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Dear R helpers I have a dataframe as df = data.frame(x = c(1, 14, 3, 21, 11), y = c(102, 500, 40, 101, 189)) > df    x   y 1  1 102 2 14 500 3  3  40 4 21 101 5 11 189 # Actually I am having dataframe having multiple columns. I am just giving an example. I need to subtract all the rows of df by the first row of df i.e. I need to subtract each element of 'x' column by 1. Likewise I

Dear R helpers Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2011. I have following query. country = c("US", "France", "UK", "NewZealand", "Germany", "Austria", "Italy", "Canada") Through some other R process, the result.csv file is generated as result.csv      var1   var2  var3  var4    var5    var6   var7  

Dear R helpers I have following input f = c(257, 520, 110). I need to generate a decreasing sequence (decreasing by 100) which will give me an input (in a tabular form) like 257, 157, 57 520, 420, 320, 220, 120, 20 110, 10 I tried the following R code f = c(257, 520, 110) yy = matrix(data = NA, nrow = 3, ncol = 6) for (i in 1:3)      {      value = NULL      for (j in 1 : 6)           {

Dear R helpers, xx = data.frame(country = c("USA", "UK", "Canada"), x = c(10, 50, 20), y = c(40, 80, 35), z = c(70, 62, 10)) > xx        country      x     y    z 1      USA        10    40  70 2      UK          50   80   62 3     Canada    20   35   10 I need to arrange this as a new data.frame as follows - country       type     values USA           

Dear R helpers Suppose I have a vector as vect1 = as.character(c("ABC", "XYZ", "LMN", "DEF")) > vect1 [1] "ABC" "XYZ" "LMN" "DEF" I want to reverse the order of this vector as vect2 = c("DEF", "LMN", "XYZ", "ABC") Kindly guide Regards Vincy [[alternative HTML

Dear R list, I have one very elementary question regrading correlation between two variables. x = c(44,46,46,47,45,43,45,44) y = c(44,43,41,41,46,48,44,43) > cov(x, y) [1] -2.428571 However, if I try to calculate the covariance using the formula as covariance = sum((x-mean(x))*(y-mean(y)))/8       # no of of paired obs. = 8 or     covariance = sum(x*y)/8-(mean(x)*mean(y)) gives

Dear R helpers I have a data which gives Month-wise and Rating-wise Rates. So the input file is something like month           rating           rate January        AAA             9.04 February      AAA             9.07 .......................................... .......................................... Decemeber     AAA            8.97  January           BBB           11.15 February        

Hi, I have one basic doubt. Suppose X ~ N(50,10). I need to calculate Probability X = 50. dnorm(50, 50, 10) gives me [1] 0.03989423 My understanding is (which is bit statistical or may be mathematical) on a continuous scale, Probability of the type P(X = .....) are nothing but 1/Infinity i.e. = 0. So as per my understanding P(X = 50) should be 0, but even excel also gives 0.03989422. Obviously

Dear R helpers, I have recently installed R version 2.15.0 I just wanted to calculate mean(16, 18) Surprisingly I got answer as > mean(16, 18) [1] 16 > mean(18, 16) [1] 18 > mean(14, 11, 17, 9, 5, 18) [1] 14 So instead of calculating simple Arithmetic average, mean command is generating first element as average. I restarted the machine, changed the machine, but still the

Dear R helpers Suppose, x = c(0,  1,  2,  3) y = c("A", "B", "C", "D") z = c(1, 3) For given values of z, I need to the values of y. So I should get "B" and "D". I tried doing y[x][z] but it gives > y[x][z] [1] "A" "C" Kindly guide. Regards Vincy [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R helpers, I have one basic doubt about the value of pi. In school, we have learned that pi = 22/7 (which is = 3.142857). However, if I type pi in R, I get pi = 3.141593. So which value of pi should be considered? Regards Vincy [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R helpers Suppose x  <- c(1:3) y  <- matrix(1:12, ncol = 3, nrow = 4) > y      [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,]    1    5    9 [2,]    2    6   10 [3,]    3    7   11 [4,]    4    8   12 I wish to multiply 1st column of y by first element of x i.e. 1, 2nd column of y by 2nd element of x i.e. 2 an so on. Thus the resultant matrix should be like > z      [,1]   [,2]    [,3] [1,]    1   

Dear R list As suggested by Prof Brian Ripley, I have tried to read acf literature. The main problem is I am not the statistician and hence have some problem in understanding the concepts immediately. I came across one literature (http://www.stat.nus.edu.sg/~staxyc/REG32.pdf) on auto-correlation giving the methodology. As per that literature, the auto-correlation is arrived at as per following.

Dear R helpers, (At the outset I sincerely apologize if I have not put forward my following query properly, though I have tried to do so.) Following is a curtailed part of my R - code where I am trying to generate say 100 random no.s for each of the products under consideration. library(plyr) n = 100 my_code = function(product, output_avg, output_stdev)     { BUR_mc = rnorm(n, output_avg,

Dear R helpers Suppose I have a vector as vect_1 = c("AAA", "AA", "A", "BBB", "BB", "B", "CCC") vect_1_id = c(1:length(vect_1)) Through some process I obtain vect_2_id = c(2, 3, 7), then I need a new vector say vect_2 which will give me vect2 = ("AA", "A", "CCC")  i.e. I need the subset of

Dear R helpers, Suppose I have stock returns data of say 1500 companies each for say last 4 years. Thus I have a matrix of dimension say 1000 * 1500 i.e. 1500 columns representing companies and 1000 rows of their returns. I need to find the correlation matrix of these 1500 companies. So I can find out the correlation as cor(returns) and expect to get 1500 * 1500 matrix. However, the process

Dear R helpers, I have a data.frame as given below - dat1 = data.frame(date = as.Date(c("3/30/12","3/29/12","3/28/12","3/27/12","3/26/12", "3/23/12","3/22/12","3/21/12","3/20/12", "3/30/12","3/29/12","3/28/12","3/27/12",

Dear R helpers Suppose I have a data frame as given below mydat = data.frame(x = c(1,1,1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6), y = c(10, 10, 10, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 2, 2, 4)) mydat         x     y 1      1     10 2      1     10 3      1     10 4      2       8 5      2       8 6      2       8 7      2       7 8      2       7 9      5       2 10    5       2 11    6       4 unique(mydat$x) will give me 1,

Dear 'HTH' R friends I have a small dataframe as given below. I need to sort this database based on date in a decending order. I am not sure whether I have defined the date column in a proper format. mydat<-data.frame(date = (c("1/31/2010", "2/28/2010", "3/31/2010", "4/30/2010", "5/31/2010", "6/30/2010",

Dear R helpers, I am using Beta distribution to generate the random no.s (recovery rates in my example). However, each time I need to save these random no.s in a csv format. To distinguish different csv files, one way I thought was use of Sys.time in the file name. My code is as follows - # My code rr = rbeta(25, 6.14, 8.12) lgd = 1 - mean(rr) write.csv(data.frame(recovery_rates = rr), file =