Posts Tagged ‘ open source ’

What’s Happening, Man?

October 14, 2009
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topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fborasky-research.net%2F2009%2F10%2F14%2Fwhats-happening-man%2F", "style": "big", "title": "What's Happening, Man?" }); There is quite a bit of activity on the AlgoCompSynth front. As you may know, I’m a SUSE Studio subscriber, and I’m building openSUSE 11.1-based appliances there. One of them is dedicated to AlgoCompSynth, and I expect to make a release in the very near future,

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packages and CRANtastic

August 24, 2009
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packages and CRANtastic

Additional functionality in R is added through packages, which consist of libraries of bundled functions, datasets, examples and help files that can be downloaded from CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network). The function install.packages() or the w...

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open-source campaign finance analysis with R and MySQL

June 18, 2009
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open-source campaign finance analysis with R and MySQL

Introduction In Part 1 of this tutorial we introduced the fechell library by extracting all itemized contributions from individuals made to the Obama For America campaign in 2007 and 2008. In Part 2 of the tutorial we will summarize that data set by importing it into a MySQL database and aggregating contributions by week and

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