similar to: 'substitute' question

Dear list, can someone explain to me why deparse(substitute(x)) does not seem to work when x is of a user-defined S3 class? In my actual problem, my print method is part of a package, and the method is registered in the NAMESPACE, if that should make a difference. > print.testclass <- function(x,...){ xname <- deparse(substitute(x)) cat("Your object name

Hi all, I am having some problems calling a python script from R that resides in a folder that is in the path (WindowsXP): > system("quickPadTool.py") Warning message: In system("quickPadTool.py") : quickPadTool.py not found # I also tried 'shell' (and shell.exec as well). > shell("quickPadTool.py") 'quickPadTool.py' is not recognized as an

Dear R-helpers, i have a question on how to vectorize this problem: i have a dataframe: tester <- data.frame(groups=c("A","A","B","B","C","C"), one=c(1,1,2,2,3,3), two=c(6,6,7,7,8,8)) # i split it into a list tester.L <- split(tester, tester$groups) # And want to keep only the first item in each: lapply(tester.L, function(x) x

Dear R-helpers, for the purpose of plotting a dataframe, i am trying to sort a dataframe by one column, for example tester <- data.frame(one=c(3,2,1), two=c(2,3,1)) #> tester # one two #1 3 2 #2 2 3 #3 1 1 # I want to sort "tester" by column "one", so that i get a dataframe # that looks like: #one two #1 1 #2 3 #3 2 I know of 'sort' but

Hi all, the option type="h" in plot() makes nice vertical (histogram-like) lines. Is there a way to make similar, horizontal lines? I can of course resort to using lines() multiple times, but i was hoping that there is a more elegant solution. thanks, Remko Duursma Ph.D. student Dept. Forest Resources Forest Biometrics Lab University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

Dear R-helpers, when I have an R code chunk in a sweave file like this: <<>>= x <- 1:10 # this comment disapears x # this one does not! print(x) #mean mean(x) @ The first comment does not appear in the sweaved document, the second one does. How can this be? I have tried print=TRUE and keep.source=TRUE, but neither seem to affect this behavior. thanks, Remko

Dear R-helpers, i have the following situation: i have a bunch of y=b0 + b1*x from different studies, and want to estimate a "general" y=f(x). I only have the b0,b1's and R-squareds. Should i weigh the separate equations by their R-squared? thanks Remko ^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~'^'~,_,~' Remko Duursma, Ph.D. student

Dear R-helpers, can I use a POSIXct date as the x variable in interpSpline? The help page says x and y need to be numeric... is there a workaround? example: library(splines) testdfr <- data.frame(Date=seq(as.POSIXct("2008-08-01"),as.POSIXct("2008-09-01"), length=10)) testdfr$yvar <- rnorm(10) sp <- interpSpline(yvar ~ Date, testdfr) preddfr <-

Dear R-helpers, i want to draw a small plot (histogram) within a larger plot (simple scatterplot), so that the axes of the bigger plot remain intact. I know how to use layout() and par(mfrow...) and such, but I want the smaller graph to be *inside* the bigger plot. Is this possible? thanks, Remko

Dear list, I am trying to use RGoogleDocs, but I am connecting through a proxy server. I know RCurl is used for the connection, which should be able to deal with proxies and such. How do I set this up for RCurl? And can I use those settings with RGoogleDocs as well? I have the name of the proxy server and the port number. (Windows XP). thanks, Remko

Dear R-helpers, making a package (windowsXP), that includes a bunch of functions, but none have examples (all example code is within \dontrun{} blocks). I do R CMD check Maeswrap, all bits get OK-ed, except: "Running examples in 'Maeswrap-Ex.R' failed." When I run the 'Maeswrap-Ex.R' file myself, there are no problems. Any pointers? thanks Remko

Hi all, recently, i tried making a package with my own functions - which worked fine, until i reinstalled MikTex (in Win2000). Now i get the error message: * checking for working latex ... NO * using log directory 'C:/Rlibs/R4PG.Rcheck' * checking for file 'R4PG/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * checking if this is a source package ... OK ERROR Installation failed. But i set the path to

Dear R-helpers, thanks for yesterday's speeding-up tip. Here is my next query: I have lots of polygons (not necessarily convex ones, and they never have holes) given by x,y coordinates. I want to get the polygon that is the union of these polygons. This is my current method, but I am hoping there is a faster method (up to thousands of polygons, each with ca. 40 xy points). Example:

Hello everyone, I encountered the following confusing behavior of 'deparse' and 'substitute' while programming with S4 classes (see example below). It seems like the presence of '...' argument in the definition of the generic generates the problem. I have no clue why, can anyone explain that to me? Are there any "workarounds"? Thanks a lot for your time!

Dear R-helpers, apologies if this is somewhere in a manual, I have not been able to find anything relevant. I run Windows Vista. I have some Fortran code in a subroutine, and have no problem calling this from R with .Fortran, compiling the code either with 'R CMD SHLIB' or independently with gfortran. But is it possible to have more than one subroutine in my source file, one depending

Dear R-helpers, I am looking for an implementation of the box-counting algorithm to estimate the box dimension of a cloud of points in 3D (aka fractal dimension, or similarity dimension). The package 'fdim' might be doing this, but the documentation is awful and I don't understand what is what there. Does anyone know of an implementation of this algorithm in R, or elsewhere, or

Dear R-helpers, I have a problem converting an object made with the 'chron' function to a POSIXct object: # Make date based on DOY dat <- chron(dates=232, origin.=c(month=1, day=1, year=2008)) dat #[1] 08/20/08 # Converting to POSIXct uses current timezone (Sydney): as.POSIXct(dat) #[1] "2008-08-20 10:00:00 EST" # Setting GMT timezone has no effect? as.POSIXct(dat,

Dear R-helpers, I tried to build a DLL like I have done so many times, but this time on my new machine, but it gives the erorr: (from cmd window) >R CMD SHLIB Boxcnt.f MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 2000 Borland Error c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.1/share/make/winshlib.mk 4: Command syntax error *** 1 errors during make *** The error is not in my Fortran file, because I also tried other files

Dear R-helpers, I am trying to construct a confidence interval on a prediction of a gam fit. I have the Wood (2006) book, and section 5.2.7 seems relevant but I am not able to apply that to this, different, problem. Any help is appreciated! Basically I have a function Y = f(X) for two different treatments A and B. I am interested in the treatment ratios : Y(treatment = B) / Y(treatment = A) as

Dear R-helpers, sorry if this is obvious, but I can't find this in the documentation. I am using Sweave, and have some code that does not actually work - but I want to include it anyway, including the error message that R produces. But on running Sweave() on my .Rnw file, it simply halts when it gets to the code chunk with the bad code. I can use \verbatim{} instead, but then I don't