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I want to do some recoding of variables: code Age into groups and recode a factor into a smaller number of levels. There are a couple of options for recode functions, in the car package and in memisc, and I think in gmisc. Does anyone have any opinions on the the easiest, most reliable approach for these problems? David Scott _________________________________________________________________

This is really a query about MySQL which I am trying to use to set up a database which I will then access with RODBC. I have my data in a .csv file, and some of the fields are date/time fields. I tried to create a table using mysql with the definition of the date/time field given by CallDate DATETIME, but I got an error saying that the first row has 28/07/2006 0:00 in that field. What I

I have just got a new machine and had a basic cygwin installed before it was given to me. It didn't include make. Previously I have installed Rtools to build packages and now I have got myself a bit confused as to whether to just install make from the cygwin packages or to install rtools. I would welcome any advice. I had a look at the rtools section in the Administration Manual and the

I am aware of one (unofficial) guide to style for R programming: http://www1.maths.lth.se/help/R/RCC/ from Henrik Bengtsson. Can anyone provide further pointers to good style? Views on Bengtsson's ideas would interest me as well. David Scott _________________________________________________________________ David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland,

Delving into the murky world of dates and times I found this: dates <- c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92", "02/28/92", "02/01/92") > times <- c("23:03:20", "22:29:56", "01:03:30", "18:21:03", "16:56:26") > x <- paste(dates, times) > z <- strptime(x, "%m/%d/%y

I would like to set up a Windows XP environment with R and MySQL. This set-up was recommended by a friend who uses this set up, but I have been unable to get RJDBC to work. I have installed all of the software today (June 2 2008), first deleting and then replacing old versions of software. The error is as follows: Error in .jfindClass(as.character(driverClass)[1]) : class not found This error

I am having trouble with try and tryCatch. I have read the documentation but I just don't get it. Here is what I am trying to do. I am testing a function which has a number of parameters. I want to test it for different values of the parameters and I have some loops, in the middle of which is a test of the function. Sometimes the routine fails and so I have put the bit that might fail

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

I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it gives : > patients <- read.csv("../Patients.csv", header = FALSE, + col.names = patientsNames) Error in type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec, na.strings = character(0)) : invalid multibyte string

I have a data set concerning ferritin levels in blood. There are three relevant columns for this question, ferritin (continuous), score (ordered, from 0 to 8) and gender. There is a good linear relationship between log(ferritin) and score for each gender. I can create a lattice plot on the log scale showing the data and the fitted line: xyplot(log(ferritin) ~ total|gender, data = blood,

Is there a package or function for multivariate garch model in R? I am having a hard time in locating one. Thanks for help in advance. -Young [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R users, Simply my question is that how it is possible to generate some random numbers using rnorm( ) but in log transformed values. Thank you, Tobias --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am having trouble with creating a POSIXct object. If I create a variable of class Date first out of the date part of my data, I am ok, but if I just paste the date and time parts together and try and create the POSIXct object, I have problems. Here is a toy example created from the actual data which caused the problem. I am using R 2.0.1 on Windows XP. > # Data frame with dates and

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

I am trying to create a package. I have succeeded in running R CMD check and R CMD build on an Intel box running Redhat. I would now like to build it on Windows as well. There is no compiled code in the package at all. I have downloaded the tools from Brian Ripley's Building R for Windows page, and installed Active Perl 5.8.0. I have set paths, and Rcmd and the tools are being found ok. I am

I am trying to create a plot similar to Figure 3.2 in Bates and Pinheiro. I have repeated measurements on about 80 subjects from 2 treatment groups. I would like to have the panels for the two treatment groups in separate groups and within those groups have the panels ordered on maximum value (as is the default). I am ok with getting plots similar to Figs 3.1 and 3.2, but can't see how to

I have around 4000 observations of a time series. I am trying to fit a regression with ARMA error structure using gls from the package nlme. I have encountered the error: cannot allocate vector of size 126064 Kb I know this has come up many times before and I will check out the suggestions in the mail archive. I was wondering though if there is an alternative package that will fit such a

When trying to update packages after the sysadmin updated R on my unix box I got errors on some packages. For example for chron: * DONE (chron) mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/R/library/00LOCK': Permission denied ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/lib/R/library' for modifying I got similar messages for spatial and cluster and warnings for other packages. Finally I got:

I am analysing some data collected over a number of months from Allentown, PA, which is just north of Philadelphia. I am using as.POSIXct for dates and times, and I need to get the timezone specification correct. Going on the documentation for DateTimeClasses, I believe one way to specify the correct time zone is tz="EST5EDT" I would be grateful for any advice on this. I ask