A recent R-help post asks for examples of Sweave use for web appliations. I think there is very little out there; maybe nothing. Below is a proof of concept for web-based Sweave-ing with rApache. But, it will soon be possible to do this with R's built-in web server. The idea ... [Read more...]

These graphics look familiar. From the Tor Metrics Portal: "The metrics website uses R to generate custom graphs on demand." See more here: http://metrics.torproject.org/graphs.html. [Read more...]

Feature NumPy R contiguous (virtual) memory ✔ ✔ 'view' memory model ✔ ✘ subset-assignment ✔ ✔ vectorized operations ✔ ✔ memory-mapping ✔ ✘* broadcasting rules ✔ ✔ index arrays ✔ ✔ This comparison is current as of R 2.13.0, NumPy version 1.4.1, and other web resources to date. Because this post was motivated by a [...] [Read more...]

Below are some links to a patch against the R-2.12.2 source code that implements a tty connection for R. Since the release of R-2.13.0 is coming soon, I’ll have a patch for it soon also. What’s a tty connection? The tty connection is an R interface to computer ... [Read more...]

I recently uploaded some code to R-forge related to an R package I’ve been working on, titled yarr. The work was motivated by a desire to embed R code and output within my HTML blog posts! Months ago, I wrote about a potential solution to this using the brew ... [Read more...]