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Dear list, I am trying to use RGoogleDocs, but I am connecting through a proxy server. I know RCurl is used for the connection, which should be able to deal with proxies and such. How do I set this up for RCurl? And can I use those settings with RGoogleDocs as well? I have the name of the proxy server and the port number. (Windows XP). thanks, Remko

Dear R-helpers, thanks for yesterday's speeding-up tip. Here is my next query: I have lots of polygons (not necessarily convex ones, and they never have holes) given by x,y coordinates. I want to get the polygon that is the union of these polygons. This is my current method, but I am hoping there is a faster method (up to thousands of polygons, each with ca. 40 xy points). Example:

Dear R-helpers, I tried to build a DLL like I have done so many times, but this time on my new machine, but it gives the erorr: (from cmd window) >R CMD SHLIB Boxcnt.f MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 2000 Borland Error c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.1/share/make/winshlib.mk 4: Command syntax error *** 1 errors during make *** The error is not in my Fortran file, because I also tried other files

Hi all, I am having some problems calling a python script from R that resides in a folder that is in the path (WindowsXP): > system("quickPadTool.py") Warning message: In system("quickPadTool.py") : quickPadTool.py not found # I also tried 'shell' (and shell.exec as well). > shell("quickPadTool.py") 'quickPadTool.py' is not recognized as an

Dear R-helpers, I have a problem converting an object made with the 'chron' function to a POSIXct object: # Make date based on DOY dat <- chron(dates=232, origin.=c(month=1, day=1, year=2008)) dat #[1] 08/20/08 # Converting to POSIXct uses current timezone (Sydney): as.POSIXct(dat) #[1] "2008-08-20 10:00:00 EST" # Setting GMT timezone has no effect? as.POSIXct(dat,

Dear R-helpers, can I use a POSIXct date as the x variable in interpSpline? The help page says x and y need to be numeric... is there a workaround? example: library(splines) testdfr <- data.frame(Date=seq(as.POSIXct("2008-08-01"),as.POSIXct("2008-09-01"), length=10)) testdfr$yvar <- rnorm(10) sp <- interpSpline(yvar ~ Date, testdfr) preddfr <-

Dear R-helpers, when I have an R code chunk in a sweave file like this: <<>>= x <- 1:10 # this comment disapears x # this one does not! print(x) #mean mean(x) @ The first comment does not appear in the sweaved document, the second one does. How can this be? I have tried print=TRUE and keep.source=TRUE, but neither seem to affect this behavior. thanks, Remko

length(unique(c(1,2,2)))==length(c(1,2,2)) I use the above test to test if all the elements in a vector are unique. But I'm wondering if there is a convenient function to do so in R library.

I believe I have found a bug (or at least a misfeature) in plot.POSIXct. See the following example code. set.seed(1) x=seq(1,1e8,length=100)+round(runif(100)*1e8) y=as.POSIXct(x,origin="2001-01-01") plot(y) This plots some random (date)times against their indices. The y axis correctly shows appropriate values (years), but the x axis contains the single number '59:58' in the

It seems that an vector or other non elemental data type can not be assigned to an element in the data.frame. I'm wondering what is the walk around. > li=data.frame(a=c(0,1), b=c('x','y')) > li$b[[1]]= 'x' > li$b[[2]]<- c('y','z') Error in li$b[[2]] <- c("y", "z") : more elements supplied than there are to replace

I've built a package that contains only two functions for a test run. They are: g <- function(x){ x <- x^2 class(x) <- "foo" x } print.foo <- function(x, ...){ cat("This is a test:\n") cat(x, "\n") invisible(x) } Simply testing these functions in the R workspace prior to a build yields: > g(1:5) This is a test: 1 4 9 16 25 Now, I

I have a set of labels arranged along a timeframe in a. Each label has a timestamp and marks a state until the next label. The dataframe a contains 5 such timestamps and 5 associated labels. This means, on a continious scale between 1-100, there are 5 markers. E.g. 'abc' marks the timestampls between 10 and 19, 'def' marks the timestamps between 20 and 32, and so on. a <-

Hi all, I'm trying to process all files with a certain extension "*.ext" in a directory like this: > R --slave --args /my/dir < dir_plot.r where I then I want to do something like: myarg <- commandArgs() inputdir <- myarg[length(myarg)] print(inputdir) "for file with extension "*.ext in inputdir" do data = process.data(file) outfile =

Hi R users, I am wondering if it there is any R's function helping integrate venn diagram and pie chart to compare two related datasets. I know the package limma(bioconductor) has something built-in for making venn diagram, but I guess it would be very painful to use line and text to specify the proportions in the fashion of pie chart . Thanks in advance, Kevin Chang -- View this

Hi all, I would like to remove rows from a matrix, based on the frequency of missing values. If there are more than 10 % missing values, the row should be deleted. I use the following to calculate the frequencies, thereby getting a new matrix with the frequencies: freqNA=rowMeans(is.na(exprdata)) But is there a shorter way to remove the rows based on "(1-freqNA)>0.1"

Dear friends, Do you know how to calculate the CONCAVE hull of a set of points (2- dimensional or n-dimensional)? is that possible in R? (With a "smoothing" parameter of course). Best, -- Corrado Topi Global Climate Change & Biodiversity Indicators Area 18,Department of Biology University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK Phone: + 44 (0) 1904 328645, E-mail: ct529 at york.ac.uk

Hi all, I've tried to make a 3D plot, but have run into some problems. I'd like to have a plot that I can rotate interactively using the mouse, which is possible using the plots3d {R.basic}. However, I would like to change the symbols used as the points, but there's no pch in plot3d(). If I use the Scatterplot3d package, I'm able to change this, but not able to rotate

Hi guys, I hit on a problem when I use rgl. Could you try to run the code here in this link and see why the first persp3d gives a red bounding box and the second shows black? http://rafb.net/p/g1i7ur33.html (sorry for not pasting the code here directly but my previous email got filtered by this list so I suspect my code looks like spam to the spam filter) I'm expecting black color to be

Dear R-helpers, apologies if this is somewhere in a manual, I have not been able to find anything relevant. I run Windows Vista. I have some Fortran code in a subroutine, and have no problem calling this from R with .Fortran, compiling the code either with 'R CMD SHLIB' or independently with gfortran. But is it possible to have more than one subroutine in my source file, one depending

Dear R-helpers, making a package (windowsXP), that includes a bunch of functions, but none have examples (all example code is within \dontrun{} blocks). I do R CMD check Maeswrap, all bits get OK-ed, except: "Running examples in 'Maeswrap-Ex.R' failed." When I run the 'Maeswrap-Ex.R' file myself, there are no problems. Any pointers? thanks Remko