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Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way by which one can estimate values from a contour plot created by using the loess function? I am hoping to use the loess contour plot as a means of interpolation to identify the loess created values at points at pre-defined (x,y) locations. Could anyone point me in the right direction please? Thanks. Laura Quinn Institute of Atmospheric Science School

Ok, I have reinstalled R-1.9.0 and this appears to have fixed the problems I was having with png(). However, I have a further question regarding png() Is it possible to pass a par() argument to the png() command? I am wanting to produce 4 plots per object, which I normally acheive on an X window by par(mfrow=c(1,4)). I have tried calling a new plot and setting par in this way but this has no

Hi, Just a quick query - if I'm creating a function to produce a number of histograms per page of output (one per column from a matrix), how can I pass the column name of the matrix into the title (or indeed to form part of the x-axis label)? TIA, Laura Laura Quinn Institute of Atmospheric Science School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT tel: +44 113 343 1596 fax:

Hello, I requested help a couple of weeks ago creating a dipole field in R but receieved no responses. Eventually I opted to create a 3d sinusoidal plot and concatenate this with its inverse as a means for a "next best" situation. It seems that this isn't sufficient for my needs and I'm really after creating a continuous 3d gaussian mesh with a "positive" and

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me why prcomp() will "Invent" modes of variation in a PCA on identical replicates of data? I would have expected 50 (or whatever number) of identical replicates to return a null score in such an analysis (or at the least, all variables would share the same PC score). This is not the case and I was wondering could someone point me in the direction

Hello, Is there a simple way of stacking/merging two dataframes in R? I want to stack them piece-wise, not simply add one whole dataframe to the bottom of the other. I want to create as follows: x.frame: aX1 bX1 cX1 ... zX1 aX2 bX2 cX2 ... zX2 ... ... ... ... ... aX99 bX99 cX99 ... zX99 y.frame: aY1 bY1 cY1 ... zY1 aY2 bY2 cY2 ... zY2 ... ... ... ... ... aY99 bY99 cY99 ...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help. I am trying to run R on a remote machine, part of the model run I am attempting writes an external file output as a png (about 48 iterations per model run). I am running R 1.9.1 on SuSe9.0, and am accessing this via ssh from a Debian machine. Initially I used the command ssh -X IP.address and whilst I was able to run the model successfully the

I'm wanting to create a series of near-identical matrices via the addition of "white noise" to my starting matrix. Is there a function within R which will allow me to do this? Thank you Laura Quinn Institute of Atmospheric Science School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT tel: +44 113 343 1596 fax: +44 113 343 6716 mail: laura at env.leeds.ac.uk

Hi, Is it possible to recreate "smoothed" data sets in R, by performing a PCA and then reconstructing a data set from say the first 2/3 EOFs? I've had a look in the help pages and don't seem to find anything relevant. Thanks in advance, Laura Laura Quinn Institute of Atmospheric Science School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT tel: +44 113 343 1596

Hi, Is there a neat way of working out the slope of a flat surface in R? Given (x,y,z) co-ordinates of the four corners of a square, is there a function which will allow me to calculate the "mean" slope of the surface in a given direction? Thanks in advance.. Laura Laura Quinn Institute of Atmospheric Science School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT tel: +44

I have a list containing 48 objects (each with 30 rows and 4 columns, all numeric), and wish to produce 4 boxplot series (with 48 plots in each) , one for each column of each object. Basically I want a boxplot from boxplot(mylist[[]][,i]) for i in 1:4. It seems that I can create a boxplot of length 48 from the entire list, but I don't seem able to subscript to return 4 boxplots from the list

Please could someone point me in the right direction as I appear to be having a total mental block with fairly basic PCA problem! I have a large dataframe where rows represent independent observations and columns are variables. I am wanting to perform PCA sequentially on blocks of nrows at a time and produce a graphical output of the loadings for the first 2 EOFs for each variable. I'm sure

Hi, I am applying the following code to map pca loadings onto a 3d grid, my problem is this - the output only plots the spheres in the requested color (in this case "red") for the first argument. The sphere from the second argument appear as flat dark circles. Also the text3d() command only seems to work for a couple of the positions, with no text added in most cases. Could anyone offer

Hi, I'm having a mental block as to how I can automatically assign filenames to the output of the following code. I am wishing to create a separate .png file for every image created, each of them having a sequential filename ie "sourcefile_index.png" so that I can create a movie from them. Please could someone tell me where I am going wrong? the following code works fine and

I am trying to add some markers onto a contour map image I have created, by using the text() function when I have already produced the map using either image() or filled.contour(). For some reason the points appear to be shifted considerably to the right of where they should be appearing, despite me using exactly the same co-ordinate systems for both. This offset is also dependent on the aspect

Hi, I want to perform some analysis on subsets of huge data files. There are 20 of the files and I want to select the same subsets of each one (each subset is a chunk of 1500 or so consecutive rows from several million). To save time and processing power is there a method to tell R to *only* read in these rows, rather than reading in the entire dataset then selecting subsets and deleting the

I have a total mental block and can't find my way around this seemingly simple problem: I have created a function such that: my_answer_1=myfuntion(my_input_1) I am wanting to perform this calculation over a large number of datasets, but am having real difficulty calling and assigning - i think the problem les in the fact that I need to paste for call and assign. this is my best attempt so

I am trying to create a topographic map of an island - the filled.contour function works fine except i am experiencing difficulty trying to represent the sea properly. Basically I want the default colour blue for any instance where z=0, if I simply use the default topo.color I get shades of blue for z values up to 220 metres. Is there a way in which I can specify terrain.color for all values of

Quick question - I am having problems creating an orographic image (similar to volcano example). I have created a map matrix with 3 columns and over 2million rows. I have created the matrix as follows: map<-read.table("map.dat",header=TRUE) long.grid<-sort(unique(map$long) lat.grid<-sort(unique(map$lat) map.matrix<-matrix(map$height,nrow=length(lat.grid),byrow=TRUE) The

Hello, Please could someone advise if it's possible to save the graphical output from the surface3d() function? I have tried the dev.copy() function to save as a pdf but an error message says I cannot copy from the null device. Laura Quinn Institute of Atmospheric Science School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT tel: +44 113 343 1596 fax: +44 113 343 6716 mail: