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2008 Dec 11
3
Downloading Reuters data from R
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}}
2006 Nov 16
5
<RBloomberg Package Problem>
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
2008 Jul 08
8
Sum(Random Numbers)=100
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}}
2008 Jul 23
18
Simple... but...
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}}
2008 Jul 23
8
sequential sum of a vector...
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
2008 Sep 29
3
Cross-tabulation Question
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
2008 Aug 07
3
Downloading Yahoo data
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
2008 Feb 14
3
Transposing by a group variable
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}}
2007 Feb 13
5
Fatigued R
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
2008 Mar 25
3
Dimensions of a List
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?
2007 Aug 20
3
Differentiation
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]]
2007 Aug 29
5
Month end calculations
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]]
2008 May 06
2
To preserve the class "Matrix"
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]
2008 Jun 19
2
Comparison between R and MATLAB
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
2008 Apr 09
11
Number of words in a string
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
2008 May 13
3
Regular Expressions
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....
2006 Nov 24
1
Fwd: Dates Conversion/write.foreign
---------- 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
2010 Jun 17
3
R user interface
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
2007 Jan 30
2
R packages
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]]
2007 May 18
3
ordering in list.files
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