Articles by Paolo Sonego

The Art of R Programming – my two cents

December 5, 2011 | Paolo Sonego

What makes this book different from other books about R is stated clearly by the author Norman Matloff in the introduction: "This book is not a compendium of the myriad types of statistical methods that are available in the wonderful R package. It r... [Read more...]

Weather forecast and good development practices

November 16, 2011 | Paolo Sonego

Inspired by this tutorial, I thought that it would be nice to have the possibility to have access to weather forecast directly from the R command line, for example for a personalized start-up message such as the one below: Weather summary for Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia: The weather in Trieste is ...
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R 2.14.0 is released!

October 31, 2011 | Paolo Sonego

The new R 2.14.0 is out! Get the source code from here. Take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier. Also this thread on stackoverflow and this post contributed by Tal Galili&nbs...
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Word Cloud in R

July 27, 2011 | Paolo Sonego

A word cloud (or tag cloud) can be an handy tool when you need to highlight the most commonly cited words in a text using a quick visualization. Of course, you can use one of the several on-line services, such as wordle or tagxedo ,... [Read more...]

R meets XKCD

July 14, 2011 | Paolo Sonego

Being a big fan of XKCD and, of course, of the R programming language, I thought that a package which allows to display my favorite strips  would something (useless) but cool! So, mimicking the approach (and the code) of the fortunes pac... [Read more...]

R 2.13.0 is released!

April 14, 2011 | Paolo Sonego

The new R 2.13.0 is out! Get the source code from here. Take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier. Also this thread on stackoverflow and this post contributed by Tal Galili&nbs...
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A R wrapper for Google Prediction API

November 8, 2010 | Paolo Sonego

Since I got the chance to access to both Google Storage for Developers and Google Prediction API (more details here and here), I decided to create a simple wrapper (just 4 basic functions until now) to be capable to play with the Google Prediction API ...
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R 2.12.0 is released!

October 15, 2010 | Paolo Sonego

The new R 2.12.0 is out! Get the source code from here. Take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier. Also this thread on stackoverflow can be of some value. Feel free to contribute with suggestions about how to ...
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R Cheat Sheets and more

July 21, 2010 | Paolo Sonego

Here you can find a collection of cheat sheets useful to R developers. Visit the devcheatsheet homepage to inspect cheat sheets and quick reference card for other programming languages and applications.
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