Articles by Paolo Sonego
R 3.0.0 is released!
R Journal Volume 4/2, December 2012
Italian Bio R Day 2012 – Slides on Reproducible Research using R and Bioconductor
Thanks to Parco Tecnologico Padano (PTP), I was invited to speak at the first Italian Bio R Day that was held in Lodi on 30 November 2012. It was a nice opportunity to talk and listen about different aspects of R from practitioners with different backg...
The R Journal Volume 4/1
R 2.15.0 is released!
Christmas Gift to the R Community: The R Journal!
The Art of R Programming – my two cents
What makes this book different from other books about R is stated clearly by the author Norman Matloff in the introduction:
"This book is not a compendium of the myriad types of statistical methods that are available in the wonderful R package. It r... [Read more...]
Weather forecast and good development practices
Inspired by this tutorial, I thought that it would be nice to have the possibility to have access to weather forecast directly from the R command line, for example for a personalized start-up message such as the one below:
Weather summary for Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia:
The weather in Trieste is ...
R 2.14.0 is released!
The new R 2.14.0 is out! Get the source code from here.
Take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier.
Also this thread on stackoverflow and this post contributed by Tal Galili&nbs...
Word Cloud in R
A word cloud (or tag cloud) can be an handy tool when you need to highlight the most commonly cited words in a text using a quick visualization. Of course, you can use one of the several on-line services, such as wordle or tagxedo ,... [Read more...]
R meets XKCD
Being a big fan of XKCD and, of course, of the R programming language, I thought that a package which allows to display my favorite strips would something (useless) but cool!
So, mimicking the approach (and the code) of the fortunes pac... [Read more...]
Installing Multiple Version of R in parallel on the same machine – Mac OS X
In a few days I'm going to attend a Bioconductor Course; I was requested to install on my MacBook (Mac OS X 10.5.8) a developer version of R (plus ad hoc Bioconductor packages). In order to keep my old R installation ((2.13) along side the ne... [Read more...]
R 2.13.0 is released!
The new R 2.13.0 is out! Get the source code from here.
Take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier.
Also this thread on stackoverflow and this post contributed by Tal Galili&nbs...
Plotting images on a grid using R or Python
A thread depicting how to insert a png image in a plot, thanks to Stackoverflow: plotting-images-on-a-grid.
A very basic tip, still useful to someone.
R Journal 2/2
A R wrapper for Google Prediction API
Since I got the chance to access to both Google Storage for Developers and Google Prediction API (more details here and here), I decided to create a simple wrapper (just 4 basic functions until now) to be capable to play with the Google Prediction API ...
R 2.12.0 is released!
The new R 2.12.0 is out! Get the source code from here.
Take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier.
Also this thread on stackoverflow can be of some value.
Feel free to contribute with suggestions about how to ...
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