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Dear list members, How can I shade the background area of a zoo time series object between specific dates? eg. library(tseries) library(zoo) SP500<-get.hist.quote("^GSPC", start = "1990-01-01", quote = "Close") plot(SP500) How can I produce the same plot but with a (say) red background between 2007-04-12 and 2008-05-14 ?

Hello, Try example(names) in R 2.5.0 after library(RDCOMClient) and you get > example(names) names> # print the names attribute of the islands data set names> names(islands) Error in names(islands) : no applicable method for "names" > Is this normal? Any way round it??? Best regards, Costas ---------------------------------- Costas Vorlow

Dear all, Wouldn't it be helpful if the install.views install.packages update.packages had a "downloadonly=TRUE" flag which would allow us to download the packages and install them later (or put them in a USB stick and take them for installation on anothe PC). I am behind a firewall (Bank) and I have serious plroblem updating R or installing views (Finance, Econometrics etc.

Dear all, I am fitting an arimax (arima with some extra explanatory variables) model to a time series. Say, I have a Y (dependent variable) and an X (explanatory). Y is 100 observations (time series) and X is 100 + 20 (20 to use for the forecast horizon). I can not make xreg work with the forecast function for an arima fit. The "predict" function seems to be working but the

Hello, I am trying to read a .CSV file from Bloomberg of prices (for an "its" series) of the following format: Date Price 23/10/2006 09:59 57.291 23/10/2006 10:01 57.221 23/10/2006 10:02 57.201 23/10/2006 10:03 57.231 23/10/2006 10:04 57.191 23/10/2006 10:05 57.191 23/10/2006 10:06 57.141 23/10/2006 10:07 57.081 I get the following: >

Hello, I am having trouble installing the package playwith on the latest Mint "helena", running R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14). I suspect it has to do with the GTK library but as far as I can tell there is nothing wrong with it. Any help extremely appreciated. I include the output: > install.packages("playwith") Warning in install.packages("playwith") :

Hello, I managed to install playwith package and all its prerequisites. My R version is R 2.14: R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) All my packages were updated, and recently installed. When I attempt to use the command playwith I get the following error message: >

Hi I am trying to save some plots in a postscript file. When I generate the plots in the main window, they appear correctly - their orientation is landscape (i.e., horizontal). However, when I open the .ps file with GSview, the whole page appears vertically, and the plot appears horizontally, which means that the plot is only partially visible (example here

A new package, *latticist*, is available now from CRAN. Latticist is a graphical user interface for exploratory visualisation. It is primarily an interface to the Lattice graphics system, but also produces displays from the vcd package for categorical data. Given a multivariate dataset (either a data frame or a table), Latticist attempts to produce useful displays based on the properties of the

A new package, *latticist*, is available now from CRAN. Latticist is a graphical user interface for exploratory visualisation. It is primarily an interface to the Lattice graphics system, but also produces displays from the vcd package for categorical data. Given a multivariate dataset (either a data frame or a table), Latticist attempts to produce useful displays based on the properties of the

Hi, I looking for a graphic device on Linux with more functionalities than the X11 (). I find the plotAndPlayGTK package and the playwith function. It is a good device. It is possible to make it default in my system. Now I need: > library(plotAndPlayGTK ) Loading required package: RGtk2 Loading required package: cairoDevice > > playwith(plot(1,1)) Error in plot.new() : figure margins

Hello, I am trying to execute an example provided in the help files for the playwith() function. I try to execute the first example: library(playwith) if (interactive()) { options(device.ask.default = FALSE) ## Scatterplot (Lattice graphics). ## Labels are taken from rownames of data. ## Just click on the plot to identify points. playwith(xyplot(Income ~ log(Population / Area), data =

Dear R-helpers, I tried the playwith packages for the first time, and it crashed R: > require(playwith) Loading required package: playwith Loading required package: lattice Loading required package: grid Loading required package: gWidgets Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2 Loading required package: RGtk2 Loading required package: cairoDevice > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.1

playwith package version 0.8-55 is now on CRAN. It provides a GTK+ interface for interacting with R plots. Screenshots of some examples are online at: http://code.google.com/p/playwith/wiki/Screenshots Changes in Version 0.8-55 o argument `parameters`: automatically constructs widgets to control parameter values appearing in the call. o default action when dragging on the plot is zoom.

playwith package version 0.8-55 is now on CRAN. It provides a GTK+ interface for interacting with R plots. Screenshots of some examples are online at: http://code.google.com/p/playwith/wiki/Screenshots Changes in Version 0.8-55 o argument `parameters`: automatically constructs widgets to control parameter values appearing in the call. o default action when dragging on the plot is zoom.

hello, i tried to run playwith but : > library(playwith) Loading required package: lattice Loading required package: cairoDevice Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2 Loading required package: gWidgets Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) : unable to load shared object 'H:/R/cran/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll': LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could

Helllo, I am having trouble with running the library Playwith in the R-2.12.0. running under 32bit Windows XP. After calling the library the error message "The procedure entry point gdk_cairo_reset_clip could not be located in the dynamic library libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll." occurs and the R asks for instaling the GTK+ package. However the instalation of GTK+ thorugh the R fails. I have

Hi, I'am using the playwith library to write my own small GUI application. But I get the following error under Windows and Linux (Ubuntu): Error in if ((modeOK %in% c("Identify", "Brush")) && (actions$ident == : Fehlender Wert, wo TRUE/FALSE n?tig ist Under linux my R program simply continues, but under Windows it stops. Since it is not in my code, has anyone

Hi, I am having problems installing playwith on a Linux Mint ver. 8 (Helena) computer running R-2.10.1. <src/base/R-2/R-2.10.1.tar.gz> Anybody facing similar problems? Is it a GTK issue? I can not install the cairo related packages/libraries as well. Any pointers very welcome. Thanks + bestregards, Costas [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Can we add a note to the documentation that setting par(fig) resets par(mfrow) and par(mfcol) to c(1,1)? Or are mfrow and mfcol now deprecated in favor of all the split screen stuff? (I was spending the morning trying to write some code that plotted multiple subplots within whatever plot region was active at the moment; I was able to set and reset fig successfully, but got very confused as to