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DeaR ComRades, This is a quote from a News article in Science's 11-February issue, about competitions to model data: "For Chris Raimondi, a search-engine expert based in Baltimore, Maryland, and winner of the HIV-treatment competition, the Kaggle contest motivated him to hone his skills in a newly learned computer language called R, which he used to encode the winning data model.

ComRades, How do you put a superscript on a scalable delimiter? I want to put 'b' as the power of the expression in the following plot: t <- 1:25 K <- 0.2 y <- ((1-exp(-K*t))/(1-exp(-K*t)*exp(K)))^3 plot(t,y,"l",main="K=0.2, b=3") text(15,5,expression(bgroup("(",frac(1-e^-Kt,1-e^-Kt*e^K),")"))) Plotmath examples in demo(plotmath) do not

DeaR ComRades, require(lattice) data <- data.frame(SP=sort(rep(as.factor(c('A','B','C','D','E')),12)), x=rpois(60,10), y=rep(c(rep(0,4),rep(10,4),rep(20,4)),5), z=rep(1:4,15)) xyplot(x~y|SP,data=data,groups=z,layout=c(2,3),pch=1:4,lty=1:4,col='black',type='b') How do I put a legend

Dear ComRades, I am having the "wrong MD5 checksums" error with every package I try to install. It happened with R 2.11.0, then I updated to R 2.11.1, same thing. sessionInfo() R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C

De: Rubén Roa Enviado el: jueves, 17 de noviembre de 2011 9:53 Para: 'Users@admb-project.org' Asunto: Reporting a conflict between ADMB and Rtools on Windows systems Hi, I have to work under Windows, it's a company policy. I've just found that there is a conflict between tools used to build R packages (Rtools) and ADMB due to the need to put Rtools compiler's

Hola, ¿qué tal? Me han pedido que genere unos gráficos para insertarlos en un docuemento de Word. Yo suelo generar gráficas en formato PNG, pero me han dicho que "quedan mal". Y yo apenas sé nada de Word. ¿Cuál sería el formato gráfico más adecuado en este caso? Un saludo y muchas gracias, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta http://www.datanalytics.com

Dear R Helpers, I have attempted "optim" function to solve a two-dimensional optimization problem. It took around 25 second to complete the procedure. However, I want to reduce the computation time: less than 7 second. Is there any optimization function in R which is very rapid? Best Regards, Wonsang ----- Wonsang You Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology -- View this message in

I know this a newbie question, but I've only just started using AIC for model comparison and after a bunch of different keyword searches I've failed to find a page laying out what the differences are between the AIC scores assigned by AIC() and mle.aic() using default settings. I started by using mle.aic() to find the best submodels, but then I wanted to also be able to make comparisons

Podrías mandar un summary de tu conjunto de datos o un str para ver por que no puede estimar esos efectos, también sería útil el resultado de with(tusdatos, table(Landscape,Crop,Position)) Gabriela

I am using semiparametric Model  library(mgcv) sm1=gam(y~x1+s(x2),family=binomial, f) How should I  find out standard error for ed50 for the above model ED50 =( -sm1$coef[1]-f(x2)) / sm1$coef [2]   f(x2) is estimated value for non parametric term.   Thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi folks, I've been using 'PBSmapping' to make a map of Europe with some labels. I've been using the 'worldLL' PolyData, as my computer is too slow to make my own from the GSHHS files. The only problem is this PolyData does not seem to include Ireland. I have no idea why this should be so, other European islands such as Sardinia etc. are included.

Buenos días a todos, Una pregunta muy sencilla, podrían por favor informarme dónde puedo conocer el significado de símbolos como $, %, == que se utilizan frecuentemente en R? Gracias, Angela C. ---- *Angela Andrea Camargo Sanabria* Estudiante Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas Laboratorio de Ecología de poblaciones y comunidades tropicales Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas (CIEco) UNAM,

I am looking to build simple GUIs based on the R codes I have. The main objective is to hide the scary R codes from non-programming people and make it easier for them to try out different inputs. For example, 1. The GUI will have means to upload a csv file which will be read by the R code. 2. A button to preprocess data (carried out by a R function behind) 3. A button to build some models

Hi, How could i generate random real numbers between 0 en 2*pi? Thanks, Frederik [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R helpers, I have a bimodal dataset dealing with loss amounts. I have divided this dataset into two with the bounds for the first dataset i.e. dataset-A being 5,000$ to 100,000$ and the dataset-B deals with the losses exceeding 100,000$ i.e. dataset-B is left truncated. I need to fit truncated normal disribution to dataset - I having lower bound of 5000 and upper bound of 100,000. While I

Hola. Tengo un archivo de texto con formato Ansi en Windows que lo quiero convertir en una serie temporal pero cuando lo trato de hacer con el siguiente comando: out <- read.zoo(readLines(con <- file("log2.log", encoding="UCS-2LE")),FUN = as.chron) Me da los siguientes errores: Error en file(file, "rt") : no se puede abrir la conexión Además: Mensajes de

Hi R users, I would like to add year information to each point in a scatter plot. The following example shows what i mean: df=data.frame(year=c(2001,2002,2003),a=c(8,9,7),b=c(100,90,95)) df plot(b~a,data=df) Now, I would like to see which point belongs to 2001, 2002 and 2003 in the above graphic. Thank you very much, ozan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, I am running a simulation in which I randomly generate a series of vectors to test whether they fulfill a certain condition. In most cases, there is no problem. But from time to time, the (randomly) generated vectors are too large for my system and I get the error message: "Cannot allocate vector of size x". The problem is that in those cases my simulation stops and I have to

Dear All, I am working on a dataset having the dependent variable as ordinal data(discrete data) and multiple independent variables. I need to find the likelihood for the NULL model.i.e the model with only the dependent variable and all other independent variables as zero. Kindly let me know how to find the likelihood for a NULL model in R. Is there any specific function in R that can do

Generally you'd use file() to open the file, then use readLines(), say inside a while() loop to read one `chunk' at a time. However, your example looks a bit strange. The possibility of empty line makes it a bit more complicated, by that last couple of lines seems to suggest that you could have a line of data follow by another line of data without variable label. If that's true, I