Publications by Tal Galili
Upcoming Statistics.com courses on the use of R (all online)
Guest post: Statistics.com is offering a list of courses about R from some of the leading experts in their fields. They offer a $200 discount for anyone who orders any 3 courses from them at one time. Here is the list of R specific courses (with links): Feb 10: Introduction to R – Data Handling (http://bit.ly/z9k0vk) taugh...
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ggplot2 0.9.0 released
This announcement was made by Hadley Wickham in the [R-pkgs] mailing list. ———————- # ggplot2 ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details that make plotting ...
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Do more with dates and times in R with lubridate 1.1.0
This is a guest post by Garrett Grolemund (mentored by Hadley Wickham) Lubridate is an R package that makes it easier to work with dates and times. The newest release of lubridate (v 1.1.0) comes with even more tools and some significant changes over past versions. Below is a concise tour of some of the things lubridate can do for you. At the end...
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Survey in R course taught by Thomas Lumley at Statistics.com
Statistics.com is offering a new online course, “Survey Analysis in R,” debuts March 23 – April 20, with Dr. Thomas Lumley. Dr. Lumley is the creator of the R package “Survey,” and the author of the course text – “Complex Surveys: A Guide to Analysis Using R.” The course is suitable for those with some familiarity wi...
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Google summer of code 2012 – and R – a call for students
Google has again accepted R as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. R has successfully participated in GSoC in multiple previous years, and is excited to be returning this year as a mentoring organization. In a nutshell: If you are a student looking to write some code for the R community, Google is willing to pay you $5000 for...
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useR!2012 – student’s scholarship for attending the conference
Good news for students wishing to attend the annual useR conference (useR!2012). Through generous sponsor support (ASA, and RStudio), a limited number of student scholarships1 are available for reimbursement of travel and registration costs up to $500. The allocation will be based on merit and need. Students who wish to apply shou...
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R 2.15.0 is released
Bellow is the announcement made by Peter Dalgaard: The build system rolled up R-2.15.0.tar.gz (codename “Easter Beagle”) at 9:00 this morning. This is the first release of the 2.15 series and contains several new features and changes; see the list below for details. You can get the source code from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-...
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Speed up your R code using a just-in-time (JIT) compiler
This post is about speeding up your R code using the JIT (just in time) compilation capabilities offered by the new (well, now a year old) {compiler} package. Specifically, dealing with the practical difference between enableJIT and the cmpfun functions. If you do not want to read much, you can just skip to the example part. As always, I welcome ...
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useR! 2012 – DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING!
DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING – 8th Annual International R User Conference useR! 2012, Nashville, Tennessee USA Registration Deadlines: Early Registration: Passed Regular Registration: Mar 1- May 12 Late Registration: May 13 – June 4 On-Site Registration: June 12 – June 15 Please note: Nashville is offering several large enterta...
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data.table version 1.8.1 – now allowed numeric columns and big-number (via bit64) in keys!
This is a guest post written by Branson Owen, an enthusiastic R and data.table user. Wow, a long time desired feature of data.table finally came true in version 1.8.1! data.table now allowed numeric columns and big number (via bit64) in keys! This is quite a big thing to me and I believe to many other R users too. Now I can hardly think any weak...
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