I’ve been a user (and fan) of gWidgets for a couple of years now for GUI building in R. (See my introduction to it here.) However, it’s always good to check out the competition so I’ve been playing around with Deducer to see how they compare. R can access a number of GUI building frameworks 
Knowing the weakness of your tool is a shortcut toward getting really good at it.
Removable disk packs in 1975Source: Wikipedia, via Deutsche Fotothek David Chan from City University is organising an interdisciplinary symposium on tackling the ‘Big Data’ challenge on 1 March 2012.It is an open seminar trying to bring ...
There's a new R user group in Berkely, CA: The Berkeley R Language Beginner Study Group. Join this small group for a step-by-step approach to learn the language R. Each session will be filled with examples and participants are welcome to suggest and present topics. If you have just started with R this is the perfect chance to find...
Polygon simplification is something others have written about, using R packages such as shapefiles. This explores how package ‘rgeos’ uses the Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm, a method commonly used in GIS systems for simplifying shapefiles. It works by imposing a deviation tolerance … Continue reading →
Guest post: Statistics.com is offering a list of courses about R from some of the leading experts in their fields. They offer a $200 discount for anyone who orders any 3 courses from them at one time. Here is the list of R specific courses (with links): Feb 10: Introduction to R – Data Handling (http://bit.ly/z9k0vk) taught by Paul Murrell...
In my my last post I described how to produce a multivariate choropleth map with R. Now I will show …
We know the words but what do they mean? Some definitions Here are some definitions of “passive investment management”. Investopedia says: A style of management associated with mutual and exchange-traded funds (ETF) where a fund’s portfolio mirrors a market index. Wikipedia says: Passive management (also called passive investing) is a financial strategy in which an investor (or … Continue reading...
It is pretty easy to monitor the progress of a long loop in R using the original txtProgressBar function in the utils package. It works like this: mypb <- txtProgressBar() m <- sapply(1:1000, function(x) { setTxtProgressBar(mypb, x/1000) mea...
This video shows how to obtain and install R on the Windows (PC) platform. It also shows a few basic functions in R, such as how to install packages in R and load them for use.
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
