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Hi, I have two tables and I need to merge both. I use the merge command, but in this way the name must be exactly. How I can make to compare independently of upper or lower-case? Look: data1<-data.frame(journal=c("Ecology","Environmental Entomology","Neotropical Biology And Conservation")) data2<-data.frame(journal=c("Ecology","Environmental Entomology","Neotropical Biology and Conservation","Sociobiology"),qualis=c("A1","A2","B1","B5")) merg...

...s) but the results are stored in dr[[i]] and not dr[i], i.e. plot(dr[[1]]) works, but plot([1]) doesn't. Is there any way that I can store them in dr[i]? Thanks a lot, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

...ted our manuscript published requires the figures as a tiff, eps or PowerPoint formated. I tried converting .jpeg files to these formats but it looses its quality both on the screen and on paper. Could some one please help. Thanks in advance, ____________________ Sivakumar Mohandass, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...uot;AlfCor" or "AlfalfaCorn" automatically not manually. In excel, I found the function combining two texts in individual columns using (=A1&B1, if you want to combine texts in the two cells.). Thank you very much in advance! Steve Hong 437 RUSSELL LAB. 1630 LINDEN DR. ENTOMOLOGY DEPT. MADISON, WI, 53706 Tel: 608-263-0964 Fax: 608-262-3322

...s of sim and year over run. I can use split(npl, npl$sim) to split npl into different groups each containing the entries for one parameterset - but where to go from there? Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

...csv files, read.delim, etc. None seem to work. Am I being really silly, and if so, how do you do it? Or is there an easier way to get data into the mac port? Or is the mac port entirely useless? Can anyone out there help? Thanks Hamish McCallum -- Dr Hamish McCallum Department of Zoology and Entomology The University of Queensland Brisbane 4072 Australia Phone (+617) 3365 2450 Fax (+617) 3365 1655

Is there a native factorial function in R [my searches have been fruitless], or do I need to use gamma() function? ********************************************************************* Dr Peter Caley CSIRO Entomology GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601 Email: peter.caley@csiro.au Ph: +61 (0)2 6246 4076 Fax: +61 (0)2 6246 4000 ********************************************************************* [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

...y to compare the slopes of lm() which are based on different datasets and what is the easiest way to do it for this large number of datasets? Thanks in advance for your help, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

Hi is it possible to specify the shape of the point to be used in ggplot (as with pch in plot)? I couldn't find anything in the help. Thanks Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 (w) Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

.... Suggestions? I'm fairly new to R and could use some detailed instructions. Working on Mac OSx 10.8.2 Thanks! -- Alicia Ellis Postdoc Gund Institute for Ecological Economics University of Vermont 617 Main Street Burlington, VT 05405 (802) 656-1046 http://www.uvm.edu/~aellis5/ <http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/scott/aellis/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...] 47 attr(,"df") [1] 7 attr(,"class") [1] "logLik" I thought the same would have held for nls() objects. > -----Original Message----- > From: Adaikalavan Ramasamy [mailto:ramasamy at cancer.org.uk] > Sent: Friday, 16 July 2004 1:14 PM > To: Caley, Peter (Entomology, Black Mountain) > Cc: R-help > Subject: Re: [R] Does AIC() applied to a nls() object use the > correctnumber of estimated parameters? > > > I do not know anything about nls(), so apologies if I get it > completely wrong. help("AIC") says that AIC is defined to be...

...to a nls() object, AIC() doesn't include the estimate of residual error in the number of estimated parameters ... or is my understanding of nls() fitting confused. Any help appreciated. cheers Peter ********************************************************************* Dr Peter Caley CSIRO Entomology GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601 Email: peter.caley at csiro.au Ph: +61 (0)2 6246 4076 Fax: +61 (0)2 6246 4000

...ut rather the text sorting of the factor npl.agg$year Is there any way that I can 'defactor' npl.agg$year so that I have again the numerical values for year? Thanks Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

...function(df) try( summary( lm(distance ~ generation, data=df))$coefficients[3], silent=TRUE ) ) ) -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

...SS to be used with R? even M-x S tells me it can't start S-Plus - obviously - but I want it to start R... Any help welcome (otherwise I will be stuck with Eclipse and R) Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

...to use for a spatial-time spline smoothing. Has anybody an idea how to solve a problem like this or that know some paper that can be useful for this pourpose? Thank you in advance Andrea -------------------------------------------- Andrea Aimi Department of Agriculture and Forestry Institute of Entomology Padua - Italy e-mail: aimi.andrea@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...> imp[lemented, and if yes, how can I access it? Not in the official dillo. > > Thanks a lot for a brilliant lightning fast browser, :-) -- Cheers Jorge.- -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: RKrug at sun.ac.za Rainer at krugs.de

....3509 What I want to do is something like: AICs <- AIC(logLik(f)) and then have all the AICs in the vector AICs. It must be possible or is this again a namespace issue? Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa

...on Does anyone have any ideas for me why I get these error messages and what I should do to overcome this challenge? Thank you in advance Rob Guldemond ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Research Scientist Conservation Ecology Research Unit Department of Zoology and Entomology University of Pretoria Pretoria 0002 South Africa tel: (+27) 12 420 3231 fax: (+27) 12 420 4523 cell: (+27) 83 770 9694 rguldemond@zoology.up.ac.za <http://www.ceru.up.ac.za> http://www.ceru.up.ac.za ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...could offer some guidance on what constitutes a good / very good / bad / very bad r-squared value for random forest it would be most appreciated and if there are any other accuracy measure that can be used with Random Forest in addition to the pseudo r^2 value? as this work will be presented to an entomology/ecology audience where machine learning is a bit outside their (and my) statistics comfort zone. Many thanks in advance Lara lara.harrup@bbsrc.ac.uk [[alternative HTML version deleted]]