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2006 May 31
2
R search plug-in
...have written an R search plug-in based on Prof Jonathan Baron's R search site. This Firefox/Netscape plug-in lets you search R sites and R discussion group archives directly from your Mozilla (Seamonkey) or Firefox or Netscape browser. Here is the link to the installer for the plug-in: http://arinbasu.bravehost.com/installer.html If you want the source files or have other comments to share, kindly send me a note off-list. Best wishes, Arin Basu __________________________ Stops spam 100% for your email accounts or you get paid. http://www.cashette.com
2004 Oct 25
2
Intro to R: lecture presentation
...cture on R to a group of academicians in Kolkata. I thank all of you who had generously guided me in providing me web links and words to the wise. Time to give back. I did the presentation on introduction to R and uploaded the presentation files at the following site: http://www.aloofhosting.com/arinbasu/Rtutorial/Rintroweb_files/frame.htm A shortened form of url is here (easy for cutting and pasting): http://tinyurl.com/3zsr6 Would greatly appreciate your feedbacks/opinions/advices on errors/omissions. /Arin Basu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
2004 Oct 25
2
Revision: post on Intro to R lecture
...uter, so no way of knowing whether it works), and please let me know. Also, made some changes and reformatted the original slides to make them other browser compatible, thanks to comments from Gabor Grothendiek, Stuart Lesk, and Sundar Dorai-Raj. Here is the URL again: http://www.aloofhosting.com/arinbasu/Rintroweb.htm /Arin Basu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
2004 Apr 26
0
AW: Looking for help in calculating percentiles
Type e.g.: quantile(x,0.1) or Quantile(x,0.8) Which calculates the 10th and 80th quantile Matthias Templ -----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht----- Von: arinbasu at softhome.net [mailto:arinbasu at softhome.net] Gesendet: Montag, 26. April 2004 09:29 An: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Betreff: [R] Looking for help in calculating percentiles Hi All: I am working with a dataset on Arsenic toxicity, and I am trying to calculate the 20th, 40th, 60th, 80th, a...
2003 Aug 22
2
"subscript out of range" message
Hi All: I was recently working with a dataset on arsenic poisoning. Among the variables in the dataset, I used the following three variables to produce crosstabulations (variable names: FOLSTAT, GENDER, ASBIN; all three were categorical variables, FOLSTAT denoted follow up status for the subjects and had seven levels, GENDER denoted sex (two levels: male,female), and ASBIN denoted binarized
2003 Dec 14
3
Problem with data conversion
Hi All: I came across the following problem while working with a dataset, and wondered if there could be a solution I sought here. My dataset consists of information on 402 individuals with the followng five variables (age,sex, status = a binary variable with levels "case" or "control", mma, dma). During data check, I found that in the raw data, the data entry
2003 Sep 08
1
problems with categorical variables
Hi All: I am working on a dataset of a study on healthcare workers. One of the variables I am studying is a categorical variable (variable name:EDUC, indicates educational achievement, with 6 levels: "illiterate", "primary", "junior high school", "high school completed", "undergraduate", and "postgraduate"). I want to collapse the
2004 Apr 26
2
Looking for help in calculating percentiles
Hi All: I am working with a dataset on Arsenic toxicity, and I am trying to calculate the 20th, 40th, 60th, 80th, and highest percentiles for a variable, dietary Moisture (variable name dMoist). The inbuilt function quantile(dMoist) would print 0, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 100th percentile. Does there exist a function that can calculate xth percentile (where x = 10th, 20th, ... etc) values?
2004 May 07
1
Bluefish Editor with R
Dear List: Somewhere in the R-Statistical Software website, I remember having read about using the opensource Bluefish editor with R. During a recent visit to the site, I could not find the link or reference. Also, when I searched the list archives (http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/about.html) for "bluefish", the search returned no result. Has anyone in the list used
2006 Sep 11
1
Comparison of R with proprietary software
Hi All: Recently, I got a query how R compared cost-wise (cost of purchase, maintenance, and training manuals) with other proprietary statistical software programs (or programming environments). The request, verbatim: <--- begin quote ----> >> dear arin, >> >> can you please find out the price of the various >> prop. statistical >> packages that are in
2006 Jun 08
2
Query about building R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu
Hi All: Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available for the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu, are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a tutorial available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd not locate an appropriate file. TIA, Arin Basu
2004 May 31
1
problems with quantreg installation
Hi All: I tried to download and install "quantreg" (a package for doing quantile regression) from CRAN. When I ran install.packages ("quantreg") within an R session, I got the following error message: <----Beginning of error message ---> * Installing *source* package 'quantreg' ... ** libs g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -c akj.f
2004 Jun 13
0
MCMC tutorials
Hi Ajay: A casual search of google using terms like "MCMC", "Markov Chains", "Monte Carlo", and "tutorial" pulled up over 4000 hits. A few links that may interest you, I thought, like: http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/CSEP/MC/MC.html http://www.stat.fi/isi99/proceedings/arkisto/varasto/gree0167.pdf http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/Sahu/utrecht/ ... and so
2006 Sep 13
0
Of fixed column format (and more fixed mindsets)
> > Message: 107 > Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:25:09 -0400 > From: Michael Kubovy <kubovy at virginia.edu> > Subject: Re: [R] Reading fixed column format > To: Anupam Tyagi <AnupTyagi at yahoo.com> > Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Message-ID: <3EBEC9D3-559C-4607-838D-46042D36A3AA at virginia.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;
2006 Sep 02
2
Cuzick's test for trend
Hi All: I was looking for, but could not locate in the packages, or in the R archive searches if there exists an R implementation of Cuzick's test of trend. The test is described as follows: An extension of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test is developed to handle the situation in which a variable is measured for individuals in three or more (ordered) groups and a non-parametric test for trend