similar to: exists() and functions

This is probably a very noobish question, but if I want to create a function that allows an undetermined number of, say, numeric vectors to be fed to it, I would use: myfunction = function(...) { # Do something } Right? If so, how do I a) count the number of vectors "fed" to the function, and b) how do I treat those vectors as variables, e.g. for the call:

The code base is a bit too complicated to paste in here, but the gist of my question is this: given I have a function myfunction <- function(x) { # Do something A # Do something B # Do something C } Say "#Do something B" returns this error: Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) : argument 2 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat' A standard

I'm hoping to get some "best practice" feedback for constructing a function call which takes an undefined set of DIFFERENT length vectors -- e.g. say we have two lists: list1=c(1:10) list2=c(2:4) lists = data.frame(list1,list2) coerces those two to be the same length (recycling list2 to fill in the missing rows) -- what is a quick way of having each of those lists retain their

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

R-helpers: Are there any ways to auto-generate R-friendly (e.g. will pass a compilation check) .Rd files given a set of .R code? How about GUIs that help properly format the .Rd files? Thanks! I want a basic set of .Rd files that I can update as I go, but as with most things my documentation typically lags behind my coding by a few days. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Project

I have 2GB installed on my windows XP box running R 1.9.0, and after performing a prune.tree(intree,newdata), I get an out of memory error within R, but it says the maximum allowed is 1024gb (1/2 of what I have!) Can R not use more than 1GB on an XP box? I noticed I had ~600mb left over after R conked out, so clearly I had more memory... What about virtual memory? --j -- Jonathan Greenberg

Rhelpers: I'd like to modify this RSQLite statement: rs_stations<-dbSendQuery(con_stations, "select * from stations") so that stations is actually an R variable, e.g.: stations=c("stationA","stationB") How would I modify the above statement to query from stations[[1]] (aka "stationA")? --j

Hello Group, I could use an advice on how SEXP handles work. My aim is to implement a system where I initially set a few global variables that are used for communication between C and R code. Then I do some work with R code and periodically call a function of my own that will update the system state. Such a design is useful for many purposes (for GUIs to name one). I am not entirely sure that R

R-helpers: I'm working on an r-package that I want to make as easy-to-use as possible for a novice R-user, which includes automatically installing required packages. I, myself, am a novice R-packager, so the solution I came up with was to embed: print("Loading required packages...") if (!require("reshape")) { install.packages("reshape") } if

Folks: Say I have a matrix: test=matrix(c(1,2,3),nrow=10,ncol=3) I would like to have an output character vector where each line is row's values delimited by commas, e.g.: "1,2,3" "2,3,1" "3,1,2" ... "1,2,3" What is the fastest way of doing this? I can paste() row-by-row but this seems an inefficient approach to doing this. Thanks! I'm not

I have a binary file which is an image with multiple bands, arranged in BSQ format such that R, B and G are all N x M sized matrices (corresponding to Red, Blue and Green colors respectively). The BSQ file arranges the data as [R, B, G], so to access the B matrix, I have to read forward N x M + 1 number of samples. Is there a fast way to define a variable as the B matrix exclusively (e.g. Can I

Hi there -- I downloaded the MacOS X binaries of R and followed the instructions on installing it, and when I go to perform a tree function, I get the error "Error: couldn't find function "tree"". Do I need to somehow preload the function? If so, how do I do that? Also, update.packages() works for some packages, but not all -- it often fails in the compilation. I have

R-helpers: If I want to pass a character name of a function TO a function, and then have that function executed, how would I do this? I want an arbitrary version of the following, where any function can be used (e.g. I don't want the if-then statement here): apply_some_function <- function(data,function_name) { if(function_name=="mean") { return(mean(data)) }

Function/file names are hypothetical. Say I have written myfunction.R, which calls myfunction.c via .C("myfunction", ...). I've compiled successfully myfunction.c via R CMD SHLIB myfunction.c in the terminal. Then, in the R console: dyn.load("myfunction.so") source("myfunction.R") test <- myfunction() # works fine So everything is in order, myfunction works

Dear R community, You may have the solution to how to construct a function using the function "source()" to build the function; i.e. myfunction <- function(...){ source('file1.r') source('file2.r') } After compiling and installing the "myfunction" in R, then calling the "myfunction" gives an error because the content of 'file1.r' and

Hi everyone, I made some tests with Rcmdr, to add a function with default parameters : For example (very simple): myfunction<-function(var="314"){ print("hello") print(var) } if I run myfunction() directly i see : > myfunction() [1] "hello" [1] "314" it's ok. But if i edit de Rcmdr-menu.txt (in

I have a function myFunction(beta,x) where beta is a vector of coefficients and x is a data frame (think of it as a matrix). I want to optimize the function myFunction() by ONLY changing beta, i.e. x stays constant, with 4 constraints. I have the following code (with a separate source file for the function): rm(list=ls()) source('mySourceFile')

I'm trying to redirect where temporary files go under R to D:\temp\somerandomname from its default (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Temp\somerandomname) -- how do I go about doing this? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The Barn, Room 250N Davis, CA 95616

Hi there: I'm trying to run a large number of nonlinear regressions on a time series dataset, where the data will be formatted something to the effect of: ObservationID,time,dependentvar I'll have a number of time and dependentvars for each observation, and I want to apply a nonlinear regression to one ObservationID at a time, and I want to have a dataset that is the parameter

I was hoping I could get some help with an import question. I work with remote sensing imagery which commonly comes in binary form in various interleaving formats (byte interleaved by line, by pixel, etc..). These files are 2d spatial x B bands in size, and I want to be able to extract the band values from various pixels (so each line of data into R would be one pixel x B bands). What's the