It is not uncommon to see messy R code which is almost not human-readable like this: # rotation of the word "Animation" # in a loop; change the angle and color # step by step for (i in 1:360) { # redraw the plot again and again plot(1,ann=FALSE,type="n",axes=FALSE) # rotate; use ... [Read more...]

Here are some (trivial) R tips in the course Stat 511. I’ll update this post till the semester is over. Formatting R Code Reading code is pain, but the well-formatted code might alleviate the pain a little bit. The function tidy.source() in the animation package can help us format ... [Read more...]

After a few hours’ work, I modified the function tidy.source() in the animation package so that it can preserve complete comment lines. See the tidy.source() wiki page for example. tidy.source [Read more...]