And I had to do it again: I am using R installed from homebrew, and after the upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite, I had to re-install all packages – or was it a GCC upgrade? I don’t know – but I had to do it again. I still had the link ... [Read more...]

There was always the issue which bugged me: Why do I have to go through an intermediate format on disk when I want to import a GRASS raster layer into R? At the moment, when I use readRAST6(), the raster layer is exported from GRASS into an intermediate formate (I ... [Read more...]

Four days sunshine, heat and R – isn’t that a dream? Well, I guess for some this would be a nightmare, but that depends if you like heat or not. And it was hot: at 21:00 it was still 35 degrees in the sun. So that aspect is covered, and we can ... [Read more...]

As I was talking recently about reproducible research, I have to post this. A new paper by Eric Schulte, Dan Davison, Thomas Dye, Carsten Dominik. If you haven’t heard about them, you haven’t been on the org-mode mailing list. They could be called the main contributors to org-mode ... [Read more...]

I just found these two gems about debugging in R on r-help today (here is the thread): 1) posted by Thomas Lumley: traceback() gets you a stack trace at the last error options(warn=2) makes warnings into errors options(error=recover) starts the post-mortem debugger at any error, allowing you to ... [Read more...]

I have a paper which I wrote some years ago, which has not been finished, and which should be accompanied by an R package. So far nothing special, but at that time, I was only at the beginning of my affair with R, and so I made several mistakes (OK – ... [Read more...]