One of the great things about (software) code is that people build on it and out from it… Which means that as well as producing ever more complex bits of software, tools also get produced over time that make it easier to do things that were once hard to do, or required expensive commercial software 
The next version of RStudio (v0.95) is now available as a preview release. Highlights include: Projects — A new system for managing R projects that enables easy switching between working directories, running multiple instances of RStudio with different projects, and per-project contexts for source documents, workspaces, and history. Code Navigation — Typeahead navigation by file 
Earlier we spoke about PITCHfx resources, and now we will learn about R resources. Well, what is R? Straight from wikipedia:R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R lang...
Things have been a little quiet, post wise here, of late, in part because of the holiday season… but I have been posting notes on a couple of charts in progress over on the F1DataJunkie blog. Here are links to the posts in chronological order – they capture the evolution of the chart design(s) to 
Another set of stepping stones that provide a clunky route to a solution that @mhawksey has been working on a far more elegant expression of (eg Free the tweets! Export TwapperKeeper archives using Google Spreadsheet and Twitter: How to archive event hashtags and create an interactive visualization of the conversation)… The recipe is as follows: 
![The ‘R’ in Human [R]esources (or: a very brief introduction to the statistical package ‘R’ for HR)](http://holtmeier.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/rstudio.png)
I studied psychology in Marburg (Germany). At university we exclusively used SPSS. The courses were among my classmates usually not the most popular. After over 10 years in management consulting, I have noticed that little has changed to this. It’s a shame because a lot of interesting data in consulting firms and HR departments remain unused. In my role as managing director of kibit GmbH, I have placed the focus of the company on ”R” … Weiterlesen →
I do a alot of my modelling on Rstudio hosted on EC2 instances. If you don’t use, I would highly recommend. A brilliant tool. Kudos to the Rstudio team. I have made a personal and professional pledge to obsessively use version control. I hope to show...
In order to connect my R related stuff to a webserver and MySQL I went all the way from using xampp to setting up my own (W)AMPP (Apache MySQL PHP Perl) to finally back to xampp. And I’m quite happy about this very last switch to xampp! Why I like xampp it can be run … Continue reading...
In Rescuing Twapperkeeper Archives Before They Vanish, I described a routine for grabbing Twapperkeeper archives, parsing them, and saving them to a local desktop file using the R programming language (downloading RStudio is the easiest way I know of getting R…). Following a post fron @briankelly (Responding to the Forthcoming Demise of TwapperKeeper), where Brian 
You can now subscribe to almost any content on the ProgrammingR website, including the job listings. To be notified of job listings as soon as they are posted, click the “R Jobs” link above and follow the instructions on that page to add the jobs feed to your feed reader.Because of this change, I will
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
