In 2012, we presented a post showing how to run RStudio in the cloud on an Amazon server. There were 7 steps, including one with 7 sub-steps, one of which had 6 sub-sub-steps. It was still pretty easy, for what it was-- an effectively free computer i...
In many cases Word is still the preferred file format for collaboration in the office. Yet, it is often a challenge to work with it, not so much because of the software, but how it is used and abused. Thanks to Markdown it is no longer painful to inclu...
The slides for my ECVP tutorial on classification images are available here. Try this alternative version if the equations look funny. (image from Mineault et al. 2009) The slides are in HTML and contain some interactive elements. They’re the result of experimenting with R Markdown, D3 and pandoc. You write the slides in R Markdown, […]
I’m very pleased to announce the release of reports : An R package to assist in the workflow of writing academic articles and other reports. This is the first CRAN release of reports: http://cran.r-project.orgreports/index.html The reports package assists in writing … Continue reading →
At a meeting last night with some collaborators at the Vélobstacles project, I was excitedly told about the magic of IPython and it’s notebook functionality for reproducible research. This sounds familiar, I thought to myself. Using a literate programming approach to integrate computation with the communication of methodology and results has been at the core […]
After last week's kerfuffle I hope the roll out of googleVis version 0.3.2 will be smooth. To test the water I release this version into the wild here and if it doesn't get shot down in the next days, then I shall try to upload it to CRAN. I am...
Not necessarily statistics related, but pretty appropriate now that the school year is starting. Here is a little introduction to “how to google” (via Andrew J.). Being able to “just google it” and find answers for oneself with...
Thursday, June 28th, 2012 19h. <– new evening time! Tomson House: 650 McTavish, H3A 1Y2, Montréal, QC <– new social setting! guRu: Ramnath Vaidyanathan (McGill University) Ramnath Vaidyanathan will introduce the group to slidify, his brand new R package. From the slidify website: “The objective of slidify is to make it easy to create reproducible
