Category Archives: R

Posts about the open source R language

r4stats.com 2014 in review

Posted on January 13, 2015 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 260,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

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SAS is #1…In Plans to Discontinue Use

Posted on December 30, 2014 by

I’ve been tracking The Popularity of Data Analysis Software for many years now, and a clear trend is the decline of the market share of the bigger analytics firms, notably SAS and SPSS. Many people have interpreted my comments as implying … Continue reading →

Posted in Analytics, R, SAS, SPSS, Statistics, Uncategorized | 15 Comments

Learning R: Live Webinar, Interactive Self-Paced, or Site Visit?

Posted on December 15, 2014 by

My recent blog post, Why R is Hard to Learn, must have hit a nerve as it was read by over 6,000 people in its first two days online.  If you’re using R to augment your work in SAS, SPSS … Continue reading →

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Updated: Why R is Hard to Learn

Posted on December 9, 2014 by

I’ve updated one of my most widely read blog posts, Why R is Hard to Learn. It focuses on the aspects of R which tend to trip up beginners. The new version is over twice as long as the original … Continue reading →

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Adding the SPSS MEAN.n Function to R

Posted on September 3, 2014 by

SPSS contains a very useful set of functions that R lacks. If you’re lucky enough to have access to SPSS, you can use SPSS and R very well together. If not, it’s easy to add these functions to R. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Analytics, Data Mangement, R, SPSS, Uncategorized | 11 Comments

R Workshops Updated to Include the Latest Packages

Posted on August 27, 2014 by

Two new R packages are quickly becoming standards in the R community: Hadley Wickham’s dplyr and tidyr. The dplyr package almost completely replaces his popular plyr package for data manipulation. Most importantly for general R use, it makes it much easier … Continue reading →

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R Passes SPSS in Scholarly Use, Stata Growing Rapidly

Posted on August 20, 2014 by

by Robert A. Muenchen Here is my latest update to The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. To save you the trouble of reading all 25 pages of that article, the new section is below. The two most interesting nuggets it contains are: … Continue reading →

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Knoxville R Users’ Group Meets September 3rd

Posted on August 12, 2014 by

The Knoxville R Users Group (KRUG) is hosting a brown bag viewing of RStudio’s webinar “Interactive Reporting” at 11am, Weds 3-Sept-2014 in 427 Hesler on the UTK campus “Hill” .  Per RStudio.net, data scientist Garrett Grolemund and software engineer Joe … Continue reading →

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jpmml and R (Free Webinar)

Posted on July 28, 2014 by

This free, global webinar will provide an introduction to jpmml, the world’s leading open-source PMML scoring engine currently being utilized by companies such as Airbnb to rapidly deploy predictive models into production. Webinar Format: – What is PMML? – Building … Continue reading →

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The RSelenium R Package (Free Webinar)

Posted on May 6, 2014 by

The Orange County R User Group (OC-RUG) will soon host a free webinar on the new “RSelenium” R Package which provides a set of R bindings for the Selenium 2.0 webdriver using the JsonWireProtocol. Using RSelenium, you can automate web … Continue reading →

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