Publications by Tal Galili
The new GUI for ggplot2 (using Deducer) – the designer wants your opinion
After discovering that R is expected (this summer) to have a GUI for ggplot2 (through deducer), I later found Ian’s gsoc proposal for this GUI. Since the system is in it’s early stages of development, Ian has invited people to give comments, input and critique on his plans for the project. For your convenience (and with Ian’s permission),...
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Exporting R output to MS-Word with R2wd (an example session)
Creating reports is one of the basic tasks in data analysis. R provides numerous functions and packages to export it’s (beautiful) output and help compile it into a report. In this post I will present one such (basic) solution for Windows OS users for exporting R output into Microsoft Word using the R2wd (package). There are more ways and str...
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useR-2010 is looking for a T-shirt design
Katharine Mullen has just published on the R mailing list a call for designeRs who might be willing to design a T-shirt aRt design for the shirt that will be given in useR 2010. I consider such contests as one of those good-for-the-community things, and hope regular useRs, R bloggers, and companies that are based on R – will consider spreading...
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Helping the blind use R – by exporting R console to Word
Preface – R seems a natural fit for the blind statistician For blind people who wish to do statistics, R can be ideal. R command line interface offers straight forward statistical scripting in the form of question (what is the mean of x) followed by an answer (0.2). That is, instead of point-and-click dialog boxes with jumping windows of resu...
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Syncing files across computers using DropBox
Motivation In the past few months I have been using DropBox for syncing my work files between my home and work computer. It has saved me from numerous mistakes and from sending the files to myself via e-mail. Recently I found this service highly useful for sharing files with 4 other people with whom I am working on a data analysis project. Bein...
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Could we run a statistical analysis on iPhone/iPad using R?
Imprtent update to the post (17.07.10) I now came across David smith’s post on the REvolution blog, pointing to instruction on the R wiki for how to install R on the iPhone! I didn’t try it myself since it both requires jailbreaking the iPhone, and I don’t have an iPhone. But it is still interesting to know of. Preface – I don’t use Ma...
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June 20, online Registration deadline for useR! 2010
useR!2010 is coming. I am going to give two talks there (I will write more of that soon), but in the meantime, please note that the online registration deadline is coming to an end. This was published on the R-help mailing list today: ————- The final registration deadline for the R User Conference is June 20, 2010, one week away. Later ...
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Clustergram: visualization and diagnostics for cluster analysis (R code)
About Clustergrams In 2002, Matthias Schonlau published in “The Stata Journal” an article named “The Clustergram: A graph for visualizing hierarchical and . As explained in the abstract: In hierarchical cluster analysis dendrogram graphs are used to visualize how clusters are formed. I propose an alternative graph named “clustergram” t...
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A new Q&A website for Data-Analysis (based on StackOverFlow engine) – is waiting for you
The bottom line of this post is for you to go to: Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Statistical Analysis And commit yourself to using the website for asking and answering questions. If you are looking for the reasons to do so – read on… What is the StackOverFlow Q&A website about? StackOverFlow.com (“SO” for short) is a programming ...
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ggplot2 GUI progress
(Written by Ian Fellows) Below is a link to the first of a weekly (or bi-weekly) screen-cast vlog of my progress building a GUI for the ggplot2 package. http://neolab.stat.ucla.edu/cranstats/gsoc_vlog1.mov comments and suggestions are more than welcome, and can e-mailed to me at: [email protected] Related To leave a comment for the author, pl...
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