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Is the following expected behaviour for a date used in an ifelse function? > date <- Sys.Date() > date [1] "2007-12-30" > ifelse(TRUE, date-1, date) [1] 13876 > ifelse(FALSE, date-1, date) [1] 13877 > ifelse(TRUE, as.character(date-1), date) [1] "2007-12-29" > if (TRUE) {date} [1] "2007-12-30" It would seem more natural to me if a date produced

Dear useRs, Why are the rotated blue and yellow boxes in the example below clipped outside of 6 x 6 inch window in the middle of the page?? Where does the 6 x 6 inch window come from? I would like to make use of the entire page. > library(grid) > pdf(file = "FarmMaps.pdf", paper = "a4") > pushViewport(viewport( + width = unit(7.6, "inches"), height =

When I use grid.rect to print a multi-coloured grid, it is incredibly slow compared to a single colour grid, or even a two colour grid. I've set out some simplified examples below. This is something I run literally thousands of times a day, so I would greatly appreciate any hints on how I might improve the speed??? library(grid) pushViewport(viewport( width = unit(100,

Is there any function in R like is.not.found(x, y) meaning if you can't find object x, then use object y?? Mikkel Grum

I run a batch file with the following command in Windows XP: C:\R\R-2.12.1\bin\Rterm.exe --no-save --no-restore <C:\users\me\file.R> C:\users\me\file.out 2>&1 Is there any way to get only the output of R in file.out, without getting all the code from file.R too? Any help greatly appreciated, Mikkel

I want to do something like df[df$b %in% df2[i, 2], ] where df$b is a numeric vector and df2[i, 2] is a factor with levels like "7:9, 12:14". For example: a <- c(paste("A", 1:10, sep = ""), paste("B", 1:10, sep = "")) b <- 1:20 df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a, b)) df$b <- as.numeric(levels(df$b))[as.integer(df$b)] f <-

I'm trying to select a subset of a dataframe while dropping some factors. While the dataset gets smaller all Factor levels remain and I need to get rid of them. Strangely enough, I am almost certain that the same code on the same data worked OK earlier today - and it is not the first time that I'm not able to replicate earlier results with this command (I know, I might just be going

Dear useRs, I'm writing regular survey reports using Sweave. Each report has several sections along the lines of: \section*{Disease X} <<MapX,fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>= image(vectorx,vectory,matrixz) @ Notes with or without Sexpr{a}. \vfill \pagebreak \section*{Disease Y} <<MapY,fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>= ...etc. Often one or more of the diseases is not observed (all

I'm changing some functions from storing data in SQLite (using RSQLite) to storing it in PostgreSQL (using RODBC). When trying to store very long character fields I get the following message: > sqlSave(pg, Grids, rownames = FALSE, append = TRUE) Warning messages: 1: In odbcUpdate(channel, query, mydata, paramdata, test = test, verbose = verbose, : character data truncated in column

I'm trying to schedule R tasks in Windows Server 2003. I can run the following from the DOS prompt without any difficulty: c:\Reports>c:\r\rw2001\bin\rterm.exe --no-restore --no-save <test.R> test.out where test.r has two lines: library(tools); Sweave("rlr.Rnw"). When I try to run the same from the task scheduler, I fill in the dialogue box as follows: Run:

Hi, A colleague recently came across an R crash, which I can boil down to the following, running under Rgui on Windows 7: library(ggplot2) ggplot(data.frame(x=1, y=1, z=4.7), aes(x, y, z=z)) + stat_summary2d() This reliably causes a segmentation fault. sessionInfo() below. What's happening is that (for reasons which I'll discuss with the ggplot2 developers) the 'colorbar'

Good afternoon, This is possibly a windows only bug, definitely of comparatively low importance - but for the sake of completeness here we go. I've searched http://bugs.R-project.org/ etc., but can find no mention. For RGui.exe, the CPU usage goes to 100% for certain dialog boxes for the duration that the dialog box is visible, e.g. * check CPU usage is low * On the RGui.exe menu chose

Dear list, I encounter an error when I try to use ddply to generate means as follows: fun3<-structure(list(sector = structure(list(gics_sector_name = c("Financials", "Financials", "Materials", "Materials")), .Names = "gics_sector_name", row.names = structure(c("UBSN VX Equity", "LLOY LN Equity", "AI FP Equity",

Dear R-helpers, I get GPS readings with bug counts (bugs meaning insects in this case) made along rows in crop fields and use these to make maps of bug distribution. The GPS readings are not quite accurate enough for my purpose, so since I know what row each reading is made in, I adjust the latitudinal coordinate using: grd<-lm(lat~lon+Row,data)

I'm trying to insert rows of a data.frame into a database table, or update where the key fields of a record already exist in the table. I've come up with a possible solution below, but would like to hear if anyone has a better solution. # The problem demonstrated: # Create a data.frame with test values library(RODBC) tbl <- data.frame( key1 = rep(1:3, each = 2), key2 =

Dear all, ggplot gives me an error when trying to plot time series data using a date variable as the x axis. g<-structure(list(Date = c("2011-12-23", "2011-12-30", "2012-01-06", "2011-12-23", "2011-12-30", "2012-01-06", "2011-12-23", "2011-12-30", "2012-01-06"), variable = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L,

I've created a chart with times that employees have entered data on named tasks as in the following example: Employee <- c(rep("Tom", 127),? rep("Dick", 121),? rep("Sally", 130) ) Time <- c(seq(as.POSIXct("2011-09-12 07:00:00"), as.POSIXct("2011-09-12 14:00:00"), 200), seq(as.POSIXct("2011-09-12 07:00:00"),

When saving a data frame with long character variable, approximately longer than 30000 characters, to a text field in PostgreSQL, using RODBC on Windows XP, I get a timestamp saved to the database instead. Is there any way to extend the number of characters that a text variable can receive? Here are the details of my case (simplified): I'm using PostgreSQL to create a table CREATE TABLE

Is there a way of removing all rows with missing values from a data frame? I usually use subset(x, var1!="NA") and repeat for each variable. It would be nice to be able to do it in one fell swoop. Also, surprisingly, it doesn't always work. Sometimes I'm left with an empty set even though not all rows have missing values for the variable. Cheers, mikkel Mikkel Grum,

I have a script that runs as a cron job every minute (on Ubuntu 10.10 and R 2.11.1), querying a database for new data. Most of the time it takes a few seconds to run, but once in while it takes more than a minute and the next run starts (on the same data) before the previous one has finished. In extreme cases this will fill up memory with a large number of runs of the same script on the same data.