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Has anyone programmed condition indexes in R? I know that there is a function for variance inflation factors available in the car package; however, Belsley (1991) Conditioning Diagnostics (Wiley) notes that there are several weaknesses of VIFs: e.g. 1) High VIFs are sufficient but not necessary conditions for collinearity 2) VIFs don't diagnose the number of collinearities and 3) No one has

I have been struggling with this problem for a while and I hope someone could help me. Or if someone could point me to a section in the manual I would be grateful. x <- "my" plot(1:10, main=expression(paste( x, Delta, "values" ))) Q : How do I get the title to say "my (triangle symbol) values" ? The following trial-and-error produced mainly errors :

Dear all, I am having trouble trying to install R-1.8.1 on a Sun Solaris 8 (Generic_108528-23 version) machine. The configuration was successful but make check fails. I traced the the problem to the plot() function. > 1 + 1 [1] 2 > capabilities() jpeg png tcltk X11 GNOME libz http/ftp sockets TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE

I am trying to write a wrapper for the last example in help(cv.glm) that deals with leave-one-out-cross-validation (LOOCV) for a logistic model. This wrapper will be used as part of a bigger program. Here is my wrapper funtion : logistic.LOOCV.err <- function( formu=NULL, data=NULL ){ cost.fn <- function(cl, pred) mean( abs(cl-pred) > 0.5 ) glmfit <- glm(

Could some kindly tell me if I am supposed to be getting the same test statistic value with var.equal=TRUE and var.equal=FALSE in t.test ? set.seed(1066) x1 <- rnorm(50) x2 <- rnorm(50) t.test(x1, x2, var.equal=FALSE)$statistic # 0.5989774 t.test(x1, x2, var.equal=TRUE)$statistic # 0.5989774 ??? Here are my own calculations that shows that perhaps the result when var.equal=TRUE is

There was a BioConductor thread today where the poster wanted to find pairwise difference between columns of a matrix. I suggested the slow solution below, hoping that someone might suggest a faster and/or more elegant solution, but no other response. I tried unsuccessfully with the apply() family. Searching the mailing list was not very fruitful either. The closest I got to was a cryptic chunk

Please don't take this the wrong way. There are a lot of extremely helpful people who subscribe to r-help. I was wondering if it is time to adopt a strategy a-la Splus help whereby people reply to the author and the author summarizes all the replies? Just a thought and have a good weekend. Partha

Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between the terms for package and library ? Why are we loading a package with the library() command ? If this is a case of RTFM, I would be happy to do so if pointed in the right direction. I have searched the FAQ and mail archives and only came up with http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/02/12162.html but this still does not explain what is

Hello guys, I am wondering the default way of transferring arguments in R. Is it by value or by ref in default case, or could that be changed explicitly? Cheers, Xiaofan --- Xiaofan Li Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge

Dear Users, I try to calculate condition indexes and variance decomposition proportions in order to test for collinearity using colldiag() in perturb package, I got a large index and two variables with large variance decomposition proportions,but one of them is constant item.I also checked the VIF for that variable, the value is small.The result is as follows: Index intercept V1

Hello, I am trying to use self created functions in other scripts than the one where they are stored. For the moment I am using the following structure of commands to do that: 1. Load the text file with the functions in the current script: x=parse("path") 2. transform the tex in a function: f1=eval(x[1]), f2=eval(x[2]) if more than one function is stored in the text file 3. use the

Hi there, Suppose mu is constant, and error is normally distributed with mean 0 and fixed variance s. I need to find a statistics that: Y_i = mu + beta1* I1_i beta2*I2_i + beta3*I1_i*I2_i + +error, where I_i is 1 Y_i is from group A, and 0 if Y_i is from group B. It is large when beta1=beta2=0 It is small when beta1 and/or beta2 is not equal to 0 How can I find it by R? Thank you very much

Hi all, If the question below as been answered before I apologize for the posting. I would like to get the frequencies of occurrence of all values in a given variable in a multivariate dataset. In short for each variable (or field) a summary of values contained with in a value:frequency pair, there can be many such pairs for a given variable. I would like to do the same for several such variables.

Dear all, I am trying to create a web interface using Perl-CGI to call R plots and to display them. The following codes works perfectly fine when I copy and paste into the console directly or if I save it into script.file and then R --no-save < script.file producing the graphs. jpeg("graph.jpeg", width=400, height=400) plot(rnorm(100)) dev.off() Now, I put the line system("R

Hi all! I 'm beginner and i develop a bio-application with VB and i need some statistic functions! could i calculate StdError, CoeffOfVariance, SumSquared with R langage? if yes, what are functions to use? I need also to use ANOVA and t-test... Thanks for your help! Laurent Houdusse Analyste Programmeur

Dear all, How can I test for collinearity in the predictor data set for multiple linear regression. Thanks Alex [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, A few weeks ago I asked about X11() availability using CGI-perl. The general advice was to use bitmap which requires ghostscript (Xvnc and Xvbf were the other alternatives). My system administrator got around to installing Aladin Ghostscript 6.0 and the setting the R_GSCMD environment variable. Other system specification is given below. But now I have a new problem that says that font

Dear all, I am a newcomer to R. I intend to using R to do stepwise regression and PLS with a data set (a 55x20 matrix, with one dependent and 19 independent variable). Based on the same data set, I have done the same work using SPSS and SAS. However, there is much difference between the results obtained by R and SPSS or SAS. In the case of stepwise, SPSS gave out a model with 4 independent

Hi everyone, I'm trying to vectorize an application of lda to each 2D slice of a 3D array, but am running into trouble: It seems there are quite a few 2D slices that trigger either the "variables are collinear" warning, or worse, trigger a "variable appears to be constant within groups" error and fails (i.e., ceases computation rather than skips bad slice). There are

Hello I am running R 1.8.1 on a Windows platform I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley. But when I try model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex) + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data = duhray) I get a message