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I am using nls to fit a non linear function to some data. The non linear function is: y= 1- exp(-(k0+k1*p1+ .... + kn*pn)) I have chosen algorithm "port", with lower boundary is 0 for all of the ki parameters, and I have tried many start values for the parameters ki (including generating them at random). If I fit the non linear function to the same data using an external

Dear list, I have a strange requirement .... I have a vector, for example v<- c(0,0,0,0,1,2,4,6,8,8,8,8). I have a value,for example x<- 4.8. I would like to understand in which sub interval of v is x. In this case, v would be in the sub interval [4,6] that is in the subinterval starting from element j=7 to the element j+1=8. Can we do that with an R command? Regards -- Corrado Topi

Dear friends, what is this error message in gam???? I cannot understand what it means .... is it a bug? gam_bray_scot24_pc_0505<gam(bray~s(PC1,PC2,PC3,PC4,PC5, PC1.1,PC2.1,PC3.1,PC4.1,PC5.1),data=dist_scot24_vector_with_climate) Error in if (length(data) != vl) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed Calls: gam ... smooth.construct -> smooth.construct.tp.smooth.spec -> array In

Dear R-friends, How do you test the goodness of prediction of a model, when you predict on a set of data DIFFERENT from the training set? I explain myself: you train your model M (e.g. glm,gam,regression tree, brt) on a set of data A with a response variable Y. You then predict the value of that same response variable Y on a different set of data B (e.g. predict.glm, predict.gam and so on).

Dear friends, I am testing glm as at page 514/515 of THE R BOOK by M.Crawley, that is on proportion data. I use glm(y~x1+,family=binomial) y is a proportion in (0,1), and x is a real number. I get the error: In eval(expr, envir, enclos) : non-integer #successes in a binomial glm! But that is exactly what was suggested in the book, where there is no mention of a similar warning. Where am I

Dear friends, I have to use a very large matrix. Something of the sort of matrix(80000,80000,n) .... where n is something numeric of the sort 0.xxxxxx I have not found a way of doing it. I keep getting the error Error in matrix(nrow = 80000, ncol = 80000, 0.2) : too many elements specified Any suggestions? I have searched the mailing list, but to no avail. Best, -- Corrado Topi Global

Dear R list, I just obtained a negative AIC for two models (-221.7E+4 and -230.2E+4). Is that normal? Regards -- Corrado Topi Global Climate Change & Biodiversity Indicators Area 18,Department of Biology University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK Phone: + 44 (0) 1904 328645, E-mail: ct529 at york.ac.uk

Dear R gurus, I have some climatic data for a region of the world. They are monthly averages 1950 -2000 of precipitation (12 months), minimum temperature (12 months), maximum temperature (12 months). I have scaled them to 2 km x 2km cells, and I have around 75,000 cells. I need to feed them into a statistical model as co-variates, to use them to predict a response variable. The climatic

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

Dear R-experts, I have a question on the formulas used in the gam function of the mgcv package. I am trying to understand the relationships between: y~s(x1)+s(x2)+s(x3)+s(x4) and y~s(x1,x2,x3,x4) Does the latter contain the former? what about the smoothers of all interaction terms? I have (tried to) read the manual pages of gam, formula.gam, smooth.terms, linear.functional.terms but

Dear R-experts, I have a question on the formulas used in the gam function of the mgcv package. I am trying to understand the relationships between: y~s(x1)+s(x2)+s(x3)+s(x4) and y~s(x1,x2,x3,x4) Does the latter contain the former? what about the smoothers of all interaction terms? I have (tried to) read the manual pages of gam, formula.gam, smooth.terms, linear.functional.terms but

Hi List, Does any one know what package I need to use in order to fetch/get a large sized dataframe from SQL? I have already used sqldf package which is good for fetching large sized csv files. Thanks Alireza [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi all, Working with S4 object, I definine two class foo1 and foo2. I define '[' (resp. '[<-') for the two classes. Then I define a third class foo3 that inherit from both foo1 and foo2. Is there a way to make '[' (resp. '[<-') for foo3 inherit from '[' (resp. '[<-') for foo1 and foo2? Thanks Christophe

Dear Friends, Here is an algorithm for finding concave hulls: http://get.dsi.uminho.pt/local/ Has anyone implemented such an algorithm in R? RSiteSearch('concave hull') didn't reveal one (I think). _____________________________ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology Postal Address: P.O.Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 Express Parcels

I am modeling a trend surface using trmat and want to trim the resulting matrix to the area enclosed by my real data (i.e., remove all the extrapolated areas). I was using chull and in.chull to calculate the convex hull and change all the other values created by trmat to NA. However, my real data has portions that are slightly concave so chull would give me slivers that are extrapolations from

Hi R users, I try to build a function to compute odds ratio and relative risk however something wrong. I stuck for many hours but I really don't know how to solve it. Would someone please give me a hint? > OR.RR<-function(x){ + x <- as.matrix(any(dim(x)==2)) + OR<-(x[1,1]*x[2,2])/(x[1,2]*x[2,1]) + RR<-(x[1,1]/(sum(x[1,])))/(x[2,1]/(sum(x[2,]))) +

Dear R-lings, I did not know which list to post to, because it is a studentship so not really a job, so it did not fit the r-sig-jobs list .... and it is about devloping an extension package interfaced with R .... I hope I did not upset anyone. If so apologies. The Centre For Complex systems Analysis at the University of York (YCCSA) in UK in collaboration with Stockholm Environment

Dear friends, I have several sets of points in a transformed environmental space. Each set of points can be represented as a cloud in the environmental space. This space is spanned by n coordinates, corresponding to the first n PCs of 36 PCs of some environmental variables (12 monthly minimum temperatures, 12 monthly maximum temperature, 12 monthly precipitations). I would like to calculate

I am just starting to code in R and need some help as I am used to doing this in SAS. I have a dataset that looks like this: Chemical Well1 Well2 Well3 Well4 BOD 13.2 14.2 15.5 14.2 O2 7.8 2.6 3.5 2.4 TURB 10.2 14.6 18.5 17.3 and so on with more chemicals.... I would like to transpose my data so that it looks like this: Chemical WellID Value BOD Well1 13.2 BOD Well2 14.2 BOD Well3 15.5 BOD

Dear All, The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a not-for-profit agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystems research center, supported by the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), with headquarters in Cali, Colombia is looking for a visiting researcher to work on various modeling projects, primarily