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Dear R People: I'm using R in a time series class. This class is being broadcast live to 2 remote sites via closed circuit TV. My people at the remote sites are having a terrible time seeing the computer screen as it is broadcast(resolution issues). I have decided to put together Power Point slides for the teaching. I am currently saving the R screen as WMF files and inserting them into

Dear R People: I am trying to split a character vector into a set of individual letters: Ideal: x3 <- c("dog") "d" "o" "g" I tried the following: > strsplit(x3) Error in strsplit(x3) : argument "split" is missing, with no default > strsplit(x3,1) [[1]] [1] "dog" I know that this is incredibly simple, but what am I doing

Dear R People: Could someone direct me to some documentation on the difference between S3 and S4 classes, please? For example, why would a person use one as opposed to another? Maybe pros and cons of each? Thanks in advance! R Version 2.2.0 (I'm downloading the new one this afternoon!) Windows. Happy New Year! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and

Dear R People: Is there any way to take a Windows version of R, compiled from source, compress it, and put it on a Unix-like environment, please? thanks in advance, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: In the function "decompose", the object has the class of "decomposed.ts". (from package stats) I would like to see the class definition and the method for the plotting. However, when I use isClass("decomposed.ts") I get "FALSE". When I check getMethods("plot") there is no method for plot on decomposed.ts Any suggestions,

Dear R People: When creating a package, how do you include new methods and classes, please? I'm using the pacakge.skeleton command as a starting point. Thanks, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: I have used the "latex" function from the Hmisc package and it is just great! However, I have a new question regarding that function: is there an option for summary(lm(y~x)), please? There are options for different types of objects, but I didn't see one for that. Maybe I just missed it. Thanks in advance! R for Windows Version 2.3.1 Sincerely, Erin Hodgess

Hi R People: If you have a linear programming problem in which some of the constraints have the "<=", some have ">=" and some have "=", all in the same problem, should the solver work? I'm having trouble with that. Any help much appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.eud whoops! mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: I'm still struggling with sending methods and classes as part of creating a new package. Where does the .onLoad function go? Within R itself or in a file in one of the new package directories? Here are my latest efforts: Here's the last part of the woof1-Ex.Rout > library('woof1') Error in loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source =

Dear R People: I am having some trouble with the snow package. It requires MPICH2 and Rmpi. Rmpi is fine. However, I downloaded the MPICH2 package, and installed. There is no mpicc, mpirun, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions, please? Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto:

Dear R people: I have a vector which runs from -1 to 1, by .1, inclusively. Easy to set up. x <- seq(-1,1,.1) I then sample 3 numbers from x. y <- sample(x, 3) Suppose one of my values is -0.7. I want to set up an interval around that y1 <- pmax(y-0.1,-1) y2 <- pmin(y+0.1,1) For the value -.7, the interval will run from -.8 to -.6. There will be several intervals. Again, nothing

Dear R People: I want to use the "grep" command in UNIX/Linux to check some words from the dictionary. Let's say I use: grep dog /usr/share/dict/words and I get back bulldog dog dogged and so on. How could I just get back "dog" with the grep command please? Thanks, Sincerely Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University

Dear R People: This is more of an opinion question please: When putting together GUI type functions, is it better to use JAVA or Tcl/Tk, please? Any input is appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: Is there a library for Multivariate time series, please? For some reason, I'm thinking that Dr. Paul Gilbert may have one? R Version 1.6.2 (i've updated!) for Windows Thanks so much! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at uhddx01.dt.uh.edu

Dear R People: Here is an interesting question(I think) Suppose I want to calculate Centered Moving Averages; i.e. x[1] <- ( sum(y[1:12]) )/12 x[2] <- ( sum(y[2:13]) )/12 and so on. Of course, this is easily done through loops. However, I have been trying to do this more elegantly, but have failed. I have tried things like j1 <- 1:109 j2 <- 12:120 x[1:109] <- ( sum( y[j1:j2])

Dear R People: I have a question about a "sorting" problem, please. I have a vector xx: > xx [1] -2.0 1.4 -1.2 -2.2 0.4 1.5 -2.2 0.2 -0.4 -0.9 and a vector of breaks: > xx.y [1] -2.2000000 -0.9666667 0.2666667 1.5000000 I want to produce another vector z which contains the number of the class that each data point is in. for instance, xx[1] is between xx.y[1] and

Can anyone please recommend a good site for crime related time series? Thanks! Erin mailto: hodgess at uhddx01.dt.uh.edu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To:

Dear R People: thank you for the many helpful sets of code that I received!!! I combined several of the concepts for the following function: > mode1 function(x) { y <- rle(sort(x)) z <- y$values[y$lengths==max(y$lengths)] return(z) } > xm [1] 22 15 10 30 25 26 2 17 28 2 24 6 26 24 5 22 20 14 > mode1(xm) [1] 2 22 24 26 > This will pick

Dear R People: I have a weekly time series. How do I put this into the ts command, please? That is, what do I use for frequency, please? R version 1.5.1 for Windows. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Erin mailto: hodgess at uhddx01.dt.uh.edu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html

Dear R People: I have the source for R version 1.1.1 on a UNIX system alpha-dec-osf4. The ./configure works fine. When I do the make, it works fine until it tries to build the package tcklc. I get an error of Tk_Saf_Init not identified Then it kicks out. Any suggestions, please? Thanks! Sincerely, Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences