similar to: something similar to %include() in sas?

I like R more than SAS. My job is doing research on clinical trial. But I was told that FDA only accepts the result from SAS. Is that true? TOO BAD. [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

Right now, I am using SAS and S+/R. As a new year resolution, I am planning to learn a scripting language. from statisticians' point of view, which scripting language is worth to learn, perl, python, or any other recommendation? (Most likely, I will be learning it in windows.) Since I am not in research, I will prefer one widely used in industry and related to statistical work. if you

I remember in one slide of Prof. Ripley's presentation overhead, he said the most popular data analysis software is excel. So is there any resource or tutorial on this topic? Thank you so much!

Good morning, dear listers I am wondering if you could recommend a good tutorial / book for r scripting. thank you so much in advance! WenSui Liu Credit Risk Manager, 53 Bancorp wensui.liu at 53.com 513-295-4370

I really have headache when I do google search for information about "R". Any tricks or tips? thx.

Dear Listers, I've been a big fan of R since graduate school. After working in the industry for years, I haven't had many opportunities to use R and am mainly using SAS. However, I am still forcing myself really hard to stay close to R by reading R-help and books and writing R code by myself for fun. But by and by, I start realizing I have hard time to keep up with R and am afraid that I

Dear Lister, plot() is using the data range as the default limits of yaxis. Is there any way I can change the limits? I just look at the help of plot() and par() and couldn't find answers. Thanks. -- WenSui Liu (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center

[Automatic forwarding from R-bugs failed. This message has been manually forwarded.] Hi all! I'm trying to add Thomas Lumley's defmacro() function Lumley T. "Programmer's Niche: Macros in {R}", R News, 2001, Vol 1, No. 3, pp 11--13, \url{http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/} to the gtools package (provided that Thomas gives his OK). And I've encountered an error in

Hi everybody, I want to use macro in my R code. But defmacro was not in my libraries. So I installed it : > install.packages("gtools") Installing package(s) into ?C:/Program Files/R/R-2.13.2/library? (as ?lib? is unspecified) essai de l'URL 'http://cran.cict.fr/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/gtools_2.6.2.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 102500 bytes (100 Kb)

I checked GlmmML package. However, it can only do binomial and poisson distribution. How about others such as gamma or neg binomial? Thank you so much! wensui

Sometimes, it is too costly to read the whole data file into R. I am looking for solution in scan() and read.Lines() but don't they work. Thank you so much! -- ============================== WenSui Liu Acquisition Risk, Chase Blog : statcompute.spaces.live.com Tough Times Never Last. But Tough People Do. - Robert Schuller

Dear Listers, Is there any good paper about how to use R together with VB? Thank you so much! -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Lister, If I have a list of number, say x<-c(0.1, 0.5, 0.6...), how to use a for() to loop through each number in x one by one? Thank you so much! wensui [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi R-experts, I have data from four conditions of an experiment. I tried to create four subsets of the data with read.table, for example, read.table("Experiment.csv",subset=(condition=="1")) . I found a similar post in the archive, but the answer to that post was no. Any new ideas about reading subsets of data with read.table? Thanks! Feng [[alternative HTML version

Dear All, Monthly and Quarterly ts obj. is easy to understand. But I couldn't find an example in R manual how to create daily or weekly ts object. Could you please shed some light on it? I really appreciate it.

Dear All, I finally have chance to have R install on our unix server. However, the system admin asked me if I prefer command-line or gui interface. I have experience with R on linux before but never use R on unix. Here are my questions that I need you guys help. 1) is there a good gui for R/unix like we do for windows and mac? 2) if the answer for 1) is yes, which one is better interms of

Good morning, everyone, I am sorry for this off-topic post but think I can get great answer from this list. My question is what is the best OS on PC (laptop) for statistical computing and why. I really appreciate your insight. Have a nice day.

Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why? How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.

Compañeros, Una de primero de funciones pero que no soy capaz de resolver. Necesito evaluar como texto el parámetro de mi función. Ejemplo: datos.A<-rnorm(10,3) datos.B<-rnorm(100,30) datos.C<-rnorm(1000,300) datos.D<-rnorm(10000,3000) describe <- function(letra){ summary(datos.letra) } describe(B) Quiero que haga summary(datos.B) y no soy capaz. Nunca me había visto en una

If I understand correctly, rpart() will pick predictor at each node automatically. I am wondering if there is a way to force rpart() including a specific predictor. The reason I am asking is that I'd like to use rpart() to detect interaction terms for some variables. Thanks.