307 search results for "sweave"

Exporting nice plots in R

February 25, 2013
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Exporting nice plots in R

It's not always easy getting the right size. The image is CC by Kristina Gill. It's not always easy getting the right size. The image is CC by Kristina Gill. A vital part of statistics is producing nice plots, an area where R is outstanding. The graphical ablility of R...

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A slightly different introduction to R, part IV

February 21, 2013
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A slightly different introduction to R, part IV

Now, after reading in data, making plots and organising commands with scripts and Sweave, we’re ready to do some numerical data analysis. If you’re following this introduction, you’ve probably been waiting for this moment, but I really think it’s a good idea to start with graphics and scripting before statistical calculations. We’ll use the silly

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Onepager Now with knitR

February 19, 2013
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Since at some point I had trouble with a conflict between knitr and the latex package textpos, I used the lesser Sweave in Another Experiment with R and Sweave.  I ran the Sweave2knitr command and discovered that textpos and knitr play well togeth...

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Another Experiment with R and Sweave

February 12, 2013
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The R package PApages is a great start towards addressing the very common problem of internal and external reporting in the money management industry.  Advent's APX, Axys, and Black Diamond and the up and coming extremely well-connected and well-f...

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Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing

February 5, 2013
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Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing

"Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing" will teach you how to quickly and efficiently create and manage statistical analysis projects, import data, develop R scripts, and generate reports and graphics. R developers will learn about package development, coding principles, and … Continue reading

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A slightly different introduction to R, part III

February 2, 2013
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A slightly different introduction to R, part III

I think you’ve noticed by now that a normal interactive R session is quite messy. If you don’t believe me, try playing around for a while and then give the history() command, which will show you the commands you’ve typed. If you’re anything like me, a lot of them are malformed attempts that generated some

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A slightly different introduction to R, part II

January 27, 2013
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A slightly different introduction to R, part II

In part I, we looked at importing data into R and simple ways to manipulate data frames. Once we’ve gotten our data safely into R, the first thing we want to do is probably to make some plots. Below, we’ll make some simple plots of the made-up comb gnome data. If you want to play

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100 most read R posts in 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages

January 2, 2013
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100 most read R posts in 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages

R-bloggers.com is now three years young. The site is an (unofficial) online journal of the R statistical programming environment, written by bloggers who agreed to contribute their R articles to the site. Last year, I posted on the top 24...

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R version 3 scheduled for April

January 2, 2013
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Ringing in the New Year, Peter Dalgaard announced yesterday on behalf of the entire R Core Team that the R language will graduate to Version 3 around April 1. This is only the third time that R has incremented its primary version number. Version 1.0.0 (released on February 29, 2000) was the first version deemed stable for production use....

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Generation of E-Learning Exams in R for Moodle, OLAT, etc.

December 20, 2012
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Generation of E-Learning Exams in R for Moodle, OLAT, etc.

(Guest post by Achim Zeileis) Development of the R package exams for automatic generation of (statistical) exams in R started in 2006 and version 1 was published in JSS by Gr?n and Zeileis (2009). It was based on standalone Sweave exercises, that can be combined …

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