similar to: opening a PDF document

Colleagues, Several days ago, I queried about using the "system" command to open a PDF file. A number of people responded, each providing useful ideas. I integrated these ideas into a function that others can tailor to their needs: OPENPDF <- function(PDFFILENAME) { OPENPDFCOMMAND <- "open" # applies to OS X if (!UNIX)

Colleagues, Hopefully a simple problem: I want to delete a column with a known name from a dataframe. I could write: FRAME <- FRAME[, names(FRAME) != NAMETODELETE] or FRAME <- FRAME[, !names(FRAME) %in% c(NAME1, NAME2, ETC)] Is there some simpler means to accomplish this? Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)

Colleagues, I have created a list in the following manner: TEST <- list(c("A1", "A2"), c("B1", "B2"), c("C1", "C2")) I now want to delete one element from the list, e.g., the third. The command TEST[[3]] yields (as expected): [1] "C1" "C2" The command TEST[[-3]] yields: Error:

Colleagues, I want to create the following array: "A1", "A2", "A3", "B1", "B2", "B3", "C1", "C2", "C3" I recall that there is a trick using "c" or "paste" permitting me to form all combinations of c("A", "B", "C") and 1:3. But, I can't recall the

Colleagues Running R2.2.1 on either a Linux (RedHat 9) or Mac (10.4) platform. I created a PDF document using pdf("FILENAME.pdf", bg="transparent", version="1.4"). I then imported the graphic into PowerPoint - background was set to a non-transparent color. I was hoping that the inserted graphic would be transparent - instead, it had a white background.

Colleagues, I have some text: TEXT <- c("a", "bb;ccc", "dddd;eeeee;ffffff") I want to retrieve the portion of each element before the first semicolon. I can split each element using strsplit: SPLIT <- strsplit(TEXT, ";") This yields: > SPLIT [[1]] [1] "a" [[2]] [1] "bb" "ccc" [[3]] [1] "dddd"

R 3.4.1 OS X and Windows Colleagues I have a complicated problem that includes several components: R RTF PDF Using R (and a slew of RTF commands), I assemble a text document with an RTF extension. The document contains text, tables, and images (JPEG format, previously created with R). To ?import? the JPEG images into the document, I use the following R code: cat("\\pard\\qc

Colleagues: I have encountered the following situation: SERIES OF COMMANDS source("File1") MORE COMMANDS source("File2") Optimally, I would like File1 and File2 to be merged into a single file (FileMerged). However, if I wrote the following: SERIES OF COMMANDS source("FileMerged") MORE COMMANDS I encounter an error: the File2 portion of FileMerged

I run R 2.1.1 in a Linux environment (RedHat 9) although my question is not platform-specific. Consider the following: > A <- c("Prefix-aaa", "Prefix-bbb", "Prefix-ccc") > B <- strsplit(A, "-") > B [[1]] [1] "Prefix" "aaa" [[2]] [1] "Prefix" "bbb" [[3]] [1] "Prefix" "ccc" How

Colleagues After reading in some clinical data, I discovered that the subject ID column contains entries only for the first record for each individual; subsequent rows are recorded as NA. For example: > 1 > NA > NA > NA > NA > 2 > NA > NA > NA > NA > 3 > NA > NA > ... I can think of various approaches to replace the NA values with appropriate

Colleagues R 2.8.0; OS X, Vista, Ubuntu Linux In some instances, when I create a graphic using plot(XVAR, YVAR), it would be valuable to know the values that R will display on the y-axis (e.g., if the range of data is 0-70, it might display 0, 10, 30, 50, 70). Is there a simple means to access these values? Also, in some instances, additional ticks appear between the displayed values

Colleagues, Please forgive my ignorance of this topic. I am experienced with the installation/use of R in OSX and Windows, much less so with Linux. I just created a virtual machine of Ubuntu 9.0.4. Using the Synaptic Package Manager, I installed R 2.8.1. I would like to obtain 2.9.x and I am having trouble doing so using the tools available within Ubuntu. I tried apt-get install

Colleagues, I am using R 2.4.0 on both a Mac (10.4.8) and Linux (RedHat 9). To read data from an Excel spreadsheet, I do "save as" in Excel, then select the "Text (tab-delimited)" format. The resulting file uses a tab separator and I can usually read the file using read.delim. Sometimes, the header row contains embedded carriage returns. When I view the file,

Colleagues, I submitted this several days ago and no one responded, so I am trying again, trying a different subject line: I just encountered some unexpected behavior of difftime in relationship to the change from daylight savings to standard time. My understanding is that DST and ST take effect at 2AM. However, the results below suggests that R (version 2.8.0 in OS X) implements the

I have data in the following format: > DATE [1] "01/13/2004" In order to find the difference between two data points, I presently use brute force to calculate the day of the year: > strptime(DATE, format="%m/%d/%Y")$yday [1] 12 Although this works, it may not be robust over different years. I assume that R is sufficiently clever that a much simpler approach

Colleagues R 2.10.1 on a Mac I read in textfiles using readLines, then I process those files, then I use R to execute another program. Occasionally those files contain characters other than letter / numbers / routine punctuation marks. For example, a bullet (option-8 on a Mac) triggers the problem. Although R can read and process those characters, the other program cannot so I would like to

Colleagues I frequently insert PDF graphics created with R into Word (Office 2004 for Mac) documents. The documents are created on either a Linux machine (RedHat 9) or a Mac (Tiger). I am using R 2.2.0. These pdf graphics often lose a great deal of resolution after insertion into Word compared to their high quality when printed as PDF documents. I recently learned that converting the

Colleagues, (Running R 2.7.0) I have a script that I want to delete as it completes execution. The penultimate line of the script (before the quit command) is: file.remove("Scriptname") The script is executed as: R --no-save < Scriptname In OS X and Linux this is successful and returns: > > file.remove("x") > [1] TRUE and the file is deleted In Windows XP,

Colleagues, I am using R (2.9.2, all platforms) to search for a complicated text string using regular expressions. I would appreciate any help you can provide. The string consists of the following elements: SOMEWORDWITHNOSPACES any number of spaces and/or tabs ( any number of spaces and/or tabs integer any number of spaces and/or tabs ) Examples include: WORD ( 123 ) WORD(1 )

Colleagues, I have encountered behavior of random number generation that eludes me. I generate a random integer in a particular range using the following code: sample(1000:9999, size=1) This code exists within a script that starts with the command: remove(list=ls()) Each time that I run the script, it yields the same random number: 6420. I thought that the problem might result from