DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING – 8th Annual International R User Conference useR! 2012, Nashville, Tennessee USA Registration Deadlines: Early Registration: Passed Regular [Read more...]

The story about the great work that SUNY Buffalo has been doing to find a cure for Multiple Sclerosis with Revolution R Enterprise and IBM Netezza has generated a lot of attention, with stories in Forbes, InformationWeek and eWeek (amongst others). To continue the discussion, IBM has put together a ... [Read more...]

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Ph.D candidate in sociology Ethan Fosse just switched from Stata to doing 100% of his analysis with R. His reasons? If you want to do Bayesian analysis or graph modeled coefficients (or work with complex data structures more generally), then R is much easier than Stata due to the object-oriented ... [Read more...]

We've been more sensitive to accounting for multiple comparisons recently, in part due to work that Nick and colleagues published on the topic. In this entry, we consider results from a randomized trial (Kypri et al., 2009) to reduce problem drinking ... [Read more...]

We are organising the second Milano R net meeting in September 27, 2012. [Read more...]

A while ago I wanted to run a quantitative genetic analysis where the performance of genotypes in each site was considered as a different trait. If you think about it, with 70 sites and thousands of genotypes one is trying … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Which country had the most PubMed citations in 2011? To find out I used R statistical software to analyze the affiliation of 986 427 articles. [Read more...]

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Welcome presentation Andrea Spanò, Partner at Quantide (download PDF, 0.2 MB) Past, present and future of R Stefano Iacus, Department of Economics, Business and Statistics, University of Milan and R Development Core Team (download PDF, 7.3 MB) R and Operational … Continue reading → [Read more...]

How many baskets are your eggs in? Meucci diversity Attilio Meucci directly addresses the adage: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. His idea is to think of your portfolio as a set of  subportfolios that are each uncorrelated with the rest.  If your portfolio can be configured ... [Read more...]

The recent Sonification Handbook has a chapter devoted to exploratory data analysis using sound. With some help from Sam Ferguson, one of the chapter's authors, I've made it easy to implement those techniques using R with playitbyr. [Read more...]

Increasing quantitative data generated from transcriptomics and proteomics require integrative strategies for analysis. Here, we present an R package, clusterProfiler that automates the process of biological-term classification and the enrichment analysis of gene clusters. The analysis module and visualization module were combined into a reusable workflow. Currently, clusterProfiler supports three ... [Read more...]

ninety two-minute r tutorial videos now posted.  three hours of ultra-concentrated r.new videos include topics like:setting your preferences (options) (Rprofile.site) random number generation (runif) (rnorm) (set.seed) (rbinom)creating and accessi... [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com Compared with many other programming languages, such as C/C++ and Java, R is less efficient and consumes much more memory. Fortunately, there are some packages that enables parallel computing in R and also packages for processing … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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It's been over four years that I've been using both R and Stata, but as of last week I've become an R convert. For several years I had conducted statistical analyses in R (since many complex models can only be programmed in R), but I used Stata before ... [Read more...]

Part II Explains More Complex  Wide to Long With base reshape  In part I of this base reshape tutorial we went over the basics of reshaping data with reshape.  We learned two rules that help us to be more efficient … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Two days ago, Conrad Sanderson released another bug-fix version 3.0.3 for the 3.0.0 branch of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. The new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.3 which contains it appeared on CRAN yesterday. Beside ... [Read more...]

Messing around with animations, I created this toy example to make a growing outline of a heart in R. I have put it up as a gist on GitHub and embedded it below. It uses the animation and the ggplot2 packages--both of which make it incredibly simple to... [Read more...]