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Hello all, I upgraded from R 1.8.1 to 1.9.0 (Windows XP), and spotted an odd thing. The last three letters in the Swedish alphabet are ??, ?? and ??. (In case they don't show correctly: they are a with a ring, a with two dots, and o with two dots (HTML: å ä ö). When I use these as variable names in a data.frame, odd things happen: In R 1.8.1, ?? (å)

How do you stop R from putting up a dialog box when you quit Rgui? (I use Windows and I never save workspaces that way) 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 Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home

Greetings all. Any help with the following would be appreciated. I want to create a data frame for each file in a directory. The following code does not work but it may show what I am trying to do: carmakes <- c('BMW','Chrysler','Citroen','Fiat','Ford','Holden','Honda',

I want to interlace two vectors. This I can do: > x <- 1:4 > z <- x+0.5 > as.vector(t(cbind(x,z))) [1] 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 but this seems rather inelegant. Any suggestions? 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

I got a shock a few days ago when I accidentally visited www.r-project.com . I thought that the r-project site had been hacked until I realised my mistake. There is also a site www.r-project.net. Both of these sites appear to be Japanese. Does anyone know anything about them? I suppose that it is not unusual for names close to those of popular sites to be used. It is good that they use a

Well I don't know if anyone can help with this but it will be interesting to know if others have had the same problem. I can't start R at home on my laptop [ I'm using 1.8.1 under Windows XP]. When I click on the shortcut I get the usual Windows box for when an application needs to close. A couple of clicks down it displays the following: Error signature AppName: rgui.exe

Hi, What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, plus some other debugging functions. Yi-Xiong [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hai - kann mir jemand sagen, wie ich den Modalwert in R berechne?! IRgendwie finde ich den Befehl nicht.... greetz und herzlichen Dank Sonja

To whom it may concern: Given that my sample size is n, my mean is 100, and my sd is 10, I need to use a random number generator (which I believe is the function rnorm(5,100,10)), but I need to repeat it a large number of times, and then plot the sampling distributions of the sample means, sd's, and variances of those generated sets. I'm having a real hard time trying to figure out how

G'day list! I'm thinking about programming likelihood and score intervals for generalized linear models in R based on the paper "On the computation of likelihood ratio and score test based confidence intervals in generalized linear models" by Juha Alho (1992) (Statistics in Medicine, 11, 923-930). Being lazy, I thought that I would ask if anyone else on the list has

Does anyone else miss email-friendly character graphics such as the following example, produced using Minitab? Histogram of C6 N = 478 N* = 21 Each * represents 2 observation(s) Midpoint Count -12 16 ******** -11 53 *************************** -10 63 ******************************** -9 83

I have just noticed that quite a few columns of a data frame that I am working on are numeric factors. For summary() purposes I want them to be vectors. I tried, for example > indx <- c(1:18,21:37,40,41) > i <- 0 > i <- i+1 > summary(as.vector(sflows1[indx[i]])) Length Class Mode min.pkt.sz 3000 factor numeric but this does not give the five-number

I wanted a sort of matrix product of an array and a matrix. As there does not seem to be any array multiplication apart from outer() I proceeded as follows: lambda <- array(0, c(n,m,d)) # stuff omitted # zed is an n by m matrix # # \lamb.star_{ik} lamb.star <- matrix(0, nrow=n, ncol=d) for (i in 1:n) { for (k in 1:d) { for (j in 1:m) { lamb.star[i,k] = lamb.star[i,k] +

[This message is not always serious, but it addresses a real problem.] A problem with R's present name is that it is not very well suited to search engines, although Google at least seems to cope as long as you have sufficient other terms to filter out Toys R Us. Initials remain a problem. I suppose "R" is just too culty to do away with, but perhaps we could come up with a longer

Consider the following analysis of a class experiment done as a Latin Square: > spinner <- gl(4,4,16,label=c("Murray","Angela","Shasha","Stephen")) > order <- gl(4,1,16) > treat <- scan() 1: 1 2 4 3 5: 4 3 1 2 9: 3 4 2 1 13: 2 1 3 4 17: Read 16 items > coin <-

Here is the file minimal.Snw: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \title{R tips and tricks} \author{Murray Jorgensen} \usepackage{Sweave} \begin{document} \maketitle \section*{Entering data from a single variable} The following data are transformed tensile strength measurements on polyester fibres. They may be found on the file \texttt{TENSILE.DAT}. We may enter this data into R using the

Suppose you fit a linear model > model.1 ~ lm(v1 ~ ..., data=myframe) and v2 is some other column of myframe typically not in the model. You will often want to try > plot(v2, model.1$residuals) but this will fail if there are NAs in the response v1 as model.1$residuals has length equal to the number of nonmissing values in v1. I suppose > plot(v2[!is.na(v1)],

R is a function-oriented language and functions have the advantage that they control unintended side effects of computations on the workspace. Still, there are times when I am using R when I want to make a large number of changes to the worksheet repeatedly and where the easiest way seems to be to keep pasting in the same chunk of code, or to put it on a file and use

I want to paste in the following numbers into a scan: 0.023 0.032 0.054 0.069 0.081 0.094 0.105 0.127 0.148 0.169 0.188 0.216 they are separated by tabs alone, unless my mailer has done something to the tabs. Now have a look at this: > scan() 1: 0.0230.0320.0540.0690.0810.094 1: 0.1050.1270.1480.1690.1880.216 Error in scan() : "scan" expected a real, got

Dear R-Help, I am trying to use R to solve a nonlinear equation many times for different values. I am looking for a mathematical nonlinear equation solution which may not have a closed solution form. For example, I have equation: 2 = (t^2)/log(t) What is t? I am wondering how to solve it in R. Many thanks, Zhu Wang Statistical Science Department SMU.