similar to: sample (PR#2546)

There is a weakness in the 'sample' function that is highlighted in the help file. The 'x' argument can be either the vector from which to sample, or the maximum value of the sequence from which to sample. This can be ambiguous if the length of 'x' is one. I propose adding an argument that allows the user (programmer) to avoid that ambiguity: function (x, size, replace

Should both parts of a complex number be printed to the same precision? The imaginary part of 0 looks a bit odd when log10(real/imag) >=~ getOption("digits"), but I'm not sure it is awful. Some people might expect the same number of significant digits in the two parts. > 1e7+4i [1] 10000000+0i > 1e7+5i [1] 10000000+0i > 1e10 + 1000i [1] 1e+10+0e+00i >

I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions. -- Jari Oksanen in Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of: 'Impatient R' 'The R

Pat Burns makes a good point. -Peter -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [R] Using seq_len() vs 1:n Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:01:20 +0000 From: Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com> To: Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca> References: <4B746AEF.10900 at ucalgary.ca> If you want your code to be compatible with S+, then 'seq_len' isn't going to work.

R-help is all about solving R problems. So here ya go: http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2011/09/12/solve-your-r-problems/ -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com twitter: @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' and 'The R Inferno')

Is there a reason that 'which.min' and 'which.max' don't have an 'arr.ind' argument? The context in which I wanted that was a grid search optimization, which seems like it would be reasonably common to me. -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' and 'The R Inferno')

I've just realized that it could be handy to have a 'decreasing' argument in 'is.unsorted'. And I'm cheekily hoping someone else will implement it. It is easy enough to work around (with 'rev'), but would be less hassle with an argument. The case I have in mind uses 'is.unsorted' in 'stopifnot'. Pat -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com

I also vote for the 'helpful' addition on row numbers based on the original matrix when no row names are present, with an optional argument to prevent this behaviour. -G > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:dmurdoch@pair.com] > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 8:06 AM > To: Patrick Burns > Cc: Martin Maechler; Warnes, Gregory R; Prof Brian Ripley; >

Proposal That a new mailing list be established that pertains exclusively to R documentation. The purpose of the list would be to discuss weak sections of the documentation and establish fixes for those weak spots. Pro If it works, there would be better documentation. It would be an excellent opportunity for newish and/or less technical people to contribute to R. In some respects such people

Full_Name: Patrick Burns Version: 1.6.1 OS: Suse Linux Submission from: (NULL) (217.36.14.68) Sample gives an error if it is sampling a length one character vector: > sample('a', 1) Error in sample(x, size, replace, prob) : invalid first argument The fix is trivial (numeric test in first line of the body): function (x, size, replace = FALSE, prob = NULL) { if (length(x) == 1

There is now a tutorial on bootstrapping and other resampling methods at: http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/bootstrap_resampling.html Corrections and other suggestions are welcome. The project started because a novice asked me about bootstrapping. My response was, "How dare you bug me while I'm playing with my cats, just google for it." My correspondent was not very impressed

* What were your biggest misconceptions or stumbling blocks to getting up and running with R? * What documents helped you the most in this initial phase? I especially want to hear from people who are lazy and impatient. Feel free to write to me off-list. Definitely write off-list if you are just confirming what has been said on-list. -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com

"The R Inferno" is now on the Burns Statistics website at http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf Abstract: If you are using R and you think you're in hell, this is a map for you. Also, I've expanded the outline concerning R on the Burns Statistics 'Links' page. Suggestions (off-list) for additional items are encouraged. Patrick Burns patrick at

You may recall that there was a discussion of a technical report from the statistical consulting group at UCLA. I have a draft of a comment on that report, which you can get from http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Flotsam/uclaRcomment_draft1.pdf I'm interested in comments: corrections, additions, deletions. Patrick Burns patrick at burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com

just to add to ted's explanation in case it helps to fix the email server problem: below are the two Recipients and one of the two is always contained in the repeated emails that I'm receiving. Also, of course i don't mean to claim that the names contained in below are doing anything to cause the problem . VEC Operator is just an example. There are 3 or 4 others that repeat

I'm interested in using a data frame as if it were a hash table. For instance if I had the following, > (d <- data.frame(key=seq(0.5, 3, 0.5), value=rnorm(6))) key value 1 0.5 -1.118665122 2 1.0 0.465122921 3 1.5 -0.529239211 4 2.0 -0.147324638 5 2.5 -1.531503795 6 3.0 -0.002720434 Then I'd like to be able to quickly retrieve the "value" of "key" 1.5

There is now a document called "Some hints for the R beginner" whose purpose is to get people up and running with R as quickly as possible. Direct access to it is: http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/hints_R_begin.html JRR Tolkien wrote a story (sans hobbits) called 'Leaf by Niggle' that has always resonated with me. I offer you an imperfect, incomplete tree (but my roof is

Dear all, Through the following code, I wanted to perform correlation test repetedly (through loop) on different combinations of variables of a data set. Code: x=read.table("sample.txt",header=T,sep="\t") out="corout.txt" sink(out) nm = names(x) print(nm) nvr=3 # nvr=Total no. of variables in the input data file for (i in 1:(nvr-1)) { for(j in (i+1):nvr) { frm=

Is it on purpose that `[[` strips the names when used on an atomic vector? > c(a=1, b=2)[1] a 1 > c(a=1, b=2)[[1]] [1] 1 > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2013-02-11 r61902) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C

Does anyone know how to interrupt R in RedHat? Neither control-c nor Esc is working. What I don't want to do is close the window or kill the entire R process. Thanks, David This communication is for use by the intended recipient and ...{{dropped}}