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Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ~/.emacs ; Default function template (setq ess-insert-function-templates t) ---------------------------------- When loading a new function into the R workspace using ctrl-CD I would like the default function template to come up, rather than a blank buffer. I thought I had the Default

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- Can anyone please tell me where to find the function "banking()" containing Cleveland's solution to optimising graph aspect ratio? It is mentioned in Venables and Riply 1994, pg. 112, Ex. 3.7, q. 3.5. I have not found it (or perhaps

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I need to get the means for each column of a dataframe in the list created by splitting a data frame. At present, I am getting the mean of all columns in aggregate. The structure of the unsplit data is: > shuttle.tr1[1:10,] juliandate

Colleagues I want to download the package "date" from CRAN <http://cran.r- project.org/> to get the R-scripts (for version 1.2.0) *** date/INDEX *** as.date Coerce Data to Dates date.ddmmmyy Format a Julian date date.mdy Convert from Julian Dates to Month, Day, and Year date.mmddyy Format a Julian date date.mmddyyyy Format a Julian date date.object Date Objects mdy.date

Hello, I have a problem. I have to read a HUGE file which has to be line processed, so I would like to use scan like p <- scan(pfile,what=c(0,0,0,"",0,""),nlines=1) but it continues to read the first line, so I have to add a skip and increment the skip after each read. It takes forever to read a test file of 1 Mb, the real one is in 60's Mb Is there a way to read line

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- Below is a summary on returning variable from subfunction, Thanks to Brian Ripley and Douglas Bates: To access the variables within a function, return a list or data structure assigned to a variable in the calling function. For more than one varaible,

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- On 1 Mar 01,, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote (re: Re: (off topic) Re: [R] Notepad): > Just to remind people that ESS and FSF Emacs run on Windows too. > (There is or was also an Xemacs port to Windows, but I have very > little experience with

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1022 on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I have some rather unusual units for acoustic volume backscattering integrated over several metres depth and 10 transmits (which happens to = 160 m along transect). I need to express these units in a graph label. My problem

"SM" == S McClatchie <S.McClatchie> writes: > > SM> I notice that the new option under R ver. 1.3.0 to save a > SM> graph as a pdf file from the graph window menu (file/ save as/ SM> > PDF) works differently (extremely slowly) under ESS, whereas SM> it is > almost instant from the R- gui. > > SM> Does the feature not work

System info: Linux slackware R Version 1.5.1 (2002-06-17) ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues Is there a way to add a legend to an image plot? I don't see any reference to legends in the documentation (so I suppose the answer is no?). Although the documentation says image takes plot() parameters, it isn't clear to me how the usual use of legend in a plot command

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1022 on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I notice that saving a file from the menu bar in the graph window to 100% quality jpeg is very slow (more than 2 minutes). Is this something to be avoided? I know I can save the graph with postscript() in the script, or cut and paste into

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: Version 1.2.3 (2001-04-26) on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I am wondering if there is a problem with the function rep(). Both the commands using rep() below were expected to produce 8 twos, but only the second did. x <- rep(2,40*(1-0.8)) length(x) y <- rep(2,40*0.2) length(y)

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1022 on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I would like to access the residuals from a lowess fit (function lowess() ) as an aid to assessing whether I am over-smoothing or under-smoothing a dataset (as in Cleveland's book "Visualizing data", section 3.3) Unless I

Colleagues, Thanks for the suggestions concerning reading matlab files into R 1. Regarding documentation for the format of matlab files, please see two manuals that I picked up from the matlab websites. The name of the files are: api_guide.pdf api_ref.pdf Use your web browser to access these files in my FTP directory <ftp://ftp.niwa.cri.nz/incoming/mcclatchie> under the appropriate

System info: Linux slackware R Version 1.5.1 (2002-06-17) ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues I have some text files in a certain directory and want to process them sequentially. So I want to pass the filename identifier into a function and loop through the processing of each file in turn.I've called the file identifier f in this code segment: image.dvm <- function

System info: Red Hat 9.0 R Version 1.7.0 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues At work I've had to migrate from Mandrake 9.1 to Red Hat 9.0 and I'm reinstalling R. I am having a problem downloading from R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm from /bin/linux/redhat/9/i386. Basically the download does not complete. I am using mozilla, and when I click on the link the screen corrupts with

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1022 on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I want to documnet a function I've written. I used prompt(function.name) to create an ascii R documentation file. I moved the .Rd file into a subdirectory called rw1022/library/my.functions/man Now I want to load the help using

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1022 on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- As recommended, I keep separate directories for projects, but also use separate sub-directories for types of data (e.g. different oceanographic instruments) within projects. My problem is that I often need to access the objects and data (not

System info: Mandrake 9.0 R Version 1.6.1 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues I understand that help.start() search function works with netscape and although it may also work with latest versions of mazilla it doesn't seem to with the one I'm using (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826). I thought that there were instructions for setting

System info: Mandrake 9.0 R Version 1.7.0 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues The R-team has done a great job of making it easy to upgrade to current versions of the R-language using the rpms for linux. I have a minor suggestion for the readme file <Mandrake-Readme.txt> where the mandrake linux binaries reside <http://www.cran.r-project.org/>. The readme at the