[R] Novice Questions

[Bruce Moore]

The print and echo delay from source() was caused by
the Windows RGUI  Misc->Buffer Output option, which is
turned on by default in 1.7.1 (don't know about other
versions).

Thank you for some very useful comments, and for
ending a couple of days of frustration.

Bruce Moore

--- Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at PDF.COM> wrote:
> Hi, Bruce:
> 
> 	  I'm overwhelmed.  Questioners seem to get
> quicker, more informative 
> responses to questions that are short, well written
> and easily and 
> quickly understood, and preferably include a toy
> example that someone 
> else can run quickly to reproduce the problem and to
> evaluate 
> alternative solutions.
> 
> 	  I see you are using "source" and would like to
> get more output.  Did 
> you check "?source"?  This function in R has
> arguments "echo" and 
> "verbose", which may produce what you want.  If
> you've already tried 
> that, then the problem may be output buffering, and
> I don't know how to 
> modify that parameter.  A search of
> "www.r-project.org" -> search -> "R 
> Site Search" might help.  Or ask a question focused
> specifically on 
> that, giving also which version of R you are using
> under which operating 
> system.
> 
> 	  I rarely use "source".  More often, I have R
> commands in another file 
> and copy and paste into R the commands I want to
> run.  That makes it 
> easier for me to isolate errors, etc.
> 
> 	  This does not address all your questions, but
> it's a start.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> spencer graves
> 
> Bruce Moore wrote:
> > I'm writing a program to perform linear
> regressions to
> > estimate the number of bank teller transactions
> per
> > hour of various types based upon day of week, time
> of
> > day, week of month and several prices.  I've got
> about
> > 25,000 records in my dataset, 85 columns of
> > transaction counts (used 1 at a time), about 50
> > columns of binary indicators (day, week, pay
> period,
> > hour, branch), and a half dozen real valued
> prices.
> > 
> > My program hangs on some regressions as I add
> > interactions, probably due to logic problems in my
> > code or collinearity problems in the data.
> > 
> > 1) I'm running my program via the source()
> command. 
> > It appears that source() does not print any
> messages
> > until it completes.  
> > 
> > ---->Is there a way to get diagnostic messages to
> > print immediately rather than when the source()
> > command has completed?
> > 
> > 2) I'm fairly certain that I've got some
> collinearity
> > in the data set and the interactions.  I've found
> an
> > append (Ott Toomet 5/30/2003) that talks about a
> > procedure to find collinearity problems using
> > model.matrix() to generate the dataset with
> > interactions and kappa() to determine the
> condition
> > number of the matrix.  
> > 
> > ---->Is there a more automated way to find
> collinear
> > variables?
> > 
> > 3) Is there a way to get lm() and/or step() or
> some
> > other package to give a model with only
> coefficients
> > that are significant at a particular level?
> > 
> > 4) Is there a way to suppress display of a
> password
> > when using the RODBC odbcConnect() function, or to
> get
> > the function to prompt for a password?
> > 
> > 5) What is the practical size limit on the number
> of
> > terms in model?  I know that I won't be able to
> > consider all interactions, but would like to have
> some
> > idea when to give up and go with what I've got.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > Bruce Moore
> > 
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Bruce Moore