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I have a question for our European readers: how common is it to use commas as decimal points in spread-sheet and statistics applications? Is it an inconvenience to require that all data use a period as decimal point? (i.e., 3.14159 rather than 3,14159). We're trying to make our program as foolproof as possible, and would prefer not to give users a chance to have commas as both decimal

Sorry, my question is if exists a command tkexit in R, i need a command how exit of tcl for close an aplication. How to use him. Thank

Hi. I want to use R with very large files, a couple hundred megabytes, but R crashes every time that I try. Reading help files seems to indicate that R ought to manage its memory itself. I know I have enough memory since stata handles these files perfectly well. I have a mac running OS 10.3 and am running RAqua 1.8.1. Is there anything I can do to make it deal with these files successfully?

Hi. I'm trying to install a new package. I'm a relatively long-time (though not advanced) R user and have never seen this error before. For the first example, I tried a few different CRAN mirrors. In the second example, the file does exist; I downloaded it from the CRAN website for the package and pasted in the name exactly a few different times to make sure it was right. >

I'm in the very initial stage of expanding the formula processing in my quantile regression function rq() to handle additive nonparametric components, say qss(x), or qss(x,z). I need some advice about strategy for formula processing. My initial foray was to use: terms(formula,specials="qss") and then modify the components of the resulting terms.object. But in changing formula

Windows (both XP and 98) seems to have a problem with our GUI, written using R's tcl/tk package. When we open another window, and then return to the GUI, the GUI has old pieces of text left from the previous windows and/or places which are cut off where a window had been. Also, when it computes something, the window will often decide to move itself over for no apparent reason, so it moves

How does one put quotes within quotes, if it's possible? I've tried replacing one set of the quotes by single quotes. If it's not possible, is there any way to do the following? > cmd <- "read.dta" > opt <- "convert.factors=FALSE" > data.file <- " file="/full/path/name.dta" " > eval(call(cmd,data.file,opt)) Prior to

I hope someone here knows the answer to this since it will save me from delving deep into documentation. Based on 22 pairs of vectors, I have noticed that tetrachoric correlation coefficients in stata are almost uniformly higher than those in R, sometimes dramatically so (TCC=.61 in stata, .51 in R; .51 in stata, .39 in R). Stata's estimate is higher than R's in 20 out of 22

The R documentation for some of the foreign package's functions says that the set of variable labels becomes attributes in the resulting data frame. Thus, e.g., 5="strongly agree", 4="agree", etc. I'm happy that the labels are being passed, but unfortunately, when R summarizes the data, it will list it only as categories, and doesn't deal with the

Hi. I have an ibook G3/800 running 10.2.4, with Mac's X11. Up until a few days ago, R was working fine but recently it stopped working. The error I get is: dyld: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.bin version mismatch for library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib (compatibility version of user: 6.0.0 greater than library's version: 5.0.0) Trace/BPT trap which seems to imply that it wants a higher

Hello. R is having some trouble installing a package because it passed arguments to gcc which were non-existent directories and files. It also didn't find g77, although it's in a directory in my $PATH; I tricked it by making a sym link in /usr/bin. What file does R get these parameters from? I've looked for the parameters in the package source, the install.packages help

Dear all, I get a strange error when I find polychoric correlations with the ML method, which I have been able to reproduce using randomly-generated data. What is wrong? I realize that the data that I generated randomly is a bit strange, but it is the only way that I duplicate the error message. > n<-100 > test.x<-rnorm(n, mean=0, sd=1) > test.c<-test.x + rnorm(n, mean=0,

Hi. Does anyone know whether the following error is a result of a bug or a feature? I can eliminate the error by making ML=F, but I would like to see the values of the cut-points and their variance. tmp.vec<-c(0, 0, 0 , 0 ,0 , 1, 0, 2, 0 , 0, 5 ,5 ,3 ,1, 0 , 1, 5, 10, 27, 20, 9, 0, 1, 1, 12, 29, 57, 34, 0, 0, 1, 2, 11, 31, 32) tmp.mat<-matrix(tmp.vec, nrow=7)

Hello everybody, I'm testing the randomForest package in order to do some simulations and I get some trouble with the prediction of new values. The random forest computation is fine but each time I try to predict values with the newly created object, I get an error message. I thought I was because NA values in the dataframe, but I cleaned them and still got the same error. What am I

Hi, I am using GAMMs to show a relationship of temperature differential over time with a model that looks like this:- gamm(Diff~s(DaysPT)+AirToC,method="REML") where DaysPT is time in days since injury and Diff is repeat measures of temperature differentials with regards to injury sites compared to non-injured sites in individuals over the course of 0-24 days. I use the following

I currently have a single PRI however we are getting a second PRI, and the provider (qwest) wants to know if our PBX supports GSAS (they say its a redundant d-channel technology but searching on google for GSAS reveals less than nothing). I've set something similar up before on a cisco 5350, where if one of the PRIs fails, all of the calls destined for either PRI will be routed down the one

You might look at "eval" and "parse". Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at pdf.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:03 PM To: janet rosenbaum Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] different file types The command "'source' causes R to accept its input from the named file". I don't know what you mean by

Is there an optimal / minimum sample size for attempting to construct a classification tree using /rpart/? I have 27 seagrass disturbance sites (boat groundings) that have been monitored for a number of years. The monitoring protocol for each site is identical. From the monitoring data, I am able to determine the level of recovery that each site has experienced. Recovery is our

Hi All, I'm trying to install R from source on an Intel machine running Linux (RedHat 6.2) and I am getting errors (Error 139, Error 2, and Error 1) on 'make check'. Perhaps I've forgotten something basic? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's what I've done: /configure --prefix=/home1/froth/R --enable-R-shlib --with-tcltk

Hi, I'm trying to follow the R-admin instructions for using MKL10 as the external BLAS compiling R-2.6.2 under Linux on a RH EL head node of a cluster. The configure process seems to have problems when it checks for dgemm in the BLAS. I'm using configure as: ./configure CC=icc F77=ifort --with-lapack="$MKL" --with-blas="$MKL" where $MKL is defined as in R-admin