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Full_Name: Gustaf Rydevik Version: 2.7.1 OS: Win XP professional Submission from: (NULL) (130.237.97.254) The following lines of code crash R 2.7.1 (=cause R to show "The R gui has encountered a problem and needs to close"....). Replicated on two WinXp professional machines, as well as by Uwe Ligges. > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) i386-pc-mingw32 locale:

Hi all, I'm currently preparing some figures that will be submitted to PloS One. In their guidelines they state that they will only accept figures in tiff or eps format, with the warning that eps figures will be converted to tiff format ( see http://www.plosone.org/static/figureGuidelines.action ). Because of this conversion, I figured I'd generate tiff-format figures from the beginning.

Hi all, I'm trying to download a file from the net, and the download.file command leaves it corrupted, i.e excel cannot open it. It seems as if it's going ok, however. Does anyone have an idea of what's going on? regards, Gustaf Rydevik ---- >download.file(url="http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls",destfile="whodem.xls") trying URL

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gustaf Rydevik <gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent change in 2.11 that made as.numeric() return false on > difftime-objects broke some of my code that calculated age classes of > individuals using cut(). While this was no big thing to fix for me, it > might be wise > to provide a cut.difftime method to ?stop

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gustaf Rydevik <gustaf.rydevik at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent change in 2.11 that made as.numeric() return false on > difftime-objects broke some of my code that calculated age classes of > individuals using cut(). While this was no big thing to fix for me, it > might be wise > to provide a cut.difftime method to ?stop

Rahul Agarwal Analyst Equities Quantitative Research UBS_ISC, Hyderabad On Net: 19 533 6363 hi let me explain you the problem we have a database which is in this format Stocks 30-Jan-08 28-Feb-08 31-Mar-08 30-Apr-08 a 1.00 3.00 7.00 3.00 b 2.00 4.00 4.00 7.00 c 3.00 8.00 655.00 3.00 d 4.00 23.00 4.00 5.00 e 5.00 78.00 6.00 5.00 and we have a query

Hi all, I've run into a slightly illogical (to me) behaviour with the "$" subsetting function. consider: > Test A B 1 1 Q 2 2 R > Test$A [1] 1 2 > vector<-"A" > Test$vector NULL > Test$"A" [1] 1 2 > Test[,vector] [1] 1 2 Is there a reason for the $ operator not evaluating the vector before executing? best, Gustaf -- Gustaf

Hi all, This is perhaps more a statistics question than an R question, but I hope it's OK anyhow. I have some data (see below) with the number of tests positive to subtype H1 of a virus, the number of tests postive to subtype H3, and the total number of tests. This is for two different groups, and the two subtypes are mutually exclusive. What is the best way to test if the proportion of H1

Hi all, A colleague of mine tried to install the package EMV, which had been removed from CRAN. she ran into some kind of trouble, R locked up, and she closed the program. Now when she starts R, "utils" can't be loaded which of course create an unworkable environment. Below I've copy-pasted the error message she gets when starting R. Any ideas on what went wrong, and more

Hi All, I think i'm failing to undersatnd how aggregate() is supposed to work. example: test1<-sample(c(0,1),100,replace=T) test2<-sample(letters,100,replace=T) aggregate(test1,list(test2),sum) Error in data.frame(w, lapply(y, unlist, use.names = FALSE)) : arguments imply differing number of rows: 26, 0 I thought this would give me a list containing the number of ones that

Hi all, I've got a project where I have to calculate weight-for-age Z-scores, preferably using the WHO standards. WHO have been very nice to publish macros for doing this in both STATA,SPSS, SAS and Splus formats (see http://www.who.int/childgrowth/software/en/), but for some reason have chosen not to use the free R alternative to Splus. In the Splus zipfile there are nine datafiles with a

Hi All, Two years back, I posted a small function for getting the ISO 8601 defined week number of a date (such as the week number used in all Swedish calendars), in a os-independent manner. I've since discovered an inaccuracy in that code, and so I thought I'd repost the corrected version. Hopefully this will come in handy for someone searching the mailing list archives in the future.

I am creating graphs for a publication and would like them to have the same font size... but when I create a figure with multiple plots, the font size decreases even though I haven't changed the tiff() resolution or pointsize specifications, I have increased the figure size according to how many plots it will ultimately have, and I have made sure the margins are equivalent for single and

Hi all, In lattice plots, is there any option to position the panel strips with text below each subgraph, instead of above? i.e. in: Depth <- equal.count(quakes$depth, number=8, overlap=.1) xyplot(lat ~ long | Depth, data = quakes) ,is there any way to make "Depth" appear below the subgraphs, instead of above? I've been looking through the lattice documentation and the list

Hi all, I'm trying to get a vertical line at a specific point in a densityplot. abline seems to be what's required, but it doesn't align itself to the scale used in the plot. example: library(lattice) x<-rnorm(100) plot.new() densityplot(x) abline(v=0) ----- The line seems to use some other coordinate system. What kind of call do I use to make abline use the graph's

Hi all, for some reason I always get stuck spending hours when trying to use reshape or the Reshape package. Heaven knows why. My latest frustration (in 2.7.1, so ignore if this has been fixed): test<-data.frame(matrix(rnorm(42*4),ncol=4),rep(1:21,2),rep(c("a","b"),each=21)) reshape(test,varying=list(colnames(test)[1:4]),direction="long")

Hi all, I have a time series which contain data collected weekly from week 26 to week 25 the following year. How do I plot this data, so that the x-axis is displaying the week numbers, ordered as in the data? Thanks in advance, Gustaf --- x<-c(26:52,1:25) y<-rnorm(52)+1:52 plot(x,y) ## How do I get the x axis to be ordered by the current ordering of x? -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel:

Hi all, I wonder if there is any way to calculate a moving average on an irregular time series, or use the rollapply function in zoo? I have a set of dates where I want to check if there has been an event 14 days prior to each time point in order to mark these timepoints for removal, and can't figure out a good way to do it. Many thanks in advance! Gustaf Example data:

Hi all, some years ago, I sent a question to the mailing list regarding the WHO anthro macros. Since I've now received three mails asking how I solved it, I thought I'd cc R-help in for future reference. Attaching a zip file with the relevant code parts that I used that I'm not sure gets through (if anyone has recommendations on how to manage such files for the list, I'd be

Hi all, I am plotting some data, and use text() to get variable names next to points on the graph. What is the best way to make sure that these text labels are readable and not overlapping when two datapoints are close? I've tried using jitter(), but the effect is random and doesn't always give a good result. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Best regards, Gustaf Example: