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Hi, is there a function in R to convert data read with read.shape and which is originally in UTM coordinates into longitude / latitude coordinates? I found the convUL() function from the PBSmapping package but I have no idea how I could apply that to the read.shape object. Many thanks, Werner __________________________________________________ Do sragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails.

Hi, this is probably the easiest thing to do but I manage not finding the answer: I have a list with matrices of exact same format and headers. Now I would like to transform the list into an normal array. What is the proper way to do this? as.array changes the entire format and right now I only found the method of creating a new array, going through the entire list and copy the matrix in each

Hi everybody! I am sorry to bother you with a question so simple but I think there might be a better solution: I have a matrix of size 360x501 where I want to check the value of each 5th column of each row and replace it (and the 6th, 7th, 8th column) by zero if the value is less than 1000. I have written a double loop to do that but that requires a lot of time. Is there a faster way to

Hi! I have large matrices, one column per variable and I have a vector of factors / grouping symbols. Then I am computing subtotals for the groups but it takes pretty long and thus I wanted to ask if there is a better way to do it or if this is already the best way: subTotals <- function(x, groupvec) do.call("rbind",lapply(split(x,groupvec),colSums,na.rm=T)) Thanks reading my

Hi, I was wondering if anybody might have a reference for me: My R code is growing and getting more and more confusing. Thus, I figure it's time to switch to object-oriented again. I have done oo programming in C++ and Java before but the first few tutorial on R oo were a bit confusing for me. Is there any brief tutorial on oo programming in R especially for people who have done oo in Java

Hi, Before I reinvent the wheel I wanted to kindly ask you for your opinion if there is a simple way to do it. I want to merge a larger number of tables from different data sources in R and the matching criterium are country names. The tables are of different size and sometimes the country names do differ slightly. Has anyone done this or any recommendation on what commands I

R 2.15.1 OS X Colleagues, I am reading a 1 GB file into R using read.table. The file consists of 100 tables, each of which is headed by two lines of characters. The first of these lines is: TABLE NO. 1 The second is a list of column headers. For example: TABLE NO. 1 COL1 COL2 COL3 COL4 COL5 COL6 COL7 COL8 COL9 COL10

Hello, I am very happy that I have Sweave and R to write my papers. But I still have to do some tables by hand since I have not found out how I can customize the latex tables produced by R further (I mainly use xtable()). Like for instance, I have a table which needs an extra row every few rows as a group header and sometimes I want some extra horizontal lines in the table and also a multicolumn

Hi, probably just a quick question: can I somehow change the formula used with predict? E.g., the regression was run on "y ~ u + v + w" but for the prediction the term v should be removed from the formula contained in the regression object and only "y ~ u + w" be used. I could use model.matrix etc. to do the predictions but it would be very helpful to know a simpler way.

Hi, I have been dreaming about a complete R environment on my USB stick for a long time. Now I finally want to realize it but what I am missing is a good, portable editor for R which has tabs and syntax highlighting, can execute code, has bookmarks and a little project file management facility pretty much like Tinn-R has those. I like Tinn-R but it seems like there is only a very old version of

Hi there! I am considering to port a SAS application to R and I would like to hear your opinion if you think this is possible and worthwhile. SAS is mainly used to do data management and then to do some aggregations and simple computations on the data and to output a modified data set. The main problem I see is the size of the data file. As I have no access to SAS yet I cannot give real details

Hello, colnames seems to be not optimized well for data.frame. It escapes processing for data.frame in if (is.data.frame(x) && do.NULL) return(names(x)) but only when do.NULL true. This makes huge difference when do.NULL false. Minimal edit to `colnames`: if (is.data.frame(x)) { nm <- names(x) if (do.NULL || !is.null(nm)) return(nm) else

Hi, since I have quite large tables and the processing takes quite a while I am curious if I can improve the performance of this aggregation somehow: At the moment I am using summaryBy from the doBy package under R 2.4.0, Win2K. summaryBy(soc_s6aq5 + soc_s6aq7 + soc_s6aq9 + soc_s6aq11 ~ hh + comgroup,soc6a,postfix=c("","","",""),FUN=sum, na.rm=T) The

Hi, I have loaded the packages car, memisc, Hmisc and all of these implement the function recode. The order in which the packages are loaded depends on the order I execute my scripts and thus is not always the same and the syntax of the recode function changes with the package. Is there any way to call specificly the memisc recode function? Or maybe it's better to detach all packages first

Hi, this is probably a very trivial question but I can't figure out the right terms to find the solution in the list archive. I have a matrix or a data.frame or the like: > m <- matrix(ncol=3,seq(1,9)) > m [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 4 7 [2,] 2 5 8 [3,] 3 6 9 and now I wonder if one can provide somehow two vectors, one containing row numbers, the other

Dear R users, I??ve got a simple question but somehow I can??t find the solution: I have a data frame with columns 1-5 containing one set of integer values, and columns 6-10 containing another set of integer values. Columns 6-10 contain NA??s at some places. I now want to calculate (1) the number of values in each row of columns 6-10 that were NA??s (2) the sum of all values on columns 1-5

Dear useRs, i want to split a matrix having 1116rows and 12 columns. i want to split that matrix into 36 small matrices each having 12 columns and 31 rows. The big matrix should be splitted row wise. which means that the first small matrix should copy values which are in first 31 rows and 12 columns of the big matrix. similarly 2nd small matrix should contain values from 32nd to 63rd row of the

Hi, sqldf sounds like a very useful package but I don't even get the example to run: > a1s <- sqldf("select * from warpbreaks limit 6") Error in combine(FUN(...)) : argument "value" is missing, with no default > I am using R 2.6.1 on Windows Vista Business and have updated all packages. Some help would be very much appreciated. Many thanks, Werner

Hi, I would like to read in multi-dimensional data from a text file, i.e. "tables" with more than 2 dimensions. I have looked for a function which I can abuse for that but haven't found anything. I would appreciate it a lot if somebody gave me a hint if such functions already exist somewhere. Thanks, Werner

Hi, I am very intrigued by the idea of integrating statistical analysis directly with a paper as Sweave does it. But as I am collaborating with several people and they won't have set up R and also they're very unlikely interested in learning it, I am concerned about how such an Latex/Sweave document will work on their side. Can they Latex-compile the document without having R / Sweave