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R-helpers: Are there any ways to auto-generate R-friendly (e.g. will pass a compilation check) .Rd files given a set of .R code? How about GUIs that help properly format the .Rd files? Thanks! I want a basic set of .Rd files that I can update as I go, but as with most things my documentation typically lags behind my coding by a few days. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Project

Quantreggers: I'm trying to run rq() on a dataset I posted at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8Kij67bij_ASUpfcmJ4LTFEUUk/edit?usp=sharing (it's a 1500kb csv file named "singular.csv") and am getting the following error: mydata <- read.csv("singular.csv") fit_spl <- rq(raw_data[,1] ~ bs(raw_data[,i],df=15),tau=1) > Error in rq.fit.br(x, y, tau = tau, ...) :

R-developers: I'm working on updating my R package "spatial.tools", and one thing I was wondering was the proper way to have hidden functions -- should I simply not export them to the namespace and use the ::: operator to call them (which is what I currently do)? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS)

R-helpers: What would be the absolute fastest way to make a large "empty" file (e.g. filled with all zeroes) on disk, given a byte size and a given number number of empty values. I know I can use writeBin, but the "object" in this case may be far too large to store in main memory. I'm asking because I'm going to use this file in conjunction with mmap to do parallel

R-helpers: I'm running a file search on my entire drive (Mac OS X) using: files_found <- list.files(dir="/",pattern=somepattern,recursive=TRUE,full.names=TRUE) where somepattern is a search pattern (which I have confirmed via a unix "find / -name somepattern" only returns ~ 3 results). I keep getting an error: Error: C stack usage is too close to the limit when

Quick informal poll: what is everyone's favorite text editor for working with R? I'd like to hear from people who are using editors that have some level of direct R interface (e.g. Tinn-R, Komodo+SciViews). Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The

R-helpers: I need a quick help with the following graph (I'm a lattice newbie): require("lattice") npp=1:5 names(npp)=c("A","B","C","D","E") barchart(npp,origin=0,box.width=1) # What I want to do, is add a single vertical line positioned at x = 2 that lays over the bars (say, using a dotted line). How do I go about doing this?

This is probably a very noobish question, but if I want to create a function that allows an undetermined number of, say, numeric vectors to be fed to it, I would use: myfunction = function(...) { # Do something } Right? If so, how do I a) count the number of vectors "fed" to the function, and b) how do I treat those vectors as variables, e.g. for the call:

I'm trying to redirect where temporary files go under R to D:\temp\somerandomname from its default (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Temp\somerandomname) -- how do I go about doing this? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The Barn, Room 250N Davis, CA 95616

I have a numerical vector which contains a (poorly) formatted time column, which, in theory, should be HHMM, but was distributed as an integer, so, for 12:15 am, it is saved as "15" (e.g. HHMM = 0015 with the zeroes stripped). I'm trying to use this in conjunction with strptime, but I'm thinking because each time is an integer ranging from 1 to 4 digits, I probably need to

R-helpers: It looks like http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html has stopped spidering the mailing lists -- this used to be my go-to site for searching for R solutions. Are there any good replacements for this? I want to be able to search both functions and mailing lists at the same time. Cheers! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of

Quick question -- if I have a vector of strings that I'd like to split into two new vectors based on a substring that is inside of each string, what is the most efficient way to do this? The substring that I want to split on is multiple characters, if that matters, and it is contained in every element of the character vector. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar

Rers: I have some ecological data (stream velocity vs. % cover of submerged weeds) that shows strong evidence of a thresholding step-function, e.g. below some velocity, % cover ranges from 0% to 100% (with no apparent relationship to velocity within this range of velocities), but above a certain "threshold" velocity, the % cover does not appear to exceed, say, 10%. There are good

Dear R-helpers, I am running R version 2.9.1 on a Mac Quad with 32Gb of RAM running Mac OS X version 10.5.6. With over 20Gb of RAM "free" (according to the Activity Monitor) the following happens. > x <- matrix(rep(0, 6600^2), ncol = 6600) # So far so good. But I need 3 matrices of this size. > y <- matrix(rep(0, 6600^2), ncol = 6600) R(3219) malloc: ***

Hello Everyone, We have recently purchased a server which has 64GB of memory running a 64bit OS and I have compiled R from source with the following config ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/R-2.9.1 --enable-Rshlib --enable-BLAS-shlib --enable-shared --with-readline --with-iconv --with-x --with-tcktk --with-aqua --with-libpng --with-jpeglib and I would like to verify that I can use

I'm getting a weird behavior using R 2.5.0 for MacOS X -- I have a csv file with a "properly formatted" date/time field, e.g. After reading in the csv to "hourly_met_data", with a "date" field hourly_met_data$date <- as.POSIXct(hourly_met_data$date) works exactly as it is supposed to (e.g. Min/max of that field are calculated correctly). However, when I

Hopefully this is a pretty easy fix -- I need to have R query the path separator for some code I'm trying to write (it involves using a system() call) -- the call requires a path and a wildcard, e.g.: command="mycommand /path/to/*.files" in the case of unix or, command="mycommand.exe C:\\path\\to\\*.files" on a windows box System.which is working correctly, so the

R-helpers: I'd like to be able to store all the file information from an ftp site (e.g. file and foldernames) through an R command. Any ideas how to do this? Here's an example site to use: ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD15A3.005 --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at

R-developers: I'm beginning to work on a manuscript for a set of functions I developed for a package I have on CRAN (spatial.tools), and I'd like to rename a function in my package to give a better idea of what it does prior to manuscript submission -- is there a "safe" way to do a backwards-compatible rename of a function within a CRAN package (so functions that rely on the

I have 2GB installed on my windows XP box running R 1.9.0, and after performing a prune.tree(intree,newdata), I get an out of memory error within R, but it says the maximum allowed is 1024gb (1/2 of what I have!) Can R not use more than 1GB on an XP box? I noticed I had ~600mb left over after R conked out, so clearly I had more memory... What about virtual memory? --j -- Jonathan Greenberg