The latest version of oro.nifti (0.1.5) has been released on CRAN. New features include:Reduced overall size of the package by 50%Minor improvements; for example, the XML package is no longer required as indicated from the DESCRIPTION file ...
Monthly Archives: June 2010
oro.dicom 0.2.6
The latest version of oro.dicom (0.2.6) has been released on CRAN. New features/improvements include:33% increase in the speed of DICOM file handlingAutomatic re-orientation/re-slicing of 3D and 4D volumes when converting from DICOM to NIfTI formatWo...
oro.dicom 0.2.6
The latest version of oro.dicom (0.2.6) has been released on CRAN. New features/improvements include:33% increase in the speed of DICOM file handlingAutomatic re-orientation/re-slicing of 3D and 4D volumes when converting from DICOM to NIfTI formatWo...
Rcpp 0.8.2
A bug fix release Rcpp version 0.8.2 is now on CRAN and Debian. It contains some fixes for Sun compiler, but no user-visible changes and complements the Rcpp 0.8.1 release made Tuesday. Our thanks to Brian Ripley for help with the portability tests for...
Rcpp 0.8.2
A bug fix release Rcpp version 0.8.2 is now on CRAN and Debian. It contains some fixes for Sun compiler, but no user-visible changes and complements the Rcpp 0.8.1 release made Tuesday. Our thanks to Brian Ripley for help with the portability tests ...
RcppArmadillo 0.2.2
Following the Rcpp 0.8.1 release we made yesterday, we released RcppArmadillo release 0.2.2 this morning. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and some 'glue' code) to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson's impressive Armadillo library for li...
RcppArmadillo 0.2.2
Following the Rcpp 0.8.1 release we made yesterday, we released RcppArmadillo release 0.2.2 this morning. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and some 'glue' code) to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson's impressive Armadillo library for...
Data Mining with WEKA example implemented in R
IBM Developer Works has several new articles on Data Mining with WEKA by Michael Abernethy. I decided to implement the example provided in the first article in the series using R. I realize that I could have used WEKA through R (using the RWeka packa...
3 lines of R code to Process a Web Service
Ruby is well known for its terse syntax and ability to process web services. I prefer JSON (Javascript Object Notation) to XML whenever possible. For example, a script to retrieve a list of World Bank Data takes all of three lines of code (after in...
Thoughts on Making Data Work
I really enjoyed all four talks at today's online conference, Making Data Work. (Disclosure: Revolution sponsored this conference.) I thought the four speakers together gave a great overview of issues related to the processing, analysis, and visualization of big data. Mike Driscoll started off with a useful categorization for data size. "Small Data" (<10Gb) fits in the memory of...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
