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Hello R help members. I came across today with an article on Barnard's exact test (http://www.cytel.com/Papers/twobinomials.pdf), that is supposed to give a more powerful fisher.test - Because it doesn't assume that we know the row and column totals are in advance. Any pointers to such a function ? Thanks, Tal -- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information:

*(note*: This is an R community question, not a statistical nor coding question. Since this is my first time writing such a post, I hope no one will take offence of it.) Hello all, I will be attending useR 2009 next week, and was wondering if there are any of you who are *bloggers *intending to participate and report on useR 2009? If so - I would love to know your blogs URL so as to follow you.

Hello dear R help group, I would like to download the tRNA data on: http://gtrnadb.ucsc.edu/download.html And then import it into R. Can anyone direct me as to how to do so? Thanks, Tal ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail: Tal.Galili@gmail.com Phone number: 972-52-7275845 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.talgalili.com (Web and

Hello Martin Maechler and All, A simple question (I hope): How can I compute the "sum of the dissimilarities" that appears in the pam command (from the cluster package) ? Is it the "manhattan" distance (such as the one implemented by "dist") ? I am asking since I am running clustering on a dataset. I found 7 medoids with the pam command, and from it I have the

Hello dear R mailing list members. I have recently became curious of the possibility applying model selection algorithms (even as simple as AIC) to regressions of large datasets. I searched as best as I could, but couldn't find any reference or wrapper for using step or stepAIC to packages such as biglm. Any ideas or directions of how to implement such a concept ? Best, Tal --

Hello all. I wish to run k-means with "manhattan" distance. Since this is not supported by the function "kmeans", I turned to the "pam" function in the "fpc" package. Yet, when I tried to have the algorithm run with different starting points, I found that pam ignores and keep on starting the algorithm from the same starting-points (medoids). For my

(I use R 2.9.1 with win XP) If I run this code: seq(-0.1,.9, by = .05)[seq(-0.1,.9, by = .05) <= 0.5] I get this output: [1] -0.10 -0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40 0.45 Why is 0.50 not in the results ? (It seems that it gives a slightly bigger number then 0.5 but I don't understand why it does that) Where as if I try: seq(-0.1,.9, by = .05)[seq(-0.1,.9, by = .05) <=

I am not sure who to send this to - so I am writing this here. It seems that the "index.html" pages on CRAN are gone. For example: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggplot2/index.html Is gone. But the directory is accessible: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggplot2/ Who should this be forwarded to? Cheers, Tal ----------------Contact

Hello dear R-help group. My task looks simple, but I can't seem to find a "smart" (e.g: non loop) solution to it. Task: I wish to randomize a data.frame by one column, while keeping the inner-order in the second column as is. So for example, let's say I have the following data.frame: xx <-data.frame(a= c(1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4) , b =

Hello dear R-help group (and David Smith from REvolution), I would like to perform parallel computing using R with Condor (hopefully using foreach or other recommended solutions, if available) for some "Embarrassingly parallel" problem. I will start by listing what I found so far, and then go on asking for help. So far I found the a manual by Xianhong Xie from Rnews_2005-2 (see page

Hi all, I'm not sure who to ask this, so I'm posting this here. I just ran: require(KernSmooth) And got (I bolded the text): Loading required package: KernSmooth KernSmooth 2.23 loaded *Copyright M. P. Wand 1997-2009* Warning message: package 'KernSmooth' was built under R version 2.12.1 What does that mean? Thanks, Tal ----------------Contact

Hello all. I wish to read a large data set into R. My current issue is in getting the data so that R would be able to access it. Using read.table won't work since the data is over 1GB in size (and I am using windows XP), so my plan was to read the file chunk by chunk and each time move it into bigmemory (I'll play with that when the time will come, maybe ff is better ?!). I encountered

After reading more, I understand I didn't formulate my last question correctly, so please allow me to rephrase: What I am looking for is a way to save the R console session output. That is, a command that would combine the results of using: ?sink # And ?savehistory My motivation for this is that doing it will allow someone who is a blind user of R to be able to easily export his results to

Hello. I am looking for a way to add table values (from a "table" object) into a mosaic plot of that table (which is produced by the "mosaicplot" command on the table object). The only reference I was successful in finding on the web was in a script here: http://tables2graphs.com/doku.php?id=03_descriptive_statistics#figure_2

Hello dear R-help group. I wish to plot a scatter plot using icons (or images) instead of points. Is it possible? and how so? Thanks, Tal ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail: Tal.Galili@gmail.com Phone number: 972-52-7275845 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.talgalili.com (Web and general, Hebrew) http://www.biostatistics.co.il

Hello dear list, I just noticed that: Package ‘doSMP’ was removed from the CRAN repository. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doSMP/index.html Does any one know the reason for this? Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue? Thanks, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: Tal.Galili@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845

Hello all, I wish to perform a mcnemar test for a 3 by 3 matrix. By running the slandered R command I am getting a result but I am not sure I am getting the correct one. Here is an example code: (tt <- as.table(t(matrix(c(1,4,1 , 0,5,5, 3,1,5), ncol = 3)))) mcnemar.test(tt, correct=T) #And I get: McNemar's Chi-squared

Hello all I wish to perform a mcnemar.test() for a 5X5 matrix. Wikipedia tells me (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochran_test) I should turn to cochran.test. The only place I found it was in the "outliers" package, but the command cochran.test() acts differently then mcnemar.test() , and doesn't take a table as input. Any ideas on how to use it ? #Example code: aa =

Hello dear R community. I just started playing with the snowfall package (a wrapper for the snow package), and found it very convenient. (See also this great website: http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/parallel/ ) I was wondering if it is possible to connect snowfall with the foreach package (since it has some connection to snow). My final goal is to do some simple parallel simulations on my two

Hello all, I wish to learn a version control system for managing my R (data analysis) projects. I know of SVN and github, and wonder if there is any reason for which I should prefer the one over the other (or any other platform). An example for a reason could be if it will make it easier for me to later work with R-forge or CRAN or any other platform for R code distribution. Thanks, Tal