Publications by awaiting assimilation
Almost There
It’s been a long wait, but it’s almost over… Ever felt like you started a term paper over and over? Never really getting the mojo to finish it? That’s how I felt creating an ubuntu package for rApache. They should be available in a few hours on launchpad.net, i386 and amd64 at least. Here’s the sources.list entries: deb http://ppa.launc...
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Google, The Brew’s On Me
While drinking these fine liquids may up your trip count to the john, they can also make your R reports better. Not because they allow you to reach your Ballmer Peak… but because each of these elixers is the direct result of brewing. Okay, I’m reaching. Brew is my own clever name for my very own clever R package that allows the lucky user to...
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In The Wild: rApache 1.1.13 in Ubuntu and Source
I rolled a new released eight days ago, but tumblr was down and I forgot to post. Then yesterday I remembered again, but then tumblr was down again. Doh! You can get rApache 1.1.13 from here in source form or learn about how to get it here in binary form for Ubuntu lucid. For those of you who have previously installed the binary package, note tha...
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Rearranging the office to find a fresh perspective. Hasn’t…
Rearranging the office to find a fresh perspective. Hasn’t been done in seven years. I feel better already. Gonna hang some pictures. Gonna set some goals. I’m not afraid to fail. Saw “True Grit” last night. I liked it. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: awaiting assimilation. ...
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In The Wild: rApache 1.1.14 Released
Don’t be scared. Really. It’s just another minor release. After working with one of the venerable developers at metamx, it was discovered that rApache would crash when invoking the .Call functions outside the context of a web request. Get the source here and Ubuntu Lucid binaries here. Also updated the rApache website. Related To leave a co...
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John Chambers, the inventor of S, added reference classes to R…
John Chambers, the inventor of S, added reference classes to R 2.12, and oh boy are they fun to look at! What you see in the picture above is a “Hello World” web application for R. It’s written using the Rack R package (not unlike Ruby’s Rack). If you’re interested in hearing more about it, come to the useR New York meetup on March 1...
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Look at that! I dethroned Hadley in the “Most Watched…
Look at that! I dethroned Hadley in the “Most Watched [repository] This Week” list on github.com. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: awaiting assimilation. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if yo...
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R Still On Top
According to the Google Ngram corpus, R is still the top rated statistical software package. Ok, I’m just kidding. That plot is worthless. All the data are from books published between the years 1890 and 2008, and none of those software packages would show up in books until possibly the mid to late 1990’s. For a serious comparison of statisti...
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Using rApache for Web Services
Ran across a technical report I wrote in April 2009 regarding my work linking REDCap with rApache. Here’s the introductory text and a link to the original report (note that way back then I was calling it Rapache – now it’s rApache – don’t ask): “R is fast becoming the language of choice for statistical computing, and researchers are ...
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Rook shipped to CRAN
I sometimes feel like this picture: alone, left with just my thoughts and a little light to illuminate my work. For my daughter pictured above on the stool, her work is a pen and ink drawing. For me, it’s a finished piece of software to share with the world. There’s always a bit of melancholy felt at the end of a long project, and I guess it ...
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