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I'm writing an publication in two column format and need to shrink some plots. After increasing the axis labels it does not look nice at all. The y-axis label and tick labels almost touch each other and the x-axis tick labels expand into the plot instead of away from it. Is there a better way than "cex" to control the: 1) font size of axis and tick labels 2) font thickness 3)

I am new to R and would like to get some practice analyzing multilevel data. I wonder if anyone can point me to a sample data set and command lines that I might replicate for a sample session. I would then compare my output with HLM output. Any help is appreciated. ------ Harold C. Doran Director of Research and Evaluation New American Schools 675 N. Washington Street, Suite 220 Alexandria,

Dear List: I have a question regarding an MDS procedure that I am accustomed to using. I have searched around the archives a bit and the help doc and still need a little assistance. The package isoMDS is what I need to perform the non-metric scaling, but I am working with similarity matrices, not dissimilarities. The question may end up being resolved simply. Here is a bit of substantive

Dear List: A few weeks ago I posted some questions regarding data simulation and received some very helpful comments, thank you. I have modified my code accordingly and have made some progress. However, I now am facing a new challenge along similar lines. I am attempting to simulate 250 datasets and then run the data through a linear model. I use rm() and gc() as I move along to clean up the

Dear List: When I click on the link to download a reference manual for a package on cran, I get an error message that the file is damaged and could not be repaired. I randomly chose various packages and the same error message appears. Are the links actually broken? I have also restarted my machine and closed and re-opened acrobat. I am using Windows XP, Acrobat Professional 6.0.0.5, and

Dear List: When trying to open 1.9.0 this morning, I have the following error: "Fatal Error: Unable to restore saved data in .Rdata" I am using Windows 2000. The program then quits. Do I need to reinstall? Harold C. Doran One Massachusetts Avenue, NW · Suite 700 Washington, DC 20001-1431 202.336.7075 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I would like to be able to place a normal distribution surrounding the predicted values at various places on a plot. Below is some toy code that creates a scatterplot and plots a regression line through the data. library(MASS) mu <- c(0,1) Sigma <- matrix(c(1,.8,.8,1), ncol=2) set.seed(123) x <- mvrnorm(50,mu,Sigma) plot(x) abline(lm(x[,2] ~ x[,1])) Say I want to add a normal

Dear List I apologize for the multiple postings. After being in the weeds on this problem for a while I think my original post may have been a little cryptic. I think I can be clearer. Essentially, I need the following a <- c(2,3) b <- c(4,5,6) (2*4) + (2*5) + (2*6) + (3*4) + (3*5) +(3*6) But I do not know of a built in function that would do this. Any suggestions? -----Original

Dear List: I am encountering an error that I can't resolve. I'm looping through rows of a dataframe to generate individual tex files using Sweave. At random points along the way, I encounter the following error Error in file() : cannot find unused tempfile name At which point Sweave halts. There isn't a logical pattern that I can identify in terms of why the program stops at

I'm trying to read in some data from a .csv format and have come across the following issue. Here is a simple example for replication # A sample .csv format schid,sch_name 331-802-7081,School One 464-551-7357,School Two 388-517-7627,School Three \& Four 388-517-4394,School Five Note the third line includes the \ character. However, when I read the data in I get >

Dear R: Am I having trouble downloading the LME4 library. I am using Windows and am using ver 1.7 I have tried the following: 1) Install package from CRAN, but LME4 is not listed 2) Downloaded LME4 from http://cran.us.r-project.org/, however, I cannot open the file when I try install from local drive. I get the following error: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection

Hi all: I'm having difficulty with something I believe is very simple, but I'm stuck. I have a large data frame that took days to clean and prepare. All I now need to do is concatenate three variables into a single column. For example, I have tenn$up, tenn$down, and tenn$stable which all have values of 1 or 0. I simply want to put all three columns together to create a pattern (e.g.,

I would like to fit a hierarchical regression model from Witte et al. (1994; see reference below). It's a logistic regression of a health outcome on quntities of food intake; the linear predictor has the form, X*beta + W*gamma, where X is a matrix of consumption of 82 foods (i.e., the rows of X represent people in the study, the columns represent different foods, and X_ij is the amount of

I have some matrices stored as elements in a list that I am working with. On example is provided below as TP[[18]] > TP[[18]] level2 level1 1 2 3 4 1 79 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 Now, using prop.table on this gives > prop.table(TP[[18]],1) level2 level1 1 2 3 4 1 1 0 0 0 2 3

I am reading in a very large file with names in it and R is truncating the number of rows it reads in. The separator in this file is a pipe '|' and so I use dat <- read.delim('pathToMyFile', header= TRUE, sep='|') It turns out that it is reading up to row 61145 and stopping and I think I see why, but am not sure of the best solution to this problem. I see the name of

Dear List: I am unsure if my problem is with Sweave or LaTeX. Anyhow, I am using the MikTeX distribution and TexnicCenter. I can easily create Sweave files and all goes well until I try to incorporate graphics. I use the same code as found in the examples found in the users manual. In R, the graphics I want are created as Sweave is creating the .tex file. When I examine the .tex file

Dear List: I cannot seem to find a way to plot my data correctly. I have a small data frame with 6 total variables (x_1 ... x_6). I am trying to plot x_1 against x_2 and x_3. I have tried plot(x_2, x_1) #obviously works fine plot(x_3, x_1, add=TRUE) # Does not work. I keep getting error messages. I would also like to add ablines to this plot. I have experimented with a number of other

Hi, I tried to download the MASS package for windows, but I cannot find the precompiled zip file on the home page. Please tell me how I can download it. Thanks. Jing Xu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"

I have a data set where I want the correlations between 2 variables conditional on a students grade level. This code works just fine. by(tmp[,c('mtsc07', 'DCBASmathscoreSPRING')], tmp$Grade, cor, use='complete', method='pearson') However, this generates an error by(tmp[,c('mtsc07', 'DCBASmathscoreSPRING')], tmp$Grade, cor, use='complete',

Suppose I have a data frame, such as the one below: tmp <- data.frame(index = gl(2,20), foo = rnorm(40)) And further assume it is sorted by index and then by the variable foo. tmp <- tmp[order(tmp$index, tmp$foo) , ] Now, I want to grab the first N rows of tmp for each index. In the end, what I want is the data frame 'result' tmp1 <- subset(tmp, index == 1) tmp2 <-