Motivation
I was inspired by Revolution's blog and step-by-step tutorial from Jeffrey Breen on the set up of a local virtual instance of Hadoop with R. However, this tutorial describes the implementation using VMware's application. One downside to using VMware is that it's not free. I know most of the people including me like to hear the words open-source and free,...

Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).