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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 ---------------------------------- To keep my scripts short and tidy, I want to call sub-functions and return variables from these for subsequent use in the calling function. e.g. "test.smooth.opc.time.series" <- function() { load.opc.ascii.files() }

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

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 ---------------------------------- 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, 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

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I have generated an object (class = by) with NA values and want to plot the output as a bargraph: x2 <- by(scl.nos, species, sum) These data are summed counts of fish by species > x2 INDICES: AGI [1] 0.729927