The work of Edward Tufte is worth reading if you are interested in designing meaningful graphs and removing chart junk from your displays. [Read more...]

Good news. Jeroen Ooms released a new version of his (amazing) online ggplot2 web interface: yeroon.net/ggplot2 is a web interface for Hadley Wickham’s R package ggplot2. It is used as a tool for rapid prototyping, exploratory graphical analysis and education of statistics and R. The interface is ... [Read more...]

Update (April 6 – 2010) : R-Node now has it’s own a website, with a dedicated google group (you can join it here) * * * * The integration of R into online web services is (for me) one of the more exciting prospects in R’s future. That is way I was very excited coming across ... [Read more...]

The Codecogs website provides an Open-source library of functions for numerical analysis. One interesting component available on the website is the LaTeX equation editor which can be used to create graphics files of equations to include on webpages. The webpage describe this component as a A web-based LaTeX equation editor ... [Read more...]

There are many blogs on Statistics, R and other related topics scattered around the internet. The R bloggers website provides a central hub where feeds from participating blogs are collated so that they can be viewed from a single website. This resources certainly appears to be a good idea so ... [Read more...]

The grammar of graphics approach to constructing graphs has been implemented in the ggplot2 package in R. The author of the package, Hadley Wickham, has provided a website with many details of using the system to create nice looking graphics. The package removes many of the awkward parts of setting ... [Read more...]

One of the exciting new frontiers for R programming is of creating website interfaces to R code. At the forefront of this domain is a young and (very) bright man called Jeroen Ooms, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at useR 2009 (press the link to see his presentation). Today ... [Read more...]