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Dear Listers, I've been a big fan of R since graduate school. After working in the industry for years, I haven't had many opportunities to use R and am mainly using SAS. However, I am still forcing myself really hard to stay close to R by reading R-help and books and writing R code by myself for fun. But by and by, I start realizing I have hard time to keep up with R and am afraid that I

Good morning, dear listers I am wondering if you could recommend a good tutorial / book for r scripting. thank you so much in advance! WenSui Liu Credit Risk Manager, 53 Bancorp wensui.liu at 53.com 513-295-4370

Dear Listers, Is there any good paper about how to use R together with VB? Thank you so much! -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Good morning, dear listers I am wondering how to do string evaluation such that model <- glm(Y ~ [STRING], data = mydata) where STRING <- "x1 + x2 + x3" It is very doable in other language such as SAS. Thank you so much for your insight!

Dear Listers, I have a general statistical question. Are hurdle logit-poisson model and posson model nested? Thank you so much?

Following up to some extent on Friday's discussion regarding the 'validation' of R, could I ask the list group's opinion on possible advantages of R over Splus from a pharma/devices perspective? I wish to exclude the obvious price difference, which doesn’t seem to carry as much weight as I would have thought. Besides, I have noticed many former Splus users gravitating towards R,

Dear Listers, My post might be somewhat OT. Currently, I am trying to use flexmix to build a finite mixture model. For instance, I am getting the prior probability and coefficients for each latent class from training data. Is there a way to get the posterior probablity and prediction of a new dataset? What I am thinking is to apply the prior prob and coefficient from training set to testing data

Happy new year, dear listers, I have a question about Rsqlite. when I fetch the data out of sqlite database, there is something like '\r\n' at the end of last column. Here is the example: Sepal_Length Sepal_Width Petal_Length Petal_Width Species 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa\r\n 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa\r\n 3

I remember in one slide of Prof. Ripley's presentation overhead, he said the most popular data analysis software is excel. So is there any resource or tutorial on this topic? Thank you so much!

Dear Listers, If I have several glm objects with names glm1, glm2.... and want to apply new data to these objects. Instead of typing "predict(glm1, newdata)..." 100 times, is there way I could do so in a loop? Thank you so much! wensui [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Listers, I have 2 questions regarding xml. 1) how to read/write tables in xml? 2) compared with csv, is xml a better way to transfer data cross systems/applications? Thank you so much for your insight. -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML

Dear Listers, I am wondering how to convert multiple dummy variables to 1 factor variable. Thanks. wensui

Dear Lister, If I have a list of number, say x<-c(0.1, 0.5, 0.6...), how to use a for() to loop through each number in x one by one? Thank you so much! wensui [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Listers, Sorry for bothering you on Thxgiving. I am just curious how to build a saturated model for logistic regression or other kinds of regression. Thank you so much! wensui

Dear R-listers, I am a newbie with R and I am struggling with something I consider very basic. I wish to produce a table (to import in a latex file) of summary statistics, but for as much as I've been looking around and trying various alternatives (plyr, reporttools, pastecs and Hmisc) I haven't found what I am looking for. Probably I am doing something wrong, but I can't figure out

Dear Lister, I understand merge() can be used to join 2 data frames based on 1 variable. But how about merge based on more than 2 variables? Thank you so much! -- WenSui Liu (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Lister, plot() is using the data range as the default limits of yaxis. Is there any way I can change the limits? I just look at the help of plot() and par() and couldn't find answers. Thanks. -- WenSui Liu (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center

Right now, I am using SAS and S+/R. As a new year resolution, I am planning to learn a scripting language. from statisticians' point of view, which scripting language is worth to learn, perl, python, or any other recommendation? (Most likely, I will be learning it in windows.) Since I am not in research, I will prefer one widely used in industry and related to statistical work. if you

Dear R-users, Is there any method that can transfer the R output to latex? Thanks. wensui [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

Hello, Does an R package exist for communication with instruments using GPIB (IEEE 488) protocol? Something similar exists in python for control of instruments over GPIB, RS232, or USB buses (http://pyvisa.sourceforge.net/) Thanks, Marko