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Hi All: I tried to update the package mgcv from my current version 1.1-8 to mgcv version 1.2. Using the command update.packages("mgcv") to update mgcv failed in my computer and the returning message was: "Error in old.packages(lib.loc=lib.loc, contriburl=contriburl, method=method, :no installed.packages for (?invalid) lib.loc=mgcv" When I typed installed.packages(), I got

Hi All: I am interested in tools available in R that will enable me to run analysis of case crossover studies. I searched the web (http://www.google.com), and found that a tool called "funfit" was available for Splus. Searching the R archives, I also found mention of a "funfit" library. However, when I searched in CRAN, I could not find it. Is "funfit" now part of

Hi All: I have written an R search plug-in based on Prof Jonathan Baron's R search site. This Firefox/Netscape plug-in lets you search R sites and R discussion group archives directly from your Mozilla (Seamonkey) or Firefox or Netscape browser. Here is the link to the installer for the plug-in: http://arinbasu.bravehost.com/installer.html If you want the source files or have other comments

Dear Group: I am working with a data frame containing 316 rows of individuals with 79 variables. Each of these 79 variables have values that range between -4 to +4, and I want to subset this data frame so that in the resulting new dataframe, values of _all_ of these variables should range between -3 and +3. Let's say I have the following dataframe (it's a toy example with 4 individuals

Hi All: Is a distribution of R version 2.3.1 (the current version) available for the Ubuntu Linux? If I want to build a .deb package for R-2.3.1 for Ubuntu, are there specific requirements that I should be aware of? Is a tutorial available? I searched the web, and the repositories, but oculd not locate an appropriate file. TIA, Arin Basu

Hi All, I am scheduled to teach a graduate course on research methods in health sciences at a university. While drafting the course proposal, I decided to include a brief introduction to R, primarily with an objective to enable the students to do data analysis using R. It is expected that enrolled students of this course have all at least a formal first level introduction to quantitative methods

Dear R-Gurus: This afternoon I was installing the "Hmisc" package. I use R in Linux (Fedora Core 1 (yarrow)) on a Compaq presario with 128 MB RAM laptop. Opening an R session as a root user (superuser), I issued install.packages("Hmisc") and waited. R downloaded the package, installation was going on, and on the standard output I could see that a list of

Hi All: This follows my earlier post on webized slides on lecture presentation on introducing R. I learned that in Mozilla (Firefox) browsers, the slides did not show up. Sorry for the no show. As a reluctant windows user, I kind of carelessly clicked through Powerpoint to convert the presentation file to its html form, unwittingly leading to the mess. See if it got corrected now (I do not have

Hi All: A couple of weeks back, I asked a question on the list that I was invited to provide an introductory lecture on R to a group of academicians in Kolkata. I thank all of you who had generously guided me in providing me web links and words to the wise. Time to give back. I did the presentation on introduction to R and uploaded the presentation files at the following site:

Dear All, Folks at the West Bengal University of Technology has set up a mirror to distribute R and associated packages. Here is the URL: http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/CRAN This will be helpful for R users in South Asia and the adjoining countries. I have yet to see the site featured in the CRAN list of mirrors. What needs to be done? For those of you who are impatient and would like to give it a

>Message: 41 >Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:52:33 +1100 > From: paul sorenson <sourceforge@metrak.com> >Subject: Re: [R] Wikis etc. >To: Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu>, r-help > <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> >Message-ID: <43C07E71.3040303@metrak.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Frank E Harrell Jr

Hi All: I was looking for, but could not locate in the packages, or in the R archive searches if there exists an R implementation of Cuzick's test of trend. The test is described as follows: An extension of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test is developed to handle the situation in which a variable is measured for individuals in three or more (ordered) groups and a non-parametric test for trend

Hi All: Greetings, and best wishes from the festive times here at Kolkata, India -- the time of Durga Puja celebrations. I seek your advice as I try plotting lines for my data. The problem: I have created a dataframe that looks like this (name: myFrame): lowest second third fourth highest significance INAS 0.107 0.115 0.123 0.115 0.166 0.000 MMA 0.091 0.107 0.115

Dear List: This is in search of advices/opinions for a lecture presentation on R. I have this presentation scheduled on Saturday (16-October-2004); the topic is "introduction to R". The audience is a group of researchers and scholars who have either never used R/are beginning to use R, but otherwise have used a package called limdeb, and SPSS. There is also a request to cover Rgnumeric,

Hi All: Recently, I got a query how R compared cost-wise (cost of purchase, maintenance, and training manuals) with other proprietary statistical software programs (or programming environments). The request, verbatim: <--- begin quote ----> >> dear arin, >> >> can you please find out the price of the various >> prop. statistical >> packages that are in

Hi All: I am working on a dataset of a study on healthcare workers. One of the variables I am studying is a categorical variable (variable name:EDUC, indicates educational achievement, with 6 levels: "illiterate", "primary", "junior high school", "high school completed", "undergraduate", and "postgraduate"). I want to collapse the

Dear List: Somewhere in the R-Statistical Software website, I remember having read about using the opensource Bluefish editor with R. During a recent visit to the site, I could not find the link or reference. Also, when I searched the list archives (http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/about.html) for "bluefish", the search returned no result. Has anyone in the list used

Hi All: I came across the following problem while working with a dataset, and wondered if there could be a solution I sought here. My dataset consists of information on 402 individuals with the followng five variables (age,sex, status = a binary variable with levels "case" or "control", mma, dma). During data check, I found that in the raw data, the data entry

Hi All: I was recently working with a dataset on arsenic poisoning. Among the variables in the dataset, I used the following three variables to produce crosstabulations (variable names: FOLSTAT, GENDER, ASBIN; all three were categorical variables, FOLSTAT denoted follow up status for the subjects and had seven levels, GENDER denoted sex (two levels: male,female), and ASBIN denoted binarized

Hi all, I am *completely* lost in trying to solve a relatively simple task. I want to compute the relative number of occurences of an event, the data of which sits in a large table (read from file). I have the occurences of the events in a table 'tt' 0 2 10 11 13 14 15 15 6 1 3 8 15 10 .. meaning that event of type '0' occurs 15 times, type '2' occurs 6 times