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R-developers: I had a quick question for the group -- let's say a package I am developing depends on a single, small function from a large CRAN-listed package. I can, of course, set a dependency within my own package, but are there means by which I can include the R script + man file DIRECTLY in my package (of course attributing the code to the original programmer). Does it require me

R-developers: I have a small python script that I'd like to include in an R package I'm developing, but I'm a bit unclear about which subfolder it should go in. R will be calling the script via a system() call. Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Department of Geography and Geographic

R-developers: I'm working on updating my R package "spatial.tools", and one thing I was wondering was the proper way to have hidden functions -- should I simply not export them to the namespace and use the ::: operator to call them (which is what I currently do)? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS)

R-helpers: I need a quick help with the following graph (I'm a lattice newbie): require("lattice") npp=1:5 names(npp)=c("A","B","C","D","E") barchart(npp,origin=0,box.width=1) # What I want to do, is add a single vertical line positioned at x = 2 that lays over the bars (say, using a dotted line). How do I go about doing this?

R-helpers: Say I have a list: myvariables <- list(a=1:10,b=20) Is there a way to load the list components into the environment as variables based on the component names? i.e. by applying this theoretical function to myvariables I would have the variables a and b loaded into the environment without having to explicitly define them. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor

R-developers: I'm beginning to work on a manuscript for a set of functions I developed for a package I have on CRAN (spatial.tools), and I'd like to rename a function in my package to give a better idea of what it does prior to manuscript submission -- is there a "safe" way to do a backwards-compatible rename of a function within a CRAN package (so functions that rely on the

Given an arbitrary set of character vectors: myvect1 <- c("abc","3","4") myvect2 <- c("2","3","4") I would like to develop a function that will convert any vectors that can be PROPERLY converted to a numeric (myvect2) into a numeric, but leaves character vectors which cannot be converted (myvect1) alone. Is there any simple way

Quantreggers: I'm trying to run rq() on a dataset I posted at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8Kij67bij_ASUpfcmJ4LTFEUUk/edit?usp=sharing (it's a 1500kb csv file named "singular.csv") and am getting the following error: mydata <- read.csv("singular.csv") fit_spl <- rq(raw_data[,1] ~ bs(raw_data[,i],df=15),tau=1) > Error in rq.fit.br(x, y, tau = tau, ...) :

R-helpers: I'm working on an r-package that I want to make as easy-to-use as possible for a novice R-user, which includes automatically installing required packages. I, myself, am a novice R-packager, so the solution I came up with was to embed: print("Loading required packages...") if (!require("reshape")) { install.packages("reshape") } if

I'm trying to redirect where temporary files go under R to D:\temp\somerandomname from its default (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Temp\somerandomname) -- how do I go about doing this? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The Barn, Room 250N Davis, CA 95616

R-helpers: Are there any ways to auto-generate R-friendly (e.g. will pass a compilation check) .Rd files given a set of .R code? How about GUIs that help properly format the .Rd files? Thanks! I want a basic set of .Rd files that I can update as I go, but as with most things my documentation typically lags behind my coding by a few days. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Project

I'm trying to hunt down an appropriate kriging package for my specific application, and I was hoping someone on the R list might have some pointers -- I'm interested in performing kriging and related spatial interpolations with one of the R packages, but I need to be able to provide my own point-to-point distances (e.g. I do not want to use standard between point distances, as calculated

Hopefully this is a pretty easy fix -- I need to have R query the path separator for some code I'm trying to write (it involves using a system() call) -- the call requires a path and a wildcard, e.g.: command="mycommand /path/to/*.files" in the case of unix or, command="mycommand.exe C:\\path\\to\\*.files" on a windows box System.which is working correctly, so the

R-helpers: It looks like http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html has stopped spidering the mailing lists -- this used to be my go-to site for searching for R solutions. Are there any good replacements for this? I want to be able to search both functions and mailing lists at the same time. Cheers! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of

Rers: I can't seem to locate the command to suppress what appears to be a faint internal grid when running the following command to make a filled contour plot of some data I have (x,y,z being the inputs):

This is probably a very noobish question, but if I want to create a function that allows an undetermined number of, say, numeric vectors to be fed to it, I would use: myfunction = function(...) { # Do something } Right? If so, how do I a) count the number of vectors "fed" to the function, and b) how do I treat those vectors as variables, e.g. for the call:

I have a numerical vector which contains a (poorly) formatted time column, which, in theory, should be HHMM, but was distributed as an integer, so, for 12:15 am, it is saved as "15" (e.g. HHMM = 0015 with the zeroes stripped). I'm trying to use this in conjunction with strptime, but I'm thinking because each time is an integer ranging from 1 to 4 digits, I probably need to

Quick question -- if I have a vector of strings that I'd like to split into two new vectors based on a substring that is inside of each string, what is the most efficient way to do this? The substring that I want to split on is multiple characters, if that matters, and it is contained in every element of the character vector. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar

R'ers: I was hoping I could get some direction on this. I have a dataset of the form: Y1,Y2,...,YM = f(X1,X2,...,XN), where N is >>> M The response data (Y1,Y2,...,YM) is frequency data, such that the sum of all Yi = 1.0. Both Xj and Yi are continuous variables. I'm trying to figure out the best approach(es) to solving for the model f() -- any ideas? I could solve

Our lab has a lot of different unix boxes, with different hardware, and I'm assuming (perhaps wrongly) that by setting a per-user package installation directory, the packages will only work on one type of hardware. Our systems are all set up to share the same home directory (and, thus, the same .Renviron file) -- so, is there a way to set, in the .Renviron file, per-computer or