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Dear HelpeRs, I'm confused about the role of quotes around package names on the library and detach functions. Books on R use both approaches: library(Hmisc) describe(mydata) detach(package:Hmisc) and library("Hmisc") describe(mydata) detach("package:Hmisc") The help file for detach says "quoted or unquoted" and the help file for library says about the

Hi All, I'm using the Hmisc summarize function and used list instead of llist to provide the by variables. It generated an error message. Is this a bug, or do I misunderstand how Hmisc works with lists? The program below demonstrates the error message. Thanks, Bob x<-1:8 group <- c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2) gender<- c(1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) mydata<-data.frame(x,group,gender)

Dear R-Helpers, I'm fiddling with my .Rprofile in Windows XP & R 2.7.0 Beta. I prefer to manually save my workspace but automatically save my command history via the .Rprofile. That is working fine once I found that "utils::" was required before the loadhistory & savehistory functions. What I would like to do is add a separator line with a date between the histories of each

Greetings, I've just put out the latest version of "The Popularity of Data Analysis Software" at http://r4stats.com/popularity. This update includes complete data for 2010, the addition of number of blogs for each software, more coverage of Statistica, and, where possible, measures regarding the implementations of the SAS Language: Carolina and the World Programming System (WPS).

Hi All, My paper "R for SAS and SPSS Users" received a bit more of a reaction than I expected. I posted the link (http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf) about 12 days ago on R-help and the equivalent SAS and SPSS lists. Since then people have downloaded it 5,503 times and I've gotten lots of questions along the lines of, "Surely R can't do for free what [fill in

Hi All, I'm perplexed by the way the unclass function displays a factor whose labels have been swapped with the relevel function. I realize it won't affect any results and that the relevel did nothing useful in this particular case. I'm just doing it to learn ways to manipulate factors. The display of unclass leaves me feeling that the relevel had failed. I've checked three books

Dear R-Helpers, SAS Institute just mailed out the notice below regarding a survey of people who do data mining. To help keep the survey from becoming biased toward commercial software, I thought it would be good to post it here as well. Cheers, Bob Fourth Annual Data Miner Survey Rexer Analytics has asked statistical and data mining software vendors to forward this survey as a courtesy. (SAS is

Greeting Listserv Readers, At http://r4stats.com/popularity I have added plots, data, and/or discussion of: 1. Scholarly impact of each package across the years 2. The number of subscribers to some of the listservs 3. How popular each package is among Google searches across the years 4. Survey results from a Rexer Analytics poll 5. Survey results from a KDnuggests poll 6. A rudimentary analysis

Hi Folks, SAS Institute is adding official support for R: http://support.sas.com/rnd/app/studio/Rinterface2.html Cheers, Bob ========================================================= Bob Muenchen (pronounced Min'-chen), Manager, Research Computing Support U of TN Office of Information Technology Stokely Management Center, Suite 200 916 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN

Hi All, I'm working on a class example that demonstrates one way to deal with factors and their labels. I create a function called myLabeler and apply it with lapply. It works on the whole data frame when I subscript it as in lapply( myQFvars[ ,myQFnames ], myLabeler ) but does not work if I leave the [] subscripts off. I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me why. The program below

Hi All, I have substantially expanded the table that compares SAS and SPSS add-on modules to somewhat equivalent R packages. This new version is at: http://r4stats.com/add-on-modules and I would very much appreciate any feedback you might have on it. The site http://r4stats.com is the replacement to http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com and includes the support files for both "R for SAS and SPSS

Hi All, We have all had to face skeptical colleagues asking if software made by volunteers could match the quality and accuracy of commercially written software. Thanks to the prompting of a recent R-help thread, I read, "R: Regulatory Compliance and Validation Issues, A Guidance Document for the Use of R in Regulated Clinical Trial Environments (http://www.r-project.org/doc/R-FDA.pdf).

Hi All, I searched around to find the number of R packages currently available, but didn't find anything, so I choose all repositories & told it to install. The list contained about 2,856 (correcting roughly for those installed). But the list includes repetitions such as 19 names that begin with "bvbovine". Selecting only CRAN and CRAN(extras) I get 1,344. Is there an easier

Hi All, I'm learning JGR 1.4-15 with R 2.4.1 in Windows XP (all patches applied). JGR looks great but I'm having trouble getting the data editor to save my results. I don't see anything in R-help about it. Here are the steps I followed: 1. I chose "Tools>Object Browser" & double-clicked on a data frame, "mydata". 2. A spreadsheet editor popped up and

Hi All, If I need to stack two data frames, I can use rbind, but it requires that all variables exist in both sets. I can make that happen, but other stat packages would figure out where the differences were, add the missing variables to each, set their values to missing and stack them. Is there a more automatic way to do that in R? Below is an example program. Thanks, Bob # Top data frame has

Dear R-Helpers, Why does R show character missing values in vectors as NA and when stored in a data frame as <NA>? I've searched but did not find an explanation. Thanks, Bob > gender <- c("f","f","f",NA,"m","m","m","m") > gender [1] "f" "f" "f" NA "m" "m"

Dear R-Helpers, I was calling the TukeyHSD function and not getting confidence intervals or p-values. It turns out this was caused by missing data and the fact that I had previously turned on R Commander (Rcmdr). John Fox knew that Rcmdr sets na.action to na.exclude, which causes the problem. If you have this problem, you can either exit Rcmdr before calling TukeyHSD or you can set na.action to

Hi All, I've been fiddling around with various ways to estimate the popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, JMP, Minitab, Statistica, Systat, BMDP, S-PLUS, R-PLUS and Revolution R. It's not an easy task. You can see what I've come up with so far at http://r4stats.com/popularity . I'm sure people will have plenty of ideas on how to improve this, so please let me know what you think.

Hi All, When I cut & paste help file examples into a script window, about half the time it pastes as a single long line. The steps I follow are: 1. Open a help file e.g. ?data.frame. 2. Select the examples at the bottom. 3. Choose File: Copy. 4. Return to the console. 5. Choose File: New script. 6. Choose File: Paste or do CTRL-V. The examples frequently paste as a single long line. I

Dear R-Helpers, I suspect I'm about to ask a FAQ, but I haven't been able to find an answer in the FAQ, AItR or an R Site Search. When I look at the methods of summary (below) it says, "Non-visible functions are asterisked". I looked at the help file for summary.princomp, which did not comment on it being non-visible. I ran its help file example, which printed visible output. I