Connecting to MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server Connecting to a MySQL database or MS SQL Server from the R environment can be extremely useful.  It allows a researcher direct access to the data without have to first export it from a database and then import it from a csv file ... [Read more...]

For the past few meetings of the Greater Boston useR Group, we have been opened with an introductory “useR Vignette” talk on a topic which may be helpful for new R users. This week, I presented an overview of accessing databases from R. Several people have tweeted and blogged nice ... [Read more...]

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A few weeks ago I needed to export a number of data frames to separate worksheets in an Excel file. Although one could output csv-files from R and then import them manually or with the help of VBA into Excel, I was after a more streamlined solution, as I would ... [Read more...]

s Sir Francis Bacon said, “Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.” And Windows stupid. He should have added the last sentence if he were a Windows user in this age. 1. Avoid Using M$ Excel A lot ... [Read more...]