This past week, the annual R user conference useR! 2010 took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD (which is a tad northwest of Washington, DC). Kate Mullen and her team of local organizers did a truly...
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useR 2010 at NIST in Gaithersburg
This past week, the annual R user conference useR! 2010 took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD (which is a tad northwest of Washington, DC). Kate Mullen and her team of local organizers did a truly t...
useR 2010 at NIST in Gaithersburg
This past week, the annual R user conference useR! 2010 took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD (which is a tad northwest of Washington, DC). Kate Mullen and her team of local organizers did a truly...
Local R User Group Panel from useR! 2010 (Video)
As I mentioned last week, I will be hosting videos of several of the keynote speakers from this year’s useR! 2010 conference at the video Rchive. As it happens, the first video I was able to upload was the panel discussion we held on starting local R user groups. I have uploaded the video,
useR! 2010 – Local R User Group Panel
Panel discussion about forming local R user groups from useR! 2010. Panelists include, Jim Porzak (San Francisco Bay Area), David Smith (REvolution Analytics), John C. Nash (Ottawa, Canada), Drew Conway (New York City), Szilard Pafka (Los Angeles), M...
How to calculate with dates and hours in R
A while ago I was asked whether calculating with datums and hours is possible in R. Especially, if you added an hours to 23:45 (say Jan 1, 2010) , would R know to jump to the next day – 00:45 (jan 2, 2010)? The answer is yes. Our only job is to tell R in 
Installing rgdal on Mac OS X
The rgdal package contains bindings from R to the GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) as well as the PROJ library. It is a dependency for numerous spatial statistics packages. Note that the binaries on the rgdal homepage are outdated — the most up-to-date version of the rgdal package can be found on CRAN. Unsurprisingly, rgdal
Hello world!
Throughout the course of my research, I come across a lot of obstacles and nuisances that are either undocumented or documented poorly. Therefore, I decided to throw up this blog as a repository of sorts to store all of these little tidbits of information with the hope that it will save somebody somewhere a few minutes of
Thoroughly Unusual Itches
I have found myself over the years in a rather awkward situation. I work in old-school, bricks and mortar industry IT shops for the most part. However, I love many open source projects and identify with many of the values of start up cultur...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
