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Update to Data on Github Post: Solution to an RCurl problem

June 14, 2012 | Christopher Gandrud

A reader of my most recent post tried the R code I had written to download the data set of electoral disproportionality from the GitHub repository. However, it didn’t work for them. After entering disproportionality.data

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Data on GitHub: The easy way to make your data available

June 13, 2012 | Christopher Gandrud

GitHub is designed for collaborating on coding projects. Nonetheless, it is also a potentially great resource for researchers to make their data publicly available. Specifically you can use it to:store data in the cloud for future use (for free),track ...

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Aspirational & Useful: deck.rb with RStudio/knitr & Go2Shell

May 21, 2012 | Christopher Gandrud

There has been some interest in the recent release of RStudio 0.96 and especially the ability to use combine its knitr Markdown functionality with Pandoc to integrate R and a variety of different documents types. I just wanted to add two quick things ...

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How to Start Using (pgf)Sweave in LyX in One Minute

October 30, 2010 | Yihui Xie

regor Gorjanc published an interesting article “Using Sweave with LyX” in R News in 2008, which (I believe) makes it much easier to use Sweave. I use command-line tools a lot every day, but I am still “GUI-addicted”. (I don’t want to comment more about Microsoft Word here.) LyX is ... [Read more...]

How to avoid annoying a referee

October 22, 2010 | Rob J Hyndman

It’s not a good idea to annoy the referees of your paper. They make recommendations to the editor about your work and it is best to keep them happy. There is an interesting discussion on stats.stackexchange.com on this subject. This inspired my own list below. Explain what ... [Read more...]

useR! 2010 conference videos

August 12, 2010 | Szilard

Videos of the invited talks of the useR! 2010 conference as follows (courtesy by Kate Mullen and NIST). This site also aims at collecting the materials (video, slides, R code) of local R users group (RUG) meetings and various other … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with Sweave: R, LaTeX, Eclipse, StatET, & TeXlipse

February 23, 2010 | Jeromy Anglim

Being able to press a single button that runs all your statistical analyses and integrates the output into your final report is a beautiful thing. If you have not already heard, this is what Sweave can do for you. However, getting your computer to run ...

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Update to Data on Github Post: Solution to an RCurl problem

Data on GitHub: The easy way to make your data available

Aspirational & Useful: deck.rb with RStudio/knitr & Go2Shell

How to Start Using (pgf)Sweave in LyX in One Minute

How to avoid annoying a referee

useR! 2010 conference videos

Getting Started with Sweave: R, LaTeX, Eclipse, StatET, & TeXlipse

reproducible research

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