similar to: Creating functions of "many" arguments

Dear R-users, I've been using R for a while and I am very satisfied! Unfortunately, I still have not figured out an efficient and general way to construct and use lags of time series, especially when I need to work with different packages. Let me give an example. I have two time series x and y and I want to estimate a variaty of distributed lags models and run different tests

I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions. -- Jari Oksanen in Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of: 'Impatient R' 'The R

I'm interested in using a data frame as if it were a hash table. For instance if I had the following, > (d <- data.frame(key=seq(0.5, 3, 0.5), value=rnorm(6))) key value 1 0.5 -1.118665122 2 1.0 0.465122921 3 1.5 -0.529239211 4 2.0 -0.147324638 5 2.5 -1.531503795 6 3.0 -0.002720434 Then I'd like to be able to quickly retrieve the "value" of "key" 1.5

Hi All, I'm planning to submit my first package to R, and although I read all the documentation, I'm not very clear on the following 2 items, from which I'd appreciate your guidance: 1)I understand it is suggested to use the R dev version to build the package. Which one specifically should I use to build a package on a Mac OS? How about package dependencies, which version should I

R-help is all about solving R problems. So here ya go: http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2011/09/12/solve-your-r-problems/ -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com twitter: @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' and 'The R Inferno')

Is there a reason that 'which.min' and 'which.max' don't have an 'arr.ind' argument? The context in which I wanted that was a grid search optimization, which seems like it would be reasonably common to me. -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' and 'The R Inferno')

I've just realized that it could be handy to have a 'decreasing' argument in 'is.unsorted'. And I'm cheekily hoping someone else will implement it. It is easy enough to work around (with 'rev'), but would be less hassle with an argument. The case I have in mind uses 'is.unsorted' in 'stopifnot'. Pat -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com

Hi All, I didn't have much success through my Google search in finding any active R-related projects to create a wrapper around TensorFlow in R. Anyone know if this is on the go? Thanks, Axel. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi All, I didn't have much success through my Google search in finding any active R-related projects to create a wrapper around TensorFlow in R. Anyone know if this is on the go? Thanks, Axel. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear List, The gbm package on Win 7 produces different results for the relative importance of input variables in R 32-bit relative to R 64-bit. Any idea why? Any idea which one is correct? Based on this example, it looks like the relative importance of 2 perfectly correlated predictors is "diluted" by half in 32-bit, whereas in 64-bit, one of these predictors gets all the importance

* 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

Dear List, I'm trying to solve this simple optimization problem in R. The parameters are the exponents to the matrix mm. The constraints specify that each row of the parameter matrix should sum to 1 and their product to 0. I don't understand why the constraints are not satisfied at the solution. I must be misinterpreting how to specify the constrains somehow. library(alabama) ff <-

Pat Burns makes a good point. -Peter -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [R] Using seq_len() vs 1:n Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:01:20 +0000 From: Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com> To: Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca> References: <4B746AEF.10900 at ucalgary.ca> If you want your code to be compatible with S+, then 'seq_len' isn't going to work.

Dear R users, I know this issue came up in the list several times. I’m currently running R on 32-bit on Windows and due to memory limitation problems would like to move to a 64-bit environment. I’m exploring my options and would appreciate your expertise: 1) Windows 64-bit: Prof. Brian Ripley recently posted the experimental built of R for win 64-bit. I’ll appreciate any feedback on

The order() function allows you to specify multiple vectors, which are used successively to break ties. If I want to use many vectors to break ties (say, 25 or more), that are columns of a matrix or elements of a list, does anyone know a shortcut to do this without passing 25 arguments to order()? -- Levi Waldron post-doctoral fellow Jurisica Lab, Ontario Cancer Institute Division of Signaling

Dear List, I'm trying to add a function that calls a Shiny App in my R package. The issue is that within my function, I'm creating objects that I'd like to pass to the app. For instance, from the example below, I'm getting "Error: object 'xs' not found". How can I pass "xs" explicitly to shinyApp()? *Under R directory:* myApp <- function(x, ...) {

Hi, I'm looking to move from Windows into a 64-bit Linux environment. Which is the best Linux Flavor to use within R? To install R on this environment, do I need to do any compiling? Thanks all! Axel. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, Through the following code, I wanted to perform correlation test repetedly (through loop) on different combinations of variables of a data set. Code: x=read.table("sample.txt",header=T,sep="\t") out="corout.txt" sink(out) nm = names(x) print(nm) nvr=3 # nvr=Total no. of variables in the input data file for (i in 1:(nvr-1)) { for(j in (i+1):nvr) { frm=

Hi All, I've been fiddling around with various ways to estimate the popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, JMP, Minitab, Statistica, Systat, BMDP, S-PLUS, R-PLUS and Revolution R. It's not an easy task. You can see what I've come up with so far at http://r4stats.com/popularity . I'm sure people will have plenty of ideas on how to improve this, so please let me know what you think.

Dear Axel, I've used environment for such problems. assign("xs", xs, envir = my.env) in the myApp function get("xs", envir = my.env) in the server function Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus/ Statiscian Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie &