I am listening to the audiobook Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Lifeby Steven Strogatz which I got from Audible. Obviously a mathematical book is not ideal to listen to, but lacking illustrations I can ma...
Be motivated. R has a steep learning curve. Find a problem you can't solve otherwise. E.g. plotting multivariate data, a statistical analysis for which an R function exists already. Download and install R. Get to know the R console. Learn how to instal...
These are some notes on my current R git work flow, which is quite fluid, and git has enough quirks that I usually forget part of it ! Creating Projects I've used both RStudio and Eclipse. RStudio seems easier to create a 'project' and add a loca...
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Quite a while back I wrote some tutorials on getting the StatET plugin for Eclipse running, so that you can write R code and run it within the Eclipse development environment. The developers of all of these pieces of software have kept marching on with...
I've been meaning to post something about R for a while, but never got started, and now have a pile of things I'd like to post, so it's time to get started. I first started using R during my Master Dissertation where I had to do some stats. I've ...
My coworkers at Fred Hutchinson regularly use
the development version of R (i.e., R-devel) and have urged me to do the same.
This post details how I have set up the development version of R on our Linux server,
which I use remotely because it is much faster than my Mac.
First, I downloaded the R-devel source into ~/local/, which...