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I am using read.csv to read a CSV file (produced by saving an Excel file as a CSV file). The columns containing dates are being read as factors. Because of this, I can not compute follow-up time, i.e. Followup<-postDate-preDate. I would appreciate any suggestion that would help me read the dates as dates and thus allow me to calculate follow-up time. Thanks John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief,

R 2.10 Windows 7 I am trying to plot three graphs on top of each other. I need to have the axises perfectly aligned. For some reason the ticks on the y axes are slightly off so they do not perfectly align. Can someone tell me how I can get the to overlay each other perfectly? I thought the yaxp parameter would solve my problem, but it does not. My data and code follows: >

I want to place four plots on a page, and I would like to have all four plots share a common title. I have tried the following code, but the title is centered over the fourth graph and not centered across all four plots. Does anyone have any suggestions? R 2.1.1 windows xp oldpar<-par(mfcol =c(1,4),ask=TRUE) plot(p,varp) plot(p,SEp) plot(p,CVp) plot(p,ppval) title(paste("P and 95%CI

An apparatus exists whereby a collection of balls is displaced to the top of a stack by suction. A top level (Level 1) each ball is shifted 1 unit to the left or 1 unit to the right at random with equal probability. The ball then drops down to level 2. At Level 2, each ball is again shifted 1 unit to the left or 1 unit to the right at random. The process continues for 15 levels and the balls are

I am trying to model data in which subjects are followed through time to determine if they fall, or do not fall. Some of the subjects fall once, some fall several times. Follow-up time varies from subject to subject. I know how to model time to the first fall (e.g. Cox Proportional Hazards, Kaplan-Meir analyses, etc.) but I am not sure how I can model the data if I include the data for those

I am having trouble selecting rows of a dataframe that will be included in a regression. I am trying to select those rows for which the variable Meno equals PRE. I have used the code below: difffitPre<-lm(data[,"diff"]~data[,"Age"]+data[,"Race"],data=data[data[,"Meno"]=="PRE",]) summary(difffitPre) The output from the summary indicates that

R 2.1.1 Win 2k Would someone suggest a method (or methods) that can be used to determine ntile cutpoints of a vector, i.e. to determine values that can be used to divide a vector into thirds such as 0-33 centile, 34-66 centile, 67-100 centile. If for example I had a vector: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and wanted to divide the vector into thirds I would have cut-points of 3, and 6. Thanks, John John

Widows XP R 2.3.1 I have been trying to make a data structure that will contain both the coefficients from a linear regression along with column and row titles AND the call, i.e. myreg<-lm(y~x+y+z) whatIwant<-cbind(c(summary(myreg)$call,"",""),summary(myreg)$coefficients) Neither the statement above, nor any one of twenty variations I have tried work. I would appreciate

I have written an R function that produces multiple graphs. I use par(ask=TRUE) to allow for the inspection of each graph before the next graph is drawn. I am looking for a way to recall all graphs drawn in an R session, and a method that can be used to print all the graphs at one time. I know that I could simply print each graph after I inspect the graph, but this gets tiresome if one's

(1) I know that \n when used in cat, e.g. cat("\n") produces a line feed (i.e. skips to the next line). Is there any escape sequence that will go to the top of the next page? (2) I know that control L will clear the console. Is there an equivalent function or other means that can be used in R code to clear the console? Thanks, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics

I am trying to drop rows of a dataframe based on values of the column PID, but my strategy is not working. I hope someoen can tell me what I am doing incorrectly. # Values of PID column > jdata[,"PID"] [1] 16608 16613 16355 16378 16371 16280 16211 16169 16025 11595 15883 15682 15617 15615 15212 14862 16539 [18] 12063 16755 16720 16400 16257 16209 16200 16144 11598 13594 15419 15589

Is there an R function that can be used to calculate a sample size for a linear regression: i.e. Given a linear regression: y=f(x,z) i.e. fit1<-lm(y~x+z) is there a function which can be passed coef(z), SE(z), and other parameters to determine a sample size based on z, SEz and other information from the regression? Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics

??I would like to apply a function, fract, to the columns of a dataframe. I tried the following apply(data5NonEventEpochs,2,fract) but, no surprise it did not work as apply works on matrices not data frames. How can I apply a fuction to the columns of a data frame? (I can't covert data5NonEventsEpochs to a matrix as it contains character data). Thank you, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.

I am looking for a package that will allow me to choose R (a real number) that minimizes the correlation of y and x^R, i.e. find R such that corr(y,x^R) is minimized. Any suggestions for packages I might look at would be helpful. Thanks, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA

R 2.2.0 windows XP How can I perform a regression analyses using a vector of means, a variance-covariance matrix? I looked at the help screen for lm and did not see any option for using the afore mentioned structures as input to lm. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC, University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D.

Fellow Rers, Please forgive me if I have posted this to the wrong R list serve. Over the course of the years that I have used R and participated in this list server, I have noted a large number of questions and answers that direct people to specific packages. The multitude of packages is one of the great strengths of R. Unfortunately there is no (or at least I am not aware of) any single source

Can anyone suggest a good non-parametric test, and an R implementation of the test, that allows for two or more factors? Wilcoxon signed rank allows for only one. Thanks, John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of

I think I am doing something wrong when I try to bootstrap R square obtained from lm. My code is included below. No matter how many times I run the simulation, I always get exactly the same result, the bias and std.error are always zero. I would think that these values should be non-zero. I would appreciate any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong, or perhaps what I fail to understand. R 2.1.0

R 2.7.2 Windows XP I am using apply to compute a series of Student's t-test from two matrices, sample1 and sample2. boo<-apply(sample1,1,t.test,sample2) I want to pick of the p-values from the tests, but can't seem to get it to work. I have tried several methods to get the values including: boo<-apply(sample1,1,t.test$t.test,sample2) boo<-apply(sample1,1,t.test,sample2)$t.test

At the suggestion of many people, I have installed emacs on my linux (Fedora 8.0) computer with the intention of using emacs as window interface to R (2.6.0). I have gone though the emacs tutorial and don't see any information about how I should use emacs to run R. Can anyone suggest a document that I might read? In the past I have used R on a Windows XP system and used the built-in windowing