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Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: > look at ?rowMeans; you can also use "apply(mat, 1, mean)" but > rowMeans() is better. By my reading of the question, this is not what Ezhil wants. He said: ``I have a 992 x 74 matrix. I would like to form a new matrix by averaging each 4 rows from the original one.'' I.e. he wants (I think) the first row of the new matrix to be the

I just (finally!!!) got R version 1.8.1 to configure and build under Solaris 9 (after much travail; there were funnies in my environment variables that mucked things up, but that's another story). Anyhow, when I ran ``make check'' I got an error right toward the end. Looking in the directory ``tests'' I found that the error was associated with the file reg-tests-3.R, and the

I'm mystified by a Windoze ``phenomenon'' which has just bitten me. I have a laptop which boots either Windoze or Linux; I (sad to say) need the Windoze OS for teaching purposes. I have R 1.9.1 installed on the laptop in the Windoze OS. Just now I decided to install, under the Windoze version of R, a library (``Misc'') of some local functions that I have collected over the

I got bitten recently by the following behaviour of detach(); > save(file="Junk") > attach("Junk") > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "file:Junk" "package:methods" "package:ctest" [5] "package:mva" "package:modreg" "package:nls" "package:ts" [9]

I tried setting CFLAGS="-g -O" in config.site and got the same errors from running ``make check''. Then I tried setting CC=cc in config.site, and the damned thing failed again (but differently). Now at least ``!is.nan(var(1))'' is TRUE, as it should be. The problem comes from lapack. At the end of .../test/Examples/base-Ex.Rout.fail we find: > loc <-

I mis-spoke. It seems I had two collections of functions in the same directory. One by Colin Goodall, and one by David Scott (I have no record of where he is/was located). It is the *latter* collection that does all its work from within Fortran. I'll have another look at what Colin Goodall actually wrote to see if it could be useful to guarav. cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at

Apologies for the off-topic question; as usual I'm trying to draw upon the unparalleled knowledge and sagacity of the r-help list. Please reply off-list if you can help me out. A collaborator of mine found a formula we need, on sheets which he had photocopied out of a book, some years ago. He cannot remember which book (he's getting to be as senile and forgetful as I am, poor bloke!).

I've built R functions to ``effect'' a particular distribution, and would like to find out if that distribution is already ``known'' by an existing name. (I.e. suppose it were called the ``Melvin'' distribution --- I've built dmelvin, pmelvin, qmelvin, and rmelvin as it were, but I need a real name to substitute for melvin.) The distribution is really just a toy

Just now I again had occasion to want nested describe lists in a documentation file. I found that the bug which I reported on 18 October, 2001 still persists. I checked on the bug report at the R web page, and found that the notes say ``Not a problem in R 1.4.0 (2001-12-08)''. Well, it's still a problem for me --- using R 1.4.1. (Details: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.7 arch

In checking over the solutions to some homework that I had assigned I observed the fact that in R (version 2.4.0) pnorm(-1.46) gives 0.07214504. The tables in the text book that I am using for the course give the probability as 0.0722. Fascinated, I scanned through 5 or 6 other text books (amongst the dozens of freebies from publishers that lurk on my shelf) and found that some agree with R

Dear R-help, I was bitten by the behavior of all() when given logical(0): It is TRUE! (And any(logical(0)) is FALSE.) Wouldn't it be better to return logical(0) in both cases? The problem surfaced because some un-named individual called randomForest(x, y, xtest, ytest,...), and gave y as a two-level factor, but ytest as just numeric vector. I thought I check for that in my code by testing

Colin Bleay wrote: > last week i sent an e-mail about dealing with errors thrown up from a > glm.nb model carried out on multiple random datasets. > > every so often a dataset is created which results in the following error > after a call to glm.nb: > > "Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) > In addition: Warning message: > Step size truncated due

I just tried to install R version 1.5.1, and it is failing ``make check'', as follows: $ make check `Makedeps' is up to date. running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...*** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `base-Ex.Rout' Current working directory /home1/faculty/rolf/Traal/Rtmp/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target

I don't know from the nortest package, but it should ***always*** be the case that you test hypotheses H_0: The data have a normal distribution. vs. H_a: The data do not have a normal distribution. So if you get a p-value < 0.05 you can say that ***there is evidence*** (at the 0.05 significance level) that the data are not from a normal distribution. If the nortest package does

If one specifies new options in a package, using the options() function, where does/should one document these new options? E.g. suppose that I put the line options(melvin=42) in a file zzz.R in the R directory of the package source, where the package contains functions foo(), bar(), clyde(), and irving() which all query options("melvin") and take some action based on the value of

This may be an FAQ, but a (perfunctory) search failed to turn it up. Suppose I have a function foo(...){<something>} and I want to obtain, inside foo, the names of items comprising the ``...''. E.g. if I call foo(melvin,clyde,irving) I want to be able to loop through the ``...'' and successively obtain the text strings "melvin", "clyde", and

I've looked through the FAQ and can't find anything about this. I'm working on a Sun machine, running Solaris 2.7. I'm a new R-user; have been using Splus for millenia, and finally decided it was time I got going with R. So I downloaded R, installed it, fiddled about a bit, and found that command-line editing was absent. Scrounging through the documentation some more, I saw it

I'm experiencing a new and annoying phenomenon which seems to consist of an unfortunate interaction between R-1.7.0 and netscape version 7. When I invoke help.start(), a netscape window duly appears with the browser pointed at the file .../R/doc/html/index.html as one would hope and expect. However if I then ask for help on a function, e.g. > help(glm) the help does NOT get displayed

I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file into R using RODBC. I have obtained and installed ODBC and the RODBC package, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about it. Can anyone give me a simple recipe? I have an excel file on cdrom, say: /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls I have started R and loaded

Continuing to try to customize my environment for using R under Windoze, I experimented with installing a package from CRAN in a local library ``Lib''. I created the directory ``Lib'' in the folder in which R starts, and then executed > install.packages("abind",lib="Lib") Everything went according to form (I got prompted to choose a mirror, etc.) until