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...quot;",""),summary(myreg)$coefficients) Neither the statement above, nor any one of twenty variations I have tried work. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the so...{{dropped}}

...the next page? (2) I know that control L will clear the console. Is there an equivalent function or other means that can be used in R code to clear the console? Thanks, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}}

...ber) that minimizes the correlation of y and x^R, i.e. find R such that corr(y,x^R) is minimized. Any suggestions for packages I might look at would be helpful. Thanks, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipie...

...w can I apply a fuction to the columns of a data frame? (I can't covert data5NonEventsEpochs to a matrix as it contains character data). Thank you, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole us...

Hello, I want to find the roots of an equation in two variables. I am aware of the uniroot function, which can do this for a function with a single variable (as I understand it...) but cannot find a function that does this for an equation with more than one variable. I am looking for something implementing similar to a Newton-Raphson algorithm. Thanks. -- Bill Shipley North American Editor for

...I know that `try' can be used to capture errors, but I would like to capture and detect warnings. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, Ravi. ____________________________________________________________________ Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvaradhan at jhmi.edu

...| T=t] which is also a lognormal (parametrized by r). Does this sound right? Are there better/simpler ways to do this? Thanks very much for any hints. Best, Ravi. ------------------------------------------------------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvaradhan@jhmi.edu<mailto:rvaradhan@jhmi.edu> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...read the dates as dates and thus allow me to calculate follow-up time. Thanks John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 410-605-7119 - NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu

...o divide the vector into thirds I would have cut-points of 3, and 6. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 410-605-7119 - NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: jsorkin@grecc.umaryland.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I'm looking for an icon to represent an R package. Perhaps something like http://cdn2.iconfinder.com/data/icons/DarkGlass_Reworked/128x128/apps/package.png but with the R logo rather than KDE. -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street Web:

...obability of selecting 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 20%. Any suggestions for how I might accomplish this? I need to do it very efficiently as I will be doing it 500,000 times. Thanks John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}}

...als' contains character elements, but I would like to obtain the actual numerical values. How can I do this? Thanks very much for any suggestions. Best, Ravi. ------------------------------------------------------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvaradhan@jhmi.edu<mailto:rvaradhan@jhmi.edu> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...Is there a way to incorporate delay in odesolve? Any hints would be much appreciated. Ravi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins University Ph: (410) 502-2619 Fax: (410) 614-9625 Email: rvaradhan@jhmi.edu Webpage: http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty/Varadhan.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- [[alternative HTML version delet...

...fn <- function(data,column) { print(data) data[,"column"] } # work on the "x" column learnfn(data,x) # work on the "y" column learnfn(data,y) John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}}

...more VA Medical Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center;? PI?Biostatistics and Informatics Core, University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Senior Statistician University of Maryland Center for Vascular Research; Division of Gerontology and Paliative Care, 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 Cell phone 443-418-5382

...e data to be used in a simulation of a repeated measures ANOVA given a known (1) within-person correlation with known (2) mean and SD of data obtained at each of three times of observation? Thanks, John John Sorkin Chief Biostatistics and Informatics Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}}

...of a certain class of numerical schemes for iteratively solving linear (and nonlinear) system of equations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins Univerisity Ph: (410) 502-2619 Fax: (410) 614-9625 Email: <mailto:rvaradhan@jhmi.edu> rvaradhan@jhmi.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...sier way? I tried the following but it did not work: result[,"Subject"]==c("JEFF" | "BG" | "John" | "Mary") Thanks, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}}

...n Ops.factor(INTRVNTN, TimePtID) : ?+? not meaningful for factors 2: In Ops.factor(INTRVNTN, TimePtID) : ?*? not meaningful for factors Thank you, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...iton fit1<-lm(y~x+z) Is there a function that will produce a 3-dimensional plot of y,x,z? I looked at the help files, but did not find a clean answer to my question. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the so...{{dropped}}