The shiny new 0.2.1 release of RInside, a set of convenience classes to facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications, just went out to CRAN; sources are also at my RInside page This is a maintenance release building on the recent 0.2.0 rel... [Read more...]

Learning R blog details some of the new features in the latest update to ggplot2. The latest version includes functions to make it easier to change axis and legend labels, as well as a function to easily set the limits of the plot display outside the range of the data. ... [Read more...]

There's been a number of earthquakes in the Solomon Islands over the past few days, including one that caused a tsunami to partially destroy the village of Baniata on Rendova, Western Provence. You can see exactly how many earthquakes have occurred the... [Read more...]

Just before Christmas ggplot2 version 0.8.5 was released, closely following the release of version 0.8.4 a week or so earlier. Whilst both versions included included numerous bugfixes (25 in 0.8.4 and 17 in 0.8.5), the latest version also incorporated some new features. As ggplot2 is all about graphical display, so I went through the list […] [Read more...]

The second issue of the R Journal is out now, and in addition to a bevy of contributed articles and some news from the R Core Group on the new help system introduced in R 2.10, there's an invited section called, intriguingly, "The Future of R". In that section John Fox ... [Read more...]

The Latin square design is used where the researcher desires to control the variation in an experiment that is related to rows and columns in the field.Remember that: * Treatments are assigned at random within rows and columns, with each treatment once per row and once per column. * There are ... [Read more...]

A new littler release (now at 0.1.3) just went out of the door this evening. littler provides r (pronounced littler), a shebang / scripting / quick eval / pipelining front-end to the the R language and system. This version adds a few minor behind-... [Read more...]

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In our department and various places on the Intertubes, SAS programmers set the HTML title tag (which sets the title in web browsers and on search engines) in ODS using the headtext option: ods html headtext="My great report" /* wrong! */ file="foo.html"; This may work in some situations, but ... [Read more...]

My apologies for the long break between posts. Before the end of this week I’ll return to my series of posts on image processing in R. In the intervening time, I’ve finished a piece of code that I’d like to officially release to the public. The code ... [Read more...]

FriendFeed is a social media service, where groups of people can post interesting information from the Web, and "like" or comment posts from others. Statistical Bioinformatician Neil Saunders is a member of the "Life Scientists" group, and has posted an analysis of the group's activity in 2009 to his blog. He ... [Read more...]

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Do you need a way to find out which individual variables in R consume the most memory? # create dummy variables for demonstration x [Read more...]

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Today marks the hardcopy availability of the first book dedicated to R from O'Reilly, R in a Nutshell. In the familiar O'Reilly style, the cover is adorned with an illustration of an animal, in this case a harpy eagle: The book is written by Joe Adler, a data analyst and ... [Read more...]

Welcome to my new blog, Byte Mining! Data is all around us, all the time. It flows in from places you would least expect it, and more times that not, it remains in its original form untouched by human and machine. When data simply flows in and out of our ... [Read more...]

Presentation by Drew Conway on August 6, 2009 at the NYC R Statistical Programming Meetup on how to perform basic social network analysis in R using the igraph package. [Read more...]

Sometimes it is preferable to label data series instead of using a legend. This post demonstrates one way of using labels instead of legend in a ggplot2 plot. __ library(ggplot2) __ p p + geom_text(data = […] [Read more...]

Two weeks after the Rcpp 0.7.0 release, Romain and I are happy to announce release 0.7.1 of Rcpp. It is currently in the incoming section of CRAN and has been accepted into Debian. Mirrors will catch up over the next few days, in the meantime the local page is available for download ... [Read more...]