I was at the useR! Conference at The University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, last week. My goal in going was to learn the latest things regarding (simple) dynamic graphics, (simple) web-based apps, parallel computing, and memory management (dealing with big data sets). I got just what I was hoping ... [Read more...]

Let’s start this blog off right, with the stupidest R mistake I’ve ever made (I think). In the R package that I write, R/qtl, one of the main file formats is a comma-delimited file, where the blank cells in the second row are important, as they distinguish ... [Read more...]