I posted a new version of the ”RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2” package, which is an Rcmdr plug-in for a ”ggplot2” GUI front-end. This package assists you to make ”ggplot2” graphics. RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2 (CRAN) NEWS Changes in version 0.1-0 (2012-05-18) Restructu
Ask anyone what makes R a great language, one argument that often comes back is its very active community. Proof is the impressive number of packages contributed by developers from all horizons and backgrounds. The CRAN website alone lists 3,725 p...
This is the massage sent by John Fox to the R-pkgs mailing list: Dear R users, I’d like to announce a new version, 1.8-1, of the Rcmdr package. The Rcmdr (“R Commander”) package provides a basic-statistics graphical user interface (GUI) to R, implemented in Tcl/Tk via the standard R tcltk package. Beyond small changes and additions, the new version of...
I bought an Android phone, nothing fancy just my first foray in the smartphone world, which is a big change coming from the dumb phone world(*). Everything is different and I am back at being a newbie; this is what … Continue reading →
There are several blog posts, websites (and even books) explaining the transition from using another statistical system (e.g. SAS, SPSS, Stata, etc) to relying on R. Most of that material treats the topic from the point of view of i- … Continue reading →
If one checks out the initial question that prompted this series, a common theme in the answers is that one should use the GUI as a tool to help one build code (and not just as a crutch to do the analysis). Being able to view the code produced by the GUI should help beginner R users
Are students' teaching evaluations influenced by instructors' looks? ggplot2 may help find the answer.The recent release of RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2 has made ggplot2 available to those who prefer GUI to the command line interface. With the new plugin for ...
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RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2 (CRAN) I posted an Rcmdr plug-in for a ”ggplot2” GUI front-end on CRAN. This version supports Kaplan-Meier plot and other plots as follow: Kaplan-Meier plot Show no. at risk on inside Show no. at risk table on outside Histogram Colo
How fast is R? Is it as fast in executing routines as the other off-the-shelf software, such as Stata? After some comparative experimentation, I found Stata to be 5 to 8 times faster than R. For me, speed has not been a concern in the past. I h...
Despite being one of the most powerful computing platforms, and being free at the same time, R still struggles against other statistical software, such as SPSS and SAS, in gaining mass appeal amongst users of statistical and market intelligence softwar...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
