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I have a question about predictor importances in randomForest. Once I've run randomForest and got my object, I get their importances: rfresult$importance I also get the "standard errors" of the permutation-based importance measure: rfresult$importanceSD I have 2 questions: 1. Because I am dealing with regressions, I am getting an importance object (rfresult$importance) with two

Dear R-ers! I have x as a variable in a data frame x. x<-data.frame(x=c("aa.bb","cc.dd.ee")) x$x<-as.character(x$x) x I am sorry for such a simple question - but how can I replace all periods in x$x with spaces? sub('.', ' ', x$x) - removes all letters to the left of each period... Thanks a lot for your advice! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah.com

Hello, dear R-ers! I have a data frame: x<-data.frame(a=c(4,2,4,1,3,4),b=c(1,3,4,1,5,0),c=c(NA,2,5,3,4,NA),d=rep(NA,6),e=rep(NA,6)) x When x$a==1, I would like to replace NAs in columns d and e with 8 and 9, respectively When x$a != 1, I would like to replace NAs in columns d and e 101 and 1022, respectively. However, I only want to do it for rows 2:5 - while ignoring what's happening in

Dear R-ers, I have a large data frame (several thousands of rows and about 2.5 thousand columns). One variable ("group") is a grouping variable with over 30 levels. And I have a lot of NAs. For each variable, I need to divide each value by variable mean - by subgroup. I have the code but it's way too slow - takes me about 1.5 hours. Below is a data example and my code that is too

Hello, dear R-ers! I built a data frame "grid" (below) with 4 columns. I want to exclude all rows that have equal values in ANY 2 columns. Here is how I am doing it: index<-expand.grid(1:4,1:4,1:4,1:4) dim(index) # Deleting rows that have identical values in any two columns (1 line of code):

Dear R-ers! I have a badly organized data base in Excel. Once I read it into R it looks like this (all variables become factors because of many spaces and other characters in Excel):

Hello, and sorry for asking a question without the data - hope it can still be answered: I've run two things on the same data: # Using lme: mix.lme <- lme(DV ~a+b+c+d+e+f+h+i, random = random = ~ e+f+h+i| group, data = mydata) # Using lmer mix.lmer <- lmer(DV ~a+b+c+d+(1|group)+(e|group)+(f|group)+(h|group)+(i|group), data = mydata) lme provided an output (fixed effects and random

Hello - and sorry for a possibly stupid question, I'm just starting to learn rgenoud. I am defining a function with 5 parameters (p1, p2, p3, p4a, and p4b) and then want to optimize it using genoud. But I am doing something wrong. Before genoud is even able to run it says: "Error in p2 + 1.2 : 'p2' is missing". I assume I did not specify it right. My code is below. The task

Hello! I wrote a function that returns a data frame. Nowhere in the function do I say print(my.data.frame), but when I run the function - the data frame is printed on the console. Is there any way to suppress it? Thank you! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

Dear R'rs, is there a function that checks if a given vector contains a certain value. E.g., x<-c(1,2,3,4). How can I get a TRUE or FALSE for whether x contains a 2? -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah.com Dimitri.Liakhovitski at ninah.com

Hello. Until today I've been using R2.9 and since today R2.10 (on a PC). In both of them it takes about 20 sec for the prompt to appear IN R console after I start R. And every time it says: "Previous saved work space restored" - even if I have not saved any workspace or, in case of R2.10 - even though I have not used it once. In the older versions - R would start within 2-3 sec. Is

I am not sure if this question has been asked before - but is there a procedure in R (in lm or glm?) that is equivalent to ENTER and REMOVE regression commands in SPSS? Thanks a lot! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah.com Dimitri.Liakhovitski at ninah.com

Hello! s<-"start"; e<-"end" middle<-as.character(c(1,2,3)) I would like to get the following result: "start 123 end" or "start 1 2 3 end" or "start 1,2,3 end" How can I avoide this (undesired) result: paste(s,middle,e,sep=" ") Thank you! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

I know that I can use as.yearmon in the package "zoo" to find the year and the month of a date. I can use as. yearqtr to find the year and the quarter. But how can one find just the year of a date? Thanks a lot! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

Hello, the code below gives me the picture I need - but there is on small thing I can't figure out. The plot has very small tick mark labels for both axes. I don't mean the axis labels - they are both good, but what is shown near the tick marks. Please help me figure out what parameter I should add to make those larger. I tried sticking cex.lab=1.3 in different places but it didn't

Dear R-ers! Asking for your help with building the stacked area chart for the following simple data (several variables - with date on the X axis): ### Creating a data set my.data<-data.frame(date=c(20080301,20080402,20080503,20090301,20090402,20090503,20100301,20100402,20100503), x=c(1.1,1.0,1.6,1,2,1.5,2.1,1.3,1.9),y=c(-4,-3,-6,-5,-7,-5.2,-6,-4,-4.9),

Hello! If I have in my data frame MyFrame a variable saved as a Date and want to translate it into years, I currently do it like this using "zoo": library(zoo) as.year <- function(x) as.numeric(floor(as.yearmon(x))) myFrame$year<-as.year(myFrame$date) Is there a function that would do it directly - like "as.yearmon" - but for years? Thank you! -- Dimitri

Dear all, I have a function that predicts DV based on one predictor pred: pred<-c(0,3000000,7800000,15600000,23400000,131200000) DV<-c(0,500,1000,1400,1700,1900) ## I define Function 1 that computes the predicted value based on pred values and parameters a and b: calc_DV_pred <- function(a,b) { DV_pred <- rep(0,(length(pred))) for(i in 1:length(DV_pred)){ DV_pred[i] <- a *

Dear everyone, I am trying to run rgenoud on several chips simultaneusly. I used the instructions provided on Jasjeet Sekhon's Homepage (http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/rgenoud/multiple_cpus.html). However, I have the newer version of R (R 2.12) installed - for a 64-bit machine. So, when I tried to install the special version of "snow" from a zip file provided by Jasjeet on his page, R

I have just installed R 12. I have Windows 7, 64-bit verison. I currently have IE as my default browser. The internet connection is very good. Whenever I try to run a help command (?lm, for example), I get this error: Error in shell.exec(url) : access to 'http://127.0.0.1:20271/library/stats/html/lm.html' denied I first got this message when Google Chrome was my default browser. For some