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Hi R, Can we download Reuters (3000 Xtra) data from R? Does ODBC package help me in this? Or otherwise, is there a way to extract daily closing prices data of Reuters from R? Thank you very much, Shubha This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}}

Hi R-Experts, I'm currently using R 2.4.0 in Windows XP. I'm trying to download data from Bloomberg using the package "RBloomberg", but it fails to install the three needed packages "zoo", "chron" and 'Rbloomberg". Moreover I am not able to find "RBloomberg" package as windows binary in CRAN site as only for MAC it's given. Please

Hi R, I need to generate 50 random numbers (preferably poisson), such that their sum is equal to 100. How do I do this? Thank you, Shubha This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}}

Hi R, If x=c(1,3,5) y=c(2,4,6) I need a vector which is c(1,2,3,4,5,6) from x and y. How do I do it? I mean the best way.... Thanks, Shubha This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}}

Hi R, Let, x=1:80 I want to sum up first 8 elements of x, then again next 8 elements of x, then again another 8 elements..... So, my new vector should look like: c(36,100,164,228,292,356,420,484,548,612) I used: aggregate(x,list(rep(1:10,each=8)),sum)[-1] or rowsum(x,group=rep(1:10,each=8)) But without grouping, can I achieve the required? Any other ways of doing

Hi R, This is a cross tabulation question. Suppose that, > d=read.table("clipboard",header=F) > d V1 V2 V3 A One Apple A One Cake A One Cake B One Apple B One Apple B One Apple > table(d$V2,d$V3) Apple Cake One 4 2 But, I don't want the count to be like the above. Here, it is counting the

Hi R, I am trying to download the data from R. I give the below command. > library(fImport) > yahooSeries("IBM") trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=7&b=08&c=2007&d=7&e=07&f=2008& g=d&x=.csv' Error in download.file(url = url, destfile = file, method = method) : cannot open URL

Hi R, Can I transpose a data frame by a particular group variable? For example: d=data.frame(group=c(1,1,2,2,2),val=c(6,4,6,3,5)) And my output should be: data.frame(group=c(1,2),v1=c(6,6),v2=c(4,3),v3=c(NA,5)) Many thanks, Shubha This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}}

Hi R, Please solve my problem........... I am extracting Bloomberg data from R, in a loop. R is getting fatigued by doing this process and gives some errors. I introduced sleep function. Doing this sometimes I get the results and sometimes not. I even noticed that if I give complete rest for R (don't open R window) for 1 day and then run my code with the sleep function, then the

Hi R, I have a list, l=list(list(c(1,2),c(4,5),c(6,7)),list(c(11,22,33),c(44,55,66))) > l [[1]] [[1]][[1]] [1] 1 2 [[1]][[2]] [1] 4 5 [[1]][[3]] [1] 6 7 [[2]] [[2]][[1]] [1] 11 22 33 [[2]][[2]] [1] 44 55 66 How do I know the dimensions of this list?... In other words, how many sub-lists, sub-sub-lists etc...are there in l? How do I know this?

Hi, Could anyone tell me what is the command used in R to do 1. Differentiation 2. Newton Raphson method (Numerical Analysis in general...) Are there any packages separately for this? Thanks for your help! BR, Shubha [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi R users, Is there a function in R, which does some calculation only for the month end in a daily data?... In other words, is there a command in R, equivalent to "last." function in SAS? BR, Shubha [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, Suppose a=matrix(1:9,3,3) > a [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 4 7 [2,] 2 5 8 [3,] 3 6 9 Now, > class(a[1:2,]) [1] "matrix" > class(a[1:3,]) [1] "matrix" > class(a[,1:2]) [1] "matrix" > class(a[,1:3]) [1] "matrix" But, > class(a[1,]) [1] "integer" > class(a[,1]) [1]

Hi R, Can I get a comparison between R and MATLAB? How is R efficient than MATLAB? Or what are the weaknesses of R compared to MATLAB? Thank you very much for your help, Shubha Shubha Karanth | Amba Research Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San José * Singapore * www.ambaresearch.com This e-mail may contain confidential and/or

Hi R, A quick question: How do we find the number of words in a string? Example: C="Have a nice day" And the number of words should be 4. any built in function or?... Thanks, Shubha Shubha Karanth | Amba Research Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San José * Singapore * www.ambaresearch.com This e-mail may contain

Hi R, Again struck with regular expressions... Suppose, S=c("World_is_beautiful", "one_two_three_four","My_book") I need to extract the last but one element of the strings. So, my output should look like: Ans=c("is","three","My") gsub() can do this...but wondering how do I give the regular expression....

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <shubhak at ambaresearch.com> Date: Nov 24, 2006 7:54 PM Subject: Dates Conversion/write.foreign To: Shubha Karanth <shubhakaranth at gmail.com>, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <shubhak at ambaresearch.com> Hi R experts, I need an urgent help... I have an a dataframe caled idat. Below i give a snapshot

Hi R, I have a an excel file with a lot of data. I need to create an user interface in R, which has one single screen. It needs to contain a right pane containing the click buttons for different countries (say). If the user clicks a country, then a chart needs to be created for that country, taking the data from Excel. Is this possible and which package helps me in doing this? Many thanks in

Hi, Do any body know which packages of R I need to go for the below topics? 1. Monte Carlo Markov chain (MCMC) 2. Gibbs Sampling 3. Metropolis Hastings Thanks in advance... Shubha [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi R, My csv files are stored in the order, '1abc.csv', '2def.csv', '3ghi.csv', '10files.csv' in a folder. When I read this into R from list.files (R command: x=list.files("Z:/CSV/fold",full.names=F), I don't get the same order, instead I get the order as "10files.csv" "1abc.csv" "2def.csv" "3ghi.csv". But