In his keynote speech at the useR! meeting John Chambers of Statistics research at Bell Labs (one of the founders of the S System, which subsequently gave rise to the R project) asked the question what is programing? As it … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Programing as a higher craft
rgl: R and OpenGL
There were many presentations at the useR! meeting showing off amazing graphics that I had no idea R was capable of. It is clear to me that graphically speaking I have been living in the dark ages until now. One … Continue reading →
Things overheard at the useR! meeting
Here are a few things I overheard at the useR! meeting. These comments and quotes do not necessarily represent my opinions (although many do) and since many of them were overheard in informal discussions and rants I will not name … Continue reading →
Report from the useR! meeting in Ames
I was not sure what to expect at this meeting. The only thing I was certain about was that I was not about to experience wiener schnitzels, waltz and Austrian high culture (in contrast to last years useR! meeting). Despite … Continue reading →
Looking for a few good beta testers
Sitting in a dreary hotel room in San Jose with Interstate 101 on my left and a burger joint/truck stop on my right (see previous post Report from the meeting of the Ecological Society of America in San Jose for … Continue reading →
RinWIN: Character eaten by cmd or Powershell? R.exe or Rterm.exe?
Problem Description: When running R2.6.0(built with MinGW) in PowerShell (PS> /bin/R.exe), one can exit the running code with CTRL-C. However, the following situation is rather cratchy : the shell would (almost always) consequently omit the first ch...
GillespieSSA poster
Finished my poster for the useR! 2007 meeting. It is also posted on the GillespieSSA web page as part of the package documentation. Now, all I have to do is show it off in Ames next week…, oh, and I … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
