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I am interested in locating a script to implement a sampling scheme that would basically make it more likely that a particular observation is chosen based on a weight associated with the observation. I am trying to select a sample of ~30 census blocks from each ZIP code area based on the proportion of women in a ZCTA living in a particular block. I want to make it more likely that a block will

Does anyone know where I might be able to download/purchase a database of US cities and their longitude/latitude coordinates? I''d like to provide a search option on a website that allows users to search by city but include cities in the surrounding area. Thanks, Carl Youngblood _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

Question- if I have more then one view I wish to display in a layout , how do I tell content_for_layout what to display and where ? TIA Stuart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060713/a2d0a8c8/attachment.html

i've search the email archives, searched the documention of various map packages and done an R-site search, but have been unable to find direct resources for creating maps of the US that are colored or annotated or ... by zipcode data. For example, create a map of the US and color each zipcode region by its population using two vectors z,p containing the zipcode and population,

I posted this earlier on IRC, but it didn''t seem anyone was active: <mozillaman>Hey all! <mozillaman>Quick question for you :) <mozillaman>I installed puppet according to the directions on the site and got this: sudo /usr/bin/puppetmasterd --nonodes undefined method `retrieve'' for nil:NilClass <mozillaman>Anyone have any ideas? Any help would be

Way to go YubNub! It''ll be interesting to see: 1) What so many people have to say and 2) How your rails app holds up to the slashdotting. Great work!

> > I might as well add to the offtopic thread... why are natuical miles longer than "regular" miles? Andrew A nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20040112/6658a905/attachment.htm

So having just learned how to do has_many :through as opposed to HABTM, and then, being concerned that I wouldn''t get it to work, I started thinking about these two approaches. It seems to me that the _only_ problem that the HM:T (has_many :through) approach solves that HABTM doesn''t is the issue of the potential collision of id columns between your join table and one of

Dear all, I'm working with two data frames. The first frame (agg_data) consists of two columns. agg_data[,1] is a unique ID for each row and agg_data[,2] contains a continuous variable. The second data frame (geo_data) consists of several columns. One of these columns (geo_data$ZCTA) corresponds to the unique ID in the first data frame. The problem is that only a subset of the unique ID

I see several mapping libraries but cannot find how to do a simple task. Starting with a vector of zip codes (in the United States and in Canada) I would like to automatically lookup the corresponding coordinates. Can you suggest a package and function that I should turn to? I would also like to automatically pull in the altitude, and some climate data. -- Farrel Buchinsky [[alternative HTML

I need to write a method for calculating the fee for medical procedures with respect to area. I have all the tables and data but its hard to give that here. Can someone take a look at this ''stub'' method and help me out? def calculate_fee # strip out the first 3 numbers of the user entered zip code # use those 3 numbers to identify row in [zipcodes table] (between upper and

Is it possible to have multiple loading events in the params for form_remote_for? I''d like to do this :loading => "Element.show(''form-indicator'') and this :loading => "Element.hide(btn-submit'') Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Dear all, i have a programming problem that should be simple, though i am stuck with it. Please note that this is not a specific geonames problem, though i use it as an example - it´s just a basic problem with lapply. I use the geonames webservices with the R geonames packages which works almost smoothly. I have a vector of Zipcodes and i want to do a geonames lookup for all of them, which

Hi, How do I make stacked area graph? For stacked bar graph gruff has seperate class "StackedBar" but I could not find anything as "StackedArea"? Is there any other way? Please let know. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hey There I've been trying to match 2 lists in R I have an excel sheet containing all the 51states of amerika devided by zipcode. the columns are : zip,city, state, latitude,longitude,count so now I want R to make a new table that I could use to draw a map. The table should consist the name of the state plus the count. Like I said I have all the zipcodes and the count for the zipcodes, so now

Hey, Does anybody know of a good Geocode library for Ruby, similar to Perl''s Geocode::Postal, that i could use in my rail app? I need to do some "within 5 miles" calculations of zipcodes and i dont have a nice ruby (or gem) utility to do it. any help would be appreciated. thanks adam _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

As I, like many people, are coming to ruby in the rails era, I''m curious about how Ruby Web Dev was done prior to rails. Any veterans want to share their insights? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060518/20cde24d/attachment.html

I have a model with a datetime field called start_date. I''d like to do a find on the model so that it returns only records with the start_date equal to the current day. Something like this: @foos = Foo.find(:all, :conditions => //?? start_date equal to today''s date ??// ] ) Thanks in advance for any help. -------------- next part

Is there any package that I could use for zipcode search. I want to display schools that near a particular zipcode. I have no idea how to do this. It will be great if anyone can point me where I could find info -- Rgds, --Siva Jagadeesan http://www.varcasa.com/ Education Through Collabration -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Here's the latest batch of words to get shipped out to Allison Smith. Please submit reasonably small changes to me by tomorrow 10:00 AM Eastern time, and I'll add them. As usual, donations to what will be a ~$110 USD expense would be appreciated, as I am paying for this round out of my pocket. Please send to paypal address "jtodd@loligo.com". I did not include all