February 2012

"R": Plotting the spectra (Gasoline) – 002

February 2, 2012 | jrcuesta

"R" has a package called "ChemometricsWithR", where we can get data from different analytical instruments including Near Infrared (NIR).Follow the steps to plot the spectra of a gasoline data set:In this other case we plot the spectra of the NIR shootout 2002: __ data(shootout)__ wavelengths mattplot(wavelengths,shootout$calibrate.1[1,],...
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R Chart featured in Facebook IPO

February 2, 2012 | David Smith

Page 7 of Facebook's 213-page S-1 filing for their record-breaking IPO includes the following chart, under the headline: "Our Mission: To make the world more open and connected". This chart was created using the R language and Hadoop by Facebook intern Paul Butler. (Thanks to the blog IOER Tools for first ... [Read more...]

Serious Stats book and blog update

February 2, 2012 | Thom Baguley

This is a quick update to announce my new blog Serious Stats. This is a companion to my forthcoming book of the same name:Baguley, T. (2012, in press). Serious stats: A guide to advanced statistics for the behavioral sciences. Basingstoke: Palgrav... [Read more...]

R graphic used for Facebook IPO

February 2, 2012 | Larry D'Agostino

Apparently former Facebook intern, Paul Butler,  graphic of the Facebook social network graph is being used for Facebook's IPO.  The social network graphic is featured on Page 7 of the IPO filing.  His graphic was featured on mashable an... [Read more...]

R meets HANA

February 2, 2012 | Alvaro "Blag" Tejada Galindo

If you read my last blog called HANA meets R you will remember that we read data from HANA into R directly, without having to download an .csv file, but using ODBC. This time, we're going to read data from HANA as well, but after do some nice tricks on ... [Read more...]

HANA meets R

February 2, 2012 | Alvaro "Blag" Tejada Galindo

In my previous HANA and R blogs, I have been forced to create .csv files from HANA and read them on R...an easy but also boring procedure...specially if your R report is supposed to be run on a regular basis...having to create an .csv file every time ... [Read more...]

tenured research position with ABC skills!

February 2, 2012 | xi'an

I just received this announcement for the opening of a (tenured/civil servant) position in the national research institute in biostatistics, genetics, and agronomy, INRA: Position opening with profile Approximate inference techniques in complex systems Key activities and required skills: You will develop methodological research in the field of statistical ... [Read more...]

Landscape Metrics with R, SDMTools, ImageJ and Bio7

February 2, 2012 | » R

01.02.2012 Landscape metrics were developed to analyze spatial patterns of landscapes (e.g. composition and spatial arrangement). In R it is possible to calculate these metrics with the “SDMTools” package. Bio7 offers an easy to use interface to R and ImageJ and can use these tools to simplify a workflow to ... [Read more...]

Analytic applications are built by data scientists

February 1, 2012 | David Smith

Ventana Research analyst David Menninger was on the judging panel for the Applications of R in Business contest. In a post on the Ventana research blog, he offers his perspectives on the contest, noting that R, as a statistical package, includes many algorithms for predictive analytics, including regression, clustering, classification, ... [Read more...]

Cochran Q Test for k related samples in R

February 1, 2012 | alstated

To run the Cochran Q Test in R, we need to download the package of it first, since it is not built-in in R. The name of the package is RVAideMemoire authored by Maxime Hervé. Here's how to do it.Codes:Here we are installing the package named RVAideMem...
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Vectorized R vs Rcpp

February 1, 2012 | Dzidorius Martinaitis

In my previous post, I tried to show, that Rcpp is 1000 faster than pure R and that generated the fuss in the comments. Being lazy, I didn’t vectorize R code and at the end I was comparing apples vs oranges. To fix that problem, I built a new script, ... [Read more...]

"R": Looking at the Data (Gasoline) – 001

February 1, 2012 | jrcuesta

As other softwares "R" has nice tools to look to the data before to develop the calibration.Statistics for the "Y" variable (in this case octane number) like Maximun, Minimun,..,standard deviation,...are important:__ library(ChemometricsWithR)__ data(gasoline)__ summary(gasoline$octane)   Min.  1st Qu.  Median    Mean   3rd Qu.    Max.   83.40   85.88    87.75    87.18   88.45    89.60__ sd(...
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R Training Course in the Bay Area

February 1, 2012 | Rob Kabacoff

An introduction to R for sofware developers and data analysts Saturday March 10th, 2012 8:30-5:00pm EBay 2161 North 1st Street San Jose, California I will be presenting a one day professional development workshop on R programming for software developers and … Continue reading → [Read more...]
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