46 search results for "rcmdr"

Teaching with R: the tools

November 1, 2011

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 →

Teaching with R: the switch

October 21, 2011

By Luis

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 →

Using Deducer to work with R

August 16, 2011

By andyw

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?

August 3, 2011

By Murtaza Haider

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 ...

[R][ggplot2][R-bloggers]RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2_0.0-3 is on CRAN now

July 28, 2011

By triadsou

[R][ggplot2][R-bloggers]RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2_0.0-3 is on CRAN now

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

Use R!

July 7, 2011

By Bart Rogiers

In short: R is a free intuitive programming language that is used by practitioners in a plethora of academic disciplines. Therefore, it is on the cutting edge, and expanding rapidly. It creates stunning visuals, works seamlessly together with LaTeX, has really good online documentation and the community is unparalleled. A week...

Speeding tickets for R and Stata

April 10, 2011

By Murtaza Haider

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 had used R with smaller datasets...

Speeding tickets for R and Stata

April 10, 2011

By Murtaza Haider

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 had used R with smaller datasets...

R ready to Deduce you

April 1, 2011

By Murtaza Haider

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 software. Many have cited the absence of a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI)...