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Dear helpeRs, a colleague of mine would like to give R a try. He uses econometric models which typically involve a large number of variables, esp. time series. Having no experience with handling very large data sets myself I turn to you. 1. Could you please describe your experiences to cope with these situations? 2. What kind of difficulties will he have to face? Are there special

Dear HelpeRs, I wonder if anyone knows of ways to read EViews file types. I did not find a function in the package 'foreign' and a search query submitted to http://search.r-project.org was not successful. Any hint is very much welcome. Dietrich Trenkler -- Dietrich Trenkler c/o Universitaet Osnabrueck Rolandstr. 8; D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany email: Dietrich.Trenkler at

Maybe I do not explain well what I would like to do. I do not want to change the labels of the axis, but the scale. What I want is a general procedure for changing the scale. Its like using a logarithmic scale on a plot. Labels are the same, but the increases of x along the x-axis are defined by a known monotone and continuous function. Florent Bresson ----- Message d'origine ---- De :

Dear HelpeRs, I'm very fond of Sweave and I use it as often as possible. It'a a pity I can't use it for larger projects or can I? For instance suppose I have three files file1.rnw, file2.rnw and file3.rnw with Sweave code. Working on file2.rnw I whould like to exclude file1.rnw and file3.rnw temporarily and joining all of them later. This amounts to a mechanism similar to using

Hallo HelpeRs, I try to reconstruct some results from an econometric text book (Heij et al. (2004), pp. 218-20). For the data > x <- structure(list(q1 = c(345, 331, 320, 314, 299, 395, 415, 490, 547, 656, 628, 627), d1 = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.05, 1.05, 1.05, 1.15, 1.15, 1.15)), .Names = c("q1", "d1"), row.names = as.integer(c(NA, 12)), class =

Thanks, I tried someting like this, but computation takes times for large matrices btransf <- function(y,X=length(y)^4) { N <- length(y) bm <- matrix(rep(1/N,N^2),N,N) for(j in 1:X){ coord <- sample(1:N,4,replace=T) d <- runif(1,0,min(bm[coord[1],coord[2]],bm[coord[3],coord[4]]))

Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to insert LaTeX typesetting in R output. I want to obtain a graph with LaTeX label in order to incorporate it as postscript or pdf, x<-seq(0,1,length=100) y<-x*x plot(x,y,xlab="$X$",ylab="$X^2$")

Hi, I'm doing kolmogorv-smirnov test but I don't know what conclusions to take, I want to know if my data has a normal distribution: > ks.test(dados1,"pnorm") One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test data: dados1 D = 0.972, p-value < 2.2e-16 alternative hypothesis: two-sided Warning message: cannot compute correct p-values with ties in: ks.test(dados1,

Dear R-community, not to re-invent the wheel I wonder if someone of you has ever written a function to compute the GHK smooth recursive simulator to estimate multivariate normal probabilities. See for instance page 194 of @BOOK{Greene97, author = {William H. Greene}, year = 1997, title = {Econometric Analysis}, edition = {3rd}, publisher = {Prentice-Hall}, address = {New Jersey

I wonder if something like this has been reported before: > pexp(85:86,0.438) [1] 1 -Inf --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status = major = 1 minor = 5.0 year = 2002 month = 04 day = 29 language = R Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6 Search Path: .GlobalEnv,

I have to estimate the following model for several group of observations : y(1-y) = p[1]*(x^2-y) + p[2]*y*(x-1) + p[3]*(x-y) with constraints : p[1]+p[3] >= 1 p[1]+p[2]+p[3]+1 >= 0 p[3] >= 0 I use the following code : func <- sum((y(1-y) - p[1]*(x^2-y) + p[2]*y*(x-1) + p[3]*(x-y))^2) estim <- optim( c(1,0,0),func, method="L-BFGS-B" , lower=c(1-p[3], -p[1]-p[3]-1,

Yes, you're right. In fact, it's just an adaptation of a matlab command and the author advises using N^4 replications that's why it's the default in the function. The bistochastic matrix is not my subject of interest, but I need it to perform some random tranformation of a vector of incomes. Florent Bresson ----- Message d'origine ---- De : Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at

Dear R-users, I would like to apply a function (more precisely sd()) over the third dimension of a three-dimension array. The function apply would be interesting but the chosen function can only be applied on the rows and columns of the array according to the help file. I can use a loop to cut the array in matrices and then use apply for each replication, but it's not very nice. A small

Hello What is the appropriate method to test if a given distribution is a weibull thank you meriema email meriema.belaidouni at int-evry.fr

I have defined a function to compute the value of a beta distribution of the second kind (the existing beta distribution of th stats package is the beta distribution of the first kind). It works perfectly for a single value, but I want to apply it to a vector of 22 000 values. I can use a loop for the calculation of each value but it runs very very slowly. So, what can I change ? Hers's the

Dear All, I know how to export graphics as pdf files and then how to include them in LaTeX documents. However, I do not know how to do in order to have the text of the graphics written with the font selected for the LaTeX document. Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Paul

Please, I would like to generate a random bistochastic matrix, that is a squared matrix of non-negative numbers with each row and each column sum to 1, for example : .2 .3 .5 .6 .3 .1 .2 .4 .4 I don't know of to code this. Do you have any idea ? Thanks Florent Bresson ___________________________________________________________________________ Demandez ?

I would like to buy a basic statistics book (experimental design, sampling, ANOVA, regression, etc.) with examples in R. Or download it in PDF or html format. I went to the CRAN contributed documentation, but there were only R textbooks, that is, textbooks where R is the focus, not the statistics. And I would like to find the opposite. Other text I am trying to find is multivariate data

I' m trying to compute weighted mean on different groups but it only returns NA. If I use the following data.frame truc: x y w 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 4 2 0 2 1 0 3 2 0 4 1 0 5 1 where x is a factor, and then use the command : tapply(truc$y,list(truc$x),wtd.mean, weights=truc$w) I just get NA. What's the problem ? What can I do ?

I have some data which I would like to display with dotchart. The labels are very long, so the chart becomes too small. Setting cex=0.7 seems to be a good compromise, but the gap between the text and the chart still is too large. I did not find a "gap" parameter in the description of dotchart... Thanks for any help. D. Trenkler "a" <- structure(c(103.35, 36.73, 55.09,