Posts Tagged ‘ geek ’

PAWL package on CRAN

October 26, 2011
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PAWL package on CRAN

The PAWL package (which I talked about there, and which implements the parallel adaptive Wang-Landau algorithm and adaptive Metropolis-Hastings for comparison) is now on CRAN! http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PAWL/index.html which means that within R you can easily install it by typing install.packages("PAWL") Isn’t … Continue reading

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Calling Google Maps API from R

October 5, 2011
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Calling Google Maps API from R

Hi, Related to Julyan’s previous post, I want to share an easy way to access Google Maps API through R. And then we’ll stop about Google, otherwise it’ll look like we’re just looking for jobs. My problem was the following: … Continue reading

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R Studio

March 8, 2011
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R Studio

                      If you think that R is The EnvironmentForStatisticalAnalysisAndGraphics but you do not think that Vim is The Editor for text files you might want to have a look at R Studio. It works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. I tried it out on my...

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Speed up your R code with C++

February 3, 2011
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Speed up your R code with C++

Hi again, Recently, Julyan blogged about allocating memory first before modifying R objects. That’s a very useful trick that applies to most programming languages. Tonight I want to blog about something a bit more complicated and more specific to R, but which can lead to massive speed-ups: interfacing C/C++ within R codes. The rationale...

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R with Vim

December 2, 2010
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R with Vim

For all those who think that Vim is The Editor for text files, and simultaneously think that R is The EnvironmentForStatisticalAnalysisAndGraphics. After trying out various options for intergrating Vim with R I settled on the following configuration: Use Vim-R-plugin for editing R code files, R documentation files (*.Rd) as well as the Sweave files....

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maps of Poland in R

June 23, 2008
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maps of Poland in R

Bogdan Taranta (website in Polish) is developing a set of functions for drawing administrative maps of Poland. I wrote similar functionality for myself already some time ago, but only for voivodships, i.e. top-level administrative units, and also in a rather low resolution. Bogdan’s contribution seems to contain all levels, at high resolution, and including...

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Writing Rd files in Vim

March 3, 2008
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Writing Rd files in Vim

I have made a small “translation” of a portion of “Writing R Extensions” manual about the Rd files to a vimhelp format. You can find it on vim.org, under this link http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2177. If that does not work just search for a script “rd” there. The script itself is called “rdhelp.txt”.

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