Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now A simple one-line tweak can significantly speed up package installation and updates. See my post at the Jumping Rivers blog (no point duplicating content in two places)   [Read more...]

Over the next few months we’re running a number of R, Stan and Scala courses around the UK. June (London) Mon Jun 26 – Introduction to R Tue Jun 27 – Statistical Modelling with R Wed Jun 28 – Programming with R Thu Jun 29 (2-day course) – Advanced R Programming August (Belfast) Thu Aug 10 […] [Read more...]

Most of the time when we stumble across a code snippet online, we often blindly copy and paste it into the R console. I suspect almost everyone does this. After all, what’s the harm? Consider this simple piece of R code that performs simple linear regression # Generate data x = ... [Read more...]

Over the next few months we’re running a number of R, Stan and Scala courses around the UK. Feburary Mon 13 – Introduction to R (London) Tue 14 – Programming with R (London) Wed 15 – Advanced Graphics with R (London) Thur 16 (2-day course) – Predictive Analysis (London) March Tue Mar 21 – R for […] [Read more...]

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Recently Steph Locke asked on twitter if there was a list of R conferences. After some googling, all that I came up was a list of useR groups maintained by Microsoft. While the list was lengthy, it was missing a few groups (and twitter handles). So the other night I ... [Read more...]

Over the next few months we’re running a number of R courses at London, Leeds and Newcastle. September 2016 (Newcastle) Sept 12th: Introduction to R Sept 13th: Statistical modelling Sept 14th: Programming with R Sept 15th: Efficient R: speeding up your code Sept 16th: Advanced graphics October 2016 (London) Oct 3rd: ... [Read more...]

Over the next two months I’m running a number of R courses at Newcastle University. May 2016 May 10th, 11th: Predictive Analytics May 16th – 20th: Bioconductor May 23rd, 24th: Advanced programming June 2016 June 8th: R for Big Data June 9th: Interactive graphics with Shiny Since these courses are on  advanced ... [Read more...]

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A couple of months ago, the first version of benchmarkme was released. Around 140 machines have now been benchmarked. From the fastest (an Apple i7) which ran the tests in around 10 seconds, to the slowest (an Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz) which took 420 seconds! Other interesting statistics: Around 6% of people ran ... [Read more...]

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These are my initial notes from useR 2015. I will/may revise when I have time. Computational Performance; Chair: Dirk Eddelbuettel Running R+Hadoop using Docker Containers (E. James Harner) Introduction Big data architectures: HDFS/Hadoop: software framework for distributed storage and distributed processing Tachyon/Spark: uses in-memory Rc2 server (R ... [Read more...]

These are my initial notes from useR 2015. Will revise when I have time. fbRads: Analyzing and managing Facebook ads from R (Gergely Daroczi) Modern advertising Google/Amazon/Facebook use our information Ad platforms: Google: RAdwords, facebook likes: fbRads. You can use the facebook API to get information from facebook. Get ... [Read more...]

Using R since 2002 and has been working on Rcpp, Rcpp11, Rcpp14 and dplyr internals. Worked on a number of big projects. 2005 he set up the R Graph Gallery 2009 worked on rJava 2010 Rcpp 2013 dplyr Key themes are Performance and usabililty rJava 0.7-* Creating objects was messy d [Read more...]

The renamer Package Tired of the disparate naming systems in R? Then this is the package for you. Installing the package The package is located in my drat. To install install.packages("renamer", repos="http://csgillespie.github.io/drat", type="source") or if you have drat installed drat::addRepo("csgillespie") ... [Read more...]

A few years ago I was involved in analysing some time-course microarray data. Our biological collaborators were interested in how we analysed their data, so this lead to a creation of tutorial, which in turn lead to a paper. When we submitted the paper, one the referees “suggested” that we ... [Read more...]

The School of Mathematics & Statistics at Newcastle University (UK), are again running some R courses. In January, 2012, we will run: January 16th: Introduction to R; January 17th: Programming with R; January 18th & 19th: Advanced graphics with R. The courses aren’t aimed at teaching statistics, rather they aim to go ... [Read more...]

Michael Rutter – R for Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.10 uses 2.10.1. Backports are newer versions of software for old releases. R backports are available CRAN (link). Lauchpad is a website for users to develop and maintain software (Canonical). One of Launchpad’s services is the personal package archive (PPA). This allows users to upload .... [Read more...]