[Read more...]

[Read more...]

I did a screencast for my co-workers to show how to get started with R, specifically what a base installation of R looks like, then showing how to improve your workflow using RStudio, Rcmdr or rattle.  The examples are somewhat … Continue reading →Video: R, RStudio, Rcmdr & rattle is an article ... [Read more...]

Despite my preference for SAS over R, there are some add-ons to “basic” R that I’ve found that have made my learning process way easier.  While I’m still in my infancy in learning R, I feel like once I found … Continue reading →Getting Started Using R, Part 1: RStudio ... [Read more...]

Lets go one with the second part of learning R by doing R (you will find the first part here. As we have used vectors, matrices and loops in the first part, we will concentrate on graphics in this one. but first we will need data to plot: Sometimes you ... [Read more...]

Geography is often about statistics as it is the basis for fast exchange of information: providing a mean and standard deviation to the audience is often much easier then showing raw data: Learning a script language for this purpose can be a hard-ass work. But I think it is more ... [Read more...]

[Read more...]

[Read more...]

[Read more...]

Now that I have one enormous project on the go and one smaller one, I find it’s helping me considerably to have each project stored in separate RStudio projects.  So, each project has its own scripting that I’ve been working … Continue reading → [Read more...]

[Read more...]

[Read more...]

Because I do not have root privileges on some of the machines I use, I build part of my software from source and install it into my own homedirectory. Doing that requires one to download R from CRAN, e.g. R… See more › [Read more...]

I do a alot of my modelling on Rstudio hosted on EC2 instances. If you don’t use, I would highly recommend. A brilliant tool. Kudos to the Rstudio team. I have made a personal and professional pledge to obsessively use version control. I hope to show... [Read more...]

Which text editor do you use? Once in a while this question pops up on the R-help mailing list. Up until recently I used the KDE text editor Kate under Linux. Recently, I came across a new text editor for… See more › [Read more...]

[Read more...]

[R] is an excellent open-source statistics language. It's cross-platform and free and I think it will eventually displace proprietary stat's packages due to its rapid development, speed and ease of use. So there's no time like the present to get used... [Read more...]

Something I’m missing from R (especially coming from Mathematica) is the ability to quickly build interactive graphs, which I find very useful for getting a good intuition of the impact of parameters on a mathematical function. Richie Cotton’s post about … Continue reading → [Read more...]

RStudio™ is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the statistical software R (www.r-project.org). It combines an intuitive user interface with powerful coding tools to help you get the most out of R. cloudnumbers.com provides researchers and companies with the access to resources to perform high performance calculations ... [Read more...]

This thread has been widely discussed on a lot of forums. To make a long story short, running natively R on an iDevice (meaning iPhone/iPad) is disabled by its OS, unless it is jailbroken. The steps for the installation through Cydia are described in this R wiki, or this ... [Read more...]