After a bit of a summer lull, the Montreal R User Group is meeting up again! We’re trying out a new venue this time. Notman House is the home of the web in Montreal. They hold hackathons and other tech user group meetups, and they are all around great people in an all around great 
A story: We showed you how to use R to assess flag similarity and make a scatter plot of raster images. Dr. Wickham referred us to the set of 2400 flag icons made available by GoSquared, and then (probably jokingly) challenged us to replicate the cool...
A long title, but there are a couple of handy things in this Gist. The first, and more obscure, is the conversion of a data.frame of categorical variables into a matrix of dummy/binary/indicator variables, one for each category of each original variab...
In our previous post, we used a quick-and-dirty method for ordering the axes on our heatmap. It has been pointed out to me that There is a Package for That (which is my nominee for a new slogan for R — not that it needs a slogan). seriation offe...
Part II Explains More Complex Wide to Long With base reshape In part I of this base reshape tutorial we went over the basics of reshaping data with reshape. We learned two rules that help us to be more efficient … Continue reading →
This Post Will Explain the Basics of Wide to Long With base reshape (part I) Often your data set is in wide format and some sort of analysis or visualization requires putting the data set into long format. Hadely Wickham … Continue reading →
March 12, 2012 14h-16h N4/17 Stewart Biology Building, McGill University Étienne Low-Decarie, McGill University This workshop is organized by the BGSA and is free of charge (!), but space is limited. Register early to ensure your spot! From Étienne: Ever want to split your data according to factors, apply a function on each part and 
During my university time I worked on the IT help desk for a while. One day I received a call from a professor, who said that his printer had stopped working. So I asked him, if there was a message on the display and if he could read it to me. "Oh yes"...
The other day I wrote about the R functions by, apply and friends, which allow me to operate on subsets of data. All those functions work nicely, if the data is given in the right format. More often than not it isn't and I have to reshape the data befo...
This post shows how to print a prettier nested pivot table, created using the {reshape} package (similar to what you would get with Microsoft Excel), so you could print it either in the R terminal or as a LaTeX table. This task is done by bridging between the cast_df object produced by the {reshape} package,
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
