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I asked: > In this discussion of seq(), can anyone explain to > me _why_ seq(to=n) and seq(length=3) have different > types? Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> replied: well, the explantion isn't hard: look at seq.default :-) That's the "efficient cause", I was after the "final cause". That is, I wasn't asking "what is it

A student is trying to cluster some data. Tree-building things seem to be pretty hopeless (we've tried most of the ones in R, I think). Multi-dimensional scaling produces somewhat tantalising results: things do clump together somewhat, but the clusters overlap a lot. I was wondering if these was an artefact of squeezing it down to 2D, and whether 3D might be better. So loc <-

We've recently had a thread on beginners and FAQs and the like. I decided that it might be a good idea to offer a short list of on-line help pages that beginners should read. Goals: - the list short be short (I think mine is too long) - many of the commonest questions should find answers there (fairish) - I should have found the pages helpful myself (no question about that) - it's a

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> To: <paul at datavore.com> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [R] Overlaying graphs > I do not know how to overlay the curve graphic on top of hist graphic. > > Do you know about the "add=TRUE" option for plot()? > > I am hoping to show visually

I have found XLispStat's spinning plots illuminating. I'd like to do the same thing in R. A dozen or so probes with help, help.search, apropos haven't turned up anything, and I've even resorted to grepping through the entire R source distribution looking for 'spin.*plot', to no avail. Either the feature is called something else in R (what?), or it's in some other

I have a "list" of character vectors. I'm trying to see if there is a way (in a single line, without a loop) to pull out the first element of all the vectors contained in the list. listOfVectors[1:length(listOfVectors][1] doesn't work. ========================== If you want more details.. Here is my listOfVectors which is called "uuu" >

I have some data on a moving vehicle where, amongst other things, it looks as though it would be informative to fit a model with the following structure: Z = B.Y + errorz Y = C.X + errorz The X variables are observed predictor variables; 6 of the variables look promising (on the basis of what they mean). The Z variables are observed response variables; there are 4 of them. There is a

Bringing up an old topic on a small technicality. In the help documentation on seq. Value: The result is of 'mode' '"integer"' if 'from' is (numerically equal to an) integer and 'by' is not specified. The arguement in seq specifying length also creates "double" which is not obvious in the wording, as "by" is not specified

Bringing up an old topic on a small technicality. In the help documentation on seq. Value: The result is of 'mode' '"integer"' if 'from' is (numerically equal to an) integer and 'by' is not specified. The arguement in seq specifying length also creates "double" which is not obvious in the wording, as "by" is not specified

I just got a G4 running MacOS 10.3 today, so I immediately downloaded R from CRAN. To my disappointment, it insists on installing in a fixed place and requires a root password to do so. University policy is that if your machine is on the net, you WON'T get root access nohow, unless you're a designated sysadmin, which I'm not. Is there any alternative to downloading a source

I'm in e-mail contact with a geochemist who maintains a well regarded geochemistry web site. He's drawing diagrams either with a Turbo Pascal program running in a DOS window or with Excel. I'm trying to persuade him that R would be a better choice. Something he's particularly keen on is ternary diagrams. I think he is talking about ternary phase diagrams, and if so, it looks as

I have some data which records, amongst other things, age (recoded by me to be in months), and drug group (a factor). The drug group is a 2 digit number, but there is no numeric relationship, and only 50 of the possible groups occur So > asd <- read.table("asd.dat", header=TRUE) > asd$group <- as.factor(asd$group) > plot(age ~ group, data=asd) gives me a series of

Dear Rich, It depends how the data is generated. Although I am not an expert in ecology, I can explain it based on a biomedical example. Certain variables are generated geometrically (exponentially), e.g. MIC or Titer. MIC = Minimum Inhibitory Concentration for bacterial resistance Titer = dilution which still has an effect, e.g. serially diluting blood samples; Obviously, diluting the

>>>>> Richard O'Keefe >>>>> on Mon, 6 Nov 2023 18:37:34 +1300 writes: > Thanks to all who replied. On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 at 18:37, > Richard O'Keefe <raoknz at gmail.com> wrote: >> OK, so the consensus is (1) One cannot make strptime >> accept ISO8601-compliant zone designators (2) The >> lubridate package

In R 1.9.0 running under Solaris 2.9 on a SunBlade 100, with "Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 2001/05/15" as the C++ compiler, I just did > install.packages("e1071") The output includes these lines, which I have wrapped to fit nicely in mail: ** libs cc -I/users/local/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -KPIC -xlibmil \ -dalign -xO4 -c cmeans.c -o cmeans.o cc

For reasons which I'll spare you, I'm writing a program to analyse R source code. This has led me to probe some of the darker corners of R syntax to find out what is supposed to happen. Now, from reading the R documentation (and the New S book &c) I know perfectly well that f(a, b, etc) <- x is supposed to turn into a <- "f<-"(a, b, etc, value=x) Except,

Thanks to all who replied. On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 at 18:37, Richard O'Keefe <raoknz at gmail.com> wrote: > OK, so the consensus is > (1) One cannot make strptime accept ISO8601-compliant zone designators > (2) The lubridate package can > (3) Or one can hack away with regex. > Lubridate it is, then. > > But I do regard strptime's inability to process

I have a data set that is comprised of, for simplicity, a vector of numbers that I want to march across in overlapping windows of say 10 values each, computing a couple of values for each window. Is there a vectorized way to do this, or do I truly need to resort to looping--I think so? Any other clever thoughts? Thanks, Sean [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, Richard O'Keefe writes: > Given > - UTC timestamp > - a location (latitude,longitude,elevation) > I want to know > - the sun angles > - the moon angles > - the phase of the moon. > I looked on CRAN for astronomy, but didn't notice anything that seems > to offer what I want. I could try coding these functions myself, but > "if

Hi all, I have some email addresses that I would like to sort in reverse lexicographic order so that addresses from the same domain will be grouped together. How might that be done? Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz