mike Lawrence thatmike.com> writes: Thanks for the excellent reproducible sample set! > I'm most interested in the interaction between color and type, but I > know that there is likely an effect of word. Yet since word is not > completely crossed with type, simply adding it to an aov() won't wor

[R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread Dominik Hattrup
Hi Experts, I would like to present time series data in meaningful way in building some graphics. I've tried: (1) plot(ts(mbaye3)) and (2) plot(ts(mbaye3), start=1990) But I always get this error-message: Fehler [error] in plotts(x = x, y = y, plot.type = plot.type,

Re: [R] lme() direction

2009-02-07 Thread Mike Lawrence
Would it improve things if "type" were a continuous variable rather than categorical? I chose words at the extreme ends of a valence rating scale but I still have the raw valence ratings for each word. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Dieter Menne wrote: > Mike Lawrence thatmike.com> writes: > >

Re: [R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread David Winsemius
I am not an expert, but I will sometimes take a shot at answering a question when the construction of an example it not too difficult. In your case that does not occur. I would need to do multiple cut and pastes and spend a bunch of time doing unnecessary work. I have zoo and tseries packag

Re: [R] lme() direction

2009-02-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Mike Lawrence thatmike.com> writes: > >Would it improve things if "type" were a continuous variable rather >than categorical? I chose words at the extreme ends of a valence >rating scale but I still have the raw valence ratings for each word. > > > > > With the interaction, the extreme would be

Re: [R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread Dominik Hattrup
Hi David, GOOD POINT! dput() seems to be very useful. I will use it in my future post!! THX dput(mbaye3) structure(c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0,

Re: [R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Each series should be a column, not a row. See ?t On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Dominik Hattrup wrote: > Hi Experts, > > I would like to present time series data in meaningful way in building > some graphics. I've tried: > > (1) plot(ts(mbaye3)) > > and > > (2) plot(ts(mbaye3), start=

Re: [R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread David Winsemius
Thanks. It did give me the opportunity to discover one reason why dput() may not be a totally general solution to the problem of minimizing R-help responder time. That structure depends on an object that is not included, namely the mbaye dataset that you constructed mbaye3 from. I was able

Re: [R] lme() direction

2009-02-07 Thread Mike Lawrence
And if I decided to ignore the "type" variable altogether and simply use the continuous "valence" variable, this is what I'd use? summary(lme( fixed = rt~valence*color , data = a ,random = ~1|id )) I also have continuous luminance measurements of each color that vary from

Re: [R] lme() direction

2009-02-07 Thread Dieter Menne
Mike Lawrence thatmike.com> writes: > > And if I decided to ignore the "type" variable altogether and simply > use the continuous "valence" variable, this is what I'd use? > > summary(lme( > fixed = rt~valence*color > , data = a > ,random = ~1|id > )) > > I also have continuo

[R] Data format question

2009-02-07 Thread Drew Garey
Hello all, I have a *.csv file that looks like this (actual file is orders of magnitude larger): site taxa no.ind meadow LMA 2 meadow LCY 1 meadow MSA 2 forest LMA 1 forest LCY 1 forest MSA 1 forest MSX 1 I am interested in, but have failed to create, code that efficiently converts it to a si

Re: [R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread Dominik Hattrup
It's working now! Thank You Guys!! t.mbaye3 <- t(mbaye3) plot(ts(t.mbaye3)) Now I am searching for an alternative to ylim, which is not working. I am not the first one :): https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-October/059376.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-J

Re: [R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try library(zoo) plot(zoo(t.mbaye3), ylim = c(0, 20)) or to put them all on the same plot: plot(zoo(t.mbaye3), screen = 1, col = 1:10) On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Dominik Hattrup wrote: > It's working now! Thank You Guys!! > >t.mbaye3 <- t(mbaye3) >plot(ts(t.mbaye3)) > > No

Re: [R] Time Series Graphics - "cannot plot more than 10 series"

2009-02-07 Thread Dominik Hattrup
Perfect! the zoo-library is great. Thank You Gabor! Dom Gabor Grothendieck schrieb: > Try > > library(zoo) > plot(zoo(t.mbaye3), ylim = c(0, 20)) > > or to put them all on the same plot: > > plot(zoo(t.mbaye3), screen = 1, col = 1:10) > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Dominik Hattrup > wro

[R] Re-post data format question (apologies)

2009-02-07 Thread Drew Garey
Hello all, I have a *.csv file that looks like this (actual file is orders of magnitude larger): Site taxa no.ind forestLMA1 forestLCY1 forestSCO1 meadow

Re: [R] Re-post data format question (apologies)

2009-02-07 Thread Sarah Goslee
There are various ways, but for simple convenience that's exactly the job that crosstab() in ecodist was written for. Sarah On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Drew Garey wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I have a *.csv file that looks like this (actual file is orders of magnitude > larger): > > > > Site

Re: [R] Re-post data format question (apologies)

2009-02-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 02/07/2009 01:47 PM Drew Garey wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I have a *.csv file that looks like this (actual file is orders of magnitude > larger): > > > > Site taxa no.ind > > forestLMA1 > > forestLCY

[R] vignettes are installed but not viewable?

2009-02-07 Thread Rajarshi Guha
Hi, I have a package for which I'm writing a vignette. The vignette looks fine as indicated by R CMD check. However after installing the package (in my personal R library location) doing vignette('rcdk') says Warning message: vignette 'rcdk' *not* found But I can see the PDF file located u

[R] Question about ROCR package

2009-02-07 Thread Waverley
Hi, I have a question about ROCR package. I got the ROC curve plotted without any problem following the manual. However, I don't know to extract the values, e.g. y.values ( I think it is the area under the curve auc measure). The return is an object of class "performance" which have Slots and o

Re: [R] vignettes are installed but not viewable?

2009-02-07 Thread Romain Francois
Hi, Have you tried : > vignette( package = "rcdk" ) Romain -- Romain Francois Independent R Consultant +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr Rajarshi Guha wrote: Hi, I have a package for which I'm writing a vignette. The vignette looks fine as indicated by R CMD check. Ho

[R] Question about plotting data points in box plots

2009-02-07 Thread George Chen
Hello, I am plotting my data as side by side box plots. Could somebody tell me how I can plot the points from which the box plots are derived inside the box plots? I imagine some use of the plot(x,y) function with x = the data and y = location of box plot, but how do I distribute the points abo

Re: [R] vignettes are installed but not viewable?

2009-02-07 Thread Rajarshi Guha
On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Romain Francois wrote: Hi, Have you tried : > vignette( package = "rcdk" ) Yes, I had tried that > vignette(package='rcdk') no vignettes found --- Rajarshi Guha GPG Fingerprint: D070 5427 CC5B 79

Re: [R] Question about plotting data points in box plots

2009-02-07 Thread John Fox
Dear George, You could use jitter(x) in place of x to randomly perturb the horizontal coordinates. See ?jitter for details. I hope this helps, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/j

Re: [R] Question about ROCR package

2009-02-07 Thread David Winsemius
If you post the code that you used, prehapsy using the sample data in the same package, you may get more useful replies: "commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code." Gee, ... where have I seen that before? Also could see the thread; https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-F

Re: [R] Question about ROCR package

2009-02-07 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Waverley, Try this: unlist(slot(perf,"y.values")) See ?slot for more details. HTH, Jorge On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Waverley wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about ROCR package. I got the ROC curve plotted > without any problem following the manual. However, I don't know to > e

Re: [R] R on mobile devices

2009-02-07 Thread nashjc
This is not really an answer to the original post, but an alternative possibility that might benefit the R community as well as offering some commercial revenue to someone with entrepreneurial instincts. We have several web-based and similar interfaces to R. It should be possible to have a server

Re: [R] Question about ROCR package

2009-02-07 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi Waverley, I forgot to tell you that "perf" is your performance object. Here is an example from the ROCR package: ## computing a simple ROC curve (x-axis: fpr, y-axis: tpr) library(ROCR) data(ROCR.simple) pred <- prediction( ROCR.simple$predictions, ROCR.simple$labels) perf <- performance(pred,"t

[R] Hessian?

2009-02-07 Thread rkevinburton
I am new to 'R' and also new to the concept of a 'Hessian' with non-linear optimization. I would like to avoid going through all of the reference articles given with ?optim as access to a library is not handy. Would someone be able to elighten me on what is in the Hessian matrix if 'hessian = TR

Re: [R] Re-post data format question (apologies)

2009-02-07 Thread Ricardo Pietrobon
Drew, would look at the reshape package On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Drew Garey wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I have a *.csv file that looks like this (actual file is orders of > magnitude > larger): > > > > Site taxa no.ind > > forestLMA

Re: [R] Log transformation and -Inf values for use in glm()

2009-02-07 Thread Stephen Weigand
Paul, On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Paul Warren Simonin wrote: > Hello, > I am writing regarding log transformation of data in a single matrix > column, and subsequent use of these data in a glm model fit. I have a data > matrix in which I am using the log function to transform the values. Th

[R] as.xts error

2009-02-07 Thread glenn
Quick newbie question please: I am trying to turn a dataframe into xts with the function; As.xts But it returns the error; Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format could someone give me some pointers please the

[R] sub() with "+" - invalid regular expression

2009-02-07 Thread Jörg Groß
Hi, can someone help me; I don't understand why this code doesn't do what it's supposed to do; x <- c("F+", "F+") x <- sub("F+", "F", x) x [1] "F+" "F+" (I want "F" "F") when I try this; x <- c("F+", "F+") x <- sub("+", "", x) x I get an error message ("invalid regular expression")

Re: [R] sub() with "+" - invalid regular expression

2009-02-07 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Jörg, Try this: > gsub('\\+',"",x) [1] "F" "F" Take a look at "Basic Regular Expressions" in ?regex. HTH, Jorge On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Jörg Groß wrote: > Hi, > > > can someone help me; > I don't understand why this code doesn't do what it's supposed to do; > > x <- c("F+", "F

[R] how to make this qq plot in lattice and/or ggplot2

2009-02-07 Thread Juliet Hannah
Hi Group, Here is some data. p <- runif(1000) # sample data groups <- rep(c(1,2),each=500) #conditioning variable mydata <- cbind(p,groups) n <- length(p) u <- (1:n)/(n + 1) # uniform distribution reference for qqplot logp <- -log(p,base=10) logu <- -log(u,base=10) qqplot(logp,logu) How can I ma

[R] compressing data without writing output to file

2009-02-07 Thread Markus Loecher
This might seem like a strange question but is there any way to compress an R object (such as a matrix) and know its resulting size in bytes ? Clearly, I could implement this in the following way (if x is my matrix): zz <- gzfile(fname,"w"); write.table(x,zz); close(zz); fil

[R] updating contents of a package

2009-02-07 Thread Markus Loecher
Dear fellow R users, I read through the "Writing R Extensions" document and am able to now create my own packages/libraries which so far are just well documented collections of my own R functions. I use package.skeleton() and the tools package to build these packages. However, it is not clear to me

[R] R version update utility

2009-02-07 Thread Alexandre Aguiar
Hi, This is a resend because the attachment to the previous message was removed. Sorry. I wrote a bash script that can either perform unattended upgrades of R as a cron job or by hand in a terminal. It has run in several environments and fits my purposes but I'd like to submit it to the commun

Re: [R] compressing data without writing output to file

2009-02-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What do you want the compressed R object to be? (It is not an R object.) Omegahat package Rcompression may help you, but it returns a raw vector (and that has overheads such as the header: you could use its length if appropriate). On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Markus Loecher wrote: This might seem

Re: [R] how to make this qq plot in lattice and/or ggplot2

2009-02-07 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 2/7/09, Juliet Hannah wrote: > Hi Group, > > Here is some data. > > p <- runif(1000) # sample data > groups <- rep(c(1,2),each=500) #conditioning variable > mydata <- cbind(p,groups) > n <- length(p) > u <- (1:n)/(n + 1) # uniform distribution reference for qqplot > logp <- -log(p,base=1