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Getting your web application and R(Apache) to talk to each other

April 19, 2010 | nsaunders

Here’s the situation. Web applications, built using a framework (e.g. Rails, Django) are great for fetching data from a database and rendering it. They’re not so great for crunching and charting the data. Conversely, R is great for crunching and charting, but doesn’t make for a ...

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A new twist on the identifier mapping problem

January 11, 2010 | nsaunders

Yesterday, Deepak wrote about BridgeDB, a software package to deal with the “identifier mapping problem”. Put simply, biologists can name a biological entity in any way that they like, leading to multiple names for the same object. Easily solved, you might think, by choosing one identifier and sticking to it, ... [Read more...]

The Life Scientists at FriendFeed: 2009 summary

December 23, 2009 | nsaunders

It’s Christmas Eve tomorrow and so I declare the year over. My Christmas gift to you is a summary of activity in 2009 at the FriendFeed Life Scientists group. It’s crafted using R + Ruby, with raw data and some code snippets available. If you want to see the most ...

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Top Five Open Source Projects of 2009

November 5, 2009 | Ed Borasky

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... [Read more...]

RSRuby in the IRB console

August 6, 2009 | nsaunders

R is terrific, of course, for all your statistical needs. But those data structures! “Everything is a list.” Leading to such wondrous ways to access variables as “p

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Baby steps with RSRuby in Rails

May 20, 2009 | nsaunders

Plotting and charting libraries for Ruby (on Rails) abound. However, few are sophisticated enough for scientists and many are not actively maintained. Plotting in R, on the other hand, is about as sophisticated as it comes. Can we bridge Ruby and R? Yes we can, thanks to Alex Gutteridge’s ...

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Rails, Scalability and Sexism

April 29, 2009 | Ed Borasky

It’s been a long time since I posted here, for a number of reasons: Change of focus from Ruby programming to Linux capacity planning, especially in the realm of I/O subsystems. You’ll find more about that at http://linuxcapacityplanning.com... [Read more...]

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RSRuby in the IRB console

Baby steps with RSRuby in Rails

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