The R programming language includes many abbreviations. Abbreviations exist in function names, argument names, and allowed values for arguments. This post expands on over 150 R abbreviations with the aim of making it easier for users new to R who are trying...
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Sweave with Emacs and ESS, problem solved!
With help from Seb, the nagging problem I had when trying to sweaving with Emacs and ESS (http://old.nabble.com/ESS-and-Sweave-td28339734.html) has been solved.First of all, apply the patch for ess-swv.el, provided by Seb. Second, set the default ...
Exporting R output to MS-Word with R2wd (an example session)
Creating reports is one of the basic tasks in data analysis. R provides numerous functions and packages to export it’s (beautiful) output and help compile it into a report. In this post I will present one such (basic) solution for Windows OS users for exporting R output into Microsoft Word using the R2wd (package). There are more ways and...
Sweave vs. pgfSweave
I think pgfSweave should replace the default of Sweave system because it brings significant improvements over the original Sweave. I certain have made it my default Sweave tool on my system.------------------------------- EDITED ON MAY 1, 2010 --------...
Trouble with ESS and Sweave
Last time I tried to sweave a document from with Emacs+ESS, I was using an earlier version of ESS (the current version is 5.8), and things seemed to be fine. Today when I tried to sweave a simple document and produced PDF output, I got error message of...
Saving the world with R
Tuesday's meeting of the Bay Area R UseR Group at the LinkedIn offices was a great event. The headline speaker was Joe Adler, author of the excellent R reference manual, R in a Nutshell. Joe's presentation was an in-depth look at the relative speed of various options in R for looking up values from a key in a key-value...
R is an Epic Fail?
I came across this blog post just now: The Next Big Thing, and of course these words caught my attention: However, for me personally and for most users, both individual and organizational, the much greater cost of software is the time it takes to install it, maintain it, learn it and document it. On
In case you missed it: March Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of particular interest to R users. We reviewed a special report in The Economist on the "Data Deluge" and the growing importance of statistical analysis in business. One section mentioned R specifically. We announced that Zack Urlocker, formerly responsible for engineering and marketing for the open-source database...
pgfSweave version 1.0.5 released
Version 1.0.5 is now on CRAN. This version brings some bug fixes as well as two new features: Unlabeled code chunks are now allowed. The correct version of PGF is now checked for on startup. If the version is < 2.00, the package will fail to load....
Looking for Software Paths in Windows Registry
hen we want to call external programs in R under Windows, we often need to know the paths of these programs. For instance, we may want to know where ImageMagick is installed, as we need the convert (convert.exe) utility to convert images to other formats, or where OpenBUGS is installed because we need this path
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
