One of the drawbacks with R has been its limitation with big datasets. It stores everything in RAM so once you have more than 100K records your PC really starts to slow down. However, since AWS allows you to use any size machine, you could now consider using R for ... [Read more...]

R2D3 is a new package for R I’ve been working on. As the name suggests this package uses R to produce D3 visualisations. It builds on some work I previously blogged about here. There are some similar packages out there on CRAN already. Notably rjson and d3Network. ... [Read more...]

Hi all I’m James. This is my first blog for Coppelia. Thanks to Simon for encouraging me to do this. I’ve been doing a lot of hierarchical clustering in R and have started to find the the standard dendrogram plot fairly unreadable once you have over a couple ... [Read more...]