similar to: Several R vs S-Plus issues

Also in assign() there some arguments lacking in R such as 'frame' and 'where', though I guess that 'frame' in S may be similar to 'pos' in R. Harvey -----Original Message----- From: David Brahm [SMTP:a215020@agate.fmr.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:36 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at; r-bugs@r-project.org Subject:

Hi, all, I've been converting code from S-Plus ("S" for short) to R for a few weeks. Here are some differences I've found, aside from the big well-known ones (scoping, models, data storage) and the contents of Kurt Hornik's FAQ section 3.3.3. Let me start with the ones that seem like serious bugs or deficiencies: 1) LETTERS[c(NA,2)] in S is

Hi, I asked this question 2 years ago, and would like to know if the answer has changed. In S-Plus, I build databases of many large objects. In any given analysis, I only need a few of those objects, but attach'ing the whole database is fine since objects are only read as needed. How can I do the same thing in R, without reading the entire database? One possibility is to treat

Hello, R-devel! I posted to R-help, and (inappropriately) to R-bugs, this R/S-Plus difference: > LETTERS[c(NA,2)] in S is c("","B"), but in R is c("NA","B") Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > I think we do not want to change this. ... > R> is.na(LETTERS[c(NA,2)]) [1] TRUE FALSE > so we really have NA but it is

The result of rowsum() in R doesn't have the dimnames I'd expect, e.g.: > rowsum(matrix(1:12, 3,4), c("Y","X","Y")) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] 1 2 5 8 11 2 4 10 16 22 whereas S-Plus gives the more useful result: [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] X 2 5 8 11 Y 4 10 16 22 This is because R's rowsum() code gives the

Hi, The result of rowsum() in R doesn't have the dimnames I'd expect, e.g.: > rowsum(matrix(1:12, 3,4), c("Y","X","Y")) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] 1 2 5 8 11 2 4 10 16 22 whereas S-Plus gives the more useful result: [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] X 2 5 8 11 Y 4 10 16 22 This is because R's rowsum() code gives

Hi, I have what I think is an easy question. I have a data frame, called stockdata, of stock prices that looks like this: date ticker close 1 01/02/1998 GE 24.667 2 01/05/1998 GE 25.104 3 01/06/1998 GE 24.771 4 01/07/1998 GE 24.979 5 01/08/1998 GE 24.750 6 01/02/1998 HIT 71.125 7 01/05/1998 HIT 72.313

Hi, I understand work is being done to improve read.table(), especially by Prof. Brian D. Ripley. I offer below a version that I wrote, in the hope some aspects of it may prove useful or at least inspire discussion. Be aware that my version differs in a couple fundamental ways that reflect my aversion to dataframes and factors. So it returns a list of vectors which are all character,

Environment variables set with Sys.putenv() disappear (i.e. become "") after a while, especially after heavy-duty I/O. Example: R> x <- matrix(1., 3000, 3000) R> save(x, file="myx.RData") R> Sys.putenv(HOME="/tmp") R> while (Sys.getenv("HOME") != "") {cat("ok\n"); load("myx.RData")} The loop prints

I need to calculate a large number of t statistics, and would like to do so via matrix operations. So far I have figured out a way to calculate the mean of each row of the matrix: d <- matrix(runif(100000,1,10), 1000, 10) # some test data s <- rep(1,ncol(d)) # a sum vector to use for matrix multiplication means <- (d%*%s)/ncol(d) This is at least 1 order of magnitude faster than

Hello everyone, We have encountered the problem of functions that appear different in R and S. For example, ! in S becomes system() in R. We also have found that new() in S does not exist in R, unless it has a different name. I wonder whether there is any resource that can point to useful substitutes for S functions that are not recognized by R. At the same time whether there is a list of

Hello all - I've just recently been exploring R for the first time. After noticing a few things that have changed from S to R, I started looking for an R-S compatibility table but didn't find it. Is such a table out there ? Where ? Thanks much, Purvis Bedenbaugh purvis at mbi.ufl.edu Examples: 'stdev' is now 'sd' - is it exactly the same computation ? couldn't find

Hi people, If there is a fn "colMeans" why isn't there a "colSDs" etc Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:0411-185-652 Fax: +61:2:8923-5363 E-mail: pri at chu.com.au -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read

Is it possible to compute the variance of every column in a matrix without a loop? -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch

R> myfun <- function(x, ...) {x[...] <- 0; x} R> myfun(3) Error in myfun(3) : SubAssignArgs: invalid number of arguments It fails because no ... was passed. The workaround (and desired behavior) is: R> myfun <- function(x, ...) {if (missing(...)) x[] <- 0 else x[...] <- 0; x} R> myfun(3) [1] 0 Deja vu? This is the one piece of my PR#1110 (Oct 3, 2001) that I

The help page for library says that: package, help: name or character string giving the name of a package. Yet, I don't seem to be able to use a string variable here. > version _ platform sparc-sun-solaris2.6 arch sparc os solaris2.6 system sparc, solaris2.6 status major 1

Hi all, I have Splus and R both on my unix machine. I intend to keep only one of them. R looks to be a better choice. But I want to confirm. Is there any function or group of functions in Splus that are absent in R? Thanks, Saket. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send

I am using getSymbols function from quantmod package to get price data from internet. Currently I have: my.ticker <- "IBM" getSymbols(my.ticker,src="google") This creates an xts object named my.ticker which contains historical price data for IBM. How can I call and manipulating this xts object using my original string my.ticker? I want to do: colnames(my.ticker) <-

An NA in the rownames of a matrix (or dataframe) causes misalignment when the matrix is printed: R> x <- matrix(1:12, 3,4, dimnames=list(letters[1:3], LETTERS[1:4])) R> rownames(x)[2] <- NA R> x A B C D a 1 4 7 10 <NA> 2 5 8 11 c 3 6 9 12 The bug is in function Rstrlen, in src/main/printutils.c. MatrixRowLabel and MatrixColumnLabel (same file) rely on Rstrlen

i need to find the best ticker from the group of some tickers.? i also need to know on what basis we calculate the best ticker? i have some idea about the if the risk rate low, or the market price high we can say the ticker is best. but i dont know is it true. Anyone can help me . Thank you -- View this message in context: