Publications by Tal Galili
R 3.2.2 is released
R 3.2.2 (codename “Fire Safety”) was released last weekend. 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. SOME OF THE CHANGES I personally found two things particularly interesting in this release: setInternet2(TRUE...
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3 new R jobs (from R-users.com ; 2015-08-17)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-08-17) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: you may 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 ...
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labels.dendrogram in R 3.2.2 can be ~70 times faster (for trees with 1000 labels)
The recent release of R 3.2.2 came with a small (but highly valuable) improvement to the stats:::labels.dendrogram function. When working with dendrograms with (say) 1000 labels, the new function offers a 70 times speed improvement over the version of the function from R 3.2.1. This speedup is even better than the Rcpp version of labels.dendrogra...
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16 new R jobs (from R-users.com ; 2015-08-31)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-left”] This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-08-31) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: you may 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 (...
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5% Discount for the Open Data Science conference (@San Francisco / November 14th & 15th)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] (Guest post by the organizers of the Open Data Science conference) The Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) in Boston earlier this year had over 1300 attendees, 70 talks, and 20 workshops. Max Kuhn, author of six R packages, discussed The Development Process of the Caret Package. R...
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4 new R jobs (from R-users.com ; 2015-09-21)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bimonthly post (for 2015-09-21) for new R Jobs from R-users.com. Employers: you may 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 ...
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11 new R jobs (2015-10-05)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bi-monthly R-bloggers post (for 2015-10-05) for new R Jobs. To get your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). New R jobs Job seekers: please follow the links below to learn more and apply f...
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20 (!) new R jobs (for 2015-10-21)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bi-monthly R-bloggers post (for 2015-10-21) for new R Jobs. To get your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). New R jobs Job seekers: please follow the links below to learn more and apply f...
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11 (new) R jobs from around the world (for 2015-11-02)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is the bi-monthly R-bloggers post (for 2015-11-02) for new R Jobs. To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community (it’s free and quick). New R jobs Job seekers: please follow the links below to learn more and apply...
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‘inegiR’ – an R package for Mexican official statistics
(guest post by Eduardo Flores) Introduction For anyone interested in using data from INEGI (the official statistics agency of Mexico), it was sometimes a hasle to look-up all the information in their BIE data base. Of course, their interface is useful for users who need some data series fast because of the export to excel functions. But for use...
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