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John Chambers, the inventor of S, added reference classes to R 2.12, and oh boy are they fun to look at! What you see in the picture above is a “Hello World” web application for R. It’s written using the Rack R package (not unlike Ruby’s Rac... [Read more...]

As previously announced, R 2.12.2 is available for download today. Browsing through the various mirrors (using the Download R tool on inside-R.org), it looks like the Windows version is already available on many mirrors; the Mac and Linux versions will follow soon (and of course, sources are available now). The ... [Read more...]

Responding to yesterday's post which included an aside on using parallel processing for by-group computations in R, reader Christian Gunning mused about the possibility of using doSNOW on his network, with OpenSSH to manage the authentication: I sit on a fast campus network and have at least 10 remote cores available ... [Read more...]

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Today, at lunch, Matthieu told us a nice story (or call it a paradox if you like) about the probability to find you seat empty when you get in a place.  a plane full of nuns Assume that you are in the line to get in the airplane, you are ... [Read more...]

Analyst and BI expert Steve Miller takes a look at the facilities in R for doing "by-group" processing of data. The task consisted of: ... read several text files, merge the results, reshape the intermediate data, calculate some new variables, take care of missing values, attend to meta data, execute a ... [Read more...]

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The 0.9.2 release of Rcpp is now on CRAN and Debian. This version contains a build fix for the older 10.5.* version of OS X and its g++ 4.2.1 compiler; we now skip one test that upset it. CRAN builds for OS X should resume. We also added simple ... [Read more...]

The Web-based Flash game Canabalt, whose scores have been analyzed by R before, is now available as an iOS App. Because the app is configured to work on three different platforms: the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch; and because players are invited to tweet their best scores at the end ... [Read more...]

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From the HRSA website: [The ARF 2009] is a database containing more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation’s counties. ARF contains information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. The data file itself is formatted ... [Read more...]

A bug-fix release RQuantLib 0.3.6 is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. There are only two changes to two files where an explic... [Read more...]

Thanks to some help from Pierre Roudier, the aqp package now has some new S4-style classes and methods-- custom tailored to the complexities of soil profile data. These new classes/methods are only available in the aqp development branch, found on our ... [Read more...]

Statistics and Computing has received several papers on ABC and plans to make a special ABC issue out of these. All submissions prior to June 2011 that will be accepted will be published in this special issue. The special issue is identified as an article type on the on-line page. In ... [Read more...]

Starting on March 5 at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View (CA), Mike Bowles and Patricia Hoffmann will present a course on Machine Learning where R will be the "lingua franca" for looking at homework problems, discussing them and comparing different solution approaches. The class will begin at the level of ... [Read more...]

On Friday, a 2008 paper on Stochastic Approximation and Newton’s Estimate of a Mixing Distribution by Ryan Martin and J.K. Ghosh was posted on arXiv. (I do not really see why it took so long to post on arXiv a 2008 Statistical Science paper but given that it is not ... [Read more...]

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Three of Marvel’s longest running comic book series’ are Thor, Uncanny X-Men, and Fantastic Four. Using data from 2010, I compare monthly comic book sales for each series. This data only pertains to monthly issues and not trade paperbacks. Furthermore, the series Amazing Spider Man was not considered because it ... [Read more...]