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Equivalents to SAS, SPSS modules in R

January 15, 2010 | David Smith

Bob Muenchen, the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users, has created a handy table listing the R packages that implement the statistical methods included in add-on modules for SAS and SPSS. For example, if you're looking for the equivalent structural equation modeling functions you might be using in ... [Read more...]

R’s exponential package growth, ctd.

January 7, 2010 | David Smith

Reader SK has collected the most recent data on R's package growth, through the latest 2.10 release. The three most recent releases fall slightly below the exponential growth line, which isn't altogether surprising (that's a lot of growth to sustain!). Another interesting thing to look at would be the combined rate ... [Read more...]

The number of R packages is growing exponentially

January 6, 2010 | David Smith

The second issue of the R Journal is out now, and in addition to a bevy of contributed articles and some news from the R Core Group on the new help system introduced in R 2.10, there's an invited section called, intriguingly, "The Future of R". In that section John Fox ... [Read more...]

Why use plyr?

December 17, 2009 | David Smith

The "apply" family of functions in R (apply, sapply, lapply) is a very powerful suite of tools for iterating through structures of data and returning the combined results of each iteration. But with great power comes great responsibility (or something like that): these functions can sometimes be frustratingly difficult to ... [Read more...]

R Site Search with the ‘sos’ Package

December 15, 2009 | Matt Bascom

REvolution Computing is a sponsor of the Bay Area R User Group, which gathered on Tuesday for its monthly meeting. This month's meeting was in a cozy setting at San Jose State University, and was hosted by David Czerwinski who teaches data mining there. The topic at hand was search, ... [Read more...]

Package Update Roundup: Nov 2009

December 8, 2009 | David Smith

This is a list of new or updated packages that were released for R in November, as announced on the r-packages mailing list. To include other updates on this list, please email David Smith. For a complete list of all updates on CRAN, see the CRANberries archive for November 2009. Follow ... [Read more...]
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