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Dear R Users, I am on Windows XP SP2 platform, using R version 2.7.2 . I was wondering if there is a way to find out, within R, the number of CPU's on my machine ? I would use this information to set the number of nodes in a cluster, depending on the machine. Sys.info() and .Platform do not carry this information. Thanks in advance, Tolga Uzuner Generally, this communication is for

Dear R Users, A bit of a simple question, but I could not find the answer thru google ("sorting lists r cran","how can i sort a list r cran") or RSiteSearch... how can I sort a list ? One imagines something like sort.list would do the job, but that's not the one. > foo<-list(a=10,b=2,c=3) > sort.list(foo) Error in sort.list(foo) : 'x' must be atomic

Dear R-Users, I am looking for a way to get legends placed automagically in an empty spot on a graph. Additional complication comes through my useage of multiple graphs on the same plot through mfrow. Is there a way to achieve this in R ? I have legends for each of the sub-plots. Many thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not

Dear R Users, Does R have an "inverse empirical cumulative distribution" function, something one can use to invert ecdf ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. In the event you

Dear R Users, I would like to get the pdf() command to create graphics in landscape mode, as I am plotting 8 graphs in 2 rows and 4 columns. This is being generated for an a4 printer (so I also use the paper="a4" command). Is there a way I can ask pdf() to generate the document in landscape mode ? Thanks, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it

Dear R Users, A bit of an elementary question, but somehow, I haven't been able to figure it out. I'd like to changes the column names of a data frame, so I am looking for something like col.names (as in row.names). Could someone please show me how to change the column names of a data frame ? Thanks, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is

Dear R Users, Can anyone point me to a package for R vrsion 2.7.1 which implements some Hurst exponent estimation methods ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. In the event you are

Dear R-Users, I've written a number of functions in a .R/script file. I would like to call those functions from another script file. How can I execute all the code in a script file so that the functions are available for use in my other script file ? I have tried help.search("script") and various Google alternatives but couldn't come up with anything. Thanks in advance,

Dear Achim, R Users, What am I doing wrong in this example ? a<-zoo(rnorm(100),order.by=1:100) b<-lag(a) regr<-na.exclude(merge(a,b)) plot(regr) grangertest(regr[,1],regr[,2],3) > a<-zoo(rnorm(100),order.by=1:100) > b<-lag(a) > regr<-na.exclude(merge(a,b)) > plot(regr) > grangertest(regr[,1],regr[,2],3) Error in solve(vc[ovar, ovar]) : subscript out of bounds

Dear R Users, I am looking for a smoothing function with the following characteristics for a time series of data: - at each date, should only use data up to that date (so, right aligned and not centered) - should return a smoothed series of length equal to the original time series: - for a one-day time series, just returns that day - this means the front part of the series will

Dear R Users, Is there a package or some functionality in R which returns statistics on "runs" of numbers, i.e. series of numbers with similar qualities in a time series ? For example, the number of +ves,-ves, histograms on cumulations in runs, etc. ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or

Dear R Users, I am trying to get plot.zoo to place monthy tickmarks/labels for a time series which spans daily data going back a bit over a year. Right now, I am getting only one tick mark on the x-axis for the beginning of 2008. How can I force plot.zoo to place more regular x-axis tick marks on a monthly basis ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational

Dear R Users, The granger.test command in the MSBVAR package estimates all possible bivariate Granger causality tests for m variables. If one passes a data frame with 3 rows, it returns 6 granger tests in two rows, one for the F-statistic and another for the p-value. For example: > a<-rnorm(1:10) > b<-c(lag(a),rnorm(1)) > c<-c(lag(b),rnorm(1)) >

Dear R Users, I would like the R GUI to display numbers with comma separators, i.e. 1,000,000.00 instead of 1000000 Is there a flag in option() for this behaviour. A google/RSiteSearch has not revealed anything but perhaps I have missed it. Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the

Dear R Users, Is anyone aware of a package which calculates the Yule Kendall resistant (to errors,outliers) measure of skewness ? An easy calculation to perform, but was just wondering if a package exists (as the contents of that package would probably include other cool things I would also be interested). Thanks, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it

Dear R Users, I am trying to do something quite simple: replace the elements of a zoo object. For some reason, the following code does not seem to work. How can I replace the value for the 14th of Dec of 2008 in the zoo object x below with 1 (it is currently NA). > x 2008-12-11 2008-12-12 2008-12-13 2008-12-14 2008-12-15 2008-12-16 361.667 389.875 NA NA 397.822

Dear R Users, Was wondering if anyone can give me pointers to functionality in R that can help "clean" a time series ? For example, some kind of package/functionality which identifies potential "errors" and takes some action, such as replacement by some suitable value (carry-forward, average of nearest, what have you) and reporting of errors identified. I did search

Dear R Users, I am attempting to use the snow package for clustering. Is there a way to identfy, in the environment of each node, a rank for that node and also, the total size of the cluster ? By way of analogy, I am looking for the functions in snow equivalent to mpi.comm.rank() and mpi.comm.size() from RMPI, in case that makes things clearer. Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this

Dear R-Users, I am trying to use paste to paste the character ' around a character vector. Paste appears to place spaces (" ") around this. Anyway this can be done without the unintended introduction of space characters ? Please see example below. Many thanks, Tolga > charlist<-c("a","b","c") > lapply(charlist, function (y)

Dear R Users, How can I create names for lists within a function where the name itself is a function of several variables ? > a<-1 > b<-2 > paste(a,b) [1] "1 2" > foo<-list(paste(a,b)=3) <<<===== DOES NOT WORK Error: unexpected '=' in "foo<-list(paste(a,b)=" > eval(paste(a,b)) [1] "1 2" >