Publications by Tal Galili
Cascading style sheets for R plots (via the Rcssplot package)
This post is contributed by Tomasz Konopka. Comments are welcome. [email protected] One of the great features of R is its capable graphics framework. In principle, the framework allows us to customize all aspects of the visual presentation of data. In practice, however, customization is rather tedious. For example, R’s own boxplot function h...
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Discount for the Open Data Science conference (@Boston / May 30th)
This year’s Open Data Science conference takes place in Boston on May 30th and 31st at the Boston Convention Center. The conference features over 21 workshops and 72 presentations on the open source languages, tools, and topics around data science. R features prominently. The conference gives you the chance to hear from R contrib...
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Doing quantitative archaeology with open source software
(This is a guest post by Ben Marwick, originally published on ATOR blog) This short post is written for archaeologists who frequently perform common data analysis and visualization tasks in Excel, SPSS or similar commercial packages. It was motivated by my recent observations at the Society of American Archaeology meeting in San Francisco – t...
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8 new R jobs (2015-04-27)
This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-04-13) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: visit this link to post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). Job seekers: please follow the links below to learn more and apply for your job of interest (or visit previous R jobs posts). Full-TimeSenior Data Analyst – Online Ad...
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useR! 2015 conference in Aalborg
The annual R conference bringing together users and developers from academia and industry is going to be held in Aalborg, Denmark, this summer, 1-3 July. The day prior to the conference 16 R tutorials are offered free of charge to the participants. The list of topics include dplyr, Tessera, Bioconductor, Grid graphics and RHadoop. In additi...
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7 new R jobs (2015-05-11)
This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-05-11) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: visit this link to post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). Job seekers: please follow the links below to learn more and apply for your job of interest (or visit previous R jobs posts). Full-TimeResearch & Analy...
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The R Foundation announces new mailing list ‘R-package-devel’
At last week’s monthly meeting, the R foundation has decided to create a new mailing list in order to help R package authors in their package development and testing. The idea is that some experienced R programmers (often those currently helping on R-devel or also R-help) will help package authors and thus unload some of the bu...
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8 new R jobs (2015-05-27)
This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-05-27) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: visit this link to post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). Job seekers: please follow the links below to learn more and apply for your job of interest (or visit previous R jobs posts). Full-TimeBI Data Analyst ...
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17 new R jobs (2015-06-08) – from @NewYork to @London
This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-06-08) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: visit this link to post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). Job seekers: please follow the links below to learn more and apply for your job of interest (or visit previous R jobs posts). FreelanceData scientist (...
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A step by step (screenshots) tutorial for upgrading R on Windows
tl;dr If you are running R on Windows you can easily upgrade to the latest version of R using the installr package. Simply run the following code: # installing/loading the latest installr package: install.packages("installr"); library(installr) # install+load installr updateR() # updating R. Running “updateR()” will detect if there is a new...
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