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plot(1,2, ylab= paste("insects", expression(m^2), sep=" ")) I get insects m^2 I would like m to the 2 what is the problem? -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being

These are date and times in the format YYYYMMDDhhmmss. I would like to take this column and make a chron object form them. I have tried a couple of the split family of functions but they need character input here is the data: date.time <- c(19851001001500, 19851001003000, 19851001004500, 19851001010000, 19851001011500, 19851001013000, 19851001014500, 19851001020000, 19851001021500,

#copy and paste this into R f <- (structure(list(TKN = c(0.103011025, 0.018633208, 0.104235702, 0.074537363, 0.138286096), RM = c(215, 198, 148, 119, 61)), .Names = c("TKN", "RM"), class = "data.frame", row.names = 25:29)) plot(f$TKN~f$RM, type="b") I would like to reverse the X-Axis. How do I do this? -- Let's not spend our time and resources

#I am putting a test together for an introductory biology class and I would like to put different cross hatching inside of each bar for the bar plot below color <- c("Brightly Colored", "Dull", "Neither") lizards <- c(277, 70, 3) liz.col <- data.frame(color, lizards) qplot(color, lizards, data=liz.col, geom="bar", ylab="Observed Matings",

Does anyone know of a test for stationarity of a time series, or like all ordination techniques it is a qualitative assessment of a quantitative result. Books, papers, etc. suggestions welcome. thanks Stephen -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are

RM215.sp <- SpatialPoints(RM215, proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84")) d060101 <- as.POSIXct("2006-01-01", tz="EST") study_seq <- seq(from=d060101, length.out=761, by="days") up.215 <- sunriset(RM215.sp, study_seq, direction="sunrise", POSIXct.out=TRUE) down.215 <- sunriset(RM215.sp, study_seq, direction="sunset",

d <- structure(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, NA, NA, NA, 14), .Dim = c(14L, 2L ), .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("a", "b"))) plot(d, type="b") This is simplified, but Is there an option I am missing that will force all of the points to be joined by a line? Stephen Sefick -- Let's not spend our time and resources

I can't figure this one out- I am the administrator, The file that I want to install is a .tar.gz which is located on my desktop. How do I get it into my packages directory- through the GUI or through brute force? thanks stephen -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel

R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] StreamMetabolism_0.01 chron_2.3-24 zoo_1.5-4 loaded

Is there any easy way to pull out the row indexes for a logical matching statment? #################example code######################################### foo <- data.frame(name=c(rep("A", 25), rep("B", 25), rep("C", 25), rep("A", 25)), stuff=rnorm(100), and=rnorm(100), things=rnorm(100)) #this is what I want but I would like the row indexes

I would like to rotate the axis labels 45 deg. -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis

#this is my little function that I would like to use the column names of the x and y arguments in the function. I would like it to read # site1-site2 how would I do this diff.temp <- function(x, y ,use="pairwise.complete.obs") { na.method <- pmatch(use, c("all.obs", "complete.obs", "pairwise.complete.obs")) par(mfrow=c(2,1))

I have got a data set that is Gross Primary Productivity ~ Total Suspended Solids it is a hyperbola just like: plot(1/c(1:1000)) how do I model this relationship so that I can get all of the neat things that lm gives residuals etc. etc. so that I can see if my eyeball model stands up. Thanks for any help, pointers, or good things to read. -- Stephen Sefick Research Scientist Southeastern

mac osx 10.5.4 R 2.7.1 I have fit a model d<-lm(y~x) with an R^2 of 0.963 but when I issue the command abline(d) the line is below where it ought to be. Looks like the right slope, but not the right intercept. thanks -- Stephen Sefick Research Scientist Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large

I would like to be able to reverse the xlim on qplot this is the code that I am using qplot(a[,"River.Mile"], a[,26] ,ylab=colnames(a)[26], xlab="RiverMile", xlim=rev(c(60, 216)))+geom_smooth()+scale_x_continuous(breaks=c(215,202,198,190,185,179,148,119,61),

Title says it all remember cast() with sum as the aggregation function -- Stephen Sefick Research Scientist Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being

I have a csv file that I am trying to read in and know that values <0 are erroneous - is there a way to read only value grater than 0. thanks, -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little

Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded Ubuntu 9.10 I have both the 8.5 and 8.4 tcl and tk regular and dev libraries installed. I need both of these because some of my GIS software requires the 8.4 libraries. Should I remove the 8.5 libraries, or ... All help is greatly appreciated!

I am using the function metaMDS with jaccard distances to ordinate a set of constituent by site matrix. I can post this data if it would be helpful, but it is large to include in an email. I can also provide reproducable code if necessary. I would like to get an R^2 value for the axes of the ordination configuration that I get with metaMDS in the vegan package is there a way to do this- is it

##This is a function that I am trying to write to calculate sunrise and sunset and works "mostly", but returns nonsensical values. What am I #missing? Thanks in advance. ###remember to include maptools as dependence### library(maptools) sunrise.set <- function(lat, long, date, timezone="UTC", num.days=1){ #this needs to be long lat# lat.long <- matrix(c(long, lat),