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Hi! Is there any way of having a greyed ("ghosted") text (i.e, 2006) in the background of a plot? I'm making a dynamic plot and would like to show the year of each time step as a big greyed text in the background. (the idea comes from Hans Rosling video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080&sourceid=searchfeed ) Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut

Hi! Given a vector (or a factor within a df),i.e. v1 <- c(1,1,1,2,3,4,1,10,3) and a dictionary cbind(c(1,2,3),c(1001,1002,1003)) is there a function (on the same line than recode() in car) to get v2 as c(1001,1001,1001,1002,1003,4,1001,10,1003) ? I'm using myself a function based on match() since long ago (I think that thanks to advice by Prof. B. Ripley), but would like to know if there

Is there an specific function to eliminate blank space within strings? Thanks -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain Tel. 34 934095410 Fax. 34 934110012 email: Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es http://www.ija.csic.es/gt/obster

Hi! Is it possible to set a file to which both commands and output would get automatically saved? I've tried with sink(), but only get the output. I mean something like a combined history and sink, as you get with File/Save to File.. in the windows GUI. Tis is done with diary filename in Matlab, and you can state diary on and diary off to control what is being saved to the file. Thanks Agus

Which is the proper way to rename a factor? If I do: test$Parc[test$Parc=="Ol?rdola"]<-"Ol?rdola" R complains that Warning message: invalid factor level, NAs generated in: `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, test$Parc == "Ol?rdola", value = "Ol?rdola") Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole

I've set layout(matrix(c(1,3,2,4),ncol=2)) and par(mar=c(0, 4, 4, 0) + 0.0) and par(mar=c(0, 0, 4, 3) + 0.0) for the upper-left and upper-right plots, but still get an space between both plots, is there any way to completely eliminate that space? Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain

Agustin, posted on R-help. I think the problem is one of the debian/ubuntu package 'r-cran-robustbase' and its setup or (missing?) dependencies. I can confirm Agustin's problem, working on Ubuntu 8.04.2 (8.04 is a "LTS" = long time support version). apt-get install r-cran-robustbase works fine, but when trying to load the package, there's a DLL - dependency on

Hi! If I'm plotting 2 variables with the same units (i.e. wing length of 2 species), how can I force that X and Y axes have the same size for length unit? For example, if X ranges from 0 to 10 and Y ranges from 10 to 30, I want Y axis to be twice as long as X axis. I know I can just put xlim and ylim from 0 to 30, i.e., plot(runif(10,0,10),runif(10,10,30),xlim=c(0,30),ylim=c(0,30)) but this

Given char vector delme2: > str(delme2) chr [1:1065] "30-1-08 8:48:21" "30-1-08 8:55:17" "30-1-08 9:00:22" ... I do: > delme3 <- strptime(delme2,format="%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S") But then: > str(delme3) POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2008-01-30 08:48:21" "2008-01-30 08:55:17" ... > length(delme3) [1] 9 whie >

Hi! In the example: hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave") dend1 <- as.dendrogram(hc) dend2 <- cut(dend1, h=70) Do the branches "Branch 1", "Branch 2", "Branch 2"...in dend2$upper str(dend2$upper) --[dendrogram w/ 2 branches and 4 members at h = 152] |--[dendrogram w/ 2 branches and 2 members at h = 77.6] | |--leaf "Branch 1" (h=

Dear list: Given > str(b3) 'data.frame': 159 obs. of 6 variables: $ index_pollution : num 8.228 10.513 0.549 0.915 10.416 ... $ position_descrip: chr "2" "2" "2" NA ... $ position_geo : chr "3" "0" "3" "3" ... $ institution : Factor w/ 3 levels "digesa","mem",..: 3 3 3 3 3 3

Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] ubuntu problem with 'r-cran-robustbase' [FWD Agustin Lobo] Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:30:49 +0200 From: Agustin Lobo <aloboaleu at gmail.com> Reply-To: aloboaleu at gmail.com To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> CC: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>, R-SIG-Debian at stat.math.ethz.ch References: <18953.17704.527898.355877

Hi! How can I subset several variables in cast? For example, I can do it for one, (ie, ph): cast(am, organismo +arriba ~ variable,subset=variable=="ph",mean,na.rm=T) For selecting ph, temperature and Ba I'm using: cast(am, organismo +arriba ~ variable,subset=variable=="ph" variable=="temperature"| variable== "Ba",mean,na.rm=T) Is there a more

I do not understand, from a PCA point of view, the option center=F of prcomp() According to the help page, the calculation in prcomp() "is done by a singular value decomposition of the (centered and possibly scaled) data matrix, not by using eigen on the covariance matrix" (as it's done by princomp()) . "This is generally the preferred method for numerical accuracy"

Hi! I'm confused by this: > as.numeric(as.POSIXct(518400,origin="2001-01-01")) [1] 978822000 I guess the problem is that as.numeric() assumes a different origin, but cannot find any default origin. How can I get back the seconds from the POSIXct format? In other words, which the inverse function of as.POSIXct()? I've tried as.numeric and unclass() using a origin=

By Ctr-moving the cursor over a point in an iplot() scatterplot (package iplots) it is possible to check the exact x,y coordinates of a given point. Is it possible to check a text label for that point as well? (i.e., the same info that would get printed on the graphic using text(x,y, labels=v) or with identify(x,y,labels), but I do not want to get the labels permanently plotted on the graphic)

I'm doing: > alyL32007z <- zoo(alyL32007,alyL32007$time) > range(time(alyL32007z)) [1] "2007-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" "2007-12-31 23:30:00 UTC" But then, while the original variable is: > summary(alyL32007$NEE_st) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's -15.340 -1.615 -0.054 -0.814 0.750 8.965 11124 the variable within the zoo object

Hi! Is not there an standard R function to retrieve the day of the year (since 1st Jan of the same year)? I know I can make my own using julian, but find it weird that having days(), months() etc doy() does not exist as an standard function. Also, is the following not a bit inconsistent? > a <- chron("20100506",format="ymd") > a [1] 100506 > years(a) [1] 2010

I've found where the problem was and a way to solve this problem: One dataset was encoded (and read) as UTF-8 and the other one was encoded (en read) as latin3 In this case, even if at the terminal you see the same characters, R states that the two elements are not equal. Don't know if this is the way it has to be, or this is a bug. Anyway, editing the second file (encoded as latin3)

I have problems with emf files because OpenOffice does a poor job at importing figures in this format. On the other hand, imported eps figures are not displayed, just printed. Is there any R graphic gui able to export as SVG (or other vector format)? I've tried JGR, iplots and svGUI. Thanks! Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis