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S-News Digest Friday, October 1 1999 Volume 01 : Number 580
In this issue:
[S] Homeworkers Needed!
[S] creating a log or diary file in S-PLUS
[S] Is there a function like R's open.socket SPlus?
[S] S-Plus books for teaching
[S] (pas d'objet)
Re: [S] (pas d'objet)
[S] S-Plus batch problem in DOS
[S] Problem with "object.size"
Re: [S] Problem with "object.size"
[S] Further boot problems
[S] ASA StatCompSect Student Paper Competition
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 02:28:56
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Subject: [S] Homeworkers Needed!
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:16:17 +0800
From: aczarn@cs.uwa.edu.au
Subject: [S] creating a log or diary file in S-PLUS
to anyone who can assist
i am new to using S-PLUS, and I am using S-PLUS
version 3 under NT via X-cursion (an x-windows
emulator).
what i want to be able to do is to create a log file
of all that appears in my working window, so that
i can save it for future reference at a later time.
i have read right through the S-PLUS users manual but
cannot find any reference to doing this.
i have tried the basic UNIX redirect by typing
Splus > output.txt however the problem is that
the Splus commands appear in my window, but the output
data does not! it goes to junk.txt
anyone's assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Dr Andrew Czarn
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:26:54 +0200
From: "Armin S. A. Roehrl" <Armin.Roehrl@epfl.ch>
Subject: [S] Is there a function like R's open.socket SPlus?
Dear Splus gurus,
is there a function like R's make.socket to open
a port to connect to/listen on. I do not want to dyn.load an easy to
code
routine for compatability reasons.
Thanks for your help,
Armin
from R:
> ?make.socket
Create a socket connection
make.socket(host="localhost", port, fail=TRUE, server=FA
LSE)
close.socket(socket)
Arguments:
host: name of remote host
port: port to connect to/listen on
fail: failure to connect is an error?
server: a server socket?
Description:
With `server=FALSE' attempts to open a client socket to
the specified port and host. With `server=TRUE' listens
on the specified port for a connection and then returns
a server socket. It is a good idea to use `on.exit' to
ensure that a socket is closed, as you only get 64 of
them.
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Armin
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
http://statwww.epfl.ch/people/roehrl
Kya aap statooed hai? http://www.statoo.com
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:58:23 +0200 (METDST)
From: slist@eio.uva.es (Eusebio Arenal)
Subject: [S] S-Plus books for teaching
Is there an internet address with bibliography of S-plus (or R)? I looking
for text books to teach statistics using S-plus or R.
Eusebio
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Eusebio Arenal Gutierrez Tfo: +34 (9)83 423000 ext. 4258
Dpto. Estadistica e I.O. Fax: +34 (9)83 423013
Facultad de Ciencias Email: slist@eio.uva.es
Universidad de Valladolid
Avda. Prado de la Magdalena, s/n.
Valladolid (SPAIN)
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:35:39 +0200
From: Marion VERDOIT <Marion.Verdoit@ifremer.fr>
Subject: [S] (pas d'objet)
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to evit the use of for loops in this case, because
it is too long to evaluate :
j<-0
for (i in 1:800000)
{if (tableau[i,3]==50) {j<-j+1}
}
Thank you for your response
- --
Marion Verdoit
Laboratoire MAERHA
IFREMER BP 21105
44311 Nantes Cedex 03
FRANCE
E-mail : mverdoit@ifremer.fr
Tel : 02 40 37 41 64
Fax : 02 40 37 40 75
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:49:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Goran Brostrom <gb@stat.umu.se>
Subject: Re: [S] (pas d'objet)
How about
j <- sum(tableau[1:800000, 3] == 50)?
Gvran
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marion VERDOIT wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm looking for a way to evit the use of for loops in this case, because
> it is too long to evaluate :
>
> j<-0
> for (i in 1:800000)
> {if (tableau[i,3]==50) {j<-j+1}
> }
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Professor of Statistics tel: +46 90 786-5223
Umee University fax: +46 90 786-6614
S-90187 Umee, Sweden e-mail: gb@stat.umu.se
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:04:25 -0400
From: "Subramaniam, Ravi" <rsubramaniam@sciences.com>
Subject: [S] S-Plus batch problem in DOS
I am running S-Plus in Batch in a Windows (well, actually DOS) environment.
What I am finding is that the batch will not wait for the SPlus command to
be done before continuing to the next line in the batch script. It turns out
this is really an Splus problem, not that of something strange in the batch
script. I notice that others have experienced in the past in this list, but
the workarounds suggested have all been for Unix.
The command I am using is: Splus /BATCH infile outfile
(I am using S-Plus 2000).
Any suggestions anyone? Thanks in advance.
Ravi.
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:06:59 +0100
From: Stefano Sofia <cs0sso@isis.sunderland.ac.uk>
Subject: [S] Problem with "object.size"
Dear S-Plus users,
I encountered the following problem:
I have written a function in order to analyse time series ( with monthly
data).
The time series are stored in vectors.
When I test the function with time-series no longer than 400 elements (
approximatively ) the programs works fine, but as soon as the length of
the time series I have to analyse is bigger than 400, the calculation is
dumped.
( the following error is reported with a time-series of length 540 )
Error in 1:ll: Cannot allocate 6786304 bytes: options("object.size") is
5000000: see options help file
Dumped
Is there anything I can do to avoid this problem ?
Where is exactly the problem ? Does it depend on the efficiency of my
function ?
( S-Plus4 on WindowsNT, pentium 266 with 160 Mb. of RAM )
grateful for any help or advise
Stefano
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:21:12 -0500
From: dmango@amre.com
Subject: Re: [S] Problem with "object.size"
Try options(object.size=10000000) or whatever amount you want. Worked for me.
HTH
Don
Stefano Sofia <cs0sso@isis.sunderland.ac.uk> on 09/30/99 12:06:59 PM
To: S-News <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
cc: (bcc: Don Mango/AmericanRe)
Subject: [S] Problem with "object.size"
Dear S-Plus users,
I encountered the following problem:
I have written a function in order to analyse time series ( with monthly
data).
The time series are stored in vectors.
When I test the function with time-series no longer than 400 elements (
approximatively ) the programs works fine, but as soon as the length of
the time series I have to analyse is bigger than 400, the calculation is
dumped.
( the following error is reported with a time-series of length 540 )
Error in 1:ll: Cannot allocate 6786304 bytes: options("object.size") is
5000000: see options help file
Dumped
Is there anything I can do to avoid this problem ?
Where is exactly the problem ? Does it depend on the efficiency of my
function ?
( S-Plus4 on WindowsNT, pentium 266 with 160 Mb. of RAM )
grateful for any help or advise
Stefano
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:06:50 +0200
From: "Fredrik Lundgren" <fredrik.lundgren@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>
Subject: [S] Further boot problems
Hello,
I've got problems with censboot in the boot library based on Davison&Hinkley (I'm running S-Plus Prof 4.5 rel 2 in Windows 98 and Bootstrap S-Plus Functions (Version 1.1; May 1998)).
When the examples in boot help are run I get the following
> aml.fun <- function(data) {
+ surv <- survfit(Surv(data$time,data$cens)~data$group)
+ out <- NULL
+ st <- 1
+ for (s in 1:length(surv$strata)) {
+ inds <- st:(st+surv$strata[s]-1)
+ md <- min(surv$time[inds[1-surv$surv[inds]>=0.5]])
+ st <- st+surv$strata[s]
+ out <- c(out,md)
+ }
+ }
> aml.case <- censboot(aml,aml.fun,R=499,strata=aml$group)
Error in t[r, ] <- statistic(bootda..: Invalid righ
t-hand side to replacement
Dumped
and also
> aml.s1 <- survfit(Surv(aml$time,aml$cens)~aml$group)
>
> aml.s2 <- survfit(Surv(aml$time-0.001*aml$cens,1-aml$cens)~1)
> aml.cond <- censboot(aml,aml.fun,R=499,strata=aml$group,
+ F.surv=aml.s1,G.surv=aml.s2,sim="cond")
Error in t[r, ] <- statistic(bootda..: Invalid righ
t-hand side to replacement
Dumped
and as well
> aml.fun1 <- function(data,str) {
+ surv <- survfit(Surv(data[,1],data[,2])~str)
+ out <- NULL
+ st <- 1
+ for (s in 1:length(surv$strata)) {
+ inds <- st:(st+surv$strata[s]-1)
+ md <- min(surv$time[inds[1-surv$surv[inds]>=0.5]])
+ st <- st+surv$strata[s]
+ out <- c(out,md)
+ }
+ }
> aml.wei <- censboot(cbind(aml$time,aml$cens),aml.fun1,R=499,
+ strata=aml$group, F.surv=aml.s1,sim="weird")
Error in rbind(temp, as.matrix(data[..: Number of co
lumns of matrices and lengths of names vectors must
match (see arg 2)
Dumped
The melanoma boot works OK but i have further problems with the envelope
> mel.env <- envelope(mel.mod$t)$point
Error in envelope(mel.mod$t): Object "n" not found
Dumped
Has anyone some help to offer??
With thanks in advance
Fredrik Lundgren
Cardiovascular centre
Linkvping
Sweden
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:38:02 -0700
From: Lionel Galway <galway@rand.org>
Subject: [S] ASA StatCompSect Student Paper Competition
Statistical Computing Section
American Statistical Association
Student Paper Competition 2000
The Statistical Computing Section of the ASA is sponsoring a student
paper session on the topic of Statistical Computing at the Joint
Statistical Meetings in 2000. Students are encouraged to submit a
paper in this area, which might be original methodological research in
statistical computing, some novel computing application in statistics,
or any other suitable contribution (for example, a software related
project). Four students will be selected to participate in this
session.
Students at all levels (undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D.) are
encouraged to participate. To be eligible, an applicant must be a
registered student in the fall of 1999. The applicant must be the
first author of the paper. The Section will pay all registration fees
for the selected winners, as well as a substantial allowance for
transportation to the meetings and housing (which in most cases covers
these expenses completely).
To be considered for selection in the session, students must submit an
abstract, a six page manuscript, a resume, and a letter of
recommendation from a mentor familiar with their work. All materials
must be in English. The manuscript should be single-spaced in a 10
point font with one inch margins (this is consistent with ASA's
Proceedings guidelines). All figures, tables and references must be
included in the six-page limit. The letter of recommendation must
include a verification of the applicant's student status and, in the
case of joint authorship, should indicate what fraction of the
contribution is attributable to the applicant. All electronic
submissions of papers should be in Postscript.
All application materials MUST BE RECEIVED by 5:00 PM PST, Wednesday
January 5, 2000 at the address below. They will be reviewed by the
Statistical Computing Section Student Paper Competition Award
committee. Selection will be based on a variety of criteria at the
discretion of the selection committee, and will include innovation and
significance of contribution, amongst others. Award announcements
will be made in late January, 2000. The decision of the selection
committee will be final.
Applicants not selected for inclusion in the session may submit their
abstract and a registration fee to ASA by February 1, 2000 if they
plan to attend the Joint Meetings. Those abstracts must be submitted
following the ASA abstract submission instructions described in AMSTAT
News. Students selected for inclusion in the session will receive
further information about abstract submission and fee waivers from the
award committee.
Information on the competition can also be accessed on the website of
the Statistical Computing section. A current pointer to the website
is available from the ASA website at www.amstat.org. Inquiries and
application materials should be emailed or mailed to:
Student Paper Competition
c/o Lionel Galway
The RAND Corporation
1700 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
Lionel_Galway@rand.org
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Lionel Galway
Senior Statistician
The RAND Corporation voice: 310-393-0411 X7957
1700 Main St. fax: 310-393-4818
Santa Monica, CA 90401 email: Lionel_Galway@rand.org
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