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I am trying to simulate a series of ones and zeros (1 or 0) and I am using "rbinom" but realizing that the number of successes expected is not accurate. Any advice out there. This is the example: N<-500 status<-rbinom(N, 1, prob = 0.15) count<-sum(status) 15 percent of 500 should be 75 but what I obtain from the "count" variable is 77 that gives the probability of

Hi friends, I need suggestions/directions on how to producing a waterfall plot for present extend of change in tumour size for a set of respondents in a study.  Example of use of waterfall plot is in the following slides presented at ASCO 2007 by Axel Grothey. Link is

R has wonderful graphics but I am wondering whether there is anything in R to provide customization of tables like PROC Report does in SAS. A Smile costs Nothing      But Rewards Everything Happiness is not perfected until it is shared                                                               -Jane Porter   [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am new to more radical programming in R. I am trying to write a nested 'for' loop to produce output that takes subscripts like: for i taking values 1,2,3,4,5 and j taking values 1,2,3 I want to output for a computation using the combination values of i and j a value x like this; i j x 1 1 x11 1 2 x12 1 3 x13 2 1 x21 2 2 x22 2 3 x23 3 1 x31 3 2 x32

I am trying to define groupings from levels of factor variables and this the warning message that R give "& not meaningful for factors". The nature of my task is this. I have a variable stage which has the levels (1B, 2A, 2B) - these are the AJCC TNM stages of cancer, and another variable diameter with factor levels ("=< 4", "4 - 6.5, > 6.5; limit values are