similar to: Seeking advice on "introducing R"

Hi All: A couple of weeks back, I asked a question on the list that I was invited to provide an introductory lecture on R to a group of academicians in Kolkata. I thank all of you who had generously guided me in providing me web links and words to the wise. Time to give back. I did the presentation on introduction to R and uploaded the presentation files at the following site:

Dear All, Folks at the West Bengal University of Technology has set up a mirror to distribute R and associated packages. Here is the URL: http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/CRAN This will be helpful for R users in South Asia and the adjoining countries. I have yet to see the site featured in the CRAN list of mirrors. What needs to be done? For those of you who are impatient and would like to give it a

Hi All: Greetings, and best wishes from the festive times here at Kolkata, India -- the time of Durga Puja celebrations. I seek your advice as I try plotting lines for my data. The problem: I have created a dataframe that looks like this (name: myFrame): lowest second third fourth highest significance INAS 0.107 0.115 0.123 0.115 0.166 0.000 MMA 0.091 0.107 0.115

Hi All: I have written an R search plug-in based on Prof Jonathan Baron's R search site. This Firefox/Netscape plug-in lets you search R sites and R discussion group archives directly from your Mozilla (Seamonkey) or Firefox or Netscape browser. Here is the link to the installer for the plug-in: http://arinbasu.bravehost.com/installer.html If you want the source files or have other comments

Hi All: Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available for the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu, are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a tutorial available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd not locate an appropriate file. TIA, Arin Basu

Dear Group: I am working with a data frame containing 316 rows of individuals with 79 variables. Each of these 79 variables have values that range between -4 to +4, and I want to subset this data frame so that in the resulting new dataframe, values of _all_ of these variables should range between -3 and +3. Let's say I have the following dataframe (it's a toy example with 4 individuals

Hi All, I am scheduled to teach a graduate course on research methods in health sciences at a university. While drafting the course proposal, I decided to include a brief introduction to R, primarily with an objective to enable the students to do data analysis using R. It is expected that enrolled students of this course have all at least a formal first level introduction to quantitative methods

I have data that comes in every 7 seconds or so and I'd like to display it in a spreadsheet, and possibly take user input from the spreadsheet. I have installed RGnumeric and written an appropriate R function that reads, manipulates and displays the data by writing via RGnumeric to a spreadsheet. However, the results of this are not displayed until the R function returns, so refreshing by

Hi All: This follows my earlier post on webized slides on lecture presentation on introducing R. I learned that in Mozilla (Firefox) browsers, the slides did not show up. Sorry for the no show. As a reluctant windows user, I kind of carelessly clicked through Powerpoint to convert the presentation file to its html form, unwittingly leading to the mess. See if it got corrected now (I do not have

Hi All: I tried to update the package mgcv from my current version 1.1-8 to mgcv version 1.2. Using the command update.packages("mgcv") to update mgcv failed in my computer and the returning message was: "Error in old.packages(lib.loc=lib.loc, contriburl=contriburl, method=method, :no installed.packages for (?invalid) lib.loc=mgcv" When I typed installed.packages(), I got

This works for me on Centos 5.6. It may assist newcomers to the Linux world of Centos. whois 51.51.51.51 produces a normal and conventional display of data. However since ARIN, the North American registrar of IP addresses, "modernised" its WHOIS processing, a query to whois 64.64.64.64 will produce a one line summary of possible matches, which always includes ARIN, but omits the

Hi All: I was looking for, but could not locate in the packages, or in the R archive searches if there exists an R implementation of Cuzick's test of trend. The test is described as follows: An extension of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test is developed to handle the situation in which a variable is measured for individuals in three or more (ordered) groups and a non-parametric test for trend

Hi Group: >From an R session, I wanted to update packages, and issued the command: update.packages() R started to update the package "foreign" and proceeded. After downloading, while it attempted to install the packages, it came up with the following error message. I could not understand the error message. Does it indicate that the problem lies with the gcc? How do I install the

In a nutshell and very first of all, you need at least 2 internet connections. Those ISP must be willing to setup BGP peering between your routers and theirs. Once that agreement has been made, you need to get their AS Numbers and submit the ASN request located on ARIN's website (http://www.arin.net). After some paperwork and money exchanges, ARIN assigns you an AS number. At that point,

Hi All: Recently, I got a query how R compared cost-wise (cost of purchase, maintenance, and training manuals) with other proprietary statistical software programs (or programming environments). The request, verbatim: <--- begin quote ----> >> dear arin, >> >> can you please find out the price of the various >> prop. statistical >> packages that are in

This morning someone tried to make sip call through my Asterisk. My server just drop these calls and record them in CDR with IP address: 2012-11-28 06:30:51 SIP/216... 1000 "1000" <1000> Hangup 999011972592249388 ANSWERED 00:01 Hacker: 168.63.67.239 2. 2012-11-28 06:30:49 SIP/216... 1000 "1000" <1000> Hangup 88011972592249388 ANSWERED 00:01 Hacker:

hi: Just a litle update: 41/8 allocated to AfriNIC (APR 2005). 73/8 allocated to ARIN (MAR 2005). hope it helps.

Hi All: I am interested in tools available in R that will enable me to run analysis of case crossover studies. I searched the web (http://www.google.com), and found that a tool called "funfit" was available for Splus. Searching the R archives, I also found mention of a "funfit" library. However, when I searched in CRAN, I could not find it. Is "funfit" now part of

Hi All: I am working on a dataset of a study on healthcare workers. One of the variables I am studying is a categorical variable (variable name:EDUC, indicates educational achievement, with 6 levels: "illiterate", "primary", "junior high school", "high school completed", "undergraduate", and "postgraduate"). I want to collapse the

Dear List: Somewhere in the R-Statistical Software website, I remember having read about using the opensource Bluefish editor with R. During a recent visit to the site, I could not find the link or reference. Also, when I searched the list archives (http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/about.html) for "bluefish", the search returned no result. Has anyone in the list used