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Hi! As per Thomas' advice, I upgraded R by using "update.packages()" and got the following warning messages: Warning messages: 1: installation of package 'lmtest' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl, 2: installation of package 'quadprog' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[,

Hello, I am drawing contour lines for a function of 2 variables at one level of the value of the function and want to include a small arrow in any direction of increase of the function. Is there some way to do that? Below is an example that creates the contour lines. How do I add one small arrow on each line in the direction of increase of the function (at some central point of the contour

Hi R Users, I have produced a simulated scatter plot of y versus x tightly clustered around the 45 degree line through the origin with the following code: x <- seq(1,100) y <- x+rnorm(100,0,10) plot(x,y,col="blue") abline(0,1) Is there some way to generate a 3-dimensional analogue of this? Can I get a similar simulated scatter plot of points in 3 dimensions where the points

Hi All, I have a data frame with a group of variables named b1, b2, b3, ..., b18. These variables take the value 1, 2 or NA. For each observation, I want to do some computation by looping over the values for the group of variables: b1 to b18. In STATA I would do: forval i=1/18 { --- use b`i' for computation ---- } How can this be done in R? Deepankar

I am trying to maximise a complicated loglikelihood function with the "optim" command. Is there some way to get to know the estiamtes at each iteration? When I put "control=list(trace=TRUE)" as an option in "optim", I just got the initial and final values of the loglikelihood, number of iterations and whether the routine has converged or not. I need to know the

Hi All, I am trying to do an ML estimation in R. My likelihood function has several nested loops and so it takes a lot of time (days when I use the genetic algorithm for optimization) for the optimization to finish. Unable to avoid loops, I am thinking of writing the likelihood function in C++ and calling it from within R when using *optim()*. I found that one can call C functions (once they have

As part of carrying out a complicated maximum likelihood estimation, I am trying to learn to program likelihoods in R. I started with a simple probit model but am unable to get the code to work. Any help or suggestions are most welcome. I give my code below: ************************************ mlogl <- function(mu, y, X) { n <- nrow(X) zeta <- X%*%mu llik <- 0 for (i in 1:n) { if

Dear R Development People: I have written a couple of plugins for Rcmdr and they do not seem to work with R-2.11.0. Here is the output: > library(RcmdrPlugin.epack) Loading required package: Rcmdr Loading required package: tcltk Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done Loading required package: car --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Rcmdr Version 1.5-4 Attaching package:

When I type library() to see what is installed the following list in RED comes up. Packages in library '/home/jason/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13': abind Combine multi-dimensional arrays aplpack Another Plot PACKage: stem.leaf, bagplot, faces, spin3R, and some slider functions biglm bounded memory linear and

Hi All: Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available for the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu, are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a tutorial available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd not locate an appropriate file. TIA, Arin Basu

Hi, I have two further comments/questions about large datasets in R. 1. Does R's ability to handle large datasets depend on the operating system's use of virtual memory? In theory, at least, VM should make the difference between installed RAM and virtual memory on a hard drive primarily a determinant of how fast R will calculate rather than whether or not it can do the calculations.

Hi R users! I am new to R. When I try to attach a simple dataset using the attach() command, I get the following message: > attach(data1) The following object(s) are masked from package:base : write Can someone tell me what this means? (`write' is the name of a variable in the dataset). And, do I need to do do something about this. Thanks.

I have not been successfull in downloading tseries package in the R in my macbook air. The message sent is:Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : imposs?vel carregar objeto compartilhado '/Library/Frameworks/ Do you have any clue?

Hi All, I have data on the sequence of births for families with completed fertility cycle (in a data frame); the relevant variables are called b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6 and record the birth of the first, second, ..., sixth child. So, b1=1 if the first birth is male, b1=2 if the first birth is female, and b1=NA if the family did not record any first birth. Similarly for b2, b3, b4, b5 and b6. I

Hi, Having trouble loading tcltk in R 2.2.1 built from source. ./configure, make, make check, and make install run ok. > library(tcltk) Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system Error in library(tcltk) : .First.lib failed for 'tcltk' even though it is listed in library() output. I have the same problem even if i compile

Hi R users, I have a couple of questions about some problems that I am facing with regard to numerical integration and optimization of likelihood functions. Let me provide a little background information: I am trying to do maximum likelihood estimation of an econometric model that I have developed recently. I estimate the parameters of the model using the monthly US unemployment rate series

In the documentation the closed thing I see to an explanation of this is that ?detach says "Unloading some namespaces has undesirable side effects" Can anyone explain why unloading tseries will load zoo? I don't think this behavior is specific to tseries, it's just an example. I realize one would not usually unload something that is not loaded, but I would expect it to do

Hi All, I am using R 2.11.0 on a Ubuntu machine. I have a time series data set and want to run rolling regressions with it. Any suggestions would be useful. Here are the details: (1) I convert relevant variables into time series objects and compute first differences: vad <- ts(data$ALLGVA/data$GDPDEF, start=1948, frequency=1) emp <- ts(data$ALLEMP, start=1948, frequency=1) vad.dif1 <-

In Ubuntu 10.04, from the R command line install.packages('TSA',dep=TRUE) downloads & installs about 100 packages from CRAN, including some big ones like Zelig. It's only supposed to depend on leaps, locfit, mgcv, & tseries & through them akima, lattice, quadprog, zoo, & stats. Not a big problem of course, but I wondered if anyone else had noticed this behaviour.

I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu Gutsy and, for the first time, am using a 64-bit installation. After failing miserably to install R from source, not a problem for me in the past with a 32-bit install, I went the route of using the Debian Etch build. This went smoothly, but I am unable to update my numerous R and BioConductor packages, getting non-zero exit status errors on each package. Is