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Dear R-helpers, I created an own function which looks like this s_elternmz <- function(Var="balt") { Dg_a<-mz[,c("asbhh","apkz",Var)] colnames(Dg_a)[colnames(Dg_a)=="apkz"]<-"bpkzm" colnames(Dg_a)[colnames(Dg_a)==Var]<-paste(Var,"_m",sep="")

Dear list members, I have got another problem. I imported an SPSS file with the Memisc package using the following commands: mz <- spss.system.file("myspssfile.sav") mz <- subset(mz,select=c( bsex,balt,xurb,dtaet,kartab,bgeb,boseit,bgeblan,xnuts2,kausb,xerwstat, asbper,asbhh,ajahr,aquartal,bstaat,xwieoft,gew1,apkz,bpkzm,bpkzv)) Afterwards I checked the measurements of the

dear r-helpers, i created an object named A, which looks like this: A <- c("4.4","1.9","4.1") now i needed to get numbers instead of characters and for this i used the function: as.integer(A) which resulted in: [1] 4 1 4 My question is, why the numbers are rounded or more impotantly if there is a way to keep the decimal numbers? Thank you very much for

Hello all, I am looking for an editor for R which has got functions beyond the normal R editor that is included in the program. I had a look at VIM but I think it's difficult if you are just starting programming. Could anyone recommend an editor that is suitable for beginners? Thanks for your help. Marion [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi list, I want to draw a bar plot with color indicating one grouping and different shading on top of the color indicating another grouping.? How should I proceed? Thanks! ...Tao

hello, does anyone know how I can write several matrices from R into one exel-file using different sheets for the different matrices? thank you very much in advance for your help. Marion [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, does anyone know the solution to this problem: I imported a dataframe from Spss into R and saved it as an object called "kinderrechte". I have got the following command lines: q1 <- kinderrechte[,"q0007_0001"] l1 <- q0007_0001_l now i would like to be able to change the column name in the first command line (e.g. into q0007_0002) and to get R to automatically

dear users, we have got the following question: we have got a text-file looking like this: ... <trkpt lat="48.272000" lon="16.342984"> <ele>387</ele> <time>2012-01-01T15:32:03Z</time> <sat>9</sat> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="48.271909" lon="16.343563"> <ele>381</ele>

Dear People, I have got the following example for a vector and the index of the TRUE element: Myvector <- c(FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE) which(Myvector) Now I would like to find out the same for a list: Mylist <- list(FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE) ... Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you very much in advance, Marion [[alternative HTML

Dear people, Yesterday I looked at the recode command in the memisc package and ran the following example stated in the manual: x <- as.item(sample(1:6,20,replace=TRUE), labels=c( a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4, e=5, f=6)) print(x) f <- as.factor(x) f recode(f,

hello, i am familiar with the paste command with which i can paste for exaple: object <- "Hello" paste(object,"World") now i would like to be able to paste all the elements of the same vector together e.g: object <- c("Hello","World") getting as a result also: "Hello World". Does anyone know the solution to this problem? Thank you

Hello, I have a question concerning courses in R in *Vienna, Austria*. Does anyone know where courses in R are offered, that you can do after having attended a course for the basics? Thanks in advance for your help. Marion [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

dear r-users, i have got a problem which i am trying to solve: i have got the following commands: Mymatrix <- matrix(1:9,ncol=3) Z <- list("V1"=c("a","",""),"V2"=c("b","",""),"V3"=c("c","",""),"V4"=c("d","","")) Mymatrix <-

Dear people, I created a plot which looks like this: Ee1<-matrix(c(88,86,74,62,41),ncol=5) colnames(Ee1)<-c("Lehrer","Lehrerinnen","Klassenkollegen","Klassenkolleginnen","Geschwister") par(las=1) par(mar=c(5,13,4,2)) barplot(Ee1,horiz=T,col="grey85",border="NA",xlim=c(0,100),axes=F) axis(2,pos=10, tick=T, tcl=F,

Dear r-helpers, I read a .csv file into R with the following command: A<-read.csv2(file="Mappe3.csv") It worked fine, except that I would like to get rid of the points between the words and get spaces instead like I have got in the .csv file. At the moment it looks like the following: habe.mich.gut.mit.KlassenkollegInnen.verstanden hatte.gutes.Verhältnis.zu.Eltern

Dear all, I am using a shape file containing the information regarding the borders of the PARISHES of Austria. I created a plot with different colours for different percentages of child care institutions. Now I would like to add the information of the COUNTY boundaries to this plot which I have got in another shape file. I would like these boundaries to be shown with bold lines so that they can

Dear R-helpers, I have got a vector which looks like the following: apkz <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,1,1,2,1,2,3,4) now I am trying to find a way to automatically create several vectors, each starting with the number 1, namely: First vector 1 2 3 4 5 6 Second vector 1 Thrid vector 1 2 Fourth vector 1 2 3 4 Does anyone know how to do that? Thank you very much for your help in advance!

Dear all, I have got a very big SPSS dataframe and I would like to just import one or a few variables (the dataframe has got a lot of colums). I used the package foreign but I couldn't find anything in there for my problem. Thank you very much for your help in advance. Marion [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am using R 1.9.1 with R Commander GUI under Windows at work, and under Linux Mandrake 10 OR at home. I am having no problems running R Commander under windows. Under Linux, though, the opening and sometimes closing of windows from R Commander produces identical and repetitive error messages (in dialogue boxes and mirrored in the console): >"Warning: X11 protocol error: BadWindow

Hello, I have got another problem. I wrote a function which is able to create plots with different numbers of bars. In order to give them a similar look I determined the width of the bars using the parameters width=0.59 AND ylim=c(0,10)) (see function below) Now, this only works if I have just got up to 6 double bars. In the following example it doesn't work because the bars for the