Why don’t X-Y plots of latitude and longitude data look “right” compared to traditional map views? For example, here’s an X-Y scatterplot of some of Jenson Button’s McLaren telemetry data from the 2010 Australian Formula One Grand Prix: The image was generated, from a data file hosted on Google Spreadsheets, using the following R script, 
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...
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 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)
For the longest time I resisted customizing R for my particular environment. My philosophy has been that each R script for each separate analysis I do should be self contained such that I can rerun the script from top to bottom on any machine and get the same results. This being said, I have now
After my post on making dotplots with concise code using plyr and ggplot, I got an email from my dad who practices immigration law and runs a website with a variety of immigration resources and tools. He pointed out that the … Continue reading →
IntroductionThis post is a work in progress building on the previous post. It's my attempt to simultaneously learn Amazon's AWS tools and set up R and Rstudio Server on a customized "cloud" instance. I look forward to testing some R jobs that have la...
I just put a fresh install of Ubuntu Server (10.04.4 LTS) on one of our machines. As I was doing some post-install config, I accidentally installed Rstudio Server. And subsequently fell down an exciting little rabbit-hole of server configur...
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...
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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