The program for next year's useR! conference in Los Angeles is shaping up nicely, with confirmed speakers including John Chambers (from the R Core Group), David Diez (OpenIntro), Dirk Eddelbuettel (Rcpp, Debian), Jan de Leeuw (Journal of Statistical Software), Martin Mächler (R Core, R Foundation) and Karline Soetaert (author of Solving Differential Equations in R). The tutorial sessions, held...
Geomorph 1.1-5 Now available!
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 1.1-5 to CRAN. The windows binary has been compiled and the tarball is available. The MAC OSX binary may take a few...
Nuclear vs Green Energy: Share the Wealth or Get Your Own?
Thanks to Ontario Open Data, a survey dataset was recently made public containing peoples’ responses to questions about Ontario’s Long Term Energy Plan (LTEP). The survey did fairly well...
24 Days of R: Day 12
Today, I'm going to finally dip my toe in the water of something I've wanted to do for a long time. I'd wanted to do this with Michael Caine...
sudoku break
While in Warwick last week, one evening after having exhausted my laptop battery, I tried the following Sudoku (from Libération): and could not even start. As it happened, this...
Success rates for EPSRC proposals
Email In my last post, I looked at the success rates for EPSRC Fellowship applications using funnel plots. As luck would have it, Alex Hulkes and Derek Gillespie from...
A look at the distribution of R package dependencies
by Joseph Rickert For a knitty gritty look at what’s new with R there is no better place to start than Dirk Eddelbuettel’s CRANberries site. Since 2007, the site...
Age Precision and Bias — Changes to FSA
Last week I taught part of a workshop for the Minnesota Chapter of the American Fisheries Society on “Analyzing Age Data in R” (materials are here). I like doing...
24 Days of R: Day 11
I don't know how often Michael Caine appeared in a Shakespearean work, but I'm sure that he has and I'm sure that he was excellent. A bit pressed for...
Thursday: Scalable Cross-Platform R-Based Predictive Analytics
Tomorrow at 11AM Pacific Time, Revolution Analytics' Chief Scientist Mario Inchiosa will present a live webinar on Scalable Cross-Platform R-Based Predictive Analytics. Here's the abstract: In this webinar we...
Learn R and/or Data Management from Home January or April
If you want to learn R, or improve your current R skills, join me for two workshops that I’m offering through Revolution Analytics in January and April. If you...
My first… web application with Shiny
It was several time I was thinking about developing a web application with R and Shiny. In these days I realize my first application with Shiny. You can find...
24 Days of R: Day 10
How often is someone nominated for an academy award? Who has been nominated most often? Is there a difference between leading and supporting roles? Important questions. To answer them,...
Creating custom CDF for Affy chips in R / Bioconductor
Creating custom CDF for Affy chips in R / Bioconductor What? For those who don't know, CDF files are chip definition format files that define which probes belong to which probesets,...
In case you missed it: November 2013 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users: A recap of the Strata Hadoop World conference, including presentations from Monsanto...
Feature Prioritization: Multiple Correspondence Analysis Reveals Underlying Structure
Measuring the Power of Product Features to Generate Increased DemandProduct management requires more from feature prioritization than a rank ordering. It is simply not enough to know the "best"...
Writing papers using R Markdown
Writing papers using R Markdown I have been watching the activity in RStudio and knitr for a while, and have even been using Rmd (R markdown) files in my...
RcppArmadillo 0.3.930.1
A new Armadillo release 3.930 came out a few days ago, with a very nice set of changes (see below). I rolled this into RcppArmadillo 0.3.930.0. However, one of...
Next Kölner R User Meeting: 13 December 2013
Quick reminder: The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 13 December 2013. We are delighted to welcome:
Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan: Introduction to
eeptools 0.3 Released!
Version 0.3 of my R package of miscellaneous code has been released, this time with substantial contributions from Jason Becker via GitHub. Progress continues toward the ultimate goal for eeptools to...
24 Days of R: Day 9
This will be the third time I've tried to write this post. I had started out presuming that I would uncover something fascinating about applying Bayesian inference to a...
Hive Plots using R and Cytoscape
(This article was first published on Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I found out about HivePlots this past summer, and...
Matrix factorizations and social network graph analysis
This is a lecture post for my students in the CUNY MS Data Analytics program. In this series of lectures …Continue reading »
The Tornado Project
GoalBring consistency and transparency to the analyses of publicly available Tornado datasets using an R-based open source analysis.IssuesTornado data available from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center and other government agencies...
Intentionally Writing Obtuse Code
Sometimes intentionally writing bad code can be a lot of fun. Now here, when I say "bad", I mean something that's functional but completely incoherent to anything but the...
Adobe Analytics Implementation Documentation in 60 seconds
When I was working as a digital analytics consultant, no question quite had the ability to cause belly laughs AND angst as, “Can you send me an updated copy...
roxygen2 3.0.0
We’re pleased to announce a new version of roxygen2. The biggest news is that you can painlessly document your S4 classes, S4 methods and RC classes with roxygen2 –...
“Programming with R” course in Milano (Italy) on January 30-31
Course description This two-day course provides an overview of several advanced R topics, such as: R environments, object oriented programming, functional programming and debugging. Who should attend this course...
