Re: [R] Is there lazy copy in R?

2009-12-15 Thread Peng Yu
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > 2009/12/15  : >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Peng Yu wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:32 PM, hadley wickham >>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I don't understand what these addresses mean.

[R] What is the fastest way to see what are in an RData file?

2009-12-16 Thread Peng Yu
Currently, I load the RData file then ls() and str(). But loading the file takes too long if the file is big. Most of the time, I only interested what the variables are in the the file and the attributes of the variables (like if it is a data.frame, matrix, what are the colnames/rownames, etc.) I'

Re: [R] What is the fastest way to see what are in an RData file?

2009-12-17 Thread Peng Yu
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Gustaf Rydevik wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> Currently, I load the RData file then ls() and str(). But loading the file >> takes too long if the file is big. Most of the time, I only interested what >&g

Re: [R] What is the fastest way to see what are in an RData file?

2009-12-18 Thread Peng Yu
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Patrick Connolly wrote: > On Thu, 17-Dec-2009 at 03:13PM +1800, Peng Yu wrote: > > |> Currently, I load the RData file then ls() and str(). But loading the file > |> takes too long if the file is big. Most of the time, I only interested what >

[R] Is there a way not to export the functions in the global namespace?

2009-12-18 Thread Peng Yu
Suppose that I 'library()' a package, in the 'NAMESPACE' file of the package, it export some functions to the global namespace. Is there a way to 'library()' the package without export the functions in 'NAMESPACE' to the global namespace? __ R-help@r-pro

Re: [R] What is the fastest way to see what are in an RData file?

2009-12-18 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Gustaf Rydevik wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Gustaf Rydevik >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >>>> >>>> Currently, I load

[R] How to print to file?

2009-12-18 Thread Peng Yu
I don't find a function to print a string to file. Would somebody let me know what function I should use? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-

[R] How to dbReadTable() only a limited number of rows? (RMySQL)

2009-12-24 Thread Peng Yu
I only want to load a limited number of rows by dbReadTable(). I don't see an option in the help. Is there an option to do so? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R

Re: [R] [BioC] How to do RMA without summary to probeset level?

2009-12-26 Thread Peng Yu
, Benilton Carvalho wrote: > pm(data) > > b > > On Dec 26, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> I use the following code to do RMA. I'm wondering how get the probe >> level values before the summary to the probeset level values. >> >> library(oligo

Re: [R] [BioC] make.cdf.package: Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1 Kb

2009-12-28 Thread Peng Yu
ear Peng Yu > > how big is the RAM of your computer? You could try with closing all other > applications before running this script. You could try on a server with more > RAM. > > I tried downloading the file whose URL who give below, but gave up after > some failed rounds with the

[R] How x[, 'colname1'] is implemented?

2009-12-31 Thread Peng Yu
I don't see where describes the implementation of '[]'. For example, if x is a matrix or a data.frame, how the lookup of 'colname1' is x[, 'colname1'] executed. Does R perform a lookup in the a hash of the colnames? Is the reference O(1) or O(n), where n is the second dim of x? __

Re: [R] How x[, 'colname1'] is implemented?

2009-12-31 Thread Peng Yu
z")] Thank you! But this is not what I'm asking. I want to know how R internal resolve which columns to use if I specify the column names rather than the indexes. If R does it by search, the access time should be O(log(n)) where n is the number of columns. If R does it by hash, the

[R] How to not to terminate read.table if the input file is empty?

2010-01-01 Thread Peng Yu
read.table terminates the program if the input file is empty. Is there way to let the program continue and return me a NULL instead of terminating the program? $ Rscript read_empty.R > read.table("empty_data.txt") Error in read.table("empty_data.txt") : no lines available in input Execution halted

Re: [R] How to not to terminate read.table if the input file is empty?

2010-01-01 Thread Peng Yu
] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base > > /Henrik > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >>

Re: [R] How to not to terminate read.table if the input file is empty?

2010-01-01 Thread Peng Yu
> g=try(read.table("data.txt")) > print(g) V1 V2 V3 V4 1 name title1 title2 title3 2 row1 10.1 20.1 30.1 3 row2 12.1 22.1 32.1 > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> read.table terminates the program if the input file is e

Re: [R] How to not to terminate read.table if the input file is

2010-01-01 Thread Peng Yu
Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Ted Harding > wrote: >> >> On 01-Jan-10 20:41:52, Peng Yu wrote: >> > read.table terminates the program if the input file is empty. Is there >> > way to let the program continue and return me a NULL instead of >> > terminating the

Re: [R] How to not to terminate read.table if the input file is empty?

2010-01-01 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Dylan Beaudette > wrote: >> ?try > > This works. Thank you! > >> f=try(read.table("empty_data.txt")) > Error in read.table("empty_data.txt") : no lines availa

[R] Is nested namespace supported?

2010-01-07 Thread Peng Yu
I don't find where in the R document the discussion of nested namespace is. If there is nested namespace supported in R, could somebody let me know whether the document is? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] Is nested namespace supported?

2010-01-07 Thread Peng Yu
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > I don't find where in the R document the discussion of nested > namespace is. If there is nested namespace supported in R, could > somebody let me know whether the document is? Could somebody let me know if there is nested name s

[R] R.oo installation warnings?

2010-01-20 Thread Peng Yu
I got the following warnings when I install R.oo. Are these warnings normal? Should I reinstall the package as mentioned in the warnings? How to reinstall? The sessionInfo() is at the end. > install.packages("R.oo", dependencies=T) Warning in install.packages("R.oo", dependencies = T) : argum

[R] Current R.oo tutorial

2010-01-20 Thread Peng Yu
Apparently, Bengtsson.pdf is not current any more. For example, the installation method is outdated. R.oo.pdf is a reference manual rather than a tutorial. I'm wondering if there is a better and more current R.oo tutorial so that I can quickly get started on R.oo. _

[R] Unclear documentation on 'numeric' and 'integer' (R-lang.pdf)

2010-01-20 Thread Peng Yu
R-lang.pdf has the following description in Section 3.1.1. """ Any number typed directly at the prompt is a constant and is evaluated. > 1 [1] 1 Perhaps unexpectedly, the number returned from the expression 1 is a numeric. In most cases, the difference between an integer and a numeric value will b

[R] Why are there typeof(), mode() and storage.mode()?

2010-01-20 Thread Peng Yu
According to R-lang.pdf (Section 2): Function mode gives information about the mode of an object in the sense of Becker, Chambers & Wilks (1988), and is more compatible with other implementations of the S language. Finally, the function storage.mode returns the storage mode of its argument in the

[R] S3 tutorial

2010-01-20 Thread Peng Yu
I don't find a tutorial on S3. "Bengtsson.pdf" cites MASS (1999 edition). However, I don't think that MASS (2002 edition) clearly explain what S3 is and help a user who knew very little about S3 to quickly understand it. Could somebody let me know if there are some better learning materials to help

Re: [R] S3 tutorial

2010-01-20 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > I don't find a tutorial on S3. "Bengtsson.pdf" cites MASS (1999 > edition). However, I don't think that MASS (2002 edition) clearly > explain what S3 is and help a user who knew very little about S3 to > quickly u

Re: [R] S3 tutorial

2010-01-20 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> I don't find a tutorial on S3. "Bengtsson.pdf" cites MASS (1999 >>> edition)

[R] What is the difference between S and R?

2010-01-21 Thread Peng Yu
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Giovanni Petris wrote: > > I have found a good refernce to be "S Programming" by Venables and > Ripley. I'll take a look at this book. Since S and R are not completely the same, there are delicate differences between S and R, which an S book may be confusing if I

[R] Anova unequal variance

2010-01-21 Thread Peng Yu
I found this paper on ANOVA on unequal error variance. Has this be incorporated to any R package? Is there any textbook that discuss the problem of ANOVA on unequal error variance in general? http://www.jstor.org/stable/2532947?cookieSet=1 __ R-help@r-p

Re: [R] Anova unequal variance

2010-01-21 Thread Peng Yu
ost introductory material that I should start with, if I want to understand the method? Do you have any simple explanation that may help me understand what is the difference between the method in 'Exact Statistical Methods for Data Analysis' and the method in gls()? > HTH, > De

Re: [R] Anova unequal variance

2010-01-21 Thread Peng Yu
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Dennis Murphy wrote: > Hi: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Dennis Murphy wrote: >> > Hi: >> > >> > This paper was a prelude to his first book '

[R] How to write '"' to a csv with the default setting of write.csv?

2010-01-21 Thread Peng Yu
Please see the following example. I can not write '"' to a csv file successfully. Could somebody let me if it is possible to write '"' to a csv file with the default setting of write.csv? my_home$ Rscript main_quote.R > x=rbind( + "\"A\"" + , "\"B\"" + ) > x [,1] [1,] "\"A\"" [2,] "\"B\

Re: [R] How to write '"' to a csv with the default setting of write.csv?

2010-01-21 Thread Peng Yu
e quote=T. I have looking for a way so that the resulted csv file can be read by excel. http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm#FileFormat > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> Please see the following example. I can not write '"' to

Re: [R] Anova unequal variance

2010-01-22 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dennis Murphy wrote: > Hi: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Dennis Murphy wrote: >> > Hi: >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >

[R] Is there a way to make blocks of code independent from each other?

2010-01-31 Thread Peng Yu
I'm wondering if there is a way to make blocks of code independent from each other. Please see the following example for what I mean. x=1 ## is there a way to make the following assignment not affect the above x? ## in C++, I can use {} to make the effect local. Is there an equivalent construct i

[R] How to globally enable warning messages or stop the program if NA is encountered?

2010-01-31 Thread Peng Yu
By default, my R functions run silently if NA is encountered? I would like them to give me some message when NA is encountered by default. Note that I could check each intermediate variable by something like is.na(). But this is not manageable for big programs, so I'd like a way to check NA global

[R] Recommendations on nonparametric statistical inference textbooks

2010-02-01 Thread Peng Yu
Could somebody recommend some good nonparametric statistical inference textbooks for a beginner? And what are pros and cons of each book? Nonparametric statistical methods by Hollander seems to be more difficult for a beginner, but is great as a reference, right? Are there any books that are easie

Re: [R] population variance and sample variance

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Kingsford Jones wrote: >> sum((x-mean(x))^2)/(n) > [1] 0.4894708 >> ((n-1)/n) * var(x) > [1] 0.4894708 But this is not a built-in function in R to do so, right? > hth, > Kingsford > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Peng Y

[R] What are Type II or III contrast? (contrast() in contrast package)

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
?contrast in the contrast package gives me the following description. However, I have no idea what Type II and III contrasts are. Could somebody explain it to me? And what does 'type' mean here? *‘type’*: set ‘type="average"’ to average the individual contrasts (e.g., to obtain a Type II o

[R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
It seems that Eq (2) in the vignettes for the 'contrast' packages is not correct. That is, the numerator on the right hand side should be $c' \beta$ rather than $c' \lambda$, right? If I'm correct, could somebody notice the author to fix it? __ R-help@r-

[R] How to show the definition of a S3 function?

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
> library(contrast) > contrast function (fit, ...) UseMethod("contrast") I guess the above function is S3. Could somebody let me know how to show the function body in an R session? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listi

Re: [R] How to show the definition of a S3 function?

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
contrast.geese contrast.glscontrast.lm [5] contrast.lme > methods("contrast.lm") no methods were found Warning message: In methods("contrast.lm") : function 'contrast.lm' appears not to be generic > contrast.lm function (fit, ...) contrastCalc(fit, ...)

[R] contrast package tutorial

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
I read the vignette of contrast package. I don't think that I understand how to use it. I made the following simpler example (contrast between '3' and '4'). Could somebody let me know what is the correct way to compute the contrast in the following example? library(contrast) a=3 n=4 A = as.v

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:04 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> It seems that Eq (2) in the vignettes for the 'contrast' packages is >> not correct. That is, the numerator on the right hand side should be >> $c&#x

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

2010-02-02 Thread Peng Yu
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:14 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:04 PM, David Winsemius >> wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>>> It se

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:14 PM, David Winsemius >> wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>>> On Tu

Re: [R] What are Type II or III contrast? (contrast() in contrast package)

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 00:01 -0500, David Winsemius a écrit : >> On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:38 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> > ?contrast in the contrast package gives me the following description. >> > How

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:41 AM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM, David Winsemius >> wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>>> On Tu

Re: [R] How to export the examples in help(something) to a file?

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > Some examples in the help page are too long to be copied from screen. > Could somebody let me know some easy way on how to extract the example > to a file so that I can play with them? I forget to mention. I use a terminal ver

[R] How to export the examples in help(something) to a file?

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
Some examples in the help page are too long to be copied from screen. Could somebody let me know some easy way on how to extract the example to a file so that I can play with them? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinf

[R] How to flatten a tree (based on list) to a certain depth?

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
Suppose that I have the following list of lists of frames 'root' (let's call it a 'tree' of frames). I want to flatten it to be a list of frames. However, if I unlist(root), it will flatten the frames as well. Is there a simply way to flatten the tree to certain depth? aframe1=data.frame(x=1:3,y=1

Re: [R] How to flatten a tree (based on list) to a certain depth?

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> Suppose that I have the following list of lists of frames 'root' >> (let's call it a 'tree' of frames). I want to flatten it to be

Re: [R] How to flatten a tree (based on list) to a certain depth?

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
. > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Peng Yu > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:20 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] How to flatten a tree (based on list) to a certain depth? > >

Re: [R] How to flatten a tree (based on list) to a certain depth?

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Peng Yu > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:40 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] How to flatten a tree (based on list) to a certain depth? > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Bert Gunt

[R] Can not p.adjust on the conservative analysis.

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
Hi Chad, There are not many significant transcript clusters after p.adjust. > sum(adjusted_pvalue[,'C-D']<.05) [1] 0 > sum(adjusted_pvalue[,'A-D']<.05) [1] 0 > sum(adjusted_pvalue[,'D-E']<.05) [1] 2 > sum(adjusted_pvalue[,'A-B']<.05) [1] 8 However, there are may TCs that are significant before p

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Max Kuhn wrote: > Wait, what were we talking about? Right...it is a typo. It should be > c'beta in the numerator. > > Peng: As the package maintainer, you really should send me a quick > email about it instead of posting to the list. > > Let's not waste the bandwidt

[R] Jankowsky conservative analysis

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
pe...@morgan:~/projects/APP_Hippo_Exon_Jankowsky/analysis/pvalue_contrast_table.RData __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provi

Re: [R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:53 PM, David Scott wrote: > Peng Yu wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Max Kuhn wrote: >>> >>> Wait, what were we talking about? Right...it is a typo. It should be >>> c'beta in the numerator. >>> >>

[R] Change point analysis package bcp() reference?

2010-02-03 Thread Peng Yu
bcp()'s help says it implements the paper by Barry and Hartigan (1993). But it has 4 other citations which are later than 1993. Could somebody who have experience on this function let me know why these 4 later citations matters to this particular function? Or these citations are just for the topic

Re: [R] population variance and sample variance

2010-02-04 Thread Peng Yu
iki/Variance#Population_variance_and_sample_variance. After all, many none pure statisticians relies on wiki for easy access of some simple terms. >> -Original Message- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- >> project.org] On Behalf Of Ista Zahn

Re: [R] How to export the examples in help(something) to a file?

2010-02-04 Thread Peng Yu
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Liaw, Andy wrote: >> From: Peng Yu >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> > Some examples in the help page are too long to be copied >>&g

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