In our last entry, we described reading Excel files. In this entry, we do the opposite: write native Excel files.RIn R, the WriteXLS package provides this functionality. It uses perl to do the heavy lifting, and the main complication is to install th...

by Szilard Pafka Discussions on various software tools (C, C++, Perl, Python, Unix shell, R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, Excel, databases, Hadoop etc.) used in data analysis. Szilard Pafka (founder and co-organizer of the Los Angeles R users group) presents an … Continue reading →

I was planning to blog about the amazing time I had at Velocity 2009 last week, when this landed in my mailbox (edited for space and privacy): Subject: Seeking help with PDQ-R ...Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:21 -0500My name is James and I've be...

One the nice things about PDQ-R (coming in release 5.0) is the ability to plot PDQ output directly in R. Here's a PDQ-R script, together with the corresponding graphical output, that I knocked up to show the effect on the throughput curve of adding mor...