February 2011

RStudio: just what I’ve been looking for

February 28, 2011 | Rob J Hyndman

For many years I used RWinEdt as my text editor for R code, but when WinEdt 6.0 came out, RWinEdt stopped working. So I’ve been looking for something to replace it. I’ve tried Tinn-R, NppToR, Eclipse with StatET and a couple of other editors, but nothing was quite right. ... [Read more...]

The RStudio IDE: first impressions are positive

February 28, 2011 | nsaunders

Integrated development environments (IDEs) are software development tools, providing an interface that enables you to write, debug, run and view the output of your code. Whether you need an IDE or find them useful depends very much on your own preferences and style of working. In my own case for ... [Read more...]

New open-source IDE for R in beta test

February 28, 2011 | David Smith

Rstudio, a new open-source IDE for R, has just been announced and is now available for beta test on Windows, MacOS, and Ubuntu. It works with an existing installation of R (2.11.1 or above) on your desktop, and is also available as a server version for Linux, where the IDE runs ... [Read more...]

Release of XLConnect 0.1-3

February 28, 2011 | Mirai Solutions

Mirai Solutions GmbH (http://www.mirai-solutions.com) is proud to announce the first release of XLConnect, a comprehensive and cross-platform R package for manipulating Microsoft Excel files from within R. XLConnect differs from other related R packages in that it is completely cross-platform … Continue reading → [Read more...]

RStudio: New free IDE for R

February 28, 2011 | Stephen Turner

Just saw the announcement of the availability of Rstudio, a new (free & open source) integrated development environment for R that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Judging from the screenshots, it looks like Rstudio supports syntax highlighting for Sweave & easy PDF creation from Sweave code, which is something I haven't ... [Read more...]

Running a Regression in R

February 28, 2011 | Tony Cookson

I created another video tutorial on R. This time, I discuss R's lm() command and how to use it for a variety of standard applications.Here is the code that goes with the video:Enjoy!
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RStudio, new open-source IDE for R

February 28, 2011 | Josh Paulson

RStudio is a new open-source IDE for R which we’re excited to announce the availability of today. RStudio has interesting features for both new and experienced R developers including code completion, execute from source, searchable history, and support for authoring Sweave documents. RStudio runs on all major desktop platforms (... [Read more...]

Visualizing Soccer League Standings

February 27, 2011 | martin

I feel ashamed for this boring title, but hope that the entry can make up for it. This visualization did inspire me, as a comment did point to my Tour de France visualizations. As with all visualizations, we need data first – this sounds trivial, but is sometimes a frustrating show-stopper. ... [Read more...]

The split-apply-combine paradigm in R

February 25, 2011 | Abhijit

Last night at the DC R Users meetup, which was our largest meetup to date, I gave an introductory presentation on data munging, and spent a bit of time on the split-apply-combine paradigm that I use almost daily in my work. I talked mainly about the packages plyr and doBy, ... [Read more...]

ggplot2 joy

February 25, 2011 | Abhijit

I’ve been working on a long-term (25+yr) longitudinal study of rheumatoid arthritis with my boss. He just walked in and asked if I could create a plot showing the trajectory of pain scores over time for each subject, separated by educational level (4 groups). Having now worked with ggplot2 for ... [Read more...]

R 2.12.2 is available

February 25, 2011 | David Smith

As previously announced, R 2.12.2 is available for download today. Browsing through the various mirrors (using the Download R tool on inside-R.org), it looks like the Windows version is already available on many mirrors; the Mac and Linux versions will follow soon (and of course, sources are available now). The ... [Read more...]
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