similar to: paste(" /" ") and paste(" /' ")

I've found where the problem was and a way to solve this problem: One dataset was encoded (and read) as UTF-8 and the other one was encoded (en read) as latin3 In this case, even if at the terminal you see the same characters, R states that the two elements are not equal. Don't know if this is the way it has to be, or this is a bug. Anyway, editing the second file (encoded as latin3)

Given: > mitest <- matrix(1:16,ncol=4) > dimnames(mitest)[[1]] <- c("a","b","c","d") > dimnames(mitest)[[2]] <- c("a","b","c","d") > mitest a b c d a 1 5 9 13 b 2 6 10 14 c 3 7 11 15 d 4 8 12 16 I can do: > mitest[cbind(c(1,2,3),c(2,3,2))] [1] 5 10 7 but using the names does not

Hi! Is there any way of having a greyed ("ghosted") text (i.e, 2006) in the background of a plot? I'm making a dynamic plot and would like to show the year of each time step as a big greyed text in the background. (the idea comes from Hans Rosling video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080&sourceid=searchfeed ) Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut

Hi! Given a vector (or a factor within a df),i.e. v1 <- c(1,1,1,2,3,4,1,10,3) and a dictionary cbind(c(1,2,3),c(1001,1002,1003)) is there a function (on the same line than recode() in car) to get v2 as c(1001,1001,1001,1002,1003,4,1001,10,1003) ? I'm using myself a function based on match() since long ago (I think that thanks to advice by Prof. B. Ripley), but would like to know if there

I'm forwarding to this list as I've got no answer in [R-sig-Geo] and perhaps this issue is not exclusive of readOGR() I'm using ubuntu 8.04 andR version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: readOGR and non-ascii characters Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:22:34 +0100 From: Agustin Lobo <aloboaleu at gmail.com> Reply-To: Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es To:

Hi! Is it possible to set a file to which both commands and output would get automatically saved? I've tried with sink(), but only get the output. I mean something like a combined history and sink, as you get with File/Save to File.. in the windows GUI. Tis is done with diary filename in Matlab, and you can state diary on and diary off to control what is being saved to the file. Thanks Agus

Which is the proper way to rename a factor? If I do: test$Parc[test$Parc=="Ol?rdola"]<-"Ol?rdola" R complains that Warning message: invalid factor level, NAs generated in: `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, test$Parc == "Ol?rdola", value = "Ol?rdola") Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole

I've set layout(matrix(c(1,3,2,4),ncol=2)) and par(mar=c(0, 4, 4, 0) + 0.0) and par(mar=c(0, 0, 4, 3) + 0.0) for the upper-left and upper-right plots, but still get an space between both plots, is there any way to completely eliminate that space? Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain

Is there an specific function to eliminate blank space within strings? Thanks -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain Tel. 34 934095410 Fax. 34 934110012 email: Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es http://www.ija.csic.es/gt/obster

Given char vector delme2: > str(delme2) chr [1:1065] "30-1-08 8:48:21" "30-1-08 8:55:17" "30-1-08 9:00:22" ... I do: > delme3 <- strptime(delme2,format="%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S") But then: > str(delme3) POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2008-01-30 08:48:21" "2008-01-30 08:55:17" ... > length(delme3) [1] 9 whie >

Hi! If I'm plotting 2 variables with the same units (i.e. wing length of 2 species), how can I force that X and Y axes have the same size for length unit? For example, if X ranges from 0 to 10 and Y ranges from 10 to 30, I want Y axis to be twice as long as X axis. I know I can just put xlim and ylim from 0 to 30, i.e., plot(runif(10,0,10),runif(10,10,30),xlim=c(0,30),ylim=c(0,30)) but this

Hi! In the example: hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave") dend1 <- as.dendrogram(hc) dend2 <- cut(dend1, h=70) Do the branches "Branch 1", "Branch 2", "Branch 2"...in dend2$upper str(dend2$upper) --[dendrogram w/ 2 branches and 4 members at h = 152] |--[dendrogram w/ 2 branches and 2 members at h = 77.6] | |--leaf "Branch 1" (h=

Martin, Although I did remove the ln libRlapack.so -> ./lapack.so and sudo apt-get install r-cran-robustbase went fine (as does if the installation is done through Synaptic), once I start R I get: > require(robustbase) Loading required package: robustbase Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared library

Dear list: Is there any way of getting the equivalent to what you get with bty="l" for the right and bottom axes? and the equivalent to bty="7" for the upper and left axes? Thanks! Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain Tel. 34 934095410 Fax. 34 934110012 email: Agustin.Lobo at

Hi, is not there any way to tell grid() the starting value? With nx,ny I get the right number of grid cells, but not on the exact values I would like them. (I know I can do it with abline(), just asking for an easier way, i.e. grid(nx,nx,start.x,start.y)) An alternative way (which would solve another problem) would be making the axes coincident with the rectangular plot region, that is, if

Hi! How can I subset several variables in cast? For example, I can do it for one, (ie, ph): cast(am, organismo +arriba ~ variable,subset=variable=="ph",mean,na.rm=T) For selecting ph, temperature and Ba I'm using: cast(am, organismo +arriba ~ variable,subset=variable=="ph" variable=="temperature"| variable== "Ba",mean,na.rm=T) Is there a more

Dear list: Given > str(b3) 'data.frame': 159 obs. of 6 variables: $ index_pollution : num 8.228 10.513 0.549 0.915 10.416 ... $ position_descrip: chr "2" "2" "2" NA ... $ position_geo : chr "3" "0" "3" "3" ... $ institution : Factor w/ 3 levels "digesa","mem",..: 3 3 3 3 3 3

I have problems with emf files because OpenOffice does a poor job at importing figures in this format. On the other hand, imported eps figures are not displayed, just printed. Is there any R graphic gui able to export as SVG (or other vector format)? I've tried JGR, iplots and svGUI. Thanks! Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis

I've installed through wine the program for a gps data logger QSTARZ. The program works fine with wine, but cannot dowmnload the data from the gps because I only have a windows driver for it. Any way to get the windows driver installed in linux so that I could download the data? Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole

Hi! I'm doing: etni <- subset(etni, NAMECOM!="Maniquisito") where etni is a data.frame, NAMECOM a factor and "Maniquisito" labels a row that I want to delete. The problem is that while the row is deleted, the factor level is still there (I can see "Maniquisito" if I do levels(etni$NAMECOM) ). I know I can get the appropriate levels by: