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Hello all, I discovered that the pdf device uses fonts to represent "points" symbols (as in plot(...,type="p",...) ). Namely it uses ZapfDingbats with symbol U+25cf. This can lead to problems when the font is not available, or available in another version (such as points being replaced by other symbols, or worst: slightly displaced). Furthermore, it also causes

The function wtd.var(x,w) in Hmisc calculates the weighted variance of x where w are the weights. It appears to me that wtd.var(x,w) = var(x) if all of the weights are equal, but this does not appear to be the case. Can someone point out to me where I am going wrong here? Thanks. Tom La Bone [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi everyone, Hi ggplot users in particular, ggplot makes it very easy to plot things given their names when you use it interactively (and therefore can provide the names of the columns). qplot(x,foo,data=A) where A has columns (x,y,foo,bar) for example but I would like to use this from inside a function to which the name of the column is given. I cannot find an elegant way to make this

Hello everyone, I am (happily) using ggplot2 for all my plotting now and I wondered is there is an easy way to specify xlim and ylim somewhere when using the ggplot syntax, as opposed to the qplot syntax. Eg. qplot(data=mtcars,y=wt, x=qsec,xlim=c(0,30)) <-> ggplot(mtcars, aes(y=wt, x=qsec)) + geom_point() + ??? Indeed the ggplot syntax is in general more flexible and powerful and

Hello everybody, This is probably a classic but I cannot find an answer to this on the mailing list (i.e. with a google search restricted to the mailing list archive). Setting: par(new=T) plot(x,y) works but plot(x,y,new=T) doesn't while it is said in plot's help that ... arguments are passed to par. What am I missing? JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

Hello everyone, A recent (in 2.5 I suspect) change in R is giving me trouble. I want to apply a function (tolower) to all the columns of a data.frame and get a data.frame in return. Currently, on a data.frame, both apply (for arrays) and lapply (for lists) work, but each returns its native class (resp. matrix and list): apply(mydat,2,tolower) # gives a matrix lapply(mydat,tolower) # gives

Dear Lists, At several stations distributed regularly in space[1], we sampled repeatedly (4 times) the abundance of organisms and measured environmental parameters. I now want to compare the spatial distribution of various species (and test wether they differ or not), or to compare the distribution of a particular organism with the distribution of some environmental variable.

Dear List, I am trying to get R's terminal output to a file and to the terminal at the same time, so that I can walk through some tests and keep a log concurrently. The function 'sink' with the option split=TRUE seems to do just that. It works fine for most output but for objects of class htest, the terminal output is incomplete (the lines are there but empty). Here is an

Hello, I am facing a problem with lapply which I ''''think''' may be a bug. This is the most basic function in which I can reproduce it: myfun <- function() { foo = data.frame(1:10,10:1) foos = list(foo) fooCollumn=2 cFoo = lapply(foos,subset,select=fooCollumn) return(cFoo) } I am building a list of dataframes, in each of which I want to keep only column

Dear useRs, Why are the rotated blue and yellow boxes in the example below clipped outside of 6 x 6 inch window in the middle of the page?? Where does the 6 x 6 inch window come from? I would like to make use of the entire page. > library(grid) > pdf(file = "FarmMaps.pdf", paper = "a4") > pushViewport(viewport( + width = unit(7.6, "inches"), height =

Hello everyone, I have two data.frames that look like calib: place zoom scale left 0.65 8 left 0.80 5.6 left 1.20 3 right 0.65 8.4 right 0.80 6 right 1.20 2.9 X: ... place zoom .... ... left 0.80 .... ... left 1.20 .... ... right 0.65 .... ... NA NA .... ... right 0.8 .... ... left 1.20 .... and I want to get the corresponding values of 'scale' in a new column

Hello everyone (and Hadley in particular), I often need to plot data from multiple datasets on the same graph. A common example is when mapping some values: I want to plot the underlying map and then add the points. I currently do it with base graphics, by recording the maximum region in which my map+point will fit, plotting both with these xlim and ylim parameters, adding par (new=T)

I'm interested in easing my way into learning VIM by first using the Cream text editor, liking the idea that it will work on both my Linux and Windows computers. I've installed Cream on my Linux machine, but can't figure out how to make Cream talk to R? Does anybody know? I'm using Ubuntu if it makes a difference. Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Hello eveybody, I am studying the vertical distribution of plankton and want to study its variations relatively to several factors (time of day, species, water column structure etc.). So my data is special in that, at each sampling site (each observation), I don't have *one* number, I have *several* numbers (abundance of organisms in each depth bin, I sample 5 depth bins) which

Hello all, I am sure I am missing something obvious but I cannot find the function I am looking for. I have a data frame with three columns: X, Y and Z, with X and Y being grid coordinates and Z the value associated with these coordinates. I want to transform this data frame in a matrix of Z values, on the grid defined by X and Y (and, as a plus, fill the X.Y combinations which do no

Hi everyone, Hi Hadley, I am a heavy user of coord_equal() in ggplot2 since most of my data is spatial, on x,y coordinates. Everything works. However by enforcing an aspect ratio of 1 for the plotting region, coord_equal() usually wastes a lot of space if the region of interest is not a perfect square. For example: x=runif(10) a=data.frame(x=x*3,y=x) ggplot(data=a, aes(x=x,y=y)) +

In an implied call to an S3 print method, deparse(substitute(x)) returns "x", regardless of the name of object in .GlobalEnv, as indicated in the following: > Xnamed <- 1 > class(Xnamed) <- 'name.x' > print.name.x <- function(x, ...){ + namex <- deparse(substitute(x)) + cat('How can I get the name of x in .GlobalEnv?\n', +

Dear all I want to display 4 dimensional space by some suitable way. I searched CRAN and found miscellaneous 3 dim graphics packages which I maybe can modify but anyway I am open to any hint how to efficiently display data like: longitude, latitude, height, value Thank you Petr Pikal petr.pikal at precheza.cz

I have a problem where I have two columns of data that I can simply plot using: plot(wV[0:15,3],wY[0:15,3]). This produces my desired plot. Now, say I have a third variable that I would like to introduce and use that variable to set different colors in the plot In this case, say I wanted values greater than 0 to be "blue" and values less than 0 to be "red" Basically, my

Hi, I read the posts for 2 hours and ?list and tried many comninations but I haven't found the answer to this basic question. So I decided to post my question even if it is a silly one ... What is the instruction to retrieve, for example, the "D" of the first list ? Thanks in advance, Ptit Bleu. > x<-list(LETTERS[1:5], LETTERS[10:20]) > x [[1]] [1] "A"