July 2013

Our Acid Earth

July 27, 2013 | S. Richter-Walsh

The Earth’s oceans, soils, and freshwater bodies are acidifying. Acid rain was in the media a lot in the 80’s and 90’s but has been forgotten as of late. This ignored menace is having many negative effects on the environment. Fossil fuel combustion, transportation emissions, deforestation, and the mining ...
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Using Geany for programming in R

July 27, 2013 | landroni

I like Geany as a no-nonsense Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It is fast, elegant, intuitive, and lets you get your programming job done. (I certainly find it superior to the more popular Gedit.) You can also use it to program in R, and this page will show off some tips ... [Read more...]

Network visualization – part 2: Gephi

July 26, 2013 | Vessy

In the second part of my “how to quickly visualize networks directly from R” series, I’ll discuss how to use R and the “rgexf” package to create network plots in Gephi. Gephi is a great network visualization tool that allows … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Easy pictograms using R

July 26, 2013 | Robert

I have been amazed for a while that there is no major stats software offering pictograms. You know the sort of classic infographic I mean: Well, I have been working on an R function to help with this. It’s at … Continue reading → [Read more...]

ggplot2 with Noam Ross theme

July 26, 2013 | klr

When I first saw Noam Ross' blog post "The null model for age effects with overdispersed infection", I immediately liked the look of his ggplot2 graphs. I was even more delighted when I discovered that he has made his theme available on github. Even though I am all into rCharts, ... [Read more...]

Architect 0.9.3

July 26, 2013 | tobias

Friday 26 July 2013 - 13:35 Architect is an Eclipse-based cross-platform IDE for R packed with features for advanced R users. Need convincing? Let's take a look at some of Architect's most popular features. Visual Debugger Architect comes eq... [Read more...]

Let’s Go to Rome

July 25, 2013 | Frank Portman

Although virtually obsolete, Roman Numerals are subtly embedded into our culture. From the Super Bowl and Olympics to royal titles, Roman Numerals refuse to fully be extinguished from our every day lives. And that’s not without reason. All numbers are beautiful and Roman Numerals are no exception, even if ... [Read more...]

Amount of end-user usage of code in Firefox

July 25, 2013 | Derek Jones

How much end-user usage does the code in Firefox receive over time? Short answer: The available data is very sparse and lots of hand waving is needed to concoct something. The longer answer is below as another draft section from my book Empirical software engineering with R. As always comments ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics Supports the R Community

July 25, 2013 | Joseph Rickert

by Joseph Rickert Early on, Revolution Analytics realized that R is more than just a tool for statistical computing — it is also the culture that has grown up around the use of the tool. The R culture is open and inclusive, competitive but also nourishing. There is a strong sense ... [Read more...]

Document Classification using R

July 25, 2013 | suresh kumar Gorakala

September 23, 2013Recently I have developed interest in analyzing data to find trends, to predict the future events etc. & started working on few POCS on Data Analytics such as Predictive analysis, text mining.  I’m putting my next blog on Data Mining- more specifically document classification using R Programming language, one ... [Read more...]

Development Update

July 25, 2013 | alexios

This is a quick update regarding the status of my R packages on google code. Since google decided to disallow uploads from Jan-2014 for existing projects, and immediately for new ones (meaning that the tarballs and zips could not be hosted on their servers anymore), I have had no choice ... [Read more...]

Deferred evaluation in Renjin, Riposte, and pqR

July 24, 2013 | Radford Neal

The previously sleepy world of R implementation is waking up.  Shortly after I announced pqR, my “pretty quick” implementation of R, the Renjin implementation was announced at UserR! 2013.  Work also proceeds on Riposte, with release planned for a year from now. These three implementations differ greatly in some respects, but ... [Read more...]
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