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Hi I upgraded to R 2.10.0, and I encounter a problem with some packages on R, installed via apt-get.. They are still compiled by 2.9 and give me an warning when I load the packages. Will these packages be recompiled with R 2.10, or should I rather switch to self-compiling? Cheers, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys.

Hi is there an easy and fast way, to generate a BibTeX file of all installed / loaded packages and R? I know about toBibtex(citation()) to extract the BibTeX for a single package, but how can I generate a file containg citations for all installed / loaded packages? Cheers, Rainer -- NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!! Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT),

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I want to increase the size of the text for xlab in the plot command: plot(1,1, xlab="Label") I tried cex, cex.caption and others, but none worked. Is there a way of using cex=2 for the xlab? Thanks, Rainer - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I have to replace the last element of a vector with 0, but the length of x is not known at coding time. So I do the following: x <- 1:10 x x[length(x)] <- 0 x it is working nicely, but I am wondering: is there a more elegant solution( like tail(x, 1) <- 0 , which does not work)? Thanks, Rainer - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation

Hi is there an alternative to par(new), for ading data to a plot for a different y-axis? My problem with par(new=TRUE) is, that it re-defines all axis and labels (as in example 1) and one has to use xlim=... to fix the x-axis. I am looking for something, which simply resets the y-axis, so that a new plot() (or points()/lines()) keeps the x-axis, but re-defines the y-axis. Is there something

Hi this might be a little bit off topic, but here it goes: lets assume I have the following: set.seed(13) dat1 <- rnorm(2000, mean=10, sd=10) dat2 <- rnorm(100, mean=10, sd=20) d.all <- density(dat, n=1024) d.co <- density(x[[v]], , from=min(d.all$x), to=max(d.all$x), n=1024) d.diff <- list( x = d.all$x,

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I know there is a function - I have used it before - but I always forget what it is called... I need the combination of two character vectors, i.e: x <- c("a", "b") y <- c("x", "y") z <- THEFUNCTION(x, y) z == c("ax", "ay", "bx", "by") I promise I will

Hi I am testing a package, and after I make changes, I have to close R and open R again to load the new version (same version number) of the package I am working on. So my question: is there a function which removes a package, i.e library(myPackage) > Package is loaded unlibrary(myPackage) > package is not loaded any more Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology,

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Just to be sure: I couldn't find a way of creating an interactive 3d graph which can be embedded in a pdf - is it correct that this can not be done with R? Cheers, Rainer - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch

Hi if I try to import a raster layer which consists only of NULL values from grass by using the readRAST6, I get an error message: > readRAST6("HSericea_seedsDisperse_2007") ERROR: Invalid value for null (integers only) Error in readBinGrid(rtmpfl11, colname = vname[i], proj4string = p4, integer = to_int) : no such file:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I would like to create a Namespace during runtime, and not during loading a package. My reasoning is that I want to be able to store a number of variables and to "protect them from the user" (might be even myself). The code will not be in a package, but will be source()ed. Next step: pass variables from org mode / emacs to R and to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Assuming the following: > x <- data.frame(a=1:10, b=runif(10)) > str(x) 'data.frame': 10 obs. of 2 variables: $ a: int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 $ b: num 0.692 0.325 0.634 0.16 0.873 ... > write.csv(x, "x.csv") > x2 <- read.csv("x.csv") > str(x2) 'data.frame': 10 obs. of 3 variables: $ X:

Hi I want to use order() to get the order of a vector. But I would need a different behavior when ties occur: similar to the parameter ties.method = "random" in the rank() function, I would need to randomise the ties. Is this possible? Example: x <- rep(1:10, 2) order(x) [1] 1 11 2 12 3 13 4 14 5 15 6 16 7 17 8 18 9 19 10 20 order(x) [1] 1 11 2 12 3 13 4 14 5 15

Hi Let's assume, I have a dataset of 1000 datapoints, which represent daily recordings of a measurement. They are stored as a ts object (see example below) Now I want to represent them as a barplot. I found the barplot in the zoo package, but I have one problem: the x-axis labels. I would like to have the x-axis labels as either years only (located at the beginning of the year), or

Hi I am using mathematical anotation to make the labels in a barplot in italics. as an example (adapted from http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/129808.html): tt <- c("italic(First~~set)", "italic(Second~~set)", "italic(third~~set") barplot(1:3, names.arg=parse(text=tt)) But I would like to have it with "set" in a second column, like tt

Hi I have the following function which should return the name of FUN: myFUN <- function(FUN) { return( THE_NAME_OF_FUN(FUN)) } Is it possible? What do I have tio use here instead of THE_NAME_OF_FUN? Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi I have a list which cosists out of dataframes of the same structure. Now I want to extract one column (let's say column "A") from all dataframes and have them in a matrix (or dataframe). At the moment I am doiong: d <- data.frame(A=runif(100), B=rnorm(100)) theList <- list(e1=d, e2=d, e3=d, e4=d) f <- sapply(theList, function(l){l$A} ) But I am sure ther is a more

Hi This is OT, but I need it for my simulation in R. I have a special case for sampling with replacement: instead of sampling once and replacing it immediately, I sample n times, and then replace all n items. So: N entities x samples with replacement each sample consists of n sub-samples WITHOUT replacement, which are all replaced before the next sample is drawn My question is: which

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am writing simulations in R, and quite regularly, I have to save lists and objects to HDD and load it later again. So I am wondering: why is there no function to write lists (and S3, S4 objects) onto HDD WITHOUT keeping the name? What I mean is: For data.frames I can use x <- data.frame(x = runif(10)) write.table(x, "x.txt) rm(x) y

Hi I want to do a series of linear models, and would like to define the input arguments for lm() as variables. I managed easily to define the formula arguments in a variable, but I also would like to have the "subset" in a variable. My reasoning is, that I have the subset in the results object. So I wiould like to add a line like: subs <- dead==FALSE & recTreat==FALSE which