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Hi everyone, I have a certain number of samples and I want to visualize the groups those samples belong to. For example, suppose to have three variables, age, sex, and smoker/nonsmoker, and three samples, S1, S2, S3. S1 is 35, male, nonsmoker S2 is 24, female, nonsmoker S3 is 24, female, smoker at the end I have the following data frame: S1 S2 S3 age 35 24 30 sex M F F smk N N S What I

Given a function that calls itself, what's the best way to detect the entry point? The best I came up with is: IsEntryPoint <- function(){ par <- sys.call(-1L)[[1]] grandpar <- sys.call(-2L)[[1]] !identical(par, grandpar) } but this won't work for functions that don't directly call themselves; for example, in this one the paste gets inserted in the

Let's say you have a dataframe of car trade-ins. For example, each row contains oldcar newcar qty and a typical entry could be lexus bmw 1 I put the qty column to allow for fleet purchases, where one purchase may convert multiple cars at once. I'd like to show what's going on. I could do a histogram of newcar to show the frequency each type of car is bought. If there

Dear R-help, First of all, thank you VERY much for any help you have time to offer. I greatly appreciate it. I would like to write a function that, given an arbitrary number of factors from a data frame, tabulates the number of occurrences of each unique combination of the factors. Cleary, this works: > table(horse,date,surface) <SNIP> , , surface = TURF