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Good morning, dear listers I am wondering if you could recommend a good tutorial / book for r scripting. thank you so much in advance! WenSui Liu Credit Risk Manager, 53 Bancorp wensui.liu at 53.com 513-295-4370

I remember in one slide of Prof. Ripley's presentation overhead, he said the most popular data analysis software is excel. So is there any resource or tutorial on this topic? Thank you so much!

Dear Listers, I've been a big fan of R since graduate school. After working in the industry for years, I haven't had many opportunities to use R and am mainly using SAS. However, I am still forcing myself really hard to stay close to R by reading R-help and books and writing R code by myself for fun. But by and by, I start realizing I have hard time to keep up with R and am afraid that I

Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why? How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.

Your surest bet is to look into S+, not R, since the former does 'integrate' with Microsoft applications. To what extent, I don' know. This is a desirable feature (IMO) and a reason to use S+ rather then R (already discussed in different thread). Try the S+ newsgroup. > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at

I like R more than SAS. My job is doing research on clinical trial. But I was told that FDA only accepts the result from SAS. Is that true? TOO BAD. [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

I really have headache when I do google search for information about "R". Any tricks or tips? thx.

Dear Lister, plot() is using the data range as the default limits of yaxis. Is there any way I can change the limits? I just look at the help of plot() and par() and couldn't find answers. Thanks. -- WenSui Liu (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center

Hi R-experts, I have data from four conditions of an experiment. I tried to create four subsets of the data with read.table, for example, read.table("Experiment.csv",subset=(condition=="1")) . I found a similar post in the archive, but the answer to that post was no. Any new ideas about reading subsets of data with read.table? Thanks! Feng [[alternative HTML version

Sometimes, it is too costly to read the whole data file into R. I am looking for solution in scan() and read.Lines() but don't they work. Thank you so much! -- ============================== WenSui Liu Acquisition Risk, Chase Blog : statcompute.spaces.live.com Tough Times Never Last. But Tough People Do. - Robert Schuller

Dear Listers, Is there any good paper about how to use R together with VB? Thank you so much! -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I checked GlmmML package. However, it can only do binomial and poisson distribution. How about others such as gamma or neg binomial? Thank you so much! wensui

i am just wondering if there is an effective way to include other external codes into the program. thanks. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Lister, Is there an interface in R with SQL server that allows me to append records to table in the DB? Might I do that using RODBC? Thanks a lot. -- WenSui Liu A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog)

Dear Lister, If I have a list of number, say x<-c(0.1, 0.5, 0.6...), how to use a for() to loop through each number in x one by one? Thank you so much! wensui [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

What is equivalent to DROP or KEEP statements of SAS in R? -- This message was sent on behalf of sarjinder at yahoo.com at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/r-help at r-project.org/topic.html

Dear All, I finally have chance to have R install on our unix server. However, the system admin asked me if I prefer command-line or gui interface. I have experience with R on linux before but never use R on unix. Here are my questions that I need you guys help. 1) is there a good gui for R/unix like we do for windows and mac? 2) if the answer for 1) is yes, which one is better interms of

Currently, I am working on a data mining project and plan to divide the data table into 2 parts, one for modeling and the other for validation to compare several models. But I am not sure about the percentage of data I should use to build the model and the one I should keep to validate the model. Is there any literature reference about this topic? Thank you so much!

Dear All, Monthly and Quarterly ts obj. is easy to understand. But I couldn't find an example in R manual how to create daily or weekly ts object. Could you please shed some light on it? I really appreciate it.

Good morning, everyone, I am sorry for this off-topic post but think I can get great answer from this list. My question is what is the best OS on PC (laptop) for statistical computing and why. I really appreciate your insight. Have a nice day.