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A while ago I asked about data management approaches in R. I was asked by several people to post a summary of the responses and alas I am just getting around to doing it. I received several comments, both on and off list. Below is a compilation of these responses. Hope this is as helpful to others as it was to me. Best, Brett 1. Frank Harrell recommended a section, "Operating in

Insightful has some nice docs available for download that are s-plus command line guides to statistics. There are two versions, one for S-plus 2000 and one for S-plus 6.0. With regard to syntax, is one a closer match to R than the other? Are they based on the same S engines? Does that matter? I know there will be differences in any case, I am just trying to decide wich version I want to

Is this text publicized? I ran across it doing an internet search. I have never seen any reference to it and it is not on CRAN under documentation. http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~faraway/book/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or

A short function I wrote for the purpose of evaluating scales made up of a number of questionnaire items. It provides Cronbach's Alpha, both unstandardized and based on standardized items. It also provides item statistics which include item-total correlations (corrected) and item-removed alpha. Thought some of you might find it useful. I would also appreciate any programming tips or

Thanks to Brian Ripley for the time and effort put into developing the factanal package for R. I have found it very useful. However, in trying to replicate some results from previous research, I have run into the need for a couple of extensions and was wondering if they might find their way into future implementations. 1. Though maximum likelihood estimates might be more rigorous and

Hello all, To anyone who is interested, I'm trying to learn a bit more about developing applications in R with user interfaces. I've been playing around with gWidgets to develop a model building interface. I'd appreciate any comments, suggestions, or guidance on how to better structure my R code and organize the programming task. In addition, any suggestions for features and

Are there any R packages that could be used to generate random data given a set of parameters? Or, if not a package, how would one generate such data? What I would like to do is simulate some sample data for a regression model given a set of population covariances and distribution parameters to be used in a MC simulation. Thanks for any tips. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Does anyone know of code to conduct hierarchical (that is, multi-level) models using R. Beyond simply requiring a nested design, I want to model explicitly the covariance between levels as is done in such multi-level modeling software as HLM or MLwin and discussed in Goldestein (1999) available online at http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/support/goldstein.htm (a nice and free resource for anyone

Hello all, I am trying to read a table in via ftp, something like this: read.table("ftp://ftp.the.file.com/the/directory/file.txt") The trouble with that is, our ftp server is picky and wants my username and password. Oh, bother. My question: Is there a way to send user/pass and read the file into R? I am using R 1.5.1 on Windows 98. Thanks, Brett A. Magill, Evaluator

IIRC, the license stated in the source code of dataplot is rather restrictive. I don't think one is allowed to use the source as can be done with GPL code. Cheers, Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett A Magill [mailto:Brett.Magill at slps.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 1:14 PM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] FW: re: GUI's for teaching

Could any of you provide me information on a good Polycom phone dealers to utilize. One who provides firmwares ..etc Thank you! Kenny ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/

Hi everyone, I'm taking a course in statistics as part of my doctoral program in education at the U. of Minnesota, USA. I found R via Rpy, a python module that makes it possible to use R from python scripts. The instructor refers to SPSS a lot and that seems to be the standard stats tool around here. But being more of a Unix guy and not intimidated by programming, I'd like to see if I

Hello everyone, Thanks to all who offered suggestions after my initial query to the list. I've been busy trying to absorb the docs as fast as possible, but this little thing has me stumped for the moment. I'm creating a random sample of 100 item and saving it to a vector named 'iq'. I'd like to create a second vector (iq_prime, say) by adding 20 to each element of the

Hello everyone, Thanks to all who offered suggestions after my initial query to the list. I've been busy trying to absorb the docs as fast as possible, but this little thing has me stumped for the moment. I'm creating a random sample of 100 item and saving it to a vector named 'iq'. I'd like to create a second vector (iq_prime, say) by adding 20 to each element of the

I have a file in fwf. It is rather large, about 40,000 rows and 40 variables (columns). I only need about 10 variables form the data set for the analysis at hand. Unfortunately, these 10 variables are not contiguous in the file, for example, the first is position 1-8, the next position 25-27, then 40. Is there a way to read the selected varaibles that I need without reading in the entire data

Have a look at the GUI on dataplot, NIST's plotting software. It is implemented in tcl/tk. The site states it is "public domain software" -- open source? I can't find anything about the license. In any case... http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/ Brett A. Magill, Evaluator Research, Assessment, and Evaluation Saint Louis Public Schools Brett.Magill at

I apologize for the double post. I am curious as to what the usefullness is of the multiple line appearance feature on Polycom phones. I setup our phones to register one line per extension but I hear the IP501's can do three line appearances. Why and how could this feature be applied? Thanks again all. Kenny ______________________________________________________ Click here to

Hi I am facing a strange problem. I have integrated speex codec's narrowband mode in my SIP based server. Then I tried to integrate the wideband mode. But the program crashes mysteriously. My encode and decode codes for wide band mode are exact similiar to that of narrowband, except the mode initialization, where I put "speex_wb_mode" instead of "speex_nb_mode". My

Full_Name: Frank Harrell Version: 1.6.1 OS: RedHat 8.0 Linux Submission from: (NULL) (128.143.108.90) I get an error when trying to load a URL that contains a file that was saved using save(object, compress=TRUE): > load('http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/data/sav/kprats.sav') Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message:

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