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Hi! Is there any way of having a greyed ("ghosted") text (i.e, 2006) in the background of a plot? I'm making a dynamic plot and would like to show the year of each time step as a big greyed text in the background. (the idea comes from Hans Rosling video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080&sourceid=searchfeed ) Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut

Hi! Given a vector (or a factor within a df),i.e. v1 <- c(1,1,1,2,3,4,1,10,3) and a dictionary cbind(c(1,2,3),c(1001,1002,1003)) is there a function (on the same line than recode() in car) to get v2 as c(1001,1001,1001,1002,1003,4,1001,10,1003) ? I'm using myself a function based on match() since long ago (I think that thanks to advice by Prof. B. Ripley), but would like to know if there

Which is the proper way to rename a factor? If I do: test$Parc[test$Parc=="Ol?rdola"]<-"Ol?rdola" R complains that Warning message: invalid factor level, NAs generated in: `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, test$Parc == "Ol?rdola", value = "Ol?rdola") Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole

I've set layout(matrix(c(1,3,2,4),ncol=2)) and par(mar=c(0, 4, 4, 0) + 0.0) and par(mar=c(0, 0, 4, 3) + 0.0) for the upper-left and upper-right plots, but still get an space between both plots, is there any way to completely eliminate that space? Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain

Is there an specific function to eliminate blank space within strings? Thanks -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain Tel. 34 934095410 Fax. 34 934110012 email: Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es http://www.ija.csic.es/gt/obster

Given: > mitest <- matrix(1:16,ncol=4) > dimnames(mitest)[[1]] <- c("a","b","c","d") > dimnames(mitest)[[2]] <- c("a","b","c","d") > mitest a b c d a 1 5 9 13 b 2 6 10 14 c 3 7 11 15 d 4 8 12 16 I can do: > mitest[cbind(c(1,2,3),c(2,3,2))] [1] 5 10 7 but using the names does not

Hi! If I'm plotting 2 variables with the same units (i.e. wing length of 2 species), how can I force that X and Y axes have the same size for length unit? For example, if X ranges from 0 to 10 and Y ranges from 10 to 30, I want Y axis to be twice as long as X axis. I know I can just put xlim and ylim from 0 to 30, i.e., plot(runif(10,0,10),runif(10,10,30),xlim=c(0,30),ylim=c(0,30)) but this

Given char vector delme2: > str(delme2) chr [1:1065] "30-1-08 8:48:21" "30-1-08 8:55:17" "30-1-08 9:00:22" ... I do: > delme3 <- strptime(delme2,format="%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S") But then: > str(delme3) POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2008-01-30 08:48:21" "2008-01-30 08:55:17" ... > length(delme3) [1] 9 whie >

Agustin, posted on R-help. I think the problem is one of the debian/ubuntu package 'r-cran-robustbase' and its setup or (missing?) dependencies. I can confirm Agustin's problem, working on Ubuntu 8.04.2 (8.04 is a "LTS" = long time support version). apt-get install r-cran-robustbase works fine, but when trying to load the package, there's a DLL - dependency on

Hi! In the example: hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave") dend1 <- as.dendrogram(hc) dend2 <- cut(dend1, h=70) Do the branches "Branch 1", "Branch 2", "Branch 2"...in dend2$upper str(dend2$upper) --[dendrogram w/ 2 branches and 4 members at h = 152] |--[dendrogram w/ 2 branches and 2 members at h = 77.6] | |--leaf "Branch 1" (h=

Dear list: Given > str(b3) 'data.frame': 159 obs. of 6 variables: $ index_pollution : num 8.228 10.513 0.549 0.915 10.416 ... $ position_descrip: chr "2" "2" "2" NA ... $ position_geo : chr "3" "0" "3" "3" ... $ institution : Factor w/ 3 levels "digesa","mem",..: 3 3 3 3 3 3

Hi! I'm confused by this: > as.numeric(as.POSIXct(518400,origin="2001-01-01")) [1] 978822000 I guess the problem is that as.numeric() assumes a different origin, but cannot find any default origin. How can I get back the seconds from the POSIXct format? In other words, which the inverse function of as.POSIXct()? I've tried as.numeric and unclass() using a origin=

I do not understand, from a PCA point of view, the option center=F of prcomp() According to the help page, the calculation in prcomp() "is done by a singular value decomposition of the (centered and possibly scaled) data matrix, not by using eigen on the covariance matrix" (as it's done by princomp()) . "This is generally the preferred method for numerical accuracy"

Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] ubuntu problem with 'r-cran-robustbase' [FWD Agustin Lobo] Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:30:49 +0200 From: Agustin Lobo <aloboaleu at gmail.com> Reply-To: aloboaleu at gmail.com To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> CC: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>, R-SIG-Debian at stat.math.ethz.ch References: <18953.17704.527898.355877

I've found that while cutree() and rect.hclust() make the same classes for a given height in the dendrogram, the actual labeling of the classes is different. For example, both produce the same 4 classes but class 1 according to cutree() is class 4 according to rect.hclust(). Would it be possible that future versions provide the same labeling? rect.hclust() is useful to display the classes

By Ctr-moving the cursor over a point in an iplot() scatterplot (package iplots) it is possible to check the exact x,y coordinates of a given point. Is it possible to check a text label for that point as well? (i.e., the same info that would get printed on the graphic using text(x,y, labels=v) or with identify(x,y,labels), but I do not want to get the labels permanently plotted on the graphic)

I'm doing: > alyL32007z <- zoo(alyL32007,alyL32007$time) > range(time(alyL32007z)) [1] "2007-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" "2007-12-31 23:30:00 UTC" But then, while the original variable is: > summary(alyL32007$NEE_st) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's -15.340 -1.615 -0.054 -0.814 0.750 8.965 11124 the variable within the zoo object

Hi! Is not there an standard R function to retrieve the day of the year (since 1st Jan of the same year)? I know I can make my own using julian, but find it weird that having days(), months() etc doy() does not exist as an standard function. Also, is the following not a bit inconsistent? > a <- chron("20100506",format="ymd") > a [1] 100506 > years(a) [1] 2010

Hi! I'm trying to install package Bhat on a Win machine, had a problem and figured out a fix, but would like to report the problem and make sure the fix is correct. This is what I do: 1. Download Bhat_0.9-07.tar.gz 2. Uncompress it and compress it back to Bhat_0.9-07.zip 3. Install from the R windows gui (that apparentely requires the zip compression and cannot deal with the tar.gz) But

Hi! I have a bunch of (mainly class) R scripts that I would like to convert into html pages (although if someone thinks that what I want to do is easier with latex or pdf, please tell me). Considering the format of my files, htmlize() seems the best option. The only problem is that I would need to write graphics to a file, thus converting parts like: plot(sel$hora, sel$COD_SP_C) #and check the