The *apply() functions are powerful but designed poorly. The R documents are written poorly. They combined make R very hard to learn. All the time, it seems there are some explanations missing. (Another bad example of documentation is Python docs. I cannot retrieve information from the long long pages with ... [Read more...]

I am a computer science researcher, usually working on both Windows and Linux system. Windows is the place where I do the document work, like reading paper, browsing the internet, writing papers with LaTex… Linux is where I run and generate experimental results. The Chaos After years of messy data ... [Read more...]

When I say Ease of Use Improved, I mean you can simply copy, paste and run the codes in this post, without referring to other places, without downloading a data file and read it from R. This is how I like a blog article to be. You don’t need ... [Read more...]