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Since I had too much junk cluttering my computer, I recently re-set it back to factory settings, in the process eliminating R. I now have to reload R and packages, and would like to do that via the install.views command. I have successfully downloaded the package "ctv" but R does not recognize install.views. What am I doing wrong? I am using R 2.4.0. Pierre D'Ange. "To

Hello, I am just beginning to use R, after several years of using S-Plus (with mixed success). I saw a recommendation on another mailing list for the Environmetrics and Spatial Task Views, as a good way for a new user to get started actually using R. The Task Views page at CRAN says: "To automatically install these views, the ctv package needs to be installed, e.g., via

Dear developeRs, in the last month I mentioned in several discussions on R-help that Kurt and I were working on tools for "CRAN Task Views" which should help to structure the fast-growing list of packages on CRAN. Now the first version of a package called ctv (for CRAN Task Views) is available from CRAN and also two frist drafts for such views can be seen at

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

Cran task views seems to be a "once-per-session" process -- the first attempt to access views in a (RGui for Windows) session works, but subsequent attempts fail. There is a noticeably long pause before the failing call returns. Example session with two calls to "available.views" follows, but similar effects have been observed with two calls to "install.views" and

I am getting several errors about Windows only packages when I use task views. Is this suppose to be a Windows-centric utility? Also, I am sure there must be a simple way to tell which packages are in a view, but I haven't found it. If there isn't, it would be nice to have. Paul Gilbert _______ install.views(c( "Multivariate", "Econometrics", "Finance",

Dear all, Wouldn't it be helpful if the install.views install.packages update.packages had a "downloadonly=TRUE" flag which would allow us to download the packages and install them later (or put them in a USB stick and take them for installation on anothe PC). I am behind a firewall (Bank) and I have serious plroblem updating R or installing views (Finance, Econometrics etc.

Hi, I am currently looking for a program or programmng language easy to learn, easier to operate on.I heva heard about "R", However I understand that "R" is designed especially for statisticians. As an economist, working on applied econometrics, I am not sure if it can meet my needs. Will I be able to reach precise time series or panal data regression results with

Perhaps someone will have a solution to my more general problem, but here is the specific one: I used the round() function to round some estimates to 3 decimal places. I then sent put the rounded estimates in a matrix and used latex() to make a LaTeX table from them. However, in my table, there are estimtes which only have 2 decimal places. I assume that the third decimal place in these numbers

Dear R users, I am trying to become a convert to R (from Stata), and I'm having some growing pains. Is there anyone would be willing to answer a few basic questions I have? Of course I am using the relevant help guides... Thanks, Brian Quinif ps. If there is anyone at UGA on this list, I'd love to hear from someone local.

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?

Hi all, Please recommend good books for the following three categories. (I am aim at finance, macroeconomics, trading and business applications). (1) statistical (financial) data analysis; (2) time series; (3) econometrics. More specifically, I am looking for the following two types of books: (1) Books that provide big pictures and intuitions and books that connect dots... For example, there

I am using R for Unix and want to make some LaTeX tables. I have already played around in R for Windows and have succeeded in making tables that I want using the following code: latex(Estimates, file='out.tex', rowlabel='',digits=3) However, when I use this code in Unix, I can never find the file "out.tex". I assumed that R would send the file to whatever directory I

Dear Willem, Personally, I use the R-forge project for the distribution CTV : https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ctv/ It?s an alternative option to github. Regards, Christophe --------------------------------------- Christophe Dutang LMM, UdM, Le Mans, France web: http://dutangc.free.fr Le 23 janv. 2015 ? 12:49, Luca Braglia <lbraglia at gmail.com> a ?crit : > Hi Willem >

Hi Sir When I use install.packages("cvt') for installing packages using R 2.9.2 I have the following problem > install.packages("ctv") Warning in install.packages("ctv") : argument 'lib' is missing: using 'C:\Users\Amina\Documents/R/win-library/2.9' --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL

Dear Sir I am facing the following problems in installing packages. Would you please help in this regards? >install.packages("ctv") Warning in install.packages("ctv") : 'lib = "C:/PROGRA~2/R/R-210~1.1/library"' is not writable --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: unable to access index for repository

CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and maintain because the XML format is rather limited (no sectioning) and the <packagelist> must be maintained manually. They are also difficult to read because the generated html and .css used are extremely basic, giving an overly dense page. Are there any markdown-like tools for writing a CTV? Is it possible to apply a

Consider this: > y <- matrix(1:8, ncol=2) > is.matrix(y[-c(1,2),]) [1] TRUE > is.matrix(y[-c(1,2,3),]) [1] FALSE > is.matrix(y[-c(1,2,3,4),]) [1] TRUE It seems like an inconsistent behaviour: - with 2 or more rows we have a matrix - with 1 row we do not have a matrix and - with 0 rows we have a matrix again I just stumbled on this behaviour, because I had a problem with my

Hi all, Sorry if this doesn't end up in the thread. Tobias Verbeke forwarded that e-mail to me, because he thought I would be interested in maintaining the Programming Tools CTV. I wasn't subscribed to R-devel yet, but I would indeed like to volunteer to maintain the Programming Tools CTV. It will be my first time creating a CTV, so some guidance on getting it setup will be appreciated.

Folks, I am using R 2.1.1 on Apple OS X 10.3. Earlier, I used to say $ sudo R > update.packages() and all the packages used to get installed. For several weeks, I noticed that nothing has been coming through. I used the R-for-Mac graphics console and I find that there are many packages where new versions have come out which I don't have. Is something wrong with update.packages()? I