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I don't have time now to investigate myself, and I'm not feeling like deciding myself if the following is a bug: myplot <- function(dat, cex = 1.2, ...) { if(!is.data.frame(dat <- as.data.frame(dat))) stop("`dat' must be a data.frame") if(any(is.na(match(c("x","y"), names(dat))))) stop("`dat' must have a `x' and a

Hi: I have a function as follows: my.plot <- function( x, y = NULL, ... ) { plot( x, y, cex.axis=0.5, ...) } Set up the variables: x <- 1:10; y <- x; tdf <- data.frame( x, y ); main.str <- "test" I will exercise the function in two ways: > my.plot( y ~ x, tdf, main = "test" ) This works fine > my.plot( y ~ x, tdf, main = main.str ) Error in

Hi In addition to the inconsistency in make.names(), the text in ?Reserved seems incomplete: "Reserved words outside quotes are always parsed to be references to the objects linked to in the ?Description?, and hence they are not allowed as syntactic names (see make.names). They **are** allowed as non-syntactic names, e.g. inside backtick quotes." `..1` and `...` are allowed for

Greg, Two thoughts: 1. It might be possible that 'vars' is a reserved word of sorts and if you change the name of your vector RF might be happier 2. A way that works for me is to call importance as follows: sel.imp <- importance(sel.rf, class=NULL, scale=TRUE, type=NULL) and then use the 'names' of the imp data frame to be absolutely clear to RF you are talking about the

Hello R experten I have just written a little function to calculate all pairwise combinations of two vector arguments: > pair(c(1,2,3),c(7,8)) [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 7 [2,] 1 8 [3,] 2 7 [4,] 2 8 [5,] 3 7 [6,] 3 8 > I want to generalize this to any number of arguments, for example, <fantasy> > ntuple(c(1,2,3),c(7,8),c(14,15)) [,1] [,2]

Hi Everyone, When I have a load of functions which have various arguments passed via the ellipsis argument it keeps on assigning them as symbol making them unusable to the function. My current work around involves using do.call but this is rather cumbersome. Does anyone know why it suddenly changes the types to symbol and if there is a way to get the actual data pointed to by the symbol? (I

Hello, Could anybody offer any advice about implementing a Kohonen self organizing map for categorical data? Specifically I am wondering if there are any pre-existent packages that can deal with categorical data and/or how one would compare the input vector of categoricals with the self organizing map nodes. Thanks in advance. George Chen ----- Original Message ----- From: r-help-request at

Hi, I'm working on a MEPIS (Debian-based Linux) computer, using the emacs/ESS package to do my R work. I've got some plots that I label interactively using the locate function. With the Windows GUI there is an option to take a snapshot of the graphics output, saving it as an image file. Is there a way to do this with emacs/ESS? Thanks, Tyler

If I run the following example from: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/grid/doc/grobs.pdf > grid.newpage() > pushViewport(viewport(w = 0.5, h = 0.5)) > myplot <- gTree(name = "myplot", children = gList(rectGrob(name = "box", + gp = gpar(col = "grey")), xaxisGrob(name = "xaxis"))) > grid.draw(myplot) >

Full_Name: Cornell Gonschior Version: 2.10.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (212.201.28.40) Hi, in the introduction to R, you can find the following sentence in the par() chapter: "Use tck=0.01 and mgp=c(1,-1.5,0) for internal tick marks." I thought that's nice, because I wanted to have tick marks and tick labels inside and the axis title outside. But: > plot(z, las=1,

Hi, is there a way to retrieve the line number of where en error occurred when sourcing a file in a tryCatch statement? Is it stored somewhere accessible? It is not found in the error object. Consider the following code/output and note the difference in the traceback between source (has line number) and sys.source (has no line number). Thank you, Renaud ######## # code ######## codefile <-

After using options(error=recover), it takes a long time (too long) to get back to the prompt. Look at: Browse[1]> recover() Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit 1: window(test, start = c(15, 1), end = c(17, 1), extend = TRUE) 2: window.ts(test, start = c(15, 1), end = c(17, 1), extend = TRUE) 3: as.ts(window.default(x, ...)) 4: window.default(x, ...) 5: function () 6: eval(quote(browser()),

Sorry for posting this twice, but I still have not solved this problem and am hoping for some assistance. I am attempting to write a function that is flexible enough to respond to the user providing a formula (with a data= argument) or not (similar to plot(x,y) versus plot(y~x,data=data)). I have found a method to work with this in a simple case but am having trouble determining how to

Dear list, I've written a function that plots subjects. Something like: myplot <- function(subject) { plot(subject) } Subjects are vectors, e.g. ... s1 <- c(200,200,190,180) ... and plotting them works fine, e.g. ... myplot(s1) Now I want to have "s1" etc appear in the plot title, but I don't know how to refer to this generically (the object "name"? I tried

Hi, I am getting an error message when I am trying to run the debugger() on the last.dump. The debugger() stops after I make a selection. Could someone please suggest what it might mean? The R log is included below. This is R-1.8.1 on RH 7.3. Thanks, Vadim > load("last.dump.rda") > debugger(last.dump) Message: Error in split(x, f) : Group length is 0 but data length > 0

Dear R Users, I have searched through the archives but I am still struggling to find a way to process the below dataset. I have a dataset that has stratum and plot identifier. Within each plot there is variable (Top) stating the number of measurments that should be used to to calculate the mean to the largest "top" elements within one of the vectors (X). I would like to process

Hello all, I'm trying to write a function using the gridBase package. I'd like to push several base subplots to a larger plot constructed with grid. However, I'm having trouble getting consistent results when running the function when the plotting window (quartz) is closed, when it is left open and the plot function is repeated to the same window, and when the output is saved to a

Hi, I've written a function in order to plot the same graph in a postcript and in a pdf file. Unfortunately, the second graph is always empty, i.e.: plot.both <- function{myplot, filename}{ pdf(file=paste(filename, ".pdf", sep="")) myplot dev.off() postscript(file=paste(filename, ".eps", sep="")) myplot dev.off() } yields in a

Hi It seems that names of the form "..#" and "..." are not fixed by make.names(), even though they are reserved words. The documentation reads: > [...] Names such as ".2way" are not valid, and neither are the reserved words. > Reserved words in R: [...] ... and ..1, ..2 etc, which are used to refer to arguments passed down from a calling function, see

Shouldn't the following 4 ways to alter an object in a locked environment either all work or all fail? (All working would be nice, I think.) E <- new.env() assign("var", c(1,2,3,4), envir=E) lockEnvironment(E, bindings=FALSE) E$var[1] <- 101 ; E$var #[1] 101 2 3 local(var[2] <- 102, envir=E) #Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : # cannot add