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What is the generally accepted way to put certain math symbols into plain text email? For example, how does one convey the "is exactly equal to", "is approximately equal to", and "delta" symbols in a standard text-based (e.g. Courier) font? Dr. Marc R. Feldesman email: feldesmanm at pdx.edu email: feldesman at attglobal.net fax: 503-725-3905

Hi, Suppose I have created something like this in R: foo <- "myfoo" and I want to find out the number of character in foo (in other words, R should return 5 since "myfoo" has 5 charactors. How can I do it? I tried: length(foo) but it returned 1. Cheers, Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ko-Kang Kevin Wang

Hi, Is it possible to add a subtitle that appears directly below the main title? I tried the "sub" parameter, but it adds sub-title to the bottom of the plot. Cheers, Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ko-Kang Kevin Wang Postgraduate PGDipSci Student Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand Homepage:

Hi, I was trying to read in the following data set by using: gas <- read.table("gas.tab", header = T) when I got the error message: Error in "row.names<-.data.frame"(*tmp*, value = row.names) : duplicate row.names are not allowed Any help are appreciated. Thanks, Ko-Kang Wang

Hi, I think I found the problem. It lies in my Fortran program. Is there a way, after a DO loop, to make sure it does NOT return anything? Cheers, Kevin On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:27:20 +1200 (NZST) > From: Ko-Kang Kevin Wang <kwan022 at stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz> > To: R Help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> > Subject:

Hi, Say I did something like: par(mfrow = c(1, 2)) plot(1:10) plot(1:10) and I'd like to have an overall title, i.e. a title that would appear, centered, on the top of both plots, rather than the top of the last plot. I tried: title("FOO", outer = T) but it doesn't appear right. Half of the FOO is outside the figure region and can't be seen... Is there another

Dear R-users and expeRts, can anyone provide me (and others as well, of course) with reference of companies, scientific labs and/or schools where R is being used? Or does some (even unofficial) list of comanies etc. where R is being used exist? I tried to find such an information on R's homepage and on a FAQ page, but unsuccesfully. (Of course, searching through this r-help conference one

Hi, This is a simple question with if elseif....however I am having trouble constructing the solution for some reason. Suppose I have a data set with 3 variables, a, b and c say. Let's say c is the sum of a and b. So: a b c 1 2 3 2 3 5 3 4 7 . . . . . . . . . Suppose that I know there have been some data entry errors and I want to check if ALL values in c is

Hi, I was just trying out an example on Page 247 of the MASS (Modern Applied Statistics with S-plus) book and saw the function "negexp.ival". It says it is supplied in the MASS library, however when I load the library in R and typed: negexp.ival it says: Error: Object "negexp.ival" not found Does it mean it only appears in the MASS library for S-plus?

Hi, Now suppose I have just one list called FOO, which has 25 objects, e.g.: [[1]] 1 2 3 4 5 [[2]] 6 7 8 9 10 . . . And I want to do something like: FRED <- data.frame(cbind(unlist(FOO[[1]]), unlist(FOO[[2]]), # ... for all 25 subsets )) Is it possible to do this, without doing unlist(FOO[[i]]) 25

Hi, Does anyone know how to manually configure the number of digits printed out from xtable()? For example, I'm exporting a data frame through xtable() into a LaTeX table, I only have two columns in the data frame so by default I only get two decimal places. But I'd like at least 5 decimal places. I had a look at ?xtable() but can't seem to find an example. Cheers, Kevin

Hi, Suppose I have the following lines at the end of a function: answer <- c(2, 1, 0, 4, 5) # In fact, answer will be generate in my # function print(answer) # Print the answer # Now, find the best fitted n degree polynomial print(paste("The best fit is with", which.min(answer) - 1, "-degree polynomial")) this will return:

Hi, In the order() help file, there is an example like: a <- c(4, 3, 2, NA, 1) b <- c(4, NA, 2, 7, 1) z <- cbind(a, b) (o <- order(a, b)); z[o, ] How can I do something like "order a in ascending order, b in descending order"? And say I have a third vector c, and I'd like to add this to the previous condition "a ascending, b descending, c

Dear List, I frequently use the data() function to load csv files (with separator ";") into R session, typically data(myfile) loads myfile.csv from my working/data directory into R. Now, in 1.4.0 version, everything works as expected, but with one difference: The values readed in older versions in "num" mode are now readed as "int" mode, converting the values

Hi, Is it possible to draw barplot with x-axis being shown? I looked up the help file and I couldn't seem to find it. For example, I tried to do x <- 1:9 p <- log10(1 + 1/x) barplot(p, xlab = "Digit d", ylab = "Probability", ylim = c(0, 0.35), axes = F, main = "Benford's Law Probability") axis(1, 1:9) axis(2, seq(0, 0.35, by = 0.05),

Hi, Suppose I have a function: myfunc <- function(x, y) { ... } And within the function I want to print out the name of the x, y vectors. For example, if I do: > myfunc(foo, goo) [1] "foo" "goo" It shall return "foo", "goo" (with or without quotes is fine), where foo and goo are two vectors with numbers. I know this sounds strange, but I'd

Hi, Say I want to do something like fitting 10 different sized trees with rpart() function. The only modification I need to do is to set 10 different cp's, which I have in a vector called foo. Can I do something like: for(i in 1:10) { rpart(y ~ ., cp = foo[i], data = mydata) } My problem is, I wish to save the 10 rpart objects into 10 different names, my.rpart1 ~ my.rpart10, for

Hi, Is it possible to create a ts() object, whose data is daily based BUT measured only on working days? In other words, suppose I have a data set with 255 observations, measured from 29 June 1959 to 30 June 1960. How would I create such a data? I tried something like: ts(c(...), start(1959, 180)) but I'm not sure what to use for frequency. In other words I don't know how to

I just installed the R-patched 1.4.0 and for some reason I now have trouble compiling R packages - I could compile it a few weeks ago with R 1.4.0 released in December. This only happens if I put the --binary option in. For example: Rcmd build --binary cw returns the error: make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/RW1040/src/gnuwin32' make DLLNM= \ -C C:/MyRWork/cw PKG=cw

Anyone know of a package for numerically estimating lambda(3) and lambda(4) using location, position, skew and kurtosis estimates. I have a distribution and would like to use the gld package to do some simulations of the distribution, but need the lambda estimates to feed into gld. I have a program in Maple, which I may convert to C code for use in R, but before moving down that road I