Publications by Tal Galili

R 3.2.1 is released

19.06.2015

R 3.2.1 (codename “World-Famous Astronaut”) was released yesterday. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). The full list of new features and bug fixes is provided below. Upgrading to R 3.2.1 on Windows If you are using Windows you can easily upgrade to the latest version of R using the...

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12 new R jobs (2015-06-22) – from @California to @Nottingham

21.06.2015

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-06-22) 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 visi...

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Setting Rstudio server using Amazon Web Services (AWS) – a step by step (screenshots) tutorial

24.06.2015

(this is a guest post by Liad Shekel) Amazon Web Services (AWS) include many different computational tools, ranging from storage systems and virtual servers to databases and analytical tools. For us R-programmers, being familiar and experienced with these tools can be extremely beneficial in terms of efficiency, style, money-saving and more. In t...

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dendextend version 1.0.1 + useR!2015 presentation

28.06.2015

My R package dendextend (version 1.0.1) is now on CRAN! The dendextend package Offers a set of functions for extending dendrogram objects in R, letting you visualize and compare trees of hierarchical clusterings. With it you can (1) Adjust a tree’s graphical parameters – the color, size, type, etc of its branches, nodes and labels. (2) Visual...

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8 new R jobs (2015-07-06) – from @Virginia to @Paris

06.07.2015

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-07-06) 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 visi...

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Time series outlier detection (a simple R function)

08.07.2015

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] (By Andrea Venturini) Imagine you have a lot of time series – they may be short ones – related to a lot of different measures and very little time to find outliers. You need something not too sophisticated to solve quickly the mess. This is – very shortly speaking – the typ...

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19 new R jobs! (from R-users.com ; 2015-07-21)

21.07.2015

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-07-21) 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 visi...

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11 new R jobs (from R-users.com ; 2015-08-04)

03.08.2015

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-08-04) 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 visi...

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dendextend: a package for visualizing, adjusting, and comparing dendrograms (based on a paper from “bioinformatics”)

04.08.2015

This post on the dendextend package is based on my recent paper from the journal bioinformatics (a link to a stable DOI). The paper was published just last week, and since it is released as CC-BY, I am permitted (and delighted) to republish it here in full: abstract Summary: dendextend is an R package for creating and comparing visually appe...

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Slides from my JSM 2015 talk on dendextend

08.08.2015

If you happen to be at the JSM 2015 conference this week, then this Monday, at 2pm, I will give a talk on the dendextend R package  (in the session “Advances in Graphical Frameworks and Methods Part 1“) – feel free to drop by and say hi. Here are my slides for the intended talk: jsm2015: the dendextend R package from Tal...

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