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I am introducing the scan() function to my class. Consider the following file (Scanexamp.Rnw ) \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} <<>>= height = scan() 64 62 66 65 62 69 72 72 70 part = scan(what = character(0)) "Soprano" "Soprano" "Soprano" "Alto" "Alto" "Tenor" "Tenor" "Bass"

I found myself wanting to average a vector [vec] within each level of a factor [Fac], returning a vector of the same length as vec. After a while I realised that lm1 <- lm(vec ~ Fac) fitted(lm1) did what I want. But there must be another way to do this, and it would be good to be able to apply other functions than mean() in this way. Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen

How do you stop R from putting up a dialog box when you quit Rgui? (I use Windows and I never save workspaces that way) Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home

I'm running R 1.2.2 under windows 98 on a Pentium 133 laptop. I can't seem to retrieve the package MASS data sets: > library(MASS) > data(wtloss) Warning message: Data set `wtloss' not found in: data(wtloss) > data(abbey) Warning message: Data set `abbey' not found in: data(abbey) And yet all the .rda files for the MASS datasets are in D:\Program

I'm going to try my hand at converting some Fortran programs to R. Does anyone know of any good articles giving hints at such tasks? I will post a selective summary of my gleanings. Cheers, Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz

I want to interlace two vectors. This I can do: > x <- 1:4 > z <- x+0.5 > as.vector(t(cbind(x,z))) [1] 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 but this seems rather inelegant. Any suggestions? Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz

Greetings all. Any help with the following would be appreciated. I want to create a data frame for each file in a directory. The following code does not work but it may show what I am trying to do: carmakes <- c('BMW','Chrysler','Citroen','Fiat','Ford','Holden','Honda',

I got a shock a few days ago when I accidentally visited www.r-project.com . I thought that the r-project site had been hacked until I realised my mistake. There is also a site www.r-project.net. Both of these sites appear to be Japanese. Does anyone know anything about them? I suppose that it is not unusual for names close to those of popular sites to be used. It is good that they use a

Has anyone got a cute way of compiling a table of the available plotting symbols? I've been repeatedly pasting in cno <- cno + 1 cno plot(x,y,pch=cno) which is tedious, and besides I have to note down the symbols by hand. Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at

Well I don't know if anyone can help with this but it will be interesting to know if others have had the same problem. I can't start R at home on my laptop [ I'm using 1.8.1 under Windows XP]. When I click on the shortcut I get the usual Windows box for when an application needs to close. A couple of clicks down it displays the following: Error signature AppName: rgui.exe

I am exploring the result of clustering a large multivariate data set into a number of groups, represented, say, by a factor G. I wrote a function to see how categorical variables vary between groups: > ddisp <- function(dvar) { + csqt <- chisq.test(G,dvar) + print(csqt$statistic) + print(csqt$observed) + print(round(csqt$expected)) + round(csqt$residuals) + } > > x

I have the feeling that this is a dumb question but oh well ... When I have an object x with several attributes, y <- x will make a copy of x with all the attributes included. What if I just want y to get the value assigned but nothing else (no class, names, dim or other attributes)? Johann -- Phone/FAX/Adr/PGPkey ... at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~johann

Hi, What is the best text editor for programming in R? I am using JEdit as the text editor, however, it does not have anything specific for R. It will be nice to have a developing environment where the keywords are highlighted, plus some other debugging functions. Yi-Xiong [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Having just update to R 2.6.2 on my old Windows laptop I notice that the number of packages is growing exponentially and my usual approach of get-em-all may not be viable much longer. Has any thought been given to dividing "contributed" binaries into a recommended set, perhaps a couple of hundred, and the remained. That way one could install the recommended ones routinely and add in

If I want to display a few polynomial regression fits I can do something like for (i in 1:6) { mod <- lm(y ~ poly(x,i)) print(summary(mod)) } Suppose that I don't want to over-write the fitted model objects, though. How do I create a list of blank fitted model objects for later use in a loop? Murray Jorgensen -- Dr Murray Jorgensen

Does anyone else miss email-friendly character graphics such as the following example, produced using Minitab? Histogram of C6 N = 478 N* = 21 Each * represents 2 observation(s) Midpoint Count -12 16 ******** -11 53 *************************** -10 63 ******************************** -9 83

Hai - kann mir jemand sagen, wie ich den Modalwert in R berechne?! IRgendwie finde ich den Befehl nicht.... greetz und herzlichen Dank Sonja

I would like a function to strip quotes off character strings. I should work like this: > A <- matrix(1:6, nrow = 2, ncol=3) > AF <- as.data.frame(A) > names(AF) <- c("First","Second","Third") > AF First Second Third 1 1 3 5 2 2 4 6 > names(AF)[2] [1] "Second" > attach(AF) >

Consider the following: > A <- 1:10 > A [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > dim(A) NULL > dim(A) <- c(2,5) > A [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 3 5 7 9 [2,] 2 4 6 8 10 > dim(A) [1] 2 5 > dim(A) <- 10 > A [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > dim(A) [1] 10 Would it not make sense to have dim(A) = length(A) for all vectors?

I wanted a sort of matrix product of an array and a matrix. As there does not seem to be any array multiplication apart from outer() I proceeded as follows: lambda <- array(0, c(n,m,d)) # stuff omitted # zed is an n by m matrix # # \lamb.star_{ik} lamb.star <- matrix(0, nrow=n, ncol=d) for (i in 1:n) { for (k in 1:d) { for (j in 1:m) { lamb.star[i,k] = lamb.star[i,k] +