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Dear List, My first R function is a rip-off bagging algorithm from pg. 138 of Everitt and Hothorn's "Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R" (HSAUR). I'm using recursive partitioning to develop a set of useful variables in diagnosing ADHD. I'm running this in ESS in XEmacs 21.4.19, R 2.4.1 on Slackware Linux 11.0 with a 2.6 kernel. This is almost an entire script,

This is a very fascinating discussion topic. I find I run into some fundamental differences in interpretation of the phrase "statistical computing". I think of it as writing programs or functions, such as R or packages in R, and of understanding the numerical analysis behind these functions. I exclude USING computer programs, such as R, for data analysis from my definition of

Dear All, Is there a emacs/xemacs for unix without compiling it? If it is possible, I prefer something that I can use immediately after putting it on the unix server. Is it possible or am I too stupid to ask this kind of question? Thanks for your insight! -- =============================== WenSui Liu ChoicePoint Precision Marketing Phone: 678-893-9457 Email : wensui.liu at choicepoint.com Blog

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.

After successfully building R on Slackware Linux v11.0 I went to make the documentation; the texi files went fine and then I hopefully issued make dvi after having gotten the warning to the effect of "You cannot build the DVI or PDF manuals" during compilation. And, as expected I got the error ERROR: 'latex' needed but missing on your system. The problem is that latex is on

Dear R-Helpers, I'm searching for an R package that will produce power analyses for linear Wald tests. I have conducted a thorough analysis and come up with a pile of negative results (I'm the King, baby). I found asypow, which applies to likelihood ratio tests. However, we generally have the power to do Wald tests, I just need to prove it so that we can publish it ;) If this is a

Dear All, The institute I work for is organizing an internal workshop for High Performance Computing (HPC). I am planning to attend it and talk a bit about fluid dynamics, but there is also quite a lot of interest devoted to data post-processing and management of huge data sets. A lot of people are interested in image processing/pattern recognition and statistic applied to geography/ecology, but I

Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why? How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.

Currently, I am working on a data mining project and plan to divide the data table into 2 parts, one for modeling and the other for validation to compare several models. But I am not sure about the percentage of data I should use to build the model and the one I should keep to validate the model. Is there any literature reference about this topic? Thank you so much!

Hello everyone, I have tried to look for this everywhere and so far have no luck. I have a plotMeans(DV, IV1, IV2, error.bars="se") graph that plots my data (DV-continuous, IVs are factors, IV1 - two levels, IV2-four levels). I am trying to increase a scale of my y-axis (to be consistent with my other graphs), but unfortunately nothing works with "plotMeans" function, which

What have people found with oplocks in the realm of really saving time? Is it something that's always good to have in an environment where two files being accessed simultaneously is rare? My shared volume is an NFS on a remote server. Just curious what folks have experienced. Terry The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you

Hi I have a table with four columns and 3 rows. I calculated the average for each columns as average (A), average (B), average (C) and average (D), then calculate the relative ratio as average (A)/average (B), and average (C)/average (D). I would like to know how can I calculate the significance between the two ratios. Thanks, Meng [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am sorry for this off-topic question. Just curious how xlispstat is used in the industry and what's it strengthen compared with other computing languages such as R or matlab? Thanks a lot. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I want R to read my Microsoft Access database or maybe even a Sybase database. I installed RODBC or at least thought I did. Then I issued the following command: library(RODBC) And got Error in lazyLoadDBfetch(key, datafile, compressed, envhook) : ReadItem: unknown type 241 In addition: Warning message: package 'RODBC' was built under R version 2.3.0 Error: package/namespace

Jun  9 15:51:55 rorecovery1 sshd[6325]: fatal: Access denied for user ahk at partners.org by PAM account configuration [preauth] on the ssh server system run pam-auth-update select kerberos auth if its not there install pam-krb5  and try again. gr Louis Op 9 jun. 2016 om 21:56 heeft Kaplan, Andrew H. <AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG> het volgende geschreven: Jun  9 15:51:55

Hello -- We completed an installation of CentOS 5.11 32-bit onto a Vmware ESXi 6.0.0 appliance for the purpose of running a legacy application. The hardware in question is a Dell PowerEdge R730xd system. The Vmware tools utility was installed onto the virtual machine, and that initially provided access to the network. Once that was done, patches from the CentOS repository were installed onto the

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]]

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

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