The new R 3.0.0 is out! You know the drill! Get the source code from here.
Thanks to Parco Tecnologico Padano (PTP), I was invited to speak at the first Italian Bio R Day that was held in Lodi on 30 November 2012. It was a nice opportunity to talk and listen about different aspects of R from practitioners with different backg...
What makes this book different from other books about R is stated clearly by the author Norman Matloff in the introduction: "This book is not a compendium of the myriad types of statistical methods that are available in the wonderful R package. It r...
Inspired by this tutorial, I thought that it would be nice to have the possibility to have access to weather forecast directly from the R command line, for example for a personalized start-up message such as the one below: Weather summary for Trieste,...
The new R 2.14.0 is out! Get the source code from here. Take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier. Also this thread on stackoverflow and this post contributed by Tal Galili&nbs...
A word cloud (or tag cloud) can be an handy tool when you need to highlight the most commonly cited words in a text using a quick visualization. Of course, you can use one of the several on-line services, such as wordle or tagxedo ,...
