Publications by Tal Galili
WP-CodeBox: A better R syntax highlighter plugin for WordPress
About 10 months ago, I was looking for a plugin to enable me to highlight R code on my self hosted WordPress blog. The solution I came up with then was to use the wp-syntax plugin (with the need for some modifications).Today I was informed of (what I believe is) a better WordPress plugin for R syntax highlighting called WP-CodeBox. This plugin ...
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R-bloggers for other languages – wanna join?
Hello everyone. Recently I’ve been toying with the idea of extending R-bloggers to other languages then English. After running some checks, I believe it is possible to do (under a sub website inside R-bloggers.com), where people would be able to follow R content on a “language category” of their choosing. Such a project could help map...
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R GUI now offers interactive graphics – Deducer 0.4-2 connects with iplots
Earlier today, Ian Fwllows has announced the release of Deducer 0.4-2 and DeducerExtras 1.2 to CRAN (I copy his announcement here): Deducer 0.4-2 contains a few bug fixes, and an interface to the iplots package. With the new iplots interface it is now possible to do interactive plots with Deducer. An introductory example screen cast (by Ian) is ...
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Know any R blogs in your own language?
A happy announcement Hello everyone. After playing around with the idea of extending R-bloggers to languages other then English, today I went a head and did it. The new sub-site can be found at: http://www.r-bloggers.com/lang/ So far it offers the content of only 3 4 bloggers, writing posts about R in Indonesian, Italian, Dutch and Kore...
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New edition of “R Companion to Applied Regression” – by John Fox and Sandy Weisberg
Just two hours ago, Professor John Fox has announced on the R-help mailing list of a new (second) edition to his book “An R and S Plus Companion to Applied Regression”, now title . “An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition”.John Fox is (very) well known in the R community for many contributions to R, including the car package ...
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The R Journal, Vol.2 Issue 2 is out
The second issue of the second volume of The R Journal is now available . Download complete issue Refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links below. [Bibliography of refereed articles] Table of Contents Editorial 3 Contributed Research Articles Solving Differential Equations in R Karline Soetaert, Thomas Petzoldt and R. W...
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R-bloggers in 2010: Top 14 R posts, site statistics and invitation for sponsors
A year ago (on December 9th 2009), I wrote about founding R-bloggers.com, an (unofficial) online R journal written by bloggers who agreed to contribute their R articles to the site. In this post I wish to celebrate R-bloggers’ first birthday by sharing with you: Links to the top 14 posts of 2010 Reflections about the origin of R-bloggers S...
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Call for proposals for writing a book about R (via Chapman & Hall/CRC)
Rob Calver wrote an interesting invitation on the R mailing list today, inviting potential authors to submit their vision of the next great book about R. The announcement originated from the Chapman & Hall/CRC publishing houses, backed up by an impressive team of R celebrities, chosen as the editors of this new R books series, including: John M...
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ZurichR and GenevaR – two new R user groups
Mango Solutions are pleased to announce their sponsorship of two new R user groups – ZurichR and GenevaR. Similar to our well established LondonR (www.londonr.org) and BaselR (www.baselr.org) groups, these free, informal meetings will be open to all R users and followers and will include some interesting presentations as well...
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How to label all the outliers in a boxplot
In this post I present a function that helps to label outlier observations When plotting a boxplot using R. An outlier is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. When reviewing a boxplot, an outlier is defined as a data point that is located outside the fences (“whiskers”) of the boxplot (e.g: outside 1.5 times ...
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