Publications by Shige
Some Rcpp benchmarks
I ran the Fibonacci number example from the Rcpp package on a number of computers and operating systems. Here are the results:A. On my main computer (Core 2 Extreme 3.06GHz, 8 GB memory) running Ubuntu 10.04 (g++ 4.4.3): test replications elapsed relative user.self sys.self3 fibRcpp(N) 1 0.148 1.0000 ...
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R_inferno
Knowing the weakness of your tool is a shortcut toward getting really good at it. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're lo...
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R2MLwiN package
The new package R2MLwiN package bridges R and MLwinN software for multilevel analysis. From the examples provided, it looks very promising. It will be great if a command line version of MLwiN can be made available under Linux so the package can be useful to everybody. Also, it will be great if a similar package for Mplus can be develo...
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R is now the #12 most popular programming language
According to the most recent TIOBE index, R is the #12 most popular programming language. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if y...
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JASP
JASP is an interesting project. It is based on R with additional facilities and functions such as automatic table generation. There appears to be an R package that provide that functions directly to R users. Very worth checking out. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research B...
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How to use SparkR within Rstudio?
Setting up Spark and SparkR is quite easy (assume you are running v.1.4): just grab one of the pre-built binaries and unzip to a folder. There is also a shell script to start SparkR from command line. The document suggest to put the following linesSys.setenv(SPARK_HOME=”/home/shige/bin/spark”).libPaths(c(file.path(Sys.getenv(“SP...
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R Users Will Now Inevitably Become Bayesians
Good post here. I would also add that the rethinking package is a third option that helps R users to become a Bayesian. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many...
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R Users Will Now Inevitably Become Bayesians
Good post here. I would also add that the rethinking package is a third option that helps R users to become a Bayesian. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many...
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The R community is one of R’s best features
Excellent summary here. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shige's Research Blog. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job. Want to sha...
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Play with the cyphr package
The cyphr package seems to provide a good choice for small research group that shares sensitive data over internet (e.g., DropBox). I did some simple experiment myself and made sure it can actually serve my purpose.I did my experiment on two computers (using openssl): I created the test data on my Linux workstation running Manjaro the...
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