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Dear All, I recently got a 64bit machine and had netcdf-3.6.2 installed. Then I tried to install ncdf package but got the following error message when using netcdflib: gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/ljin/share/R-2.6.1/include -I/home/ljin/share/R-2.6.1/include -I. -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c ncdf2.c -o ncdf2.o gcc -std=gnu99 -I/home/ljin/share/R-2.6.1/include -I/home/ljin/share/R-2.6.1/include -I. -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c ncdf3.c -o ncdf3.o ncdf3.c: In function 'R_n...

Hi all, I have two data frames to merge by a column containing the site names (as characters). However, somehow, one of the site names of one data frame have fixed length, say 8, so the names sometimes have spaces at the end. For example, the site name is "ST", but in one data frame, it is "ST ". Therefore, the merge function won't recognize that "ST"

Hi I am just starting to look at R and trading in futures, stock, etc Can anyone point me to useful background material?

Hi all, I am also looking for interesting statistical experiments about testing and estimating CAPM, APT, Fama models, etc. using R using financial series data... please give me some pointers... I have been searching the R archives for the past a few hours and I vaguely got to know that there are programs do these interesting statistical things, but I just could not find where are they... I have

Hi all, Does anybody know the easiest way to import excel data into R? I copied and pasted the excel data into a txt file, and tried read.table, but R reported that Error in read.table("data_support.txt", sep = " ", header = T) : more columns than column names Thanks! Ling

Hi All, I have two time series, each has length 354. I tried to calculate the coherency^2 between them, but the value I got is always 1. On a website, it says: " Note that if the ensemble averaging were to be omitted, the coherency (squared) would be 1, independent of the data". Does any of you know how to specify properly in R in order to get more useful coherency? The examples in