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Dear R developers, I find the format of descriptions of the arguments in the read.table help text slightly inconsistent. For example, the logical arguments comes in seven different formats, more or less explicit about the consequences of a TRUE (or FALSE): 1. check.names logical. If TRUE then the names... 2. blank.lines.skip logical: if TRUE blank lines... 3. flush logical: if TRUE,

Dear R-developers, A student asked me today of how to specify the limits of the x-axis. I knew that he should use xlim, but I tried to encourage him to have a try himself with the various help functions. I do not judge if he used the correct search strategy or right key words, but anyway here is what he tried: he looked at ?plot. There xlim is not mentioned. He checked ?par. There you find

Dear all, I have some csv-files (originating from Excel-files) containing empty cells. In my example file I have four variables of different classes, each with some empty cells in the original csv-file: > test <- read.csv2("test.csv", dec=".") > test id id2 x y 1 a 1 NA 2 b e NA 2.2 3 f 3 3.3 4 c g 4 4.4 > class(test$id) [1]

Dear R developers, In the help text for ave() you can read in Arguments section: "... Grouping variables, typically factors, all of the same length as x" ...and in Value: "If ... is g1,g2,". I think a description in the Arguments section of how two or more grouping variables is specified together with an Example would be very helpful. In absence of a help text I just

Thanks Bill and Michael for taking the time to share your knowledge! As a further background to my question, here are two examples that I forgot to include in my original post (reminded by Michael's answer). I swapped the i and j arguments in `[.data.frame` and `[<-.data.frame`. With warnings, but else without (?) problem. Using Bill's data: `[.data.frame`(x = d, i = 1, j = 2) # [1]

Dear all, I have received some data arranged like this: # original data id <- rep(letters[1:6], each=2) time <- as.factor(rep(1:2, 6)) y <- as.vector(replicate(6, c(rnorm(n=1, mean=1), rnorm(n=1, mean=2)))) test.data <- data.frame(id, time, y) test.data I would like to perform a paired t-test of the y-values at time=1 against those at time=2, with samples paired by their id. Is it

The integral of any probability density from -Inf to Inf should equal 1, correct? I don't understand last result below. > integrate(function(x) dnorm(x, 0,1), -Inf, Inf) 1 with absolute error < 9.4e-05 > integrate(function(x) dnorm(x, 100,10), -Inf, Inf) 1 with absolute error < 0.00012 > integrate(function(x) dnorm(x, 500,50), -Inf, Inf) 8.410947e-11 with absolute error <

data: > tmp1 Date HrMn Temp Q.4 1 19450101 0900 -37.0 1 2 19450101 1000 -35.9 2 3 19450101 1100 -35.9 3 4 19450101 1200 -36.4 4 5 19450101 1300 -36.4 5 6 19450101 1400 -36.4 6 7 19450101 1500 -36.4 7 8 19450101 1600 -37.5 9 Accidentally, I did this (I meant to write Q.4 instead of Q here) > tmp1$Q[tmp1$Q!="1" & tmp1$Q!= "5"]<-NA I would

Greetings and happy new year! I am in the process of converting some of the old S-PLUS scripts from Visualizing Data (Cleveland, 1993) into lattice. In fact, I did most of it several years ago, and at the time, all of the scripts that contained loess() worked fine. Tonight, I ran most of the scripts again, but every one that I tried with a loess() call crashed R. I tried it in two sessions, one

Dear all, I'm having a problem understanding why a split does not occur with in the 2nd use of the function strsplit below: # text strings > txt <- c("sales to 23 August 2008 published 29 August", + "sales to 6 September 2008 published?11 September") # first use > strsplit(txt, 'published', fixed=TRUE) [[1]] [1] "sales to 23 August 2008 "

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

I am attempting to import dates in the following format to R: 5/20/2010 6:45:32 PM Unfortunately I am unable to get the AM/PM function (%p) to work correctly under either 2.11.0 or 2.8.1. > strptime("5/20/2010 6:45:32 PM", "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p") [1] NA but > strptime("5/20/2010 6:45:32", "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S") [1] "2010-05-20 06:45:32"

Dear R-help, I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the code i am using: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- 'https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help' > html.file <- getURI(my.url, ssl.verifyhost = FALSE,

Hello I tried the odfWeave package today, by running the formatting.odt and example.odt files that are included with the package. They both ran fine, but when I try to open them in my OpenOffice (OpenOffice 3.1.1 on Kubuntu 9.10) I get an error "Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 1293,124(row,col)." I also tried to open them in MS Word 2003 (Windows

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

Hello All, i was trying to simply run the readHTMLTable on the example published in the package. And on a page I was working on. So running: u = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" tables = readHTMLTable(u) returns the following error: Error in tb[["thead"]] : subscript out of bounds looking up this error on the web, didnt give me any hint. Is

Hi, I have the following function that I want to apply to a list of 14 matrices (1536 x 170) of binary data: DRes <- function(x, nr = 10000, metric = "mixed", ...) { require(analogue) require(ade4) m <- c() for (i in 1:nr) { set.seed(i) x1 <- x[, sample(dimnames(x)[[2]], length(x[1,])/2)] x2 <- x[, !dimnames(x)[[2]] %in% dimnames(x1)[[2]]] d1 <-

Hello, I came across a strange behavior of expand.grid (or at least strange to me). For certain values of one of my input variables - created by seq() - I have to use strings (e.g ==".6") to select a row of the object created by expand.grid(), for other values numerical (e.g. ==.8) and for some both work. Please find an example below. #Example x<- seq(0,1,1/10) y <-

A newbie here - please forgive me if this is a basic question. We have an in house package built in R 2.2.1 (yes we're a little behind the times at our firm)and would like to rebuild it using R 2.5.1. However, when I try and build the package from source, I keep getting this error: Error in as(slotVal, slotClass, strict = FALSE) : no method or default for coercing "POSIXt"

Related to the following question on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44723690/unexpected-behavior-of-sys-setlocale#44723690 It appears as if Sys.setlocale() does not update LC_TIME correctly for use in date formatting. Although R reports that LC_TIME is changed to the new setting after use of Sys.setlocale(), as.Date() still uses the old settings. The only way to update this is