JD Long (at Cerebral Mastication) posted a question on Twitter about an artifact in ESS, where typing “_” gets you “<-”. This is because in the early days of S+, “_” was an allowed assignment operator, and ESS was developed in that era. Later, it was disallowed in favor of “<-” and “=”, so ESS 
See more of the best illusions of 2010 at the link below. Best Illusion of the Year Contest: Top finalists in the 2010 contest
There's another new R User Group, this time in Boston: the New England R User Group. Their first meeting will be on Tuesday, May 25. Get all the info by joining the Google Group at the link below. Google Groups: New England R User Group
Josh had kindly invited me to post on FOSS Trading around the time when he first came up with the idea for the blog. Fast forward a year and I am finally taking him up on his offer.
Josh had kindly invited me to post on FOSS Trading around the time when he first came up with the idea for the blog. Fast forward a year and I am finally taking him up on his offer.
In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. We announced the availability of Revolution R Community 3.2 (based on R 2.10.1), now 100% open source, and including a new doMC package for parallel computing on Windows. We announced that Revolution R Enterprise is now available free of charge to...
I was recently asked to give a talk to our graduate school annual conference. I offered several titles and the one they picked was Using R in research. I'm not sure if this was a good idea or not. The graduate school covers PhD students across three ar...
Several readers emailed me or left a comment on my previous announcement of Frank Harrell's workshop on using Sweave for reproducible research asking if we could record the seminar. Unfortunately we couldn't record audio or video, but take a look a...
Although I haven't been all that much of a fan of moving average based methods, I've observed some discussions and made some attempts to determine if it's possible to get an actual smoothed filter with a causal model. Anyone who's worked on financial ...
The function pimax from our package mcsm is used in to reproduce Figure 5.11 of our book Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R. (The name comes from using the Pima Indian R benchmark as the reference dataset.) I got this email from Josué I ran the ‘pimax’ example from the mcsm manual, and it gave 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
