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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up

September 23, 2010
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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up

As this year's admin, I wrote up the following summary which has now been posted at the R site in the appropriate slot. My thanks to this year's students, fellow mentors and everybody else who helped to make it happen.

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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up

September 23, 2010
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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up

As this year's admin, I wrote up the following summary which has now been posted at the R site in the appropriate slot. My thanks to this year's students, fellow mentors and everybody else who helped to make it happen.

GSoC 2010 logo ...

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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up

September 23, 2010
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R Project and Google Summer of Code: Wrapping up

As this year's admin, I wrote up the following summary which has now been posted at the R site in the appropriate slot. My thanks to this year's students, fellow mentors and everybody else who helped to make it happen. Projects 2010 As in 2008 a...

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New World Bank Data Available

September 22, 2010
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New World Bank Data Available

Just announced:  World Bank Data features and data are available.  Previous posts have demonstrated how to access and plot this data using R (including the use of the R WDI package).  The chart above can be created using the following pr...

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New World Bank Data Available

September 22, 2010
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New World Bank Data Available

Just announced:  World Bank Data features and data are available.  Previous posts have demonstrated how to access and plot this data using R (including the use of the R WDI package).  The chart above can be created using the following pr...

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The R-Files: Hadley Wickham

September 21, 2010
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The R-Files: Hadley Wickham

"The R-Files" is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile prominent members of the R Community. Name: Hadley Wickham Profession: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rice University Nationality: New Zealand Years Using R: 10 Known for: Developing popular R packages including ggplot2, plyr, reshape; creator of crantastic.org; author of ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis An Assistant Professor...

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Why Use ProjectTemplate or Any Other Framework?

September 19, 2010
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We use frameworks like Ruby on Rails or ProjectTemplate to minimize the time we spend on irrelevant details. By definition, an irrelevant detail isn’t of interest to us. But how can we tell which details are irrelevant? This isn’t a trivial task and it seems to be, on the surface, a profoundly subjective matter. Thankfully,

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R’s time is now

September 16, 2010
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Jeff Kelly of Tech Target has just published a feature article about R. While R has been around for almost 20 years now (R&R first started the project in 1993), "its time may have finally come", he says. One thing I really like about the article is how well it highlights R's flexibility and "top-notch" data visualizations. It includes...

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Did what you write drive what I read?

September 16, 2010
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Did what you write drive what I read?

GoogleReader allows you to track your activity, by representing the number of news items read and published by day and by hour. I use it quite a lot to stay up to date with the scientific literature (I subscribed to probably over 30 journals) and a bunch of other feeds. Stuff tend to accumulate faster

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A quick ggplot2 hack (multiple dataframes)

September 9, 2010
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A quick ggplot2 hack (multiple dataframes)

I’m starting to get familiar with ggplot2, and I really like it. I just found a very quick way to use several dataframes within the same plot, provided that the dataframes share columns names. One obvious application is the production (…)

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