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283 results for “from:Hans W Borchers”

Different results for tan(pi/2) and tanpi(1/2)
Hans W Borchers · Sep 9, 2016 · r-devel

As the subject line says, we get different results for tan(pi/2) and tanpi(1/2), though this should not be the case: > tan(pi/2) [1] 1.633124e+16 > tanpi(1/2) [1] NaN Warning message: In tanpi...

is.category
Hans W Borchers · May 12, 2008 · r-help

Applejus <ielkhoury <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello, > > Could someone tell me what the SPLUS "is.category" function do and what is > its equivalent in R? > Thank you, I couldn't find any help elsewhere... > > If you Web search for "splus...

LSAP and the Hungarian algorithm [was: R-help]
Hans W Borchers · Aug 27, 2010 · r-help

venkatesh bandaru <venkatesh.bandaru <at> gmail.com> writes: > If you had searched for it, you would have easily found the 'clue' package: In package clue solve_LSAP() enables the user to solve the linear sum assignment problem (LSAP) using an...

Exponential smoothing?
Hans W Borchers · Aug 19, 2008 · r-help

?hagen Patrik <Patrik.Ohagen <at> mpa.se> writes: > > Dear List, > > I have used all my resources (i.e. "help.search) and I still havn't been > able to figure out if there is an Exponential Smoothing command in R. A...

nonlinear constrained optimization
Hans W Borchers · Aug 19, 2008 · r-help

Paul Smith <phhs80 <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Up to my best knowledge, R cannot deal with optimization problems with > nonlinear constraints, unless one uses the penalty method. Outside R, > Ipopt and Algencan can solve problems like yours, but one needs...

how to find near neighbors?
Hans W Borchers · Nov 19, 2010 · r-help

Czerminski, Ryszard <Ryszard.Czerminski <at> astrazeneca.com> writes: > > I am looking for an efficient way to find near neighbors... > > More specifically... > I have two sets of points: A & B and I want to find > points in set B which are...

r-project.org address blacklisted by anti-spam software
Hans W Borchers · Jul 7, 2009 · r-help

Dear List: An e-mail mentioning the r-project.org address and sent to a friend at a German university was considered spam by the local spam filter. Its reasoning: the URL "r-project.org" is blacklisted at uribl.swinog...

Expectation Maximization (EM) clustering available?
Hans W Borchers · Nov 21, 2001 · r-help

I am looking for an implementation of the EM clustering algorithm in R. This method is quite interesting and, for example, realized in the WEKA data mining package -- and very slow, unfortunately. Is there an R package containing the EM...

Examples of advanced data visualization
Hans W Borchers · Nov 28, 2008 · r-help

Dear R-help, I am looking for ideas and presentations of new and advanced data visualization methods. As an example of what I am searching for, the 'Many Eyes' pages at http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ may provide a...

Constrained Optimization
Hans W Borchers · Aug 4, 2008 · r-help

<alan.ng <at> gmx.net> writes: > > Hello, > > I am trying to run a constrained optimization in R. "constrOptim" is really > useful and has helped me a lot, but unfortunately, it doesn't provide the > hessian. Is there a solution to...

Intersection of 2 matrices
Hans W Borchers · Dec 2, 2011 · r-help

Michael Kao <mkao006rmail <at> gmail.com> writes: > Well, taking a second look, I'd say it depends on the exact formulation. In the applications I have in mind, I would like to count each occurrence in B only once. Perhaps...

How to pack my stuff into a package (library, collection)?
Hans W Borchers · Apr 7, 2008 · r-help

Tribo Laboy <tribolaboy <at> gmail.com> writes: > [...] > These seem to include among others Perl and compiler. But R is an > interpreted and cross-platform language, I don't understand the need > for additional platform specific tools just to call a...

Nearest Neighbor Algorithm in R -- again.
Hans W Borchers · Feb 2, 2004 · r-help

> /Why not modify the C code of knn? (Not knn1)/ Because I thought it would not be a good idea to apply 'knn' a 1000 times or more. Instead I was looking for a procedure that returns a structure making...

Plotting error bars in xy-direction
Hans W Borchers · Dec 5, 2007 · r-help

Dear R-help, I am looking for a function that will plot error bars in x- or y-direction (or both), the same as the Gnuplot function 'plot' can achieve with: plot "file.dat" with xyerrorbars,... Rsite-searching led me...

Runs up and runs down test
Hans W Borchers · May 19, 2012 · r-help

JWDougherty <jwd <at> surewest.net> writes: > Can someone point me to an implementation of the "runs up and runs > down" test, or does such beast exist in R? From web searches the > "runs up and runs down" test is commonly...

Implementation of Gamma test in R available?
Hans W Borchers · Jul 3, 2002 · r-help

Is there an implementation of the Gamma test available in R? This is an interesting statistics for non-linear modelling and there is a commercial program available as *winGamma*. It would be nice to have this approach or something similar...

axis tick colors: only one value allowed?
Hans W Borchers · Dec 13, 2011 · r-help

Carl Witthoft <carl <at> witthoft.com> writes: > > Hi, > So far as I can tell, the 'col.ticks' parameter for axis() only uses the > first value provided. E.g.: > > plot(0:1,0:1, col.ticks=c('blue','red','green')) #all...

Editor fpr Mac OS
Hans W Borchers · Jul 21, 2008 · r-help

Angelo Scozzarella <angeloscozzarella <at> tiscali.it> writes: > > Hi, > is there a good editor for Mac Os? We had the same discussion in December 2007 and again in June 2008. Please consider the recommendations given in these threads. My personal favorite...

Which external functions are called in a package?
Hans W Borchers · Jan 3, 2020 · r-help

How can I find out which functions of my package A are called within another package B that depends on, imports, or suggests package A ? And more specifically, which functions in B are calling functions in A ? I tried to...

calculate area between intersecting polygons
Hans W Borchers · Oct 26, 2010 · r-help

Remko Duursma <remkoduursma <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Here is a different solution: > > library(gpclib) > p1 <- as(poly1, "gpc.poly") > p2 <- as(poly2, "gpc.poly") > > area.poly(p2) + area.poly(p1) - area.poly(union(p1,p2)) > > I.e., take areas of...

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