The latest version of oro.dicom (0.2.5) has been released on CRAN. New features include:Added "mosaic" capability when creating 3D arrays from DICOMdicomTable() now accepts single DICOM fileBetter handling of SequenceItem tags when reading in DIC...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
R 2.11.0 due date
This is the announcement as posted in the mailing list : This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.11.0 on Thursday, April 22, 2010. Those directly involved should review the generic schedule at http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build troubles) via http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ For the R Core
The “Future of Open Source” Survey – an R user’s thoughts and conclusions
Over a month ago, David Smith published a call for people to participate in the “Future of Open Source” Survey. 550 people (and me) took the survey, and today I got an e-mail with the news that the 2010 survey results are analysed and where published in the “Future.Of.Open.Source blog” In the following (38 slides) presentation: I would like...
RClimate Script: Global Mean Sea Level Trend by Month
This RClimate Script lets users read a NetCDF file and plot the latest satellite altimetry based global mean sea level data from 1993 to the latest completed month. The trend chart shows NOAA’s Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry altimeter global mean sea level with the seasonal signal removed and inverted barometer. I will add this chart 
Video: ggplot2 Creator Hadley Wickham’s Short Course on Data Visualization Using R
Hadley Wickham, creator of ggplot2, has posted a 2 hour video on data visualization using R. You can find links to the videos and slides over at Revolutions Blog. Check back here soon. I am working with Hadley to arrange a day-long ggplot2 short cours...
Video: Hadley Wickham gives a short course on graphics with R
Hadley Wickham (the creator of the popular ggplot2 graphics package for R) has posted video of a 2-hour short course on Visualisation in R at his blip.tv channel. The video is split into four thirty-minute segments: Basic Graphics Displaying Large Data Data manipulation and transformations Polishing your plots for publication The course is peppered with self-guided exercises, for which...
Updated Site Map for Jeromy Anglim’s Blog Psychology and Statistics
Every Six months or so I like to update the Site Mapfor my blog jeromyanglim.blogspot.com. Thus, if you're new to the blog, The Site Map provides an overview of previous blog content organised by topic. RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeromyang...
Updated Site Map for Jeromy Anglim’s Blog Psychology and Statistics
Every Six months or so I like to update the Site Mapfor my blog jeromyanglim.blogspot.com. Thus, if you're new to the blog, The Site Map provides an overview of previous blog content organised by topic. RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeromyang...
Playing with the ‘playwith’ package
Abilities of R for creating graphics is great, but one thing I always missed is the possibility of creating interactive plots and being able to look at graphs while changing one ore more parameters. I know that there is rggobi, but so far I always ran into problems with flexibility each time I wanted to 
ggplot2: Changing the Default Order of Legend Labels and Stacking of Data
“How to change the order of legend labels” is a question that gets asked relatively often on ggplot2 mailing list. A variation of this question is how to change the order of series in stacked bar/lineplots. While these two questions seem to be related, in fact they are separate as the legend is controlled by 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
