similar to: lme questions re: repeated measures & covariance structure

Dear R users, suppose I have a matrix of observations for which I calculate all pair-wise correlations: m=matrix(sample(1:100,replace=T),10,10) w=cor(m,use="pairwise.complete.obs") How do I extract only those correlations that are >0.6? w[w>0.6] #obviously doesn?t work, and I can?t find a way around it. I would very much appreciate any help! Best wishes Christoph (using R

Dear all, How can I replace text in objects that are of class "formula"? y="a * x + b" class(y)="formula" grep("x",y) y[1] Suppose I would like to replace the "x" by "w" in the formula object "y". How can this be done? Somehow, the methods that can be used in character objects do not work 1:1 in formula objects... Many

Dear R users, Let?s say I have 10 models, each named m1,m2,m3..., and I would like to summarize them automatically and simultaneously - e.g., to extract parameter estimates later on from all models; how can I do that? I have tried: x=1:10 #this creates some example data y=rnorm(10) m1=lm(x~y) m2=lm(x~1) sum.lms=function(x)summary(paste("m",x,sep="")) sum.lms(1:2) but

Dear all, For an introductory course on glm?s I would like to create an example to show the difference between glm and transformation of the response. For this, I tried to create a dataset where the variance increases with the mean (as is the case in many ecological datasets): poissondata=data.frame( response=rpois(40,1:40), explanatory=1:40) attach(poissondata) However, I have run into

Dear all, Suppose I have a nested, repeated measure lme model. Which of the following formulae is correct? (assuming data are sampled from several plots in an agricultural experiment) (1) y~explanatory.variables,random=~time|block/plot/subplot/individual (2) y~explanatory.variables,random=~time|unique.ID.of.every.individual I have read that (2) is the only approach that works. But how could I

I have data that looks like YC Age Num 82 11 2 83 10 0 84 9 8 85 8 21 86 7 49 87 6 18 88 5 79 89 4 28 90 3 273 91 2 175 with a program mod1=lm(log(Num+1)~YC, data=box44) plot(log(Num+1)~YC, data=box44, pch=19, xlab="Year Class", ylab="Loge Number at age", ylim=c(0,6), xlim=c(91,82)) abline(lm(log(Num+1)~YC), col="blue", lwd=2) summary(mod1) I need to

Dear R users, I am analyzing several response variables (all scaled to [0;1]) using a multivariate linear model. After fitting the model, I set up a hypothesis matrix to test specific contrasts for these response variables; for example: "a always increases significantly more than b when regressed against x". What I am stuck with now is how to calculate the correct F-values (and

Dear all, I got this error message > library(dprep) > mardia(Savg) Error in cov(data) : 'x' is empty But with the same data, I got > library(mvnormtest) > mshapiro.test(Savg) Shapiro-Wilk normality test data: Z W = 0.9411, p-value = 0.6739 What does the error message "Error in cov(data) : 'x' is empty" mean? Thanks a lot! Jiao

Dear all, Is there a way to retrieve standard errors from nls models? The help page tells me that arguments such as se.fit are ignored... Many thanks and best wishes Christoph -- Dr. rer.nat. Christoph Scherber University of Goettingen DNPW, Agroecology Waldweg 26 D-37073 Goettingen Germany phone +49 (0)551 39 8807 fax +49 (0)551 39 8806 Homepage http://www.gwdg.de/~cscherb1

Dear all, I am forced to work in an environment without administrator rights. When using R2.13.1 on Windows 7 (64-Bit), I found that I can?t install or update any packages due to missing writing permissions. I managed to get full access to a directory on my C:\ drive now - but how do I specify that all libraries shall be installed into this directory? In Rcmd_environ I have the following

Dear R community, I have some questions regarding the analysis of a zero-inflated count dataset and repeated measures design. The dataset is arranged as follows : Unit of analysis: point - these are points were bird were counted during a certain amount of time. In total we have about 175 points. Each point is located within a certain habitat fragment (here: "site"= A-B-C-D-..., in

Hi, I have three years of species presence/absence data for a set of ~100 ponds, with a list of associated habitat characteristics (park, vegetation, hydroperiod, etc.). The datasets differ slightly by year because some ponds were dry in some years and not in others. My goal is to look at habitat associations for a couple focal species. For each year, I have a data table that looks like

Dear R users, Suppose I have a set of 10 candidate models, and these all differ by a delta-AIC of 5. Would it be sensible, then, to choose the best-fit model as the one that has *both* minimal AIC *and* minimal number of d.f.? Are there any references for such an approach? Many thanks for your help! Best wishes, Christoph -- Dr. rer.nat. Christoph Scherber University of Goettingen DNPW,

Dear all, How can I extract the total and residual d.f. from a gnls object? I have tried str(summary(gnls.model)) and str(gnls.model) as well as gnls(), but couldn?t find the entry in the resulting lists. Many thanks! Best wishes Christoph -- Dr. rer.nat. Christoph Scherber University of Goettingen DNPW, Agroecology Waldweg 26 D-37073 Goettingen Germany phone +49 (0)551 39 8807 fax +49

Dear R users, Assume I have three models with the following AIC values: model AIC df model1 -10 2 model2 -12 5 model3 -11 2 Obviously, model2 would be preferred, but it "wastes" 5 df compared to the other models. Would it be allowed to select model3 instead, simply because it uses up less df and the delta-AIC between model2 and model3 is just 1? Many thanks for any

Hello, I am trying to fit a repeated measures linear mixed model (using lme) but I don't want to include any random effects. I'm having trouble (even after consulting Pinheiro & Bates 2000) figuring out how to specify the repeated measure without including it in the specification of a random effect. My data consist of repeated "counts" in "plots" that I wish

Dear all, I am fitting a multivariate linear model with 7 response variables and 1 explanatory variable. The following matrix P: P <- cbind( c(1,-1,0,0,0,0,0), c(2,2,2,2,2,-5,-5), c(1,0,0,-1,0,0,0), c(-2,-2,0,-2,2,2,2), c(-2,1,0,1,0,0,0), c(0,-1,0,1,0,0,0)) should consist of orthogonal elements (as can be shown using %*% on the individual columns). However, when I use

Hi, I'm working on the codes below however every time I run them when they get to OpenBUGS I keep getting the error message: array index is greater than array upper bound for hab. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Suzie Codes: ungulate <- read.csv(file.choose ()) #ungulate ungulate <- as.matrix(ungulate);colnames(ungulate)<-NULL;rownames(ungulate)<-NULL

Hello, I am trying to plot means and standard errors conditioned by a factor, using qplot. I am successful at getting the bar graph I want with a error bar, however I have tried many things and cannot get the bars to change colors. Currently showing as red and blue, but need it to be black and white for publication. Any suggestions please? Using a data set June, which is str:

Dear useRs I am looking for a way to randomise the values within a matrix: the conditions are that the sums of the rows and the sums of the columns should remain the same as in the original matrix. Any help would be appreciated Cheers Yann