Publications by Tal Galili
Support Vector Machines in R (a course by Lutz Hamel)
Support vector machines (SVM’s) are the “big iron” of the data mining world, especially suited for extreme data intensive tasks like image classification, biosequence processing, handwriting recognition, etc. Dr. Lutz Hamel, author of “Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector Machines”, presents his online course “Introducti...
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New features in R-bloggers.com
Hello dear R community, In the past few months I have rolled out a bunch of new features to R-bloggers, and I wanted to raise awareness to them. Please consider giving some of these a try and leave me any feedback that you have (by leaving a comment on this post): Comments – it is now possible to leave comments in posts on R-...
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The present and future of the R blogosphere (~7 minute video from useR2011)
This is (roughly) the lightning talk I gave in useR2011. If you are a reader of R-bloggers.com then this talk is not likely to tell you anything new. However, if you have a friend, college or student who is a new useRs of R, this talk will offer him a decent introduction to what the R blogosphere is all about. The talk is a call for people of ...
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Diagram for a Bernoulli process (using R)
A Bernoulli process is a sequence of Bernoulli trials (the realization of n binary random variables), taking two values (0/1, Heads/Tails, Boy/Girl, etc…). It is often used in teaching introductory probability/statistics classes about the binomial distribution. When visualizing a Bernoulli process, it is common to use a binary tree diagram in ...
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Call for Proposals for The R Series from Chapman & Hall/CRC
(This is a guest post based on Calver, Rob e-mail to the R-help mailing list) We are delighted to announce that our new series of books on R is up and running, with two books already published and another nine forthcoming (including three set to publish in 2012). We are keen to receive proposals for books covering all aspects of the...
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UseR! 2011 slides and videos – on one page
I was recently reminded that the wonderful team at warwick University made sure to put online many of the slides (and some videos) of talks from the recent useR 2011 conference. You can browse through the talks by going between the timetables (where it will be the most updated, if more slides will be added later), but I thought it might be m...
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data.frame objects in R (via “R in Action”)
The followings introductory post is intended for new users of R. It deals with R data frames: what they are, and how to create, view, and update them. This is a guest article by Dr. Robert I. Kabacoff, the founder of (one of) the first online R tutorials websites: Quick-R. Kabacoff has recently published the book ”R in Action“, providin...
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The R Journal (Volume 3/2, December 2011) is out
The new R journal for December 2011 is out! You can Download the complete issue from here, while refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links below: Table of Contents Editorial 3 Contributed Research Articles Creating and Deploying an Application with (R)Excel and R Thomas Baier, Erich Neuwirth and Michel...
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R 2.14.1 is released
Peter Dalgaard announced today the release of the new R version 2.14.1. Bellow is the announcement. For R users who are using windows, I suggest to also have a look at one of the following two posts, suggestion an alternative strategy for how to more easily upgrade R under Windows XP, or under windows 7 (which tends to have more permission i...
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Call for Abstracts for useR! 2012
The international R User Conference useR! 2012 will be held June 12-15 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with a pre-conference full-day course offered on June 11. Participants are encouraged to submit a one-page abstract for oral or poster presentation at the conference. Half-day tutorials will be held in the mor...
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