It’s gutted that I could not attend useR! 2012 after having a great time at useR!2011 at Warwick. However, a great active online community of useRs allows me to get lots of goods stuffs from the conference even though I did not attend physically. By keep following the #useR2012 and #rstats in Twitter and reading some great posts from R-bloggerRs on the 
My good friend and programming guru Piers Harding wrote a blog called Analytics with SAP and R where he showed us how to link the wonderful worlds of R and SAP. Yes...SAP...not SAP HANA...but the good old NetWeaver...Piers build the RSAP extension usin...
This post shares the video from a talk presented on June 20 2012 by Dr Lyndon Walker (see Meetup page). The talk was titled “Getting staRted with R: An accelerated primer”. To quote the outline of the talk : R … Continue reading →
The eighth annual R user conference, UseR! 2012, has come and gone — and what an event it was! I've been to five useR! conferences so far, and each one improves upon the last. This year's conference at Vanderbilt was the best so far: an outstanding location (my first visit to Nashville, a great city), excellent facilities (the lecture...
RStudio and knitr are an excellent conbination for generating dynamic reports. But in this blog, I will show you how to generate HTML-style presentaion using R only. OK, I confess that we still need something else: deck.js and markdown and R.utils. ...
Arguably, knitr (CRAN link) is the most outstanding R package of this year and its creator, Yihui Xie is the star of the useR! conference 2012. This is because the ease of use comparing to Sweave for making reproducible report. Integration of knitR and R Studio has made reproducible research much more convenience, intuitive and easier to 
In my last blog I'm following you in Twitter...are you following me back? I show you how to use the Twitter APIs to get a list of the people that you follow but doesn't follow you back.This time, I want to extend the tool as I installed the R...
Hi, our group of R users from INSEE, aka FLR, meets monthly in Paris. Next meeting is on Wed 13 (tomorrow), 1-2 pm, room 539 (an ID is needed to come in, map to access INSEE R), about ggplot2 and parallel computing. Since the first meeting in February, presentations have included hot topics like webscrapping, C in R, RStudio, SQLite 
The following post documents the steps I needed to take in order to convert a project using Sweave LaTeX into one using knitr LaTeX. Additional Resources It is fairly straightforward to convert a document from Sweave LaTeX to knitr LaTeX. Yihui Xie on...
I’m hardly the first person you would want to talk to about learning statistics in R. But if you’re bent on teaching yourself R, and you’ve ended up at my blog, here are some resources I found useful. (No opinions here about whether R is good/bad better/worse than Excel, Minitab, Matlab, Octave, SPSS, Stata, SAS, 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
