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Installing R packages without admin rights on MS Windows

April 26, 2012 | Markus Gesmann

Is there a life outside the office?Photo: Markus GesmannIt is not unusual that you will not have admin rights in an IT controlled office environment. But then again the limitations set by the IT department can spark of some creativity. And I have to ad...

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Using the {plyr} (1.2) package parallel processing backend with windows

September 11, 2010 | Tal Galili

Hadley Wickham has just announced the release of a new R package “reshape2” which is (as Hadley wrote) “a reboot of the reshape package”. Alongside, Hadley announced the release of plyr 1.2.1 (now faster and with support to parallel computation!). Both releases are exciting due to a significant speed increase they ... [Read more...]

How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it)

April 23, 2010 | Tal Galili

Update: In the end of the post I added simple step by step instruction on how to move to the new system. I STRONGLY suggest using the code only after you read the entire post. Background If you didn’t hear it by now – R 2.11.0 is out with a bunch ... [Read more...]

Parallel Multicore Processing with R (on Windows)

April 21, 2010 | Tal Galili

Parallel Processing backend for R under windows - installation tips and some examples. [Read more...]

Compiling and Cross-compiling R packages for Windows (win32)

September 3, 2009 | Vinh Nguyen

so recently i’m learning how to compile and cross-compile R packages from source for windows machines, which means i have to create windows binaries. the first option is to build on a windows system, and the 2nd is to cross-build on an intel-based linux or mac system. i will ... [Read more...]

Guerrilla Data Analysis Class – Seats Still Available

July 14, 2008 | Neil Gunther

Most operating systems are capable of collecting hundreds of system and performance metrics every second. Even if you only record them once an hour, after a week you will have more than 50,000 samples; after a month you will be staring at almost a quar...

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Installing R packages without admin rights on MS Windows

Using the {plyr} (1.2) package parallel processing backend with windows

How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it)

Parallel Multicore Processing with R (on Windows)

Compiling and Cross-compiling R packages for Windows (win32)

Guerrilla Data Analysis Class – Seats Still Available

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