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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

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

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

I've found where the problem was and a way to solve this problem: One dataset was encoded (and read) as UTF-8 and the other one was encoded (en read) as latin3 In this case, even if at the terminal you see the same characters, R states that the two elements are not equal. Don't know if this is the way it has to be, or this is a bug. Anyway, editing the second file (encoded as latin3)

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

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

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"

Hi, I was using xmms for a whie but it is inconvenience so i want to switch to beep media player. However, i can not find this media player in centos and dag repo. Dag has bmp-mp3.i386 but not the program. Anybody know where to get this for centos? Building from source requires gtk+ 2.8 but the current version available on centos is 1.2!!! Hope anone can help Thai

I'm forwarding to this list as I've got no answer in [R-sig-Geo] and perhaps this issue is not exclusive of readOGR() I'm using ubuntu 8.04 andR version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: readOGR and non-ascii characters Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:22:34 +0100 From: Agustin Lobo <aloboaleu at gmail.com> Reply-To: Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es To:

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

Hi! I've done a merging between 2 dataframes using merge(): delme <- merge(miDUNS50peqB,Bnomscodmunicipis,by.x="POBLACION",by.y="NOMMUNI",all.x=T,sort=F) After realizing some problems in the resulting dataset, I've found that the problem was that, in some cases, there was no match between the by.x and the by.y elements, despite the fact that, apparently, such

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

Martin, Although I did remove the ln libRlapack.so -> ./lapack.so and sudo apt-get install r-cran-robustbase went fine (as does if the installation is done through Synaptic), once I start R I get: > require(robustbase) Loading required package: robustbase Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared library

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: