These days one can frequently read about wordclouds created with R, initiated by the release of the wordcloud package by Ian Fellows on July 23rd. So here I am to put in my two cents. I thought about creating a wordcloud of a complete blog history, so I build a ... [Read more...]

Complicated calculations usually take a lot of time. So how to know the progress status to estimate how much time the program still needs to finish? [Read more...]

There is a nice R module for apache: rApache. So you can easily publish statistics. [Read more...]

Today I played a bit with JRI as part of rJava, a Java-R-interface. Here you can learn how to setup for Debian/Ubuntu/akins. [Read more...]

I have bad news for those of you trying to produce lucid code! [Read more...]

Just found a very nice plugin for using R in Vim. It's unbelievable comfortable! [Read more...]

Just wanted to create an expression, existing of some mathematical annotation and a value of an R object. Wasn't that intuitive! [Read more...]

I recently got very close to the floating point trap, again, so here is a little tribute with some small examples! [Read more...]

Welcome to my new category: ShortCut! Here I'll shortly explain some smart features, unknown extensions or uncommon pathways of going for gold. Today it's about the Gnu R tool locator. [Read more...]