[R] read.csv error: invalid multibyte string

an readLines handle that character string whereas read.csv cannot? 2. Reading the text connection is slow - it takes ~ 11 seconds to read a file with 11K rows. I edited the file to replace to offending character with "degree". read.csv reads the 11K rows of the new file in a fra

[R] Nonlinear regression aborting due to error

ion would work better, please direct me. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://

Re: [R] Plotting a registered sign

\342") text(1, 1, expression(TEXT)) Clearly, I do not understand the subtleties of plotmath. Could someone explain? 2. How would one learn that \342 corresponds to the copyright sign in the symbol font? (i.e., is there a list of all possible characters) Dennis Fisher MD P < (The

[R] Rotating margin text

for mtext and las does not offer this option. Is there some other means to rotate the text string? Thanks in advance. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com [[a

[R] Plotting a registered sign

R 2.14.0 OS X Colleagues Probably a simple question but it alludes me at the moment. I want to embed a registered sign in the text in a legend. The text would look like: SOMETEXT® with ® superscripted. Thanks in advance. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than&

[R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

t;, axes=F, xlab="", ylab="") mtext(side=3, line=-0, "Some Text") mtext(side=3, line=-1, expression(italic(Some) ~~ Text)) mtext(side=3, line=-2, expression(italic(Some) ~~ italic(Text))) Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLess

[R] Executing a command at interrupt

is not executed. Is there some means in R to execute a final command. .Last does not accomplish this under my set of circumstances. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com [

[R] Lengthy delay in sourcing a large function

perience with this issue? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing li

[R] Startup speed for a lengthy script

There is one major difference in the implementation. With the GUI, the commands are "pushed", i.e., the GUI opens R, then sends a continuous stream of code. Does anyone have any idea as to why the delay should be so different in the two settings? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (T

[R] readLines fails to read entire file

problem by working with the files separately. However, this is not optimal. Is there a work-around that enables me to read this file (and ignore the offending character)? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-77

[R] Odd behavior of remove command

" was not found Warning in remove(list=EachFunction) : variable"function2" was not found Any thoughts as to the problem? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1

[R] Executing a telnet session from R

function. Questions: 1. How do I enter the password into the command? 2. How do I execute the commands on the other machine? 3. Finally, how do I execute the 'logout' command (this should not differ from #2)? Thanks in advance for any help on this. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (Th

[R] strsplit and sapply

This yields: > SPLIT [[1]] [1] "a" [[2]] [1] "bb" "ccc" [[3]] [1] "" "e" "ff" Now I need to access the [1] portions of [[n]] - ("a", "bb", ""). I suspect that sapply is the correct t

[R] Random number generation

st-ls()) sample(1000:, size=1) Also, the same problem occurs if I use runif instead of sample. Thoughts? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com [[alternative HT

[R] recovering "status" after q(status=n) in Windows

vel% is the (undocumented) equivalent of $status (Linux). However, in Windows, the value returned appears to be limited to either 0 (normal exit) or 1 (status set to a non-zero value) despite the claim that "valid values ... [are] 0:255 (as is the case in Linux). Does any one have an exp

[R] Dealing with missing EOL at end of file

are easier approach to the entire problem? 2. Is there any risk in having two EOL characters at the end of the file (i.e., need I test for the presence of EOL at the end of the file or can I append EOL to any file with no potential harm? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than&

[R] proper use of textConnection

= 22000 Sun Oct 12 07:18:04 2008 N lines = 23000 Sun Oct 12 07:19:17 2008 N lines = 24000 Sun Oct 12 07:20:36 2008 N lines = 25000 Sun Oct 12 07:22:02 2008 N lines = 26000 Sun Oct 12 07:23:36 2008 Any clever ideas will be greatly appreciated. Dennis

[R] Calculating confidence limits for the difference between means

rence. I suspect that several participants in this board have implemented code to so this. I hope that someone is willing to share the code. Thanks in advance. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220

[R] identifying what labels have been created in a plot

any suggestions. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEAS

[R] Capturing info from system calls in Windows

, "exit.status"): > [1] 0 As you can see, Windows replies "no input files"; however, that info is not captured in TEST. I presume that this is because standard error is dealt with different in Windows compared to Unix-line platforms. Any thoughts on how to capture standard e

[R] Reading a file created with Fortran

e to understand it). Can anyone advise as to an efficient means to read these data and separate into columns? Thanks. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com [

[R] Unexpected behavior of difftime in relationship to daylight savings time

00", "2008-11-02 01:17:00") > Time difference of 1 mins Not expected: > > difftime("2008-11-02 01:17:00", "2008-11-02 01:16:00") > Time difference of 1.016667 hours Can anyone explain this? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than&

[R] Unexpected behavior of clocktime related to daylight savings time

01:16:00", "2008-11-02 01:15:00") > Time difference of 1 mins > > difftime("2008-11-02 01:18:00", "2008-11-02 01:17:00") > Time difference of 1 mins Not expected: > > difftime("2008-11-02 01:17:00", "2008-11-02 01:16:00") > Time dif

Re: [R] Unexpected behavior of clocktime related to daylight savings time

this an OS issue or an R issue (i.e., my "difftime" commands below appear to show that DST takes effect as 1:16, not 1:100)? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com On Nov 7,

[R] Replacing tabs with appropriate number of spaces

number of spaces (e.g., if the string preceding the tab has 29 characters, add 3 spaces), then paste(..., sep="") However, I am sure a more elegant approach exists. Can anyone offer one? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan

[R] opening a PDF document

quot;) is successful. Is there a comparable command line command for Windows or Linux? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com __ R-help@r-project

[R] Follow-up on "openPDF" command

, PDFFILENAME)) } else invisible() } This version calls other functions that I have written, e.g., UNIX and LINUX, each of which identifies the OS. The SYSTEM command is specific for the OS (e.g., system in OS X and Linux, shell in Windows; intern=T in all cases). If anyone has

[R] Sourcing encrypted files

my goals using something on the command line? Of note, the scripts are not terribly long - 50-200 lines each. Thanks Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.co

[R] Compressing a sequence

R 4.4.0 OS X Colleagues I have a sequence like: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20 I would like to display it as: 1, 3-5, 7-8, 12-15, 20 Any simple ways to accomplish this? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1

Re: [R] Compressing a sequence

paste(x[s], x[e], sep="-")) }, start_idx, end_idx) paste(ranges, collapse=", ") } numbers <- c(1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20) cat("original sequence is:\t\t", numbers, "\n") cat("collapsed text string is:\t", format_range

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