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Using TeXmacs as an interface for R
Faster files in R
R is fairly slow in reading files. read.table() is slow, scan() a bit faster, and readLines() fastest.
But all these are nowhere as fast as other tools that scan through files.
Let us look at an example. I have in front of me a 283M file.
(Small update: the timings where off before. First because R hashes strings, one has to...
Analysis of Iran absentee votes
On http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=98206§ionid=351020101 the official Iranian election results outside of Iran are posted. Here is a bit of exploration of the results.The graph shows the number of votes for Ahmadinejad (x-axis) vs. the nu...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
