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Hi, Sorry for the simple question. Is there a way to change the name of only one column of an existing data frame? I know colnames allows you to set the name of all the columns, but only one column in the middle of my data frame needs a new name. Thanks, -Nina

Hi, I am extracting data from a table where the rows have different column lengths, and empty columns have NA in them. Whenever I extract a row with some empty columns, the resulting vector carries all the NAs. Is there a way to ignore the empty columns? Thanks, -Nina

Hi, I know this must be a stupid question, and sorry in advance for being such a noob. But, is there way to get R to display only certain variables when running a script. I know if you want to see the value of a variable when using the interface, you just type it in and hit enter, but is there a command that I can use in a script file that will show the value at a certain point? Thanks, -Nina

Hi, I have a data frame with strings that have two letters and four numbers. When I store a whole row as a new vector and try to remove the preceding letters using the gsub command, it returns characters of single numbers that have no relation to the numbers in each string. I also noticed that when I view the new vector before using gsub, it includes the original headers from the data frame. For

Hi, I have a CSV file with various biological reactions. Subscripts, superscripts, and italics are encoded in carats, and I was wondering if R can actually recognize those and print actual superscripts, etc. Here's an example: <i>S</i>-adenosyl-L-methionine + rRNA = <i>S</i>-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + rRNA containing

Hi, I'm using which to find the position of a value in my data table, and it is returning the correct position and the position of another number that differs by an extra decimal place. For example, when I do: where1<-which(Operons==3573.1,arr.ind=TRUE) it returns the position of that number and of 3573.15. Is it possible to get the function to only return a position if the number

Hi, I don't have too much programming experience - sorry in advance if this question is very basic, and thanks for the help. I have a vector of numbers and another vector of a subset of those numbers. How can I create a third vector with all the numbers in the original list that aren't in the given subset. Like this: List1 subset --> result 1 1 2 2 3 3 4

Hi, I have a table of numbers without any repeats. Is there a function that will search the entire table for a specified value and return the indices if it is found? Also, some rows may have columns without values. Thank you so much, -Nina

Hi, I have a table where column 1 has ID numbers and column two has data, and I have a vector containing a subset of those ID numbers. How can I create a new table with only the rows from the old table that match the IDs in the vector, like below: Original Table: ID Value 1 123 2 123 3 123 4 123 vect: [2, 3] New table: ID Value 2 123 3 123

Hi, I get the following error when I try to read in a CSV file: > Path<-read.table('MetaCycSample2.csv',sep=',', header=FALSE) Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : line 17 did not have 5 elements Some of the rows have more columns than others. Also when I try the read.csv command, the very last column, which only has one cell

Hi, I am writing a very long program that deals with multiple large databases which often have missing data cells and other quirks. I've been testing it on small samples of the data so it doesn't take too long, but when I tried it using the real files, it ran for about a minute and then gave me this error message: Error in matrix(unlist(value, recursive = FALSE, use.names = FALSE), nrow

Hi, I am reading in a CSV file of chemical reactions where the subscripts and superscripts are encoded in angle brackets, like below: 2 H<SUP>+</SUP> + 2 O<SUB>2</SUB><SUP>-</SUP> Is there a way to convert these to actual sub/superscripts and save them in another excel file? I greatly appreciate the help! Thanks, -Nina PS. I asked this before, but I

Hi, I'm sorry if this is a simple question. How do you insert a blank row into a data frame? I basically need to do this: old table: new table: C1 C2 C3 C1 C2 C3 1 32 34 1 32 34 2 52 23 54 2 52 23

Dear R-list members, I am trying to put a legend just outside the plotting area of a graph. 1. Is there some way to plot symbols on the figure margin, in the same way as function "mtext" can write on the margin? 2. Is there some way to use the "legend" function (or some equivalent function) to plot a legend on the figure margin? 3. Any other way to plot either symbols or a

Dear R list members, How to produce barplots anchored to the x-axis (not floating above the x-axis) with a box around? With both following codes, the lower horizontal line of the box is below the y = 0 line: # first code x <- c(1,2,3,4) barplot(x,yaxs='i') box() # second code x <- c(1,2,3,4) op <- par(yaxs='i') barplot(x) box() par(op) The parameter yaxs='i'

To the R-help list, In the documentation of the prop.trend.test function in the stats package, no bibliography has been provided which would allow one to find out the theoretical basis of that function and/or details of its implementation. May I suggest that some bibliography be included, as it generally happens with other statistical functions. I currently use R 2.8.0 running on Windows XP.

Dear R users, I need to save a graph in jpeg format. After plotting the graph, when the graphics window is active, in the File menu, the Save as / Jpeg / 100% quality correctly saves the graph in jpeg format. But I would like to know, how could I control the resolution (in dpi) of the saved jpeg file? I need to produce a jpeg at 1200 dpi. I have tried also the jpeg function in the package

Dear R users, The parameters xaxs and yaxs (function par, package graphics) seem not to work with the function hist (package graphics), even when the parameters xlim and ylim are defined. Is there any way to make yaxs="i" and xaxs="i" work properly with the function hist, mainly to produce histograms that "touch" the horizontal axis? The R documentation and the R

Dear R-list members, I have just downloaded R version 2.11.0. Then I installed package gdata. At the end of the installation, a warning message said that package gtools could not be found. Package gdata was, after the installation, included in the "Package Index" in the help files. Messages during installation (which was made through the menu Packages / Instal package(s), choosing the

To the R help list, When using a data frame, there is no warning or error message when I refer to a non-existent variable inside the data frame. Example: ##---------------------------------------------- a <- c(1,2,3) b <- c(11,22,33) df <- data.frame(a,b) df ## correct: there is a column in df named 'a' ## the sum is correctly performed sum(df$a==2) ## incorrect: there is