R is very speedy statistical package that's like an F-18A Hornet, versus Excel which is like a paper airplane. R is professional sports, Excel is Pop Warner. R is Mona Lisa, Excel is stick figures. R is ... okay, you get the idea. I'm long R, and short...

http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/R/This comes very handy.

For all bioinformaticians and R users out there: the Bioconductor project  for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data is out! A lot of interesting new stuff! See the full announcement here.

My favourite editor for conducting analysis in R is the StatET plug-in for Eclipse. This post discusses an assortment of tips and tricks that I've discovered to make this editing environment even better.SearchSearch (Control + H): I maintain projects i...

I was in a rush to convert a SPSS data into Stata format. Somehow my Stattransfer v.8 for Linux was lost and I did not want pause my work and go back to Windows just to get this one file converted. So fire Emacs+ESS+R, load the "foreign" package, ...

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/StatReport

The new R 2.10.0 is out! Get it from here. If you like take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier. Fell free to contribute with suggestions about how to upgrade your R installation.

Permutation tests (section 2.4.3) are a form of resampling based inference that can be used to compare two groups. A simple univariate two-group permutation test requires that the group labels for the observations are exchangeable under the null hypothesis of equal distributions, but allows relaxation of specific distributional assumptions required by ...

This post lists a few data mining resources in R. I also provide a few observations on the distinction between data mining, data analysis, and statistics as it pertains to the analysis work that I do in psychology.Online ResourcesThe classic book The E...

http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-K/index.htmlThe problem is, I cannot get it to work, on either Windows or Linux.