similar to: model.matrix() (PR#285)

I found writing the following default method the for the generic function "julian" causes R to crash. julian.default <- function(x, ...) { x <- as.Date(x) NextMethod("julian", x, ...) } Here is a test example > m <- as.Date("1972-09-27") + 0:10 > m [1] "1972-09-27" "1972-09-28" "1972-09-29"

I have a big contingency table, approximately of size 60*2*500*500, and I need to count the number of cells containing a count of 1 for each of the factors values defining the first dimension. Here is my attempt: tab1<-with(pisa1,table(CNT,GENDER,ISCOF,ISCOM)) tab2<-apply(tab1,1:4,function(x)ifelse(sum(x)==1,1,0)) tab3<-apply(tab2,1,sum) Computing tab2 is very slow. Is there a faster

This is a minor question, but is there any difference between the two objects fred <- structure(1:10, dim = c(2,5)) and fred <- structure(1:10, .Dim = c(2,5)) Should I be using one rather than the other? Thanks, Jonathan. Jonathan Rougier Science Laboratories Department of Mathematical Sciences South Road University of Durham Durham DH1 3LE

Am I right in thinking that there a discrepancy between the ?library documentation and the library() function? If I have a library called "patches", then according to the documentation (0.62.4) patches/R should contain source files like fred.R and george.R, but in practice the library only loads if both fred.R and george.R are given in a file called patches in the R subdirectory of

Is anyone else concerned with the way in which the R function parser relocates comments that occur after condional expressions in functions to before, i.e. fred <- function(x) { # wonder what x is like if (x>0) stop("Sorry non-positive x only") # that showed x big-time! x } but then fred is parsed and stored as "fred" <- function (x) { # wonder what x is

I am not sure that this is a bug, but it was unexpected -- of course my expectations are fallible, eg column ordering in model.matrix()! When an array is subscripted the names of the dimnames list are lost (v 64.1). fred <- array(1:12, 2:4, list(A = letters[1:2], B = letters[3:5], C = letters[6:9])) dimnames(fred) dimnames(fred[1, , ]) dimnames(fred[1, , , drop=FALSE]) In the first

I can generate a segmentation fault as follows, where I would expect a syntax error: fred <- as.list(1:10) lapply(fred, "[[") platform sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 arch sparc os solaris2.5.1 system sparc, solaris2.5.1 status status.rev 0 major 0 minor 64.1

I hope this is the right forum (it'll be second time lucky if it is!). I note in the current distribution that functions passed as arguments (eg to outer, sweep and the applys) are not handled consistently. As I often pass functions myself, I find the following simple function useful ... match.fun <- function (FUN, descend = F) { if (is.character(FUN)) get(FUN,

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ---559023410-1804928587-922106403=:691 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A couple of weeks ago I asked if anyone had generalised outer to include bound extents -- effectively

Would it be reasonable to suggest adding an `all' flag to save.image(), i.e. "save.image" <- function (f = ".RData", all.names = F) eval(substitute(save(list = ls(all.names = all.names), file = f)), .GlobalEnv) I only ask because I keep losing my .First() function. I would like to start R in a particular directory and have it configure according to the First()

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ---559023410-1251336619-945861747=:5357 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII While fiddling with apply I noticed that there appears to be an error in the dimnames, which actually

I wonder if we might also include an "equiv" function along with the other set functions (ie "union", "intersect", etc), perhaps along the lines of "equiv" <- function(x, y) all(c(match(x, y, 0)>0, match(y, x, 0)>0)) (which I think might be the quickest implementation). I use this type of function quite frequently: is there some reason why it is

I wonder if we might also include an "equiv" function along with the other set functions (ie "union", "intersect", etc), perhaps along the lines of "equiv" <- function(x, y) all(c(match(x, y, 0)>0, match(y, x, 0)>0)) (which I think might be the quickest implementation). I use this type of function quite frequently: is there some reason why it is

I have just become painfully aware that objects of class "difftime", generated by the difference of two POSIXct objects, carry a "units" attribute, which flashes by when the object is printed, for example. The pain was occasioned when I tried to turn these objects into numberic objects for use elsewhere as a covariate. as.numeric(difftime object) simply turns off the units

In legend() is it possibly to mix lines and boxes? I would like to do something like legend(locator(1), legend = c("al", "ben", "chris", "dave"), lty = c(1, 2, 3, NA), fill = c(NA, NA, NA, "gray")) to indicate that "al", "ben" and "chris" have lines, and "dave" has a gray shading. Many thanks,

Hi R, I wanted to know how do we access the elements of a list. In particular, v=list(c(1,2,3,4,5),c(1,2,33,4,5),c(1,2,333,4,5),c(1,2,3333,4,5)) I want to access all the thirds items of the elements of the list. i.e., I want to access the elements, 3,33,333,3333. This can be done through sapply as: sapply(v,function(x) x[3]) But I need to access this without using

Just a minor point, but the adj argument in ?text is described wrongly (0.64.1). Perhaps the following might be added to the details. Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify left/top, middle and right/bottom, respectively. The default is for centred text, ie \code{adj = c(0.5, 0.5)}. Cheers, Jonathan. Jonathan Rougier Science Laboratories Department of

Hi Everyone, Just a minor point, but could chol() be changed to include the dimnames of the original matrix? This will ensure that x and t(R) %*% R have the same dimnames, where R <- chol(x). So we just need to insert if (!is.null(dx <- dimnames(x))) dimnames(z$v) <- dx ahead of the return. Cheers, Jonathan. Jonathan Rougier Science Laboratories

The function "substitute" seems to fail to make a genuine substitution, although the printed verision seems fine. Here is an example. > m <- substitute(Y <- function(x) FUN(x+1), + list(Y = as.name("y"), FUN = as.name("sin"))) > m y <- function(x) sin(x + 1) > eval(m) > y function(x) FUN(x+1) However the story doesn't end there. The

I would like to suggest a slight modification to diag(). In the case where x is a matrix with both row names and column names the same, it would be reasonable if the resulting vector also had those names. I often use diag() on variance matrices, where this modification is helpful. The modification requires replacing if (is.matrix(x) && nargs() == 1) return(c(x)[1 +