# Monthly Archives: June 2009

## Example 7.1: Create a Fibonacci sequence

June 12, 2009
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The Fibonacci numbers have many mathematical relationships and have been discovered repeatedly in nature. They are constructed as the sum of the previous two values, initialized with the values 1 and 1.A pdf of this example is available here.SASIn SAS, we use the lag function (section 1.4.17,...

## R tips: Installing Rmpi on Fedora Linux

June 12, 2009
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Somebody on the R-help mailing list asked how to get Rmpi working on his Fedora Linux machine so he could do high-performance computing on a cluster of machines (or a single multicore machine) using the R statistical computing and analysis platform. Since it is unusually painful to get working, I might as well copy the instructions...

## R tips: Installing Rmpi on Fedora Linux

June 12, 2009
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Somebody on the R-help mailing list asked how to get Rmpi working on his Fedora Linux machine so he could do high-performance computing on a cluster of machines (or a single multicore machine) using the R statistical computing and analysis platform. Since it is unusually painful to get working, I might as well copy the instructions...

## Simulation of Burning Fire in R

June 11, 2009
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inlin Yan posted a cool (hot?) simulation of burning fire with R in the COS forum yesterday, which was indeed a warm welcome. I’m not sure whether our forum members will be scared by the “fire” under the title “Welcome to COS Forum”. The fire was mainly created by the function image() with

## Creating Tag Cloud Using R and Flash / JavaScript (SWFObject)

June 10, 2009
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ag cloud is a bunch of words drawn in a graph with their sizes proportional to their frequency; it’s widely used in blogs to visualize tags. We can observe important words quickly from a tag cloud, as they often appear in large fontsize. Tony N. Brown asked how to “graphically represent frequency of words in

## Hack-at-it 2009

June 9, 2009
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The annual GGobi hack-at-it was held June 5-7 in Ames Iowa. The main directions of work areDevelopment of a new canvas for R supporting interactive and dynamic graphics. Michael is leading the effort on this. Higher level routines for supporting brushi...

## Hack-at-it 2009

June 9, 2009
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The annual GGobi hack-at-it was held June 5-7 in Ames Iowa. The main directions of work areDevelopment of a new canvas for R supporting interactive and dynamic graphics. Michael is leading the effort on this. Higher level routines for supporting brushi...

June 9, 2009
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