I reverted the name of the tty connection that I described previously, to “serial” connection and updated the patch to R 2.11.1. This name is more appropriate to its function and also makes way for another patch I am working on which implements the full POSIX terminal interface (essentially all of termios.h). The connection provided
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Access attribute_hidden Functions in R Packages
Maybe the title should have been prepended with “Don’t…” The source code of R is littered with “attribute_hidden” declarations. These declarations attempt to ensure that the variable or function may only be accessed by code in the core R distribution, and not by R extension packages. Generally there is a good reason for this. For
Must Have Software
Having worked with Unix (BSD, HPUX, IRIX, Linux and OSX), Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, Vista and 7) for quite a while I have seen a lot of different software tools. I would like to quickly exhibit my “must have” list. These are the packages that I find to be the single “must have offerings” in Related posts:
robot (SPX) DNA Management Techniques
Yes, this is related to trading, but no, it is not my thesis on why the Euro is going to parity. Instead, it is sort of a workshop for robot(SPX) developers on how to organize their digital DNA. As you begin to use programming as a money extraction
Collect and Parse GPS (NMEA0183) Data in R
I recently wrote a serial connection for R-2.11.0 so that I can communicate with serial devices, for example an old Garmin eTrex Legend. This GPS device is able to output NMEA0183 sentences to a standard serial port (4800,8,1,N). I hooked up the device and used the serial connection to collect some data using some R
Computational Statistics
Do not resort to Monte Carlo methods unnecessarily. When I received this 2009 Springer-Verlag book, Computational Statistics, by James Gentle a while ago, I briefly took a look at the table of contents and decided to have a better look later… Now that I have gone through the whole book, I can write a short 
hash-2.0.0
Come see my talk on hashes in R at useR! 2010. (http://user2010.org/) July 20-23 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
R : NA vs. NULL
The R language has two closely related NULL-like values, NA and NULL ... Both are used to represent missing or undefined values. This has lead to much confusion.
Doing Maximum Likelihood Estimation by Hand in R
Lately I’ve been writing maximum likelihood estimation code by hand for some economic models that I’m working with. It’s actually a fairly simple task, so I thought that I would write up the basic approach in case there are readers who haven’t built a generic estimation system before. First, let’s start with a toy example
Experiments with igraph
Networks – social and biological – are all the rage, just now. Indeed, a recent entry at Duncan’s QOTD described the “hairball” network representation as the dominant cultural icon in molecular biology. I’ve not had occasion to explore networks “professionally”, but have always been fascinated by both networks and the tools used to analyse them. 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
