[R] Plotting survival curves from a Cox model with time dependent covariates

2011-07-15 Thread Bjoern
Dear all, Let's assume I have a clinical trial with two treatments and a time to event outcome. I am trying to fit a Cox model with a time dependent treatment effect and then plot the predicted survival curve for one treatment (or both). library(survival) test <- list(time=runif(100,0,10),e

Re: [R] Add a density line to a cumulative histogram - second try

2011-07-15 Thread Jochen1980
Thanks, I found the function ecdf() which does the job. plot( ecdf( nvtpoints), col="BLUE", lwd=1, add=TRUE ) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Add-a-density-line-to-a-cumulative-histogram-second-try-tp3666969p3669310.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive a

Re: [R] Stacked bar plot of frequency vs time

2011-07-15 Thread marcel
Thank you for the solutions! I have the first one working and it does exactly what I am looking for. Unfortunately I have to put the plot in a common figure alongside other plots made in the basic environment (challenging!). With the second method, I was unable to make the stacked bars locate to

Re: [R] combining elements in a data frame

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Q1: Try something like # Formula interface works for R-2.11.0 and later versions RTavg <- aggregate(RT ~ word, data = alldat, FUN = mean) merge(CCCW, RTavg, by.x = row.names(CCCW), by.y = 'word', all = TRUE) If the merge doesn't work (which is entirely possible), you might want to define a v

Re: [R] LME and overall treatment effects

2011-07-15 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
Dear Mark, Interpreting one of the main effects when they are part of an interaction is, AFAIK, not possible. Your statement about comparing treatments when Year is continuous is not correct. The parameters of treatment assume that Year == 0! Which might lead to very strange effect when year is

[R] searching and replacing in a data frame.

2011-07-15 Thread Ashim Kapoor
Dear R helpers, Please have a look at the following : - Note : My goal is to find and replace all Inf's in a data array with 0. > t<-data.frame(A=c(Inf,0,0),B=c(1,2,3)) > t A B 1 Inf 1 2 0 2 3 0 3 >str(t) 'data.frame':3 obs. of 2 variables: $ A: num Inf 0 0 $ B: num 1 2 3 > t[

Re: [R] how to order each element according to alphabet

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Is this what you're looking for? Lines <- " ASG,UXW,AFODJEL E,TDIWE,ROFD" # Read in the above lines (for purposes of this example only) # Note the stringsAs Factors = FALSE option! df <- read.csv(textConnection(Lines), header = FALSE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) closeAllConnections() dm <- as.

Re: [R] Smart legend ???

2011-07-15 Thread Jim Lemon
On 07/14/2011 05:20 AM, JIA Pei wrote: Hi, all: Is there an automatic smart legend for R? Since my R code is running in a row, which will produce a bunch of R plots in a single run, some of the produced plots are really "ridiculous". Because my legend is fixed to "topleft", sometimes, which occl

[R] plot a vertical column of colored rectangles

2011-07-15 Thread Nacho Caballero
Hi, I've been really struggling with this. If I have a vector like dat <- c(0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0) I want to plot each element as a colored rectangle (red=1, blue=1) in the right order, so they all stack up forming a vertical column on the graph. Sort of like a building, with each

Re: [R] Correct behavior of Hmisc::capitalize()?

2011-07-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 14.07.2011 23:32, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi, from example(capitalize) of the Hmisc package (v 0.8.3) you get: capitalize(c("Hello", "bob", "daN")) [1] "Hello" "Bob" "daN" Is that "daN" correct? If so, then this behavior that only *all lowercase strings*, which the code indicates, w

Re: [R] crr - computationally singular

2011-07-15 Thread mgordon
Hi! I guess that you have solved this error by now but I figured I'd post the result of my 12 hour debugging session in case anyone else has the same issue. Lets start with a more intuitive example that the one crr offers: # CODE START # # Define a set size my_set_size <- 1000 # Create the covar

Re: [R] how to order each element according to alphabet

2011-07-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 15, 2011, at 12:23 AM, onthetopo wrote: dd [,1] [,2] [1,] "OP" "SU" [2,] "XA" "YQ" sapply( lapply( + strsplit(dd, split=""), sort), + paste, collapse="") [1] "OP" "AX" "SU" "QY" The result is not what I intended since it is a single line. It should be: [,1] [,2] [1,] "OP" "SU

[R] Drawing a histogram from a massive dataset

2011-07-15 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have a massive dataset from which I would like to draw a histogram. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Thanks in advance, Paul __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting g

[R] Out of Sample Prediction Interval/Point Estimate

2011-07-15 Thread Zd Gibbs
Hi All, I have been requested to come up with an out-of-sample prediction einterval and point estimate. I have never done this and I am hoping for help from you all. First can R do this? If so, what are the steps? What do I need? I have a data file that I can include, if that would help. I'm b

Re: [R] Export Unicode characters from R

2011-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-07-14 7:11 PM, Sverre Stausland wrote: > funny.g<- "\u1E21" > funny.g [1] "ḡ" > data.frame (funny.g) -> funny.g > funny.g$funny.g [1] ḡ Levels: I think the problem is in the data.frame code, not in writing. Data.frames try to display things in a readable way, and since you're on

Re: [R] searching and replacing in a data frame.

2011-07-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 15, 2011, at 5:20 AM, Ashim Kapoor wrote: Dear R helpers, Please have a look at the following : - Note : My goal is to find and replace all Inf's in a data array with 0. t<-data.frame(A=c(Inf,0,0),B=c(1,2,3)) t A B 1 Inf 1 2 0 2 3 0 3 str(t) 'data.frame':3 obs. of

Re: [R] fixed effects Tobit, Honore style?

2011-07-15 Thread David Hugh-Jones
A cleaner and slightly more tested version is at http://davidhughjones.blogspot.com/2011/07/honore-style-fixed-effects-estimators.html David Hugh-Jones Research Associate CAGE, Department of Economics University of Warwick http://davidhughjones.googlepages.com On 13 July 2011 15:33, David Hugh

Re: [R] Writing Complex Formulas

2011-07-15 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 14, 2011, at 20:19 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 14/07/2011 12:46 PM, warmstron1 wrote: >> I resolved this issue. It appears that "^" won't work for this case, but >> "**" worked. I can't find any reference to this, but where "^" seems to be >> used to raise a value to a numerical functio

Re: [R] cbind in aggregate formula - based on an existing object (vector)

2011-07-15 Thread peter dalgaard
For a little lateral thinking, consider the use of "." on the LHS. That could play out as follows: > myvars <- c("Ozone","Wind") > f <- . ~ Month > j <- union(all.vars(f[[3]]), myvars) > aggregate(. ~ Month, data=airquality[j], mean, na.rm=T) MonthOzone Wind 1 5 23.61538 11.457692

Re: [R] cbind in aggregate formula - based on an existing object (vector)

2011-07-15 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
THAT'S IT, Bill - exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot for the input, everyone. I find the "by" method the most straigtfoward and clear. Dimitri On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:12 PM, William Dunlap wrote: > You may find it easier to use the data.frame method for aggregate > instead of the for

Re: [R] Very slow optim()

2011-07-15 Thread John C Nash
As I'm at least partly responsible for CG in optim, and packager of Rcgmin, I'll recommend the latter based on experience since it was introduced. I've so far seen no example where CG does better than Rcgmin, though I'm sure there are cases to be found. However, Ben is right that if ADMB does s

Re: [R] Plotting survival curves from a Cox model with time dependent covariates

2011-07-15 Thread Terry Therneau
The time-transform (tt() arguments) feature is the most recent addition to coxph. Most of the follow-up functions, in particular survfit(fit) have not yet been updated to deal with such models. Your message points out that I need to at least update them to add a "not yet available" error message

Re: [R] cbind in aggregate formula - based on an existing object (vector)

2011-07-15 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 15, 2011, at 15:06 , peter dalgaard wrote: > For a little lateral thinking, consider the use of "." on the LHS. That could > play out as follows: > >> myvars <- c("Ozone","Wind") >> f <- . ~ Month >> j <- union(all.vars(f[[3]]), myvars) >> aggregate(. ~ Month, data=airquality[j], mean, n

Re: [R] Reorganize data fram

2011-07-15 Thread anglor
Hi, thanks for your reply. I didn't get cast() to work and didn't know how to find information about it either. I used reshape but then I had to subset only those columns (actually I have 28 columns of other data) Could cast or reshape work also with more columns? Angelica -- View this messag

Re: [R] Reorganize data fram

2011-07-15 Thread anglor
Thank you! I used this one and it worked really great. /Angelica -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reorganize-data-fram-tp3662123p3669782.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project

Re: [R] use pcls to solve least square fitting with constraints

2011-07-15 Thread sonem
Hi, I need help with imposing constraints on GAM parameters, maybe through pcls.. I have a GAM model without intercept with several strictly parametric and smooth parameters. I need to set a linear constraint such that sum of parametric coefficients and first derivatives of the smoothes is equal

Re: [R] grey colored lines and overwriting labels i qqplot2

2011-07-15 Thread Sigrid
Okay, seems like ddply is not the right method to add my model. That is okay, though. I already calculated the slopes and intercepts fore each for the treatments and country. How can I add those 14 lines? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/grey-colored-lines-and-overwr

[R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Bhushan, Vipul
Hello. Is there a package or functionality available somewhere which will allow for complex searches (such as what SQL can do) of collections of RData files? Search capability within a given RData file at a time (which could be put in a loop) would be good, but the capability to perform joins to

Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Denis Kazakiewicz
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMySQL/ On 15.07.2011 17:29, Bhushan, Vipul wrote: Hello. Is there a package or functionality available somewhere which will allow for complex searches (such as what SQL can do) of collections of RData files? Search capability within a given RData file at

Re: [R] WLS regression, lm() with weights as a matrix

2011-07-15 Thread Victor11
Dear All, Now I am thinking to use a for loop: for (i in 1:200) { /Results/ <-lm(R[,i] ~ F, weights=W[,i])} The thing is, I can get WLS regression coefficients and residuals for each company each with unique weight, but I am wondering how to easily combine all coefficients and residuals for AL

Re: [R] Drawing a histogram from a massive dataset

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: I would suggest that you avoid the histogram and make a density plot instead. It would be more informative and probably require a lot less time and ink. If you're married to the histogram concept, try taking a sample of about 1 and get a histogram of that instead. The result shouldn't be m

[R] Drawing a histogram from a massive dataset

2011-07-15 Thread Kyaw Sint (Joe)
Hello, I assume you have imported the dataset. You can use the hist from the graphics package from the main R program. A tricky part is that the freq=TRUE (the default) plots frequencies and freq=FALSE plots probability densities, not percent of the histogram cells. You can sum the counts and calc

Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Bhushan, Vipul wrote: Hello. Is there a package or functionality available somewhere which will allow for complex searches (such as what SQL can do) of collections of RData files? Search capability within a given RData file at a time (which could be put in a l

Re: [R] Writing Complex Formulas

2011-07-15 Thread William Armstrong
Forgive me. I had a legitimate problem that I found resolvable using "**" instead of "^". I can't seem to recreate the problem to obtain the error message that I was receiving. "Incomplete information" is perhaps more appropriate than "*mis*information." Here is the exact code I used (still not

Re: [R] Reorganize data fram

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:04 AM, anglor wrote: > Hi, thanks for your reply. > > I didn't get cast() to work and didn't know how to find information about it > either. Hadley Wickham's home page http://had.co.nz/ has a link (last one under the heading 'R Packages') to the reshape package pag

[R] Problem in installing rJava from source

2011-07-15 Thread Bogaso Christofer
Hi all, I was trying to install rJava package (some older version) from source. However could not achieve using "Rcmd build -binary rJava" syntax with windows cmd. The building process stopped with following error: ERROR*> JavaSoft\{JRE|JDK} can't open registry keys. ERROR: cannot find Java D

Re: [R] Problem in installing rJava from source

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, rJava depends on having appropriate version of Java installed. You can download the JDK from oracle for free at their website. It should automatically set the appropriate environment variables, but if you are having difficulty with that still, you may need to set JAVA_HOME to the directory w

Re: [R] grey colored lines and overwriting labels i qqplot2

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: What did you do and what do you mean by 'add[ing] those 14 lines'? A reproducible example would be helpful. I've used plyr successfully to get model coefficients before, so I'm interested in what you mean by 'ddply is not the right method to add my model.' Here's a toy reproducible example to

[R] Odd behaviour of as.POSIXct

2011-07-15 Thread Johannes Egner
Dear all, how come the first loop in the below fails, but the second performs as expected? days <- as.Date( c("2000-01-01", "2000-01-02") ) for(day in days) { as.POSIXct(day) } for( n in 1:length(days) ) { show(as.POSIXct(days[n])) } Many thanks, Jo [[alternative HTML version

Re: [R] grey colored lines and overwriting labels i qqplot2

2011-07-15 Thread Hadley Wickham
> You should only have one scale_ call for each scale type.  Here, you have > three scale_colour_ calls, the first selecting a grey scale, the second > defining a single break with its label (and thus implicitly subsetting on > that single break value), and a second which defines a different > brea

Re: [R] Problem in installing rJava from source

2011-07-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
If you cannot build a java program outside R then you won't be able to do so inside R. Find a Java development resource (the JDK is one such) and get command-line ability to compile java enabled, and then come back to interfacing R with Java. -

Re: [R] Odd behaviour of as.POSIXct

2011-07-15 Thread B77S
day doesn't exist? That would be the 1st problem. Johannes Egner wrote: > > Dear all, > > how come the first loop in the below fails, but the second performs as > expected? > > days <- as.Date( c("2000-01-01", "2000-01-02") ) > > for(day in days) > { > as.POSIXct(day) > } > > for( n in

[R] turning coefficients into an lm obect

2011-07-15 Thread Jarrett Byrnes
I'm working with a dataset and fitting and comparing various lms. I also have a fitted model parameter values and SE estimated from the literature. In doing my comparison, I'd like to turn these estimates into an lm object itself for ease of use with some of the code I'm writing. While puttin

Re: [R] Using str() in a function.

2011-07-15 Thread andrewH
Thanks, everybody, this has been very edifying. One last question: It seems that sometimes when a function returns something and you don't assign it, it prints to the console, and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure I understand which is which. My best current theory is that, if the function return

[R] Error Message Help: Differing Number of Rows

2011-07-15 Thread ScottM
Hello all, I'm relatively new to "R" and programming in general - I had previously used MatLab, but decided to make the transition to R, as the computational times are much better! Anyway, I'm trying to use R to run a gamma distribution model to estimate mean transit times of water moving throug

Re: [R] Using str() in a function.

2011-07-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:31 PM, andrewH wrote: Thanks, everybody, this has been very edifying. One last question: It seems that sometimes when a function returns something and you don't assign it, it prints to the console, and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure I understand which is which. My

Re: [R] Using str() in a function.

2011-07-15 Thread Bert Gunter
Below. -- Bert On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM, andrewH wrote: > Thanks, everybody, this has been very edifying. One last question: > > It seems that sometimes when a function returns something and you don't > assign it, it prints to the console, and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure > I unders

[R] Adding rows based on column value

2011-07-15 Thread Bansal, Vikas
Dear all, I have one problem and did not find any solution. I have attached the question in text file also because sometimes spacing is not good in mail. I have a file(file.txt) attached with this mail.I am reading it using this code to make a data frame (file)- file=read.table("file.txt",fill

Re: [R] Odd behaviour of as.POSIXct

2011-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 15/07/2011 12:15 PM, Johannes Egner wrote: Dear all, how come the first loop in the below fails, but the second performs as expected? days<- as.Date( c("2000-01-01", "2000-01-02") ) for(day in days) { as.POSIXct(day) } "day" in the loop above is an integer without a class, it's not a

[R] transforming year.weeknumber into dates

2011-07-15 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Hello! I know how to transform dates into year.weeknumber format using zoo: library(zoo) as.numeric(format(as.Date("2010-10-02"), "%Y.%W")) But is there a straightforward way to do the opposite - to transform character strings like "2009.12" or "2009.30" back into dates (assuming that weeks star

Re: [R] Export Unicode characters from R

2011-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 15/07/2011 1:42 PM, Sverre Stausland wrote: >>> >>> >funny.g<- "\u1E21" >>> >funny.g >> >> [1] "ḡ" >> >>> >data.frame (funny.g) ->funny.g >>> >funny.g$funny.g >> >> [1] ḡ >> Levels: > > I think the problem is in the data.frame code, not in writing. Data.frames > tr

Re: [R] Using str() in a function.

2011-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 15/07/2011 1:44 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: Below. -- Bert On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM, andrewH wrote: > Thanks, everybody, this has been very edifying. One last question: > > It seems that sometimes when a function returns something and you don't > assign it, it prints to the console, an

Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: If you load the data into R, there is a package called sqldf that allows one to apply SQL syntax to an R data frame. Is that what you had in mind? If so, Google 'sqldf R' and you should get a pointer to its home page. HTH, Dennis On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Bhushan, Vipul wrote: > Hell

Re: [R] Writing Complex Formulas

2011-07-15 Thread Berend Hasselman
warmstron1 wrote: > >> for(j in 1:J) > + { > + Z <- dummy**B[j] > + U <- (-dummy+1)**B[j] > + } >> Z > I replaced ** with ^ and got the same results as you. But why are you doing a for loop here? At each iteration you are overwriting the previous results of Z and U and retaining only the value

Re: [R] Adding rows based on column value

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: This seems to work: library(plyr) # select the variables to summarize: vars <- paste('Case', c('A', 'C', 'G', 'T'), sep = '') # Alternatively, # vars <- names(df)[grep('Case', names(df))] # One way: the ddply() function in package plyr in # conjunction with the colwise() function > ddply(d

Re: [R] Export Unicode characters from R

2011-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 15/07/2011 1:42 PM, Sverre Stausland wrote: >>> >>> >funny.g<- "\u1E21" >>> >funny.g >> >> [1] "ḡ" >> >>> >data.frame (funny.g) ->funny.g >>> >funny.g$funny.g >> >> [1] ḡ >> Levels: > > I think the problem is in the data.frame code, not in writing. Data.frames > tr

Re: [R] Export Unicode characters from R

2011-07-15 Thread Sverre Stausland
>>> >>> >  funny.g<- "\u1E21" >>> >  funny.g >> >> [1] "ḡ" >> >>> >  data.frame (funny.g) ->  funny.g >>> >  funny.g$funny.g >> >> [1] ḡ >> Levels: > > I think the problem is in the data.frame code, not in writing. Data.frames > try to display things in a readable way, and since you're on Windows w

Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Bhushan, Vipul
Thanks very much for your response. This sqldf package looks promising. I just need to figure out if a dbms needs to be running/installed in our environment (to hold the temporary SQLite DB it creates). The examples in the documentation are helpful too. -Original Message- From: Dennis

[R] running previous versions of R

2011-07-15 Thread jstevens
I'm having problems trying to get an older version of R (2.9.2) running in a Linux terminal. I have both R 2.9.2 and 2.12 installed and typing 'R' into the terminal results in version 2.12 running. I am trying to use a program that requires version 2.4 or greater, but will not run on version 2.10 o

Re: [R] Executing a function correctly

2011-07-15 Thread saskay
Marc, Many thanks. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Executing-a-function-correctly-tp3665765p3670602.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/m

Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Bhushan, Vipul
Thank you for your response. To clarify, I don't mind if R loads the data (in the background), but was hoping to have to only specify the query as a simple request and the list of input files. I'd like to do this relatively efficiently, so searching across ~100 RData files (10 to 100 KB each) on

Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
My understanding is that sqldf works in conjunction with the sqlite and H2 DBMSs. You should be able to verify that from the sqldf home page; if I'm wrong, Gabor will quickly correct me :) Dennis On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Bhushan, Vipul wrote: > Thanks very much for your response. This s

Re: [R] running previous versions of R

2011-07-15 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:06 PM, jstevens wrote: > I'm having problems trying to get an older version of R (2.9.2) running in a > Linux terminal. I have both R 2.9.2 and 2.12 installed and typing 'R' into > the terminal results in version 2.12 running. I am trying to use a program > that requires vers

Re: [R] transforming year.weeknumber into dates

2011-07-15 Thread jim holtman
try this: > x <- c('2009.12', '2009.30') > as.Date(paste(x, '1'), format = "%Y.%W %w") [1] "2009-03-23" "2009-07-27" > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote: > Hello! > > I know how to transform dates into year.weeknumber format using zoo: > > library(zoo) > as.numeric(f

[R] Migration Analysis?

2011-07-15 Thread VikR
Is it possible to do Migration Analysis in R? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Migration-Analysis-tp3670866p3670866.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https:/

Re: [R] running previous versions of R

2011-07-15 Thread jstevens
I'm running Ubuntu - natty. Forgive me if I sound lost, its been just over a week since I switched over from Windows. I originally installed 2.12 using the Ubuntu software center, but have now switched to using the terminal. 2.9.2 was installed using a .tar.zip file downloaded from cran. Before I s

[R] barplot question

2011-07-15 Thread Sally_roman
Hi - I would like to make to make a barplot of my data, but am having issues. An example of my data is: species netpair poundstype Cod Control 1 46 kept Little Skate Control

Re: [R] help! kennard-stone algorithm in soil.spec packages does not work for my dataset!!!

2011-07-15 Thread tauQSAR
I'm also trying to use the kennard-stone algorithm in the soil.spec package for my dataset, (to generate a training and test set from the data, based on this algorithm, because it's the most commonly used and well-performing algorithm in QSAR studies) but it's generating an error: > ken.sto(mydata

[R] scaling advice

2011-07-15 Thread Data Analytics Corp.
Hi, I have a consultants nightmare -- I was given a project that another consultant did and I was told to do the same calculations, but there's no documentation on what he did. Basically, I have yes/no answers to survey questions about the effectiveness of product attributes by brands. Ther

[R] Calculate Az (A sub z) with R?

2011-07-15 Thread Hans Werner Borchers
dd2es virginia.edu> writes: > > I am looking for (or interested in writing) a function that calculates Az, > an alternative measure of discriminability from SDT (alternative to d', Az). > I have written my own functions for d', A', B"d, and am aware of the 'sdtalt' > package, but I have yet to fi

[R] Add permanently environment variable

2011-07-15 Thread Anna Lippel
Hello everyone, I know how to add a folder path to my EV path but it only works for the current R session. Is there a way to add it permanently? Here is my code: Sys.setenv(PATH=paste("C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre1.6.0_13\\bin;", Sys.getenv(x="PATH"), sep="")) Thanks a lot! -- View this message in

Re: [R] running previous versions of R

2011-07-15 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:58 PM, jstevens wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu - natty. Forgive me if I sound lost, its been just over a > week since I switched over from Windows. I originally installed 2.12 using > the Ubuntu software center, but have now switched to using the terminal. > 2.9.2 was installed

Re: [R] Adding rows based on column value

2011-07-15 Thread Bansal, Vikas
I have tried the aggregate command but it shows this error- vars <- paste('Case', c('A', 'C', 'G', 'T'), sep = '') > vars [1] "CaseA" "CaseC" "CaseG" "CaseT" > aggregate(file[vars], by = df['Pos'], FUN = sum) Error in aggregate.data.frame(file[vars], by = df["Pos"], FUN = sum) : arguments mu

[R] Convert continuous variable into discrete variable

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Haenlein
Dear all, I have a continuous variable that can take on values between 0 and 100, for example: x<-runif(100,0,100) I also have a second variable that defines a series of thresholds, for example: y<-c(3, 4.5, 6, 8) I would like to convert my continuous variable into a discrete one using the thres

Re: [R] Adding rows based on column value

2011-07-15 Thread Bansal, Vikas
I have tried the aggregate command but it shows this error- vars <- paste('Case', c('A', 'C', 'G', 'T'), sep = '') > vars [1] "CaseA" "CaseC" "CaseG" "CaseT" > aggregate(file[vars], by = file['Pos'], FUN = sum) Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : invalid 'type' (character) of argument the thing is

Re: [R] Export Unicode characters from R

2011-07-15 Thread Sverre Stausland
Hi, I'm interested in the suggestion to use writeLines( ..., useBytes=TRUE), but how can I use this function on the way to exporting from R? Could you please provide a simple example? The following suggestion worked very well: > funny.g<- "\u1E21" > rawstuff<- charToRaw(funny.g) > writeBin(rawst

Re: [R] scaling advice

2011-07-15 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 15, 2011, at 23:05 , Data Analytics Corp. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a consultants nightmare -- I was given a project that another > consultant did and I was told to do the same calculations, but there's no > documentation on what he did. Basically, I have yes/no answers to survey > ques

Re: [R] Splitting one column value into multiple rows

2011-07-15 Thread Madana_Babu
Hi, This is working with when i have few lines and when i give those input lines in R window. But i want to apply this function on a variable which is a part of dataset and the data set is very large in size. Any help in this aspect will really help me a lot. Regards, Madana -- View this message

Re: [R] Convert continuous variable into discrete variable

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: x<-runif(100,0,100) u <- cut(x, breaks = c(0, 3, 4.5, 6, 8, Inf), labels = c(1:5)) Based on the x I obtained, > table(u) u 1 2 3 4 5 3 2 1 2 92 cut() or findInterval() are the two basic functions for discretizing a numeric variable. HTH, Dennis On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Mi

Re: [R] scaling advice

2011-07-15 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Data Analytics Corp. wrote: >  But then he apparently rescaled this 44x13 > matrix so that the rows all sum to zero and the columns all sum to zero. >  None of the row and column standard deviations are 1.0.  This I can't see > how to do.  How can I rescale the ro

[R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled

2011-07-15 Thread Yihui Xie
Hi all, I have noticed this problem ever since R changed its static HTML help pages to dynamic help pages: when I reinstall a package and try to view any help page of this package, I always get this error (in the terminal or html page) Error in fetch(key) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1 As

Re: [R] Splitting one column value into multiple rows

2011-07-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Madana_Babu wrote: Hi, This is working with when i have few lines and when i give those input lines in R window. But i want to apply this function on a variable which is a part of dataset and the data set is very large in size. Any help in this aspect will r

Re: [R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled

2011-07-15 Thread Rolf Turner
I can verify that I get exactly the same error (also R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu). No idea what to *do* about it, though. :-( cheers, Rolf Turner On 16/07/11 11:25, Yihui Xie wrote: Hi all, I have noticed this problem ever since R changed its static HTML help pages to dynamic help page

[R] summarized data set - how to use an "occurs" field

2011-07-15 Thread mloxton
I have a data set with 22 fields and several thousand records in which one field (count) indicates the number of times that each specific combination of the other 21 fields occurred in a bigger and largely unavailable data set. So each record is unique in its combination of field values and has a f

Re: [R] Placing eps files from R into Adobe InDesign documents: specifying fontfamily

2011-07-15 Thread watson
Also try using pdf() instead of postscript(). It seems to keep everything happy, and retain higher resolution. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Placing-eps-files-from-R-into-Adobe-InDesign-documents-specifying-fontfamily-tp1012186p3671150.html Sent from the R help ma

[R] Multiple ggplot in a single plot

2011-07-15 Thread hrishi
Hello friends i have to created several ggplots. I have to combine them together to a new plot. any ideas ?? I am new to R. I am attaching a sample plot -- http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3671184/1A2.jpeg Thanks in Advance. -- View this message in context: ht

Re: [R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled

2011-07-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > I can verify that I get exactly the same error (also R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu). > No idea what to *do* about it, though. :-( > You could check if text help works: options(help_type = "text") ?by or help("by", help_type = "text") -- Statisti

Re: [R] barplot question

2011-07-15 Thread Carl Witthoft
Start out with ?barplot Then please tell us what your "issues" are. The barplot function is pretty flexible. If I guess that you are having difficulty simultaneously plotting one set of stacked bars and another set of non-stacked bars next to them, I would recommend two approaches. One

Re: [R] Multiple ggplot in a single plot

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, Here is one option, though this may be a bit tricky for you if you are new. ggplot2 is based on grid graphics, so using grid you can obtain more customization. There may be easier ways and even within grid it may be possible to do more simply than I am demonstrating, I am still finding my fo

Re: [R] summarized data set - how to use an "occurs" field

2011-07-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Your count variable is a frequency associated with a given row of the data set. If you're more specific about what you want and can post a representative sample of (some facsimile of) your data using dput(), the list is likely to be more helpful. See the posting guide linked at the bottom of t

Re: [R] summarized data set - how to use an "occurs" field

2011-07-15 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:10 PM, mloxton wrote: I have a data set with 22 fields and several thousand records in which one field (count) indicates the number of times that each specific combination of the other 21 fields occurred in a bigger and largely unavailable data set. So each record is uniqu

Re: [R] Add permanently environment variable

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Wiley
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Anna Lippel wrote: > Hello everyone, I know how to add a folder path to my EV path but it only > works for the current R session. Is there a way to add it permanently? Here Yes, you can add it permanently using Windows. If you are on Windows 7, something like thi

[R] Z-test

2011-07-15 Thread Bogdan Tanasa
Hi, please could you recommend a R package that computes a 2 sample z-test ? thanks, Bogdan [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guid

Re: [R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled

2011-07-15 Thread Yihui Xie
Unfortunately, no. We can use any package to reproduce this error, e.g. rgl > library(rgl) > options(help_type = "text") > ?rgl.open # works fine > install.packages('rgl') # reinstall it Installing package(s) into ‘/home/yihui/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying

Re: [R] Z-test

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Bogdan, Look at ?pnorm Josh On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Bogdan Tanasa wrote: > Hi, > > please could you recommend a R package that computes a 2 sample z-test ? > > thanks, > > Bogdan > >        [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > __ > R-h

Re: [R] Z-test

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi, The Z is basically: (mean(x) - mean(y))/sqrt(var(x)/length(x) + var(y)/length(y)) and pnorm will give you a p-value, if you desire it. If the n - 1 divisior used in var() is a problem for you, it is trivial to work around: X <- cbind(x, y) XX <- crossprod(X - tcrossprod(matrix(1, nrow(X)))

[R] R sign test for censored data

2011-07-15 Thread Brian Tsai
does anyone know a statistical test implemented in R that can do a sign test for difference of medians, except that can handle censored data? Thanks! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch