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I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica. I put together a list but would like to pick the "best of" and avoid redundancy. Any suggestions on these books would be helpful (i.e. too much

Dear Sir/Madam: Great thanks for R project and you contribution. I am Liping Liu, a beginner of R. Recently, I use R much. I wish you could improve the manual by making it search engine friendly. The "Introduction to R" page is too long. I am often redirected to this page by goole, but I still can not find the content I need easily. Could you please make it a structured: one page

This does what I was hoping it would: aggregate(tm[,-1],by=list(tm[,10]),FUN="mean") but I don't know what "tm[,-1]" means (well - the -1 bit anyway. Does it somehow means the whole matrix? Please don't tell me to check the manual - I tried and failed dismally... -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/tm-1-tp1588804p1588804.html Sent from the R

* What were your biggest misconceptions or stumbling blocks to getting up and running with R? * What documents helped you the most in this initial phase? I especially want to hear from people who are lazy and impatient. Feel free to write to me off-list. Definitely write off-list if you are just confirming what has been said on-list. -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com

How can I generate a vector of differences between each elemtn of an vector? i.e. a[i]=x[i]/x[i-1] -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Deltas-or-changes-tp1585960p1585960.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Guess what I have no clue what i am doing/ meant to do with R. i have just begun statistics for uni and all commands don't seem to work, they say syntax error, we are meant to put a hist.r in but ? please help, step by step, to use this program i would turn it on (it comes up rgui) is this wrong, have i put the wrong bit on it? Please help, I am so glad there is an R help Thankyou jill

Hi, every one, I have translated <An Introduction to R > into simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese. You can browse them from these two URL: simplified Chinese: http://www.biosino.org/pages/newhtm/r/schtml/index.html#Top traditional Chinese: http://www.biosino.org/pages/newhtm/r/tchtml/ I have distributed these document in HTML format. That is because there is something wrong with

> (1) Create a top-level help page with a title like "Date and Time > Classes" to give a brief but general overview. This would mean the > existing DateTimeClasses would need a new title. I wanted to modify my first suggestion. Perhaps a better idea would be to reference an external document giving an overview of the subject. I couldn't find a discussion of POSIXct/POSIXlt

Hi all, Please, while using image() which is the graphical parameter which control the space between ylab and the y axis? I do need to write a number of relatively long y labels and I am not able the control, if possible, this space. See the effect I need to avoid... http://nvx.environmentalchange.net/@rrodriguez/images/overlapping.jpg Thanks for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodr?guez Your

I don't want to bother anyone with specific questions because I am a R newbie and I see that there is TON ( emphasis on Ton ) of documentation out there but could someone just tell me the best placed to look/read for learning about ( for R-2-2.1 in Windows ) .Rprofile .REnviron. .Rdata .First function ( analogous to the one in Splus ). Analog of Splus Chapter Basically, I want to

Hello, is there a package in R that would allow map drawing: coastlines, country/state boundaries, maybe topography, rivers etc? Thanks for any guidance, Mark

Dear all, I have the following problem: I am using Windows XP as OS and have a R program which uses optim() in a loop. Although I overwrite every variable in the loop the memory R is using is increasing until my system breaks down because the swap file is getting just to big. I suspect that optim() is creating some variables which are not deleted automatically. So I tried to do the following:

My name is Michela Marignani and I'm an ecologist trying to solve a problem linked to knight' s tour algorithm. I need a program to create random matrices with presence/absence (i.e. 1,0 values), with defined colums and rows sums, to create null models for statistical comparison of species distribution phenomena. I've seen on the web many solutions of the problem, but none provides

Dear R-helpers, I was wondering if anyone has or knows someone who might have an implementation of algorithm for estimating garcht-t, egarch and gjr models. I try to use Fseries but I don't know how to code these models. Thanks a million in advance, Sincerely, Nongluck

Hi All, I am scheduled to teach a graduate course on research methods in health sciences at a university. While drafting the course proposal, I decided to include a brief introduction to R, primarily with an objective to enable the students to do data analysis using R. It is expected that enrolled students of this course have all at least a formal first level introduction to quantitative methods

Hello, I am not sure if I have done something wrong or something changed between 12.2.2 and 2.13.0, but I just installed R-2.13.0 from CRAN install executable on 64 bit Windows 7 Pro and when I try "Help>Manuals (in PDF)>An Introduction to R" I get the following Error: 'doc\manual\R-intro.pdf' not found The same error occurs with all other PDF manuals. I have

I am currently trying to replicate the results I got from RATS for a panel regression. The codes in RATS looks like this: * Final equation for Office Cap Rate Spread * Regression, Panel Data preg(effects=time, method=random) CapRate # CapRate{1} RentCycle{1} VacancyChangeYTY InflationYTY RealGDPyty Just wonder what R package also allow me to have the options like (effects=time, method=random).

Hi to all, I am a PH.D Student doing statistical analysis. I am totally new to R. I previously use Stata and am changing into R. I ususally do with logit regression with binary dependent variable (war occurence:1 or 0). I just want to know command to do that. More sepcifically, Let say, my Y is war occurence (occur=1, otherwise 0). And my independent variables (Xs) are trade, democracy,

As part of my Google Season of Docs project, I’ve been conducting a content audit of the LLVM docs. My goal is to identify specific categories and tasks under which the docs can be re-organized. One of my first suggestions will be to turn the main index (llvm.org/docs) into a landing page of sorts. Here’s an example of how the new index page might look: # Welcome/About * Introduction and

If object is user defined is: object$df.residual the same thing as df.residual(object) This is my first time to encounter the $ sign in R, I'm new. I'm reviewing "summary.glm" and in most cases it looks as though the $ is used to extract some characteristic/property of the object, but I'm not positive. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~