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Dear R Users, I am working in an environment in which I am not able to compile any code. Sad, but true. Is there a Windows 32-bit version of 2-15.2 anywhere ? I am currently unable to use packages Matrix and mgcv because they appear to have been compiled for 2-15.2 but only 2-15.1 is available for download from the regular CRAN websites. Thanks in advance, Tolga This email is confidential and

Dear R Users, How can I prevent solve.Qp from printing the solution progress ? Thanks in advance, Tolga This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at

I just bought a new machine and installed the latest release of R 2.15.1 two days ago. Loaded libraries yesterday (all reported successful loads). While running scripts, rJava and Snowball would not load. Here is Snowball successful install: > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() trying URL 'http://cran.cs.wwu.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/Snowball_0.0-8.zip' Content type

Dear R Users, I've used this a long time ago but have forgotten. Trawling aroung the various sources somehow does not lead me to it. How can I execute an error prone function without stopping a script if it goes wrong ? Thanks in advance, Tolga This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy

Dear R Users, I am trying to replace a substring in a string with something else. For example: if we have "abc.degg.hijk" I would like to replace all the "." with a SPACE to become "abc degg hijk" I have tried the replace.substring.wild function in the Hmisc package but get this error: > replace.substring.wild("abc.degg.hijk","*.*","

Dear R Users, Tried to install RBloomberg with R-2.12.0 and appears RDComclient has not been built for this version of R, so failed. I then tried to get RBloombergs' Java API version to work, but ran into problems with RJava which does not appear to exist for Windows. My platform is Windows XP SP3. Will RDcomclient be built for R-2.12.0 anytime soon ? Does a version of RBloomberh with a

Dear R Users, Is there a version of the Windows binary for RBloomberg that works with R 2.11 ? Thanks in advance, Tolga This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at

All – I’m having a problem with the rJava package. I can download it to my machine (Win 7 64-bit) but when I try to load the package into R (2.15.1, 64-bit version), I get the following error: > require(rJava) Loading required package: rJava Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details: call: inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) error: unable

Dear R Users, I am trying to get plot.zoo to place monthy tickmarks/labels for a time series which spans daily data going back a bit over a year. Right now, I am getting only one tick mark on the x-axis for the beginning of 2008. How can I force plot.zoo to place more regular x-axis tick marks on a monthly basis ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational

Dear R-Users, I am looking for a way to get legends placed automagically in an empty spot on a graph. Additional complication comes through my useage of multiple graphs on the same plot through mfrow. Is there a way to achieve this in R ? I have legends for each of the sub-plots. Many thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not

Dear R-Users, I've written a number of functions in a .R/script file. I would like to call those functions from another script file. How can I execute all the code in a script file so that the functions are available for use in my other script file ? I have tried help.search("script") and various Google alternatives but couldn't come up with anything. Thanks in advance,

Dear R Users, I would like to plot three time series on the same graph, two axis on the left and one axis on the right. The time series that I am graphing on the left do not share a similar scale: one has a range of 1:100 and the other a range of 25000:70000. How can I display the tick marks for both on the left hand side without superimposing them, i.e. one set of tick marks in black right

Dear R Users, A bit of an elementary question, but somehow, I haven't been able to figure it out. I'd like to changes the column names of a data frame, so I am looking for something like col.names (as in row.names). Could someone please show me how to change the column names of a data frame ? Thanks, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is

Dear R Users, Can anyone point me to a package for R vrsion 2.7.1 which implements some Hurst exponent estimation methods ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. In the event you are

Dear R Users, A bit of a simple question, but I could not find the answer thru google ("sorting lists r cran","how can i sort a list r cran") or RSiteSearch... how can I sort a list ? One imagines something like sort.list would do the job, but that's not the one. > foo<-list(a=10,b=2,c=3) > sort.list(foo) Error in sort.list(foo) : 'x' must be atomic

Dear R Users, I am on Windows XP SP2 platform, using R version 2.7.2 . I was wondering if there is a way to find out, within R, the number of CPU's on my machine ? I would use this information to set the number of nodes in a cluster, depending on the machine. Sys.info() and .Platform do not carry this information. Thanks in advance, Tolga Uzuner Generally, this communication is for

Dear R Users, I would like to get the pdf() command to create graphics in landscape mode, as I am plotting 8 graphs in 2 rows and 4 columns. This is being generated for an a4 printer (so I also use the paper="a4" command). Is there a way I can ask pdf() to generate the document in landscape mode ? Thanks, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it

Dear R Users, I am trying to do something quite simple: replace the elements of a zoo object. For some reason, the following code does not seem to work. How can I replace the value for the 14th of Dec of 2008 in the zoo object x below with 1 (it is currently NA). > x 2008-12-11 2008-12-12 2008-12-13 2008-12-14 2008-12-15 2008-12-16 361.667 389.875 NA NA 397.822

Dear R Users, Does R have an "inverse empirical cumulative distribution" function, something one can use to invert ecdf ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. In the event you

Dear R Users, The granger.test command in the MSBVAR package estimates all possible bivariate Granger causality tests for m variables. If one passes a data frame with 3 rows, it returns 6 granger tests in two rows, one for the F-statistic and another for the p-value. For example: > a<-rnorm(1:10) > b<-c(lag(a),rnorm(1)) > c<-c(lag(b),rnorm(1)) >