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reorder() is probably the best way to order the levels in a vector without manually specifying the order. But reorder() orders by default in an increasing order: "The levels are ordered such that the values returned by ?FUN? are in increasing order." Is there a way to do what reorder() does, but order the levels according to a _decreasing_ order of the values? Sverre

Dear helpers, I'm trying to replace a character with a unicode code inside a data frame using gsub(), but unsuccessfully. > data.frame(animals=c("dog","wolf","cat"))->my.data > gsub("o","\u0254",my.data$animals)->my.data$animals > my.data$animals [1] "d??g" "w??lf" "cat" It's not that a data

Dear helpers, how can I extract only the values from a row in a data frame? Using [X,] doesn't do the trick: > data.frame(letters[1:10],letters[11:20])->my.data > my.data[1,] letters.1.10. letters.11.20. 1 a k I would like to be able to extract only the values "a" and "k" without getting the row names and column names with them.

Dear helpers, I can create a vector with the priority of the packages that came with R, like this: > installed.packages()[,"Priority"]->my.vector > my.vector base boot class cluster codetools "base" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" "recommended" compiler datasets

Dear helpers, I am not able to export Unicode characters from R. Below is an example where the Unicode character is correctly rendered as long as I am stay within R. When I export it, the character appears only with its basic code, and the same happens when I import it back into R . I'm using R 2.13.1 in Windows XP. > funny.g <- "\u1E21" > funny.g [1] "?" >

As recently discussed on Stack Overflow, R for Mac OS and Ubuntu (so probably all Unix systems) can correctly write files with UTF-8 encoding, but R for Windows cannot: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19877676/write-utf-8-files-from-r I strongly suggest that R for Windows should support this feature in upcoming versions. Sverre

Hi all, I'm extracting the name of the term in a regression model that dropterm specifies as the least significant one, and I'm assigning this name to an object. However, when I use update(), it ignores this object. Is there a way I can make it not ignore it? A reproducible example is below: > lm(x1~1+y1*y2+y3+y4,data=anscombe)->my.lm >

Dear helpers, I'm trying to extract certain rows from a matrix according to the values the rows have in a certain column. I've been googling for a while without result. Here's a reproducible example of a matrix (and the one I was playing with initially): > myrepo<-getOption("repos") >

Dear helpers, I'm trying out the embedFonts() to embed fonts into my pdf files. However, when I inspect the new pdf with a program designed to look for embedded fonts, I see that the fonts have in fact not been embedded. Below are my calls. R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

Dear users, I am attempting to plot an ols() call from the Design package, by following the procedure explained by Harald Baayen in his 2008 book 'Analyzing linguistic data. A practical introduction to statistics using R', page 175-181. I've attached my data to this e-mail (I hope it's small enough that that's ok). First I paste all the commands I ran, followed by the