For those who are excited about the new 2.13.0 release of R (particularly the compiler package) but are grumbling about having to remember what packages they have and re-install them, see this great advice or this piece on upgrading in osx for how to a... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users. The doSMP package, which enables parallel processing for R on multiprocessor machines, is now available on CRAN. The Offensive Politics blog provided R code used to make a map of precinct returns in ... [Read more...]

Today I have been able to get 2 more templates working: The ternary plot and the correlation ellipses. They were already “working”, but just the initial script. which can be found here: ternary plot: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RG... [Read more...]

If you didn’t read the post from yesterday, I urge you to do so, or you won’t get what I’m writing here. http://flyordie.sin.khk.be/2011/04/08/day-19-rgg-s-a-btch/ So, coming back from yesterday, I had a talk with my supervisor who to... [Read more...]

After 2 restarts of my PC and 3 times restarting Rserve and Knime, the red text of doom (look at the bottom of Day 21) was finally gone. So I could start on my correlation ellipses. this wasn’t so hard. I added a panellistbox to my template, whic... [Read more...]

For my second lecture today, I need to plot a likelihood surface for a basic two-component mixture with only the means unknown: here is the R code to speed up things llsurf=function(trumyn=2.,wayt=.3,var2=1.,ssiz=500){ # draws the log-likelihood surface and a random sample sd2=sqrt(var2) parti=(runif(... [Read more...]

The R Core Group has released the latest update to open-source R, R 2.13.0 is now available. You can download the new source distribution from the R Project website, and I see from the Download R tool at inside-R.org that binaries for Windows and Mac are already available at my ... [Read more...]

This week, Le Monde offers not one but three related puzzles: Is it possible to label the twelve edges of a cube by consecutive numbers such that the sum of the edge numbers at any of the eight nodes is constant? Is it possible to label the eight nodes of ... [Read more...]

A brand new 0.9.4 release of Rcpp is now on CRAN and Debian. This version contains an improvement to loading and initialization of Rcpp modules, a bug fix for vectors of factors, another build issue fix as well as (per common practice with JSS) ... [Read more...]

It's been a year since I began keeping a web log. This post presents some thoughts related to the experience. Blogging is Sharing Ideas Blogging is online self-publishing. There is no faster way to share your ideas so broadly. Last year at the useR! conference (in Gaithersburg, MD, just a ... [Read more...]

A maintenance release 0.2.3 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. The NEWS file entry follows below: 0.2.3 2011-04-12 o Protect UINT64... [Read more...]

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The latest edition of the Journal of Statistical Software is out, with plenty of interesting articles for R users. A must-read is Hadley Wickham's article on "The Split-Apply-Combine Strategy for Data Analysis", which makes a compelling argument for the use of the plyr package to partition datasets and apply sub-group ... [Read more...]

The intersection of mapping APIs, fast database operations and user engagement offers a lot of very cool crowdsourcing applications ranging from the benign and powerful (Google’s Person Finder) to the minor and questionable (A DUI checkpoints app). Most intriguing in … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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The folks over at Rstudio have released a new update to their open-source R GUI, currently in beta test. This Beta 2 release adds more customizable layouts, editor improvements and new editing themes. Also of interest is a new feature that allows creation of graphics that update under the control of ... [Read more...]

Like many people who crunch numbers frequently, I have increasingly been integrating Amazon’s cloud computing services into my daily workflow. In particular, I have been using their elastic cloud computing (EC2) on a regular basis. The service is an excellent way to offload computationally intensive work from your laptop ... [Read more...]

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