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I'm able to do this as follows, but am wondering if anyone knows a simpler way which still avoids explicit loops? > (mystring <- letters[1:5]) [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" > unlist(sapply(mystring[-length(mystring)], + function(x) paste(x,mystring[(grep(x,mystring)+1):length(mystring)],sep=""))) a1 a2 a3

Hi STATISTICA has a function called "Two-way joining" (see http://www.statsoft.com/TEXTBOOK/stcluan.html#twotwo) and the reference material states that this is based on the method as published by Hartigan (found this paper: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2284710 through wikipedia). What is the relationship (if any) between the "heatmap" function in R and this technique? Is there an

Why does debug() enter Browse[3] here at all, and why does it happen the first time and not the second? This seems unexpected to me, and has undesirable effects for ESS users (that I reported here - https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2013-June/009154.html - but just realized my post to r-devel didn't make it through when I tried to report it back then). > Fun <- function(n)

Can someone recommend a more sophisticated way to annotate heatmaps than the ColSideColors argument of heatmap and heatmap.2? In particular, I would like to be able to annotate columns with more than one piece of information, like in Figure 1 of the article at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/117905619/HTMLSTART / doi:10.1002/hep.22256. Some example data and a heatmap:

For example, subtracting 1:2 from the rows of a two-column matrix: > t(apply(matrix(1:6,ncol=2),MARGIN=1,function(y) y - 1:2)) [,1] [,2] [1,] 0 2 [2,] 1 3 [3,] 2 4 > sweep(matrix(1:6,ncol=2),MARGIN=2,1:2,FUN="-") [,1] [,2] [1,] 0 2 [2,] 1 3 [3,] 2 4 Is there a logic to this difference, or is it just a quirk of the history of these

The order() function allows you to specify multiple vectors, which are used successively to break ties. If I want to use many vectors to break ties (say, 25 or more), that are columns of a matrix or elements of a list, does anyone know a shortcut to do this without passing 25 arguments to order()? -- Levi Waldron post-doctoral fellow Jurisica Lab, Ontario Cancer Institute Division of Signaling

I would like to draw horizontal or vertical lines on a heatmap to highlight the clusters at some specified cut depth of the dendrogram. As a hacked example, the following code would work if I could set the coordinates of the top and bottom of the false color image correctly (ymin and ymax), but the correct values seem to depend on the output device and its size. I realize that heatmaps use a 2x2

How can I look up the aspect ratio of a plot, so I can use that to correctly adjust the angle of text which is supposed to be parallel to a line in the plot? The following example code works for a 1:1 aspect ratio, but puts the text at the wrong angle if the plot region is short and wide or tall and narrow. I can't find a par() component containing the plot aspect ratio. It will be for