I’ve played around a bit with the Eclipse Color Themes plugin by Felix Dahlke and Roger Dudler as they added support for the R editor that ships with plugin StatET late last year. The outcome is a little color theme called rappster. The nice thing with those color themes ... [Read more...]

Yihui got me psyched a little about GitHub After my last post about running your R infrastructure from an USB drive, he commented on my function that would update the Windows PATH (which is at least important for R and Rtools). Now I found some time to polish it a ... [Read more...]

In order to connect my R related stuff to a webserver and MySQL I went all the way from using xampp to setting up my own (W)AMPP  (Apache MySQL PHP Perl) to finally back to xampp. And I’m quite happy about this very last switch to xampp! Why ... [Read more...]

On my road to eventually running all of my programs off an USB device I’ve gotten a little bit closer yesterday thanks to input from Duncan Murdoch and Yihui Xie. Eventually running the entire Windows OS off a USB drive would be nice (not talking about running it as ... [Read more...]

I’ve long searched for a somewhat efficient approach to indexing nested lists and/or environments and here’s my best solution so far. For me, being able to compute such an index is the crucial part in order to actually manage such nested structures (which are very helpful in ... [Read more...]

Timezone stuff can really drive you NUTS - at least if you’re sitting in front of a German Windows-Box This is what I used to do to set my tz: And I always wondered why R would throw “unknown timezone” warnings: Someday I found out that setting tz via `... [Read more...]

Yesterday I launched my first question at Stackoverflow and apparently did a lot of things wrong as I managed to get my question closed wihtin hours http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7728462/identify-records-in-data-frame-a-not-contained-in-data-frame-b I had collected 9 different solutions to the problem and made the mistake to put it all within the original ... [Read more...]

Hello world, I decided to start blogging a bit to throw my weird R code examples at you ;-) Hope you’ll like it! Greetz, Janko [Read more...]