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I have a several character variables that I need to recode, but some of them have special characters like single quote or ( ). How tell R to ignore these special characters so I can rename them? Below is the error message I am getting. social$FamilySupport[social$FamilySupport=="Mr. XXXs' extended family live in the Nashville area where he and his wife reside."]<-"Highly

I have a large dataset that contain duplicate records. How do I identify and remove duplicate records? Chris Anderson 707.315.8486 www.sassydeals4u.com ____________________________________________________________ Free info for small business owners. Click here to find great products geared for your business.

Is there a way to export multiple datasets into multiple excel spreadsheets using xlsReadWritePro or with xlsReadWrite? Chris Anderson 707.315.8486 www.sassydeals4u.com ____________________________________________________________ Turn any room into a work of art. Click now for beautiful oriental rugs!

I am new to R, and I need to do some simple data cleaning. In the example below I have 164 rows of data with a missing value. I want to convert these missing to unknown while keeping the other values as is. summary(ABIClinical$HasSkinBreakdown) no unknown yes 164 914 163 178 When I did the following code:

I am trying to create the roc plot bootstrap method from library(verification), and when I set the plot =both or emp then I get the following error. The roc.plot works fine when the plot is set to binorm. This is my first time using this function in R and am not sure what this error means or how to resolve the issue. It seems to work ok with the example dataset. Is there an option or data

I’m trying to export a file from R to excel using the xlsReadWritePro function and I keep getting the error below. I get the same error when I use the oledatetime function. My current date format is mm/dd/yyyy, which is how I want it in excel. Also is there anyway to export different datasets to multiple sheets similar to the ods function in SAS? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =

Hello Developers, I am considering using SPEEX on an embedded processor that does not have a floating point unit. Does anybody have a SPEEX performance characterization on a fixed point processor? More specifically, I am interested in knowing how the MFLOPS values from Table 9.2 in the manual translate to fixed-point instructions when SPEEX is compiled with enable-fixed-point option. Any help

i am currently using roundcube my webmail and configure using dovecot quota plugins. but it seems to not be updating the maildirsize when new mails comes.Deleting the maildirsize will recreate the files correctly.Is there any solutions to this problem with dovecot. Either you're not using dovecot-lda to deliver the mails, or you haven't configured quota plugin correctly for it.

Hi I just started to use rsync & samba to backup some windows NT & 98 shared directories to a linux machine linux: debian 2.2.4 rsync: 2.2.5 samba: 2.2.3a-6 I first mount the windows directory on the linux and then do a local rsync. ---command on linux umount /data/transfer mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=passwd //ntserver/exp_dir /data/transfer cd /data/transfer rsync -a

I am trying to use the quantcut function to create deciles, but I am getting the error below. I am new to using this function and do not know how to properly use the options or some other conversion that is necessary. #initial summary using describe function in Hmisc library DegreeBurn4th n missing unique Mean .05 .10 .25 .50 .75 .90 .95 76 133

I have been working with SYSLINUX/PXELINUX Mostly v.2.x recently v3.0 &v3.1 to remote-boot IBM PC's off of 1.44Floppy Images with great success. I have searched through several distributions and the SYSLINUX package seems to be by far the easiest to work with.. (thanks) My question would be: Is it possible to boot a diskless client PC with Complete hard disk images? or even better hard

I'm trying to pull data from multiple MS SQL Sever databse in R. I can access the databases one at a time, but the tables are to large to pull the entire tables then join then in R. So I need to do a SQL join that will join the tables from the each of the databases. How do I combine the connection so that I can implement it in my sql query below. I'm currently getting the following error:

Hi! Will you please ask a newbie's question? Need linear discriminant analysis, need to capture discrim. function coefficiemts for further processing. Using R ver 1.4.0 package MASS function lda() Help says resulting object should have "components" (among others): means, scaling, svd, but program returns NULL for all of them Thank you!

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600 Summary: compilation of ssh-askpass or ssh-rand-helper fails on NCR MP-RAS v3.02 Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: -current Platform: ix86 OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Build system

Hello, I have Dovecot 1.0.beta8 on FC5.[root at topaz orlowscy.com] # dovecot -n log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: pop3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login default_mail_env: mbox:/tmp:INBOX:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: verbose: yes passdb:

I have found an existing image on Amazon EC2 including R. But unfortunately, it is 32-bit R on 32-bit Linux. Does anybody know if there exists an mage (R 64-bit on Linux 64-bit) on Amazon EC2? Or how can I install 64-bit R on my own Linux instance there? Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Is it possible to share a tape drive using Samba. I have a tape drive that is attached to a Solaris box, that I would like to use to backup my entire environment; Solaris and Windows. If this is possible, how should I configure the smb.conf file. Thanks Nate Grissom ngrissom@netzero.net -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

I recently downloaded the wine source from codeweavers.com that is supposed to have openGL support. I dont have yacc, so i tried to substitute bison. bison installed right, but flex cant find it and so wont compile, so in short i cant compile the wine source any ideas? Thanks in advance, Tommy

Ok... I'm really stumped. I have checked thoroughly. I've performed all of the steps in the checklist from the HowTo... except for the nmblookup parts. The arguments to nmblookup seem to be based on an old version. I'm hoping someone will have an idea. Here's the whole situation... Server: Fedora Core 3 Linux myserver 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 i686

Has anyone had any experience with the NetZero Stick? The NetZero site says that it is 'Linux' compatible, but gives no detailed information (eg distributations, kernel version, driver name/version, etc.). I am running a stock CentOS 5.11 kernel (2.6.18-398.el5) on my 32-bit laptop (IBM Thinkpad X31, with a non-PAE processor, so upgrading to CentOS 6 is not an option, and no, I