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I just noticed a google buzz from Jeroen ooms, with a Youtube video titled “RApache Hello World + POST arguments + catching errors.” In this ~7 min video tutorial, Jeroen shares with us: How to write ”Hello World” in a website using RApache. How to extract arguments from a form submited by the ... [Read more...]

Download link for WP-Syntax plugin (with GeSHi version 1.0.8.6) In case you have a self hosted Wordpress blog, and you wish to show your R code in it, how would you do it? The simplest solution would be to just paste the code as plain text, which will look like this: ... [Read more...]

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Here is a HD version of a video tutorial on web development with R, a lecture that was given by Jeroen Ooms (the guy who made A web application for R’s ggplot2). This talk was given at the Bay Area UseR Group meeting on R-Powered Web Apps. You can ... [Read more...]

Duncan Murdoch just posted a youtube video presenting an animation clip of a 3d rgl object. Duncan even went further and wrote an explanation on how he made the video: here are the steps I used: 1.  Design a shape to be displayed, and then play with the animation functions to ... [Read more...]

I already wrote about R-bloggers on the R mailing list, so it only seems fitting to write about it more here. I will explain what R-bloggers is and then move to explain what I hope it will accomplish. R-Bloggers.com is a central hub of content collected from bloggers who ... [Read more...]

One of the exciting new frontiers for R programming is of creating website interfaces to R code. At the forefront of this domain is a young and (very) bright man called Jeroen Ooms, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at useR 2009 (press the link to see his presentation). Today ... [Read more...]

This post will eventually grow to hold a wide list of books on statistics (e-books, pdf books and so on) that are available for free download.  But for now we’ll start off with just one several books: The Elements of Statistical Learning written by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and ... [Read more...]

Today I noticed a call for R users to gather around a single campfire for one hour and share their questions and answers. The campfire name is stackoverflow.com, a site dedicated for handling programming questions. The event details are bellow: From: ... [Read more...]

I guess this is not the number one post I would like to start with on this blog, but I feel the time is right for it (community-wise). I’ll move on to the subject matter in a moment, but first a short intro: This blog is written by Tal ... [Read more...]