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Hi All: Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available for the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu, are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a tutorial available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd not locate an appropriate file. TIA, Arin Basu

Dear list, This should be a simple one, I just cannot see it. I need to generate a sequence of the form: 4 5 6 13 14 15 22 23 24 That is: starting with 4, make a 3 numbers sequence, jump 6, then another 3 and so on. I can create a whole vector with: myvec <- rep(rep(c(F, T, F), rep(3, 3)), 3) Then see which are TRUE: which(myvec) [1] 4 5 6 13 14 15 22 23 24 I'd like to avoid

Dear list, I have two functions created in the same environment, fun1 and fun2. fun2 is called by fun1, but fun2 should use an object which is created in fun1 fun1 <- function(x) { ifelse(somecondition, bb <- "o", bb <- "*") ## mymatrix is created, then myresult <- apply(mymatrix, 1, fun2) } fun2 <- function(idx) { if (bb == "o) { #

Hi again, I was contemplating the solution using base 3: set.seed(3) mat2 <- matrix(sample(0:2, 15, replace=T), 5, 3) Extracting the line numbers is simple: bases <- c(3, 3, 3)^(2:0) # or just 3^(2:0) colSums(apply(mat2, 1, function(x) x*bases)) + 1 [1] 7 23 25 8 1 The problem is sometimes the columns have different number of levels, as in: mat1 <- expand.grid(0:2, 0:2,

Dear all, I'd like to produce a simple pie chart for a customer (I know it's bad but they insist), and I have some difficulties setting the initial angle. For example: pie(c(60, 40), init.angle=14) and pie(c(80, 20), init.angle=338) both present the slices in the same direction, where: pie(c(60, 40)) pie(c(80, 20)) present the slices in different directions. I read everything I

Hi, How do you get the most common row from a matrix? If I have a matrix like this array(1:3,dim=c(4,5)) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 2 3 1 2 [2,] 2 3 1 2 3 [3,] 3 1 2 3 1 [4,] 1 2 3 1 2 in which rows 1 and 4 are similar, I want to find that vector c (1,2,3,1,2). Atte Tenkanen University of Turku, Finland

Dear all, I noticed that a data.frame has four attributes: - names - row.names - class - variable.labels While one can use the first three (i.e. names(foo) or class(foo)), the fourth one can only be used via: attributes(foo)$variable.labels (which is kind of a tedious thing to type) Is it or would be possible to simply use: variable.labels(foo) like the first three attributes? I tried: varlab

I have a set data={A,B,C,D,E,F,G} I want to choose 2 letter from 8 letters, i.e. generate the combination set for choose 2 letters from 8 letters. I want to get the liking: combination set={AB,AC,AD,....} Does anyone konw how to do in R. thanks, Aimin

Dear all, This is probably a stupid question for which I have a solution, which unfortunately is not as straighforward as I'd like. I wonder if there's a simple way to apply a weighting variable for the cases of a dataframe (well I'm sure there is, I just cannot find it). My toy example: > my.data <- data.frame(var1=c("c", "e", "a",

Hallo, The command: x <- 3 mat <- as.matrix(expand.grid(rep(list(0:1), x))) generates a matrix with 2^x columns containing the binary representations of the decimals from 0 to (2^x-1), here from 0 to 7. But the rows are not sorted in this order. How can sort the rows the ascending order of the decimals they represent, preferably without a function which converts binaries to decimals

Hello, Is there a way to extract multiple columns from a dataframe using their names instead of their numbers? Currently I use: data2 <- data1[, c(1,3,9)] And I am looking for something like data2 <- data1[, c("XX","YY","ZZ")] I use the same dataframe for many purposes, and I run codes that change the order of the columns every time. Many thanks, Adrian

Dear R-list, Could anybody tell me where to find information about changing the measurement unit from inch to centimeters? I read the help from X11, I read R-intro and I did some searhing in the R archives, but I couldn't find the answer. For example, I would like to produce a plot of a certain width and height: X11(width=10, height=5) and I would like these to be centimeters, rather

Dear all, There is something I'm missing in order to understand the following behavior: > aa <- c("test", "name") > ifelse(any(nchar(aa) < 3), aa[-which(nchar(aa) < 3)], aa) [1] "test" > any(nchar(aa) < 3) [1] FALSE Shouldn't the ifelse function return the whole aa vector? Using if and else separately, I get the correct result... >

Dear all, Some very wise data entry person gave me about an hour of a headache, trying to find out why a 2000x500 dataframe won't be read into R. After much trial and error, I pinpointed the problem to an accidentally inserted double quote into a string variable (some comments from an open question). This can be replicated by: aa <- data.frame(id=1:2, var1=c("some \"

Dear Mao Jianfeng, "r-help-owner" is not the place for help, but: r-help at r-project.org (CC-ed here) In any case, strsplit() does the job, i.e.: > unlist(strsplit("BCPy01-01", "-")) [1] "BCPy01" "01" You can work with the whole variable, like: splitpop <- strsplit(df1$popcode, "-") then access the first part with >

Dear All, I assume this is an R-devel issue, apologies if I missed something obvious. I have a dataframe where the row names are country codes, based on ISO 3166, something like this: ------------ "v1" "v2" "UK" 1 2 "NA" 2 3 ------------ It happens that "NA" is the country code for "Namibia", and that creates problems on

Dear list, Given a list of elements like: aa <- list(one=c("o", "n", "e"), tea=c("t", "e", "a"), thre=c("t", "h", "r", "e")) Is there a function that returns the intersection between all? Both match() and intersect() only deal with two arguments, but sometimes I

Dear r-devel, I am trying to automatically check if two successive versions of a package have the same results (i.e. code not broken), by parsing the example sections for each function against a previously tested version. While trying to replicate the code from example(), I am facing an error related with te "index.search" function (line 7 in the example() code). This is the code I am

Dear R list, For some reason I am unable to access neither search.r-project.org, nor http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ so I cannot search the archives for a possible answer (I Googled for this but didn't find anything). Is it possible to draw barplots using a texture instead of colors, for a black and white printer? TIA, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Arhiva Romana de Date Sociale Bd. Schitu

Dear R devel, Apologies for these (most probably trivial) questions, doing my first attempt to call C from R (and actually learning C in the process). I need to pass a matrix to C, and after reading R-exts.pdf (many times), I was unable to find how to handle matrices at C-level... except for, what probably is the answer, that matrices are in fact vectors with dimensions. This is a sample code I