similar to: bigmemory for dataframes?

Hello Folks, As some of my old code broke when an updated package changed its interface, I started thinking about reproduction of analyses. It's not good enough to save our code - we have to save the package versions those analyses used as well as the R-core. I saw a couple references to "reproduction archives" around, but nothing specific. Is there any good way to package up

Hello, I'm trying to extract the independent variables from a formula. The closest I've been able to come, aside from rolling my own, is the following: > a = y ~ b * x > attr(terms(formula(a)),"variables") The reason I'm doing this is that I'm building a grid of points that I use to construct a 3-d model prediction surface in rgl. If there are more than two

Hi Folks, I want to export a dataframe's column classes to a list so that I can reinstantiate the dataframe from a CSV file in the future. (I know about save(), which I'm using in addition to this). what I want to do is the following: write.csv(myframe); col_classes = get_col_classes(myframe); write.csv(col_classes, "column_classes") ... time passes, R gets

Hi Folks, I'm trying to cut my data inside the summaryBy function. Perhaps formulas don't work that way? I'd like to avoid adding another column if possible, but if I have to, I have to. Any ideas? Thanks, Allie require(doBy) df = dataframe(a <- rnorm(100), b <-rnorm(100)) summaryBy(a ~ cut(b,c(-100,-1,1,100)), data=df) # preferred solution, but it throws an

Hello list, I need to keep track of objects that are related to particular observations. In this case, I need to keep track of polygons that are associated with observations. What I would ideally have is one column of a dataframe hold a "polygonal" object (from the spatstat package). My question: I seem to have managed to do it, but as I haven't read that dataframes are supposed

Hello All, I am trying to write a function which would operate on columns of a dataframe specified in parameters passed to that function. f = function(dataf, col1 = "column1", col2 = "column2") { dataf$col1 = dataf$col2 # just as an example } The above, of course, does not work as intended. In some languages one can force evaluation of a variable, and then

Hello All, Searched around, haven't found a decent solution. I'd like to translate a vector of numbers to a matrix (or to a list of vectors) such that the vector values would serve as indicies of the 1's in an otherwise-zero-filled matrix (or list of vectors). For example: > a = c(1,3,3,4) # perform operation [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 1 0 0 0 [2,] 0 0 1

Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to get summarized data based on multiple columns. However, instead of giving summaries for every combination of categorical columns, I want it for each value of each categorical column regardless of the other columns. I could do this with three different commands, but i'm wondering if there's a more elegant way that I'm missing. Thanks!

Hello all, I've been pouring through the various spatial packages, but haven't come across the right thing yet. Given a set of points in 2-d space X, i'm trying to find the subset of points in Y proximate to each point in X. Furthermore, the proximity threshold of each point in X differs (X$threshold). I've constructed this myself already, but it's horrificly slow with a

Hi Folks, I'm trying to extract just the backreferences from a regex. > temp = "abcd1234abcd1234" > regmatches(temp, gregexpr("(?:abcd)(1234)", temp)) [[1]] [1] "abcd1234" "abcd1234" What I would like is: [1] "1234" "1234" Note: I know I can just match 1234 here, but the actual example is complicated enough that I have to

Hello, I need to take a dot product of each row of a dataframe and a vector. The number of columns will be dynamic. The way I've been doing it so far is contorted. Is there a better way? dotproduct <- function(dataf, v2) { apply(t(t(as.matrix(a)) * v2),1,sum) #contorted! } df = data.frame(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(4,5,6)) vec = c(4,5) dotproduct(df, vec) thanks,

Hi Folks, I've looked around, haven't found anything, and I'm not sure where else to check. I haven't visited R-forge (http://r-forge.r-project.org) in a long time. Now that I'm trying, it seems to be down. Anyone know if this is a temporary condition, and if so, when it's expected to rise again? Thanks, Allie

Hello all, I have a list which I'd like to convert to a data frame, while maintaining control of the columns' data types (akin to the colClasses argument in read.table). My numeric columns, for example, are getting converted to factors by as.data.frame. Is there a way to do this, or will I have to do as I am doing right now: allow as.data.frame to coerce column-types as it sees fit, and

I am trying to add the bigmemory packages but I get the following error message: In file included from bigmemory.cpp:14:0: ../inst/include/bigmemory/isna.hpp: In function 'bool neginf(double)': ../inst/include/bigmemory/isna.hpp:22:57: error: 'isinf' was not declared in this scope make: *** [bigmemory.o] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'bigmemory' * removing

Hello All, I'm getting my workflow switched over to Sweave, which is very cool. However, I collaborate with folks (as many of you must as well) who use Word to Track Changes amongst a group while crafting a paper. In the simplest case, there will just be two people (one Sweave user and one Word user) editing a paper. I'm wondering, how do Sweave users go about this? I could convert a

Hello Folks, When I run the document below through sweave, rgui.exe/rsession.exe leaves a file handle open to the sweave-001.pdf graphic (as verified by process explorer). Pdflatex.exe then crashes (with a Permission Denied error) because the graphic file is locked. This only seems to happen when there is an error in the sweave document. When there are no errors, no file handles are left open.

Hello All, I tried to intall the bigmemory package from a CRAN mirror site and received the following output while installing. Any idea what's going on and how to fix it? The system details are provided below. --------------------- begin error messages ----------------------- * installing *source* package 'bigmemory' ... checking for Sun Studio compiler...no checking for

> is.na(strptime("5/2/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y")) [1] FALSE > is.na(strptime("5/3/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y")) [1] TRUE Any idea what's going on with this? Running strptime against all dates from around 1946, only 5/3/1992 was converted as "NA". Even stranger, it still seems to have a value associated with it (even though is.na thinks

Hello all, What is your preferred method to export tables (from ftable()) to Word? Do you just export to a text file and then copy/paste? Or perhaps via HTML output? Thanks, Allie

Hello folks, I've been on a journey trying to figure out how to manage documents that are amenable to sharing and editing, but that contain dynamic content generated by R. I've come to the following solution: I use Sweave to generate labeled png & pdf figures, and I "Insert & Link" those figures as "Pictures" in a Word 2010 doc. Thus, when data or code