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I've been trying to figure this out for a while, but my knowledge of R is obviously still too limited. The context is as follows: I have some time series, and I would like to estimate their densities, and then use the actual densities in a monte carlo simulation. Now, I can easily estimate the density using density(); I can write a random number generator to fit an arbitrary density

I've had a play with this and, due to my own short-comings, remain none the wiser. In particular, I'm not sure what value of 'spar' is consistent with the magic lambda=1/1600 for quarterly data. I initially interpreted spar as lambda and tried setting spar=1/1600. This results in almost no smoothing while spar=1600 causes an error. The smooth.spline function seems to want

I've been playing with a quincunx animation in R 1.2.2 and would like to have finer control over the speed of the animation. I know that I can use system("sleep 1") on unix systems at least, but it would be nice to have something like pause(.01). Any suggestions? url: http://www.econ.uiuc.edu Roger Koenker email roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox:

I am trying to make R-1.5.0 from source on a new G4 system with the apple developer tools and X11 installed and with ATLAS. Running ./configure appears to end normally, but running make yields: gcc -no-cpp-precomp -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c Rdynload.c -o Rdynload.o Rdynload.c: In function `R_FindSymbol': Rdynload.c:942:

Hi, I have been trying to dyn.load a library (rq.obj), which will allow me to run a quantile regression function, but so far unsuccessfully. I have tried under windows 98 and R 6.24: 1) dyn.load("d:\\...\\rq.obj") 2) dyn.load("d:\...\rq.obj") 3) 1 and 2 accounting for case sensitivity. 4) dyn.load("d:/.../rq.obj") 5) Place the files in the directory where from I

Dear R-help, Has anyone been able to use the quantreg package on Windows successfully? I tried to load it and get the following: > library(quantreg) Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library "C:/PROGRA~1/R/rw1031/library/quantreg/libs/quantreg.dll": LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found. Error in

We've recently "upgraded" a server to solaris 8, and in reinstalling R I've encountered a problem in getting it to recognize the readline library. I have installed readline in what I believe to be the "usual" place: /usr/local/lib with include files in /usr/local/include/readline. But ./configure produces: ragnar.econ.uiuc.edu# grep readline hout checking for

Could anyone help me to find the mathematical expression to calculate the monotonicity correlation coefficient between two variables? Thanks in advance. Luis Rivera. Universidad de Alcal?. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or

Dear R Development Team, Using Thomas Baier's R Com Server -- or a dll I am building which supports an evaluate function that is based on Baier's function R_Proxy_evaluate contained in proxy_impl.c -- when I issue an invalid command to R such as "plo(x)" the program crashes. There is code in R_Proxy_evaluate to test for a parse error before actually generating code and issuing

Dear R Development Team, Using Thomas Baier's R Com Server -- or a dll I am building which supports an evaluate function that is based on Baier's function R_Proxy_evaluate contained in proxy_impl.c -- when I issue an invalid command to R such as "plo(x)" the program crashes. There is code in R_Proxy_evaluate to test for a parse error before actually generating code and issuing

Greetings, I'm organizing summer econometrics lunch meetings to discuss thesis work. The first meeting will be this friday July 18 12-1pm in the conference room on the third floor of Wohlers. The first talk will be by Lingjie Ma Control Variate Estimation of Structural Quantile Regression Models url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/my.html Roger Koenker email rkoenker@uiuc.edu Department of

About 2 percent of the time I use fix() to edit a function that is sitting in .RData I get the response: > fix(qss) Error in edit(name, file, editor) : problem with running editor vi when I try to close the editing session. I used to think that these were always cases where there was some syntactical error with the edited file, but this is not the case. I realize that one surefire way to

An extremely modest proposal: It would be nice if packages could have a FAQ and if faq(package.name) would produce this faq. And if, by default faq() FAQ() would produce the admirable R faq... Apologies in advance if there is already a mechanism like this, but help.search() didn't reveal anything. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at

In the time honored spirit of wishing to do nothing well, could I suggest that the Splus (versions 5 and 6) response to: > rbind(NULL,NULL) NULL is preferable to the R response: > rbind(NULL,NULL) Error in rbind(NULL, NULL) : attempt to set an attribute on NULL This is on: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8 arch sparc os solaris2.8 system sparc, solaris2.8 status major 1

We have recently upgraded to Solaris 10 on a couple of sparc machines with the usual mildly mysterious consequences for library locations, etc, etc. I've managed to configure R 2.1.0 for a 64 bit version with: R is now configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.10 Source directory: . Installation directory: /usr/local C compiler: gcc -m64 -g -O2 C++

Hi. I am aware of three different R packages for linear programming: glpk, linprog, lpSolve. From what I can tell, if there are N variables and M constraints, all these solvers require the full NxM constraint matrix. Some linear solvers I know of (not in R) have a sparse matrix input format. Are there any linear solvers in R that have a sparse matrix input format? (including the

I have a vector of logLik values that I'd like to return and it would be nice if the the print method didn't run them together. Could I make a plea for using sep = " ", rather than sep = "" in print.logLik? url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558

Does anybody know if there is a built in fuction to use create polynomial distributed lags (sometimed called Almon lag) on linear models? Thanks Francisco _________________________________________________________________ See when your friends are online with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it now

We have a solaris/sparc machine that has been running an old version of R-devel: Version 2.2.0 Under development (unstable) (2005-06-04 r34577) which was built as m64 from sources. Attempting to upgrade to 2.4.0 the configure step goes ok, but I'm getting early on from make: > gcc -m64 -L/opt/sfw/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 > -L/usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/local/lib -o

Has anyone written any code for the Hodrick-Prescott filter? I have a some uncompiled FORTRAN code from Ed Prescott but I'd like to save myself some programming time if possible. Thanks for your help. Nick Davis Crown Financial Policy Asset and Liability Management Branch The New Zealand Treasury Direct: +64-4-471-5924 Fax: +64-4-499-0143 Email: