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Hi, Does anyone know where the following package is available: Holleczek B, Gondos A, Brenner H. PeriodR - an R package to calculate long term survival estimates using period analysis. Methods of Information in Medicine 2009; 48: 123-128. Thanks Jens Oehlschl?gel -- GRATIS f?r alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT!

Hi, I have two questions on using the ff package and wonder if anyone who used ff can share some thoughts. I need to save a matrix as a memory-mapped file and load it back later. To save the matrix, I use mat = matrix(1:20, 4, 5) matFF = ff(mat, dim=dim(mat), filename="~/a.mat", overwrite=TRUE, dimnames = dimnames(mat)) To load it back, I use matFF2 = ff(vmode = "double",

Hi, Is there any official way to determine the colClasses of a data.frame? Why has POSIXct such a strange class structure? Why is colClasses "ordered" not allowed (and doesn't work)? Background ========== I am writing a chunked csv reader that provides the functionality of read.table for large files (in the next version of package ff). In chunked reading, one wants to learn the

Dear all, Has someone implemented in R (or any other language) Knol DL, ten Berge JMF. Least-squares approximation of an improper correlation matrix by a proper one. Psychometrika, 1989, 54, 53-61. or any other similar algorithm? Best regards Jens Oehlschl?gel Background: I want to factanal() matrices of polychoric correlations which have negative eigenvalue. I coded Highham 2002

Full_Name: Jens Oehlschl?gel Version: 2.10.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (156.109.18.2) # fine as expected from help page: # "from+by, ..., up to the sequence value less than or equal to to" # thus 1+10=11 is not in > seq.int(1L, 10L, by=10L) [1] 1 # of course 1+1e7 should also not be in # but is: wrong > seq.int(1L, 1e7L, by=1e7L) [1] 1e+00 1e+07 # since we use

Dear all, differing from the standard behaviour of 'format' the current (2.7.0) 'format.factor' destroys attributes like 'dim' and 'dimnames'. This unfortunately breaks some general code in the new package 'ff' for large file-based data which will support vectors and arrays of atomic and factors. It would be nice if you could include the following fix in

Hi, Can the plenty of analytical functions provided by base R and contributed packages be called with ff objects as parameters directly, or do we have to write special version of the functions for ff objects? If it is the latter case, is there a list of functions which support ff objects already. Xiaobo.Gu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi All, My script generates a mixture of normal and ff objects. I need to run the script for different parameter settings. Very often I would like to save the workspace for each parameter setting, so that I can get back to it later on. Is there an easy way to do this, instead of needing to save individual ff objects separately? I've tried the naive way of just saving the workspace, only to

Hi, I am running the examples in page 70 of the ff package document, but it failed with the following error > cat("let's create some ff objects\n") let's create some ff objects > n <- 8e3 > a <- ff(sample(n, n, TRUE), vmode="integer", length=n, filename="d:/tmp/a.ff") > b <- ff(sample(255, n, TRUE), vmode="ubyte", length=n,

names(unlist(...)) seems to be able to construct corrupt strings detected via: two identical strings behave different in paste observed in RW1.4.1 and RW1.5.0 pure replication code after output Best Jens Oehlschlägel > l <- names(unlist(list(aa = list(bb = 1)))) > l [1] "aa.bb" > # this is exactly "aa.bb" > identical(l, "aa.bb") [1] TRUE > >

Hello everyone, I need to create and work with some big matrices that actually have somewhat over 2 million columns and 117 rows. To do some calculations on such big matrices R just needs too much memory for my PC (4GB installed). So I need a solution to work with large datasets. I'm trying to use the ff-package but I don't think I really understand the whole functionality of the

Dear all, I have defined a generic as.ff(x, ...) and a method as.ff.function(x, ...) which converts a standard R function x into a chunked version operating on large ff objects. Everything works fine, but when registering S3method("as.ff",function) in NAMESPACE, the installation fails with some kind of parsing error: adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION installing NAMESPACE file

Dear all, Will R run under Win2000 or is it safer to stay with NT4.0 for a while? Regards -- Dr. Jens Oehlschl?gel Analyse BBDO InterOne Gr?nstr. 15 40212 D?sseldorf Tel.: +49 (0)211 1379-187 Fax.: +49 (0)211 1379-461 http://www.bbdo-interone.de -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read

Can please someone familiar with the R internals explain on the following: PR#1434 from r-bugs clarifies that assign("a[1]", x, SomeOtherFrame) or assign("a$a", x, SomeOtherFrame) will NOT assign to an object 'a' in the other frame BUT create a new object called 'a[1]' resp. 'a$a'. This leads to the following question: what is the most

Hi, I am using version 2.1-1 of the ff package. I have a data set with 80 million rows and I need to create a new ffdf object, subseting by values in one of the original ffdf's columns. Here is my code: bigData <- read.table.ffdf(file="/data/demodata/data/smallData.txt", next.rows=1e5, head=TRUE, sep="|") dim(bigData) N <- nrow(bigData);N select <- ff(

Hello, I'd like to ask whether there is a prefered linux distribution for use with R (Suse, Redhat, Debian) and what fortran compiler is recommended (f77 or f2c)? Thank you -- Dr. Jens Oehlschl?gel Analyse BBDO InterOne Gr?nstr. 15 40212 D?sseldorf Tel.: +49 (0)211 1379-187 Fax.: +49 (0)211 1379-461 http://www.bbdo-interone.de

Hi, Is there a way to get the enclosing function name within a function? For example, I would like to have a function getEnclosingFunctionName(). It works like below f = function(){ print(getEnclosingFunctionName()) } f() # will print "f" Thanks Jeff

I am going to document a 10.000 lines of R code project. Before reinventing the wheel, has anyone written a function that analyzes dependencies between R functions? I am thinking of output like caller1 calee1 caller1 calee2 caller1 : caller2 calee7 : and I would like to restrict caller and callee to certain positions in the search path. My guess is, that a quick and dirty solution is

I am going to document a 10.000 lines of R code project. Before reinventing the wheel, has anyone written a function that analyzes dependencies between R functions? I am thinking of output like caller1 calee1 caller1 calee2 caller1 : caller2 calee7 : and I would like to restrict caller and callee to certain positions in the search path. My guess is, that a quick and dirty solution is

Is it intended that version$os no longer is 'Win32' for the Windows-Compile? What is the approbriate way to check for Windows? Best Jens Oehlschl?gel In 1.4.1 we had > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch x86 os Win32 system x86, Win32 status major 1 minor 4.1 year