Publications by Tal Galili

Package JM — version 1.0-0

10.07.2012

(by Dimitris Rizopoulos) Dear R-users, I’d like to announce the release of version 1.0-0 of package JM (already available from CRAN) for the joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data using shared parameter models. These models are applicable in mainly two settings. First, when focus is in the survival outcome and we ...

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How to load the {rJava} package after the error “JAVA_HOME cannot be determined from the Registry”

07.08.2012

In case you tried loading a package that depends on the {rJava} package (by Simon Urbanek), you might came across the following error: Loading required package: rJava library(rJava) Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for ‘rJava’, details: call: fun(libname, pkgname) error: JAVA_HOME cannot be determined from the Registry The error tell...

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BaselR meetup

06.09.2012

Mango Solutions host BaselR, a free, open and informal R user group for those using or interested in using R. There will be a few short R related presentations and an opportunity to meet and chat with other R users over a drink. Date: Thursday 13th September at 6.30pm. Venue : transBarent, Viaduktstrasse 3, Basel (by the train stati...

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Using R in Political Controversies: Unemployment Reduction Prowess Under Bush versus Obama Years

27.09.2012

Editor’s note: R-bloggers does not take a political side. Since this is an important topic, this post has the comments turned on. Also, If you wish to write a reply post (which includes an R context), you are welcome to contact me to have it published. This post was written by Prof. H. D. Vinod. Fordham University, New York. A Chicago prof...

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Up and Coming R User Group meetings

19.10.2012

Mango Solutions are pleased to announce the forthcoming R user Group meetings that they will be hosting or participating in.  To attend, please see the registration information on the relevant websites: 1.       GreatBoston useR Group      (http://www.meetup.com/Boston-useR/ )Date:                     Tuesday 23rd O...

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Upcoming R training by Hadley Wickham: SF Dec 3-4, DC Dec 10-11

01.11.2012

(By Hadley Wickham) Hi all, I’d like to let you know about four R training courses that RStudio will be offering in December: * Effective data visualization (http://bit.ly/TY2ONI) Dec 3. San Francisco, CA * Reports and reproducible research (http://bit.ly/RsZmYr) Dec 4. San Francisco, CA * Advanced R programming (http://...

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Which functions in plyr do people use?

02.11.2012

This is the question that Hadley Wickham recently set out to discovering by asking frequent R and plyr users how they use it in an online survey. Once a decent number of people have responded, Hadley quickly went forward and produced a short analysis of the plyr usage survey, and published it in RPubs.  With his permission, I am re-...

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Comparing Shiny with gWidgetsWWW2.rapache

12.11.2012

(A guest post by John Verzani) A few days back the RStudio blog announced Shiny, a new product for easily creating interactive web applications (http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/). I wanted to compare this new framework to one I’ve worked on, gWidgetsWWW2.rapache – a version of the gWidgets API for use with Jeffrey Horner’s rapache module f...

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The R journal – Volume 4/2, December 2012

16.12.2012

Download complete issue Refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links below. [Bibliography of refereed articles] Table of Contents Editorial 3 Contributed Research Articles What’s in a Name? Paul Murrell 5 It’s Not What You Draw,It’s What You Don’t Draw Paul Murrell 13 Debugging grid Graphics Paul Murr...

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Four new Certificate Program for R users at Statistics.com

18.12.2012

Statistics.com Launches 4 Certificate Programs The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com (http://www.statistics.com), a pioneer* in online learning since 2002, announced today the launch of four online certificate programs plus an interactive planning tool that helps prospective students plan and schedule courses. The Institute off...

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