Posts Tagged ‘ JGR ’

Reading Excel data is easy with JGR and XLConnect

October 30, 2011

Despite the fact that Excel is the most widespread application for data manipulation and (perhaps) analysis, R's support for the xls and xlsx file formats has left a lot to be desired. Fortunately, the XLConnect package has been created to fill this void, and now JGR 1.7-8 includes integration with XLConnect package to load .xls

R GUIs, IDEs, and text editors

January 18, 2011

By Daniel Hocking

When deciding what program to write your R code in it is important to consider a number of factors so you can keep organized and work efficiently. I found this article useful for getting started. Text editors include syntax highlightin...

A lightweight object browser for R

January 15, 2011

By Luke Miller

Get access to a simple object browser in R so that you can see what variables, data frames, model objects and other junk you have in memory currently. If you don't want to install a full-fledged integrated development environment, this option may be fo...

R GUI now offers interactive graphics – Deducer 0.4-2 connects with iplots

October 24, 2010

By Tal Galili

R GUI now offers interactive graphics – Deducer 0.4-2 connects with iplots

Earlier today, Ian Fwllows has announced the release of Deducer 0.4-2 and DeducerExtras 1.2 to CRAN (I copy his announcement here): Deducer 0.4-2 contains a few bug fixes, and an interface to the iplots package. With the new iplots interface it is now possible to do interactive plots with Deducer. An introductory example screen cast