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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!

Right now, I am using SAS and S+/R. As a new year resolution, I am planning to learn a scripting language. from statisticians' point of view, which scripting language is worth to learn, perl, python, or any other recommendation? (Most likely, I will be learning it in windows.) Since I am not in research, I will prefer one widely used in industry and related to statistical work. if you

Dear R People: I'm trying to convert a daily zoo object to a weekly zoo object: xdate <- seq(as.Date("2002-01-01"),as.Date("2010-07-10"),by="day") library(zoo) length(xdate) xt <- zoo(rnorm(3113),order=xdate) xdat2 <- seq(index(xt)[1],index(xt)[3113],by="week") xt.w <- aggregate(xt,by=xdat2,mean) Error: length(time(x)) ==

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

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

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

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

Have 3.5 years daily data that I want to convert to weekly. Looking for something like SAS's "expand" function, where you can specify the conversion function (sum, average, etc.) and get a new vector out with different sampling frequencies. Anything like that in R ?? Have been looking all over... Thanks, B.D.L.

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

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

Consider the following scrap of code: > x<- ts(1:50,start=c(1,11),freq=12) > y <- aggregate(x,nfreq=4) > c(y) [1] 6 15 24 33 42 51 60 69 78 87 96 105 114 123 132 141 > y Error in rep.int("", start.pad) : invalid number of copies in rep.int() > tsp(y) [1] 1.833333 5.583333 4.000000 So we can aggregate into quarters, but we cannot print it using

Consider the following scrap of code: > x<- ts(1:50,start=c(1,11),freq=12) > y <- aggregate(x,nfreq=4) > c(y) [1] 6 15 24 33 42 51 60 69 78 87 96 105 114 123 132 141 > y Error in rep.int("", start.pad) : invalid number of copies in rep.int() > tsp(y) [1] 1.833333 5.583333 4.000000 So we can aggregate into quarters, but we cannot print it using

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

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]]

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.

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

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]]

Dear Lister, I understand I can put '#' to put comment line by line. But is there a way to put comment with multiple lines without having to put '#' on the every line? Thanks.