Publications by Tal Galili
R 3.0.0 is released! (what’s new, and how to upgrade)
A few hours ago Peter Dalgaard (of R Core Team) announced the release of R 3.0.0! Bellow you can read the changes in this release. One of the features worth noticing is the introduction of long vectors to R 3.0.0. As David Smith recently wrote: Although many people won’t notice the difference, the introduction of long vectors to R is in ...
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Intro R training from RStudio: NYC May 13-14, SF May 20-21 (and discounts)
At RStudio, we’re hosting our Introduction to R Workshop this May in two locations. As an R-help subscriber, we’re offering 10% off! Intro to data science with R (http://goo.gl/bplg3) May 13-14 New York City Intro to data science with R (http://goo.gl/VCUFL) May 20-21 San Francisco Bay Area What will you learn? Practica...
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Bioconductor looking for Google Summer of Code Applicants
Aannounced: the 177 mentoring organizations accepted for 2013’s Google Summer of Code program. We’re proud that Bioconductor is one the organizations chosen. Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends (USD$5000) to write code for open source projects. We’ve proposed three ideas. Students may also pro...
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R 3.0.1 is released
R 3.0.1 (codename “Good Sport”) was released last week. As mentioned earlier by David, this version improves serialization performance with big objects, improves reliability for parallel programming and fixes a few minor bugs. Upgrading to R 3.0.1 You can download the latest version from here. Or, if you are using windows, you can upgrade to ...
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Log Transformations for Skewed and Wide Distributions
This is a guest article by Nina Zumel and John Mount, authors of the new book Practical Data Science with R. For readers of this blog, there is a 50% discount off the “Practical Data Science with R” book, simply by using the code pdswrblo when reaching checkout (until the 30th this month). Here is the post: Normalizing data by mean...
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Answering “How many people use my R package?”
The question “How many people use my R package?” is a natural question that (I imagine) every R package developer asks himself at some point or another. After many years in the dark, a silver lining has now emerged thanks to the good people at RStudio. Just yesterday, a blog post by Hadley Wickham was written about the newly released CRAN log...
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Top 100 R packages for 2013 (Jan-May)!
What are the top 100 (most downloaded) R packages in 2013? Thanks to the recent release of RStudio of their “0-cloud” CRAN log files (but without including downloads from the primary CRAN mirror or any of the 88 other CRAN mirrors), we can now answer this question (at least for the months of Jan till May)!By relying on the nice code that�...
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Huge interest in next LondonR user group meeting
The next LondonR meeting takes place on the 16 July and registrations have already exceeded 200. Presentations at the meeting will be made by Rich Pugh of Mango Solutions, Andrie de Vries of Revolution Analytics and Hadley Wickham of RStudio. All places for a pre-meeting workshop with Hadley Wickham were snapped up within 2 day...
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Subscribing to updates from R-bloggers.com
Tomorrow (July 1, 2013), Google Reader will retire. I can imagine the shock this will be for the 5,821 followers of this site who uses Google Reader in order to followup on news and tutorials from the global R world. If you are have considering a more committed relationship with this site and didn’t know what to do – this post is...
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Maximum Entropy Bootstrap Rescale and Symmetrize
Guest post by Hrishikesh D. Vinod* (∗Professor of Economics, Fordham University, New York, E-mail: [email protected]. June 25, 2013) Complete paper with R code freely available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2285041 R code for changing scale without changing mean or to make a probability distribution symmetric. These are c...
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