In honor of the first World Statistics Day I thought I would share some of my favorite R links.  R is a free software statistical computing environment for performing all sorts of data and mathematical manipulation.Introduction and TutorialsR Tuto... [Read more...]

There is a new data mining competition aimed at predicting preferred data mining tools in R via dataists.com.   The concept of the competition is to try to determine which R packages are preferred in the R community via their CRAN package librarie... [Read more...]

There is no question that computer languages have helped pushed the envelope for applied mathematics.  It is hard to imagine where we would be without airline scheduling, supply chain management, or inventory control if it were not for all of the ... [Read more...]

I have been using a lot of R lately in my work.  R (main site) is an open source statistical computing platform.  Saying R is only used for statistics does not do it justice.  I am finding it to be a really powerful statistical and optim... [Read more...]