similar to: problems with plot.data.frame

Hi, I have a set of irregular time series and i want to produce a simple plot, with dates on x axis and attribute value of y axis. This is simple enough but my x axis is divided automatically by ticks every 5 years. I would like to have a tick every year at January 1st. I am not sure how i can do that - i end up with something very close to what i want, but it is clunky and not very correct. I

I have been trying to find a command similiar to bs or ns to add a periodic/or cyclical splie term to a regression model in glm.nb I have been using ns to fit a spline to day of the year (1:365): glm.nb(CNT ~ WKDY + ns(DY,df=6) + HOLIDAY_FLAG + Trend) but I think a periodic spline might be more appropriate. Any suggestions would be appreciated. best, Spencer Jones, M.Stat. NLM Fellow Dept.

Hi, I would like to find out the coordinates of the intersection points of 2 density curves. I did a search but i didn't get any significant results. I really hope some of you have some ideas. here it is an example: set.seed(123) x1 <- rnorm(100, 1, 1) x2 <- rnorm(100, 0, 1) d1 <- density(x1) d2 <- density(x2) plot(d1, col = 2) lines(d2, col = 4) Now i would like to know

Hi, I hope someone knows the answer to this or has a real good reference about it (I am using Legendre & Legendre, Numerical Ecology, 1998).... My data is a data.frame with locations as rows and vegetation assemblages / species as columns. I've done a PCA, a correspondance analysis (CA) using ca in ca package and a detrended correspondance analysis (DCA) using decorana from vegan package.

Hi, I am getting some strange results using round - it seems that it depends if the number before the decimal point is odd or even .... For example: > round(1.5)[1] 2> round(2.5)[1] 2 While i would expect that round(2.5) be 3 and not 2. Do you have any explanation for that? I really appreciate your input, Monica

Hi everyone, I have a vector of strings, each string made up by different number of words. I want to get a new vector which has only the first word of each string in the first vector. I came up with this: str <- c('aaa bbb', 'cc', 'd eee aa', 'mmm o n') str1 <- rep(1, length(str)) for (i in 1:length(str)) { str1[i] <- strsplit(str, "

Hi! (a complete newby, but will not give up easily!) I was wondering if there is any way to decouple the axis and tick mark widths? As I understand they are both controlled by the lwd setting, and cannot be controlled independently? For example I might want to create major and minor ticks, which I now know how to do by superimposing two axes with different at settings, but what if I also wanted

Hi everybody, I know this might be very off topic and it took me quite a while to up my courage to post this?. But I remember a thread some time ago about how we can find the packages we need to do specific tasks in R if we don?t know before hand which ones actually do it. Now all the packages are listed alphabetically on the web site. Since I am not very advanced in writing my own functions I

Hi, I am doing a very informal presentation for my office about R capabilities to deal with and analyze spatial data, display data and maps, and connections with GIS. I've used in my presentation info from the CRAN, the spatial Task view, and the more striking graphics examples from http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php and NCEAS

Hi, I would like to modify how barplot .... plots. For reasons only my supervisor comprehends i need to do the crisscross lines in the bar thicker. If i use lwd=2 the y-axis is thicker, (i use the option beside = TRUE) but nothing else is affected by this parameter - it seems. I looked at the barplot.r code but i am afraid i don't quite understand it so ..... i am at loss. I am using

Hi everyone, ? I am trying to get a point of intersection between a polyline and a straight line ?.. and get the x and y coordinates of this point. For exemplification consider this: ? ? set.seed(123) ? k1 <-rnorm(100, mean=1.77, sd=3.33) ?k1 <- sort(k1) q1 <- rnorm(100, mean=2.37, sd=0.74) q1 <- sort(q1, decreasing = TRUE) plot(k1, q1, xlim <- c((min(k1)-5),

Hi, I am using an if else statement inside a function ?. If I use that function I have no problems ?. If I use the function with the if else statement inside a second function I get the following waring: Warning message: In if (pval == 0) p_value <- "< 2.2e-16" else p_value <- pval : the condition has length> 1 and only the first element will be used Using the second

Hi everybody, I have a vector of characters and i would like to extract certain parts. My vector is named metr_list: [1] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//BE.tif" [2] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//CH.tif" [3] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//CRR.tif" [4] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//HOME.tif" And i would like to extract BE, CH, CRR, and HOME in a

Hi everybody, I have a vector of characters and i would like to extract certain parts. My vector is named metr_list: [1] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//BE.tif" [2] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//CH.tif" [3] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//CRR.tif" [4] "F:/Naval_Live_Oaks/2005/data//HOME.tif" And i would like to extract BE, CH, CRR, and HOME in a

I took some data from an online poll about which R GUI people used most and I am messing around with it to learn how to use qplot. Specifically I am making a horizontal bar graph and I have two questions. 1. The categories are ordered in rather strange way at least to me. It is not alphabetical or ascending/descending order of votes cast so i had to manually state the order I wanted which is

Hi, I am trying to get percentages in a more elegant way. I have a data.frame with locations and values (counts) of species at that location. Each location is repeated for each species i have values for and i would like to get percentages of each species at that location. I am not sure if i am clear in my explanations so i will paste my code below: ##################### > x locat val 1

Well, I agree that plots with multiple y-axes can be very confusing but .... i am not sure that always they are also misleading .... One time i was asked to make a 2 y-axes plot, one y axes was for elevation (heights in meters) and one for rugosity (values between 1 and 2 - unitless). The idea was to visualize that for a more complex profile the rugosity is higher than for a flatter terrain. A

Hi, I have to recognize that i don't fully understand the aggregate function, but i think it should help me with what i want to do. xveg is a data.frame with location, species, and total for the species. Each location is repeated, once for every species present at that location. For each location i want to find out which species has the maximum total ... so i've tried different ways to

Hi, I am sure there is a reason but ...... why larger decimal numbers get rounded to the nearest integer? Example: a <- 3308000.5 a [1] 3308001 I would like my numbers to be decimals .... since they do represent coordinates and i don't want them rounded .... how can i keep them as they are? Thanks, Monica _________________________________________________________________

Hi, I would like to use the function "extract" from package raster and i get the following error: m01e <- extract(marsh01, p) Error: could not find function "extract" marsh01 is a raster object and p is an intersectExtent object that is not null. The package is installed and loaded, i use a Windows machine 64 bit and R x64 2.11.0. Do i really need to update my R to use