If you've ever created a scatterplot with text labels using the text function in R, or the geom_text function in the ggplot2 package, you've probably found that the text labels can easily overlap, rendering some of them unreadable. Now, thanks to the new extensibility capabilities of the ggplot2 package, ... [Read more...]

          Following the overwhelming success of the EARL 2015 Conference and the feedback received, the 2016 London Conference will again be held in the Tower Hotel and the dates are: 13th – 15th September 2016. EARL … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Mango Solutions in collaboration with Capital One have organised a new R user group in Nottingham. R user groups are free meetings for those using or interested in using R – the open source statistical programming language. If you are … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal is an open-access resource for interactive exploration of multidimensional cancer genomics data sets, currently providing access to data from more than 100 cancer studies. The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal significantly lowers the barriers between complex genomic data and cancer researchers who want rapid, intuitive, and high-quality ... [Read more...]

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[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] The new issue of The R Journal is now available! You may Download the complete issue, or choose your [Read more...]

Since last year Revolution Analytics has been publishing beta versions of Revolution R Open and finally in April this year they released RRO 8.0.3. The current release is RRO 3.2.2 (naming was adapted to fit the R version it is built upon). This post will give you an introduction on my favorite ... [Read more...]

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When you read through the biblical books of Kings, you may have been struck by a phrase that repeats itself for every monarch: In the Xth year of (king of kingdom B), (name of king) became king of (kingdom A). He reigned N years, and did (evil|good) in the ... [Read more...]

In the exercises below we cover the basics of the scan function. Before proceeding, first read section 7.2 of An Introduction to R. Answers to the exercises are available here. For each exercise we provide a data set that can be accessed through the link shown in the exercise. You can ... [Read more...]

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For a community project, I needed to research which U.S. cities were most similar to mine. The U.S. census has some wonderful data that covers 1,579 statistical areas, using the Office of Management & Budget's definition.With this data, I selected ... [Read more...]

For a community project, I needed to research which U.S. cities were most similar to mine. The U.S. census has some wonderful data that covers 1,579 statistical areas, using the Office of Management & Budget's definition.With this data, I selected the relevant attributes and then calculated the root mean ... [Read more...]

The third update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R earlier today, and has been pushed to Debian. It follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, and the 0.12.2 release in November making... [Read more...]

The third update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp arrived on the CRAN network for GNU R earlier today, and has been pushed to Debian. It follows the 0.12.0 release from late July, the 0.12.1 release in September, and the 0.12.2 release in November making... [Read more...]

Motivation I finally made to the movies for watching the new Star Wars release this weekend. Although this episode wasn’t that spectacular, in my view, it did inspire some data seeking afterwards. I wanted to know how this film compares to others top... [Read more...]

The state of Utah (my adopted home) has an Open Data Catalog with lots of interesting data sets, including a collection of health care indicators from 2014 for the 29 counties in Utah. The observations for each county include measurements such as the infant mortality rate, the percent of people who don’... [Read more...]

Motivation I could finally made to the movies for watching the new Star Wars release this weekend. Although this episode wasn’t that spectacular, in my view, it did inspire some data seeking afterwards. I wanted to know how this film compares to others top movies in terms of worldwide ... [Read more...]