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I R-helpers #I have a data panel of thousands of firms, by year and industry and #one dummy variable that separates the firms in two categories: 1 if the firm have an auditor; 0 if not #and another variable the represents the firm dimension (total assets in thousand of euros) #I need to create two separated samples with the same number os firms where #one firm in the first have a corresponding

Hi R-helpers, My real data is a panel (unbalanced and with gaps in years) of thousands of firms, by year and industry, and with financial information (variables X, Y, Z, for example), the number of firms by year and industry is not always equal, the number of years by industry is not always equal. #reproducible example firm1<-sort(rep(1:10,5),decreasing=F) year1<-rep(2000:2004,10)

Hi! Sorry for asking a trivial questions, but I can't seem to figure this out. I have a dataframe called master containing 30-odd variables. In this dataframe, I have observations across these 30 variables from 1930 to 2003 (I've made a "year" variable). How can I drop all rows for which the year is less than 1960? I'm assuming something with ifelse() but I can't

Dear R-Help group: I have been tinkering with how I want my personal standard library functions to look like. They are not designed to be professional and heavyweight, but lightweight. There are probably dozens of little bugs, because I don't know or have not properly taken care of a variety of internal R code issues. still, I like how this ended up, and there is no learning curve, so I

Hi! I have a dataset of properties that are owned by different firms, each firm owning multiple properties. I am running a regression of holding period (how long a property was held in a firm's portfolio) on the left, and a bunch of factors on the right. When calculating standard errors, I would like to cluster my disturbance terms by firm. Any ideas on how to do this? I'm guessing

Hi, everyone! Is there a function to do single-variable GARCH in R? If yes, what library is it in? Thanks! Toby -- ************************************************************************** When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to have failed so many times. He said "I never failed once. I

Is there a proper function for transforming a character to a number instead of using i=match('c',letters) # 3 Thanks. Josef Eschgf??ller -- Josef Eschgf??ller Dipartimento Matematico Universita' di Ferrara http://felix.unife.it

Hi all, Quick question for STI. With the following setup: class Company < AR::Base; end class Firm < Company; end Why does Firm.find(:all) return all Companies, not just those that have type==''Firm''? -- Alex

I have a dataframe with many firm-year observations and many variables. Not all firms have information for all the years. I want another dataframe with only those firms that have information all years. This is, I want a balanced panel data, but with the maximum number of years. In my reprocucible example I want to keep firms 1,2 and 3 (period 2000 to 2004). I need your help to create a

Can someone give me an idea of the processor power I will need for 1 x TDM240 with 2xquad FXO's and 8 sip phones/ATA's on a quite 100Mbit LAN. The machine we have available of hand is a P4 1GHz with 768MB RAM. Tx Marnus van Niekerk -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison - Inventor of 1093

I need help in subseting a dataframe: data1<-data.frame(year=c(2001,2002,2003,2004,2001,2002,2003,2004, 2001,2002,2003,2004,2001,2002,2003,2004), firm=c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4),x=c(11,22,-32,25,-26,47,85,98, 101,14,87,56,12,43,67,54), y=c(110,220,302,250,260,470,850,980,1010,140,870,560,120,430,670,540)) data1 I want to keep the firms where all x>0 (where there are

Hi everyone! Thank you for the help you have been given to me, and here I'm with another problem with my dataframes: I have two dataframes (with much more observations), like these: Dataframe1 Firm Year cash 500400200 2007 100 500400200 2006 200 500400200 2005 400 500400300 2007 300 500400300 2006 240 500400300 2005 120 500400400

I have an elementary programming question. Could someone please point me in the right direction? I have a function which will run for thousands of companies. At each invocation, it returns 2 numbers. I plan to do something like: think_one_firm <- function(filename) { # Do stuff return(list(x=x,y=y)) } So for each of the firms in my dataset, I will call

Dear R-user, a few weeks ago I consulted the list-serve with a similar question. However, my task changed a little but sufficiently to get lost again. So I would appreciate any help on the following issue. I use the plm package and work with firm-level data in a panel. I would like to eliminate all firms that do not fulfill the requirement of having an observation in every variable used for at

Folks, I am holding a dataset where firms are observed for a fixed (and small) set of years. The data is in "long" format - one record for one firm for one point in time. A state variable is observed (a factor). I wish to make a markov transition matrix about the time-series evolution of that state variable. The code below does this. But it's hardcoded to the specific years that I

dear R wizards:? I am wrestling with reshape.? I have a long data set that I want to convert into a wide data set, in which rows are firms and columns are years. > summary(rin) firm fyear sim1 Min. :1004.00 Min. :1964.0 Min. : -1.00000 1st Qu.:1010.00 1st Qu.:1979.0 1st Qu.: -0.14334 Median :1016.00 Median :1986.0 Median : 0.00116 Mean

Folks, I have a situation with many firms, observed for many years (but it's not panel data, so every now and then data for a firm just goes missing). Let me show you an example. There are 3 firms "a", "b" and "c". There are 3 years: 1981, 1982 and 1983. There's a factor f which takes values 1, 2 or 3. set.seed(5) D = data.frame( names=c("a",

I am trying to define a large number of variables through a loop construct. I have my loop variable i being cycled through 1:100 and I would like the variables produced by this to be called vi (i.e. v1 v2 v3 etc) so, for example I'm going: for(i in 1:100) { <blank> <- a[i:N] # or whatever else you want to put on the right side } where N is previously defined. What goes in

Hi, I have recently use the strucchange package in R with a single time series observation. I found it extremely useful in the testing of change points. Now, I am thinking of using the strucchange package with panel data (about 500 firms, with 73 monthly time series observations each). For each firm, I have to conduct the Fstats and breakpoints tests. Based on the test of each firm, I have to

Taking the Grunfeld data, which is built-in in R, for example, (1)How can I construct a dataset (or dataframe) that consists of the data of all firms in 1951? (2)How can I calculate the average capital in each form over the period 1951-1954? What I can imagine is to categorize the data by firm, and then select the data between 1951 and 1954 for each firm, but how can I do it? Thanks, Miao