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Is there any way to search the console during an interactive session? I've looked and looked, and can not find one. In some add-on package, maybe? Sorry to be so basic, but help would be greatly appreciated. andrewH -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Searching-the-console-tp3797884p3797884.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

I have a humongous csv file containing census data, far too big to read into RAM. I have been trying to extract individual columns from this file using the colbycol package. This works for certain subsets of the columns, but not for others. I have not yet been able to precisely identify the problem columns, as there are 731 columns and running colbycol on the file on my old slow machine takes

Dear folks ? I have a large (26 gig) ASCII flat file in fixed-width format with about 10 million observations of roughly 400 variables. (It is 51 years of Current Population Survey micro data from IPUMS, roughly half the fields for each record). The file was produced by automatic process in response to a data request of mine. The file is not accompanied by a human-readable file giving the

Dear Folks-- Is there a data frame analog to sparse matrices? I am working with a panel data set that has a large number of variables that are redefined repeatedly or exist for only a few years (out of 48). In my current structure, where variables are columns and rows are years, more than 90 percent of the cells and more than 3/4 of the total size of my file are NAs. I am wondering if there is

Dear folks -- There are a number of functions -- I am thinking of str() as an example -- that produce text as a side-effect, rather then returning it. Is there any way to send the text produced by such functions into a character variable? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. andrewH -- View this message in context:

I have a couple of hundred American Community Survey Summary Files files containing rectangular arrays of data, mainly though not exclusively numeric. Each file is referred to as a sequence (henceforth "seq"). From these files I am trying to extract particular subsets (tables) consisting of a sets of columns. These tables are defined by three numbers (now in columns in a data frame):

Dear Folks-- I'm trying to make a function that takes the columns I select from a data frame and then uses a for loop to print some information about each one, starting with the column name. I succeed in returning the column name, but nothing else I have tried using the variable colName, containing the name of the column, to refer to the column itself has worked. Below I show my

Dear folks? Is there a function to correctly find (and count) the NAs in a factor when exclude=NULL, regardless of whether their origin is in the original data or by subsequent assignment? In example number 1 below, where NAs are assigned by is.na()<-, testing the factor with is.na() finds the correct number of NAs. In example number 2, where the NAs are from the data, neither is.na(), ==NA,

ear folks ? I have a question, though it is more of a logic- or a good practices-question than a programming question per se. I am working with data from the American Community Survey summary file. It is mainly categorical count data. Currently I am working with about 40 tables covering about 35 variables, mainly in two-way tables, with some 3-way and a handful of four-way tables. I am going to

Dear folks, I?m trying to build a function to create and make available some variables I frequently use for testing purposes. Suppose I have a function that takes some inputs and creates (internally) several named objects. Say, fun1 <- function(x, y, z) {obj1 <- x; obj2 <- y; obj3 <- z <missing stuff> } Here is the challenge: After I run it, I want the objects to be

Using str() in a function. I am in the early phase of learning R, and I find I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is actually in objects I have created or read in from a file. I'm trying to make a simple little function to display a couple of things about a object, let's say the summary() and the str(), sequentially, preferably without a bunch of surplus lines between them. I

There is something that I wish I had that I think would help me a lot to be a better R programmer, that I think would probably help many others as well. I put the wish out there in the hopes that someone might think it was worth doing at some point. I wish I had the code of some substantial, widely used package ? lm, say ? heavily annotated and explained at roughly the level of R knowledge of

Dear all, I need to generate a list of lists as required by the bayesm-package. This means in my application that I have to generate a list which consists of 2000 elements, which are lists themselves: list(list(y1,X1),...,list(y2000,X2000)). The y are vectors and the X are matrices of different dimensions. I tried to solve this problem iteratively by the following code, but received an error

Dear folks-- The function below is a snippet of a larger function that is not doing what it is supposed to do, and I do not understand its behavior. The larger function is supposed to produce an array containing the results of a user-specified function applied to groups of data defined by the intersection of one or more factors, and return them in an array with a dimension for each factor and a

Hi, I downloaded RWeka successfully. (At least I do not see, where I could have made a mistake.) Then I tried to load it by the library-command. To my surprise this did not work. Result: library(RWeka) Fehler in .jinit(c(system.file("jar", "weka.jar", package = "RWeka"), system.file("jar", : Cannot create Java Virtual Machine Fehler: .onLoad in

Dear list, im facing an issue of statistical data analysis that I consider myself unable to resolve in R so i hope to get some valuable insights from you. i run an ANOVA with four factors; factor4 is an between factor (two different groups measured), the others are withins (tested across /all/ subjects). accordingly, my model looks as follows: fm1

Dear R experts, For a fixed seed, the first random number produced by rnorm and runif has the same rank within the distribution, which I find useful. The following ranks differ, however. > set.seed(123) > runif(4) [1] *0.2875775* 0.7883051 *0.4089769* 0.8830174 > set.seed(123) > pnorm(rnorm(4)) [1] 0.2875775 0.4089769 0.9404673 0.5281055 I noticed that rnorm seems to

Hi List, I recently posted about problems i am having with deleting files belonging to members of the same unix group (as the mapped AD user that wants to delete the file via samba). I now figured out, that one possible solution is to map that unix Group to an AD group (while creating the AD group and adding users to it first). Question: Is local group membership (on the samba server) of the

Hi List, The Samba Howto Collection http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/AccessControls.html#id2611229 says: "When the set user or group ID bit (s) is set on a directory, then all files created within it will be owned by the user and/or group whose `set user or group' bit is set. " while i cannot repoduce this behavior the wikipedia says:

hello, with --stats, shouldn`t we differ between "number of files transferred" and "number of files failed" ? the problem is, that i have files which ALWAYS fail on transfer, and to check for "number of files failed"<=2 would be the best way for me to check if the overall transfer was ok. if i magaged to create a patch to adress this, would such patch be