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[I tried to send this message privately, but the return address bounced.] I think this has been fixed in R-patched, but I doubt if the fix has been tested in Win98. Could you please download a copy from <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html> and confirm that it has been fixed? Duncan Murdoch On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:31:23 +0100, Heinz Tuechler <tuechler at gmx.at>

Hello, it seems that the main results of survival analysis with package survival are shown only as side effects of the print method. If I compute e.g. a Kaplan-Meier estimate by > km.survdur<-survfit(s.survdur) then I can simply print the results by > km.survdur Call: survfit(formula = s.survdur) n events median 0.95LCL 0.95UCL 100.0 58.0 46.8 41.0 79.3 Is

Dear All, Assume I have a data.frame that contains also factors and I would like to get another data.frame containing the factors as numeric vectors, to apply functions like sapply(..., median) on them. I read the warning concerning as.numeric or unclass, but in my case this makes sense, because the factor levels are properly ordered. I can do it, if I write for each single column

Dear All, where can I find information about how to write an assigment form of a function? For curiosity I tried to write a different form of the levels()-function, since the original method for factor deletes all other attributes of a factor. Of course, the simple method would be to use instead of levels(x) <- newlevels, attr(x, 'levels') <- newlevels. I tried the following: ##

Dear All! For descriptive purposes I would like to add attributes to objects. These attributes should be kept, even if by indexing only part of the object is used. I noted that some attributes like levels and class of a factor exist also after indexing, while others, like comment or label vanish. Is there a way to make an arbitrary attribute to be kept after indexing? This would be especially

Hello, still I have difficulties with variable names in functions. I know the famous example form help for deparse/substitute but I will give a simpler one to explain my problem. I know from Reid Huntsinger (Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:39:32 -0500) that: "Semantically, R is pass-by-value, so you don't really have the names, just the values. In implementation, though, R *does* pass names, in part

Hello, applying a function to a list of variables I face the following problem: Let's say I want to compute tables for several variables. I could write a command for every single table, like bravo<-c(1,1,2,3,5,5,5,);charly<-c(7,7,4,4,2,1) table(bravo); table(charly) > table(bravo); table(charly) bravo 1 2 3 5 2 1 1 3 charly 1 2 4 7 1 1 2 2 The results are two tables with the

Dear All, it seems to me that the function read.spss of package foreign changed its behaviour regarding factors. I noted that in version 0.8-8 variables with value labels in SPSS were transformed in factors with the labels in alphabetic order. In version 0.8-10 they seem to be ordered preserving the order corresponding to their numerical codes in SPSS. However I could not find a description of

Dear All, it seems to me that the function read.spss of package foreign changed its behaviour regarding factors. I noted that in version 0.8-8 variables with value labels in SPSS were transformed in factors with the labels in alphabetic order. In version 0.8-10 they seem to be ordered preserving the order corresponding to their numerical codes in SPSS. However I could not find a description of

Dear All, after searching on CRAN I got the impression that there is no standard way in R to label values of a numerical variable. Since this would be useful for me I intend to create such an attribute, at the moment for my personal use. Still I would like to choose a name which does not conflict with names of commonly used attributes. Would value.labels or vallabs create conflicts? The

Dear All! Reading character strings containing an "umlaut" from a csv-file I find a (to me) surprising behaviour in R 2.8.0, that I did not notice in R 2.7.2. A comparison by "==" results in FALSE, while grep does find the aggreement. See the example below. The crucial line is x=="div 1-2 Ver?nderungen", with the result [1] FALSE in R 2.8.0 but [1] TRUE in R

Dear All, is there a stratified version of the Wilcoxon test (also known as van Elteren test) available in R? I could find it in the survdiff function of the survival package for censored data. I think, it should be possible to use this function creating a dummy censoring indicator and setting it to not censored, but may be there is a better way to perform the test. Thanks, Heinz T??chler

Dear All, a Surv object I put in a data frame behaves somehow unexpected (see example). If I do a Cox regression on the original Surv object it works. If I put it in a data.frame and do the regression on the data frame it does not work. Seemingly it has to do with the class attribute, because if I change the class attribute to let "Surv" appeare first, again it works. Is this known?

Are you sure that you want to read in the output_file in text <- readLines(output_file, warn = FALSE)? best regards, Heinz Thierry Onkelinx wrote/hat geschrieben on/am 06.09.2017 11:41: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to write a post_processor() for a custom rmarkdown format. The > goal of the post_processor() is to modify the latex file before it is > compiled. For some

Hi List, A friend of mine recently asked the same question as Heinz T?chler. Since I've already written the code I'd like to share with the list. # x is an object returned by "survfit"; # "smed" returns a matrix of 5 columns of # n, events, median, 0.95LCL, 0.95UCL. # The matrix returned has rownames as the # group labels (eg., treatment arms) if any. smed <-

Dear All! If I try to compare the attributes of two objects, I find a surprising behaviour of attr.all.equal(). With identical attributes I receive the answert NULL. If the attributes differ, the answer is as expecxted and differences are shown. all.equal(attributes(), attributes()) instead returns TRUE, if attributes are equal. See example: v <- 1:5 attr(v, 'testattribute')

Dear all, Last December there was a thread regarding the famous FAQ 7.21 "How can I turn a string into a variable?" and asking what people want to do with these strings. My, certainly trivial application would be as follows: Assume I have a data.frame containing besides others also the columns f1, f2, ..., fn and I want to create a command like: apply(sapply(list(f1,f2,f3),is.na),2,sum)

Dear All, trying to write a data.frame, containing Surv objects to a csv-file I get "Error in dimnames(X) <- list(dn[[1L]], unlist(collabs, use.names = FALSE)) : length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent". See example below. May be, I overlooked something, but I expected that also data.frames containing Surv objects may be written to csv files. Is there a

Dear all, I'm trying to write a post_processor() for a custom rmarkdown format. The goal of the post_processor() is to modify the latex file before it is compiled. For some reason the post_processor() is not run. The post_processor() does work when I run it manually on the tex file. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong? Below is the relevant snippet of the code. The full code is

Dear All, Does someone have, or know of survexp ratetables for european contries, especially Austria and Germany? I know only about slopop in the package relsurv. Thanks in advance Heinz T??chler