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Does anyone know how to use the equivalent of debug() on an S4 method? I would like R to enter the browser not for the generic function, but for the method of the class that I specify. Thanks, David _____________________________ David Bickel http://davidbickel.com Research Scientist Pioneer Hi-Bred International Bioinformatics & Exploratory Research 7250 NW 62nd Ave., PO Box 552 Johnston,

Given a numeric vector of observations, does R have any generic way to estimate the parameters of commonly used distributions (exponential, gamma, etc.) without numerically optimizing the likelihood function? Thanks, David _______________________________________ David R. Bickel http://davidbickel.com Research Scientist Pioneer Hi-Bred International Bioinformatics & Exploratory Research 7250

Is there a way I can get R to automatically enter the browser inside a user-defined function on the generation of an error? Specifically, I'm trying to debug this: Error in as.double.default(sapply(lis, FUN)) : (list) object cannot be coerced to double In addition: There were 38 warnings (use warnings() to see them) > traceback() 8: as.double.default(sapply(lis, FUN)) 7:

Is there a way to call an R function to work in the background within the same R session? What I have in mind is the equivalent of adding '&' at the end of a UNIX command, so that R can process an intensive command while I execute other R commands. I want to do this in the same R session, rather than with multiple calls to R, so that all my modified objects will stay in the same

After reading the help page on set.seed, I am unsure about how to solve the following problem. I need to call function f a thousand times. The list of values returned by f, should be as random as possible. f calls g twice: f <- function(){g1 <- g(1); g2 <- g(2); c(g1; g2)} The function g in turn calls sample and returns a number, but also depends on its argument, so, starting from the

Is there a function that provides the Fisher information matrix for a generalized linear model? I do not see how to access the off-diagonal matrix elements of the value returned by glm. (I'm particularly interested in logistic regression.) If not, what is a good way to use R to compute Hessians or other partial derivatives of log likelihoods? I would appreciate any guidance. David

Is there a way I can have R automatically execute the commands in a source file without ever having to use R interactively? If so, what arguments should I pass to the UNIX call to R? I need to do this to run several R jobs in parallel. An alternative may be to have R and an R package behave as a stand-alone application that can be called from the UNIX command line. Is there any documentation on

Is there any R function that computes the convolution of the double exponential distribution? If not, is there a good way to integrate ((q+x)^n)*exp(-2x) over x from 0 to Inf for any value of q and for any positive integer n? I need to perform the integration within a function with q and n as arguments. The function integrate() is giving me this message: "evaluation of function gave a

Are there any R functions or packages that can compute distributions, expectations, or quantiles of order statistics (or sample quantiles or extreme values) for a given distribution such as a normal distribution? Both exact and asymptotic calculations are of interest. I am already aware of the 'quantile' function of 'stats'. David _______________________________________ David R.

R never gave me any serious problems until I tried to use it on Windows XP. I had 1.8.1 installed and working successfully for a few weeks. This morning when I launched it, I received this error message: "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I downloaded 1.9.0 and installed it, but when I launch it, I get this

Hi there, I've hit a bump in writing postscript files with special characters in the WinAnsi encoding on a windows machine. Here's some sample code: ########################################### postscript(file = "test.eps", encoding="WinAnsi.enc", width = 3, height = 5.5, onefile = TRUE, horizontal=FALSE, family = "sans", title =

Hi I am trying to save some plots in a postscript file. When I generate the plots in the main window, they appear correctly - their orientation is landscape (i.e., horizontal). However, when I open the .ps file with GSview, the whole page appears vertically, and the plot appears horizontally, which means that the plot is only partially visible (example here

Does anyone know how to interrupt R in RedHat? Neither control-c nor Esc is working. What I don't want to do is close the window or kill the entire R process. Thanks, David This communication is for use by the intended recipient and ...{{dropped}}

What are some effective ways to leverage the strengths of R and Mathematica for the analysis of a single data set? More specifically, are there any functions that can assist with any of the following? 1. Calling an R function from Mathematica. 2. Calling a Mathematica function from R. 3. Using XML or another reliable data format to pass vectors, matrices, and/or lists from one environment to

Thanks to all who replied. Mostly the suggestion was to add the argument horizontal= FALSE to the postscript function. However, I was trying to generate a landscape graph. The "fault" lies with gs as Peter Dalgaard pointed out. Under Windows 95, gsview has an option to view landscape or portrait and therefore this problem does not arise on that platform.

With R 2.3.1 on Windows, I've noticed that it defaults to the "WinAsci.enc" encoding, which throws up an error when viewed with the default install of GhostScript/GSView (versions 8.51/4.7 respectively). I didn't have this problem prior to upgrading to 2.3.1 as I can view all my old PS graphs and they don't have the WinAsci encoding. I've got around this problem by

The example in the help file for pdf() plots the characters outside the plotting area in this for loop: for(i in c(32:255)) { x <- i y <- i points(x, y, pch=i) } The following loop seems to be working as intended for(i in c(32:255)) { x <- (i-31)%%16 y <- (i-31)%/%16 points(x, y, pch=i) } As an extra

Hi, I have a puzzeling problem. I want to export graphics from R to TeX via postscript(). This works fine for some graphs, but for others, the eps remain empty when viewed with GSView. When such an empty eps is imported to TeX, the figure appears upside down and very small, irrespective of TeX width and height commands. If I transform the eps to pdf, the graphic shows up, but turned aqround 90°.

Hi, I'm looking for a usable PDF viewer with CentOS 4.3. On my previous install (Slack running XFCE with a handful of GNOME libs), I used Evince, which is just great. Looks like this is an Achilles' heel in CentOS, as I tested three available PDF viewers (ggv, gsview, acroread) with various PDF documents downloaded from the internet (which all display perfectly with Evince): either the

gday R friends, I was wondering if anyone could help me with some graphics issues please. I'm processing R in batch on redhat6.2 with some graphics to be imported into msword on NT. For scaling within my doco I want some vector type graphics. win.metafile doesn't seem to be supported on redhat which gives me postscript. postscript is ideal but doesn't contain a preview so I