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The R software is very powerful and flexible but one of the complaints of new users is that the learning curve is steep and can be daunting. There have been various projects to create GUIs for R with varying levels of sophistication, one of which is R Commander by John ... [Read more...]

If you haven't done so already, it's not too late to register for tomorrow's 1-hour webinar, Supercharge BI and Dashboards with Predictive Analytics. I'll be one of the presenters, talking about R and its applications for business intelligence. The topics and speakers will be: Introduction: Analytics and BI (Steve Miller, ... [Read more...]

The program of invited lectures, contributed talks and posters for this year's annual R user conference useR! 2010 is now available, and it looks to be another excellent event. (Revolution Analytics is a sponsor of useR! 2010.) Of note this year is an increasing focus on commercial applications of R, with no ... [Read more...]

MLB Gameday stores its game data in XML format, with the players denoted in ID numbers. To find out who is who, the codes are stored in pitchers.xml or batters.xml of each game. My DownloadPitchFX.R script can download the ID numbers, but it doesn’t look to ... [Read more...]

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Maybe the title should have been prepended with “Don’t…” The source code of R is littered with “attribute_hidden” declarations. These declarations attempt to ensure that the variable or function may only be accessed by code in the core R distribution, and not by R extension packages. Generally there ... [Read more...]