These days one can frequently read about wordclouds created with R, initiated by the release of the wordcloud package by Ian Fellows on July 23rd. So here I am to put in my two cents. I thought about creating a wordcloud of a complete blog history, so I build a ... [Read more...]

Today a lot of great mails arrived at my inbox. In one of them I was reading I’ve just added your feed to the site. Where did this mail come from? The sender of the email was Tal Galili. He is a researcher in BioStatistics at the Tel Aviv ... [Read more...]

Complicated calculations usually take a lot of time. So how to know the progress status to estimate how much time the program still needs to finish? [Read more...]

There is a nice R module for apache: rApache. So you can easily publish statistics. [Read more...]

I recently wrote an email with an attached LZMA archive. It was immediately answered with something like: "What are you doing? I had to boot linux to open the file!" First of all I don't care whether user of proprietary systems are able to read open formats, but this answer ... [Read more...]

Today I played a bit with JRI as part of rJava, a Java-R-interface. Here you can learn how to setup for Debian/Ubuntu/akins. [Read more...]

I have bad news for those of you trying to produce lucid code! [Read more...]

Ok, R is very well-considered in certain respects, but there are also some things annoying me... This time it's scoping... [Read more...]

Just developed a small crawler to check my online content at binfalse.de in terms of W3C validity and the availability of external links. Here is the code and some statistics... [Read more...]

Just found a very nice plugin for using R in Vim. It's unbelievable comfortable! [Read more...]

Just wanted to create an expression, existing of some mathematical annotation and a value of an R object. Wasn't that intuitive! [Read more...]

I recently got very close to the floating point trap, again, so here is a little tribute with some small examples! [Read more...]

Welcome to my new category: ShortCut! Here I'll shortly explain some smart features, unknown extensions or uncommon pathways of going for gold. Today it's about the Gnu R tool locator. [Read more...]

Ladies and gentlemen, waiting is finally over. I'm proud to introduce Rumpel! [Read more...]

What a headline.. It's about combining boolean vectors in R. [Read more...]

We often use Gnu R to work on different things and to solve various exercises. It's always a disgusting job to export e.g. a matrix with probabilities to a LaTeX document to send it to our supervisors, but Rumpel just gave me a little hint. [Read more...]