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Windows 7 (local computer) Windows server (server I am trying to reach) I need to read a file whose windows path is of the form \\Theserver\mydirectory\data.csv You will note that as per windows standards the server name is preceded by two backslashes. I am not sure how to specify this in R. One usually needs to specify an escape characters in a path new which would suggest my path should

Can anyone suggest a good non-parametric test, and an R implementation of the test, that allows for two or more factors? Wilcoxon signed rank allows for only one. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of

Windows Vista R 2.9.1 When trying to install Rcmdr I get the message shown below. What does it mean, do I need to do anything? The downloaded packages are in C:\Users\John Sorkin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpRCLbhe\downloaded_packages updating HTML package descriptions Warning message: In file.create(f.tg) : cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-29~1.1/doc/html/packages.html', reason

R 2.1.1 Win 2k Would someone suggest a method (or methods) that can be used to determine ntile cutpoints of a vector, i.e. to determine values that can be used to divide a vector into thirds such as 0-33 centile, 34-66 centile, 67-100 centile. If for example I had a vector: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and wanted to divide the vector into thirds I would have cut-points of 3, and 6. Thanks, John John

Can someone tell me why apply (and apply) are faster in performing repeated operations than a for (or do) loop? I am looking for a technical explanation. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology

I want to place four plots on a page, and I would like to have all four plots share a common title. I have tried the following code, but the title is centered over the fourth graph and not centered across all four plots. Does anyone have any suggestions? R 2.1.1 windows xp oldpar<-par(mfcol =c(1,4),ask=TRUE) plot(p,varp) plot(p,SEp) plot(p,CVp) plot(p,ppval) title(paste("P and 95%CI

Is there an R function that can be used to calculate a sample size for a linear regression: i.e. Given a linear regression: y=f(x,z) i.e. fit1<-lm(y~x+z) is there a function which can be passed coef(z), SE(z), and other parameters to determine a sample size based on z, SEz and other information from the regression? Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics

I am using read.csv to read a CSV file (produced by saving an Excel file as a CSV file). The columns containing dates are being read as factors. Because of this, I can not compute follow-up time, i.e. Followup<-postDate-preDate. I would appreciate any suggestion that would help me read the dates as dates and thus allow me to calculate follow-up time. Thanks John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief,

R 2.7.2 Windows XP I am using apply to compute a series of Student's t-test from two matrices, sample1 and sample2. boo<-apply(sample1,1,t.test,sample2) I want to pick of the p-values from the tests, but can't seem to get it to work. I have tried several methods to get the values including: boo<-apply(sample1,1,t.test$t.test,sample2) boo<-apply(sample1,1,t.test,sample2)$t.test

I think I am doing something wrong when I try to bootstrap R square obtained from lm. My code is included below. No matter how many times I run the simulation, I always get exactly the same result, the bias and std.error are always zero. I would think that these values should be non-zero. I would appreciate any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong, or perhaps what I fail to understand. R 2.1.0

At the suggestion of many people, I have installed emacs on my linux (Fedora 8.0) computer with the intention of using emacs as window interface to R (2.6.0). I have gone though the emacs tutorial and don't see any information about how I should use emacs to run R. Can anyone suggest a document that I might read? In the past I have used R on a Windows XP system and used the built-in windowing

I am having trouble selecting rows of a dataframe that will be included in a regression. I am trying to select those rows for which the variable Meno equals PRE. I have used the code below: difffitPre<-lm(data[,"diff"]~data[,"Age"]+data[,"Race"],data=data[data[,"Meno"]=="PRE",]) summary(difffitPre) The output from the summary indicates that

R 2.3.1 Windows XP Question: How can I obtain the values of BIAS and STD. ERROR from a bootstrap. Background: I am running a bootstrap: result2<-boot(1:400,regSEvssample,R=5000) and obtain the following results: Bootstrap Statistics : original bias std. error t1* 1.876602 -0.0001368616 0.1630380 I would like to get the values of ORIGINAL and BIAS. I can get the value of

Is there any way to load a package using R code rather than the Load Package command in the Package menu? I would like to load the boot package. R.2.1.0 Patched Win 2k. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of

I am having trouble with apply. Could someone suggest changes to the code below that will eliminate the for loops? R 2.1.1 patched Windows 2k Thanks, John function () { NaCon<-array(dim=c(10,10)) for (i in 1:10) {NaCon[i,]<-rnorm(10,10.77,0.02)} MeanNaCon<-vector(mode="numeric",length=10) for (j in 1:10) {MeanNaCon[j]<-mean(NaCon[j,1:10])} print(MeanNaCon)

I am trying to fit lme using R 2.1.1 under Windows 2k. I am getting the following message noted below. Any suggestions that would help me correct my error would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John > fit1lme<-lme(Velocity~time,data=gate) Error in getGroups.data.frame(dataMix, groups) : Invalid formula for groups John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics

Given a square matrix of variables X, is there any way to compute a multivariable correlation among all the variables in the array? It is possible to calculate the correlation of all pairs of variables in the array, but I want to know the correlation of all the variables taken together, i.e. for the matrix X=x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 I don't want the pair-wise correlations

Fellow Rers, Please forgive me if I have posted this to the wrong R list serve. Over the course of the years that I have used R and participated in this list server, I have noted a large number of questions and answers that direct people to specific packages. The multitude of packages is one of the great strengths of R. Unfortunately there is no (or at least I am not aware of) any single source

Fedora 10 R 2.8.1 I hope someone can tell me the meaning of error I received trying to install RODBC and how I can get around the problem. n.b. The error originally occurred then I was installing Rcmdr. I then tried to install RODBC separately and received the same error. checking sql.h usability... no checking sql.h presence... no checking for sql.h... no checking sqlext.h usability... no

R 2.1.1 on Windows 2K I hope one and all will allow both an R question and a general stats question: (1) Is there any function that will perform non-parametric tests such as a sign test or a signed rank test? I know I could program both but I would prefer not re-inventing the wheel. (2) When performing a sign test, the usual practice is to drop zero values. Is there any theoretical reason