similar to: reading dates

I'm running into problems trying to use the nls function to fit the some data. I'm invoking nls using nls(s~k/(a+r)^b, start=list(k=1, a=13, b=0.59)) but I get errors indicating that the step has been reduced below the minimum step size or an inifinity is generated in numericDeriv. I've tried to use a variety of starting values for a, b, k but get similar errors. Is there

Thanks to Peter Dalgaard and Suchandra Thapa for answering my question! Before I settle on a particular option, I'd like to ask one more question if I may: Are there any practical advantages to compiling R to 64-bit vs 32-bit? Regards, Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Dalgaard BSA [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 4:19 PM > To:

I noticed a wierd quirk in telnet on redhat 5.2 that seems to allow others to verify whether an account name exists on a linux machine or not. If you telnet into a machine and use an username that does not exist, you get four attempts before the telnet session is closed. If the username exists then you have three attempts before the session is closed. I know that there are other ways to find

All, I'm trying to install R-base on RedHat Linux 7.2. Rpm complains that libreadline.4.1.so is needed; the problem is that I have libreadline4.2.so. What can I do to get around this? -Scott -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or

(Thanks for answers on my naif dual processor question!). I'm going to compile R-1.4.0 for linux (Suse 7.3) and hesitate at including the gnome interface. Do people that have tried the gnome interface recommend it? How is R started with this interface? If I build with the --with-gnome option, will still have the option of actually not using the interface if I don't find it useful?

I'm loading a nicely formatted csv file. ? ? #!/usr/bin/env Rscript ? ? kpi <- read.csv( ? ? ? # This is a dump of the username, date_joined and last_login columns ? ? ? # from the auth_user Django table. ? ? ? 'data/2012-04-23.csv', ? ? ? colClasses = c('character') ? ? ) ? ? print(kpi[sample(nrow(kpi), 3),2:3]) Here's what the three rows I printed look like. ? ? ? ?

I've found several similar issues with write.table/read.table with Dates on this list, but trying to follow this advice I still get an error. First, I read in data from several files, constructing several date/time columns using ISOdatetime > str(Tall$Begin) 'POSIXct', format: chr [1:40114] "2005-10-02 00:00:00" "2005-10-02 00:00:00" ... > length(Tall$Begin)

I am writing this email from Wildlife Institute of India, an autonomous institution of Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India. Our institute is involved in the research, management and training for the conservation of wildlife in India. We have a GIS and Remote Sensing laboratory having four Sun workstations on Solaris 7 and two Pentium 4 workstations on Windows NT 4.0 are

Dear all, I've come across a problem using strptime, can anyone explain what's going on? I'm using version 2.7.0 on Windows XP. Thank you Caroline First read in a data file using read.table alldata = read.table(file, header=F, skip=4, colClasses = c("character","numeric")) dim(alldata) [1] 223960 2 # inefficient, safe way of sorting out missing or dodgy

Hi, I am out of town and will get back to you on the 13th of July. Leo >>> "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" 06/27/03 00:32 >>> Send R-help mailing list submissions to r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help or, via email, send a message with subject or body

I'm trying to find a way to fit a polynomial of degree n in x and y to a set of x, y, and z data that I have and obtain the coefficients for the terms of the fitted polynomial. However, when I try to use the surf.ls function I'm getting odd results. > x <- seq(0, 10, length=50) > y <- x > f <- function (x, y) {x^2 + y} > library(spatial) > test <-

In the text file pressione2008.csv I have the following "Data","MAX","MIN","Note" "07-01-2008 08:00:00", 135, 90, "Eccessi feste, inizio dieta" "07-01-2008 18:00:00", 135, 85, "" "08-01-2008 08:00:00", 125, 75, "" which is a collection of blood pressure data at different time of the day. I would

When I try to do linear interpolation between financial contracts with maturities on different dates in different months I have come across some behavior I haven't seen before. I have a data frame in R which is loaded from an access database so I can't provide a working example. It was loaded using this code: > dbPath <- "H:/pathToDB/DB.mdb" > channel <-

Dear all, I have a question related to the POSIXlt function in R. I have a set of dates and times, for exmaple: startx <- as.POSIXct("2011-01-01 00:00:00") finx <- as.POSIXct("2011-12-31 00:00:00") daysx<- seq(startx, finx, by="24 hours") I want to change the dates of all the days falling on a Saturday to the next working day (i.e. Monday). So I

When I do this (highly simplified example): plot(as.POSIXct(c("1984-01-01","1984-01-02")), c(1,2), col=2) I get a partially red (col=2) x-axis between and including the first and last tick marks. Otherwise ok. Only happens with POSIXct or POSIXlt dates. Also, POSIX dates cannot be used on the y-axis? POSIXlt gives an error, and POSIXct is unformatted. Bruce Using X11

The following code: cut(as.POSIXct("2009-11-01 04:00:00", tz="America/Los_Angeles"), "1 day") gives the error: Error in seq.int(0, to - from, by) : 'to' must be finite This is related to November 1st, 2009 being the switchover date from daylight savings time to standard time in the America/Los_Angeles time zone. In particular, in cut.POSIXt, the starting

This commit adds a function parameter to readtable. The function is called for every column. The goal is to allow specific (non-standard) type conversions depending on the input. When the parameter is not given, or the function returns NULL, the legacy default applies. The colClasses parameter still takes precedence, i.e. the colConvertFn only applies to the default conversions. This allows to

Dear All, I have the following data.frame `data.frame': 1563 obs. of 4 variables: $ Model :Class 'AsIs' chr [1:40] "Astro" "Astro" "Astro" "Astro" $ Make :Class 'AsIs' chr [1:40] "Chevrolet" "Chevrolet" $ Production : num 11219 12384 1082 5409 5458 ... $ date :`POSIXlt', format: chr

Hi all. I'm reading in a flat, comma-delimited flat file using read.csv. It works marvelously for the most part. I am using the colClasses argument to, basically, create numeric, factor and character classes for the columns I'm reading in. However, a couple of the fields in the file are date fields. I'm fully aware that POSIXct can be used as a class, however the field must obey,

Dear R-helpers, I have a problem converting an object made with the 'chron' function to a POSIXct object: # Make date based on DOY dat <- chron(dates=232, origin.=c(month=1, day=1, year=2008)) dat #[1] 08/20/08 # Converting to POSIXct uses current timezone (Sydney): as.POSIXct(dat) #[1] "2008-08-20 10:00:00 EST" # Setting GMT timezone has no effect? as.POSIXct(dat,