For Beginners in R, here is a 15 page example based tutorial that covers the basics of R. Starting R – Trivial tutorial on how to start R for those just wondering what to do next after downloading R. Assignement Operator – Two important assignment operators in R are [Read more...]

R has some very useful libraries for working with spatial data. In this blog we will look at some of the libraries and demonstrate few basic functionalities. Lets start with reading a shapefile. How to read a shapefile : We will use the maptools package to read the shape file. Along ... [Read more...]

In The previous blog we looked at how to install the StatET plugin that can be used to run R from eclipse. In This tutorial we will look at the various features of the plugin. Creating a New R Project or File. The plugin provides the following options We create ... [Read more...]

Many developers, especially the Java developers are quite comfortable using eclipse for development. There is a very useful and powerful plugin called StatET that can enable eclipse to work as in IDE for R. Lets first look at how to install it on Linux(Ubuntu). The plugin is available from ... [Read more...]

In this post we will look at one of the powerful ‘apply’ group of functions in R – rapply. rapply stands for recursive apply, and as the name suggests it is used to apply a function to all elements of a list recursively. We begin by first creating a straightforward list ... [Read more...]

  NOTE : This tutorial has been superseded by the exhaustive tutorials Here Lists Collection of Objects of same or mixed type.List may also contain vector or other lists. Create a list using the funtion list(). The following example shows operations that can be performed on a list. __ alphabets=list(a=”... [Read more...]

NOTE : This tutorial has been superseded by the exhaustive R tutorials Here Basics Start R in Windows using the program menu. To quit :  q(). to call help for a function. help([function]) or ?[function]. use double quotes to escape special characters and tokens. e.g. ?”for”. objects() or ls() to ... [Read more...]

Setting up R-Java in Netbeans is pretty straight forward. For those who need a walkthough here are the steps. Download and install R (for this example version 2.12.2). install rJava package.   Download and install Netbeans.  In Netbeans Create a new java project. we will call it RJava. /library/rJava/jri/examples ... [Read more...]

Update – Check out the new RJava Eclipse Plugin.The steps to install rjava on a 64 bit machine is not very different from installing it on a 32 bit machine. however, here are the exact steps. 1. Install 64 bit java.2. Install R 2.12.X3. Start R and install the rjava package using the package ... [Read more...]

Update – Check out the new RJava Eclipse Plugin.R is a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics. R has a strong community support and is finding new use in the corporate world. If R can be integrated with Java, it would provide a greap acceptance into new products. A ... [Read more...]

Problem : We wish to determine whether or not four different tips produce different readings on a hardness testing machine. An experiment such as these might be part of a gauge capability study. The machine operates by pressingthe tip into a metal test coupon, and frm the depth of the resulting ... [Read more...]

Problem: A product development engineer is interested in investigating the tensile strength of a new synthetic fiber that will be used t omake cloth for men’s shirts. The engineer knows from previous experience that the strength is affected by he weight percent of cotton used in the blend of ... [Read more...]