R is a fantastic bit of software which I have been using on and off for a number of years since I gave up on SAS due to their (free for academics) annoying licenses and limited support for the things I wanted to do – R is infinitely flexible and totally free. Installing R on
There are a couple of options in R, if you want to utilize multiple cores on your machine. These days my favorite is doMC package, which depends on foreach and multicore packages.in the section below squareroot for each number is calculated in parallel...
There are a couple of options in R, if you want to utilize multiple cores on your machine. These days my favorite is doMC package, which depends on foreach and multicore packages.in the section below squareroot for each number is calculated in parallel...
C/python style option parsing now available in R with "optparse" package. Check the documentation here and see below to see how it worksuser@node002 scripts $ Rscript filter.transcripts.by.ncRNA.R -husage: usage: filter.transcripts.by.ncRNA.R [op...
C/python style option parsing now available in R with "optparse" package. Check the documentation here and see below to see how it worksuser@node002 scripts $ Rscript filter.transcripts.by.ncRNA.R -husage: usage: filter.transcripts.by.ncRNA.R [op...
In R, you can treat tables (or data.frames as they are called in R) as SQL tables. That means you can query them as you would query a database with SQL commands. This is particularly useful 1) if you know SQL, hahah:) 2) if you have large tabl...
In R, you can treat tables (or data.frames as they are called in R) as SQL tables. That means you can query them as you would query a database with SQL commands. This is particularly useful 1) if you know SQL, hahah:) 2) if you have large tabl...
If you're planning to go to R/Finance 2011 in Chicago (and if you're doing quantitative finance with R, you definitely should), time is running out to submit your abstract for contributed talks. The best part of R/Finance is learning about all the interesting ways R is used to analyze financial data, so why not share your experiences as you...
Between the recent launch of Revolution R Enterprise 4.2 and the announcement of the SAS to R Challenge, there's been a flurry of recent news about Revolution Analytics and R in the media. Here's a quick recap: The Register's Timothy Prickett Morgan comments on the SAS to R Challenge: 'Red Hat for stats' goes toe-to-toe with SAS. "By supporting...
We have seen yesterday that finding an optimal strategy to publish is not that simple. And actually, it can be even more difficult in the case the journal rejects the paper (not because it is not correct, but because "it does not fit" with the stan...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
