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Hello all, I changed the subject line of the e-mail, because the question I''m posing now is different than the first one. I hope that this is proper etiquette. However, the original chain is included below. I've incorporated bits of both Ethan and Brian's code into the script below, but there's one aspect I can't get my head around. I'm totally new to programming

Dear colleagues, this seems like an easy problem, and I found some suggestions which I've incorporated in the help list, but I can't quite get it right. I want to add a series of years to a second x-axis category label. I generate them with test and test_2 below, format them with some spacing (which is the suggestion I took from the R-list) and concatenate them and then write them with

Dear Colleagues, I have recently installed R Commander on my Mac OS 10.6.8. I'd like to use it for an undergraduate class this year. Everything appears to be working fine, except for one thing. I cannot use Command-tab to cycle from the X11 window in which RCommander is running to any other window open in my workspace. This is particularly important because I cannot cycle to the graphics

Hi: How do I select different variables from a list of data frames. I have a list of 13 that looks like below. Each data frame has more variables than I need. How do I go through the list and select the variables that I need. In the example below, I need to get the variables "a", and "q10" and "q14" to be returned to two separate data frames. Thank you. Yours, Simon

Hi there: I'm preparing a report in RStudio 0.96.330 on a Mac OS. I'm running R 2.15.0 I understand from Ross Ihaka's document (http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~stat782/downloads/Sweave-customisation.pdf) that you can modify the line length of Sweave output by a call to options(wdith=x). This works great for me for numeric output, but not for character vectors that I have to print.

. HI there, I'd like to show demonstrate how the chi-squared distribution works, so I've come up with a sample data frame of two categorical variables y<-data.frame(gender=sample(c('Male', 'Female'), size=100000, replace=TRUE, c(0.5, 0.5)), tea=sample(c('Yes', 'No'), size=100000, replace=TRUE, c(0.5, 0.5))) And I'd like to create a list of 100

Hello, I'm trying to read in 50 text filess with dates as content to create a list of tables. a is the list of filenames that need to be read in. The following command returns the following error mylist<-lapply(a, read.table(header=TRUE, sep="\n")) Error in read.table(header = TRUE, sep = "\n") : element 1 is empty; the part of the args list of

Dear colleagues, working with the data frame below, trying to reverse two variables I the error message below. i searched through the help list but could not find any postings which could help me solve the situation. I tried attaching and detaching the data frame to no avail. Yours, Simon Kiss *DATA FRAME 'data.frame': 1569 obs. of 9 variables: $ equal : num 3 4 3 2 3 4 2 3 2 2 ...

Hi all: I struggle a lot scraping web data. I still haven't got a handle on the XML package. I'd like to get particular exchange rates from this table: https://raw.github.com/currencybot/open-exchange-rates/master/latest.json This is the code that I'm working with: library(RCurl) library(XML)

Dear colleagues, I have a series of newspaper articles in a text file, downloaded from a text file. They look as follows: Document 1 of 100 \n \n \n Newspaper Name \n \n Day Date I have a series of grep scripts that can extract the date and convert it to a date object, but I can't figure out how to grep the newspaper name. There is no field ID attached to those lines. The best I can come

Dear Colleagues, I have a data set that looks as below. I'd like to count the number of dates in a series of arbitrary ranges (breaks) i.e. not pre-defined breaks such as months, quarters or years. table(format()) produces ideally formatted output, but table() does not appear to accept arbitrary ranges. I also tried converting the dates to numeric and using histogram to try to get the data,

Dear colleagues, Could I get some assistance using postForm() to scrape the business names and addresses at this website: http://www.brantford.ca/business/LocalBusinessCommunity/Pages/BusinessDirectorySearch.aspx I've read through (http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf) and scoured the web for tutorials, but I can't crack it. I'm aware that this is probably a pretty basic

Dear Colleagues, I used this code to scrape data from the URL conatined within. This code should be reproducible. require("XML") library(XML) theurl <- "http://www.queensu.ca/cora/_trends/mip_2006.htm" tables <- readHTMLTable(theurl) n.rows <- unlist(lapply(tables, function(t) dim(t)[1])) class(tables) test<-data.frame(tables, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

Dear colleagues, I have a data set that looks roughly like this; mydat<-data.frame(state=c(rep("Alabama", 5), rep("Delaware", 5), rep("California", 5)), news=runif(15, min=0, max=8), cum.news=rep(0, 15)) For each state, I'd like to cumulatively sum the value of "news" and make that put that value in cum.news. I'm trying as follows but I get

Hello: I'm working with a 2-dimensional table that looks sort of like test below. I'm trying to produce latex code that will add dimension names for both the rows and the columns. In using the following code, latex chokes when I include collabel='Vote' but it's fine without it. The code below prouces the latex code further below. I'm confused by this, because it looks

Dear colleagues, I have a dataset that looks as below. I would like to make a new dataset that excludes the cases which are joint conjunctions of particular state names and years, so Connecticut and 2010, Maryland and 2010 and Vermont and 2010. I'm trying the following subset code: newdata<- subset(bpa, (!State=="Connecticut" & year<"2010")) It appears that

Dear colleagues, I have a list that looks like what the code below produces. I need a function to go through each list element and work on the second column of each list element (the first column is irrelevant to me...if the proposed function works on the first column as a consequence of a writing something simple, that's fine). I need to index the second column of each list element to the

hello, can someone tell me how to generate the means for a data frame that looks like this? My data frame has many more variables, but I won't bother you with those; these are the one's that I'm interested in. Needless to say, z is the variable in which I'm interested. I'd like to find out the mean score of z for NDP managers, Conservative managers and Liberal managers

Hi: I'm sure this is a very easy problem. I've consulted Data Manipulation With R and the R Book and can't find an answer. Sample list of data frames looks as follows: .xx<-list(df<-data.frame(Var1=rep('Alabama', 400), Var2=rep(c(2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), 400)), df2<-data.frame(Var1=rep('Tennessee', 400), Var2=rep(c(2004,2005,2006,2007), 400)),

Dear colleagues, each time I use htmlParse, R crashes or hangs. The url I'd like to parse is included below as is the results of a series of basic commands that describe what I'm experiencing. The results of sessionInfo() are attached at the bottom of the message. The thing is, htmlTreeParse appears to work just fine, although it doesn't appear to contain the information I need (the