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System info: Red Hat 9.0 R Version 1.7.0 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues I have a small problem with positioning overlays using layout. ## Purpose: to plot temperature and salinity profiles ## as a multipanel figure, and ## overlay the the mixed ## layer depths. Here is the code skeleton: -------------------- nf <-

System info: Linux slackware R Version 1.5.1 (2002-06-17) ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues Is there a way to add a legend to an image plot? I don't see any reference to legends in the documentation (so I suppose the answer is no?). Although the documentation says image takes plot() parameters, it isn't clear to me how the usual use of legend in a plot command

System info: Red Hat 9.0 R Version 1.7.0 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues At work I've had to migrate from Mandrake 9.1 to Red Hat 9.0 and I'm reinstalling R. I am having a problem downloading from R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm from /bin/linux/redhat/9/i386. Basically the download does not complete. I am using mozilla, and when I click on the link the screen corrupts with

System info: Mandrake 9.0 R Version 1.6.1 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues I've been calling R-code embedded in my LaTex document using Sweave, but would like to make things more convenient. At present as I understand it you first process the R chunks of code using the Sweave function called from within R to process a "precursor file" e.g. foo.sw to get a

System info: Mandrake 9.0 R Version 1.6.1 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues I've been calling R-code embedded in my LaTex document using Sweave, but would like to make things more convenient. At present as I understand it you first process the R chunks of code using the Sweave function called from within R to process a "precursor file" e.g. foo.sw to get a

System info: Mandrake 9.0 R Version 1.7.0 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues The R-team has done a great job of making it easy to upgrade to current versions of the R-language using the rpms for linux. I have a minor suggestion for the readme file <Mandrake-Readme.txt> where the mandrake linux binaries reside <http://www.cran.r-project.org/>. The readme at the

System info: Mandrake 9.0 R Version 1.6.1 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues I have followed suggestions by David Whiting, Friedrich Leisch and Frank Harrell, but have a few more queries. 1. On formatting: I added the suggested sweave customization to my .emacs file ; Sweave customisation (defun Rnw-mode () (require 'ess-noweb) (noweb-mode) (if (fboundp

System info: Linux slackware R Version 1.5.1 (2002-06-17) ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues I have some text files in a certain directory and want to process them sequentially. So I want to pass the filename identifier into a function and loop through the processing of each file in turn.I've called the file identifier f in this code segment: image.dvm <- function

System info: Linux slackware R Version 1.5.1 (2002-06-17) ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Colleagues Thanks very much for advice. I was not aware of the Fields package (although I've been using Geostat and Spatial). The image.plot() function in Fields does a lovely job, with an added bonus of fixing the problem I was having of balancing the number of colour levels with the

System info: Red Hat 9.0 R Version 1.8.0 ESS 5.1.21 Emacs 21.2.1 ------------------- Hello I've been working with Paul Murrell here in New Zealand to develop plots of temperature and density profiles at 22 stations spanning a frontal zxone, and then overlaying the isothermal and mixed layer depths (similar to Kara et al. 2003 JGR Oceans 108(C3) pg. 24-5, figure 2). Paul Murrell has a

> System info: > R Version 1.4.1 (2002-01-30) on Windows 2000 > ESS v. 5.1.20 using emacs ver. 21.1.1 Colleagues Some time ago I asked about tab complete functionality for R under ESS on windows. I never got it working as well as I might have liked until today. It is still slow the first time while all the environments are checked but after that it works well. The solution below

Colleagues, Thanks for the suggestions concerning reading matlab files into R 1. Regarding documentation for the format of matlab files, please see two manuals that I picked up from the matlab websites. The name of the files are: api_guide.pdf api_ref.pdf Use your web browser to access these files in my FTP directory <ftp://ftp.niwa.cri.nz/incoming/mcclatchie> under the appropriate

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ~/.emacs ; Default function template (setq ess-insert-function-templates t) ---------------------------------- When loading a new function into the R workspace using ctrl-CD I would like the default function template to come up, rather than a blank buffer. I thought I had the Default

"SM" == S McClatchie <S.McClatchie> writes: > > SM> I notice that the new option under R ver. 1.3.0 to save a > SM> graph as a pdf file from the graph window menu (file/ save as/ SM> > PDF) works differently (extremely slowly) under ESS, whereas SM> it is > almost instant from the R- gui. > > SM> Does the feature not work

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1022 on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I have some rather unusual units for acoustic volume backscattering integrated over several metres depth and 10 transmits (which happens to = 160 m along transect). I need to express these units in a graph label. My problem

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- Can anyone please tell me where to find the function "banking()" containing Cleveland's solution to optimising graph aspect ratio? It is mentioned in Venables and Riply 1994, pg. 112, Ex. 3.7, q. 3.5. I have not found it (or perhaps

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1022 on NT ESS v. 5.1.18 using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- I notice that saving a file from the menu bar in the graph window to 100% quality jpeg is very slow (more than 2 minutes). Is this something to be avoided? I know I can save the graph with postscript() in the script, or cut and paste into

System info: R Version 1.4.1 (2002-01-30) on Windows 2000 ESS v. 5.1.20 using emacs ver. 20.1.1 Colleagues Problem: Over the last several versions of R, I have noticed that the HTML for R help search engine brought up by help.start() under ESS tends to crash on my machine periodically. By this I mean the web browser exits. Test case: For example, from the R buffer in ESS I typed

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- Below is a summary on returning variable from subfunction, Thanks to Brian Ripley and Douglas Bates: To access the variables within a function, return a list or data structure assigned to a variable in the calling function. For more than one varaible,

Colleagues ---------------------------------- System info: R version rw1020 on NT ESS using emacs ver. 20.4 ---------------------------------- On 1 Mar 01,, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote (re: Re: (off topic) Re: [R] Notepad): > Just to remind people that ESS and FSF Emacs run on Windows too. > (There is or was also an Xemacs port to Windows, but I have very > little experience with