The theme of last week's meetup of the New York R User Group was The R Rosetta Stone and focused on translating between R and other data languages: SAS, Matlab, SQL, Python and Clojure. I really wish I'd been there, because it's a great topic -- one of the best ways to get started with R is to bootstrap...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Quick thoughts on “R-Powered Web Apps”
Good session at last nights Bay Area UseR Group meeting on R-Powered Web Apps. First of all, there's clearly a lot of interest in using R in Web-based applications: although the program was only announced a week ago, more than 100 people showed up for the talks from Jeff Horner and Jeroen Oons. Second, the Twitter offices are very...
Example 7.22: the Knapsack problem
The website http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Knapsack_Problem describes a fanciful trip by a traveler to Shangri La. They can take as many as they want of three valuable items, as long as they fit in a knapsack. The knapsack will hold no more than 25 weight units, and no more than 25 volume units. The problem is to maximize the...
Making Maps with R
***This tutorial has been updated, please click here*** I frequently use R (a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics) for data analysis. As almost all my data are spatial it is often good to produce a map of the results without having to export the data into another GIS package. I am often
Rcpp 0.7.2
pre{ border: 1px solid black ; } Rcpp 0.7.2 is out, checkout Dirk's blog for details selected highlights from this new version: character vectors if one wants to mimic this R code in C > x
Rcpp 0.7.2
Not even two weeks after the Rcpp 0.7.1 release, Romain and I have a new one to present: Rcpp 0.7.2. It has been uploaded to CRAN and Debian, and the respective package management systems should carry them around in the next few hours. As always, th...
Rcpp 0.7.2
Not even two weeks after the Rcpp 0.7.1 release, Romain and I have a new one to present: Rcpp 0.7.2. It has been uploaded to CRAN and Debian, and the respective package management systems should carry them around in the next few hours. As always, the l...
Rcpp 0.7.2
Not even two weeks after the Rcpp 0.7.1 release, Romain and I have a new one to present: Rcpp 0.7.2. It has been uploaded to CRAN and Debian, and the respective package management systems should carry them around in the next few hours. As always, th...
Academics’ Slang: Orthogonal
H. G. Wells famously said that, “statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” I think we’re getting closer to that day: even the Supreme Court of the United States plan...
In case you missed it: December roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. This post looked at a climate change controversy involving the weather in Darwin, Australia and a review of the source data using R. This post showed how to access global weather data from the US National Centers for Environment Prediction using...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
