Questions tagged [r]
R is a free, open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
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error-specific tryCatch
R doesn't have classed errors, just (for the most part) error and warning, so determining if the error should be caught or ...
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Efficient way to fill 2D matrices by rows in a list using R
I have a list of 2D matrices. Each matrix is filled using the function “fillMatrices”. This function adds a number of individuals to each day 0 in a matrix and updates the columns “a_M”, “b_M” and “...
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Merge dataframes on timestamps and time intervals using data.table in R
I have two dataframes (x and y) that I need to join, conditional on the timestamp in ...
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Generate a large block diagonal covariance matrix with exponential decay
I am implementing Kalman filtering in R. Part of the problem involves generating a really huge error covariance block-diagonal matrix (dim: 18000 rows x 18000 columns = 324,000,000 entries). We denote ...
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Group by consecutive values in first column and second column value
I have a typing log in which rows are grouped by consecutive package_name, and within those groups rows are grouped if they are logged within 180,000 ms from each ...
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dput() concatenated vector with no quotes, separated by commas in R
An oddly specific task - I have a dataframe with columns with values I need to concatenate in order to prepare a query for a website that requires very specific inputs: unquoted strings, separated by ...
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Replace values in R data frame according to values in other data frame
I would like to change row names values from a first data frame if these rows names are present in another data frame, and change it to a corresponding value (defined in the second data frame). I ...
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Generating random sparse matrix
My goal is to generate a large sparse matrix with majority (~99%) zeros and ones. Ideally, I would be working with 10,000 rows and 10,000,000 columns. Additionally, each column is generated as a ...
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Two-Part Hurdle Model Simulation with Bootstrapping
I am running a simulation study where I am using two-part hurdle modeling on different effect sizes. I tried to stream-line my code for the best optimization including foreach loops and ...
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Bias-corrected percentile Bootstrapping Optimization
I have never posted to this forum, but was referred here. I need some help printing key iterations as well as optimizing my code for run time. If someone had some time to help/explain how to correct ...
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Extracting small word parts (quadgrams) from text using R
I would like to extracts small word parts (quadgrams) from text. Example:
hello world
results in:
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Manually writing a function matrixpower() in R
Problem 1 - Matrix powers in R
R does not have a built-in command for taking matrix powers.
Write a function matrixpower() with two arguments mat and k ...
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Passing uint64_t from C++ to R: Hilbert Mapping - xy2d function
I have been working with Rcpp to perform a forward and backward Hilbert Mapping. Below is an implementation based on this code.
My application is in genomics and I may be dealing with enormous ...
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Sample size, P-values (its relationship), and data visualization with plots. ggplot and T test
We know that P-values (within t-test context as an example..) is highly sensitive to sample size. A larger sample will yield a smaller p-value remaining everything else constant. On the other hand, ...
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Finding values below a threshold
I am wondering if it's possible to avoid looping. I want to make the function faster. The function is to find how many times a particular value is lower in the overall data. For example:
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Text2Vec - fit_transform, $transform TF-IDF
I am sorry if this is a wrong place to post a question.
I have two questions:
~ A)
I am trying to do text similarity using TF-IDF cosine similarity. I somehow managed it in the fallowing code, ...
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Discrete event simulation for production defects
I have one machine, which produces parts. In machine_failure_rate% it produces faulty parts which need to be produced again. Thus, we end up with a simple queuing ...
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Plots of prior and posterior distributions for a model
I have an exercise that ask to plot the prior and posterior distribution in the Poisson-Gamma model. I did it (I think it's correct) inspired
in the answer of this question https://stats.stackexchange....
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A faux parser for fdf files
Introduction
If you know what FDF files are, you can skip this section.
PDF files sometimes includes form fields. These fields can be represented as FDF in plain text form, extracted using certain ...
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Using findInterval to assign vector elements to corresponding brackets
The following function receives a vector of positive integers and list of brackets. The function returns a data frame with a logical vector for each bracket indicating whether a given element of a ...
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Calculate decile table with some loop in R
I wrote code which calculates:
Decile threshold for every decile group
Total income in the decile group
Number of persons
Share of decile in total income (%)
Tax
Share of tax (%)
But unfortunately I ...
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Simulating data generating process correctly
My aim is to simulate the following model by means of a Monte Carlo simulation. I wonder if my R code is correct for generating the data.
Could somebody check?
The model:
$$Y = \sum_{j=1}^{100} (...
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Get maximum sequence lengths taking into account the tradeoff of omitted observations
From a data frame d I have to select the longest possible sequences of x. variables.
Example:
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R Regex : Need only numeric figures [closed]
I'm working on R and using regex to keep only numeric figures in a column (I need to keep digits, negative and decimal sign).
Suppose I've a value
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dplyr — tidyverse, pipes, correlation, same variable across time “a” “b”
Have a look at this dataset. The"a" and "b" are used to make possible differentiate when the same variable was measured. In this case X1a and X1b access the same variable, but "a" was (suppose..) in ...
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Using dplyr and pipes for logistic regression plotting
I have successfully created a plot of a binomial glm using example data. https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/d4lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2018/11/parasites.txt
The predictors of the model include ...
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Applying a function to each row of a matrix
My goal is to apply a function func1 to each row of the matrix input and then return a new one resulting from the transformation....
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Speed up computation on lists of lists in R (scalability issues)
My goal is to take a source list of vectors and apply a mapping to each vector. The mapping creates a list of lists. When the vector size in each list element is large (~20000), and the number of ...
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Cluster correlations for many (> 500k) features by threshold
I have a matrix with roughly 500,000 features that I'd like to correlate and find features that have correlations >= 0.90, then cluster these into one group. Is there an efficient algorithm to do this?...
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A series of yes-no questions to predict yes-no outcomes
I have been writing R scripts for about a week. I have been writing code for 20 years. I have a series of yes-no questions that I hope to predict yes-no outcomes so I know the R-squared will be ...
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Radix sort function in R
I know that sort in R uses radix sort, and I played around in implementing it (mainly to be sure I understood the algorithm properly). However, my implementation is ...
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Transform wide dataset into “tidy-data” within R
I have some really wide data in R that I want to transform into the "tidy data" format. Unfortunately, I cannot change the process that generates this data, so it must be done within R.
My raw data ...
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Effective 3d array transposition with R/C++ (Rcpp)
Task is reshape 3d array from [row, col, slice] to [slice,row,col]. I tried implement base::aperm analog with Rcpp.
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Return a data frame with all possible pairs/triplets/quadruplets of a value column based on two identifiers, and order the value columns
Consider the following dummy dataset:
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Speed up sorting algorithm in R: make one column “smaller” than the other
Consider the following sorting algorithm:
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Character pattern replacement using gsub, loops, and data.table
I was trying to see if data.table could speed up a gsub pattern matching function over a list.
Data for reprex. It's a list of ...
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Stitching together badly formatted log files
I needed to stitch together a large number of badly formatted log files. I [painfully] developed a script for it in R, one that successfully dealt with the various flaws in the dataset. However, this ...
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Efficiently sample a single row of an array at random
I have the following C++ code snippet that randomly samples a single row in an array called pop with num_specs columns and ...
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Checking the presence of certain variables in a dataframe
I'm writing an Exploratory Data Analysis using R Markdown. First of all, I need to check the "sanity" of the input data set. Among the other check I perform, I need to check if at least one between ...
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Iteratively simulate a parasite population
I'm trying to build a simulation in R to model the effects of different parasite egg laying behaviors on how many offspring the parasite has, given a limited amount of resources. In brief, this ...
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Read a directory of CSV files in R
I'm writing a lot of R in my spare time and am trying to get into good habits by using TidyVerse as much as possible. A large part of this has required reading entire directories of dated log files ...
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Fast algorithm for any(M==2)
I want to find a quick way to see if a matrix M has at least one value that is, say, 2. In R, I would use any(M==2). However, this computes first ...
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Group-wise deviations from means / centering with dplyr vs. data.table
I am trying in R to "center" a matrix (i.e. remove mean) group-wise (i.e. remove group means for each variable).
Input is a matrix (including the grouping variable), and output is the same matrix, ...
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Creating the design matrices for a canonical correlation analysis
I have this code to generate symmetric matrices for testing how the design of the canonical correlation analysis I am performing works out. This is a extension of this solution
Each row of the matrix ...
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Random Weighted Classifier in R
I am computing a random weighted classifier based on the rates at which 3 labels appear in a "train" set. I want to use this RWC as a baseline for other classifiers. I'm doing this over 1000 ...
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Extract numerics from matrix A with logical matrix B
I have a matrix A containing numeric values and a matrix B containing 0/1s:
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Is there a more efficient way of doing function 'which' in R?
The data file is here.
Here are my codes:
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Using R to transform Excel files to be combined
I have 50+ excel files that I need to transform (and eventually combine) to use in analyses. I’ve written a code that transforms them into the format I need, but it is extremely slow for files with ...
