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Good morning, dear listers I am wondering if you could recommend a good tutorial / book for r scripting. thank you so much in advance! WenSui Liu Credit Risk Manager, 53 Bancorp wensui.liu at 53.com 513-295-4370

Dear Listers, Is there any good paper about how to use R together with VB? Thank you so much! -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Listers, I've been a big fan of R since graduate school. After working in the industry for years, I haven't had many opportunities to use R and am mainly using SAS. However, I am still forcing myself really hard to stay close to R by reading R-help and books and writing R code by myself for fun. But by and by, I start realizing I have hard time to keep up with R and am afraid that I

Hi all, does anyone know why the area under the curve (AUC) is negative? I'm using ROC function with a logistic regression, package Epi. First time it happens... Thanks a lot! Bruno -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/ROC-Curve-negative-AUC-tp4650469.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why? How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.

Dear All, I am using randomForest to predict the final selling price of some items. As it often happens, I have a lot of (noisy) historical data, but the question is not so much about data cleaning. The dataset for which I need to carry out some predictions are fairly recent sales or even some sales that will took place in the near future. As a consequence, historical data should be somehow

Hi, Does anyone know of a function in R that can handle a fractional variable as the dependent variable? The catch is that the function has to be inclusive of 0 and 1, which betareg() does not. It seems like GLM might be able to handle the fractional logit model, but I can't figure it out. How do you format GLM to do so? Best, Rachael [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I remember in one slide of Prof. Ripley's presentation overhead, he said the most popular data analysis software is excel. So is there any resource or tutorial on this topic? Thank you so much!

Dear Listers, My post might be somewhat OT. Currently, I am trying to use flexmix to build a finite mixture model. For instance, I am getting the prior probability and coefficients for each latent class from training data. Is there a way to get the posterior probablity and prediction of a new dataset? What I am thinking is to apply the prior prob and coefficient from training set to testing data

Happy new year, dear listers, I have a question about Rsqlite. when I fetch the data out of sqlite database, there is something like '\r\n' at the end of last column. Here is the example: Sepal_Length Sepal_Width Petal_Length Petal_Width Species 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa\r\n 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa\r\n 3

Dear Listers, If I have several glm objects with names glm1, glm2.... and want to apply new data to these objects. Instead of typing "predict(glm1, newdata)..." 100 times, is there way I could do so in a loop? Thank you so much! wensui [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Listers, I have 2 questions regarding xml. 1) how to read/write tables in xml? 2) compared with csv, is xml a better way to transfer data cross systems/applications? Thank you so much for your insight. -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML

Sometimes, it is too costly to read the whole data file into R. I am looking for solution in scan() and read.Lines() but don't they work. Thank you so much! -- ============================== WenSui Liu Acquisition Risk, Chase Blog : statcompute.spaces.live.com Tough Times Never Last. But Tough People Do. - Robert Schuller

Dear Lister, plot() is using the data range as the default limits of yaxis. Is there any way I can change the limits? I just look at the help of plot() and par() and couldn't find answers. Thanks. -- WenSui Liu (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center

Dear Lister, If I have a list of number, say x<-c(0.1, 0.5, 0.6...), how to use a for() to loop through each number in x one by one? Thank you so much! wensui [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I would like to test in R what regression fits my data best. My dependent variable is a count, and has a lot of zeros. And I would need some help to determine what model and family to use (poisson or quasipoisson, or zero-inflated poisson regression), and how to test the assumptions. 1) Poisson Regression: as far as I understand, the strong assumption is that dependent variable mean = variance.

dear listers, right now, we are trying to use r to implement sas dde function, e.g. interact with excel. however, we can't find a way to call vba from r？ any insight is appreciated. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I need to aggregate rows of a data.frame by computing the mean for rows with the same factor-level on one factor-variable; here is the sample code: x <- data.frame(rep(letters,2), rnorm(52), rnorm(52), rnorm(52)) aggregate(x, list(x[,1]), mean) Now my problem is, that the actual data-set is much bigger (120 rows and approximately 100.000 columns) ? and it takes very very long

Dear Lister, I understand I can put '#' to put comment line by line. But is there a way to put comment with multiple lines without having to put '#' on the every line? Thanks.

I am writing a program in which I would like to take in a formula, change the response (Y) variable into something else, and then pass the formula, with the new Y variable to another function. That is, I am starting with formula <- Y~X1+X2+X3 and I'd like to do something like Y <- formula$Y newY <- f(Y) lm(newY~X1+X2+X3) So far, it seems that my