With roxygen now on github, the release of roxygen2 and Hadley’s might now behind the project I expect roxygen to gain even more momentum. R development in TextMate is great with the R bundle. Unfortunately the R bundle does not support highlighting of roxygen documentation by default. That was always a sticking point for me
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Using Emacs to work with R
A simple yet efficient way to work with R consists in writing R code with your favorite text editor and sending it to the R console. This allows to build efficient R code in an incremental fashion. A good editor might even provide syntax highlighting, parenthesis matching, and a way to send a selected portion of code to R
Merging Two Different Datasets Containing a Common Column With R and R-Studio
Another way for the database challenged (such as myself!) for merging two datasets that share at least one common column… This recipe using the cross-platform stats analysis package, R. I use R via the R-Studio client, which provides an IDE wrapper around the R environment. So for example, here’s how to merge a couple of 
Google Trends, R, and the NFL
A week or so ago I saw a tweet related how the NFL lockout was affecting the search traffic for “fantasy football” on Google (using Google Trends). Basically, the search traffic (properly normalized on Google Trends) was down prior to … Continue reading →
hacking .gov shortened links
This past Friday, the web portal to the US Federal government, USA.gov, organized hackathons across the US for programmers and data scientists to work with and analyze the data from their link-shortening service. It turns out that if you shorten a web link with bit.ly, the shortened link looks like 1.usa.gov/V6NpL (that one goes to
I can’t resist a word cloud: now using R!
The wordcloud package is word clouds for R with a difference: they look great. Of course, having just analysed online coverage of the ISMB conference, I had to run all 6 906 comments from the 2008-2011 meetings through some code. If you followed along via the Sweave code, I went as far as generating the 
Computing distance matrix between Missouri sex offenders and child daycare facilities
Computer Assisted Reporting This is the third of four articles about analyzing distances between sex offenders and child daycare centers in Missouri as part of a joint project with KSHB NBC Action News in Kansas City. The previous article explained how...
Analysis of ISMB coverage at FriendFeed: 2008 – 2011
ISMB/ECCB 2011 was held between July 15-19 this year and as in previous years, FriendFeed was used to cover the meeting. Last year, I wrote a post about how to use R to analyse the coverage. I was planning something similar for 2011 when I thought: we have 4 years of ISMB at FriendFeed now 
Scatterplot matrices in R
I just discovered a handy function in R to produce a scatterplot matrix of selected variables in a dataset. The base graphics function is pairs(). Producing these plots can be helpful in exploring your data, especially using the second method below.Try...
Parallel random forests using foreach
There's been some discussion on the kaggle forums and on a few blogs about various ways to parallelize random forests, so I thought I'd add my thoughts on the issue.Here's my version of the 'parRF' function, which is based on the elegant version in the...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
