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Colleagues, I am interesting in opening a PDF document via the command line from both Windows, OS X, and Linux ( R version 2.8.0). I found a command openPDF in Biobase. However, I would rather execute the command myself. For example, in OS X: > system("open filename.pdf") is successful. Is there a comparable command line command for Windows or Linux? Dennis Dennis Fisher

Hope this is not too trivial I am reading a large file using scan. In one part of this file there is a chunk of text within which i need to know the positions of line breaks. But scan seems only An example of the file is: " a 0 1 0 bftt 020 cftt T 1 R a 0 1 2 1 2 b 0 1 2 2 2 c 0 10 00 " so precisely i need in the scanned file in R to know where each carriage return is in the file

R 3.4.1 OS X and Windows Colleagues I have a complicated problem that includes several components: R RTF PDF Using R (and a slew of RTF commands), I assemble a text document with an RTF extension. The document contains text, tables, and images (JPEG format, previously created with R). To ?import? the JPEG images into the document, I use the following R code: cat("\\pard\\qc

Colleagues, Hopefully a simple problem: I want to delete a column with a known name from a dataframe. I could write: FRAME <- FRAME[, names(FRAME) != NAMETODELETE] or FRAME <- FRAME[, !names(FRAME) %in% c(NAME1, NAME2, ETC)] Is there some simpler means to accomplish this? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)

Colleagues, I want to create the following array: "A1", "A2", "A3", "B1", "B2", "B3", "C1", "C2", "C3" I recall that there is a trick using "c" or "paste" permitting me to form all combinations of c("A", "B", "C") and 1:3. But, I can't recall the

Colleagues, I have some text: TEXT <- c("a", "bb;ccc", "dddd;eeeee;ffffff") I want to retrieve the portion of each element before the first semicolon. I can split each element using strsplit: SPLIT <- strsplit(TEXT, ";") This yields: > SPLIT [[1]] [1] "a" [[2]] [1] "bb" "ccc" [[3]] [1] "dddd"

Colleagues, I have created a list in the following manner: TEST <- list(c("A1", "A2"), c("B1", "B2"), c("C1", "C2")) I now want to delete one element from the list, e.g., the third. The command TEST[[3]] yields (as expected): [1] "C1" "C2" The command TEST[[-3]] yields: Error:

Hi, I'm hoping someone has a suggestion for handling a simple problem. A client gave me a comma separated value file (call it x.csv) that has an id and name and address for about 25,000 people (25,000 records). I used read.table to read it, but then discovered that there are stray carriage returns on several records. This plays havoc with read.table since it starts a

Colleagues After reading in some clinical data, I discovered that the subject ID column contains entries only for the first record for each individual; subsequent rows are recorded as NA. For example: > 1 > NA > NA > NA > NA > 2 > NA > NA > NA > NA > 3 > NA > NA > ... I can think of various approaches to replace the NA values with appropriate

I run R 2.1.1 in a Linux environment (RedHat 9) although my question is not platform-specific. Consider the following: > A <- c("Prefix-aaa", "Prefix-bbb", "Prefix-ccc") > B <- strsplit(A, "-") > B [[1]] [1] "Prefix" "aaa" [[2]] [1] "Prefix" "bbb" [[3]] [1] "Prefix" "ccc" How

Colleagues: I have encountered the following situation: SERIES OF COMMANDS source("File1") MORE COMMANDS source("File2") Optimally, I would like File1 and File2 to be merged into a single file (FileMerged). However, if I wrote the following: SERIES OF COMMANDS source("FileMerged") MORE COMMANDS I encounter an error: the File2 portion of FileMerged

Colleagues R 2.8.0; OS X, Vista, Ubuntu Linux In some instances, when I create a graphic using plot(XVAR, YVAR), it would be valuable to know the values that R will display on the y-axis (e.g., if the range of data is 0-70, it might display 0, 10, 30, 50, 70). Is there a simple means to access these values? Also, in some instances, additional ticks appear between the displayed values

Colleagues R 2.10.1 on a Mac I read in textfiles using readLines, then I process those files, then I use R to execute another program. Occasionally those files contain characters other than letter / numbers / routine punctuation marks. For example, a bullet (option-8 on a Mac) triggers the problem. Although R can read and process those characters, the other program cannot so I would like to

Colleagues, Please forgive my ignorance of this topic. I am experienced with the installation/use of R in OSX and Windows, much less so with Linux. I just created a virtual machine of Ubuntu 9.0.4. Using the Synaptic Package Manager, I installed R 2.8.1. I would like to obtain 2.9.x and I am having trouble doing so using the tools available within Ubuntu. I tried apt-get install

I have data in the following format: > DATE [1] "01/13/2004" In order to find the difference between two data points, I presently use brute force to calculate the day of the year: > strptime(DATE, format="%m/%d/%Y")$yday [1] 12 Although this works, it may not be robust over different years. I assume that R is sufficiently clever that a much simpler approach

R 2.12.2 Windows 7 Colleagues, I just took advantage of the function: readWindowsShortcut in R.utils. It accomplished my goals and I was interested in learning its inner workings. So, I typed the function at the command line (without arguments or parentheses). R returned: function (...) UseMethod("readWindowsShortcut") <environment: namespace:R.utils> providing no

Colleagues, I am using R (2.9.2, all platforms) to search for a complicated text string using regular expressions. I would appreciate any help you can provide. The string consists of the following elements: SOMEWORDWITHNOSPACES any number of spaces and/or tabs ( any number of spaces and/or tabs integer any number of spaces and/or tabs ) Examples include: WORD ( 123 ) WORD(1 )

Colleagues, I submitted this several days ago and no one responded, so I am trying again, trying a different subject line: I just encountered some unexpected behavior of difftime in relationship to the change from daylight savings to standard time. My understanding is that DST and ST take effect at 2AM. However, the results below suggests that R (version 2.8.0 in OS X) implements the

Colleagues R: 2.12.2 OS X I have a set of text objects in the form (I am showing 3 of what is more likely to be 20 or so): OBJECTS <- c("abcSOMETHINGCOMMONegf", "xSOMETHINGCOMMONyz", "SOMETHINGCOMMONnme") As you can see, all contain "SOMETHINGCOMMON" and the position varies. But, I don't know what that "SOMETHINGCOMMON" is. Is there an

From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de> Logging to stderr results in line endings being terminated with carriage return (\r) and new line (\n). While this is fine for terminals it may have undesired effects when running from crond and logging to syslog or similar. I run ssh from cron on an recent linux host. Viewing logs with journalctl I see: Sep 06 16:50:01 linux CROND[152575]: [96B