similar to: Fwd: WHO Anthro growth curve macros and R

Hi all, I've got a project where I have to calculate weight-for-age Z-scores, preferably using the WHO standards. WHO have been very nice to publish macros for doing this in both STATA,SPSS, SAS and Splus formats (see http://www.who.int/childgrowth/software/en/), but for some reason have chosen not to use the free R alternative to Splus. In the Splus zipfile there are nine datafiles with a

Dear Gustaf, I wish you a happy new year! I am a PhD Staff at LSHTM and I have been trying to use WHO anthro macros in R with the file you posted on internet but when I double check the WHZ, HAZ, WAZ output with output from ENA or STATA, it differs slightly. Do you have any idea why that might be the case? Many thanks Severine

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gustaf Rydevik <gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent change in 2.11 that made as.numeric() return false on > difftime-objects broke some of my code that calculated age classes of > individuals using cut(). While this was no big thing to fix for me, it > might be wise > to provide a cut.difftime method to ?stop

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gustaf Rydevik <gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent change in 2.11 that made as.numeric() return false on > difftime-objects broke some of my code that calculated age classes of > individuals using cut(). While this was no big thing to fix for me, it > might be wise > to provide a cut.difftime method to ?stop

Hi All, I think i'm failing to undersatnd how aggregate() is supposed to work. example: test1<-sample(c(0,1),100,replace=T) test2<-sample(letters,100,replace=T) aggregate(test1,list(test2),sum) Error in data.frame(w, lapply(y, unlist, use.names = FALSE)) : arguments imply differing number of rows: 26, 0 I thought this would give me a list containing the number of ones that

Hello. I am trying to write an R function to plot the survival function (and associated hazard and density) for a Siler competing hazards model. This model is similar to the Gompertz-Makeham, with the addition of a juvenile component that includes two parameters---one that describes the initial infant mortality rate, and a negative exponential that describes typical mortality decline over the

Rahul Agarwal Analyst Equities Quantitative Research UBS_ISC, Hyderabad On Net: 19 533 6363 hi let me explain you the problem we have a database which is in this format Stocks 30-Jan-08 28-Feb-08 31-Mar-08 30-Apr-08 a 1.00 3.00 7.00 3.00 b 2.00 4.00 4.00 7.00 c 3.00 8.00 655.00 3.00 d 4.00 23.00 4.00 5.00 e 5.00 78.00 6.00 5.00 and we have a query

Hi all, I'm trying to download a file from the net, and the download.file command leaves it corrupted, i.e excel cannot open it. It seems as if it's going ok, however. Does anyone have an idea of what's going on? regards, Gustaf Rydevik ---- >download.file(url="http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls",destfile="whodem.xls") trying URL

Hi all, I've run into a slightly illogical (to me) behaviour with the "$" subsetting function. consider: > Test A B 1 1 Q 2 2 R > Test$A [1] 1 2 > vector<-"A" > Test$vector NULL > Test$"A" [1] 1 2 > Test[,vector] [1] 1 2 Is there a reason for the $ operator not evaluating the vector before executing? best, Gustaf -- Gustaf

Hi all, In lattice plots, is there any option to position the panel strips with text below each subgraph, instead of above? i.e. in: Depth <- equal.count(quakes$depth, number=8, overlap=.1) xyplot(lat ~ long | Depth, data = quakes) ,is there any way to make "Depth" appear below the subgraphs, instead of above? I've been looking through the lattice documentation and the list

Hi all, I'm trying to get a vertical line at a specific point in a densityplot. abline seems to be what's required, but it doesn't align itself to the scale used in the plot. example: library(lattice) x<-rnorm(100) plot.new() densityplot(x) abline(v=0) ----- The line seems to use some other coordinate system. What kind of call do I use to make abline use the graph's

Hi all, This is perhaps more a statistics question than an R question, but I hope it's OK anyhow. I have some data (see below) with the number of tests positive to subtype H1 of a virus, the number of tests postive to subtype H3, and the total number of tests. This is for two different groups, and the two subtypes are mutually exclusive. What is the best way to test if the proportion of H1

Hi all, I wonder if there is any way to calculate a moving average on an irregular time series, or use the rollapply function in zoo? I have a set of dates where I want to check if there has been an event 14 days prior to each time point in order to mark these timepoints for removal, and can't figure out a good way to do it. Many thanks in advance! Gustaf Example data:

Hi all, I'm currently preparing some figures that will be submitted to PloS One. In their guidelines they state that they will only accept figures in tiff or eps format, with the warning that eps figures will be converted to tiff format ( see http://www.plosone.org/static/figureGuidelines.action ). Because of this conversion, I figured I'd generate tiff-format figures from the beginning.

Hi all, I have a time series which contain data collected weekly from week 26 to week 25 the following year. How do I plot this data, so that the x-axis is displaying the week numbers, ordered as in the data? Thanks in advance, Gustaf --- x<-c(26:52,1:25) y<-rnorm(52)+1:52 plot(x,y) ## How do I get the x axis to be ordered by the current ordering of x? -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel:

Hi all, Is there a simple function already implemented for getting the ISO weeks of a Date object? I couldn't find one, and so wrote my own function to do it, but would appreciate a pointer to the "default" way. If a function is not yet implemented, could the code below be of interest to submit to CRAN? Best Regards, Gustaf --------------------

Hi all, for some reason I always get stuck spending hours when trying to use reshape or the Reshape package. Heaven knows why. My latest frustration (in 2.7.1, so ignore if this has been fixed): test<-data.frame(matrix(rnorm(42*4),ncol=4),rep(1:21,2),rep(c("a","b"),each=21)) reshape(test,varying=list(colnames(test)[1:4]),direction="long")

Hi all, A colleague of mine tried to install the package EMV, which had been removed from CRAN. she ran into some kind of trouble, R locked up, and she closed the program. Now when she starts R, "utils" can't be loaded which of course create an unworkable environment. Below I've copy-pasted the error message she gets when starting R. Any ideas on what went wrong, and more

Hi all, I know I shouldn't really expect the following to work, but it provokes a crash of the GUI on my computer (Win xp professional). --- >sessionInfo() Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) i386-pc-mingw32 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" [7] "base"

Hi all, I hope that there is someone that can help me out here. I am trying to load() a workspace on os x (R 2.11.0) that was saved in windows XP (R 2.9). In that workspace, there's a data.frame with names that contain swedish characters. These characters become garbled, which is a major problem. >From the R windows FAQ, I read: "Note though that character data in a workspace will be