In case you missed them, here are some articles from March of particular interest to R users. New features in the latest version of ggplot2 include choropleths, violin plots, and improved annotations. A video demonstration of big-data Naive Bayes and Classification Tree models with Revolution R Enterprise for IBM Netezza. A collection of two-minute video tutorials for R beginners....
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R 2.15.0 "Easter Beagle" is released
The R core group today announced the availability of R 2.15.0, codenamed "Easter Beagle". If you build R yourself, the new source distribution (including packages for Debian Linux) is available now, and binaries for Windows, MacOS and Linux will be available from your local CRAN mirror over the next couple of days. (As of this writing, Windows binaries are...
Data Analysis Training
I'm training some of my colleagues on Big'ish data analysis this week. Here's how I'm running the class. Would love your ideas to make it better. CLASS OBJECTIVES (LEARNING OUTCOMES)After completion of the course, you will be able to:Understand concept...
Revolution Newsletter: March 2012
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full March edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Download Revolution R Enterprise, free for Academics. The new features of Revolution R Enterprise...
R and Hadoop: Step-by-step tutorials
At the recent Big Data Workshop held by the Boston Predictive Analytics group, airline analyst and R user Jeffrey Breen gave a step-by-step guide to setting up an R and Hadoop infrastructure. Firstly, as a local virtual instance of Hadoop with R, using VMWare and Cloudera's Hadoop Demo VM. (This is a great way to get familiar with Hadoop.)...
Oracle R Distribution and Open Source R
Oracle provides the Oracle R Distribution, an Oracle-supported distribution of open source R. Support for Oracle R Distribution is provided to customers of the Oracle Advanced Analytics option and the Oracle Big Data Appliance. The Oracle R Distribu...
In case you missed it: February Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users. February 29 marked the 12th anniversary of the release of R 1.0.0, and the release of R 2.14.2. A list of commercial vendors who have integrated R with their products for data, analysis, and presentation. The rmr package (part of the RHadoop...
R Meets Java: An Absolute Beginners’ Introduction
My guess is R is most commonly integrated with C/C++ to handle heavy-duty computing. (thanks in no small part due to the productivity of Dick Eddlebuttle!) That said, if you’re like most statisticians and physical scientists and aren’t already a programming...
Slides from today’s Big Data Step-by-Step Tutorials: Infrastructure series and Intro to R+Hadoop with RHadoop’s rmr
Slides from the Boston Predictive Analytics Big Data Workshop tutorials:
Big Data Step-by-Step: Infrastructure 1/3: Local VM
Big Data Step-by-Step: Infrastructure 2/3: Running R and RStudio on EC2
Big Data Step-by-Step: Infrastructure 3/3: Taking it to the cloud... easily... with Whirr
Big Data Step-by-Step: Using R & Hadoop (with RHadoop's rmr package)
R integrated throughout the enterprise analytics stack
The past couple of years have seen a dramatic growth in the use of the R language in the enterprise. R has always been pervasive in academia for research and teaching in statistics and data science, and as new graduates trained in R have migrated to the workplace the demand for R in corporations has become more and more...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
