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Top 100 R packages for 2013 (Jan-May)! 13 Jun 2013 | 05:30 pm
What are the top 100 (most downloaded) R packages in 2013? Thanks to the recent release of RStudio of their “0-cloud” CRAN log files, we can now answer this question (at least for the months of Jan ti...
Answering “How many people use my R package?” 11 Jun 2013 | 10:04 pm
The question “How many people use my R package?” is a natural question that (I imagine) every R package developer asks himself at some point or another. After many years in the dark, a silver lining h...
Log Transformations for Skewed and Wide Distributions 27 May 2013 | 07:38 pm
This is a guest article by Nina Zumel and John Mount, authors of the new book Practical Data Science with R. For readers of this blog, there is a 50% discount off the “Practical Data Science with R” b...
R 3.0.1 is released 20 May 2013 | 03:37 pm
R 3.0.1 (codename “Good Sport”) was released last week. As mentioned earlier by David, this version improves serialization performance with big objects, improves reliability for parallel programming a...
R 3.0.0 is released! (what’s new, and how to upgrade) 3 Apr 2013 | 02:28 pm
A few hours ago Peter Dalgaard (of R Core Team) announced the release of R 3.0.0! Bellow you can read the changes in this release. One of the features worth noticing is the introduction of long vecto...
Updating R (on Windows) through a menu-bar: installr 0.9 released on CRAN 1 Apr 2013 | 02:06 pm
In preparation for the upcoming release of R 3.0.0, a new release 0.9 of installr is now on CRAN. The package can be installed and loaded using: # installing/loading the package: if(!require(installr)...
Writing a MS-Word document using R (with as little overhead as possible) 24 Mar 2013 | 06:52 pm
The problem: producing a Word (.docx) file of a statistical report created in R, with as little overhead as possible. The solution: combining R+knitr+rmarkdown+pander+pandoc (it is easier than it is s...
Updating R from R (on Windows) – using the {installr} package 5 Mar 2013 | 09:37 am
Upgrading R on Windows is not easy. While the R FAQ offer guidelines, some users may prefer to simply run a command in order to upgrade their R to the latest version. That is what the new {installr} p...
Installing Pandoc from R (on Windows) 27 Feb 2013 | 01:19 pm
The R blogger Rolf Fredheim has recently wrote a great piece called “Reproducible research with R, Knitr, Pandoc and Word“, where he advocates for Pandoc as an essential part of reproducible research ...
{stargazer} package for beautiful LaTeX tables from R statistical models output 14 Jan 2013 | 08:11 am
stargazer is a new R package that creates LaTeX code for well-formatted regression tables, with multiple models side-by-side, as well as for summary statistics tables. Its latest version, released in ...
