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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

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]]

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]]

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

Dear Listers, My post might be somewhat OT. Currently, I am trying to use flexmix to build a finite mixture model. For instance, I am getting the prior probability and coefficients for each latent class from training data. Is there a way to get the posterior probablity and prediction of a new dataset? What I am thinking is to apply the prior prob and coefficient from training set to testing data

Dear Listers, I have 2 questions regarding xml. 1) how to read/write tables in xml? 2) compared with csv, is xml a better way to transfer data cross systems/applications? Thank you so much for your insight. -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML

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 Lister, I understand merge() can be used to join 2 data frames based on 1 variable. But how about merge based on more than 2 variables? Thank you so much! -- WenSui Liu (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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

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

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

Hi All, I'm learning JGR 1.4-15 with R 2.4.1 in Windows XP (all patches applied). JGR looks great but I'm having trouble getting the data editor to save my results. I don't see anything in R-help about it. Here are the steps I followed: 1. I chose "Tools>Object Browser" & double-clicked on a data frame, "mydata". 2. A spreadsheet editor popped up and

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.

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

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!

Your surest bet is to look into S+, not R, since the former does 'integrate' with Microsoft applications. To what extent, I don' know. This is a desirable feature (IMO) and a reason to use S+ rather then R (already discussed in different thread). Try the S+ newsgroup. > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at

Dear Listers, If I have several glm objects with names glm1, glm2.... and want to apply new data to these objects. Instead of typing "predict(glm1, newdata)..." 100 times, is there way I could do so in a loop? Thank you so much! wensui [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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

Dear R community, I have a dataframe with say 100 different variables. I wish to regress variable 1 separately on every other variable (2-100) in a linear regression using lm. There must be an easy way to do this without loops, but I have difficulties figuring this out... Can you please help? Thank you and best regards, Georg. ***************************************** Georg Ehret Johns Hopkins