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Hi is there an easy and fast way, to generate a BibTeX file of all installed / loaded packages and R? I know about toBibtex(citation()) to extract the BibTeX for a single package, but how can I generate a file containg citations for all installed / loaded packages? Cheers, Rainer -- NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!! Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT),

Hi Let's assume, I have a dataset of 1000 datapoints, which represent daily recordings of a measurement. They are stored as a ts object (see example below) Now I want to represent them as a barplot. I found the barplot in the zoo package, but I have one problem: the x-axis labels. I would like to have the x-axis labels as either years only (located at the beginning of the year), or

Hi I upgraded to R 2.10.0, and I encounter a problem with some packages on R, installed via apt-get.. They are still compiled by 2.9 and give me an warning when I load the packages. Will these packages be recompiled with R 2.10, or should I rather switch to self-compiling? Cheers, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys.

Hi This is OT, but I need it for my simulation in R. I have a special case for sampling with replacement: instead of sampling once and replacing it immediately, I sample n times, and then replace all n items. So: N entities x samples with replacement each sample consists of n sub-samples WITHOUT replacement, which are all replaced before the next sample is drawn My question is: which

Hi I know this only affects a small number of subscribers, so I apologize to the "Non Stellenbosch University subscribers" for the noise. Two weeks ago, four R users met and discussed the possibility of forming an interest group of R users at SUN. The interest group (R at SUN) has the aim of: ? Promote the use of R at SUN (Stellenbosch University); ? Organize Hons stats courses using

Hi I am using Ubuntu Hardy, and I installing many packages from source. I am keeping my R packages fairly up to date. My question is: is there a way, of keeping the source packages, so that when I am installing a new version of R, an update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) will only fetch the packages when newer ones are available, but otherwise will use the local copies? To rephrase it, is it

Hi is there an alternative to par(new), for ading data to a plot for a different y-axis? My problem with par(new=TRUE) is, that it re-defines all axis and labels (as in example 1) and one has to use xlim=... to fix the x-axis. I am looking for something, which simply resets the y-axis, so that a new plot() (or points()/lines()) keeps the x-axis, but re-defines the y-axis. Is there something

Hi I want to change a control parameter for an nls () as I am getting an error message "step factor 0.000488281 reduced below 'minFactor' of 0.000976562". Despite all tries, it seems that the control parameter of the nls, does not seem to get handed down to the function itself, or the error message is using a different one. Below system info and an example highlighting the

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I want to increase the size of the text for xlab in the plot command: plot(1,1, xlab="Label") I tried cex, cex.caption and others, but none worked. Is there a way of using cex=2 for the xlab? Thanks, Rainer - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I have to replace the last element of a vector with 0, but the length of x is not known at coding time. So I do the following: x <- 1:10 x x[length(x)] <- 0 x it is working nicely, but I am wondering: is there a more elegant solution( like tail(x, 1) <- 0 , which does not work)? Thanks, Rainer - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I know there is a function - I have used it before - but I always forget what it is called... I need the combination of two character vectors, i.e: x <- c("a", "b") y <- c("x", "y") z <- THEFUNCTION(x, y) z == c("ax", "ay", "bx", "by") I promise I will

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Assuming the following: > x <- data.frame(a=1:10, b=runif(10)) > str(x) 'data.frame': 10 obs. of 2 variables: $ a: int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 $ b: num 0.692 0.325 0.634 0.16 0.873 ... > write.csv(x, "x.csv") > x2 <- read.csv("x.csv") > str(x2) 'data.frame': 10 obs. of 3 variables: $ X:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I would like to add a line to the plot of the data panel of a stl decomposed time series. Example: plot(stl(nottem, "per")) plots a 4(or is t 8?) panel graph. I thought that I might be able to use mfg to plot in the top (left?) panel ("data"), but it is not working. Any help appreciated, Rainer - -- Rainer M. Krug,

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi rgl crashes my R session, when resizing the rgl graphic window. I am using Ubuntu Maversick, with dual monitor setup. If I disconnect one monitor, I can resize it "a little bit", but it still craches if I enlarge it to much. I assume that the problem has to do with allocated graphic memory in the kernel, but why is R crashing

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi rgl crashes my R session, when resizing the rgl graphic window. I am using Ubuntu Maversick, with dual monitor setup. If I disconnect one monitor, I can resize it "a little bit", but it still craches if I enlarge it to much. I assume that the problem has to do with allocated graphic memory in the kernel, but why is R crashing

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I know this has been asked before, but I can not find it - so my apologies. I want to compile R myself, to optimize it for speed. There is a small section (a few lines actually) in the R-admin manual (Compilation-flags) which states that the LDFLAGS "on recent systems ?'-Bdirect,--hash-style=both,-Wl,-O1'? is recommended". But

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am writing simulations in R, and quite regularly, I have to save lists and objects to HDD and load it later again. So I am wondering: why is there no function to write lists (and S3, S4 objects) onto HDD WITHOUT keeping the name? What I mean is: For data.frames I can use x <- data.frame(x = runif(10)) write.table(x, "x.txt) rm(x) y

Hi I know how to referenc R in a scientific paper - but is there a standardised way to reference packages? Thanks Rainer -- NEW EMAIL ADDRESS AND ADDRESS: Rainer.Krug at uct.ac.za RKrug at sun.ac.za WILL BE DISCONTINUED END OF MARCH Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Plant Conservation Unit Department of Botany University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7701

Hi I am trying to install the package "pheno", but it needs the package "nprq" by Roger Koenker et al. which I can I find this package? It does not seem to be on CRAN and googling also doesn't give me an URL - is it still somewhere available? Thanks, Rainer -- NEW EMAIL ADDRESS AND ADDRESS: Rainer.Krug at uct.ac.za RKrug at sun.ac.za WILL BE DISCONTINUED END OF

Hi I am sure this is simple - but how can I convert one charecter vector into one string? example: x <- c("This ", "is ", "one ", "sentence.") should become "This is one entence" Thanks Rainer -- NEW EMAIL ADDRESS AND ADDRESS: Rainer.Krug at uct.ac.za RKrug at sun.ac.za WILL BE DISCONTINUED END OF MARCH Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys.