I wanted to write a quick post about a useful linux tool for using R. I sometimes have long running R sessions for model training. One solution that I have alluded to is to call your script with Rscript. The nohup command in linux with push this to the...
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SVN Version Control, R, and some rambling thought on AWS,Rscripts
I do a alot of my modelling on Rstudio hosted on EC2 instances. If you don’t use, I would highly recommend. A brilliant tool. Kudos to the Rstudio team. I have made a personal and professional pledge to obsessively use version control. I hope to show...
Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011
I just got the “news” that Dennis Ritchie died, although this happened on October 12… The announcement was surprisingly missing from my information channels and certainly got little media coverage, compared with Steve Jobs‘ demise. (I did miss the obituaries in the New York Times and in the Guardian. The Economist has the most...
Build multiarch R (32 bit and 64 bit) on Debian/Ubuntu
I have the 64 bit version of R compiled from source on my Ubuntu laptop. I recently had a need for R based on 32 bit since a package I needed to compile and use only works in 32 bit. I thought it was readily available on Ubuntu since both 32 bit and 64...
R from source
The following are notes for myself. I like to use the bleeding edge version of R:
Notes to Self: Getting Rapache working in Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu/Linux)
In this post, I cover my experiences in getting Rapache working in the latest version of Ubuntu (11, Natty Narwhal). I was unable to find an example that managed to get the whole thing working, so here is what I did. I’m not going to pretend to be a power user of Apache or Linux here. Most of my...
Music file graphs with R
Today we will use R to extract some interesting summary statistics regarding the music files stored in the computer. For all mp3 files I keep certain metadata in their ID3 tag. We will use this information to explore the distribution of music files with respect to the year of release. All the following are...
R 2.12 to 2.13 package upgrade
If you: use Linux have just upgraded your R installation from 2.12 to 2.13 installed some/all of your packages in your home area (e.g. ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12) and… …are wondering why R can’t see them any more just do this: # at a shell prompt cp ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12 ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13 # in R console update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE) # back...
Monday Links: 23andMe, RStudio, PacBio+Galaxy, Data Science One-Liners, Post-Linkage RFA, SSH
Lately I haven't written as many full length posts as usual, but here's a quick roundup of a few links I've shared on Twitter (@genetics_blog) over the last week:First, 23andMe is having a big DNA Day Sale ($108) for the kit + 1 year of their personal ...
Monday Links: 23andMe, RStudio, PacBio+Galaxy, Data Science One-Liners, Post-Linkage RFA, SSH
Lately I haven't written as many full length posts as usual, but here's a quick roundup of a few links I've shared on Twitter (@genetics_blog) over the last week:First, 23andMe is having a big DNA Day Sale ($108) for the kit + 1 year of their personal ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
