December 2012

Italian BioR Day: leave a comment

December 21, 2012 | Andrea Pedretti

The Italian BioR Day took place on November 30 and almost sixty R enthusiastic joining the event! Thanks to all the participants and a special thanks to the speakers who shared their knowledge with us and to the Parco Tecnologico … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Querying, parsimony and golden hammers

December 20, 2012 | PirateGrunt

I love it when things are easy. I love it so much that I’ll spend a great deal of time and effort to keep things simple. At the same time, though, I think there’s some value in expending effort in pursuit of something. If you want to understand ... [Read more...]

Visualising Tourism Data using R with googleVis package

December 20, 2012 | Pairach

Inspired by Mages’s post on Accessing and plotting World bank data with R (using googleVis package), I created one visualising tourism receipts and international tourist  arrivals of various countries since 1995. The data used are from the World Bank’s country indicators. To see the motion chart, double click a ... [Read more...]

moRe

December 20, 2012 | Patrick

Hopefully my first R post whetted your apatite for open source data software.  I’m gearing up for more R posts regardless.  I thought I’d do a quick post about a couple of useful commands, ‘View’ and ‘fix’. When you first break the shackles of Excel one of the ... [Read more...]

R Journal Volume 4, Issue 2

December 20, 2012 | David Smith

The latest issue of the bi-annual, peer-reviewed journal about R, the R Journal, is now available for download. This issue includes three articles on graphics from R-core member and R Graphics author Paul Murrell. He writes about accessing individual elements of an R chart by the component names, drawing complex ... [Read more...]

Stealing from the internet: Part 1

December 20, 2012 | beckmw

Well, not stealing but rather some handy tools for data mining… About a year ago I came across the package XML as I was struggling to get some data from various web pages. The purpose of this blog is to describe how this package can be used to quickly gather ... [Read more...]

Shiny SVG no d3–New and Improved

December 20, 2012 | klr

The fine author Joe Cheng of RStudio Shiny suggested in this Google Groups message to use htmlOutput rather than the ugly hack in my last post R Shiny svg with no d3.  As I should have known, it works great and eliminates all the useless javascrip... [Read more...]

Turnovers are poison

December 20, 2012 | PirateGrunt

This is probably a slightly useless post, but a bit of fun all the same. If nothing else, it allows me to take a stab at learning a bit more about logistic regression. I’m still trying to unravel the mystery of why the Bears lost to the Vikings two ... [Read more...]

Geocoding location data with dismo

December 20, 2012 | is.R()

Today’s Gist could actually end up being very useful to a number of you. It’s something of a trumped-up example, but it illustrates in very simple code how to do three interesting things: Gather Tweets by search term (which we’ve done before), and look up user info ... [Read more...]

Presentations of the first Italian bioR Day at PTP

December 20, 2012 | Milano R net

Reproducible Research in High-Throughput Biology: A Case Study Paolo Sonego, Bioinformatician at CBM Scrl (view code and case study on github) Metabolomics: an interpreting tool to understand kidney graft recipients grouping and their recovery trajectory Marco Calderisi, Chemometrician at Kode … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Removing Records by Duplicate Values

December 20, 2012 | statcompute

Removing records from a data table based on duplicate values in one or more columns is a commonly used but important data cleaning technique. Below shows an example about how to accomplish this task by SAS, R, and Python respectively. SAS Example R Example Python Example [Read more...]

Coursera’s Data Analysis with R course starts Jan 22

December 19, 2012 | David Smith

Following on from Coursera's popular course introducing the R language, a new course on data analysis with R starts on January 22. The simply-titled Data Analysis course will provide practically-oriented instruction on how to plan, carry out, and communicate analyses of real data sets with R. Here's the course trailer from ... [Read more...]

Italian elections (1)

December 19, 2012 | Gianluca Baio

You'd think that the last week before the holidays would be very quiet and not much would be going on. Well, if you did, you'd be wrong, I guess, as the last few days have been quite busy (for many reasons). Anyway, I managed to track down some be... [Read more...]

Basic Simulation of Soil Profile Data in R via AQP

December 19, 2012 | dylan

Something fun to play with before the new year: experimental code in aqp for simulating soil profile data from a single "template" profile. The basic idea: simulate horizon thickness data using a family of Gaussian functions with mean defined by horizo... [Read more...]
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