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It would be nice just for once to actually use a mailing list with people who are a little more sympathetic to the fact that your not a rocket scentist or molecular biologist and that you might actually need some help, without being made to feel like your completely useless and should be cleaning toilets for a living. "Ahhh man not another stupid newbie question! are these people completely

In working through material on p.272 of MASS (4th ed.), I came across the following model formula: pet1.lm <- lm(Y ~ No/EP - 1, Petrol) I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in "An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation. My request is that more complete material on model formulae be lifted from "Introduction to R" (or

R 1.8.0 on Windows XP Professional. A huge THANK YOU to the R Team for this marvelous software. I am making lattice plots of oceanographic data. The usual layout does not conform to plotting conventions that marine scientists use when depth is the independent variable. Under those conventions, plots are made with the origin at the upper left, depth on the vertical axis (increasing as it

To follow up on my previous question, suppose a user R session wants to unload one workspace and load another within an R session. Is the following the correct sequence? 1. save.image() to save the current workspace as .Rdata in the current working directory. 2. rm(list=ls()) to remove everything from the workspace. 3. setcwd("xxx") to set the new working directory. 4.

R 2.4.1 on Windows XP. Question: In traditional graphics, is it possible to find out the height of a line of text in units that can be used in arithmetic and then in calls to text()? Context: I have written a function that draws a plot and then, depending on whether some arguments are TRUE or FALSE, draws various lines of text in the plot. The text lines may be turned on or off individually

Dear List, Is there a possibility to change the font-face for a part of the title of a plot? For example I have the following... plot(nirs, type="l", xlab="Wellenl?nge [nm]", col="darkslategray", main = "Spektrum Deschampsia caespitosa") ...and I would like to change the part of the title-string "Deschampsia caespitosa" to italics? Is

Hello, I'm hoping that there is an easier way to rename columns in a data frame other than by using the names() assignment, which requires you to type in all the column names at once for a data.frame, in the case that I simply want to rename a single column in a data frame. Also, is there an easy way to move columns in a data frame around relative to the other columns? Thanks in

I hope to use the plotmath facility to print titles that mix math and values of R variables. The help for "plotmath" has an example, which after repeated reading, I find baffling. Likewise, I have read the help file for "substitute" (wqhich seems to be needed) without ever understanding what it does, other than being used in some magic incantations. I would like to do

I remember reading somewhere that locations on plots (in my case, arguments x and y for legend()) can be specified in several scales besides the usual data scale. I would like to set x and y as proportions of total plot size or something similar. Can anyone steer me to documentation on how to do it? -- Michael Prager, Ph.D. <Mike.Prager at noaa.gov> NOAA Center for

All Is there a package or library that will, given a nucleotide sequence 1. calculate the extinction coefficient at 260 nm for (Beer-Lambert's law) 2. calculate molecular weight 3. return it's complementary sequence I was able to find several packages that can do similar calculations for an amino acid sequence for proteins but none for nucleic acids. Any pointers, etc. would be

library(StreamMetabolism) day <- (structure(c(10.08, 10.08, 10.05, 10.03, 10, 9.98, 9.96, 9.95, 9.95, 9.96, 9.96, 9.98, 10.01, 10.05, 10.06, 10.09, 10.11, 10.11, 10.13, 10.13, 10.15, 10.15, 10.13, 10.14, 10.11, 10.13, 10.14, 10.13, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.16, 10.18, 10.19, 10.23, 10.27, 10.33, 10.37, 10.45, 10.57, 10.6, 10.66, 10.73, 10.77, 10.84, 10.86, 10.87, 10.94, 10.98, 11.01, 11.05,

library(sos) (mp <- findFn('{molecular properties}')) ????? ** found 7 matches in 4 packages and opened two web pages in my default browser with (a) the 7 matches and (b) the 4 packages. The first function was something for amino acids, like you suggested.? Two others returned compound and substance information from PubChem. ????? Does this help? ????? Spencer On

A minor inconvenience in updating an R installation is remembering which packages were installed previously. Has anyone written a script to inspect a previous installation, then get & install the same packages into the new installation? -- Michael Prager NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research Beaufort, North Carolina 28516 Opinions expressed are personal, not official.

This is (correctly) filed under "non-reproducible." The corresponding notes say "solved by re-installing Windows (private comm)." I would like to clarify that this was solved by re-installing the patch known as "Windows 2000 Service Pack 2," not by reinstalling Windows itself. Perhaps my original message was not clear. I point this out because installing the

I need help with replacing NaN with zero (the value '0') in my dataset. The reason is that I can't get it to graph because of the NaN in the dataset. I have tried: data[is.nan(data)] <- 0 that others have suggested in the help archives but this does nothing so I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks in advance for your help. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I have a matrix of similarity scores that I want to convert into a matrix of dissimilarity scores so that I can apply some clustering methods to the data. That is, high values in my matrix signify similarity and low values (zero being the lowest) signify no similarity. What functions/options in R or its packages are available for making this kind of transformation of a matrix?

Gurus, Can I rely on the rownames() function, when applied to a matrix, always returning either NULL or an object of type character? It seems that row names can be entered as integers, but as of now (R 2.4.1 on Windows) the function returns character vectors, not numbers (which is my desired result). I am using elements of the returned vector to index the matrix. e.g., nams <-

hello, today while trying to extract data from a list for subsequent analysis, i stumbled upon this funny behavior on my system: > x<-c(0.1,0.9) > 1-x[2] [1] 0.1 > x[1] [1] 0.1 > x[1]==1-x[2] [1] FALSE > x[1]>1-x[2] [1] TRUE > x<-c(0.3,0.7) > x[1] [1] 0.3 > x[2] [1] 0.7 > 1-x[2] [1] 0.3 > x[1]==1-x[2] [1] FALSE but: >

Hi, I am thinking about IWLS vs ML estimation. When I use glm() for a 2-parameter distribution (e.g., Weibull), I can otain the MLE of scale parameter given shape parameter through IWLS. Because this scale parameter usually converges to the MLE. In this point, I am wondering: i) can you say that the direct MLE, which is obtained by maximizing a likelihood function, is equalvant to the indirect

I would like to start building R packages under Windows XP. I have programming experience and a minimal but working knowlege of many Unix (-like) programming tools. The package functions (for now) will be from R source, not C or Fortran. I've installed Rtools, Perl, the MS hhc, and so on. I am setting up a command shell with the correct PATH for building packages. (The master Windows PATH