In this repository hosted at github, the datadolph.in team is sharing all of the R codebase that it developed to analyze large quantities of data.datadolph.in team has benefited tremendously from fellow R bloggers and other open source communities and ...
R testthat unit tests with GitHub, Travis-CI continuous integration and the covr package for Coveralls code coverage. I’ve been working pretty hard on getting the ggRandomForests package wrapped up so I can work on some other projects that have as… Continue reading →
If you're doing any kind of scientific computing and not using version control, you're doing it wrong. The git version control system and GitHub, a web-based service for hosting and collaborating on git-controlled projects, have both become wildly popu...
Software Carpentry is an international collaboration backed by Mozilla and the Sloan Foundation comprising a team of volunteers that teach computational competence and basic programming skills to scientists. In addition to a suite of online lessons, ...
After nearly 4 years of developing googleVis on Google Code with SVN we decided to move to GitHub. The main reason was that Google stopped the facility of hosting pre-CRAN builds of the package for user testing. The devtools package on the other hand m...
ShinyApps.io is a new server which is currently in alpha testing to host Shiny applications. It is being designed by the RStudio team and provides some distinct features different from that of the ShinyApps.io is intended for larger applications ...
Much of the work that bioinformaticians do is munging and wrangling around massive amounts of text. While there are some "standardized" file formats (FASTQ, SAM, VCF, etc.) and some tools for manipulating them (fastx toolkit, samtools, vcftools, etc.),...
One of my favorite sources of good ideas is looking at the GitHub repositories of others and modeling my repos after the good ideas I see others doing. Here's Steve Jobs on stealing ideas: In the past few weeks I've … Continue reading →
I've written in a number of places about how GitHub can be a great place to store data. Unlike basically all other web data storage sites (many of which I really like such as Dataverse and FigShare) GitHub enables deep social data set development and f...
Update 31 January: I've folded source_GitHubData into the repmis packaged. See this post. Update 7 January 2012: I updated the internal workings of source_GitHubData so that it now relies on httr rather than RCurl. Also it is more directly descended ...
