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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nico902<descostes at ciml.univ-mrs.fr>
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] chippeakanno package: "getAllPeakSequence" problem
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> Thanks Martin, it worked.
>
> I will post on BioC next time.
>
> Cheers.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:07:57 +0200
> From: "Helios de Rosario"<helios.derosario at ibv.upv.es>
> To:<jcbouette at gmail.com>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] How make a x,y dataset from a formula based entry
> Message-ID:<4E7C84AD0200000C0000A9F8 at mailhost.biomec.upv.es>
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> To separate the parts of a formula, use as.character
> (check the examples in ?character)
>
> Helios
>
> 22 Sep 2011 16:14:05 -0400
> From: Jean-Christophe BOU?TT?<jcbouette at gmail.com>
>> Hello,
>> You can check ?model.frame.
>> I do not know however to extract only the right-hand of left-hand
> part
>> of a formula.
>>
>> JC
>>
>> 2011/9/22 trekvana<trekvana at aol.com>:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> So I am using the (formula entry) method for randomForests:
>>>
>>> randomForest(y~x1+x2+...+x39+x40,data=xxx,...) but the issue is that
> some of
>>> the items in that package dont take a formula entry - you have to
> explicitly
>>> state the y and x vector:
>>>
>>> randomForest(x=xxx[,c('x1','x2',...,'x40')],y=xxx[,'y'],...)
>>>
>>> Now my question is whether there is a function/way to tell R to take
> a
>>> formula and make the two corresponding datasets [x,y] (that way I
> dont have
>>> to create the x dataset manually with all 40 variables I have).
>>>
>>> There must be a more elegant way to do this than
>>> x=xxx[,c('x1','x2',...,'x40')]
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> George
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:39:56 +0200
> From: Marion Wenty<marion.wenty at gmail.com>
> To: Greg Snow<Greg.Snow at imail.org>
> Cc: "r-help at r-project.org"<r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] writing data from several matrices in R into one
> 	excel-file with several sheets
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> hello,
> thank you for your help!
> I was not successfull using the XLConnect-package. Anyway, I have to
> postpone this problem for now as I have to sort out some other other
> problems at the moment.
> marion
>
> 2011/9/16 Greg Snow<Greg.Snow at imail.org>
>
>> Look at the XLConnect package.
>>
>> --
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>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>>> project.org] On Behalf Of Marion Wenty
>>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 9:19 AM
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] writing data from several matrices in R into one excel-
>>> file with several sheets
>>>
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> does anyone know how I can write several matrices from R into one exel-
>>> file
>>> using different sheets for the different matrices?
>>>
>>> thank you very much in advance for your help.
>>>
>>> Marion
>>>
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> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:25:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: setrofim<setrofim at gmail.com>
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Significance test
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> I have a bunch of benchmark measurements that look something like this:
>
> sample.1 	0.0000066660 	0.0000062500 	0.0000058330 	0.0000058330
> 0.0000058330
> sample.2 	0.0000058330 	0.0000058330 	0.0000058330 	0.0000058330
> 0.0000058330
> sample.3 	0.0000062500 	0.0000062500 	0.0000070830 	0.0000062500
> 0.0000066660
>
> i.e each measurement take on one of a set of values. The set values isn't
> fixed, but they seem to go up increments; in this case, it appears to be
> about 4.17e-07 (e.g. it would be impossible for a measurement to be
> 0.0000066440).
>
> What is way to test for significant differences between two samples?
>
> Sorry if this is a noob question, but I'm kinda new to this. The two tests
> I'm aware of are the Student's t and Wilcoxon Rank Sum; neither seems to
> apply here. I've tried Googling this, but haven't found anything useful
> (maybe I'm not using the right terms...).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> setro
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:50:27 +0200
> From: "Wesley Roberts"<wroberts at csir.co.za>
> To: "Gabor Grothendieck"<ggrothendieck at gmail.com>,	"Achim Zeileis"
> 	<Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Subsetting a zooreg object using window / subset
> Message-ID:<4E7C64730200007300034FB0 at pta-emo.csir.co.za>
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> A nice alternative,
>
> Many thanks Achim
>
> Wesley
>
>>>> Achim Zeileis<Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at>  22/09/2011 14:46>>>
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Wesley Roberts<wroberts at csir.co.za>  wrote:
>>> Dear R users,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am currently working in subsetting a zooreg() object using either window or subset. I have a solution but it may be a bit cumbersome when I start working with actual data. Your inputs would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Example: I have a zooreg() object that starts in 1997 and ends in 2001. This object contains daily data for the 4 years
>>>
>>> aa<-zooreg(1:1825,start=as.Date("1997-01-01"))
>>>
>>> My aim is to subset the data according to seasons (Southern Hemisphere) for continuous years: December - January - February (DJF-Summer: 1997-2001), March - April - May (MAM-Autumn: 1997-2001), June - July - August (JJA-Winter: 1997-2001), September - October - November (SON-Spring: 1997-2001) thereby analysing the seasons data only for all years. The example below is only for DJF but I would like to replicate the analysis for each season.
>>>
>>> My solution so far uses subset to select the monthly data for each year and then rbind() the results.
>>>
>>> bb<- subset(aa, index(aa)>=as.Date("1998-12-01")&index(aa)<=as.Date("1999-02-28"))
>>> cc<- subset(aa, index(aa)>=as.Date("1999-12-01")&index(aa)<=as.Date("2000-02-28"))
>>> dd<- subset(aa, index(aa)>=as.Date("2000-12-01")&index(aa)<=as.Date("2001-02-28"))
>>>
>>> ee<- rbind(bb,cc,dd)
>>>
>>> The method above appears to do the job just fine except that I have around 30 locations (catchments) each with varying data availability and some with over 20 years worth of data. Ideally I would like to combine the second set of commands into a single command where I specify the start and end year and the months that I am interested in.
>>>
>> This gives the season (1 = djf, 2 = mam, 3 = jja, 5 = son):
>>
>> seas<- as.numeric(format(as.yearqtr(as.yearmon(time(aa)) + 1/12), "%q"))
> An alternative route might be to go via the "mon" component of POSIXlt,
> e.g.,
>
>     as.POSIXlt(time(aa))$mon %in% c(11, 0, 1)
>
> instead of
>
>     seas == 1
>
> etc.
>
>> and this picks out djf:
>>
>> aa[seas == 1]
>>
>>
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