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I want to create a data.frame of time and date for a year. I started with the idea of simply producing two vectors (time and date) The first part ( time) is easy. rep(1:24, 365) But how do I get a series of 24 dates for O1 January 2005 and repeat this to 31 December 2005. It should be easy but I don't see it. Thanks

Dear list, I would like to export a matrix to a TXT-File by using write.csv (not necessarily). Is there a way to add a header (with additional informations concerning the project) spanning multiple lines to this file before the actual data are listed up? Should look like this: date: filename: number of permutations: ------------ data (as a matrix) Any suggestions? Thnx in advance.

Hi all, I'm trying to download a file from the net, and the download.file command leaves it corrupted, i.e excel cannot open it. It seems as if it's going ok, however. Does anyone have an idea of what's going on? regards, Gustaf Rydevik ---- >download.file(url="http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls",destfile="whodem.xls") trying URL

Hi all, I wonder if there is any way to calculate a moving average on an irregular time series, or use the rollapply function in zoo? I have a set of dates where I want to check if there has been an event 14 days prior to each time point in order to mark these timepoints for removal, and can't figure out a good way to do it. Many thanks in advance! Gustaf Example data:

Hi all, I'm currently preparing some figures that will be submitted to PloS One. In their guidelines they state that they will only accept figures in tiff or eps format, with the warning that eps figures will be converted to tiff format ( see http://www.plosone.org/static/figureGuidelines.action ). Because of this conversion, I figured I'd generate tiff-format figures from the beginning.

Dear all, Is there a way to generate K numbers of integer (K = 10^6). The maximum value of the integer is 200,000 and minimum is 1. And the occurrences of this integer follows a lognormal distribution. - Gundala Viswanath Jakarta - Indonesia

Hi all, In lattice plots, is there any option to position the panel strips with text below each subgraph, instead of above? i.e. in: Depth <- equal.count(quakes$depth, number=8, overlap=.1) xyplot(lat ~ long | Depth, data = quakes) ,is there any way to make "Depth" appear below the subgraphs, instead of above? I've been looking through the lattice documentation and the list

Hi all, This is perhaps more a statistics question than an R question, but I hope it's OK anyhow. I have some data (see below) with the number of tests positive to subtype H1 of a virus, the number of tests postive to subtype H3, and the total number of tests. This is for two different groups, and the two subtypes are mutually exclusive. What is the best way to test if the proportion of H1

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gustaf Rydevik <gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent change in 2.11 that made as.numeric() return false on > difftime-objects broke some of my code that calculated age classes of > individuals using cut(). While this was no big thing to fix for me, it > might be wise > to provide a cut.difftime method to ?stop

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gustaf Rydevik <gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent change in 2.11 that made as.numeric() return false on > difftime-objects broke some of my code that calculated age classes of > individuals using cut(). While this was no big thing to fix for me, it > might be wise > to provide a cut.difftime method to ?stop

Hi all, Is there a simple function already implemented for getting the ISO weeks of a Date object? I couldn't find one, and so wrote my own function to do it, but would appreciate a pointer to the "default" way. If a function is not yet implemented, could the code below be of interest to submit to CRAN? Best Regards, Gustaf --------------------

(Sorry for the cross-post--- I wasn't sure which list is more appropriate...) Hi everyone, I've run into segfaults when using my randomForest package on large dataset (e.g., 100 x 15200) and large number of trees (e.g., ntree=7000 and mtry=3000). I'm wondering if anyone can give me some hints on where to look for the problem. The randomForest package mainly consists of two things:

(Sorry for the cross-post--- I wasn't sure which list is more appropriate...) Hi everyone, I've run into segfaults when using my randomForest package on large dataset (e.g., 100 x 15200) and large number of trees (e.g., ntree=7000 and mtry=3000). I'm wondering if anyone can give me some hints on where to look for the problem. The randomForest package mainly consists of two things:

Hi to everyone, I am starting to work with a model that is not familiar to me. The model would be like that: y = . - a*max(Q(i) - Q(0), 0) + . where Q(i) is the accumulated effect of a variable at time i and Q(0) a threshold above it there is effect on y. The value of Q(i) could be estimated as: Q(i+1) = Q(i) + b*max(s(i) - s(0), 0) + c*min(s(i) - s(0), 0) + . Where s

Hi all, I hope that there is someone that can help me out here. I am trying to load() a workspace on os x (R 2.11.0) that was saved in windows XP (R 2.9). In that workspace, there's a data.frame with names that contain swedish characters. These characters become garbled, which is a major problem. >From the R windows FAQ, I read: "Note though that character data in a workspace will be

Hi all, I have a time series which contain data collected weekly from week 26 to week 25 the following year. How do I plot this data, so that the x-axis is displaying the week numbers, ordered as in the data? Thanks in advance, Gustaf --- x<-c(26:52,1:25) y<-rnorm(52)+1:52 plot(x,y) ## How do I get the x axis to be ordered by the current ordering of x? -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel:

Hi all, I've run into a slightly illogical (to me) behaviour with the "$" subsetting function. consider: > Test A B 1 1 Q 2 2 R > Test$A [1] 1 2 > vector<-"A" > Test$vector NULL > Test$"A" [1] 1 2 > Test[,vector] [1] 1 2 Is there a reason for the $ operator not evaluating the vector before executing? best, Gustaf -- Gustaf

Rahul Agarwal Analyst Equities Quantitative Research UBS_ISC, Hyderabad On Net: 19 533 6363 hi let me explain you the problem we have a database which is in this format Stocks 30-Jan-08 28-Feb-08 31-Mar-08 30-Apr-08 a 1.00 3.00 7.00 3.00 b 2.00 4.00 4.00 7.00 c 3.00 8.00 655.00 3.00 d 4.00 23.00 4.00 5.00 e 5.00 78.00 6.00 5.00 and we have a query

Hi all, I've got a project where I have to calculate weight-for-age Z-scores, preferably using the WHO standards. WHO have been very nice to publish macros for doing this in both STATA,SPSS, SAS and Splus formats (see http://www.who.int/childgrowth/software/en/), but for some reason have chosen not to use the free R alternative to Splus. In the Splus zipfile there are nine datafiles with a

Hi, I ran into this issue previously and managed to solve it, but I've forgotten how and am getting frustrated... I have a data frame (see below) with scandinavian characters in R (2.7.1) running on a Win Xp-computer. I save the data frame in an RData-file on a usb stick, and load() it in R (2.8.0) running on OS X 10.5. Now the name of the data frame and all factor labels with scandinavian