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Dear R Users, I am on Windows XP SP2 platform, using R version 2.7.2 . I was wondering if there is a way to find out, within R, the number of CPU's on my machine ? I would use this information to set the number of nodes in a cluster, depending on the machine. Sys.info() and .Platform do not carry this information. Thanks in advance, Tolga Uzuner Generally, this communication is for

Dear R Users, I am getting a strange error, also relayed by Jose Quesada about a year ago. As below, in his message, I get "Error: bad value" to whatever I enter into the R console. My configuration is: - Windows XP SP2 - R 2.7.2 Has this problem been tracked down to a specific package ? I am using the following packages: library(strucchange) library(car) library(lmtest)

Dear R-Users, I am trying to use paste to paste the character ' around a character vector. Paste appears to place spaces (" ") around this. Anyway this can be done without the unintended introduction of space characters ? Please see example below. Many thanks, Tolga > charlist<-c("a","b","c") > lapply(charlist, function (y)

Dear R Users, Does R have an "inverse empirical cumulative distribution" function, something one can use to invert ecdf ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. In the event you

Dear R Users, How can I send commands to the R GUI from within a R script in Microsoft Windows ? I am trying to get the windows within the R GUI to Tile after I draw a graph. Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official

Dear R Users, A bit of a simple question, but I could not find the answer thru google ("sorting lists r cran","how can i sort a list r cran") or RSiteSearch... how can I sort a list ? One imagines something like sort.list would do the job, but that's not the one. > foo<-list(a=10,b=2,c=3) > sort.list(foo) Error in sort.list(foo) : 'x' must be atomic

Dear R Users, Is anyone aware of a package which calculates the Yule Kendall resistant (to errors,outliers) measure of skewness ? An easy calculation to perform, but was just wondering if a package exists (as the contents of that package would probably include other cool things I would also be interested). Thanks, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it

Dear R Users, Is there a package or some functionality in R which returns statistics on "runs" of numbers, i.e. series of numbers with similar qualities in a time series ? For example, the number of +ves,-ves, histograms on cumulations in runs, etc. ? Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or

Dear R Users, I am attempting to use the snow package for clustering. Is there a way to identfy, in the environment of each node, a rank for that node and also, the total size of the cluster ? By way of analogy, I am looking for the functions in snow equivalent to mpi.comm.rank() and mpi.comm.size() from RMPI, in case that makes things clearer. Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this

Dear R Users, I would like the R GUI to display numbers with comma separators, i.e. 1,000,000.00 instead of 1000000 Is there a flag in option() for this behaviour. A google/RSiteSearch has not revealed anything but perhaps I have missed it. Thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the

Dear R Users, I would like to get the pdf() command to create graphics in landscape mode, as I am plotting 8 graphs in 2 rows and 4 columns. This is being generated for an a4 printer (so I also use the paper="a4" command). Is there a way I can ask pdf() to generate the document in landscape mode ? Thanks, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it

Dear R Users, I am attempting to use snow with rmpi. My configuration is: - R Version 2.7.2, rmpi - RMPI 0.5-6 - DeinoMPI 1.1.0 - Windows Xp SP2 I can sucessfully create a cluster and execute simple commands but for some reason, I cannot change the working directory in my nodes. > noclusters<-2 > cl <- makeCluster(noclusters, type = "MPI") 2 slaves are spawned

Dear R-Users, Is there a way to create a matrix of data frames in R ? I am pulling in data frames from a SQL database into R using RODBC. I would like to pull in a sequence of data frames which are indexed across two dimensions, and store each data frame as an element in a matrix. I did try this: names<-c("foo","bar") years<-c("1y","2y")

Hi John, Hi Folks/Prof. Fox, I found some code John Fox had written sometime back on the Cochrane-Orcutt and Prais procedures here: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-January/017774.html I thought I would try it out and get the following errors below. Was wondering if anyone had any immediate opinions why this might be ? The linear model is the object regrCMSlm . Thanks, Tolga

Dear R Users, Was wondering if anyone can give me pointers to functionality in R that can help "clean" a time series ? For example, some kind of package/functionality which identifies potential "errors" and takes some action, such as replacement by some suitable value (carry-forward, average of nearest, what have you) and reporting of errors identified. I did search

Dear R-Users, I am looking for a way to get legends placed automagically in an empty spot on a graph. Additional complication comes through my useage of multiple graphs on the same plot through mfrow. Is there a way to achieve this in R ? I have legends for each of the sub-plots. Many thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not

Dear Achim, R Users, What am I doing wrong in this example ? a<-zoo(rnorm(100),order.by=1:100) b<-lag(a) regr<-na.exclude(merge(a,b)) plot(regr) grangertest(regr[,1],regr[,2],3) > a<-zoo(rnorm(100),order.by=1:100) > b<-lag(a) > regr<-na.exclude(merge(a,b)) > plot(regr) > grangertest(regr[,1],regr[,2],3) Error in solve(vc[ovar, ovar]) : subscript out of bounds

Dear R Users, How can I create names for lists within a function where the name itself is a function of several variables ? > a<-1 > b<-2 > paste(a,b) [1] "1 2" > foo<-list(paste(a,b)=3) <<<===== DOES NOT WORK Error: unexpected '=' in "foo<-list(paste(a,b)=" > eval(paste(a,b)) [1] "1 2" >

Dear R Users, Can someone point me to a R package which will help me optimally choose a lag for Granger Causality testing ? Many thanks in advance, Tolga Generally, this communication is for informational purposes only and it is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. In the event you are

Dear R Users, I am looking for a smoothing function with the following characteristics for a time series of data: - at each date, should only use data up to that date (so, right aligned and not centered) - should return a smoothed series of length equal to the original time series: - for a one-day time series, just returns that day - this means the front part of the series will