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Dear List Members, I need some help about programming in S language. My problem is as follows: I have meteorological data (about rainfall measurement each day from 1989-2002), say like http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/get5/data.rainfall.txt or http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/get5/R.rainfall.txt in a sequence of 0(denoting dry day)'s and 1(denoting wet day)'s. I want to construct a frequency

Dear all, For estimating Cobb-Douglad production Function [ Y = ALPHA * (L^(BETA1)) * (K^(BETA2)) ], i want to use nls function (without linearizing it). But how can i get initial values? ------------------------------------ > options(prompt=" R> " ) R> Y <- c(59.6, 63.9, 73.5, 75.6, 77.3, 82.8, 83.6, 84.9, 90.3, 80.5, 73.5, 60.3, 58.2, 64.4, 75.4, 85, 92.7, 85.4,

Dear list, Is there anyway i can make the following formula short by r-programming? CYCLE.n<-c(NA, WET[1]*DRY[1], WET[1]*DRY[2]+WET[2]*DRY[1], WET[1]*DRY[3]+WET[2]*DRY[2]+WET[3]*DRY[1], WET[1]*DRY[4]+WET[2]*DRY[3]+WET[3]*DRY[2]+WET[4]*DRY[1], WET[1]*DRY[5]+WET[2]*DRY[4]+WET[3]*DRY[3]+WET[4]*DRY[2]+WET[5]*DRY[1],

Hi, I was just trying out an example on Page 247 of the MASS (Modern Applied Statistics with S-plus) book and saw the function "negexp.ival". It says it is supplied in the MASS library, however when I load the library in R and typed: negexp.ival it says: Error: Object "negexp.ival" not found Does it mean it only appears in the MASS library for S-plus?

Dear all, Does R or S-plus or any of their packages provide any command to form any of the following procedures to find Best Regression Equation - 1. 'All Possible Regressions Procedures' (is there any automated command to perform 2^p regressions and ordering according to criteria R2(adj), mallows Cp, s2- by not setting all the regression models manually), 2. 'Backward

Dear all, Can any one tell me how can i perform Orthogonal Polynomial Regression parameter estimation in R? -------------------------------------------- Here is an "Orthogonal Polynomial" Regression problem collected from Draper, Smith(1981), page 269. Note that only value of alpha0 (intercept term) and signs of each estimate match with the result obtained from coef(orth.fit). What

Dear all, Does R or S-plus or any of their packages provide Non-parametric "Run test" (which tests whether a sequence of numbers might be random or not)? If yes, i'd like a numerical illustration of this test. Any response / help / comment / suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------- Mohammad Ehsanul Karim <wildscop at

Dear all, Can anyone please help me about any of the following questions: -------------------------------------------- 1. How can i find "factorial" of any number in R? I tried > prod(170:1) # to find factorial of 170 or 170! Is it the only procedure - or R has any better process / operational character to calculate factorial? Also, is it possible to calculate factorial of 500? Or

Dear all, I am thinking of writing my own functions in s-plus (or in R). I just know how to work with S-plus / R built-in functions. Therefore, I'm a beginner in S programming. I am looking for some on-line documentation that is well written about "Programming in S language" where control stuctures / loops / vectorization and necessery sequences of S programming are

Dear List, How do I extract the approximate Wald test for the frailty (in the following example 17.89 value)? What about the P-values, other Chisq, DF, se(coef) and se2? How can they be extracted? ######################################################> kfitm1 Call: coxph(formula = Surv(time, status) ~ age + sex + disease + frailty(id, dist = "gauss"), data = kidney)

Dear List, In R we can plot multiple graphs in same page using par(mfrow = c(*,*)). In each plot we can set title using main and sub commands. However, is there any way that we can place an universal title above the set of plots placed in the same page (not individual plot titles, all i need is a title of the whole graph page) as well as sib-titles? Do I need any package to do so? Thank you

Dear List, Suppose, I have some observed and expected frequencies, such as following. I need to draw a graph where plots of observed and expected frequencies are merged into one. ------------------------------------------------ m <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,17) k <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19) ExpWW <- c(0.309330628803245, 0.213645190887434, 0.147558189649435,

Dear List, After including cluster() option the coxreg (from eha package) produces results slightly different than that of coxph (from survival) in the following time-dependent treatment effect calculation (example is used just to make the point). Will appreciate any explaination / comment. cheers, Ehsan ############################ require(survival) require(eha) data(heart) # create weights

Dear List Members, I need a bit help about fitting some theoretical distributions (such as geometric, exponential, lognormal or weibull distribution) to the following *dry spell*, *wet spell*, *cycles (Wet-Dry or Dry-Wet)* from my meteorological (daily rainfall) data http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/get5/R.rainfall.txt only for rainy seasen (july - september) of 14 years only:

Dear list, I have been trying to use coxme in R 2.3.1. When I use coxme in the following data sim.fr1, i get "Warning messages: using 'as.environment(NULL)' is deprecated" Why does it occur? How can I hide such warning message, especially when coxme is under a loop? Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka) >

Dear all, So far i could do (in an informal way) to draw a Standardized Resisual plot in the following way- --------------------- >x <- c(104.1, 106.6, 105.5, 107.5, 109.6, 113.3, 115.5, 117.7, 119.9, 122.1, 124.3, 126.5, 128.2) >y <- c(53732, 52912, 57005, 61354, 67682, 71602, 71961, 75309, 82931, 93310, 102161, 103068, 108927) >

Dear List, This is just a programming problem which i cannot seem to figure out. I am trying to get a set of power from a test (say, kolmogorov smirnov) out of a distribution (say, G-K distribution) as follows. I am trying to reduce to pain of writing the whole set of data points (p# below) using "for" loop. However, I seem to have some problem in it as the output "M" does not

Hello, can anyone help me calling native functions from LLVM-Bytecode functions run in the JIT? I have a program which creates an LLVM execution engine and adds modules and functions to it on the fly. I need to call some native functions of my program from bytecode functions which causes some troubles as it appears not to be documented. My test scenario works like the following: I have

Hi, I was able to try this on linux again. Unfortunately it doesn't work at all (neither using runFunction nor a CallInst). It simply says function called get5 not known. Calling printf the same way works, though. On linux the function is exported as "get5" from the executable while it is called "_get5" on OS X. I could not spot any other differences.. any

Hi, I created the model below, which returns me the following warning message: In sem.default(ram = ram, S = S, N = N, param.names = pars, var.names = vars, : Could not compute QR decomposition of Hessian. Optimization probably did not converge. ######### Model ######## mDPDF = data.frame(mj1,mj2,mj3,mj4,mj5,eL1,eL2,eL3,eL4,eL5,aC1,aC2,aC3,aC4,disR1,disR2,disR3,disR4,disR5,