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Hello, If I have a dataframe: example(data.frame) zz<-c("aa_bb","bb_cc","cc_dd","dd_ee","ee_ff","ff_gg","gg_hh","ii_jj","jj_kk","kk_ll") ddd <- cbind(dd, group = zz) and I want to divide the column named group by the "_", how would I do this? so instead of the first row being x

Hello help, I have changed around some graphing code and made it into a function. Previously they y label of the axis was inserted as text in its own layout box. text(1,1, expression(~degree~C),cex=1) This worked great and resulted in the symbol for degree. In the function, I have changed it so: text(1,1,paste(b_unit),cex=1) and b_unit<-expression(~degree~C) This now inserts ~degree~C

Hello, I am trying to use R to download a bunch of .csv files such as: http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia I have tried the following and neither work: a<- getURL(" http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia") Error in curlPerform(curl = curl, .opts = opts, .encoding = .encoding) : embedded nul in string: and

Hello, I am a bit over my head on this issue. My colleagues and I are running R off of our server. We all have admin rights and prior to yesterday we all had our own libraries. Our main system administrator advised us that we should have a shared library. So, I am trying to do this. I have downloaded the latest version of R and installed it on the main drive of our server in the "Program

Hello, I am trying to cycle through a csv and make some summary statistics. I need to select rows based on the number in the row name that comes after the letter 'y'. For example, ? BA1y1 would equal 1, ?C3A2r3y1 would equal 1 and ?MA3r3y1r3 would equal 1. I currently have my code ?cycling through by the 5th character but my rows have variable length and the y can occur in several

Hello, I think this is a simple problem but I am not coming up with a simple solution. I think it just an indexing problem. I can easily replace values in a matrix from a dataframe when the dataframe has row and column numbers. In the example below I use row and column names and I can not get it to work #make a matrix where rows and columns are the lat and long for a bounding box of Australia

Dear List, I am making a list of all the files in a folder and I want to exclude one file called "proj.current". This is the 31st file in a folder. Currently I use the command: tdirs <- list.files(pattern="proj.")[-31] However I would like to exclude it based on its name and not the position. Any advice would be useful. Thanks, Daisy Daisy Englert Duursma Room

Dear List, I am using the command plot to present the relationship between bird richness (Y axis) and elevation (X axis). However, I would like to observe the distributions of bird richness in different administrative areas (A, B, C, …., G) in this plot. For example, the dots in area A might fall in the upper right part of the plot, while those in area B might appear in the middle of

Hello, I have two plots on the same screen. I use the command par(mfrow=c(1,2)) in order to do this. When I try to make a legend for both plots, it only puts the legend in the plot on the right side. If I would like a legend that is outside of both of the plots, how would I do this? Thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I am not sure where to begin with this problem or what to search for in r-help. I just don't know what to call this. If I have 5 columns, the first 2 are the x,y, locations and the last three are variables about those locations. x<-seq(1860,1950,by=10) y<-seq(-290,-200,by=10) ANN<-c(3,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0) CTA<-c(0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,2) GLM<-c(0,0,2,0,0,0,0,1,0,0)

Hey guys, I've search a few threads about deleting a value from a vector, but no one has addressed this question so far. I want to delete the last value from a string of values I have: r = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ], and i want to make r2 = to [ 1, 2, 3, 4] So that r2 is just like r, except that it missing the final value. Thanks, -- View this message in context:

Hello, I am struggling with computing nodes in Unix. I have the use of a Unix server that has 30 nodes and I would like to batch scripts. Here is an R example that results in 72 repeated tasks based on the 2 loops. If I wanted to send these out to the different nodes, each node has 1 task and the remaining 42 tasks are put in a queue, what would I do? #Example:

Hi, I want to impute the missing values in my data set multiple times, and then combine the results (like multiple imputation, but manually) to get a mean of the parameter(s) from the multiple imputations. Does anyone know how to do this? I have the following script: y1 <- rnorm(20,0,3) y2 <- rnorm(20,3,3) y3 <- rnorm(20,3,3) y4 <- rnorm(20,6,3) y <- c(y1,y2,y3,y4) x1 <-

random selection of cells in raster based on distance from xy locations Hi, I am trying to sample a raster for random cells that occur within a specific distance of point locations. I have successfully found multiple ways of doing this but have memory issues with very large datasets. To overcome this problem I am working with lists. I am now stuck on how to randomlly sample the correct elements

Hello, I am running R on a server that several people share. Previously we all had separate libraries for R. I have set up R so everyone on the server shares the same library and I downloaded the latest version of R and installed it on the main drive of our server in the "Program Files" folder (obvious enough). I changed the Environmental Variables in the advanced system setting so

Dear R-helpers, can I use a POSIXct date as the x variable in interpSpline? The help page says x and y need to be numeric... is there a workaround? example: library(splines) testdfr <- data.frame(Date=seq(as.POSIXct("2008-08-01"),as.POSIXct("2008-09-01"), length=10)) testdfr$yvar <- rnorm(10) sp <- interpSpline(yvar ~ Date, testdfr) preddfr <-

Dear list, I am trying to use RGoogleDocs, but I am connecting through a proxy server. I know RCurl is used for the connection, which should be able to deal with proxies and such. How do I set this up for RCurl? And can I use those settings with RGoogleDocs as well? I have the name of the proxy server and the port number. (Windows XP). thanks, Remko

Dear R-helpers, thanks for yesterday's speeding-up tip. Here is my next query: I have lots of polygons (not necessarily convex ones, and they never have holes) given by x,y coordinates. I want to get the polygon that is the union of these polygons. This is my current method, but I am hoping there is a faster method (up to thousands of polygons, each with ca. 40 xy points). Example:

Dear R-helpers, making a package (windowsXP), that includes a bunch of functions, but none have examples (all example code is within \dontrun{} blocks). I do R CMD check Maeswrap, all bits get OK-ed, except: "Running examples in 'Maeswrap-Ex.R' failed." When I run the 'Maeswrap-Ex.R' file myself, there are no problems. Any pointers? thanks Remko

Dear R-helpers, I am looking for an implementation of the box-counting algorithm to estimate the box dimension of a cloud of points in 3D (aka fractal dimension, or similarity dimension). The package 'fdim' might be doing this, but the documentation is awful and I don't understand what is what there. Does anyone know of an implementation of this algorithm in R, or elsewhere, or