Publications by Tal Galili
Seeking a New Maintainer for the Popular R Package installr
TL;DR I’m seeking someone to take over maintenance of the the popular R package installr (github), due to a shift away from Windows OS. The package has been downloaded over 3.3 million times and has a current download rate of around 61k times a month. The ideal candidate should have experience with Windows OS, be an experienced R developer, and b...
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How to install R 3.6.3 (NOT 4+) on Linux MINT 19.x (19.1, 19.2, 19.3)
tl;dr On Linux MINT 19.2, I was only able to properly install R 3.6.3 (but NOT R 4+) The correct repos need to be updated in at least 2 files, only then can R be installed Did I miss any tips? please leave me a comment. Background I have tried, and failed, to install R version 4+ on my Linux MINT 19.2. The following are the steps I took to remo...
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Simple visualization of a 11X5 table (for WordPress 2.9 Features Vote Results)
I guess this is not the number one post I would like to start with on this blog, but I feel the time is right for it (community-wise). I’ll move on to the subject matter in a moment, but first a short intro: This blog is written by Tal Galili. I am an aspiring statistician who also loves to use R for his work. At the same time I am also a WordP...
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R Flashmob
Today I noticed a call for R users to gather around a single campfire for one hour and share their questions and answers. The campfire name is stackoverflow.com, a site dedicated for handling programming questions. The event details are bellow: From: The R Flashmob Project Subject: R Flashmob #2 You are invited to take part in R Flashmob, the pr...
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Export Data Frames To Multi-worksheet Excel File
A few weeks ago I needed to export a number of data frames to separate worksheets in an Excel file. Although one could output csv-files from R and then import them manually or with the help of VBA into Excel, I was after a more streamlined solution, as I would need to repeat this process quite regularly in the future. CRAN has several packages th...
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Free statistics e-books for download
This post will eventually grow to hold a wide list of books on statistics (e-books, pdf books and so on) that are available for free download. But for now we’ll start off with just one several books: The Elements of Statistical Learning written by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman. you can legally download a copy of the b...
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A web application for R’s ggplot2
One of the exciting new frontiers for R programming is of creating website interfaces to R code. At the forefront of this domain is a young and (very) bright man called Jeroen Ooms, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at useR 2009 (press the link to see his presentation). Today Jeroen announced a new version (0.11) of his web interface to ggplot2...
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Announcing R-bloggers.com: a new R news site (for bloggers by bloggers)
I already wrote about R-bloggers on the R mailing list, so it only seems fitting to write about it more here. I will explain what R-bloggers is and then move to explain what I hope it will accomplish. R-Bloggers.com is a central hub of content collected from bloggers who write about R (in English) and if you are an R blogger you can join it by f...
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Animation video of rgl in action
Duncan Murdoch just posted a youtube video presenting an animation clip of a 3d rgl object. Duncan even went further and wrote an explanation on how he made the video: here are the steps I used: 1. Design a shape to be displayed, and then play with the animation functions to make it change over time. Use play3d to do it live in R, movie3d ...
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Updates about R-bloggers, a Happy new year, and one request
Hello dear reader of R-bloggers, I am excited to inform you that R-bloggers has grown amazingly in the last few weeks. There are now 29 blogs participating and sharing their R related articles and tutorials with the rest of us. I didn’t even know that there where so many bloggers writing about R until now. Until now (according ...
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