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Hi all, I am trying to download, decompress and read a csv file. My code: myurl <- "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE24729/GSE24729_MitoNuclear_suppl_male_stats.csv.gz" # myfile <- "GSE24729_MitoNuclear_suppl_male_stats.csv.gz" # download.file(myurl, destfile=myfile, mode="w") # mycon <- gzcon(gzfile(myfile,

Dear R-help, I am attempting to plot data using standard R plot utilities. The data was retrieved from FRED (St. Louis Federal Reserve) using the package quantmod. My question is NOT about quantmod. While I retrieve data using quantmod, I am not using its charting utility. I have been having success using the standard R "plot" utilities to this point with this type of data.

Dear all, I am receiving the error below, I think because my n is exceeding the allowable limit for a vector. Can anyone confirm, and help with the following questions? The function and error: > stPte8 <- rtrunc(rnorm, nx * ny * nsimu, linf=0, mean=as.vector(PTmn), > sd=as.vector(PTsd)) Error in runif(n, min = pinf, max = psup) : invalid arguments My total n is calculated by: nx=4053,

Hi, I have just encountered a strange behaviour from 'cor' with regards to the treatment of NAs when calculating Spearman correlations. I guess it is a subtle bug. If I understand the help page correctly, the two modes 'complete.obs' and 'pairwise.complete.obs' specify how to deal with correlation coefficients when calculating a correlation _matrix_. When calculating

I have recently been bitten by an aspect of the behaviour of the read.csv() function. Some lines in a (fairly large) *.csv file that I read in had too many entries. I would have hoped that this would cause read.csv() to throw an error, or at least issue a warning, but it read the file without complaint, putting the extra entries into an additional line. This behaviour is illustrated by the toy