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I have a question about the Reduce function: x <- list() x[[1]] <- LETTERS[1:5] x[[2]] <- LETTERS[11:15] Reduce(paste, x) [1] "A K" "B L" "C M" "D N" "E O" How do I get this?: [1] "A" "K" [2] "B" "L" [3] "C" "M" [4] "D" "N" [5] "E" "O"

Hi, I am using R's grep function to find patterns in vectors of strings. The number of patterns I would like to match is 7,700 (of different sizes). I noticed that I get an error message when I do the following: data <- array() for (j in 1:length(x)) { array[j] <- length(grep(paste(patterns[1:7700], collapse = "|"), x[j], value = T)) } When I break this up into 4 chunks of

Hi, I have a series of MS word files and each file contains plain text. From these texts I would like to extract only those elements (read: words) that are between square brackets. Example of a text: Most fundamentally, it has led to an effort to clarify the organizational form concept. According to them [see also Smith, Jones and Carroll 2002], categories emerge as audience members recognize

Hi, I am trying to access a website and read its content. The website is a restricted access website that I access through a proxy server (which therefore requires me to enable cookies). I have problems in allowing Rcurl to receive and send cookies. The following lines give me: library(RCurl) library(XML) url <- "http://www.theurl.com" content <- readHTMLTable(url) content

Hi, I have the following sequence: in <- c(0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2) >From this sequence I would like to get to the following sequence: out <- c(0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2) Basically,

Hi, I have a vector like this: DF <- c("Aetna, Inc.", "Alexander's Inc.", "Allegheny Energy, Inc") For each element in the vector I would like to remove the "incorporated" info, so that my vector looks like this: DF <- c("Aetna", "Alexander's", "Allegheny Energy") That means that I have to strip: strip <-

Hi, I have written a function "harvest" and I would like to run the function for each value in a vector c(1:1000). The function returns 4 list objects (obj_1, obj_3, obj_3, obj_4) using the following code at the end of the function: return(list(obj_1 = obj_1, obj_2 = obj_2, obj_3 = obj_3, obj_4 = obj_4)). Since I am connecting with the web in the function and the connection sometimes

Hi list, based on the following data.frame I would like to create a variable that indicates the number of occurrences of A in the 3 years prior to the current year: DF = data.frame(read.table(textConnection(" A B 8025 1995 8026 1995 8029 1995 8026 1996 8025 1997 8026 1997 8025 1997 8027 1997 8026 1999 8027 1999 8028 1995 8029 1998 8025 1997 8027 1997 8026 1999 8027 1999

Hi R experts, I have been playing with library(XML) recently and found out that readHTMLTable workls flawlessly for some website, but it does give me an error like below ... Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable) : unable to find an inherited method for function "readHTMLTable", for signature "NULL" let's say..for example, this code works fine a

Hi, I need to perform calculations on subsets of a data frame: DF = data.frame(read.table(textConnection(" A B C D E F 1 a 1995 0 4 1 2 a 1997 1 1 3 3 b 1995 3 7 0 4 b 1996 1 2 3 5 b 1997 1 2 3 6 b 1998 6 0 0 7 b 1999 3 7 0 8 c 1997 1 2 3 9 c 1998 1 2 3 10 c 1999 6 0 0 11 d 1999 3 7 0 12 e 1995 1 2 3 13 e 1998 1 2 3 14 e 1999 6

Hi list, Can anyone tell my why the following does not work? Thanks a lot! Your help is very much appreciated. DF = data.frame(read.table(textConnection(" B C D E F G 8025 1995 0 4 1 2 8025 1997 1 1 3 4 8026 1995 0 7 0 0 8026 1996 1 2 3 0 8026 1997 1 2 3 1 8026 1998 6 0 0 4 8026 1999 3 7 0 3 8027 1997 1 2 3 9 8027 1998 1 2 3 1 8027 1999

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

library(XML) download.file('http://polya.umdnj.edu/polya_db2/gene.php?llid=109079&unigene=&submit=Submit','index.html') tables=readHTMLTable("index.html",error=function(...){}) tables readHTMLTable gives me the following errors. Could somebody let me know how to suppress them? Opening and ending tag mismatch: center and table htmlParseEntityRef: expecting

Hi, I am using XML::readHTMLTable and getting the below error. Does anyone know why? Does this function not work with https? I didn't see anything in help about that. > library(XML) > wampage<-readHTMLTable('https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi_pop.html',1) Error in htmlParse(doc) : File https://hr-workforce-analytics.llnl.gov/wf_pi_pop.html does not exist Dan

Hi, I can't get the colClasses option to work in the readHTMLTable function of the XML package. Here's a code fragment: require("XML") doc <- "http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html" table <- getNodeSet(htmlParse(doc),"//table") [[2]] # The main table is the second one because it's embedded in the page table. xt

Hi, I have a dataset (CSV) with some counts of firms located around the globe. Each count is assigned to the longitude and latitude of the specific location. Now I want to plot these counts on a world map using dots (size of dots represent the count). I have been unable to find any info on whether this is possible and if so, how? Can you please help me? Thanks! Mathijs -- View this message

Hi, I have produced a list g and I would like to reduce the amount of information contained in each object in g. For each matrix I would like to keep the values where the column name equals g[year][[1]][[x]] and the row names equals g[year][[1]][[-x]]. So in g$`1999`$`8029`, year = 1999 and x = 8029. I have been experimenting with the subset function, but have been unsuccesful. Thanks for your

Hello, I have uploaded a csv file that looks like this: > gc alpha_id beta_id 1 142053 1 2 9454 1 3 295618 2 4 42691 2 5 389224 3 6 9455 3 The alpha_id contains 310660 unique values and the beta_id contains 17431 unique values. The number of rows adds up to more than 1.3 million. Now I want to convert

I am using htmlParse from XML library on a paricular website. Sometimes code fails, sometimes it works, most of the time id doesn't and i cannot see why. The file i am trying to parse is  http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/international-markets/indices/home/sp-500.html?page=0 Sometimes the following code works n<-readHTMLTable(htmlParse(url)) But most of the

Hi, I have data on individuals (B) who participated in events (A). If ALL participants in an event are a subset of the participants in another event I would like to remove the smaller event and if the participants in one event are exactly similar to the participants in another event I would like to remove one of the events (I don't care which one). The following example does that however it