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Dear list, I have tried to setup my Xemacs for use with Sweave, which I indend to learn. I have followed the instructions in the Sweave FAQ, that is to say, I put (defun Rnw-mode () (require 'ess-noweb) (noweb-mode) (if (fboundp 'R-mode) (setq noweb-default-code-mode 'R-mode))) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.Rnw\\'" . Rnw-mode)) (add-to-list

Dear list, I'd like to use the function cut() on matrices, ie that when I apply it to a matrix, it would return a matrix of the same dimensions instead of a vector. I wonder if there is a better (more elegant) solution than matrix(cut(a, ...), ncol=ncol(a), nrow=nrow(a)) because I would like to use cut on both vectors and matrices and avoid testing whether a is a matrix. Thanks, Tamas

Hi, I am plotting a policy function (result from a dynamic stochastic optimization problem, discretized approximation). The policy function maps from an 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x B x F state space to a B x F state space (B and F are usually between 4-6, and represent domestic and foreign savings. The other variables are income (Y), inflation (Pi), domestic and foreign interest rates (R and Z)). I

I need to find a computationally simple process for the movement of interest rates. In this simplified model, an interest rate can have 3--5 possible values, and its movement is characterized by a matrix of transition probabilities (ie, it is a Markov process). I would like to estimate this process from a given set of data. For example, let the interest rate time series be: 7 3 8 2 5 9 6

Dear List, I have a couple of (~200) 3x3 transition probability matrices (ie each defines a Markov chain). They are all estimated from the same underlying process, so it ie meaningful to take their elemetwise mean and standard deviation. [1] First question: supposing that they are given in a list l, how do I get their elementwise mean and standard deviation? Fortunately, the mean of trans. prob.

Is there a way in R to test if a given number is an integer, ie a whole number? I am not referring to the data type of a number, but to its value. That is to say, is.whole(pi-pi+2) would be TRUE, whereas is.whole(4/3) would be false. At the moment I am using is.whole <- function(a) { floor(a)==a } which is OK for real numbers, but not for complex ones (a+bi would be a whole number if both a

Hi, I am typesetting R code in TeX using the listings package. I have experimented with various settings for the text, but all look a bit ugly. This might be because I have no typographic experience ;-) I would really appreciate if people sent me the settings they use for the listings package (eg in the \usepackage line, or \lstset, I am thinking about choices for basicstyle, ... etc). I

Suppose I have A, an n x m matrix, each element is an integer (an index). I also have B, an n x l x m array. I need C, where C[n,m] = B[n, A[n, m], m] I am currently using loops, what would be the "R way" to do this? Another question: let A[n, m] <- argmax_l B[n, l, m] what would be the nicest way of doing this? Currently I am using max.col and a single loop, going though the

Hi, Sometimes I want to "reset" the R interpreter (as if I quit and started it again, with everything starting from scratch). The main reason for this is when I expreriment with calculations, and later form them into general functions, sometimes I forget to include variables or reset some settings which I don't notice because they are already set. This causes problems during batch

Hi, The department of economics at our university (Budapest) is planning a course on numerical methods in economics. They are trying to decide which software to use for that, and I would like to advocate R. The other alternative is Matlab. I have found comparisons in terms of computational time for matrix algebra, but I don't think that is relevant: the bottleneck for economists is usually

Hi, I need to parse a data file (output of a measuring device) of the following format: BEGIN RECORD [first record data] RECORD [second record data] RECORD [third record data] END Line breaks can (and do ;-() occur anywhere. White space behaves very much like TeX, eg it is not important whether there are one or more spaces or linebreaks as long as there is one of them. It is a text file, not

Hi, I have a dynamic programming problem with many state variables, let's call them l, n, m, etc. The transition probabilities are originally given in an array form, eg transtition[l,m,n,ll,mm,nn] give the probability of going from l,m,n to ll,mm,nn. However, the numerical solution is best handled when I "flatten" the L x M x N state space into a single one (call it S), ie a

Janusz Kawczak wrote: > You simply need to remove the stuff related to MS Win from zzz.R; > in partricular the lines after if( .... ) to clear your message. > As you can see, the info relates to the WinMenu under MS Win. I think people have been more than a little disingenuous in claiming that getting the Rmetrics package to go under Linux is transparent. If you have to dig into the

Hi, I have a large table in Postgresql (result of an MCMC simulation, with 1 million rows) and I would like to retrive colums (correspond to variables) using RODBC. I have a column called "index" which is used to order rows. Unfortunately, sqlQuery can't return all the values from a column at once (RODBC complains about lack of memory). So I am using the following code:

Hi, I have the following problem. It has two parts. 1. I need to calculate the stationary probabilities of a Markov chain, eg if the transition matrix is P, I need x such that xP = x in other words, the left eigenvectors of P which have an eigenvalue of one. Currently I am using eigen(t(P)) and then pick out the vectors I need. However, this seems to be an overkill (I only need a single

Hi, I have noticed the following: > a <- array(1:4, c(2, 2)) > A <- array(1:4, c(2,2,2)) > A + a Error in A + a : non-conformable arrays It works with a matrix + a vector, why doesn't it work with arrays? Am I missing something? How would you do the above operation efficiently (ie I need to add a matrix to each "plane" of 3-dim array)? At the moment I am using

Hello, In S-Plus Windows you can transform graphics to Powerpoint very easily, in R Windows you can use enhanced metafiles (.emf) and Powerpoint almost as easy. Is there a simular way with R in Linux to transform to the presentation program in StarOffice or OpenOffice or are you stuck with the pdf device? Fredrik Lundgren

Hi! >library(cluster) In this lib a function called silhoutte.default is defined than on the R prompt it type >silhouette.default Error: Object "silhouette.default" not found R1.9.0 The same error are at R1.8.1 And I knew that a function silhoutte.default are present. But the same piece of code works in R1.6.2 ??? Eryk Dipl. bio-chem. Eryk Witold Wolski @

Dear List, I am trying to become more familiar with Sweave at the moment, beacuse I am convinced that it will eventually make my life easier. However, I have not found anything relevant in the mail archives about the following problem. Both the article in R-News and the Sweave FAQ suggest that Emacs would be a great development environment for working with Sweave. So far, it doesn't seem to

I would like a 3d plot of a matrix such that individual trapezoids that make up the surface are colored according to the z-value of that point (or preferably the midpoint of its four corners, or something similar). MS Excel has something like that. I know that persp can have an nx by ny matrix its "col" argument, I just don't know how to generate that matrix. To calculate the