In a webinar today previewing Spotfire 5 (scheduled for release this November), TIBCO announced that it will include TERR: The Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R. TERR is a closed-source reimplementation of the R language engine, and not based on the GPL-licensed R project from the R Foundation. Here's the relevant slide from the webinar: By making the TERR engine...
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Designing real-world 3-D objects with R
The Maker Movement has led to the production of open-source 3-D printers and other manufacturing machines that allow hobbyists to design, create and produce real-world objects affordably. Now R user Ian Walker, in a post at the Psychological Statistics blog, shows how to use the R language to transform 3-D surfaces into real-world physical objects with a 3-D printer....
Learning R has really made me appreciate SAS
For the past 18 months, it seems like all I’ve heard about in the digital marketing industry is “big data”, and with that, mentions of using Hadoop and R to solve these sorts of problems. Why are these tools the … Continue reading →
Learning R has really made me appreciate SAS is an article from randyzwitch.com,...
reading shape files in R
If I would like to adjust a shape file I normally used the way over an excel file or a text file to get a table and to join this with an existing shape file. Due to the sp and rgdal packages in R you can manipulate shapefiles directly in R: now lets map the
R in the CPB and the role of Open Source in Promoting Transparency and Austerity
The Revolution blog links to an O'Reilly interview with two CIO's from the Consumer Protection Bureau. The gist of the interview is "Open Source is Great, we are using it for everything; R and Big Data are the next hot thing, et cetera". I ...
R in the CPB and the role of Open Source in Promoting Transparency and Austerity
The Revolution blog links to an O'Reilly interview with two CIO's from the Consumer Protection Bureau. The gist of the interview is "Open Source is Great, we are using it for everything; R and Big Data are the next hot thing, et cetera". I ...
Discussion thread on R vs SAS for businesses
There's an interesting discussion thread on LinkedIn going on now on the relative benefits of R versus SAS in the commercial sector. Oleg Okun kicks off the discussion with this question: Did anyone have to justify to a prospect/customer why R is better than SAS? What arguments did you provide? Did your prospect/customer agree with them? Why do you...
Keep an Eye on the emerging Open-Source Analytics Stack
This post is contributed by Revolution Analytics CEO Norman Nie, and cross-posted from the Future of Open Source Forum. A lot of attention has been focused recently on Big Data, and rightly so: Big Data is a Big Deal. (See this LinuxInsider article, Big Data, Big Open Source Tools, for a compehensive overview of Big Data issues.) But what,...
Plug for RStudio: powerful, free, and easy to use interactive development environment for R
(click for a bigger picture)As a longtime SAS user, one obstacle for me in using R professionally has been figuring out a process for saving and testing code across several work sessions and integrating code composition and execution. There are a coup...
Data Mining with WEKA
There are a number of good open source projects for statistics and data mining, for example the software WEKA developed at the University of Waikato. The description on their website states that: Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
