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Hi R experts, I am looking for a simple error handling approach, whereby I could stop function execution with a customized error message. For example: for (i in 1:10) { if (i == 5) # I'd like to be able to stop right here with an error message I have complete control over } The problem with stop() is that I cannot control completely what gets printed to the terminal, even with

Dear R experts, Can anyone running R on Linux share how they use the "Search Engine & Keywords" page of R documentation? I cannot do any javascript on this page, either searching for a term or following the keyword links. I tried Konqueror (3.0.4, with javascript globally enabled), Mozilla (1.1), and Galeon (1.2.5), but none of them do anything... Sorry, I don't know

Dear R users, I have a question on using weighted.mean() while aggregating a data frame. I have a data frame with columns Sub, Length and Slope: > x[1:5,] Sub Length Slope 1 2 351.547 0.0025284969 2 2 343.738 0.0025859390 3 1 696.659 0.0015948968 4 2 5442.338 0.0026132544 5 1 209.483 0.0005304225 and I would like to calculate the weighted.mean of Slope, using Length

Dear R experts, I am writing a multi-page PDF file and would like to put a header on each page. Is there a way to test a graphic device to see if a new page is started (so that I know when to write the header)? I could simply count the plots made (each page has the same number of plots), but wanted to see if a more general solution is available. Thank you, Aleksey -- Aleksey Naumov GIS

Dear R users, I am just starting with R (v. 1.0.0) and I use Vehables & Ripley's MASS book for examples. In the intro session, there is an example of a 2D histogram on an 8x8 grid: x <- rnorm(1000) y <- rnorm(1000) contour(hist2d(x,y,,,8,8)) R complains: Error in contour(hist2d(x, y, , , 8, 8)) : couldn't find function "hist2d" I looked for hist2d() in the

All, I would like to find a simper method that I now have to find the product of all elements in a vector: #get product of vector elements: (1,2,3,4,5) vec.product <- exp(sum(log(c(1,2,3,4,5)))) I have not found a vector product function, if one has been written. Thanks, Gerard [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R and Sweave users, Is there a way to have optional sections in a Sweave-generated report document, complete with section header(s), text and code chunks? In other words, I'd like for my report to include or omit certain sections based on the data itself. For example, If I examine the input dataset early on in the report and set a variable has_daily_data = TRUE, then I'd like to

Dear List, I would like to plot a simple legend with two math expressions, e.g. plot(0) legend(1, 0.5, expression(sigma[i], sigma[j])) The difficulty is that i and j should be variables rather than strings "i" and "j". In other words I'd like to do something like: i = "A" j = "B" legend(1, 0.5, expression(sigma[i], sigma[j])) and have "A"

Dear R users, I have a very simple question. What is the easiest way to recode data in one of the columns of a data frame and put it into a new column? For example, here is a simple data frame: var1 1 1 2 2 3 3 How do I add a new column to data - 'var2' in which I group values in 'var1', for example: var1 var2 1 1 4 2 2 4 3 3 5 It's got to

Dear R users, I have two related questions about scoping and data encapsulation. One is fairly specific - I am looking at "scoping.R" which is used in demo(scoping) - it's an example of lexical scoping and encapsulation. Where is the 'total' stored? It is not an attribute in 'ross' or 'robert' however, functions like balance() have access to it. Is it more

I'm looking for a plugin for Kate (or any other good text editor for linux) (KDE 3.x) which will highlight the R syntax. The link on www.r-project.org is dead! Any ideas?? Thanks Lars

Dear R users, I have to catch a nasty bug and would appreciate any advice or help! I get a segfault (core dumped) that happens in one of my own functions. The problem is, it does not happen most of the time, only sometimes, so it's very hard to reproduce. Or it may run ok in interactive mode, but bug out in batch mode. Also, it tends to happen more on the slower of my 2 machines (PII 266),

Dear R and odfWeave users, I am looking for a way to automate generation of many reports using odfWeave. All reports would use the same input ODT file, the only difference would be in the name of the dataset which will be analyzed in any particular report. Right now, the name of the dataset is hardcoded in the first code chuck in the input file: <<01 get data, echo=TRUE>> station =

Hi R users, dev2bitmap() is not working for me in R-1.1.0. It says: > dev2bitmap("aaa.png") Error in device(...) : Object "width" not found Anyone else has this problem? Aleksey -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info",

Hi all, I want to extract every 20th row of a big matrix, say 10000 by 1000. What is the simper way to do this? Thank you very much! Hannah [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear vegan team, Vegan development happens now completely in github. R-Forge repository is no more in sync with github. I tried to commit all github changes to R-Forge, but a week ago I got a conflict in file and I haven't had time to resolve that conflict. You can follow vegan development and vegan discussion also without signing to github. The system seems to be completely open and does not

Using Samba 3.x, we are looking at the "security" setting. We want to get "security = user" to work, preferably with user authentication independent from local /etc/passwd & shadow. But we don't want to use Samba-based authentication due to administrative overhead. Ideally, we want to tie in with a Windows Active Directory domain through Kerberos 5 so people can use

I am new to Samba but I set up a server and I am trying to get the logging to my liking. In /var/log/samba the entries are of the format: date.ipaddress.ipaddress I would prefer the logging to be: date.ipaddress:hostname I tried to do this with the /etc/samba/smb.conf setting: log file = /var/log/samba/%m:%M:%I.log The man page seems to indicate that either %m or %M should

Hi, I have the following commands. It says line 5205 does not have 22 elements. But I use my 'vim' checked that line in the file. It has 22 fields. Can somebody let me know how to further debug this case? Regards, Peng > annotation = read.table("../EC_results/Juan_15wks_gene_core.xls", header=T, sep='\t',quote='') Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec,

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