Not the start Blue Jays fans were looking for. With a 6-9 record at the time of publication they already trail Boston (led by reviled ex-BJ manager, John Farrell) by 4.5 games. The batting has been particularly anemic but the pitching – particularly the starting rotation – has also been a concern I have whipped
Sometimes people ask me how the examples of my plotting functions I show here can be reproduced without having a SPSS data set (or at least, without having the data set I use because it’s not public yet). So I … Weiterlesen →
Aannounced: the 177 mentoring organizations accepted for 2013′s Google Summer of Code program. We’re proud that Bioconductor is one the organizations chosen. Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends (USD$5000) to write code for open source projects. We’ve proposed three ideas. Students may also propose their own ideas. Project 1: ExperimentHub AnnotationHub and its supporting packages are primed to support such a project. AnnotationHub provides infrastructure...
We’re very pleased to announce the release of devtools 1.2. This version continues to make working with packages easier by increasing installation speed (skipping the build step unless local = FALSE), enhancing vignette handling (to support the non-Sweave vignettes available in R 3.0.0), and providing better default compiler flags for C and C++ code. Also 
At RStudio, we’re hosting our Introduction to R Workshop this May in two locations. As an R-help subscriber, we’re offering 10% off! Intro to data science with R (http://goo.gl/bplg3) May 13-14 New York City Intro to data science with R (http://goo.gl/VCUFL) May 20-21 San Francisco Bay Area What will you learn? Practical skills for visualizing, transforming, and modeling data in R....
Here is an interview with Ron Hochreiter, Assistant Professor at WU Vienna University Economics and Business. In 25 words or less tell us what you do (using German words is cheating). I consider myself as a data scientist (teaching and research) with roots in Mathematical Programming, i.e. Optimization under Uncertainty (Stochastic Programming). You were an
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This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Using RGIS, an acronym that brings joy to some and strikes fear in the heart of those not interested in buying expensive software. Luckily fight or flight can be saved for another day because you … read more ...
For years, the Blue Jays have been also-rans in the AL East but splashed out this season turning prospects into established stars in the hope of reaching the World Series Seven games in and the 2-5 start has the perennial doubts resurfacing, particularly as none of the much-vaunted starters has yet to pitch a seventh
R is a piece of software, but it is also a community. Help community The most visible aspect of the R community is help. This is also the most useful to new users. The initial sense of cooperation with R was driven mainly by people helping each other. You don’t need to actively participate in
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April 18, 2013 - 18:00 - 21:00 Fiori Oscuri Bistrot & Bar (www.fiorioscuri.it) Via Fiori Oscuri, 3 - Milano (Zona Brera) 18.00 - 18.15 Registration 18.15 - 18.30 Welcome presentation Andrea Spanò, Partner at Quantide 18.30 - 19.00 Digit recognition Machine … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
