I found that there is a Bioconductor package, seq2pathway, that can apply functional analysis to NGS data. It consists of two components, seq2gene and gene2pathway. seq2gene converts genomic coordination to genes while gene2pathway performs functional analysis at gene level. Read More: 1007 Words Totally

Recently Microsoft released the AzureML R package, it allows R users to publish their R models (or any R function) as a web service on the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning platform. Of course, I wanted to test the new package, … Continue reading →

dplyr is a package for data manipulation, written and maintained by Hadley Wickham. It provides some great, easy-to-use functions that are very handy when performing exploratory data analysis and manipulation. Here, I will provide a basic overview of some of the most useful functions contained in the package. For this ...

Let’s have a look at the repartition of Ravelry patterns among the various categories. The categories have a tree structure. The number of patterns in each category is not accessible via the API, but it is visible on the website main page. The code below is not the most ...

Danny became the first hurricane of the 2015 Season, so it’s a good time to revisit how one might be able to track them with R. We’ll pull track data from Unisys and just look at Danny, but it should be easy to extrapolate from the code. For this ...

Today I will demonstrate how to remove state abbreviations from a choroplethr map. I will also demonstrate how to combine multiple maps into a single image. This is what the final image looks like: In this case the abbreviations obscure information for the northeast part of the country, so it’...

I enjoy doing new tunes; it gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention (Earl Scruggs, American musician) I recently finished reading The Signal and the Noise, a book by Nate Silver, creator of the also famous FiveThirtyEight blog. The book is a ...

This post was motivated by this article that discusses the graphics and statistical analysis for a two treatment, two period, two sequence (2x2x2) crossover drug interaction study of a new drug versus the standard. I wanted to write about implementing those graphics and the statistical analysis in R. This ...