Revolution Analytics is hosting several live and online courses over the next couple of months that will be of interest to R users looking to hone their skills: Visualization in R with ggplot2. Garrett Grolemund and Winston Chang instruct how to use the ggplot2 package to make, format, label and ... [Read more...]

Thank’s to Andrej who wrote this comment: “Is it possible to to color the resulting 12 clusters within your original image to get a feel for visual separation?” You can do so: But how to get values at a location? You will need these values to determine whether the defined ... [Read more...]

So the time has come for me to face the fact that I have no time to maintain pgfSweave. It was recently archived because I didn’t make necessary changes to comply with some CRAN policies. SO, I need someone to step up to the plate to make some tweakes, ... [Read more...]

In a previous post, I showed how to keep text and symbols at the same size across figures that have different numbers of panels. The figures in that post were ugly because they used the default panel spacing associated with the mfrow argument of the par( ) function. Below I will ... [Read more...]

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Modern computer processors are adequately optimized for many statistical calculations, but large data operations may require hours or days to return a result.  Oracle R Enterprise (ORE), a set of R packages designed to process large data computations in Oracle Database, can run many R operations in parallel, significantly reducing ... [Read more...]

Here is an example of a data analysis work flow supported in imDEV. This network visualization was made using CmapTools. [Read more...]

Handling meta-data is not natural in R, or any traditional rectangular shaped type data storage system.There are several tricks and packages which attempt to solve this problem, with Hmisc using the atrribute feature and the IRange package having its o... [Read more...]

The Tenth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012) Sydney, Australia 5-7 December 2012 http://ausdm12.togaware.com/ Deadline extended to 31 August 2012 The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The main question when using remote sensed raster data, as we do, is the question of NaN-treatment. Many R functions are able to use an option like rm.NaN=TRUE to treat these missing values. In our case the kmeans function in R is not capable to use such a ... [Read more...]

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Genetic algorithm is a search heuristic. GAs can generate a vast number of possible model solutions and use these to evolve towards an approximation of the best solution of the model. Hereby it mimics evolution in nature. GA generates a population, the individuals in this population (often called chromosomes) have  ... [Read more...]

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01.08.2012 Finally i released a new version of Bio7 with many improvements and new features. Updated tutorials are available, too. The new Bio7 1.6 release can be downloaded here. Please also download the examples *.zip file from the sourceforge website which contains new examples for Bio7 1.6 (e.g. an example to cluster ... [Read more...]

If you haven't made the plunge yet to making R graphics with Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 package, his "ggplot2 basics" slides (from the recent Introduction to Data Visualization and Analysis course at JSM) is a good place to start. Once you get the hang of the "grammar of graphics" notation, you'll ... [Read more...]

I recently wanted to construe a dashboard widget that contains some text and other elements using the grid graphics system. The size available for the widget will vary. When the sizes for the elements of the grobs in the widget are specified as Normalised Parent Coordinates the size adjustments happen ... [Read more...]

In my morning attempt to read the whole internet before beginning work, I came across a program on the BBC website which allows you to see which Olympic athletes are your body doubles. Or rather, which athletes share your height and weight, and therefore your body mass index. Being a ... [Read more...]

If you need to build a presentation, obviously you have following options: Powerpoint alike presentation Online engines LaTex The first two are beloved by business people and the third one is widely used in academia. The objective of the first group is shiny presentation, contrary to the second where asceticism ... [Read more...]

by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com Below are simple examples of profiling R code, which help to find out which steps or functions are most time consuming. It is very useful for improving efficiency of R code. # profiling of running time … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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