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I can exclude columns by column number using '-'. But I wondering if there is an easy way to exclude some columns by column names. > x=cbind(c(1,2),c(3,4)) > x [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 3 [2,] 2 4 > colnames(x)=c('a','b') > x a b [1,] 1 3 [2,] 2 4 > x[,-'a'] Error in -"a" : invalid argument to unary operator > x[,-1] [1] 3 4

I don't find a function to print a string to file. Would somebody let me know what function I should use?

Hi, data.frame(x1=1:11,x2=2:12,x3=3:13,y=4:14) I want to extract all the columns that with the name 'x?'. Is there a general way to do this in R? Regards, Peng

Hi, I am wondering if some experienced users would help put the ready-to-run code of the examples in the manuals. It would help new users learn R faster by putting all the examples in an ready-to-run R script file. Can somebody help do so sometime and post the code along with the pdf manuals? http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html Regards, Peng

I found this paper on ANOVA on unequal error variance. Has this be incorporated to any R package? Is there any textbook that discuss the problem of ANOVA on unequal error variance in general? http://www.jstor.org/stable/2532947?cookieSet=1

Some examples in the help page are too long to be copied from screen. Could somebody let me know some easy way on how to extract the example to a file so that I can play with them?

Hi, > match(4, c(1,2,3)) [1] NA The above code run smoothly. It would not stop when 4 does not mach in c(1,2,3). I am wondering if there is a way to stop the code and pop up an error message immediately. This capability to stop will make debugging easier. Regards, Peng

read.table terminates the program if the input file is empty. Is there way to let the program continue and return me a NULL instead of terminating the program? $ Rscript read_empty.R > read.table("empty_data.txt") Error in read.table("empty_data.txt") : no lines available in input Execution halted $ cat read_empty.R read.table("empty_data.txt") $ cat

Hi, Suppose 'x' is a vector of length n and 'y' is a vector of length m, I am wondering what the time complexity of 'match(x,y)' is. Is it n times m? Regards, Peng

Hello R-helpers, I am trying to search for string that includes the caret symbol, using the following code: grepl("latitude^2",temp) And R doesn't like that. It gives me: > temp<-c("latitude^2","latitude and latitude^2","longitude^2","longitude and longitude^2") > temp [1] "latitude^2" "latitude and

> > but doesn't emit optnone and nounwind attributes > s/nounwind/noinline On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:35 AM Jakub (Kuba) Kuderski < kubakuderski at gmail.com> wrote: > As far as I understand, gllvm doesn't run LTO pipeline or any cross-module > optimization, and the optimization level provided is only used to compile > each Translation Unit separately. > If you

Hi, I have llvm installed through MacPorts. But I don't see macports installed. Are there supposed to be manpages of commands like lli installed? -- Regards, Peng

Hi, I am wondering how to pop up the graphics window from Rscript. I run the following code, but I don't see the graphics window, even transiently. Regards, Peng $ Rscript plot.R > x=1:10 > y=1:10 > plot(x,y) >

I'm wondering where I can find the detailed descriptions on R memory management. Understanding this could help me understand the runtime of R program. For example, depending on how memory is allocated (either allocate a chuck of memory that is more than necessary for the current use, or allocate the memory that is just enough for the current use), the performance of the following program could

Hi, I'm working in R 2.11.1 x64 on Windows x86_64-pc-mingw32. I'm trying to insert a very large CSV file into a SQLite database. I'm pretty new to working with databases in R, so I apologize if I'm overlooking something obvious here. I'm trying to work with the American Community Survey data, which is two 1.3GB csv files. I have enough RAM to read one of them into memory,

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.

Hi, x=matrix(1:60,nr=6) I can refer the last 2 rows by x[5:6,] If I don't know the total number of rows is 6, is there a way to refer the last 2 rows? Regards, Peng

Hi, I am wonder if there is a function similar 'apply' but it could accept multiple arguments? For example, I have the following matrix. x=matrix(1:6,nr=2) y=matrix(1:6,nr=2) I want to find a function that can be used to compute the linear regression for each pair of rows in the two matrices? multiple_apply(x,y,1,function(u,v){lm(u ~ v)} That is, I wound like something like the above

Hi, I don't quite understand what are the return values of aov. I know that it has 'coefficients'. But I need to know what all the other return values are. Can somebody let me know how to figure them? Value: An object of class 'c("aov", "lm")' or for multiple responses of class 'c("maov", "aov", "mlm",

Hi, I'm learning the tutorial. http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/ I'm wondering if there is already a git repository of the examples in the tutorial so that I don't have to copy the code from the webpage. Thanks! -- Regards, Peng