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Dear folks-- Suppose I have an expression that evaluates to a string, and that that string, were it not a character vector, would be a symbol. I would like a function, call it doppel(), that will take that expression as an argument and produce something that functions exactly like the symbol would have if I typed it in the place of the function of the expression. It should go as far along the

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.

Hello, Hope that someone could help me plotting longitudinal data below: 7213 3333330001 0.8300 13.05.09 1 1 3333330001 0.8700 09.02.05 NULL 4797 3333330001 0.7700 21.03.07 NULL 2399 3333330001 0.7800 12.04.06 NULL 2400 3333330002 NULL 27.03.06 NULL 7230 3333330002 0.8200 14.05.09 0 2 3333330002 0.8400 09.02.05 NULL 4798 3333330002 0.8700 20.03.07 0 4799 3333330003 0.9000 20.03.07 13 2401

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

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: Let?s suppose I want a function to print return the name of the object passed to it. > myname <- function(object) {out<-deparse(substitute(object)); out} This works fine on a single object: > O1 <-c(1:4) > myname(O1) [1] "O1" However it does not work if you use lapply to pass it the same object from a list: > O2 <-c(1:4) > object.list <-

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

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

Hi, im a newbie with very wobbly coding abilities. Tearing my hair out over getting the boxplot i want... I have a dataset called 'eagle' which consists of year (2011 or 2012), month (jan - dec), roof (TT6, TT13 or BARE) and temp (the continuous variable that i want to plot). So i want boxplots of the three roof treatments in every month organised in chronical order along x axis 2011 -

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:

Dear Folk-- Suppose I have some objects A, B & C, and a function getDots <- function(...) {args <- list(...) etc.} If I do a call to getDots(A, B, C) then the variable args will be assigned to a list which contains the objects to which A, B & C refer, but which will not (except by happenstance) contain the names A, B, or C. I would like getDots to return a named list, with the

Hi, I have a column in a data frame looking something like: $sex $language $count male english 0 male english 0 female english 32 male spanish 154 female english 11 female norweigan 7 and so on. What I want to do is to order these in to categories, for instance one category where count>=0 & count<10 and so on.. I want my data to turn out looking something like: male

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,

I need to buy some new phones for our own offices. I've used only Polycom phones until now, but I'd like to broaden my experience. I'm trying to decide which phones to experiment with. I have these options: - A combination of Polycom, Aastra and Snom - Just Polycom One the one hand, I'd like to keep things uniform, since it greatly simplifies provisioning. On the other hand, 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

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):

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

I need to make about 30 figures and I am trying to create a program in R that will make my life a lot easier. First I will tell you how my data is setup. I have 30 sites and then data for each year at the site. I have 10 years of data for each site. Below is a small chunk of my data to show the format. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Site A 50 75 25 55 60 Site B 58 22 68 77 30 I am trying to

Dearfolks-- I have been told by an experienced R programmer and teacher whom I trust that it is easier to understand R code if you read it aloud, as the language that it is. However, she was clear that reading it aloud was not simply reading the marks on the screen: you read A.df[5,] as "the fifth row of A.df" (or "the fifth row of data frame A"), not as "A dot df left