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I have 2GB installed on my windows XP box running R 1.9.0, and after performing a prune.tree(intree,newdata), I get an out of memory error within R, but it says the maximum allowed is 1024gb (1/2 of what I have!) Can R not use more than 1GB on an XP box? I noticed I had ~600mb left over after R conked out, so clearly I had more memory... What about virtual memory? --j -- Jonathan Greenberg

I have a binary file which is an image with multiple bands, arranged in BSQ format such that R, B and G are all N x M sized matrices (corresponding to Red, Blue and Green colors respectively). The BSQ file arranges the data as [R, B, G], so to access the B matrix, I have to read forward N x M + 1 number of samples. Is there a fast way to define a variable as the B matrix exclusively (e.g. Can I

I was hoping I could get some help with an import question. I work with remote sensing imagery which commonly comes in binary form in various interleaving formats (byte interleaved by line, by pixel, etc..). These files are 2d spatial x B bands in size, and I want to be able to extract the band values from various pixels (so each line of data into R would be one pixel x B bands). What's the

R-helpers: Are there any ways to auto-generate R-friendly (e.g. will pass a compilation check) .Rd files given a set of .R code? How about GUIs that help properly format the .Rd files? Thanks! I want a basic set of .Rd files that I can update as I go, but as with most things my documentation typically lags behind my coding by a few days. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Project

Hi there: I'm trying to run a large number of nonlinear regressions on a time series dataset, where the data will be formatted something to the effect of: ObservationID,time,dependentvar I'll have a number of time and dependentvars for each observation, and I want to apply a nonlinear regression to one ObservationID at a time, and I want to have a dataset that is the parameter

Quick informal poll: what is everyone's favorite text editor for working with R? I'd like to hear from people who are using editors that have some level of direct R interface (e.g. Tinn-R, Komodo+SciViews). Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The

I'm trying to redirect where temporary files go under R to D:\temp\somerandomname from its default (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Temp\somerandomname) -- how do I go about doing this? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The Barn, Room 250N Davis, CA 95616

R-helpers: I'm working on an r-package that I want to make as easy-to-use as possible for a novice R-user, which includes automatically installing required packages. I, myself, am a novice R-packager, so the solution I came up with was to embed: print("Loading required packages...") if (!require("reshape")) { install.packages("reshape") } if

Quick question -- if I have a vector of strings that I'd like to split into two new vectors based on a substring that is inside of each string, what is the most efficient way to do this? The substring that I want to split on is multiple characters, if that matters, and it is contained in every element of the character vector. --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar

I have a numerical vector which contains a (poorly) formatted time column, which, in theory, should be HHMM, but was distributed as an integer, so, for 12:15 am, it is saved as "15" (e.g. HHMM = 0015 with the zeroes stripped). I'm trying to use this in conjunction with strptime, but I'm thinking because each time is an integer ranging from 1 to 4 digits, I probably need to

Hopefully this is a pretty easy fix -- I need to have R query the path separator for some code I'm trying to write (it involves using a system() call) -- the call requires a path and a wildcard, e.g.: command="mycommand /path/to/*.files" in the case of unix or, command="mycommand.exe C:\\path\\to\\*.files" on a windows box System.which is working correctly, so the

R'ers: I was hoping I could get some direction on this. I have a dataset of the form: Y1,Y2,...,YM = f(X1,X2,...,XN), where N is >>> M The response data (Y1,Y2,...,YM) is frequency data, such that the sum of all Yi = 1.0. Both Xj and Yi are continuous variables. I'm trying to figure out the best approach(es) to solving for the model f() -- any ideas? I could solve

Rers: I have some ecological data (stream velocity vs. % cover of submerged weeds) that shows strong evidence of a thresholding step-function, e.g. below some velocity, % cover ranges from 0% to 100% (with no apparent relationship to velocity within this range of velocities), but above a certain "threshold" velocity, the % cover does not appear to exceed, say, 10%. There are good

Our lab has a lot of different unix boxes, with different hardware, and I'm assuming (perhaps wrongly) that by setting a per-user package installation directory, the packages will only work on one type of hardware. Our systems are all set up to share the same home directory (and, thus, the same .Renviron file) -- so, is there a way to set, in the .Renviron file, per-computer or

R-helpers: I have a data frame containing 4 factor variables (let's say A,B,C, and D) and 1 numerical variable (N). I would like to produce a cross-tabulated data frame in which A,B,C are individual columns, each factor of D is its own column, and the field is calculated as a given function of N (I would like to have two output data frames, one with the mean(N) and one with the

I'm hoping to get some "best practice" feedback for constructing a function call which takes an undefined set of DIFFERENT length vectors -- e.g. say we have two lists: list1=c(1:10) list2=c(2:4) lists = data.frame(list1,list2) coerces those two to be the same length (recycling list2 to fill in the missing rows) -- what is a quick way of having each of those lists retain their

Rhelpers: I'm trying to make a barchart of a 2-group dataset (barchart(x~y,data=data,groups=z,horizontal=FALSE)). My problem is that I can't, for the life of me, seem to get rid of the inter-bar space -- box.ratio set to 10000 doesn't do much. Any ideas? I'd ideally want zero space between the bars. Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Project Scientist

I'm trying to hunt down an appropriate kriging package for my specific application, and I was hoping someone on the R list might have some pointers -- I'm interested in performing kriging and related spatial interpolations with one of the R packages, but I need to be able to provide my own point-to-point distances (e.g. I do not want to use standard between point distances, as calculated

I'm trying to figure out the best way to do a scatterplot using the following data as an example: plothelp_x=1:10 plothelp_A1=sin(plothelp_x) plothelp_A2=tan(plothelp_x) plothelp_B=c("A","B","C","A","B","C","A","B","C","A") (note that all 4 of these vectors have 10 entries each) What I would

Hi! I am calculating correlation between two variables: 1. X versus Y 2. X versus Y(with a 3 steps lag) I would like to test if the correlation increase/decrease from 1 to 2 is significant or not. Is there any function in R to do this? any hints? Thanks for help :) David Ria?o Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California 250-N, The Barn One Shields