Yesterday, Hadley Wickham released his new package “devtools” at the CRAN repository. A great R package which supports the development process of R packages. R Packages are the fundamental unit of reproducible R code. The development of R packages is a complex topic and requires several additional tasks next to ... [Read more...]

cloudnumbers.com provides researchers and companies with the resources to perform high performance calculations in the cloud. We currently focus on the well-known open-source statistics program R (https://www.r-project.org). R is a strongly functional language and environment for statistical computing. You can explore data sets, make graphical displays ... [Read more...]

Who we are cloudnumbers.com provides researchers and companies with the resources to perform high performance calculations in the cloud. We help our customers to fight epidemics, develop highly advanced drugs and manage financial risk. Our aim is to change the way research collaboration is done today by bringing together ... [Read more...]

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Computer Assisted Reporting Ryan Kath from NBC Action News in Kansas City obtained three months of summary data for out-of-state public assistance payments from the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. These electronic reports wer... [Read more...]

Upgrading from R-2.12 to R-2.13 was fairly painless, except for one minor hiccup in trying to get the 64-bit version running on my installation of Eclipse + StatET under Windows 7. The setup instructions are almost entirely the same as I have outlined ... [Read more...]

NOAA’s Physical Sciences Division produces a global map of weekly averaged sea surface temperatures, derived from satellite sources. The data can be found at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.html. I’ve put togeth... [Read more...]

If you’re in the market for a very easy-to-setup integrated development environment for R, wander over to RStudio.org. They’ve just released a beta version of their freely-available front end for R that runs under Windows, Linux and Mac OS ... [Read more...]

For some unknown reason, MATLAB codes its date/time values as the number of elapsed days starting from January 1 in the year 0000. R uses the equally arbitrary, but much more widespread POSIX/Unix epoch as a reference for time keeping, so that R’... [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The PowerPoint slides below give an overview of screen scraping and mapping in R. Details with comments about many of the R statements can be found in these articles: Simple R Screen Scraping Example R Screen Scraping:... [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog This article describes how the data obtained from scraping 105 pages of county election data were analyzed and mapped using R. Background The Kansas Secretary of State published Nov. 2010 election results online, inclu... [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this article is to describe how to “reshape” data from screen scraping to make analysis with existing tools easier. Background The Kansas Secretary of State published Nov. 2010 election results ... [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this article is to show how to visit 105 online web pages programmatically and “scrape” data from them to form a statewide summary of election data in Kansas. An earlier article gave details of ... [Read more...]

Here's some R code that can be used to download archived tide height data from NOAA's CO-OPS OPeNDAP server. The code makes use of RCurl to send a URL query to the server, and then splits apart the resulting data into a data frame. [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this exercise is to show how to “screen scrape” data from an online web page using R. Additional articles will extend this example to scrape data from 105 Kansas county pages to form a statewide... [Read more...]

What happens when you mash together R‘s data crunching magic, Festival‘s speech synthesis power, and the audio wonders of the venerable music language Csound? You fall even more in love with free and open-source software, and you start hearing sounds like this: A single beat of the above ... [Read more...]