similar to: external variable by inside-function routines modifications

From several years, I used this site http://r.research.att.com to get a precompiled version of macosx R-devol but the most recent version is frozen at the 18/8 build (r 71112). Is there an alternative (except than compile myself !) ? Thanks, Marc

"The R Inferno" is now on the Burns Statistics website at http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf Abstract: If you are using R and you think you're in hell, this is a map for you. Also, I've expanded the outline concerning R on the Burns Statistics 'Links' page. Suggestions (off-list) for additional items are encouraged. Patrick Burns patrick at

Hi, I'm just starting out with R and came across R_inferno.pdf by Patrick Burns just yesterday - I recommend it! His description of how 'growing' objects (e.g. obj <- c(obj, additionalValue) eats up memory prompted me to rewrite a function (which made such calls ~210 times) so that it used indexing into a dimensioned object instead (i.e. obj[i, ] <- additionalValue). This

Hello! I am optimizing my code in R and for this I need to know a bit more about the internals. It would help tremendously if someone could link me to a page with O()-complexities of all the operations. In this particular case, I need something like a linked list with O(1) insertLast/First ability. I can't preallocate a vector since I do not know the final size of the list ahead of time. The

Hi there, I have some unused code in my project but have no idea how to clean it up in some kind of automatic way. Maybe there are some tools/ways to identify and remove/mark dead parts of the code? Thanks in advance! Kind regards, Alex

Hello! Please help - can't find any options how to remove very big spaces between two dates containing intraday prices plotted by plot.xts. It looks like the following: on the left side of the plot window is the first bunch of points, the same is for the right hand side and a long line connecting them in the middle. I would want to merge them (cut spaces) somehow. In any case thanks for

Hello there, could you please help to modify gpar() properties of a cell inside tableGrob() output. In the following example I want to have different color for one out of 4 cells require(gridExtra) z<-matrix(1:4,2,2) grid.draw(tableGrob(z)) The only way I found for now how to do it is to do something like this downViewport(current.vpTree()$children[[1]]$children[[6]]$name)

I have a function in R that takes another function as argument: f <- function(g, ...) { #g is expected to be a function } I want to see if there is a way to implement "f" in C and calling it from R using ".C" interface. I know that I can use function pointers for my C implementation, but I imagine it's going to be nearly impossible to pass a function from R to C. Are

I am trying to optimize custom likelyhood with nlminb() Arguments h and f are meant to be fixed. example.R: compute.hyper.log.likelyhood <- function(a, h, f) { a1 <- a[1] a2 <- a[2] l <- 0.0 for (j in 1:length(f)) { l <- l + lbeta(a1 + f[j], a2 + h - f[j]) - lbeta(a1, a2) } return(l) } compute.optimal.hyper.params <- function(start, limits, h_, f_) { result

It seems obvious to me that the empty string "" is length 0. cheers Worik [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

There seems to be a result type difference when subscripting a 6 x 1 matrix as compared to a 3 x 2 matrix that is caused by the ncol = 1 compared to ncol > 1. > ThinMatrix <- matrix(1:6,ncol=1) > ThinMatrix [,1] [1,] 1 [2,] 2 [3,] 3 [4,] 4 [5,] 5 [6,] 6 > FatMatrix <- matrix(1:6,ncol=2) > FatMatrix [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 4 [2,] 2 5

Hi, I don't find a r-inferno.pdf that has detailed table of contents and bookmarks. If it is possible, can somebody help generated one and post it on line? Regards, Peng

Hello R-helpers, A fundamental question ...I'm trying to understand the differences between loop and vectorization ... I understand that it should be a natural choice to use apply / adply when it is needed to perform the same function across all rows of a data frame. Any pointers on why this is so? Unable to find the right reading place on the WWW which explains the concept. Thanks for your

Hello, This example seems strange to me: > if (2 > 3) print('Yes'); else print('No') Error: unexpected 'else' in " else" > {if (2 > 3) print('Yes'); else print('No')} Error: unexpected 'else' in "{if (2 > 3) print('Yes'); else" > { + if (2 > 3) print('no') + else print('yes') + }

I know that [] is used for indexing. I know that [[]] is used for reference to a property of a COM object. I cannot find any explanation of what [[1]] does or, more pertinently, where it should be used. Thank you. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, I would like to ask you if there is a way to define a global variable in R? I am having a bunch of function and I think the easier would be to have a global function defined at some point... Would that be possible? Regards Alex [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, I am totally confused by the following R output, but don't have a clue for it. > a <- 1 - 0.2 > a == 0.8 [1] TRUE > a <- 1 - 0.8 > a == 0.2 [1] FALSE > a <- 1 - 0.5 > a == 0.5 [1] TRUE > a <- 1 - 0.6 > a == 0.4 [1] TRUE > a <- 1 - 0.9 > a == 0.1 [1] FALSE My R version is Windows XP R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22).

Which one is more efficient? x2=c() for (i in 1:length(x)) { x2=c(x2,func(x[i])) } or x2=x for (i in 1:length(x)) { x2=func(x[i]) } where func is any function? Dirk -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/appending-to-a-vector-tp3449109p3449109.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi, Wondering if anyone could help me out with this error.Im trying to fill a matrix with random numbers taken from an exponential distribution using a loop: x.3<-matrix(rep(0,3000),nrow=1000,byrow=T)for(i in 1:1000){x[i,]<-rexp(3,rate=2/3)} I get the error message: Error in x[i, ] <- rexp(3, rate = 2/3) : incorrect number of subscripts on matrix Any ideas??? Appreciate any thoughts.

Hi, I work like this: > data<?read.table('E:/my documents/r/consumer.xls',header=TRUE) Warning message: In read.table("E:/my documents/r/consumer.xls", header = TRUE) : incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'E:/my documents/r/consumer.xls' could someone shoot the trouble for me ? thx sorry for trouble ,im a newbie. -- View this message in