similar to: removing leading/trailing blanks

At present, I use an update like this to set the user''s last login time: authenticated_user.update_attribute(:last_login, Time.now) However, this calls the following, updating all fields: UPDATE users SET `last_login` = ''2006-05-02 13:27:41'', `hashed_password` = .... Is there any way I can tell ActionRecord to only update the one field? I don''t really want

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a function that will allow me to do a ranking that treats ties differently than rank() provides for? I'd like a method that will assign to the elements of each tie group the largest rank. An example: For the vector 'v', I'd like the method to return 'rv' v: 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 6 7 rv: 1 2 5 5 5 6 8 8 9 10 Thanks,

Hi, This report deals with p-values coming from chisq.test using the simulate.p=TRUE option. The issue is numerical accuracy and was brought up in previous bug reports 3486 and 3896. The bug was considered fixed but apparently was only mostly fixed. Just the typical problem of two values that are mathematically equal not ending up numerically equivalent. Consider this series of three 2x2

Code: write.table(MU.Cost,paste("C:/RAU/R",as.character(MU.Cost$Run.Id[1]),"." ,as.character(MU.Cost$MU.Id[1]),".MU.PRICE.OUTPUT.txt",sep=""),append = FALSE,quote = FALSE,sep = ",",row.names=FALSE) Output: Run.Id,MU.Id,Class,Av,lower,upper,Count.WO,Count.Seq,Total.WO.Value,Note s 32,158, 1, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0, 0, 0.0,notes 32,158,

Hi, I do have a data set with some missing values that appear as blanks. I want to fill these blanks with an NA. How can this be done? Thanks for your help -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/filling-blanks-with-NA-tp21584278p21584278.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi all I'm have a character vector and would like to suppress the blanks if there are more than one after the other. Example: Character value is: "abc def ghi" The result should be: "abc def ghi" I know that it's possible to delete the leading blanks with the command "trim". But how can I delete blanks within a character? Thank you very much in

Hi list, Is there a way to read in a txt file with some blanks? The ideal way could be to replace blanks with NAs. Thanks a lot! Allen [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Full_Name: Doug Grove Version: 1.7.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (209.31.211.56) Hi, Minor mistake in the documentation on the colSums page. In the ARGUMENTS section it states for 'dims' that: For `col*', the sum or mean is over dimensions `dims+1, ...'; for `row*' it is over dimensions `1:dims'. These two are reversed. Thanks, Doug Grove

Full_Name: Doug Grove Version: R.1.9.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (140.107.156.61) I just found that rank() has a 'decreasing' argument that is not documented in its help page. I checked my version of 2.0.0 (original release hence unpatched) and it is not documented there. For curiousity I also went back to version 1.8.1 and checked the function (not the documentation)and at

I would like to split a string into words at its blanks but also to preserve all blanks. Example: c(" some words to split ") should become c(" ", "some", " ", " words", " ", "to" , " ", "split", " ") I was not able to achieve this via strsplit() . But I am not familiar with regular

Hello, I'm trying to read data in from a file using scan(). The last field is a character string that contains blanks. I had read it in in S-Plus using this code: ifile <- list(entry=0,measure=0,st=0,count=0,score=0, error=0,inmsq=0,instd=0,outms=0,outstd=0,displc=0,ptbis=0,a=0, r="",name="") if.widths <- c(1, 5, 8, 3, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 2,

Hi,When I read the source of str,i find these code ----- ## Show further classes // Assume that they do NOT have an own Method -- ## not quite perfect ! (.Class = 'remaining classes', starting with current) cl <- oldClass(object); cl <- cl[cl != "data.frame"] #- not THIS class ----- so I use ?oldClass to try to learn more about oldClass.But after I have reading

Hi all, I am currently building an application based on R 1.7.1 (+ compiled C/C++ code + MySql + VB). I am building this application to work on 2 different platforms (Windows XP Professional (500mb memory) and Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 6 (1gb memory)). This is a very memory intensive application performing sophisticated operations on "large" matrices (typically 5000x1500

Hi, It would be great if someone would add write.delim() as an adjunct to write.table(), just as with write.csv(). I store a lot of data in tab-delimited files and can read it in easily with: read.delim("text.txt", as.is=TRUE) and would love to be able to write it out as easily when I create these files. The obvious setting needed for write.delim() is sep = "\t", but in

Full_Name: Doug Grove Version: 2.3.1 patched (2006-07-03 r38485) OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (24.19.37.159) A msg. to R-help prompted me to read the help page for split.screen/screen, etc. I understand what the function is for, but could not find information that described how the argument 'n' in screen/erase.screen/close.screen is mapped to the regions on the device. All we

Full_Name: Doug Grove Version: 2.10.0 10-26-2009 OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Submission from: (NULL) (140.107.164.65) Hi, Looks like the revisions to help.search didn't get completely finished. When the user specifies the argument 'package' the code doesn't define the variable 'paths' prior to trying to use it, which obviously produces an error. The code dies when

hello, if i load the RSQLite package in addition to the RPostgreSQL package, i get various errors when trying to use RPostgreSQL functions. here is an example transcript showing one such error: ========================================================== R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) [...] > packageVersion('RPostgreSQL') [1] 0.3.2 > packageVersion('RSQLite') [1] 0.11.1

Thanks Jim for pointing out how to properly ask. Here is is my question and a small subset of the data and output. I have a data set with many blanks. The blanks should be replaced with zero once imported. I tried read.table, read.csv (R 2.8 version),or scan, but none was successful. Any suggestion, please.. thanks. Keun-Hyung >garoben=read.table("c:\\Rdata\\garoben.txt",header=T,

Hi, The unary forms of is() and extends() report that data.frame extends list, oldClass, and vector: > is(data.frame()) [1] "data.frame" "list" "oldClass" "vector" > extends("data.frame") [1] "data.frame" "list" "oldClass" "vector" However, the binary form of is()

I feel like an idiot posting this because every language I've ever seen has a string function that trims blanks off strings (off the front or back or both). Ideally, it would process whole data frames/matrices etc but I don't even see one that processes a single string. But I've searched and I don't even see that. There's a strtrim function but it does something completely