Are there any R packages to solve Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)?I looked around but could not find any... Any leads?VRP is a classic combinatorial optimization challenge and has been an active area of research for operations research gurus fo...
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Any R packages to solve Vehicle Routing Problem?
Are there any R packages to solve Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)?I looked around but could not find any... Any leads?VRP is a classic combinatorial optimization challenge and has been an active area of research for operations research gurus fo...
R co-creator Ross Ihaka wins Lifetime Achievement Award in Open Source
The co-creator of R, University of Auckland Associate Professor of Statistics Dr. Ross Ihaka, was yesterday awarded the Catalyst Lifetime Achievement in Open Source Award at the 2010 New Zealand Open Source Awards. From the announcement: Dr. Ihaka is one of the originators of the world-renown ‘R’ programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. In 2008...
Promote your favorite R functions
The 27 base and recommended libraries of the standard R 2.12 distribution together contain 3556 functions (you can check using the code posted after the jump). Many of the functions are commonly used: c, data.frame, rnorm, lm. But some of those functions, while being extremely useful, may be less well known to many R users. Some examples I'd wish...
New R User Group in Houston
The latest local R user group to form is located in Houston, Texas. The first meeting of the Houston R Users Group is tonight at Rice University (in conjunction with the Houston chapter of the ASA). R hackr (typo intended!) Hadley Wickham will be giving a presentation on writing R packages, and you can check out the slides on...
Mapping drug war related homicides in 2010
There have been some very good visualizations of the Wikileaks data so I decided to create one of the drug war in Mexico
Mapping drug war related homicides in 2010
There have been some very good visualizations of the Wikileaks data so I decided to create one of the drug war in Mexico
The ARORA guessing game
The game ARORA (A random or real array) is a website that gives you two time series at a time. Your job is to guess which series is real market data and which is permuted data. It’s fun — try it. With some practice you will probably be able to guess which is which well … Continue reading...
Computational position in Texas
José Bernardo forwaded this announcement that sounds quite attractive (conditional upon living in a remote part of Texas!) Senior Faculty Position in Computational Statistics At Texas A&M University As part of a recognition of the increasing importance in the modeling and computational sciences, the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University is recruiting for a 
Using R and Hadoop to analyze VOIP data
Last month, the newest member of Revolution's engineering team, Saptarshi Guha, gave a presentation at Hadoop World 2010 on using R and Hadoop to analyze 1.3 billion voice-over-IP packets to identify calls and measure call quality. Saptarshi, of course, is the author of RHIPE, which lets R programmers write map-reduce algorithms in the Hadoop framework without needing to learn...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
