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Hi Fellows from R-Help List! My questions are basic since i an new with R. I am very acquainted with Matlab & Gauss (the compentence, I guess). Anyhow, (1) I am trying to get R execute comands made or built as text, so that one can feed a particular option with many variations coming from a text file. Is this possible with the free version? For instance, there exists the eval comand in

Dear all, Is there an elegant way to add citations of packages when using Sweave? Ideally I'd like a function which creates a Bibtex-file with the packagenames as keys. The idea is to use \cite{packagename} or \cite{R} in LaTeX. I know you can get the Bibtex entry with toBibtex(citation("packagename")). But after updating R or a package one needs to update the bib-file too. When

I am new to R. I am going to by one of the following book: 1. William N. Venables and Brian D. Ripley. Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus. Third Edition. Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98825-4. 2. The Fourth Edition of the book from point 1. 3. `S Programming' by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley Springer. ISBN 0-387-98966-8, 2000. I can only by one of the above books. Q1. I have found

Hi all, Suppose I have the following matrix which is a constant matrix I've copied from some other document: 1.2 3.4 1.4 ... 2.3 3.7 2.6 ... ... How do I make it into a matrix or array in R? What is the fastest way of initializing a constant matrix with this copy/pasted values? Thanks a lot! [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, Suppose I have a categorical variable called STREET, and I have 30 levels for it (i.e. 30 different streets). I want to find all those streets with only 15 observations or below then collapse them into a level called OTHER. Is there a quick way, other than using a for() loop, to do it? Currently what I'm doing is something like: ### Collapse STREET (those < 15) st <- c()

I want to get three .gif image files test.1.gif, test.2.gif, & test.3.gif by using a loop. The code I tried is like this: x=c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4) y=c(1, 2, 3, 4) for(i in 1:3) { x11() jpeg("test.i.gif") plot(x, y) dev.off() } but I only could get one image file, test.i.gif. How can I get three image files? Thanks.

I am familiar with the rpart and tree packages for classification and regression trees. However, quite a bit of the research in the transportation community relating to decision trees uses the C4.5 family of algorithms by Quinlan. Are there any plans to make a C4.5 (or a derivative of it) available to R? If not, then I might use the WEKA Java package ( http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka) that

Hi, I´m trying to plot a nonlinear regresion with the confidence bands for the curve obtained, similar to what nlintool or nlpredci functions in Matlab does, but I no figure how to. In nls the option is there but not implemented yet. Is there a plan to implement the in a relative near future? Thanks in advance, Florencio La información contenida en este e-mail y sus ficheros adjuntos es

Hi, How could I plot two vectors on the same graph? For example, if I have two lists of results, each list is a vector. I want to display them on the same graph, so I can compare them. How could I do that? Regards, Justin

Most books on R I come across describe running statistical procedures in R. Any suggestions on a good book that teaches *programming* in R? Thanks, Anjan -- ============================= anjan purkayastha, phd bioinformatics analyst whitehead institute for biomedical research nine cambridge center cambridge, ma 02142 purkayas [at] wi [dot] mit [dot] edu 703.740.6939 [[alternative HTML version

I seem to recall discussion of an language definition file for S for use with the lgrind utility but I can't find any trace of it in an R Site Search. The lgrind utility takes a file of code in a particular programming language and prepares it for "pretty printing" in LaTeX. In my version the available language definitions are $ lgrind -s When specifying a language case is

R community: I would like to add a new title to the bibliography on the R website (http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html), but I cannot find instructions for doing that. Can anyone tell me, whom should I contact in order to add a new book? (I added the title to the wiki's list of books, but the bibliography and the list don't seem to be connected.) Thank you! Paul Paul

Needed to redefine function "sum" for my MATLAB package. There's something similar in Chambers's Green Book (pg 351) so I modified it as such: library(methods) setGeneric("sum", function(x, ..., na.rm = FALSE) { if (nDotArgs(...) > 0) sum(c(sum(x, na.rm = na.rm), sum(..., na.rm = na.rm))) else standardGeneric("sum") })

Hi Rob, on your Info for Version 3.0.25 you pointed out the VFS-Module GPFS for using features of the underlaying GPFS-Filesystem. Also the man-pages-3/vfs_gpfs.8.html points to that module, but I can't find it anywhere. We are using a GPFS 3.2 3-Node Samba Cluster (3.0.24/28) on Dell HW. We would be very glad if it is posible to get - Quota Recognition for our users (we use "max

Hi! I'm new to R programming, though I've been programming in other languages for years. One thing I find most frustrating about R is how difficult it is to use Google (or any other search tool) to look for answers to my R-related questions. With languages with even slightly more distinctive names like Perl, Java, Python, Matlab, OCaml, etc., usually including the name of the language

Just to let everyone know: John Chambers R book is no longer at pre-order status on Amazon which is a good thing. The only problem is that now it is temporarily out of stock. There must have been many pre-orders so now I'm kicking myself for not having done that. Mark

Dear List, Does anyone know when will be available Peter Dalgaard's book: "Introductory Statistics with R" ?. According to Amazon: "This item will be published on August 15, 2002", but it continues unpublised. Thanks, Carlos Ortega. _______________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versi?n: Webcam, voz, y mucho m?s ?Gratis!

I have two versions of a bibtex database which have gotten badly out of sync. I need to find find all the entries in bib2 which are not contained in bib1, according to their bibtex keys. But I can't figure out how to extract a list of the bibentry keys in these databases. A minor question: Is there someway to prevent read.bib from ignoring entries that do not contain all required fields?

Can someone please recommend to me a book on the programming language that R is based on? I'm looking for a foundational book that teaches the logic of the S language. It seems that knowing the underpinnings of the language can only make using R a bit easier. Any leads are greatly appreciated . . . Matt. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I'm working with some people using apple laptops. When we share text files (latex files), I reach in an encoding problem on our CentOS laptops and desktops. In my favorite editor, "?" is "<8e>", "?" is "<88>" etc... Of course, I can change the encoding with iconv: iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib iconv -f