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Sudoku Automation Solver Challenge – R
On a recent flight I was bored waiting for the plane to land and I tried out the electronic sudoku game that they had offered. I found the game surprisingly interesting as I realized that it is far more entertaining when you cannot use paper or p...
A list of R packages, by popularity
R package developer (and R-bloggers editor) Tal Galili just published the answers to a question many R users have asked: which are the most popular R packages? He wrote some R code to rank the top 100 packages by number of downloads. Here's the top 10: The source data are the download logs from the RStudio CRAN mirror, whose...
Top 100 R packages for 2013 (Jan-May)!
(This article was first published on R-statistics blog » RR-statistics blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) What are the top 100 (most downloaded) R packages in 2013? Thanks to the recent release of RStudio of their “0-cloud” CRAN log files (but without including downloads from the primary CRAN mirror or any of the 88 other CRAN mirrors), we can now answer this question...
More code and images from “Displaying time series, spatial and space-time data with R”
My book continues growing. I have recently completed the first version of the Spatio-Temporal visualization chapters. Moreover, a significant part …
The Reorderable Data Matrix and the Promise of Pattern Discovery
We typically start with the data matrix, a rectangular array of rows and columns. If we type its name on the R command line, it will show itself. But the data matrix is hard to read, even when there are not many rows or columns. The heat map is a visual alternative. All you need is the R function...
Introducing GTrendsR
In a paper, to be soon published in Conservation Biology and entitle Googling trends in conservation biology, we developed a package named GTrendsR that provides an interface for retrieving and displaying the information returned online...
Answering “How many people use my R package?”
The question “How many people use my R package?” is a natural question that (I imagine) every R package developer asks himself at some point or another. After many years in the dark, a silver lining has now emerged thanks …
R2leaflet (v0.1) – make interactive online maps from R
I have been working on a simple R function to take latitude and longitude of points of interest, and text for pop-up labels, and produce an interactive online map. Interactive graphics are incredibly useful in getting people interested in your … Continue reading →
In case you missed it: May 2013 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users: Billions of geotagged Tweets create a beautiful map of the world when plotted with the ggmap package. A review of Ryan Sheftel's talk at R/Finance, on how he uses R on the trading desk at Credit Suisse. Also, a quick take on...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012). 
