similar to: dimension-preserving matrix coersion

i'm somehow embarrassed to even ask this, but is there any built-in method for doing this: my_list <- list() my_list[[1]] <- matrix(1:20, ncol = 5) my_list[[2]] <- matrix(20:1, ncol = 5) now, knowing that these matrices are identical in dimension, i'd like to unfold the list to a 2x4x5 (or some other permutation of the dim sizes) array. i know i can initialize the array, then

hi all - i've seen versions of this question before, but none seem to get directly at my solving my (probably very simple) issue: i simply want to annotate the tick marks on an axis with (superscripted) 10^x notation, and tried this: axis(1, at = axTicks(1), as.expression(substitute(10^foo, list(foo = axTicks(1)))) thinking the as.expression/substitute would create the appropriate

hi all - i'm just wondering what sort of code people write to essentially performa an aggregate call, but with different functions being applied to the various columns. for example, if i have a data frame x and would like to marginalize by a factor f for the rows, but apply mean() to col1 and median() to col2. if i wanted to apply mean() to both columns, i would call: aggregate(x, list(f),

hi all - i'm having some difficulty figuring out how to convert between "user units" (which i can't find a definition for in the plotrix package) and either (a) device units (e.g. inches with PDFs) or (b) user coordinates along any particular axis. as an example, suppose i set up a PDF device with inches, the device has both outer and inner magins, and the plot region has

Hi all, I have a question about finalizers... I have a package that manages state for a few connections, and I'd like to ensure that these connections are 'cleanly' closed upon either (i) R quitting or (ii) an unloading of the package. So, in a pared-down example package with a single R file, it looks something like: ##### BEGIN PACKAGE CODE ##### .CONNS <- new.env(parent =

hi folks, i use ESS mode in emacs often to interact with R, and while i know how to save a session transcript, i'm wondering how to save just the history of the commands (i.e. identically to how R gives the history save option from its native CLI). if you use ESS with an R process, commands entered from a separate buffer and sent to the process do not get registered with the R history, and

hi all - i'm having trouble using lme to specify a mixed effects model. i'm pretty sure this is quite easy for the experienced anova-er, which i unfortunately am not. i have a data frame with the following columns: col 1 : "Score1" (this is a continuous numeric measure between 0 and 1) col 2 : "Score2" (another continuous numeric measure, this time bounded between 0

hi, folks, how have you gone about reporting a p-value from a test when the returned value from a test (in this case a rank-sum test) is numerically equal to 0 according to the machine? the next lowest value greater than zero that is distinct from zero on the machine is likely algorithm-dependent (the algorithm of the test itself), but without knowing the explicit steps of the algorithm

hi all - i'm trying to 'R CMD build' a package, but i have what appears to be a bootstrapping problem: i've included a vignette in my package, with R code interwoven (and built using Sweave), but in this documentation i have a code line: > library(MyPackage) now, when trying to build a .tar.gz install-able version of my package in a clean state, i remove the original

hi, i'm trying to prepend some plain (i.e. unevalutated) text to a typographically evaluated R expression in a legend(...) call. here's a working legend(...) call that is close to what i'd like (where x and y are returned from an lm(...) call): legend("topleft", legend = c(bquote(R^2 == .(summary(x)$r.squared)), bquote(R^2 == .(summary(y)$r.squared))), fill =

hi all - i'm working on an R package that makes use of my own shared library written in C. but i also am making use of another C-written library. (my package is for facilitating biological namespace translations via online (i.e. up-to-date) biological databases.) problem is, the library i'm using is not a standard library (i.e. i doubt it will be installed on most users' machines). i

hi all - i have a source package i'm writing that i'd like to be able to install with a special library that my R src files rely on. to be more precise, i have a normal R package directory structure (i.e. src/ R/ man/ DESCRIPTION NAMESPACE etc.). i also have another directory here called depPkg, and it has it's own configure file for the canonical './configure && make

Hi all --- this is less a specific question and more general regarding S3 classes. I've noticed that quite a few very common default implementations of generic functions (e.g. `unique`, `[`, `as.data.frame`) strip away class information. In some cases, it appears conditionals have been created to re-assign the class, but only for a few special types. For example, in `unique.default`, if the

hi all - quick question: i have a matrix m, say nrow=5, ncol=4. in a function i'd like to retrieve certain rows or columns from m, but which rows/cols are not known ahead of time. the function should return a sub-matrix (i.e. still of class 'matrix'). when selecting a single column (or row), the indexing operation converts the object of class 'matrix' into a vector of

Hello all: I have a protein sequence alignment in a data frame (align1, 72 x 236), where each row is a protein and each column a site in the alignment. AA is vector of amino acid symbols plus "-" (gap). I can calculate amino acid frequencies at each site by: >align1.F <- matrix(0,nrow=22,ncol=236,dimnames=list(AA,seq(1:236))) >for(i in 1:236) >

hi all - quick question: i have a matrix 'y' of response values, with two explanatory variables 'x1' and 'x2'. tested values of 'x1' and 'x2' are sitting in two vectors 'x1' and 'x2'. i want to learn model parameters without "unrolling" the matrix of response values. example below: # some fake data for the example x1 <- 1:5 x2

Is there a way of removing all rows with missing values from a data frame? I usually use subset(x, var1!="NA") and repeat for each variable. It would be nice to be able to do it in one fell swoop. Also, surprisingly, it doesn't always work. Sometimes I'm left with an empty set even though not all rows have missing values for the variable. Cheers, mikkel Mikkel Grum,

hi, i'm having some trouble getting a package to load a shared library object in .onLoad(...) i have a shared object file, say "mylib.so". if i start an R session, and via the CLI specify the actual library via: > dyn.load("mylib.so") everything works quite well (i.e. i can then follow with some .Call (...) methods) now, i'd like to include this shared library in

Hello, I am having trouble understanding how R is coercing between matrices and lists in the following example. I have an aggregate behavior I like: aggregate(a[,"num"],by=list(product=a[,"product"],region=a[,"region"]), sum) Now in reality I have more columns than just product and region, and need to pick different combinations. So I want to abstract this into a

hi all, i posted a question before about this, but i may have been too cryptic to understand. in short, there exists an R package that someone is writing. this package depends on a custom library (written in C,), compiled as a shared, and called by the package's functions via the .Call(...) method. we are testing out different code implementations of the compiled library functions, and thus