RserveCLI is a .net/cli client for Rserve, created by Oliver M. Haynold. Oliver has done a great job with this project. I forked this project to add features, fix bugs, and do some restructuring. I thought it was a significant enough depature to cre... [Read more...]

Avoid R’s warning feature. This is particularly important if you use R in production; when you regularly run R scripts as part of your business process. This is also important if you author R packages. Don’t issue warnings in your own co... [Read more...]

I added R source code v0.49 to v2.15.0 to a GitHub repository: r-source Each release is tagged by version number. This is an easy and accessible way to browse R source and diff with prior version. I couldn’t find a suitable alternative. ... [Read more...]

It is easier to critique than it is to create. I write this post with much gratitude for R, the R community and particularly R-Core who are paid $0 to bring us R. I’d like to offer an idea and I’m wondering if people are interested in ral... [Read more...]

Or… How to push oneself down the rabbit hole of environments, namespaces, exports, imports, frames, enclosures, parents, and function evaluation? Motivation There are a few reasons to bother reading this post: Rabbit hole avoida... [Read more...]