From time-to-time creating a basic map of the United States or other parts of the world to complement some statistical analysis is useful to emphasize a point. The maps package in R provide a good way to produce these these maps.  These maps axes are based on latitude and longitude ... [Read more...]

When it comes down to it R does a really good job handling structured data like matrices and data frames. However, its ability to work with unstructured data is still a work in progress. It can and it does handle text mining but the documentation is incomplete and the capabilities ... [Read more...]

In which Mo Farah et al show James that he's got a nasty heel-strike [Read more...]

I am happy to report that the R-Podcast is now on iTunes. If you would like to subscribe to the podcast using iTunes, you can click on the iTunes logo or the iTunes link under Podcast Subscription Options on the right hand side of the page. Detailed information on how ... [Read more...]