Kim Elmore | 1 Oct 2008 19:20
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Plotting within a function

I would like to generate plots within a function. The only issue is what 
I need to do to make the plots "permanent." So far, after the function 
exits, the plots vanish as well. What do I need to do to make the plots 
stay after the function exits?

Thanks for any clues!

Kim Elmore

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Fowler, Mark | 3 Oct 2008 18:17
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glmmPQL & Wald-type F-tests

Hello,
        Might anyone know how to conduct Wald-type F-tests of the fixed effects estimated by glmmPQL? I see this implemented in SAS (GLIMMIX), and have seen it recommended in user group discussions, but haven't come across any code to accomplish it. I understand the anova function treats a glmmPQL fit as an lme fit, with the test assumptions based on maximum likelihood, which is inappropriate for PQL. I'm using S-Plus 7. I also have R 2.7 and S-Plus 8 if necessary.

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Lim Weiyang | 6 Oct 2008 16:00
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Exporting/generate reports of summary output of regression

Dear S-users,
 
I wonder if there is any way I can export the output generated (or place them in an easily readable form) when performing a regression or regression diagnostics with S functions like summary(), heteroTest, normalTest etc together into say a pdf file/reports since this will make for easier reading as a whole.
 
It will be even better if output from multiple regressions can be exported out into a single document using a function like pdf() as I may need to do many regressions and see the output as a whole.
 
Many thanks for your help!
 
Best Regards,
Weiyang

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Re: Exporting/generate reports of summary output of regression

 You question almost exactly describes the functionality of the Sweave and 
odfweave packages.  Look them up on google.

 
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[Summary] Exporting/generate reports of summary output of regression

Hi,
 
I posted a question last week on how to export results of summary output of regression. Thanks to Harry Southworth, Chris Barker, Terry Therneau for their responses! Below are the question and responses. In addition, I realized that the scan() function may be useful as well.
 
 
 
Original question
 
Dear S-users,
 
I wonder if there is any way I can export the output generated (or place them in an easily readable form) when performing a regression or regression diagnostics with S functions like summary(), heteroTest, normalTest etc together into say a pdf file/reports since this will make for easier reading as a whole.
 
It will be even better if output from multiple regressions can be exported out into a single document using a function like pdf() as I may need to do many regressions and see the output as a whole.
 
Many thanks for your help!
 
 
From Harry Southworth
 
?createXMLFile
?xml2html
?xml2pdf
 
The XSL stylesheets that come with S-PLUS are a bit ropey, so you might need to write your own. You'd also have to do a bit more work to embed graphs.
 
hth
Harry
 
From Chris Barker
 
Depends in part on what you mean by easier reading. Some people use TeX  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
 
  Chris Barker, Ph.D.
Consulting Statistician
 
From Terry Therneau
 
You question almost exactly describes the functionality of the Sweave and
odfweave packages.  Look them up on google.


    Terry Therneau
 
Alternate method
 
# Write the output to the file given
    sink("C:\\testLM.txt")

    # Call regressions
    test.lm.1 <- lm(Fuel~., data=fuel.frame)
    test.lm.1
    summary(test.lm.1)

    test.lm.2 <- lm(Fuel~Mileage+Type, data=fuel.frame)
    test.lm.2
    summary(test.lm.2)

    # Return the output back to the program
    sink()

Best Regards,

Weiyang


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ICDM 2008 Travel Grants

ICDM 2008 Travel Grants
=======================

Thanks to the NSF (National Science Foundation), the Unesco Privacy Chair,
and IBM, ICDM 2008 is able to offer travel grants.

Below there is information on eligibility and application requirements for
each of these grants.

The required documentation should be sent by email, no later than October
24, 2008, to icdm08-grants <at> isti.cnr.it with subject line: “ICDM 2008
student travel grant application” in ASCII (highly preferable), or PDF
format. Late submissions, or documents in other formats will not be
accepted.

What is covered
---------------
The maximum amount of support provided to each grantee is set by the
committee, and it is intended to partially cover the grantee’s lodging and
registration. Travel may or may not be partially covered depending on the
total availability of funds and the number of awards given.

The grantee should pay the registration fee and travel expenses in
advance, and then the Grant will reimburse some of these expenses (by
check or by bank transfer, depending on the grant).

See below for a description of the different travel grants that are
available.

1. NSF Sponsored Student Travel Grants
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The purpose of the NSF sponsored student travel grants is to encourage
graduate student participation at the conference by partially funding the
costs of students who would otherwise be unable to attend.

Applications for NSF sponsored grants are accepted only from students at
degree granting institutions throughout the USA.

The committee strongly prefers to give NSF grants to students who are not
paper authors. All students however are encouraged to apply. Other
criteria will include evidence of a serious interest in data mining
research, as demonstrated by coursework and project experience. ICDM
encourages participation of women and under-represented minorities, as
well as participation of students from under-represented institutions.

2. Unesco Privacy Chair Sponsored Travel Grants
-----------------------------------------------
The UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat)
offers economic support to offset some of the costs associated with
attending ICDM 2008 for participants coming from “transition” countries,
which are nations other than USA, Canada, Western Europe, New Zealand,
Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Preference is given to student
authors, and authors of accepted papers.

3. IBM Sponsored Student Travel Grants
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Thanks to IBM’s sponsorship ICDM is able to offer additional student
travel awards. All students are eligible to submit applications.

How to apply for a sponsored travel grant
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A student will have to submit an application that includes:

(i) a cv, that shows the institution the applicant is studying/working at,
(ii) a letter by the applicant that includes the following:
a brief statement of the applicant’s research interest and current
accomplishments, and their future research plans, a description of how the
grant will help them with their research plans,
any information that the student feels relevant for supporting their
application, including title of the paper and names and affiliations of
the co-authors if the student is an author,
(iii) a recommendation letter from the student’s advisor supporting the
application, that:
confirms that the applicant was a student in good standing at the time the
paper was submited to ICDM,
describes how the applicant will benefit from attending ICDM, and
explains why the student is in need of the travel grant.

Non-student applicants should explicitly specify the Unesco Privacy Chair
Sponsored Travel Grants in their application, that should include only
documents (i) and (ii).

The documents should be in ascii (highly recommended) or PDF format. All
applications using other formats will be rejected.

Send the application with all three required documents in ONE email to:
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Call for Participation: WI-IAT'08, Sydney, Australia

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08)
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08)

December 9-12, 2008
Building 5, Haymarket Campus, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
http://www.lido.com.au/online/default.aspx?id=657fj3g91907# (see the map)

Official:
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/

Sponsored and Organized by
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
University of Technology, Sydney 

================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================

    6 WI'08/IAT'08 Invited Speeches by 
      Professor Edmund H. Durfee
      Professor Toru Ishida
      Professor Tsau Young Lin
      Professor Nigel Shadbolt
      Professor Yanchun Zhang
      Dr. Michael Witbrock 
    1 WIC Feature Talk by 
      Professor Jiming Liu
    4 Tutorials 
   16 WI-IAT Workshops
      Including the first WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop
    Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers.

The research track papers were selected from 651 submissions received
from over 52 countries and regions.

All main conference and workshop proceedings will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed by EI.

REGISTRATRION
+++++++++++++

**********************************************
!!! Early-bird Registration by Nov 8, 2008 !!!
**********************************************

On-line registration (and more information) at
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/?page_id=45

Regular registration covers all the events of WI-IAT'08 during the
four conference days including keynotes, tutorials, accepted paper
presentations, and workshops, as well as includes proceedings for one
of the conferences or its associated workshops.

As usual, WI'08 and IAT'08 will be co-located, providing
synergism among Web Intelligence and
Intelligent Agent Technology. The two 
conferences will have a joint opening, invited talks, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels and tutorials across
the two conferences.

INVITED TALKS
+++++++++++++

WI'08/IAT'08 Joint Invited Talks include:

Planning for Coordination and Coordination for Planning
Professor Edmund H. Durfee
EECS Department, University of Michigan, USA

The Language Grid:
Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration
Professor Toru Ishida
Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

The Emergence of Web Science
Professor Nigel Shadbolt
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

Knowledge Based Search Engine: Granular Computing on the Web
Professor Tsau Young Lin
Department of Computer Science, San Jose State University, USA

Using Web Clustering for Web Community Mining and Analysis
Professor Yanchun Zhang
Centre for Applied Informatics Research, Victoria University, Australia

Thinking Big - AI at Web Scale
Dr. Michael Witbrock
Vice President for Research at Cycorp, Inc., CEO of Cycorp Europe

WIC FEATURE TALK
++++++++++++++++

Professor Jiming Liu
Professor and Head of Computer Science Department, 
Hong Kong Baptist University

TUTORIALS
+++++++++

T1: Web Content Mining
    Vaclav Snasel
    Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

T2: Matching Words and Pictures: Problems, and Applications in the Web
    Latifur Khan
    University of Texas at Dallas, USA

T3: Utilizing Federated Knowledge in Semantic Web Applications
    Jans Aasman
    Franz Inc. USA

T4: Modeling Agent Organizations
    Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum
    Utrecht University, The Netherlands

WORKSHOPS
+++++++++

W1: The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and 
    Social Networks 
    (CISWSN 2008)

W2: International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems 
    (WIRSS 2008)

W3: International Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and 
    Recommender Systems 
    (WPRRS 2008)

W4: International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction 
    (IWI 2008)

W5: Workshop on Intelligent e-Government 
    (IEG 2008)

W6: International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web 
    (FLOW 2008)

W7: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering 
    (NLPOE 2008)

W8: Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning 
    (TUMAS-A 2008)

W9: International Workshop on Computational Social Networks 
    (IWCSN 2008)

W10: Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence 
    (ODM 2008)

W11: The Second International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient 
     Intelligence: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications 
    (HAAI 2008)

W12: International Workshop on E-Commerce, Business, and Services 
    (ECBS 2008)

W13: Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents 
    (P2P 2008)

W14: International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction 
    (ADMI 2008)

W15: Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 
    (WLIAMAS 2008)

W16: 2008 WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop

SOCIAL PROGRAM
+++++++++++++++

The WI'08 and IAT'08 joint conference offers an exciting social
programs, including the conference welcome reception on Dec. 10 and
the conference banquet on Dec. 11.

You can also enjoy the city of Sydney, including Darling Harbour and
Opera House.  You can get more information about the conference hotel
and local information from the conference homepage:
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/

CONTACT INFORMATION
+++++++++++++++++++

A/Prof Longbing Cao
Data Sciences & Knowledge Discovery Lab (the Smart Lab)
Research Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Office: +61-2-9514 4477
Fax:    +61-2-9514 4517
E-mail: lbcao <at> it.uts.edu.au
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3rd CfP: ICAS 2009 | April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain


                                     
Apologies for cross-postings.


INVITATION

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups  the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.
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============== ICAS 2009 | Call for Papers ===============
 
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
 
ICAS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain
 
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html <file:///C:/Users/owner/AppData/Local/Temp/BLOCKED::http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html>

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html <file:///C:/Users/owner/AppData/Local/Temp/BLOCKED::http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html>
 
Submission deadline: November 1, 2008
 
Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org <file:///C:/Users/owner/AppData/Local/Temp/BLOCKED::http://www.iariajournals.org>

Extended versions of selected papers will also be published in the Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems: https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf <file:///C:/Users/owner/AppData/Local/Temp/BLOCKED::https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf>
 
Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas.
 
ICAS 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site):

SYSAT: Advances in system automation

AUTSY: Theory and practice of autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications

AUTONOMIC: Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioral networks and services

CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

MCMAC: Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems

CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

AMMO:  Adaptive management and mobility
 

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ICAS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chairs
Radu Calinescu, Oxford University, UK
Mauricio Marin, Yahoo!, Chile
Carlos Turro, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

AMMO Special area chairs:
Fidel Liberal, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Armando Ferro, University of the Basque Country, Spain

ICAS General Chairs
Lourdes Peñalver Herrero, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
 
ICAS 2009 Industry Chair
Stefano Crosta, Cisco Systems, Inc., France
Mikael Salaun, Orange-ftgroup, France
Kevin Y Ung, Boeing, USA

ICAS 2009 Demos Chair
Mikael Salaun, Orange-ftgroup, France

ICAS Advisory Chairs
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada
Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan
Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
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1st CFP: 1st Workshop LMPCNAP in ICNS 2009 | April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

INVITATION

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups  the
following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific or educational
results.
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============== LMPCNAP 2009 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

The first International Workshop on Learning Methodologies and Platforms used in
the Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP), LMPCNAP 2009 will be held during
ICNS 2009 in April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/LMPCNAP.html

Submission deadline: November 1, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS and posted in IEEE
Digital Library (pending agreement).

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org

Cisco Networking Academy Program is an education initiative that delivers
information and communication technology skills to improve student’s career
around the world. Cisco Networking Academy provides online courses, interactive
tools, and lab activities to help individuals develop the skills needed to fill
ICT positions in virtually every type of industry. It also provides numerous
programs and resources to link students and alumni with potential employers.

This innovative learning program that has more than 11,000 Academies spread
world wide in more than 160 Countries with more than 472,000 students
registered and more than 16,000 instructors. It realizes more than 25,000
online exams per day. The number of academies in the CNAP has been growing
continuously during its 12 years of existence. The CCNA course has been
translated in 10 different languages.

This international workshop will serve as a forum for teachers and instructors
from the academia and the industry to exchange ideas. The topics could be on
techniques, methodologies and applications, best practices, awareness and
experiences as well as future trends and needs related to all aspects of
education and technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

New learning methodologies.
Blended learning.
Online laboratories.
Virtual laboratories.
Remote laboratories.
Learning strategies to enhance online courses.
Learning Content adaptation for blended learning.
Learning platforms and their compatibility with cisco.netacad.net.

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LMPCNAP 2009 General Chair

Rafael Tomas, Mediterranean Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC), Spain

LMPCNAP 2009 Technical Program Commitee chair

Prof. Tomeu Serra, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

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