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HI All, I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it is under is 'GPL' --no version. My assumption is, since all the code is written in R the licence R used for R would affect the code (hence my "GPL" stands for "whatever version of the GPL R is under") I am happy with the licencing I used, but I'd like to ask if there is any transitive

Dear All, just a quick example: > x = 1:25 > x[12] = NA > x [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NA 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 > y = x[x<10] > y [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NA Is there any way of NOT getting NA for y = x[x<10]? Similarly > y = x[x<15] > y [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NA 13 14 How do I get rid of the NA (not post

Hi All, I am counting the number of occurrences of the terms listed in one vector in another vector. My code runs: for( i in 1:length(vector3)){ vector3[i] = sum(1*is.element(vector2, vector1[i])) } where vector1 = vector containing the terms whose occurrences I want to count vector2 = made up of a number of repetitions of all the elements of vector1 vector3 = a vector of NAs that is

Dear All, I will soon be working with NIH and possibly FDA. Will I be able to use R or will I be forced to use SAS? Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com

Hello all, a friend has a problem with tiff() which I was unable to help about. I searched the error messages to no avail. When he tries: tiff(filename = "FedeWhyDoesntThisBloodyWork.tif", width = 5, height = 5, units = "cm", bg = "white", res = 1200) Error in tiff(filename = "FedeWhyDoesntThisBloodyWork.tif", width = 5, : unable to start device

Hi All, I have some data where the dependent variable is a score, low (1:3) or high (8:9), and the independent variables are 21 genotypic markers. I'm fitting a logistic regression on the whole dataset after transforming the score to 0/1 and normal linear regression on the high and low subsets. I all cases I have a numer of cases of data 'duplications', i.e. different

Hi All, I would like to output the results of a function into a text file, legible as a such. The function produces a summary quite like: summary(lm(x ~ y + w * z)) [for instance] and I am not clear how to save this summary into a text file 'automagically', because I need to be able to do it in a for() loop. Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology

Hi All, is there a way of predicting memory usage? I need to build an array of 86000 by 2500 numbers (or I might create a list of 2 by 2500 arrays 43000 long). How much memory should I expect to use/need? Cheers, Fede -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44

Hi All, I'm having a problem with barplot: mydata [1,] 2 108 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 18 3 4 8 20 26 20 19 7 1 1 mycol = c(rep('yellow', 2), rep('white', 3), rep('orange',2), rep('white', 5), rep('orange',3), rep('red',9)) barplot(mydata, col = mycol) gives me an uniformly yellow barplot. How do I solve this? bw Federico

Hi All, I would like to know, is there a *ballpark* figure for how many parameters the minimisation routines can cope with? I'm asking because I was asked if I knew. Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t]

Hi All, is there a way of using strsplit with a forward slash '/' as the splitting point? For data such as: 1 T/T C/C 16/33 2 T/T C/C 33/36 3 T/T C/C 16/34 4 T/T C/C 16/31 5 C/C C/C 28/29 6 T/T C/C 16/34 strsplit(my.data[1,1], "/") # and any variation thereof Error in strsplit(apoe[1, 1], "/") : non-character

Hi, I am subsetting a matrix thus: test [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 7 13 [2,] 2 8 14 [3,] 3 9 15 [4,] 4 10 16 [5,] 5 11 17 [6,] 6 12 18 test[cbind(c(1,3,5), c(2,1,3))] [1] 7 3 17 This works fine, and is the equivalent of c(test[1,2], test[3,1], test[5,3]). cbind(c(1,3,5), c(2,1,3)) would obviously look like: [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,]

Hi All, I am writing a function that reads a file in myfile = file('myfile.raw', 'rb') . . . . . close(myfile) No matter what, I get the warning Warning message: closing unused connection 3 (myfile.raw) Since the whole thing is in a function, I'd like to avoid unecessary noise for the user, and I'd like to kill the warning -- without having to mess with global options.

Hi All, is there any general advice about speeding up recursive functions (not mentioning 'don't use them')? Regards, Federico Calboli -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t]

Hi everyone, I'm running a cox ph model on a dataset with a number of variables. Each variable has a different number of missing data, so that coxph() drops the individuals who are missing data at one or more variables. Because of this dropping (totally fine btw) I want to know how many events I am left with in the model. Is there a way of extracting them from the coxph() fit? or in any other

Hi everyone, I am confused on how to specify some nesting and interaction terma with lme(). I have a dataset where some flies where selected for accessory gland size, made to mate in presence/absence of another male and the level of some protein measured. Now the complex stuff. The selection has been replicated twice, so that the selection term has got two levels (large and small) with

Hi All, does anyone ever import old SPSS files in a sl3 format? read.spss('file.sl3') does not seem to work... it's not recognised as a supported SPSS format at all. Best, Fede -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli

Hi All, is there a reasonably simple way of using a black and white chequer/checker board pattern as a colour: barplot(mydata, col = c('red', 'blue' 'checkerboard')) ? BW F -- Federico C. F. Calboli Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli

Hi All, does anyone know how to import binary .bed files generated by Plink (http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/ ) into R? the Plink FAQ explains how to conver other types of files, not the .bed. Cheers, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax

Hi All, I am trying to figure out how to get the position of the knots in a pspline used in a cox model. my.model = coxph(Surv(agein, ageout, status) ~ pspline(x), mydata) # x being continuous How do I find out where the knot of the spline are? I would like to know to figure out how many cases are there between each knot. Best, Federico -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology