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Hello, I have seen much discussion on Date. But I can't seem to do this simple operation. I can convert a string to a date: d <- as.Date(DATE, format="%m/%d/%Y") But what I want to do is extract the year and month so I can construct an element in a ts object. Ideally I would like to see d$year but that doesn't seem to be available. Once I have a Date object how can I get an

Hello All, I am trying to do the time series analysis in R and I want to assign a vector as a time series. The data I provided is hourly. The data is from Jan 1 2008 to Dec 31 2009. How can I assign the data such that the first year is leap year and second is not ? airtemp <- read.csv("airtemp.csv",header=T,sep="") aw <- ts(airtemp,start=2008,frequency=8784,end=2009)

im trying to write a for loop so that every leap year, the number of days becomes to 366 instead of 365. could someone help me out? and also, this set of data has 99.99s I set all the 99.99 ==NA. however, when im doing the order function to find the max value of that year, it still reads 99.99 as the max value. Thank you very much maxday <- matrix(NA,63,5) for (a in 1948:2010){

I noticed that the text() command adds text to a plot. Is there a way to either make the plot blank or add text to a "blank sheet". I would like to "plot" a page that contains just text, no plot lines, labels, etc. Suggestions? Kevin [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Why does: (shape/scale) * (1:365/scale)^(shape - 1) return a vector of numbers but calling a function hasard(1:365,shape,scale) defined like: hazard <- function(x,shape,scale) { return (shape/scale) * (x/scale)^(shape - 1) } Only return a single value? It is like x becomes a single value passed as an argument. Thank you. Kevin

I noticed that when I fit a linear model using 'lm' there is an attribute called "factors" that is added to the "term". It doesn't seem to appear for 'model.matrix', just 'lm'. I have been unable to find where it gets constructed or what it means? It looks like a two dimensional array that I may be able to use so I would just like to get some

I had a question about the basic power functions in R. For example from the R console I enter: -1 ^ 2 [1] -1 but also -1^3 [1] -1 -0.1^2 [1] -0.01 Normally pow(-1, 2) return either -Infinity or NaN. Has R taken over the math functions? If so I would think that -1^2 is 1 not -1 and -0.1^2 is 0.01 not -0.01. Thank you. Kevin

I am trying to upgrade to R 2.14 from R 2.13.1 I have compied all the libraries from the 'library' directory in my existing installation (2.13.1) to the installed R 2.14. Now I want to uninstall the old installation (R 2.13.1) and I get the error: Internal Error: Cannot find utCompiledCode record for this version of the uninstaller. Any ideas? Kevin [[alternative HTML

Hi R community! I'd like to create a temporal series with ts command for the interval 1st January 2002 - 31 December 2008. I have daily values, so this is a 2557 days temporal series. I'm using this command : ts(observations, start=2002, end=2009, freq=365) However, I don't get the correct temporal series since both frequency (365 OR 366 for leap years) and deltat (1/365 OR

I am running R 2.9.2 and creating a PDF that I am trying to open with Adobe Reader 9.2 but when I try to open it the reader responds with "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and cannot be repaired.: I am using the R command(s): pdf(file="cat.pdf", title="Historical Sales By Category") for(j in 1:length(master)) { d <-

For the command 'spectrum' I read: The spectrum here is defined with scaling 1/frequency(x), following S-PLUS. This makes the spectral density a density over the range (-frequency(x)/2, +frequency(x)/2], whereas a more common scaling is 2? and range (-0.5, 0.5] (e.g., Bloomfield) or 1 and range (-?, ?]. Forgive my ignorance but I am having a hard time interpreting this. Does this mean

This may be a begining question. If so, please bear with me. If I have some data that based on the historgram and other plots it "looks" like a beta distribution. Is there a function or functions within R to help me determine the model parameters for such a distirbution? Similarily for other "common" distirbutions, Poisson(lambda), Chi-Square(degrees of freedom, chi-square

I give up. Maybe it is my search (Windows) but I cannot seem to find the definition of the F77_CALL or F77_NAME macros. Either there are too many matches or the search just doesn't find it. For example where is the source for: F77_CALL(dpotri) ? Thank you. Kevin

I have a command that reads in some data: x <- read.csv("Sales2007.dat", header=TRUE) Then I try to organize the data: sc <- split(x, list(x$Category, x$SubCategory), drop=TRUE) Then I want to iterate through the data. I was able to get the following to run on the R console: for(i in 1:length(sc)) { sum(sc[[i]]$Quantity) } But notiing is primted on the console. I find

Hello, I asked a question about what the most likely process to follow if after a time-series fit is performed the residuals are found to be non-normal. One peron responded and offered to help if I supplied a sample data set. Unfortunately now that I have a sample I have lost the emai addressl. If you are that person or have some ideas please email me back at rkevinburton at charter.net. Thank

I am trying to sort a list and the data is obiously not in the right format. I am trying: x <- list() x[["A"]] <- 1 x[["B"]] <- 2 order(x) But am getting: Error in order(x) : unimplemented type 'list' in 'orderVector1' How should I change the list so that it can be sorted? What kinds of objects (classes of objects) can be sorted? Thank you. Kevin

I am having a hard time understanding just what 'sweep' does. The documentation states: Return an array obtained from an input array by sweeping out a summary statistic. So what does it mean "weeping out a summary statistic"? Thank you. Kevin

Simple question: Why doesn't the following work? Or what 'R' rule am I missing? tclass <- "Testing 1 2 3" if(tclass == "Testing 1 2 3") { cat("Testing", tclass, "\n") } else { cat(tclass, "\n") } I get an error 'else' is unexpected. Thank you. Kevin

hello, I'm working with a 4 dimensional NetCDF file, trying to calculate some summary statistics on a parameter. The dimensions are number of rows and columns, time and days. The attribute in question in this case happens to be a probability of woodstork foraging success. But it could be anything My question is whether the following code is efficient to grab the probability values ? I am

Hello, I am trying to come up with a routine to calculate a rolling mean and standard deviation for three parameters stored in a NetCDF file. The NetCDF file contains 10 years of daily records for each of the three parameters, and I need the statistics for each of the three parameters. Below I include some code illustrating what I've done so far. Obviously this approach does not get at the