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Colleagues, (R: 2.13.0; OS X) I often receive sequential datasets in which there are new rows interposed between existing rows. For example: SET1 <- data.frame(list(LETTERS=LETTERS[c(1:4, 6:10)], NUMBERS=c(1:4, 6:10))) SET2 <- data.frame(list(LETTERS=LETTERS[1:10], NUMBERS=1:10)) > SET1 LETTERS NUMBERS 1 A 1 2 B 2 3 C 3 4 D 4 5

R version: 2.13.1 OS X Colleagues, I am working with a CSV file; for testing purposes, I created an XLS version of the file. When I read these files using read.xls (gdata) or read.csv, I encounter an error: Error in type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec, na.strings = character(0L)) : invalid multibyte string at '<b0>C' The error occurs whether or not I invoke

R version 2.13.1 OS X (or Windows) Colleagues, I received a number of files with a .xls extension. These files open in XL and, by all appearances, are XL files. However, it appears to me that the files are actually XML: > readLines(dir()[16])[1:10] [1] "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>" [2] "<Workbook

Colleagues R 2.10.1 on a Mac I read in textfiles using readLines, then I process those files, then I use R to execute another program. Occasionally those files contain characters other than letter / numbers / routine punctuation marks. For example, a bullet (option-8 on a Mac) triggers the problem. Although R can read and process those characters, the other program cannot so I would like to

Colleagues R: 2.12.2 OS X I have a set of text objects in the form (I am showing 3 of what is more likely to be 20 or so): OBJECTS <- c("abcSOMETHINGCOMMONegf", "xSOMETHINGCOMMONyz", "SOMETHINGCOMMONnme") As you can see, all contain "SOMETHINGCOMMON" and the position varies. But, I don't know what that "SOMETHINGCOMMON" is. Is there an

R 2.12.2 Windows 7 Colleagues, I just took advantage of the function: readWindowsShortcut in R.utils. It accomplished my goals and I was interested in learning its inner workings. So, I typed the function at the command line (without arguments or parentheses). R returned: function (...) UseMethod("readWindowsShortcut") <environment: namespace:R.utils> providing no

Colleagues, What is the easiest means to embed a: ? (registered) or ? (trademark) sign in text in a graphic. I would like to use mtext and avoid plotmath, if possible. Ideally, the sign should be superscripted but I can easily sacrifice that. Optimally, I need a solution that works in both OS X and Windows (? XP) and with R versions ? 2.11 Thanks in advance. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P <

Colleagues I am executing a length script in R (20K lines). At one point, it returns: > Loading required package: tcltk > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done > Loading required package: Hmisc > Loading required package: survival > Loading required package: stats > Loading required package: graphics > Loading required package: splines > Attaching package: 'Hmisc'

Colleagues, I am trying to understand how R (2.12.1) obtains the PATH environment variable in Windows (7 or Vista). Startup {base} directs one to: "R_ENVIRON" -- which equals "" in my systems R_HOME/etc/Renviron.site -- which does not exist Next, it directs to: R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site -- which also does not exist (the expected behavior in a "factory-fresh"

R 2.15.1 OS X.7.4 Colleagues, I have a large dataset (27773536 records, the file is several GB) that contains a column of date / time entries in the format: "2/1/2011 13:25:01" I need to convert these to numeric values (ideally in seconds; the origin [e.g., 1970-01-01] is not important). I am using: as.numeric(strptime(DATA$DATADTM, "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")) It takes 21

Colleagues OS 10.5 R: 2.10.1 I have a simple x-y plot for which I would like to shade the lower (or upper) part of the interior region (i.e., the area bounded by the axes). If the delineation between top and bottom were linear, it would be use to use the polygon function. However, the delineation is a curve (which I can describe by an equation). In theory, I could divide the x-axis into a

Colleagues, [R 2.11; OS X] I am processing a file on the fly that contains the following text: XXX?? [email clients may display this differently -- the string is three X's followed by two instances of the letter a with an acute accent] I read the file with: X <- readLines(FILENAME) In this instance, the text of interest is on line 213. When I examine line 213, it reads: XXX\xe1\xe1

Colleagues Assume that I have a vector containing some text strings, some of which contain a particular character. I could like to apply "toupper" to the text before the character. For example (in this case, "|" is the particular character): ORIGINAL: TEXT <- c("aaaa", "bbb|cc", "|ddd") AFTER APPLICATION OF toupper: TEXT <-

Colleagues, I am using R (2.9.2, all platforms) to search for a complicated text string using regular expressions. I would appreciate any help you can provide. The string consists of the following elements: SOMEWORDWITHNOSPACES any number of spaces and/or tabs ( any number of spaces and/or tabs integer any number of spaces and/or tabs ) Examples include: WORD ( 123 ) WORD(1 )

Mark Thanks for pointing this out. I did a default installation of R. Does this mean that I need to reinstall from the command line? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com <http://www.plessthan.com/> > On Nov 30, 2017, at 6:42 PM, R. Mark Sharp <rmsharp at me.com> wrote: > >

Luke Thanks ? I revised the code to: ERRORMESSAGE <- try(source(USERSCRIPTFILE, local=T), silent=T) print(ERRORMESSAGE) now returns: $value [1] 0 $visible [1] FALSE Not clear what to make of that. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com > On Feb 22, 2018, at 12:45 PM, luke-tierney at

When I create pdf documents in R using pdf(), each page has text in the outer margin indicating the page number. I track page numbers in a cumbersome manner. Is the page number in a multi-page document tracked internally by par() or some other function? Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-8864) Fax: 1-415-564-2220 www.PLessThan.com

Colleagues, (Running R 2.7.0) I have a script that I want to delete as it completes execution. The penultimate line of the script (before the quit command) is: file.remove("Scriptname") The script is executed as: R --no-save < Scriptname In OS X and Linux this is successful and returns: > > file.remove("x") > [1] TRUE and the file is deleted In Windows XP,

Will this need to be done many times? If not, it might be just as easy to apply conditional formatting to cells after they're already in Excel. On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:28 PM Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote: > > R 4.0.2 > OS X > > Colleagues > > I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables (destined for a Word document). I need to

Colleagues, I am trying to create a PDF document in which I use margin text with two different fonts. The resulting text might be: XXXXXyZZZ where X and Z are one font and Y is the other. My plan was to do this in the following manner: mtext("XXXXX ZZZ", cex=2, adj=0.5, family=SOMEFONT) mtext("Y", cex=2, adj=??, family=DIFFERENTFONT) My question regards how to calculate