493 search results for "RStudio"

RStudio, BibTex, and LaTeX

January 27, 2012
By

I was having a little trouble getting RStudio to process BibTex entries and compile a LaTeX file. Bumping around on the great RStudio help forum, I found this entry, which pointed me in the direction. I needed to set a system environment variable in R ...

Read more »

Exploring the functions in a package

January 26, 2012
By
Exploring the functions in a package

Sometimes it can be useful to list all the functions inside a package. This is done in the same way that you would list variables in your workspace. That is, using ls. The syntax is ls(pos = "package:packagename"), which is easy enough if you can remember it. Unfortunately, I never can, and have to type

Read more »

RStudio v0.95 Released

January 25, 2012
By
RStudio v0.95 Released

The final version of RStudio v0.95 is now available for download from our website (thanks to everyone who put the preview release through its paces over the last couple of weeks!). Highlights of the new release include: Projects — A new system for managing R projects that enables easy switching between working directories and per-project contexts

Read more »

RStudio does not start when using a R version built from source

January 25, 2012
By

Because I do not have root privileges on some of the machines I use, I build part of my software from source and install it into my own homedirectory. Doing that requires one to download R from CRAN, e.g. R

See more ›

Read more »

GIBBS us a break

January 19, 2012
By

So you want to run R in the cloud so you can set your Gibbs sampling off, forget about it, and not be paranoid about power cuts and reboots. Andrew Gelman hosted a good debate on the pros and cons of R in the cloud on his blog.

The consensus seems to be RStudio and EC2. P.S. If...

Read more »

Quick Introduction to ggplot2

January 17, 2012
By
Quick Introduction to ggplot2

For a much better looking version of this post (where code is actually readable!), see this Github repository, which also contains some of the example datasets I use and a literate programming version of this tutorial. Introduction This is a bare-bones introduction to ggplot2, a visualization package in R. It assumes no knowledge of R

Read more »

R Ec2

January 17, 2012
By

Running R in the cloud So you want to run R in the cloud so you can set your Gibbs sampling off, forget about it, and not be paranoid about power cuts and reboots. Andrew Gelman hosted a good debate on the pros and cons of R in the cloud on his blog. ...

Read more »

Amateur Mapmaking: Getting Started With Shapefiles

January 13, 2012
By
Amateur Mapmaking: Getting Started With Shapefiles

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

Read more »

RStudio v0.95 Preview Available

January 10, 2012
By
RStudio v0.95 Preview Available

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

Read more »

R resources

January 2, 2012
By

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...

Read more »