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I'm going to try my hand at converting some Fortran programs to R. Does anyone know of any good articles giving hints at such tasks? I will post a selective summary of my gleanings. Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz

I found myself wanting to average a vector [vec] within each level of a factor [Fac], returning a vector of the same length as vec. After a while I realised that lm1 <- lm(vec ~ Fac) fitted(lm1) did what I want. But there must be another way to do this, and it would be good to be able to apply other functions than mean() in this way. Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen

I have just installed R 2.11.1 on my XP laptop. I like html help for browsing but text help for on-the-fly look-ups. I was a bit surprised when I was asked to choose between them during the installation. I chose text, thinking I could fix the html help later, which is what I am trying to do now. Now when I ask for html help my browser goes to 'http://-ip-number-/doc/html/index.html'

Hi all, I have just found out that the machine learning group in our Faculty has a lot of spare capacity on their FreeNX servers. I do not know a lot about these beasts but I understand that they are a free version of something produced by a firm called "NoMachine". They are designed for executing parallel algorithms and I thought that they might be of use in a project of mine

I am exploring the result of clustering a large multivariate data set into a number of groups, represented, say, by a factor G. I wrote a function to see how categorical variables vary between groups: > ddisp <- function(dvar) { + csqt <- chisq.test(G,dvar) + print(csqt$statistic) + print(csqt$observed) + print(round(csqt$expected)) + round(csqt$residuals) + } > > x

Having just update to R 2.6.2 on my old Windows laptop I notice that the number of packages is growing exponentially and my usual approach of get-em-all may not be viable much longer. Has any thought been given to dividing "contributed" binaries into a recommended set, perhaps a couple of hundred, and the remained. That way one could install the recommended ones routinely and add in

I can ask my question using and example from Chapter 1 of Pinheiro & Bates. > # 1.4 An Analysis of Covariance Model > > OrthoFem <- Orthodont[ Orthodont$Sex == "Female", ] > fm1OrthF <- + lme( distance ~ age, data = OrthoFem, random = ~ 1 | Subject ) > summary( fm1OrthF ) Linear mixed-effects model fit by REML Data: OrthoFem AIC BIC

If I want to display a few polynomial regression fits I can do something like for (i in 1:6) { mod <- lm(y ~ poly(x,i)) print(summary(mod)) } Suppose that I don't want to over-write the fitted model objects, though. How do I create a list of blank fitted model objects for later use in a loop? Murray Jorgensen -- Dr Murray Jorgensen

How do you stop R from putting up a dialog box when you quit Rgui? (I use Windows and I never save workspaces that way) Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home

I'm running R 1.2.2 under windows 98 on a Pentium 133 laptop. I can't seem to retrieve the package MASS data sets: > library(MASS) > data(wtloss) Warning message: Data set `wtloss' not found in: data(wtloss) > data(abbey) Warning message: Data set `abbey' not found in: data(abbey) And yet all the .rda files for the MASS datasets are in D:\Program

I would like a function to strip quotes off character strings. I should work like this: > A <- matrix(1:6, nrow = 2, ncol=3) > AF <- as.data.frame(A) > names(AF) <- c("First","Second","Third") > AF First Second Third 1 1 3 5 2 2 4 6 > names(AF)[2] [1] "Second" > attach(AF) >

The birth weight example from ?stepAIC in package MASS runs well as indeed it should. However when I change stepAIC() calls to step() calls I get warning messages that I don't understand, although the output is similar. Warning messages: 1: In model.response(m, "numeric") : using type="numeric" with a factor response will be ignored (and three more the same.) Checked

I am wondering how to interpret the parameter estimates that lm() reports in this sort of situation: y = round(rnorm(n=24,mean=5,sd=2),2) A = gl(3,2,24,labels=c("one","two","three")) B = gl(4,6,24,labels=c("i","ii","iii","iv")) # Make both observations for A=1, B=4 missing y[19] = NA y[20] = NA data.frame(y,A,B) nonadd = lm(y ~

Greetings all. Any help with the following would be appreciated. I want to create a data frame for each file in a directory. The following code does not work but it may show what I am trying to do: carmakes <- c('BMW','Chrysler','Citroen','Fiat','Ford','Holden','Honda',

Consider the following: > A <- 1:10 > A [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > dim(A) NULL > dim(A) <- c(2,5) > A [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 3 5 7 9 [2,] 2 4 6 8 10 > dim(A) [1] 2 5 > dim(A) <- 10 > A [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > dim(A) [1] 10 Would it not make sense to have dim(A) = length(A) for all vectors?

[Using R 2.2.0 on Windows XP; OK, OK, I will update soon!] I have noticed some undesirable behaviour when applying ifelse to a data frame. Here is my code: A <- scan() 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0 0.00000 0.027702 0.972045 0.000253 0 0.00000 A <- matrix(A,nrow=2,ncol=5,byrow=T) A == 0 ifelse(A==0,0,-A*log(A)) A <- as.data.frame(A) ifelse(A==0,0,-A*log(A)) and this is the output:

I want to interlace two vectors. This I can do: > x <- 1:4 > z <- x+0.5 > as.vector(t(cbind(x,z))) [1] 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 but this seems rather inelegant. Any suggestions? Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz

I got a shock a few days ago when I accidentally visited www.r-project.com . I thought that the r-project site had been hacked until I realised my mistake. There is also a site www.r-project.net. Both of these sites appear to be Japanese. Does anyone know anything about them? I suppose that it is not unusual for names close to those of popular sites to be used. It is good that they use a

The following reproducable code shows the setting of my problem: set.seed(260808) n = 50 x = rnorm(n) y = rnorm(n) z = ceiling(runif(n,0,4)) g = runif(n,0,6) G = factor(ceiling(g)) xyplot(y ~ x | G) plsy <- trellis.par.get("plot.symbol") plsy$pch = z trellis.par.set("plot.symbol",plsy) xyplot(y ~ x | G) plsy$pch = as.character(z)

I have the feeling that this is a dumb question but oh well ... When I have an object x with several attributes, y <- x will make a copy of x with all the attributes included. What if I just want y to get the value assigned but nothing else (no class, names, dim or other attributes)? Johann -- Phone/FAX/Adr/PGPkey ... at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~johann