May 2015

Making R your own: Scripting & Tweeting

May 21, 2015 | bryce

Previously I have spoke on the merits of the R programing language (here) and alluded to its place in my research (here)(1)I also showed how I used it with some of my excursions into Computational Fluid Dynamics here and previously here. , so today I thought it was about time ... [Read more...]

RInside 0.2.13

May 20, 2015 | Thinking inside the box

A new release 0.2.13 of RInside is now on CRAN. RInside provides a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs, using the classes and functions provided by Rcpp. This release works around a bug i... [Read more...]

Open soure software has changed the way we do business

May 20, 2015 | David Smith

Earlier this month TechCrunch published an article of mine, "The Business Economics And Opportunity Of Open-Source Data Science". With this article I wanted to share how open-source software has disrupted the economics of doing business, now that data is a fundamental component of every businesses' operations. Open source projects like ... [Read more...]

First Steps with Structural Equation Modeling

May 20, 2015 | Noam Ross

Last Friday at the Davis R Users’ Group, Grace Charles gave a presentation on structural equation modeling in R using the Lavaan package. Here’s the video and her slides. We’ve also posted Grace’s script from the presentation as a gist here. More resources that Grace mentioned in ... [Read more...]

Databases – an Ideal Application for R6?

May 20, 2015 | quintuitive

Over the years I have tried to simplify and streamline my access to financial historic data. All different solutions I tried (see here, for example) so far have been unsatisfactory, at least to some degree. That however changed after I started using R6. Here is an example of using the ... [Read more...]

More postdoctoral opportunities at IARC

May 20, 2015 | Martyn

If you want to want to work with R and JAGS on a hard multivariate measurement error problem in nutritional epidemiology, then take a look at this advert. http://www.iarc.fr/en/vacancies/postdoc/postdoc_NEP_June2015.pdf IARC is based in Lyon, France. For informal queries approach me … ... [Read more...]

Database interfaces

May 20, 2015 | rOpenSci Blog - R

There are many different databases. The most familiar are row-column SQL databases like MySQL, SQLite, or PostgreSQL. Another type of database is the key-value store, which as a concept is very simple: you save a value specified by a key, and you can retrieve a value by its key. One ... [Read more...]

Fast parallel computing with Intel Phi coprocessors

May 19, 2015 | Joseph Rickert

by Andrew Ekstrom Recovering physicist, applied mathematician and graduate student in applied Stats and systems engineering We know that R is a great system for performing statistical analysis. The price is quite nice too ;-) . As a graduate student, I need a cheap replacement for Matlab and/or Maple. Well, ... [Read more...]

TidyR Challenge: Data.Table Solution

May 19, 2015 | Jeffrey Horner

Arun Srinivasan is the man! Once he saw that his data.table solution to the TidyR Challenge had an issue, he fixed it! His solution is below along with a quick equivalence test to my original solution, and check out this stackOverflow question for a... [Read more...]

Bio7 2.1 for Linux 64-bit and Windows 32-bit released

May 19, 2015 | » R

19.05.2015 After the 64-bit release of Windows the Linux 64-bit and Windows 32-bit release can be downloaded at: http://bio7.org Linux installation: The installation of Bio7 is similar to the installation of the Eclipse environment. Simply decompress the downloaded *.zip file in a preferred location on your file system. After ... [Read more...]

Unsupervised Google Maps image classification

May 19, 2015 | Tim Salabim

This is a guest post by Florian Detsch Prerequisites Required packages First, we need to (install and) load some packages required for data processing and visualization. The below code is mainly based on the Rsenal package, which is a steadily … Continue reading →
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