[FRIAM] R tutorial for idiots.

[Phil Henshaw]

Who would guess just asking the R help forum would turn up a grad med
student whose PhD in modeling time series of epidemics with R, living
around the corner!     I guess I'm now officially one small step up from
rank beginner...    Anyway, it doesn't appear that R makes it at all
easy to use data with arbitrary time scales, however, which is
disappointing.    I just want a graphing database that other systems
researchers use that treats time as a real number.   Is that too much to
ask??     R's time-series objects appear to require orderly data with
points at constant time periods, and can't relate to others with
different periods...   My data and issues  tend to fail on both counts!

 
The session did give me a whole bunch of names of other people working
on non-parametric data imaging, so I'll bet someone somewhere deals
directly with the underlying problem, i.e. that life most certainly
happens, but just not on schedule!     I've gotten more than a couple
great suggestions on FRIAM!    Any others? 
 

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That's simple enough!   Thanks Nick & Roger, now I just need a couple
free months to get back to where I was with the new tool!   Of course...
there would be more reason to do that if anyone were to send me some of
their puzzling time series data sets to let me explore and see if I can
find what's happening...    No promises, but I usually find something
quite new and interesting because I ask a different set of questions.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:13 PM
To: nickthompson at earthlink.net; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] R tutorial for idiots.



Nick --

Try this one:
http://www.cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Verzani-SimpleR.pdf

-- rec --


On 9/17/06, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote: 

Robert,

This URL came up empty for me.

www.cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/*Verzani*-*SimpleR*.pdf

Any thoughts????

nick




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