similar to: time series clustering

Dear listers: Here I have a question on clustering methods available in R. I am trying to down-sampling the majority class in a classification problem on an imbalanced dataset. Since I don't want to lose information in the original dataset, I don't want to use naive down-sampling: I think using clustering on the majority class' side to select "representative" samples might

Dear listers, a little off-topic: I am looking for and compare algorithms which can calculate "distance" or "similarity" between two gene lists with different lengths. Any paper, any implementation in R and any suggestion is welcome! Thanks, -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..."

Dear Listers: For example, if I have a .R source file which has more than one function, and I want to just load only one of the functions, how could I do that? (removing the rest after sourcing is not what I intend b/c in my workspace, I might have some of the rest and I don't want to change my workspace: i.e., I only change my workspace by adding one function from a R source file). Thanks,

hi, is there some good summary on clustering methods in R? It seems there are many packages involving it. And I have two questions on clustering here: 1. Is there a way of evaluate the effecitives (or seperation) of clustering (rather than by visualization)? 2. Is there a search method (like genetic search) which can help find the best subset of attributes which gives best seperation? Thanks,

Dear Listers: I have a question on loading objects from workspace: suppose I have two workspaces for two approaches. My old workspace has some objects I need for the new workspace but I don't want to load the whole old workspace and remove most of the old objects and get what I want. Is there an easier way to do like this: load "some needed obj" from old workspace, which has been

Dear Listers: I have this task and suppose a0 is a list of 10 data.frames, I want to calculate like this > (a0[[1]]+a0[[2]]+..+a[[10]])/10 Thanks. -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

Dear Listers: I have a couple of data frames to report and each corresponds to different condtions, e.g. conditions=c(10, 15, 20, 25). In this examples, four data frames need to be exported in a "pretty" report. I knew Perl has some module for exporting data to Excel and after googling, I found R does not. So I am wondering if there is a package in R for generating good reports. I

Dear listers: I have an idea to do the outlier detection and I need to use R to implement it first. Here I hope I can get some input from all the guru's here. I select distance-based approach--- step 1: calculate the distance of any two rows for a dataframe. considering the scaling among different variables, I choose mahalanobis, using variance as scaler. step 2: Let k be the number of

Dear Listers: I have a question on handling large dataset. I searched R-Search and I hope I can get more information as to my specific case. First, my dataset has 1.7 billion observations and 350 variables, among which, 300 are float and 50 are integers. My system has 8 G memory, 64bit CPU, linux box. (currently, we don't plan to buy more memory). > R.version _ platform

Dear Listers: I used cronbach{psy} to evaluate the internal consistency and some set of variables gave me alpha=-1.1003, while other, alpha=-0.2; alpha=0.89; and so on. I am interested in knowing how to interpret 1. negative value 2. negative value less than -1. I also want to re-mention my previous question about how to evaluate the consistency of a set of variables and about the total

Hi, I am using dlda algorithm from supclust package and I am wondering if the output can be a continuous probability instead of discrete class label (zero or one) since it puts some restriction on convariance matrix, compared with lda, while the latter can. thanks, -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..."

Hi there, I need a network builder and it can change the node size and color; I am not sure if network package in R can do this or not. The other functions I wanted have been found in that package. BTW, if there is another package in R relating to this, please suggest too. Thanks, Weiwei -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I

Hi, there: I am wondering if there is a quick way to "reverse" a list like this: t0 <- list(a=1, b=1, c=2, d=1) reverst t0 to t1 > t1 $`1` [1] "a" "b" "d" $`2` [1] "c" thanks. -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

Hi, I searched the archives and did not find a good solution to that. assume I have 10 sets and I want to have the common character elements of them. how could i do that? -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

hi, if I have 20 x 3 data.frame, how to split it into 10 x 6 (moving the lower part of 10x3 to column) or 5 x 12 thanks -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

Hi, there: Assume I have a dataframe with rownames like A with rownames like a to e, > A [,1] [,2] a 1 6 b 2 7 c 3 8 d 4 9 e 5 10 when I use A[1,], I lost the rowname for it, like below. How could I keep it? Is there an easy way instead that I have to modify by myself after I used A[1,] manually. > A[1,] [1] 1 6 Thanks, W. -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research

Hi, I am wondering how to make a function Fun to make the following work: t0 <- (paste("hgu133a", "ENTREZID", sep="")) xx <- as.list(Fun(t0)) # make it work like xx<-as.list(hgu133aENTREZID) thanks, -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

Hi, I just get a question (sorry if it is a dumb one) and I "phase" my question in the following R codes: group1<-rnorm(n=50, mean=0, sd=1) group2<-rnorm(n=20, mean=1, sd=1.5) group3<-c(group1,group2) Now, if I am given a dataset from group3, what method (discriminant analysis, clustering, maybe) is the best to cluster them by using R. The known info includes: 2 clusters,

Hi, I have a question on read.table. I have a dataset with 273,000 lines and 195 columns. I used the read.table to load the data into R: trn<-read.table('train1.dat', header=F, sep='|', na.strings='.') I found it takes forever. then I run 1/10 of the data (test) using read.table again. And this time it finished quickly. So, there might be something wrong in my data

Hi, there: I spent some time on this but I think I really cannot figure it out, maybe I missed something here: my data looks like this: > dim(trn3) [1] 7361 209 > dim(val3) [1] 7427 209 > mg.rf2<-randomForest(x=trn3[,1:208], y=trn3[,209], data=trn3, xtest=val3[, 1:208], ytest=val3[,209], importance=T) my test data has 7427 observations but after prediction, > dim(mg.rf2$votes)