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Please, is it possible to pass an username and a password to source() to access code stored in restricted access web server? I know I can use commands like... > source("http://mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/R/3Dsurface.r") but I am not able to find if it is possible to pass authorization parameters together with the link. Thanks you for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo

Hi all, Please, how could I calculate the time that two time segments has in common? Is there any function to perform this calculation? For instance, given four POSIXlt objects... endPeriod<-as.POSIXlt("2008-09-30") startPeriod<-as.POSIXlt("2007-10-01") endProject<-as.POSIXlt("2007-05-31") startProject<-as.POSIXlt("2006-12-01") that limit

Hi all, I have not been able to find an answer to what is a simple question: conaguaMexicoSub <- subset(conagua, unidad == "Jalapa", select = c(equipo,X101:X309)) This subset gives me all the rows from conagua where unidad is Jalapa. But, please, how do I get all the rows where unidad contents Jalapa? I've been looking at regex, but I didn't find how pass one to unidad

Please, could you give me an example about how to use cat() to read the value of a variable in a function? Any other way? I've found how to make it globally available, thus printing it, but I don't know how to read out the value of any variable within the function. Thanks for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodr?guez Your XEN ICT Team

Hi all, Please, is there any way of controlling factors in row/columns when using ftable/xtabs? As far as I can see, the last cross-clasifing variable in the formula will appear in columns. The previous ones, in rows. For instance, is it possible to make tension and replicate appear in columns? ftable(xtabs(breaks ~ wool + tension + replicate, data = warpbreaks)) After some years using SAS

Hi all, I've found quite usefull colored-grid created by image() but I'm facing a doubt I am not able to solve. Given the following data rectangle... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1 12 22 0 7 2 1 0 2 0 2 6 -3 0 3 2 0 -1 0 9 3 -4 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 29 45 6 12 16 85 -2 0 -3 -4 89 -1 -1 1 4 2 9 3 6 17 3 -2 -9 -2 8

Hi all, Please, while using image() which is the graphical parameter which control the space between ylab and the y axis? I do need to write a number of relatively long y labels and I am not able the control, if possible, this space. See the effect I need to avoid... http://nvx.environmentalchange.net/@rrodriguez/images/overlapping.jpg Thanks for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodr?guez Your

Hi everybody, I am trying to make my mind about the use of R for Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics. I know this is a vaste field: this is the main reason why I am sending this message to this always useful list! Any key/entry point to this field will be extremely welcome! Please, could you help me to go in the right direction? Thanks!!! Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodr?guez

Hi all, I have looked around for help on creating GUIs for R, but haven't found anything. I would be interested in any advice or webpages that have information on the best language, tutorials etc. for creating simple GUIs. Mainly I want to do this as a heuristic exercise. Thanks for any help. Wade Wall [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi all, In Spanish vowels with accent like ?, ?, ... doesn't affect to the alphabetical order of vector of strings. I mean, a or ? don't matter for establishing the alphabetical order. Nevertheless, while working with R order, here is what I get. Given a file transport.txt medio#variable avi?n#34 barco#33 bicicleta#3 ?ngulo#37 cami?n#54 coche#23 tren#67 > toPlot <-

Those are good news. Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You didn't tell us the version of R. quartz() is different in 2.7.0 > alpha, and there the function arguments do work (and the size is > really as advertised and not at a notional 72dpi). In fact, it is a > much more standard device and interface, so less to learn. > I assumed that > version provides most of the

Thanks. Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Which messages? R.app and R itself handle this differently for their > messages. > > You will find a discussion in the 'R Installation and Administration' > manual. You don't give an address, but I suspect you are in a > Spanish-speaking locale. I believe the Mac OS port of R uses the > stanard libintl from the R

Hi, Following an example I've received from Phil Spector, I am trying to get a remote file by using download file. The concerned remote server doesn't username and password passed with the URL, thus this line fails... download.file('http://username:password@xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02','RG02',method='wget') I can get a

Hi all! I do hope question from newcomers are wellcome here! Thanks in advance. Trying to catch up and to acquired the needed background to easily read R documents it is being a bit hard to me to get into the required concepts to deal with data. I am trying to get data from a MySQL database and plotting it with barplot. Here the code... library(RMySQL) con <- dbConnect(dbDriver

Hi all, Given a data frame as... > head(veg) genus species trophia type geo zone importance 1 Sphagnum subsecundum M A En 100 2 Sphagnum denticulatum M A En 200 3 Molinia caerulea M A En 300 4 Sphagnum flexuosum M A En 400 5 Juncus squarrosus M A En 500 6

Hi Ricardo and everybody In this old post to rhelp you say that the problem was solved but not what the sollution was. I have the same problem now. I want to read a Excel file from a google site that has restricted access so I need to give a username and password at some point. I could not find an example or a help file that shows how this can be done. You post is one of few but it does not

Hi all, We are facing a problem while introducing ourselves to Reshape package use. Melt seems to work fine, but cast fails when we use mean as fun.aggregate. As you see here, length and sum work fine, but mean throws this same error whatever dataset we use. > cast(aqm, month ~ variable, length) month ozone solar.r wind temp 1 5 26 27 31 31 2 6 9 30 30

Hi all, Completely new to this list and completely new to R so, please, accept my apologies in advance if any question is too basic or out of place. Thanks. After reading some docs, googling around and searched the mail lists I've only found spare references to accessing databases. Among these references, few are related with JDBC and none of them include both MySQL and JDBC access. Our

Dear R-ers, I'm using R 2.7.1 Mac OS. What is the best way for update to 2.7.2 to keep my previous libraries? Fredrik ######################## Fredrik Lundgren fredrik.bg.lundgren at gmail.com Obs! Ny adress och mail Engelbrektsgatan 31 582 21 Link?ping 013 - 47 30 117 0706 - 86 39 29 Sommarhus: Ljungn?s 158 380 30 Rockneby 0480 - 650 98

Hi all, not sure if this is the right place to ask this but R not being such a "mainstream" app, can't find the answer anywhere. I plan to upgrade to Snow asap and just wondering if anyone else has already and has successfully used R on Mac OSX 10.6. If so, what version? and is it running in 64 bit mode? Thanks in advance, George.