similar to: simulation of Gumbel copulas

Hi, I found this document, but it concerns S+. If it could interest you'll see: http://faculty.washington.edu/ezivot/book/QuanCopula.pdf Cordially Vito You wrote: Dear R: Is there a function or a reference to simulate Gumbel copulas, please? Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu R version 2.0.1 windows ===== Diventare costruttori di soluzioni

Hi R People: If you have a linear programming problem in which some of the constraints have the "<=", some have ">=" and some have "=", all in the same problem, should the solver work? I'm having trouble with that. Any help much appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.eud whoops! mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: Here are my latest attempts for Rmpi: This is the list of locations for mpi.h: /home/faculty/hodgess/mpich2-1.0.5p4/src/include/mpi.h /home/faculty/hodgess/include/mpi.h /home/faculty/hodgess/lam-7.1.4/romio/adio/sgi/mpi3.1/mpi.h /home/faculty/hodgess/lam-7.1.4/share/include/mpi.h /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-20.EL/drivers/addon/fusion_20505/lsi/mpi.h

Dear R People: When the D function is used for a symbolic derivative, an expression is returned, which is fine. How do you change that expression to a function, please? I've been experimenting with substitute and deparse, but no success yet. This is R 1.8.0 for Windows. thanks in advance for the help! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Hi Ryszard! There is a dist function in R. It's in the mva package. You can set the kind of distance that you want. Thanks, Erin mailto:hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: Suppose I have the following; xa <- c("There are 5 dogs") I would like to have a new character vector such that xb[1] is There xb[2] is are xb[3] is 5 xb[4] is dogs Since the original vector has length 1, substring will not work. Any suggestions would be MOST welcome! thanks Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R People: I downloaded the RPM for Red Hat Linux. How do I install this, please? When I looked at the R Intallation manual, it seemed to be referring to installing from source. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: Yet again, I am attempting to install R on RedHat Linux. Here is my sorry attempt to date: [hodgess at gator hodgess]$ rpm -vi R.rpm warning: R.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES I only want to write it to my own userid, since I am the only one who uses it. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks,

Dear R Users: Was there an answer to the question about using dev.print and win.print to print as horizontal = FALSE, please? I was working on it and I didn't find the solution. R 1.9.1 Windows Thanks, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Hi again! Please try something like this: > zone1.df zone sex len 1 1 male 15 2 1 fema 20 3 1 fema 17 4 2 fema 19 5 2 male 18 > str(zone1.df) 'data.frame': 5 obs. of 3 variables: $ zone: Factor w/ 2 levels "1","2": 1 1 1 2 2 $ sex : Factor w/ 2 levels "fema","male": 2 1 1 1 2 $ len : int 15 20 17 19 18 >

Dear R People: Suppose I have the 4 numbers: 1,2,3,4. I would like to create a listing of the permutations of 4 items taken 4 at a time. Is there a built in function for that, please? Thanks in advance! R 2-3-1 for Windows or Linux Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: I am trying to split a character vector into a set of individual letters: Ideal: x3 <- c("dog") "d" "o" "g" I tried the following: > strsplit(x3) Error in strsplit(x3) : argument "split" is missing, with no default > strsplit(x3,1) [[1]] [1] "dog" I know that this is incredibly simple, but what am I doing

Dear R People: Is there any way to take a Windows version of R, compiled from source, compress it, and put it on a Unix-like environment, please? thanks in advance, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: When creating a package, how do you include new methods and classes, please? I'm using the pacakge.skeleton command as a starting point. Thanks, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: In the function "decompose", the object has the class of "decomposed.ts". (from package stats) I would like to see the class definition and the method for the plotting. However, when I use isClass("decomposed.ts") I get "FALSE". When I check getMethods("plot") there is no method for plot on decomposed.ts Any suggestions,

Dear R People: I have used the "latex" function from the Hmisc package and it is just great! However, I have a new question regarding that function: is there an option for summary(lm(y~x)), please? There are options for different types of objects, but I didn't see one for that. Maybe I just missed it. Thanks in advance! R for Windows Version 2.3.1 Sincerely, Erin Hodgess

Dear R People: I am having some trouble with the snow package. It requires MPICH2 and Rmpi. Rmpi is fine. However, I downloaded the MPICH2 package, and installed. There is no mpicc, mpirun, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions, please? Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto:

Dear R People: When will version 1.9 (for Windows) be ready, please? My reason for asking: there is an interesting library from Bioconductor called tkWidgets. However, it will only work with version 1.9.0 or higher. Are there ways around this, or should I just be patient? Thanks so much in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R People: I want to use the "grep" command in UNIX/Linux to check some words from the dictionary. Let's say I use: grep dog /usr/share/dict/words and I get back bulldog dog dogged and so on. How could I just get back "dog" with the grep command please? Thanks, Sincerely Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University

Dear R People: This is more of an opinion question please: When putting together GUI type functions, is it better to use JAVA or Tcl/Tk, please? Any input is appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu