similar to: Proportional axes

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

Hi! Is it possible to set a file to which both commands and output would get automatically saved? I've tried with sink(), but only get the output. I mean something like a combined history and sink, as you get with File/Save to File.. in the windows GUI. Tis is done with diary filename in Matlab, and you can state diary on and diary off to control what is being saved to the file. Thanks Agus

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

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

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

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 >

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

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=

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=

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 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"

I have problems with emf files because OpenOffice does a poor job at importing figures in this format. On the other hand, imported eps figures are not displayed, just printed. Is there any R graphic gui able to export as SVG (or other vector format)? I've tried JGR, iplots and svGUI. Thanks! Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis

I've installed through wine the program for a gps data logger QSTARZ. The program works fine with wine, but cannot dowmnload the data from the gps because I only have a windows driver for it. Any way to get the windows driver installed in linux so that I could download the data? Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole

Hi! I'm doing: etni <- subset(etni, NAMECOM!="Maniquisito") where etni is a data.frame, NAMECOM a factor and "Maniquisito" labels a row that I want to delete. The problem is that while the row is deleted, the factor level is still there (I can see "Maniquisito" if I do levels(etni$NAMECOM) ). I know I can get the appropriate levels by:

Dear list: Is there any way of getting the equivalent to what you get with bty="l" for the right and bottom axes? and the equivalent to bty="7" for the upper and left axes? Thanks! Agus -- 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

Hi, is not there any way to tell grid() the starting value? With nx,ny I get the right number of grid cells, but not on the exact values I would like them. (I know I can do it with abline(), just asking for an easier way, i.e. grid(nx,nx,start.x,start.y)) An alternative way (which would solve another problem) would be making the axes coincident with the rectangular plot region, that is, if

Hi! Is it possible to start R by clicking the .RData file in linux as in Windows? I've tried with ubuntu hardy using the right button and selecting R, but does not work. Is there any way to set it up? (I know R can by started from the terminal, selecting the appropriate directory). Thanks Agus -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) LLuis Sole