I was at the useR! Conference at The University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, last week. My goal in going was to learn the latest things regarding (simple) dynamic graphics, (simple) web-based apps, parallel computing, and memory management (dealing with big data sets). I got just what I was hoping for and more. There are 
In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to R users. A simulation in R finds the value (or disadvantage) or drawing an X, J, Q or Z in Scrabble. How to display high-quality graphics on the web using SVG output from R. A review of Paul Murrell's talk about raster image support...
We've noted before that with the RGoogleVis package, it's easy to make motion charts in R, and create a web-based interactive chart that reflects the synchronous movements of two or three variables over time. R user Jeffrey Breen has a great new blog post showing exactly how easy it is, which is best summarized in this tweet: I wanted...
This inaugural post in my "one-liners which make me love R" series highlights the googleVis package which makes it easy to use the Google Visualization API from R. Thanks to googleVis, just one line of R generates the 165 lines of HTML and (mostly) JavaScript required to create a Hans Rosling-style motion chart for some sample data.
Data on the map While surfing around the Internet I accidentally found the googleVis library for R and especially the gvisGeoMap-function which creates a map based on country data. In a table hockey scene we have a great World Ranking … Continu...
Data on the map While surfing around the Internet I accidentally found the googleVis library for R and especially the gvisGeoMap-function which creates a map based on country data. In a table hockey scene we have a great World Ranking … Continue reading →
Downgrade to RJSONIO 0.5 if you want to be able to set initial states with the current googleVis package. Otherwise, there will be lots of extra backslashes in your JavaScript--and blank pages in your browser.
Catching up on roundups today. February roundup will follow soon, but in the meantime enjoy this trip down memory lane - DS. In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to R users. Revolution Analytics is now offering annual sponsorship grants for local R user groups worldwide. Issue 2 of the R Journal...
Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday's webinar, "Portfolio design, optimization and stability analysis", presented by Diethelm Würtz of the Rmetrics Association and sponsored by Revolution Analytics, Sybase, Finance Online and NeuralTechSoft. (And thanks in particular for your patience for the last start -- in a perfect demonstration of Murphy's law a microphone failed moments before the scheduled start.) If...
I recently gathered fish harvest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administarion (NOAA), which I downloaded from Infochimps. The data is fish harvest by weight and value, by species for 21 years, from 1985 to 2005. Here is a link to a google document of the data I used below: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aq6aW8n11tS_dFRySXQzYkppLXFaU2F5aC04d19ZS0E&hl=en
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
