Advanced R programming topics Similarly as last year, BNOSAC is offering the short course on 'Advanced R programming topics' at the Leuven Statistics Research Center (Belgium).  The course is now part of FLAMES (Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics) and can be found here http://www.flames-statistics.eu/training/... [Read more...]

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[This article was first published on BNOSAC - Belgium Network of Open Source Analytical Consultants, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the [Read more...]

  Within 2 weeks on Friday, May 24, The RBelgium R user group is holding its next Regular meeting in Leuven for which this is the schedule: ** Jonathan Cornelissen - DataMind  Discover DataMind, a new online learning platform for d... [Read more...]

A few weeks ago, the stream package has been released on CRAN. It allows to do real time analytics on data streams. This can be very usefull if you are working with large datasets which are already hard to put in RAM completely, let alone to build some statistical model ... [Read more...]

In a recent post by Revolution Analytics (link & link) in which Revolution was benchmarking their closed source generalized linear model approach with SAS, Hadoop and open source R, they seemed to be pointing out that there is no 'easy' R open source solution which exists for building a poisson regression ... [Read more...]

Next week on Friday, November 16, the RBelgium R user group is holding its next Regular meeting in Brussels. This is the schedule of the upcoming RBelgium Regular meeting:* Graphical User Interface developments around R, including tcltk2 and SciViews - Philippe Grosjean (UMons)* Using R via the Amazon Cloud - Jean-Baptiste ... [Read more...]

Every year, the Leuven Statistics Research Center (Belgium) is offering short courses for professionals and researchers in statistics and statistical tools. The following link shows the overview of the courses: http://lstat.kuleuven.be/consulting/shortcourses/ENcourse%20overview.htm or get it here in pdf: http://lstat.kuleuven.be/consulting/... [Read more...]

If you are into large data but not enormeoulsy big data everyone is talking about and you are tired of finding a solution to get your data with several 10's of millions of records in R without having RAM issues, having a look at the packages ff, ffbase and ETLUtils ... [Read more...]

The ff package is great when you are working with large data in R. Data in corporate environments are usually not that large that a Hadoop system is needed to handle it but the data are mostly large enough to make R choke on it's RAM.  T... [Read more...]

The R package ETLUtils is now available for download at it's CRAN repository.It's a package which facilitates the ETL in situations where you need to interact with SQL databases in a corporate environment. Basically it currently focusses on t... [Read more...]