similar to: strange use of sapply

hi everyone : i'm not sure if my previous mail about this got sent. i was typing and erroneosuyl hit a button and lost what i was typing. anyway, i have the code below ( it works ) in which i run through the rows of a dataframe, taking out the first two fields which are characters strings ( with some extra spacing so i yuse gsub) and appending these character strings to a list so that i can

Dear useRs I am looking for a way to randomise the values within a matrix: the conditions are that the sums of the rows and the sums of the columns should remain the same as in the original matrix. Any help would be appreciated Cheers Yann

hi everyone : suppose i have a matrix in which some column names are identical so, for example, TEMP "AAA", "BBB", "CCC", "DDD","AAA", "BBB" 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 3 7 6 0 1 1.5 4 9 9 6 0 1.0 6 10 11 3 3 I didn't even check yet

Hi : I think I need to use sapply but I can't figure this out. Suppose I have two vectors : tempa ( 4, 6,10 ) and tempb ( 11,23 ,39 ) I want a function that returns 4:11,6:23 and 10:39 as vectors. I tried : sapply(1:length(tempa) function (z) seq(tempa[z],tempb[z]) but i got 3 really strange vectors back in the sense that the numbers in them did not make no sense to me. obviously, i

Hi Everyone: I've been going through Alan Lenarcic's package tutorial but when I did R CMD SHLIB Xdemo.cc Xdemo_main.cc -o Xdemo.dll I got the following error: XDemo_res.rc:15:38: warning: missing terminating " character XDemo_res.rc:23:34: warning: missing terminating ' character c:\mark\research\Rtools\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: XDemo_res.rc:16: syntax error

If I have the string below. does someone know a regular expression to just get the "BLC.NYSE". I bought the O'Reilley book and read it when I can and I study the solutions on the list but I'm still not self sufficient with these things. Thanks. stock<-"/opt/limsrv/mark/research/equity/projects/testDL/stock_data/fhdb/US/BLC.NYSE"

I have a question related to scoping. Suppose we have 2 functions: f1 = function(i){i = 1} f2 = function(n){ i = length(n) f1(i) } In other words, I would like i=1 regardless of n. Is this possible without having f1 in the body of f2? Thanks in advance!

Dear all, I'm trying to process a log file which logs the date, the username and the computer number accessed. The table looks like this: >table.users          Date UserName Machine 1  2008-11-25     John     641 2  2008-11-25    Clive     611 3  2008-11-25   Jeremy     641 4  2008-11-25     Walt     722 5  2008-11-25     Tony     645 6  2008-11-26     Tony     645 7  2008-11-26    

i have two vectors of numbers x and y and of course i can do the standard scatterplot plot(x,y) and it looks fine. But, I was hoping there was a way to do the scatterplot so that each point plotted is a number where the number represents the index in the dataset. so, if it was x[3] and y[3], then the point would be a 3 or if it was x[4] and y[4], then the point would be a 4 etc. i doubt this is

in my previous post in which i asked about creating sequences from two vectors of numbers, all suggestions worked. tradevectors<-mapply(seq,from=tempa,to=tempb) or tradevectors<-sapply(1:length(tempa),function(x) seq(tempa[x],tempb[x]) >both return a list with 3 components. the problem is that i want to take these 3 sequences and use them as the indices of two other vectors, X and

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>From: markleeds at verizon.net >Date: Thu Jul 06 13:16:42 CDT 2006 >To: markleeds at verizon.net >Subject: as.data.frame question >hi all : as a result of an lapply command, >i get the following output. > > >$AAA > 000106 000107 000108 > 5.5 6.5 3.0 > >$BBB > 000106 000107 000108 > 4 5 6 > >$CCC

Hello, I'm trying to superimpose a line plot onto a histogram but I'm not having any luck. I've attached the dataset. What I did was: > hist(data,freq=F) Now I'm trying to superimpose the following points with a line connecting them onto the histogram: x y 100 0.535665393824959 200 0.212744329736556 300 0.0844933242968584 400 0.0335572838043417 500

I'm sure there is a more general way to ask this question but how do you use the elements of a character vector as names of objects in an expression? For example, say you have: a = c(1,3,5,7) b = c(2,4,6,8) n=c("a","b") and you want to use the names a and b in a function (e.g. sum) sum(eval(as.name(n[1])),eval(as.name(n[2]))) works but what is a simpler way to

i'm sorry. i had an error in my previous code because i left out a letter in the rownames. while fixing that, i also found a solution. so i'm sorry for the confusion. below is my fix. temp2 <- matrix(rnorm(10),nc=1,nrow=10) rownames(temp2) <-

Hi: Here's my revised attempt at explaining my problem. Hopefully it won't get sent out weirdly like it did earlier. ? The link to what I'm trying to follow is http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/AlanRPackageTutorial.pdf ? I've been going through the tutorial but when I got to page 9 and did R CMD SHLIB Xdemo.cc Xdemo_main.cc -o Xdemo.dll I got

I have strings of the form TICKER.GGG.XXXXXX.dat but GGG is not always three characters so I can't use substr to pull it out of the string. Could someone tell me how to use sub to pull out the GGG but more generally the string between the dot after the R in TICKER and the next dot. I still don't have a very good understanding of regular expressions but I'm trying to get that

can someone show me how to use a regular expression to break the string at the bottom up into its three components : (-0.791,-0.263] (-38,-1.24] (0.96,2.43] I tried to use strplit because of my regexpitis ( it's not curable. i've been to many doctors all over NYC. they tell me there's no cure ) but it doesn't work because there also dots inside the brackets. Thanks.

I am very much a novice with regular expressions and I have spent a decent amount of time trying to do the following and I can't get it. i have variables that are of type character but they have number characters at the end. for example : "AAL123" "XELB245" "A247" I want a command that gives me just gives me the letter characters for each one. the letter

Hi List, I'm trying to calculate the autocorrelation coefficients for a time series using acf at various lags. This is working well, and I can get the coefficients without any trouble. However, I don't seem to be able to obtain the significance of these coefficients from the returned acf object, largely because I don't know where I might find them. It's clear that the acf