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Hello, Before I consider purchasing it, can someone comment on the general applicability of John Chambers' book titled "Programming with Data" for R programming. I am currently using R-1.3.1 with the Omega SLanguage and RSMethod packages. Many thanks, Randall -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read

Hi all, I found the web site for R and decided to install it on my freebsd system; however, I have run into 'permission problems' during execution. I do the standard .configure, make, make check, make install and install into the default location of /usr/local/... but when a normal user attempts to run 'R' I get the following: --- [tulip ~]% R R : Copyright 2001, The R

Hi all, I am writing relatively large data files from some simulation code that runs on a variety of different platforms. I just migrated from my own (broken) file format that was not particularly platform independent to the XDR format. Is it possible to read these XDR files directly into R? Cheers, Randall -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help

Hi all, Thanks to everyone who replied to my change of case question... I doubt I would have ever randomly guessed 'toupper' or 'tolower'. I am trying to be cleaver[1] and make a flexible data structure in R. I have a relatively large quantity of data that can be broadly grouped into blocks/chunks which are identical in their form: blockid = numeric blocktype = string

Hi all, Appologies for the rather basic IO question but I am rather new to R... Migrated from IDL/Matlab recently. I have a rather simple Fortran control file (sigh...) that I am trying to parse and read using R. My problem is that the file's format is somewhat flexible. Imagine: --- 1> 39 1901 2> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 3> 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36

Surely I am confused about something... still. Having read parts of S-programming, MASS, and Programming with Data, I am no closer to understanding how to make a simple vector containing list objects. If I have somehow skipped over a relevant section in these books, please let me know what sections I should have read. This is a simpler case of what I posted on Friday. I am trying to build

This is no doubt trivial but after searching the help files and the web, I cannot seem to find it. 1) How do I convert 'hgt' into 'HGT' in R? 2) How should I have used the help facilities to find this? At the end of the day, all I want to do is case insensitive string matching... i.e. 'if ("HGT" == 'hgt') print('this should be true')' I tried