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RStudio

June 22, 2011
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If you're a user of the R statistical software environment (and you should be - if you're not, it's the best free lunch in town), then the (fairly) recently released RStudio user interface will undoubtedly interest you. Here's a quote from the description on their website, to give you the flavour:
  • "RStudio brings together everything you need to be...

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RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94)

June 14, 2011
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RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94)

RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94) is available for download today. The goal for this release was to refine and improve our core features based on the feedback we’ve gotten on our first two betas. Highlights of the new release include: Source editor enhancements — New editor features include brace/paren/quote matching, more intelligent cursor placement after newlines, function

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Making Simple Packages in R on Windows

June 8, 2011
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Making Simple Packages in R on Windows

There are any number of short tutorials on making add on R packages on your Windows machine. This is yet another version of that process. I’ve explained what I did in 10 easy steps on the pages, but I’ll give a brief overview here. In the first step I spent some time updating my R

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Reduce Memory Use for Large Datasets

One key limiting factor for automated text classification is memory consumption. As you accumulate more news articles, bills, and legal opinions, the term-document matrices used to represent the data grow quickly. RTextTools provides two algorithms, support vector machines and maximum entropy, that can handle large datasets with very little memory. Luckily, these two algorithms tend to be the most...

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R/Finance 2011 Presentations are online

May 29, 2011
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For those of you who don't subscribe to the R-SIG-Finance mailing list:

  1. You really should subscribe ;-)
  2. Dirk Eddelbuettel announced the R/Finance 2011 presentations are now available.
I've included the entire announcement (with some hyperlinks) below.

The organizing committee for the R/Finance 2011 conference is pleased to announce the availability of presentation slides from the 3rd annual R/Finance...

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R/Finance 2011 Presentations are online

May 29, 2011
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For those of you who don't subscribe to the R-SIG-Finance mailing list:

  1. You really should subscribe ;-)
  2. Dirk Eddelbuettel announced the R/Finance 2011 presentations are now available.
I've included the entire announcement (with some hyperlinks) below.

The organizing committee for the R/Finance 2011 conference is pleased to announce the availability of presentation slides from the 3rd annual R/Finance...

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R / Finance 2011 presentations

I just sent the text below to the r-sig-finance list: The organizing committee for the R/Finance 2011 conference is pleased to announce the availability of presentation slides from the 3rd annual R/Finance conference. This year's two-day conference...

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R / Finance 2011 presentations

I just sent the text below to the r-sig-finance list: The organizing committee for the R/Finance 2011 conference is pleased to announce the availability of presentation slides from the 3rd annual R/Finance conference. This year's two-day conference...

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RStudio the missing link between your brain and statistics

May 18, 2011
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RStudio the missing link between your brain and statistics

RStudio is a graphical user interface for R. Or as the developers put it. RStudio™ is a new integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio combines an intuitive user interface with powerful coding tools to help you get the most out of R.   While there have been a few projects (e.g. RCommander, RkWard, JaguaR)

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Fitting Distribution X to Data From Distribution Y

May 12, 2011
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Fitting Distribution X to Data From Distribution Y

I had someone ask me about fitting a beta distribution to data drawn from a gamma distribution and how well the distribution would fit. I’m not a “closed form” kinda guy. I’m more of a “numerical simulation” type of fellow. So I whipped up a little R code to illustrate the process then we changed

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