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• Learn to use R for FREE with Coursera
  Coursera is offering free courses about R among other interesting subjects. The first one on the application of R in financial econometrics is happening this week (but you can still enroll). There are two more courses starting in January 2013 are more about using R to analyse the data. The differences between the two are […]
• Rcpp 0.10.2
  Relase 0.10.2 of Rcpp provides the second update to the 0.10.* series, and has arrived on CRAN and in Debian. It brings another great set of enhancements and extensions, building on the recent 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 releases. The new Rcpp attributes we... […]
• R for inquisition
  A post on high-dimensional arrays by @isomorphisms reminded me of APL and, more generally, of matrix languages, which took me back to inquisitive computing: computing not in the sense of software engineering, or databases, or formats, but of learning by … Continue reading → […]
• Create optical illusions with R
  I love optical illusions (like this and this and these), not just because they're fun, but also beca... […]
• A simple web application using Rook
  by Ben Ogorek I'm grateful to Rook for helping me, a simple statistician, learn a few fundamentals of web technology. For R web application development, there are increasingly polished methods available (most notably Shiny [1]), but you can build one using Rook, and you might just learn something if you do. Jeffrey Horner's Rook [2] is both a web s […]
• Computing an empirical pFDR in R
  The positive false discovery rate (pFDR) a classic and most of the seasoned statisticians and useRs certainly know how to implement this test but I was recently surprised the by the struggle some new users go through implementing it. Either because the... […]
• Beautiful network diagrams with ggplot2
  I don’t usually like describing my own work as “beautiful,” but with your permission I will make an exception today. There have been some requests for scripts illustrating the plotting of network diagrams with ggplot2, and today (for... […]
• Y2K38: Our Own Mayan Calendar…Again
  It’s not quite the end of the world as we know it.  We made it through December 21, 2012 unscathed. It’s not going to be the last time we will make it through such a pseudo-calamity.  After all we have built our own end of the world before (e.g. Y2K). Next up January 19, 2038. […]
• Italian BioR Day: leave a comment
  The Italian BioR Day took place on November 30 and almost sixty R enthusiastic joining the event! Thanks to all the participants and a special thanks to the speakers who shared their knowledge with us and to the Parco Tecnologico … Continue reading → […]
• Visualising Tourism Data using R with googleVis package
  Inspired by Mages’s post on Accessing and plotting World bank data with R (using googleVis package), I created one visualising tourism receipts and international tourist  arrivals of various countries since 1995. The data used are from the World Bank’s country indicators. To see the motion chart, double click a picture below.  Code Filed under: R, Tourism […]