I recently read Ewan Birney's blog post, which I found echoed a lot of my own thoughts about the use of statistical in computational biology. I thought I would compile my own similar list but for bioinformatics / computational biology in general....
Posts Tagged ‘ Perl ’
My own programming style convention for most languages
I write code mainly in R, and from times to times, in C, C++, SAS, bash, python, and perl. There are style guides out there that help make your code more consistent and readable to yourself and others. Here is a style guide for C++, and here is Google’s style guide for R and...
Example 8.38: WriteXLS to create spreadsheets
In our last entry, we described reading Excel files. In this entry, we do the opposite: write native Excel files.RIn R, the WriteXLS package provides this functionality. It uses perl to do the heavy lifting, and the main complication is to install th...
Software tools for data analysis – an overview
by Szilard Pafka Discussions on various software tools (C, C++, Perl, Python, Unix shell, R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, Excel, databases, Hadoop etc.) used in data analysis. Szilard Pafka (founder and co-organizer of the Los Angeles R users group) presents an … Continue reading →
web content anlayzer
Just developed a small crawler to check my online content at binfalse.de in terms of W3C validity and the availability of external links. Here is the code and some statistics...
Building an R package (under Windows) without C, C++ or FORTRAN code
Why build and R package? It basically boils down to be able to brag at your local pub that a new version of YOUR package is on CRAN as of 7 p.m. CET. But seriously, if you’ve produced some function that other people might benefit (or have ordered them) from using them, like your...
Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit (SMART@znmeb) Is Moving Into Private Beta
Download "Getting Started with the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit" (pdf, 1.25 megabytes) Download the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit My Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit is about to move into private beta. What's in the release?...
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Download "Getting Started with the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit" (pdf, 1.25 megabytes) Download the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit Media Inactivist, Thought Follower, Sit-Down Comic, Social Media Analytics Researcher, Former Boy Gen...
Top Five Open Source Projects of 2009
Every year, I single out what I think are the Top Five open source projects. This year, there's only one hold-over from previous years, and it's likely that I'm just going to give it a Lifetime Achievement Award and pick five others next year. 5. NetBe...
RSPerl : Using R from within Perl
Some things I write in perl some in R, sometime I use perl to write R and run R. One thing that I find very useful is the functionality of RSPerl which enables you to call R functions from within perl and on perl variables. It can also call perl from R...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
