similar to: valid package repositories

I tend to regard GitHub as a bit of wild west... anyone can upload anything there, working or not. CRAN packages at least have to compile so there is some additional verification in being there. GitHub does have the advantage that you can easily download it and run an example if the authors have set up such scaffolding... which is better than "it ran once on that laptop that died".

Here's my view on this: CRAN = Comprehensive R Archive Network. The "Archive" part is very important - it "promises" the research community that R packages that have ever been published on CRAN, and all the versions of each package, will be available also in the future. It requires quite a bit for a package/code to disappear from CRAN, e.g. a package contains code/data

Hi All, Is there some document/manual about data manipulation within R that I could use as a reference (obviously, aside the R manuals)? The reason I am asking is that I have a number of data frames/matrices containg genetic data. The data is in a character form, as in: V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 1 AA AG AA GG AG 2 AC AA AA GG AG 3 AA AG AA GG AG 4 AA AA AA GG AG 5 AA AA AA GG AA I need, to chop,

Hi All, does anyone know how to import binary .bed files generated by Plink (http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/ ) into R? the Plink FAQ explains how to conver other types of files, not the .bed. Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax

Hi All, I have a vector of data, a vector of bin breakpoints and I want to put my data in the bins and then extract fanciful informations like the mean value of each bin. I know I can write my own function, but I would have thought that R should have somewhere a function that took as arguments something like (data, breaks, what to do with the data in the bins). I surey could not find it

Hi All, I have a list of matrices: > x [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 4 [2,] 2 5 [3,] 3 6 > y [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] 18 21 24 27 30 33 [2,] 19 22 25 28 31 34 [3,] 20 23 26 29 32 35 > z =list(x,y) I want to create a second list that is has a subset each matrix in the list subsetting so I get the 2nd and 3rd row of each (and

HI All, I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is under is 'GPL' --no version. My assumption is, since all the code is written in R the licence R used for R would affect the code (hence my "GPL" stands for "whatever version of the GPL R is under") I am happy with the licencing I used, but I'd like to ask if there is any transitive

Dear All, I saved by mistake the environment I was working in after typing q(), and now I get the annoying message: [Previously saved workspace restored] I have already deleted all the objects in the environment, saving it as an empty environment, so it's just a matter of nitpicking I suppose. The message does not appear if I start R from any other place in the directory tree. I am

Hi All, I am counting the number of occurrences of the terms listed in one vector in another vector. My code runs: for( i in 1:length(vector3)){ vector3[i] = sum(1*is.element(vector2, vector1[i])) } where vector1 = vector containing the terms whose occurrences I want to count vector2 = made up of a number of repetitions of all the elements of vector1 vector3 = a vector of NAs that is

> -----Original Message----- > From: Federico Calboli > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:40 PM > To: r-help > Subject: [R] matrix exponential: M^0 > > I would like to ask why the zeroeth power of a matrix gives me a matrix > of ones rather than the identity matrix: > > > D<-rbind(c(0,0,0),c(0,0,0),c(0,0,0)) > > D<-as.matrix(D) > > D >

Hi All, I am currently preparing some form of slideshow introducing R and its capabilities for some colleagues. The thing will be about 30 mins, and I'd like to have some "pretty pictures" and some "amazing facts" (I'm trying to sell, obviously :)). Can I ask if it's possible to easily retrieve a gross figure of the number of functions in R considering the

Hi All, I would like to output the results of a function into a text file, legible as a such. The function produces a summary quite like: summary(lm(x ~ y + w * z)) [for instance] and I am not clear how to save this summary into a text file 'automagically', because I need to be able to do it in a for() loop. Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology

Dear All, I will soon be working with NIH and possibly FDA. Will I be able to use R or will I be forced to use SAS? Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com

Dear All, just a quick example: > x = 1:25 > x[12] = NA > x [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NA 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 > y = x[x<10] > y [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NA Is there any way of NOT getting NA for y = x[x<10]? Similarly > y = x[x<15] > y [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NA 13 14 How do I get rid of the NA (not post

Hi All, I would like to know, is there a *ballpark* figure for how many parameters the minimisation routines can cope with? I'm asking because I was asked if I knew. Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t]

Check out textplot in the gregmisc package ... Federico Calboli <f.calboli@ucl.ac.uk> Sent by: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch 07/13/2004 12:06 PM Please respond to f.calboli To: r-help <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> cc: Subject: [R] plotting a table together with graphs Dear All, I would like to ask how to add a table to a

Dear All, I suspect this is kind of dumb, but when I was under the thrall of the dark lord (read, using a W2K box), all my work in R files came out as foo.RData. I moved on to GNU/Linux, and all the old .RData files keep on working as they used. No problems in loading and stuff. But I use R from the terminal. Assuming I decide to switch to emacs, do I need to save my work as foo.r? what about my

Hi All, I'm having a problem with barplot: mydata [1,] 2 108 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 18 3 4 8 20 26 20 19 7 1 1 mycol = c(rep('yellow', 2), rep('white', 3), rep('orange',2), rep('white', 5), rep('orange',3), rep('red',9)) barplot(mydata, col = mycol) gives me an uniformly yellow barplot. How do I solve this? bw Federico

Hi All, a colleague wants to calculate the Fisher information matrix for a model he wrote (not in R). He can easily get the neg-log-likelihood and the best fit parameters at the minimum. He can also get negLLs for other parameter values too. Given these data, is there a way in R to calculate the Fisher information matrix? Best, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology

Dear All, I would like to ask you how to accomplish a little tricky data manipulation. I have a large dataset, looking something like: temp line cage number 18 18 1 6678.63 18 18 1 7774.458 18 18 1 7845.902 18 18 1 9483.578 18 18 1 8983.555 18 18 1 9181.052 18 18 1 9458.696 18 18 1 8138.616 18 18 1 7981.994 18 18 1 7556.491 18 18 1 7672.137 18 18 1 6607.776 18 18 1 8383.65 18 18 1 7129.852 18 18