227 search results for "knitr"

Annoucing the Rcpp Gallery

January 8, 2013
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Earlier this morning, JJ announced what we had been working on for the last few weeks: the Rcpp Gallery. Now, as our luck will have it, the Rcpp-devel list received his message but did not transmit it for an apparent mail system outage at WU Vienna:...

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Open Science Challenge

January 8, 2013
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Open Science Challenge

Open Science Science is becoming more open in many areas: publishing, data sharing, lab notebooks, and software. There are many benefits to open science. For example, sharing research data alongside your publications leads to increased citation ra...

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Don’t R alone! A guide to tools for collaboration with R

January 7, 2013
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Don’t R alone! A guide to tools for collaboration with R

This a brief guide to using R in collaborative, social ways. R is a powerful open-source programming language for data analysis, statistics, and visualization, but much of its power derives from a large, engaged community of users. This is an introduction to tools for engaging the community to improve your R code and collaborate with others.

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source_GitHubData: a simple function for downloading data from GitHub into R

January 6, 2013
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Update 31 January: I've folded source_GitHubData into the repmis packaged. See this post. Update 7 January 2012: I updated the internal workings of source_GitHubData so that it now relies on httr rather than RCurl. Also it is more directly descended ...

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(Semi-)automating the R markdown to blogger workflow

January 2, 2013
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In his recent post 100 most read R posts for 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages Tal Galili - the guy behind R-Bloggers - presents his wishlist for 2013. Among other things he states &ldquo...

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100 most read R posts in 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages

January 2, 2013
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100 most read R posts in 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages

R-bloggers.com is now three years young. The site is an (unofficial) online journal of the R statistical programming environment, written by bloggers who agreed to contribute their R articles to the site. Last year, I posted on the top 24...

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Integration of R, RStudio and Hadoop in a VirtualBox Cloudera Demo VM on Mac OS X

December 29, 2012
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Integration of R, RStudio and Hadoop in a VirtualBox Cloudera Demo VM on Mac OS X


Motivation


I was inspired by Revolution's blog and step-by-step tutorial from Jeffrey Breen on the set up of a local virtual instance of Hadoop with R. However, this tutorial describes the implementation using VMware's application. One downside to using VMware is that it's not free. I know most of the people including me like to hear the words open-source and free,...

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Find Duplicate Files Using R

December 28, 2012
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Find Duplicate Files Using R

Find Duplicate Files This is a simple script to search a directory tree for all files with duplicate content. It …

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R Markdown to other document formats

December 26, 2012
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Perhaps you have a file written in Markdown with embedded R of the kind that RStudio makes so nice and easy but you’d like a range of output formats to keep your collaborators happy.  Say latex, pdf, html and MS Word.  Here’s what you might do I shall imagine your file is called doc.Rmd Install pandoc

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A simple web application using Rook

December 21, 2012
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A simple web application using Rook

by Ben Ogorek

Rook

I'm grateful to Rook for helping me, a simple statistician, learn a few fundamentals of web technology. For R web application development, there are increasingly polished methods available (most notably Shiny ), but you can build one...

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