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hi all can anyone tell me what is head() function in r. what is it's utility? thanks in advance --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

dear R group: I have the probably fairly common problem that I would like to have one code.R file do different things if it is invoked from a symbolic link, which should be easy to uncover. $ ln -s code.R code-0.R $ ln -s code.R code-1.R $ R CMD BATCH code-1.R what needs to be in code-1.R to put code-1.r into a character vector? help appreciated. regards, /ivo welch PS : I read

Do you know of a reference that discusses alternative choices for plotting positions for a normal probability plot? The documentation for qqnorm says it calls ppoints, which returns qnorm((1:m-a)/(m+1-2*a)) with "a" = ifelse(n<=10, 3/8, 1/2)? The help pages for qqnorm and ppoints just refer to Becker, Chambers and Wilks (1988) The New S Language (Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole),

Hey, R-listers I want to get some statistical books on Cumulants for studying. So will you please give me some suggestions on these related books? Thanks for your point. Fred

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 have a dataset with 4 years of students, and normally I want to estimate things using each individual year, so I have a for loop as follows for (i in 1:4){} However, the only way I know how to calculate estimates using all four years of data is to put the estimations outside of the loop. Is there anyway to make a for loop that uses all four years at once, then uses each individual year?

Delving into the murky world of dates and times I found this: dates <- c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92", "02/28/92", "02/01/92") > times <- c("23:03:20", "22:29:56", "01:03:30", "18:21:03", "16:56:26") > x <- paste(dates, times) > z <- strptime(x, "%m/%d/%y

Subject: Eliminate repeated components from a vector X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: fjmolina at lbl.gov FCC: /home/f/.xemacs/mail/sent Does anyone know how I can eliminate repeated elements from a vector?

Hello, I have a dataframe with 9 columns, and I would like to sort (order) the right-most eight of them alphabetiaclly, i.e.: ID1 ID2 F G A B C E D would become ID1 ID2 A B C D E F G Right now, I'm using this code: attach(data) data<-data.frame(ID1,ID2,data[,sort(colnames(data)[3:9])]) detach(data) but that's not very elegant. Ideally I could specify which columns to sort and

I am having trouble with try and tryCatch. I have read the documentation but I just don't get it. Here is what I am trying to do. I am testing a function which has a number of parameters. I want to test it for different values of the parameters and I have some loops, in the middle of which is a test of the function. Sometimes the routine fails and so I have put the bit that might fail

I can't figure out the syntax I need to get subset to work. I'm trying to split my dataframe into two parts. I'm sure this is a simple issue, but I'm stumped. I either get all or none of the original "rows". > XTTable <- xtabs( ~ direction_ , SurveyData) > XTTable direction_ EASTBOUND

Hi everyone, I need help. I want to have a "uniform" kind distribution. When I used sample function I got almost twice many zeros compared to other numbers. What's wrong with my command ? temp <-sample(0:12, 2000, replace=T,prob=(rep(1/13,13))) hist(temp) Thanks in advance, Taka,

I am aware of one (unofficial) guide to style for R programming: http://www1.maths.lth.se/help/R/RCC/ from Henrik Bengtsson. Can anyone provide further pointers to good style? Views on Bengtsson's ideas would interest me as well. David Scott _________________________________________________________________ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland,

This is really a query about MySQL which I am trying to use to set up a database which I will then access with RODBC. I have my data in a .csv file, and some of the fields are date/time fields. I tried to create a table using mysql with the definition of the date/time field given by CallDate DATETIME, but I got an error saying that the first row has 28/07/2006 0:00 in that field. What I

Hello R-users, I need to create a vector inserting an 1 after each value of another vector. For example: vec1<-c(2,3,4) I need to create a vector with the values 2,1,3,1,4 Does anyone know how create this vector without loops (vec1 could have 1000 elements) Thank you, Juan -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read

Thanks to the help of many on this list, I am now an R user and have been able to write some functioning code to do matching estimation. I have two for loops (i in 1:3, and j in 0:2). Within the loops, I had been creating matrices of relevant estimation coefficents in order to make lots of LaTeX tables. Well, now I want to be able to combine the results of many different estimations from within

I want to do some recoding of variables: code Age into groups and recode a factor into a smaller number of levels. There are a couple of options for recode functions, in the car package and in memisc, and I think in gmisc. Does anyone have any opinions on the the easiest, most reliable approach for these problems? David Scott _________________________________________________________________

I am looking for a recommendation for an open source competitor to Winzip. I seem to recall Brian Ripley mentioning one in the last year or so, but couldn't find it in the mail archives. (Searching on Ripley there is somehow not terribly useful.) Suggestions? David Scott _________________________________________________________________ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus

I am having trouble with creating a POSIXct object. If I create a variable of class Date first out of the date part of my data, I am ok, but if I just paste the date and time parts together and try and create the POSIXct object, I have problems. Here is a toy example created from the actual data which caused the problem. I am using R 2.0.1 on Windows XP. > # Data frame with dates and

I have just got a new machine and had a basic cygwin installed before it was given to me. It didn't include make. Previously I have installed Rtools to build packages and now I have got myself a bit confused as to whether to just install make from the cygwin packages or to install rtools. I would welcome any advice. I had a look at the rtools section in the Administration Manual and the