Welcome to part two of the Introduction to The R Project for Statistical Computing tutorial. If you missed part one, it can be found here. In this segment, we will explore the following topics.Importing DataVariablesWorkspace FilesConsole FilesFinding ... [Read more...]

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topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fborasky-research.net%2F2009%2F10%2F14%2Fwhats-happening-man%2F", "style": "big", "title": "What's Happening, Man?" }); There is quite a bit of activity on the AlgoCompSynth front. As you may know, I’m a SUSE Studio subscriber, and I’m building openSUSE 11.1-based appliances there. One of ... [Read more...]

A new version of RPostgreSQL just went out to CRAN and should propagate via the mirrors over the next few days. This is a maintenance and bug fix release that addresses four of the seven issue at the Google Code page. Two more are really enhancemen... [Read more...]

The relationship between two variables can be visually represented using a scatter plot and will provide some insight into the correlation between the variables and possible models to describe the relationship. There are different ways to produce scatter plots in R making use of either the base graphics system, the ... [Read more...]

I am not a fan of MS Windows software. However, the reality is that majority of people use it and it is often easier for me to live with this than to convert the sorounding souls. Additionally I am find ing out lately that majority of my favourite open... [Read more...]

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If you use Emacs and ESS to run R, then here’s a nice tweak I found on the Emacs Wiki. The following bit of elisp goes in your .emacs file (or equivalent). Starting with an R file in the buffer, hitting shift-enter vertically splits the window and starts R ... [Read more...]

Christian: of course you will be running the Chicago 2010 marathon as your next fall marathon. Not only are Paris and Chicago jumelée (i.e. sister cities), but the Dollar is so conveniently falling vis-à-vis the Euro that you'd get all this done for about a Euro and a ... [Read more...]

hc_appattach(hc_app) hc_fit.o1hc_fit.f1hc_fit.o2hc_fit.f2plot(as.Date(Dates),Oppose,main="Public opinion and health care reform",ylim=c(0,80),pch=16,xlim=c(as.Date("2009-01-01"),as.Date("2009-11-01")),cex.axis=.85, col="#E6ADD8",xlab="",ylab="Percentage approving ... [Read more...]

R is a free, cross-platform, open-source statistical analysis language and program. It is also an alternative to expensive commercial statistics software such as SPSS. The environment for R differs from the typical point and click interface found in mo... [Read more...]

Earlier today the 33rd Chicago Marathon was held. I will organise my comments by pointing out three epic fails. First, of course, was the Chicago weather. After two successive marathon in excessive heat --- the 2007 race I completed, poorly, with its thousands of runners forced to abandon when the race ... [Read more...]

On several occassions, R had suggested itself as a language for systems scripting. By this I mean random little adminstrative task such as (re-)moving or maybe renaming files or directories and the like. One of such cases just happened a few minutes ago. The aforementioned Garmin Forerunner 405 can cooperate ... [Read more...]

oday Romain Francois posted an interesting topic in the R-help list, and you can read his blog post for more details: celebrating R commit #50000. 50000 is certainly not a small number; we do owe R core members a big “thank you” for their great efforts in this fantastic statistical language in ... [Read more...]

Strict quality control procedures are extremely important for any genome-wide association study.  One of the first steps you should take when running QC on your GWAS is to look for related samples in your dataset.  This does two things for you.  First, you can get an idea of how many ... [Read more...]

pre{ font-size: x-small !important ; border: 1px solid black ; } Today, Brian Ripley commited the revision 50 000 into R svn repository. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r50000 | ripley | 2009-10-09... [Read more...]

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Recently Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 started giving me the vague error message Outlook cannot open this item. The item may be damaged. The message would appear randomly throughout the day. Sometimes five error message boxes would be stacked up on top of each other. OK, but which item? What kind of ... [Read more...]

Deleting rows from a data frame in R is easy by combining simple operations. Let’s say you are working with the built-in data set airquality and need to remove rows where the ozona is NA (also called null, blank or missing). The method is a conce... [Read more...]

Hey again,I was looking for random things at google and I found such an interesting site: www.wordle.net, were you can put lots of words or the url of a blog (like this for example) and you get a cloud with the words you put and you can ... [Read more...]