Publications by romain francois
R capable version of ant
ant is an amazing build tool. I have been using ant for some time to build the java code that lives inside the src directories of my R packages, see this post for example. The drawbacks of this approach are : that it assumes ant is available on the system that builds the package You cannot use R code within the ant build script The ant packag...
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update on the ant package
I have updated the ant package I described yesterday in this blog to add several things Now the R code related to and tasks can either be given as the code attribute or as the text inside the task The R code has access to special variables to manipulate the current project (project) and the current task (self) which can be used to set properti...
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new R package : ant
The ant package has been released to CRAN yesterday. As discussed in previous posts in this blog (here and here), the ant R package provides an R-aware version of the ant build tool from the apache project. The package contains an R script that can be used to invoke ant with enough plumbing so that it can use R code during the build process. Cal...
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search the graph gallery from R
This is a short code snippet that is motivated by this thread on r-help yesterday. The gallery contains a search engine textbox (top-right) that can be used to search for content in the website using either its internal crude search engine or perform a google search restricted to the gallery. Here we write a small R function that can be used to ...
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New R package: sos
Searching help pages of contributed packages just got easier with the release of the new sos package. This is a replacement for and substantial enhancement of the existing “RSiteSearch” package. To learn more about it, try vignette(“sos”) We hope you find this as useful as we have. Spencer Graves, Sundar Dorai-Raj, Romain Francois Relat...
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RGG #158:161: examples of package IDPmisc
three new graphs have made their way to the graph gallery, submitted by Reto Burgin Image lag plot matrix Image scatter plot matrix Regular time series Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Romain Francois, Professional R Enthusiast. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R ne...
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celebrating R commit #50000
Today, Brian Ripley commited the revision 50 000 into R svn repository. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r50000 | ripley | 2009-10-09 10:34:17 +0200 (Fri, 09 Oct 2009) | 1 line Changed paths: M /branches/R-2-10-branch/src/library/stats/R/plot.lm.R port r49999 from trunk --------------------------------...
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LondonR slides
I was in london last week to present RemoteREngine at the LondonR user group sponsored by mango solutions. Apart from minor technical details and upsetting someone because I did not mention that he once presented a much simpler solution to a quite different problem, it went pretty good and people were interested in what the package can do Essent...
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new R package : highlight
I finally pushed highlight to CRAN, which should be available in a few days. The package uses the information gathered by the parser package to perform syntax highlighting of R code The main function of the package is highlight, which takes a number of argument including : file : the file in which the R code is output : some output connection or...
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ohloh
I’ve been invited me to create my account on ohloh Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Romain Francois, Professional R Enthusiast. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find...
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