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Dear R-users, I am trying to port to R something that I wrote in Matlab to perform model parameter optimization using the Nelder-Mead simplex method (fminsearch). I read the help on ?optim (which seems to be the way to go) as well as a bunch of posts on the topic, but I would like to make sure about something before I spend to much time trying to reproduce something that is not possible. The

Dear R-users, In the R internals manual, it is said that one can extract the elements of the dot-dot-dot argument using the special symbols ..1 or ..2. It seems to work just fine but I was wondering if there is a way one can extract or modify the content of the dot-dot-dot argument using a level name instead of its position? For instance, assuming that list(...) returns: $a [1] 1 2 3 4 5

Dear R-users, I would need some advices on the proper way to call a particular function. This function is called scope.char and it is embedded in the step.gam function from the gam package. I am trying to call scope.char directly in a script but I did not find the proper way to do so. Is this even possible? If so, what is the proper syntax? Thank you for your time and help. Sebastien

Dear R-users, Is there a easy way to access to a complete listing of available functions from a R session? The help.start() and ? functions are great, but I feel like they require the user to know the answer in advance (especially with respect to function names)... I could not find a easy way to simply browse through a list of functions and randomly pick one function to see what is does. Is

Dear R-users, I have found this not-so-recent post in the archives - http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/00a/0291.html - while I was looking for a particular way to reorder factor levels. The question addressed by the author was to know if the read.table function could be modified to order the levels of newly created factors "according to the order that they appear in the data

Dear R-users, By default, the xyplot function automatically defines the axis ranges based upon the content of y and x variables. However, when one includes some calls to other panel.<something> functions in the panel argument, the results might be out of range and not show up in the final graphs (see lower ends of the loess line in the following example). Is there a way one can capture the

Dear R users, I am currently writing the documentation for my first package. I have created a short user manual using sweave/pdflatex which is distinct from the manual/summary-of-package-functions created by R CMD CHECK. I was wondering how could I seamlessly combine both documents. Thanks for your help Sebastien [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-users, I want to give a try to Sweave and Latex but I am having some problems compiling my .Rnw files within Kile. I have followed the recommendations given in http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/help/08/10/4277, but they do not seem to address my particular problem. I am using R 2.11.0 and Kile v 2.0.83 on an OpenSUSE11.2 installation (KDE 4.3 environment). According to the log (see

Hi, Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I found the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package. Problems: 1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like the order function does 2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5

Dear R-users, The sasxport.get function (from the Hmisc package) automatically defines the class of imported variables. I have noticed that the class of theoretically numeric variables is simply "labelled", although character variables might end up been defined as "labelled" "Date" or "labelled" "factor". Is there a way to tell sasxport.get to

Hi, The help page for subset states "subset: logical expression indicating elements or rows to keep: missing values are taken as false." Before I try to re-invent the wheel, I would like to know if one of the base or recommended packages would contain a variant of the subset function that would consider missing values as true. Thanks

Dear R-users, I have got the following problem. I need to create 4x2 arrays of xyplot's on several pages. The plots are created within a loop and plotted using the print function. It seems that I cannot find the proper grid syntax with my viewports, and the more/newpage arguments. The following script is a simplification but hopefully will suffice to illustrate my problem. Any suggestion

Dear R-users, I am trying to understand what the different padding arguments in trellis.par.set are exactly controlling the space around lattice plots. I have used the following code as a basis for testing but it did not really help me to visualize how the value of each argument changes the margins and the plotting area. I guess a better way to visualize the effects of these padding items

Dear R-users, I am trying to produce (standard and trellis) scatterplots which use the same range of the x and y axes. In addition, I would like the plots to be physically square. Is there one or more specific argument(s) to plot and xyplot what would do that? I have looked at various combinations of asp and pin value, but could not get what I wanted.. Thank you in advance for your help

1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like the order function does This is tangential, but do.call(order, mydataframe) is not safe to use in a general purpose function either - you need to remove the names from the second argument: > d <- data.frame(method=c("New","New","Old","Old","Old"),

Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2018, at 9:06 PM, Sebastien Bihorel <sebastien.bihorel at cognigencorp.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > The help page for subset states "subset: logical expression indicating elements or rows to keep: missing values are taken as false." > > Before I try to re-invent the wheel, I would like to know if one of the base or recommended

Dear R-users, The following question bothered me for the whole afternoon: how can one pass a string as the conditioning argument to subset? I tried plain mystr, eval(mystr), expression(mystr), etc... I don't to be able to find the correct syntax > foo <- data.frame(a=1:10,b=10:1,c=rep(1:2,5)) > mystr<-"c==1" > subset(foo,c==1) a b c 1 1 10 1 3 3 8 1 5 5 6

split any mixed columns into letter and number columns and then order can be used on that: DF <- data.frame(x = c("a10", "a2", "a1")) o <- do.call("order", transform(DF, let = gsub("\\d", "", x), no = as.numeric(gsub("\\D", "", x)),

??? > y <- sort( c("a1","a2","a10","a12","a100")) > y [1] "a1" "a10" "a100" "a12" "a2" > mixedsort(y) [1] "a1" "a2" "a10" "a12" "a100" **Please read the docs!** They say that mixedsort() and mixedorder() both take a **single

Dear R-users, I am trying to produce trellis (png, or jpeg) graphs with transparent background, but I cannot manage to make that happen. I tried to play around with themes but to no avail. Any advise on the following example will be greatly appreciated: Thank you Sebastien #### library(lattice) df <- data.frame(a=rep(1:4,4), b=rep(1:4,4), c=rep(1:4,each=4)) settings <- standard.theme()