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Greeting Listserv Readers, At http://r4stats.com/popularity I have added plots, data, and/or discussion of: 1. Scholarly impact of each package across the years 2. The number of subscribers to some of the listservs 3. How popular each package is among Google searches across the years 4. Survey results from a Rexer Analytics poll 5. Survey results from a KDnuggests poll 6. A rudimentary analysis

Greetings, I've just put out the latest version of "The Popularity of Data Analysis Software" at http://r4stats.com/popularity. This update includes complete data for 2010, the addition of number of blogs for each software, more coverage of Statistica, and, where possible, measures regarding the implementations of the SAS Language: Carolina and the World Programming System (WPS).

Hi All, I have substantially expanded the table that compares SAS and SPSS add-on modules to somewhat equivalent R packages. This new version is at: http://r4stats.com/add-on-modules and I would very much appreciate any feedback you might have on it. The site http://r4stats.com is the replacement to http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com and includes the support files for both "R for SAS and SPSS

Hi, I'm trying to use read.fwf temp = read.fwf ("Raw data.txt", widths = c (11, 21, 10, rep (16, 6)) ,skip = 2, n = 2, stringsAsFactors = FALSE, strip.white = TRUE) but no matter what I do the strings are turned into factors. I believe it's the "n=2" parameter that causes the problem as it seems to work without this. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance,

Hi I'm having a problem using the zoo library and I can't see what I'm doing wrong. For example setting up the data > t1 = zoo (matrix (1:12, nrow = 3), order.by = as.Date (c("2008-08-01","2008-08-02","2008-08-03"))) > colnames (t1) = c ("A", "B", "C", "D") > t2 = zoo (matrix (1:12, nrow = 3), order.by =

I am new in R. Can anyone tell : 1. how we can write our own functions in R ? 2. how we can save those functions and recall to use them? 3. what extensions are used for saving a file? -- Siddharth Arun, 4th Year Undergraduate student Industrial Engineering and Management, IIT Kharagpur [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Gabor As someone trying to the rest of my team using Subversion (which I have used for a while, but more as a backup / record of changes), have you a neat / automated way of building a package from a subversion repository? Thanks David Jessop -------------------------- David Jessop Global Head of Quantitative Research UBS Investment Research +44 20 7567 9882 ----- Original Message -----

Hi all, I have two questions. Can some one give some help? The first question is regarding the pair of operators "&" and "&&". What is the difference between the two? The second question is regarding "<-" and "=". Usually we use "<-" as the assignment operator. I saw some people use "=". Is there any

There are loads of resources for users of any other statistics package who are learning R. For example http://www.google.com/search?q="r+for+sas-users" The reverse isn't the case http://www.google.com/search?q="sas+for+r-users" Having heard rumors of how unelegant other statistics packages are, I don't see why any R-user would ever want to switch to anything else.

Hi All, I now have programming examples for common research tasks done in R, SAS, SPSS and Stata at http://r4stats.com. The examples fall into the following categories: Data Import & Export Data Management Enhancing Output Graphics, ggplot2 Graphics, Traditional Selecting Variables and Observations Statistics For the graphics examples, I got lazy and only show the R code done two ways.

Dear all, I am a stata user and I am moving my first steps in R. I am dealing with a silly issue concerning looping over variables. I read previous posts on similar topics in the R help archive, but I did not find a solution. Here is my case: I run a simple bivariate linear regression saving the output in objects called: pd.memb.0, pd.memb.1, pd.memb.2, pd.memb.3 pd.memb.0 <- lm(E.fs.memb ~

Hi, Using the Rconsole file I can specify the size and location of the Rgui windows on NT. e.g. # Dimensions (in characters) of the console. rows = 51 columns = 100 How can I specify the size of the help windows that popups when I ask for help? e.g. '?help' I would like the popup window to have say rows = 51 and columns = 100, just like the main window but a different location on the

I have read some very good reviews comparing R (or Splus) to SAS. Does anyone know if there are any reviews comparing R (or Splus) to Stata? I am trying to get others to try R in my department, and I have never used Stata. Regards, -Cody Cody Hamilton, Ph.D Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement Baylor Health Care System (214) 265-3618 This e-mail, facsimile, or letter

Dear R-Helpers, SAS Institute just mailed out the notice below regarding a survey of people who do data mining. To help keep the survey from becoming biased toward commercial software, I thought it would be good to post it here as well. Cheers, Bob Fourth Annual Data Miner Survey Rexer Analytics has asked statistical and data mining software vendors to forward this survey as a courtesy. (SAS is

Hi Folks, SAS Institute is adding official support for R: http://support.sas.com/rnd/app/studio/Rinterface2.html Cheers, Bob ========================================================= Bob Muenchen (pronounced Min'-chen), Manager, Research Computing Support U of TN Office of Information Technology Stokely Management Center, Suite 200 916 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN

Hi All, I searched around to find the number of R packages currently available, but didn't find anything, so I choose all repositories & told it to install. The list contained about 2,856 (correcting roughly for those installed). But the list includes repetitions such as 19 names that begin with "bvbovine". Selecting only CRAN and CRAN(extras) I get 1,344. Is there an easier

Hi All, We have all had to face skeptical colleagues asking if software made by volunteers could match the quality and accuracy of commercially written software. Thanks to the prompting of a recent R-help thread, I read, "R: Regulatory Compliance and Validation Issues, A Guidance Document for the Use of R in Regulated Clinical Trial Environments (http://www.r-project.org/doc/R-FDA.pdf).

Greetings, I'm learning R and I'm stuck on a basic concept: how to specify a logical condition once and then perform multiple transformations under that condition. The program below is simplified to demonstrate the goal. Its results are exactly what I want, but I would like to check the logical state of gender only once and create both (or any number of) scores at once.

Hi All, I'm using the Hmisc summarize function and used list instead of llist to provide the by variables. It generated an error message. Is this a bug, or do I misunderstand how Hmisc works with lists? The program below demonstrates the error message. Thanks, Bob x<-1:8 group <- c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2) gender<- c(1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) mydata<-data.frame(x,group,gender)

Hi Do you know some articles, papers, something than tell about comparision between R and others softwares statisticals. Thank You Ricardo -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Articles-about-comparision-between-R-and-others-softwares-tp19338210p19338210.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.