Articles by Tal Galili

Seeking a New Maintainer for the Popular R Package installr

April 28, 2023 | Tal Galili

TL;DR I’m seeking someone to take over maintenance of the the popular R package installr (github), due to a shift away from Windows OS. The package has been downloaded over 3.3 million times and has a current download rate of around 61k times a month. The ideal candidate should ...

How to install R 3.6.3 (NOT 4+) on Linux MINT 19.x (19.1, 19.2, 19.3)

July 6, 2022 | Tal Galili

tl;dr On Linux MINT 19.2, I was only able to properly install R 3.6.3 (but NOT R 4+) The correct repos need to be updated in at least 2 files, only then can R be installed Did I miss any tips? please leave me a comment. Background I have tried, and failed, to ... [Read more...]

heatmaply 1.0.0 – beautiful interactive cluster heatmaps in R

January 9, 2020 | Tal Galili

I’m excited to announce that heatmaply version 1.0.0 has been published to CRAN! (getting started vignette is available here) What is heatmaply? heatmaply is an R package for easily creating interactive cluster heatmaps that can be shared online as a stand-alone HTML file. Interactivity includes a tooltip display of values ...

Registration for eRum 2018 closes in two days!

April 27, 2018 | Tal Galili

Why I’m going to eRum this year instead of useR! I have attended the useR! conferences every year now for the past 9 years, and loved it! However, this year I’m saddened that I won’t be able to go. This is because this year the conference will be ...

R 3.5.0 is released! (major release with many new features)

April 24, 2018 | Tal Galili

R 3.5.0 (codename “Joy in Playing”) was released yesterday. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). This is a major release with many new features and bug fixes, the full list is provided below. Upgrading R on Windows and Mac If ...

R 3.4.3 is released (a bug-fix release)

December 8, 2017 | Tal Galili

R 3.4.3 (codename “Kite-Eating Tree”) was released last week. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). As mentioned by David Smith, R 3.4.3 is primarily a bug-fix release: It fixes an issue with incorrect time zones on MacOS High Sierra, and some ...

heatmaply: an R package for creating interactive cluster heatmaps for online publishing

October 30, 2017 | Tal Galili

This post on the heatmaply package is based on my recent paper from the journal bioinformatics (a link to a stable DOI). The paper was published just last week, and since it is released as CC-BY, I am permitted (and delighted) to republish it here in full. My co-authors for ...

R 3.4.2 is released (with several bug fixes and a few performance improvements)

September 29, 2017 | Tal Galili

R 3.4.2 (codename “Short Summer”) was released yesterday. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). As mentioned by David Smith, R 3.4.2 includes a performance improvement for names: c() and unlist() are now more efficient in constructing the names(.) of their return ...

R 3.4.1 is released – with some Windows related bug-fixes

July 11, 2017 | Tal Galili

R 3.4.1 (codename “Single Candle”) was released several days ago. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). As mentioned last week by David Smith, R 3.4.1 includes several Windows related bug fixed: including an issue sometimes encountered when attempting to install packages ...

shinyHeatmaply – a shiny app for creating interactive cluster heatmaps

May 15, 2017 | Tal Galili

My friend Jonathan Sidi and I (Tal Galili) are pleased to announce the release of shinyHeatmaply (0.1.0): a new Shiny application (and Shiny gadget) for creating interactive cluster heatmaps. shinyHeatmaply is based on the heatmaply R package which strives to make it easy as possible to create interactive cluster heatmaps. The ...

R 3.4.0 is released – with new speed upgrades and bug-fixes

April 24, 2017 | Tal Galili

R 3.4.0 (codename “You Stupid Darkness”) was released 3 days ago. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). The full list of bug fixes and new features is provided below. As mentioned two months ago by David Smith, R 3.4.0 indicates several major ...

R 3.3.3 is released!

March 7, 2017 | Tal Galili

R 3.3.3 (codename “Another Canoe”) was released yesterday You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). The full list of bug fixes and new features is provided below. A quick summary by David Smith: R 3.3.3 fixes an issue related to attempting to ...

Data Driven Cheatsheets

January 25, 2017 | Tal Galili

Guest post by Jonathan Sidi Cheatsheets are currently built and used exclusivley as a teaching tool. We want to try and change this and produce a cheat sheet that gives a roadmap to build a known product, but also is built as a function so users can input data into ... [Read more...]

ggedit 0.0.2: a GUI for advanced editing of ggplot2 objects

January 17, 2017 | Tal Galili

Guest post by Jonathan Sidi, Metrum Research Group Last week the updated version of ggedit was presented in RStudio::conf2017. First, a BIG thank you to the whole RStudio team for a great conference and being so awesome to answer the insane amount of questions I had (sorry!). For a ...

ggedit – interactive ggplot aesthetic and theme editor

November 16, 2016 | Tal Galili

Guest post by Jonathan Sidi, Metrum Research Group ggplot2 has become the standard of plotting in R for many users. New users, however, may find the learning curve steep at first, and more experienced users may find it challenging to keep track of all the options (especially in the theme!). ... [Read more...]

R 3.3.2 is released!

November 1, 2016 | Tal Galili

R 3.3.2 (codename “Sincere Pumpkin Patch”) was released yesterday You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). The full list of bug fixes and new features is provided below. Upgrading to R 3.3.2 on Windows If you are using Windows you can easily ...

Set Application Domain Name with Shiny Server

October 23, 2016 | Tal Galili

Guest post by AVNER KANTOR I used the wonderful tutorial of Dean Attall to set my machine in Google cloud. After I finished to configure it successfully I wanted to redirect my domain to the Shiny application URL. This is a short description how you can do it. The first ... [Read more...]

Presidential Election Predictions 2016 (an ASA competition)

August 25, 2016 | Tal Galili

Guest post by Jo Hardin ASA’s Prediction Competition In this election year, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has put together a competition for students to predict the exact percentages for the winner of the 2016 presidential election. They are offering cash prizes for the entry that gets closest to the ...

The reproducibility crisis in science and prospects for R

July 26, 2016 | Tal Galili

Guest post by Gregorio Santori () The results that emerged from a recent Nature‘s survey confirm as, for many researchers, we are living in a weak reproducibility age (Baker M. Is there a reproducibility crisis? Nature 2016;533:453-454). Although the definition of reproducibility can vary widely between disciplines, in this survey ... [Read more...]

Using 2D Contour Plots within {ggplot2} to Visualize Relationships between Three Variables

July 24, 2016 | Tal Galili

Guest post by John Bellettiere, Vincent Berardi, Santiago Estrada The Goal To visually explore relations between two related variables and an outcome using contour plots. We use the contour function in Base R to produce contour plots that are well-suited for initial investigations into three dimensional data. We then develop ...

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