similar to: [Job Ad] Position at Merck Research Laboratories, NJ USA

Job description: Computational statistician/biometrician The Biometrics Research Department at Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ, is seeking a highly motivated statistician/data analyst to work in its basic research, drug discovery, preclinical and early clinical development areas. The applicant should have broad expertise in statistical computing. Experience

Apology for the cross-post... Andy ============================================== Job description: Computational statistician/medical image analyst The Biometrics Research Department at Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ is seeking a highly motivated statistician/data analyst to work in its basic research and drug discovery area. The applicant should have broad

Apologies for the cross-posting... Computational statisticians The Biometrics Research Department at Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ is seeking highly motivated statisticians/data analysts (2 positions) to work in its basic research and drug discovery area. The applicant should have broad expertise in statistics and computer science, with substantial experience

If you are interested in the following position, please contact Vladimir Svetnik at Vladimir_svetnik at merck.com. Date: Nov 18, 2015 Location: Rahway, NJ, US Associate Principal Scientist, Biostatistics-BIO004396 Description Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription

The Biometrics Research department at the Merck Research Laboratories has an open position to be located in Rahway, New Jersey, USA: This position will be responsible for imaging and bio-signal biomarkers projects including analysis of preclinical, early clinical, and experimental medicine imaging and EEG data. Responsibilities include all phases of data analysis from processing of raw imaging

Job: Scientific programmer at Merck, Biostatistics, Rahway, NJ, USA [Job Description] This position works closely with statisticians to process and analyze ultrasound, MRI, and radiotelemetry longitudinal studies using a series of programs developed in R and Mathworks/Matlab. This position provides support for the analysis of several pre-clinical and clinical functional MRI studies by

(Apologies for cross-posting this job announcement to those on both R-help and S-news.) 2003 SUMMER INTERNSHIP POSITION Domestic United States residents / visitors only. Merck Research Laboratories Rahway, NJ, USA (approx. 30 miles from New York City) 1 position, Ph.D. or Masters student Deadline for Applications: February 14, 2003. Brief Description: Help provide data analytic &

Dear R-help, This one is probably a piece of cake for regexp masters. I'd like to split a character vector (for simplicity, say of length one for now) that contains fields that are delimited by arbitrary number of white spaces (e.g., " a b c "). How do I get the character vector that contain the fields? In the example I gave, I've tried: > strsplit(" a b c

Dear R-help, Has anyone notice the problem that, on Windows (NT and XP), when printing a graph using the "File -> Print..." menu in the graphics window to print the graph, that line width seemed to be ignored in the printed output? For example, if I make a plot with plot(1:10, type="l", lwd=5), it looks right on screen, but when printed out using the menu, it looks like

Dear R-help, Has anyone tried running R on a Beowulf-type cluster? I can get R to run in batch (using R CMD BATCH) on a cluster, but am wondering if it is possible to get an interactive R session on a compute node. Right now, if I run: beorun --nolocal R I just get the R start-up message and back to the shell prompt. If I try bpsh 0 R I can get R started (but the R prompt does not

Dear R-help: Has anyone tried using R on the the AMD Opteron in either 64- or 32-bit mode? If so, any good/bad experiences, comments, etc? We are considering getting this hardware, and would like to know if R can run smoothly on such a beast. Any comment much appreciated. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ

Dear R-devel, Has anyone played with this? http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html> . I'll probably give it a shot... Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com

Dear R-devel, I recall that there used to be a mechanism to get around the requirement that all objects in a package have associated documentation; i.e., a way to specify a list of objects (mostly functions) that are not considered as part of the package API. Is this still available? I cannot find any mention in R-exts. I realize that the way to go is to have a name space, and eventually

[I believe few users manipulate formulae and model frames like this, so I'm posting here instead of R-help.] I just found out that model.frame() includes all terms, including those preceded by "-" in the formula, in its output (as mentioned on its help page). Is there a recommended way of excluding "negative" terms? My guess is that I can use info in the terms attribute

Dear R-help, I've been compiling R from source on our Linux boxes for quite a while. One thing that bugs me is that I always get an error when make check-all where it choked up running tests/internet.R. That wasn't a big deal, as I can run install.packages()/update.packages() fine, and that's all I use the 'net connection for. The problem is that it takes a _long_ time to fail

Dear R-devel, Kurt had alerted me to the problem that the randomForest package that I maintain has been failing checks in R-devel. However, I just can't see why or where it's failing. I'd very much appreciate any pointer. The failure occur when running the example code in varImpPlot.Rd: > varImpPlot(mtcars.rf) Error in par(opar) : invalid value specified for graphical parameter

Dear R-help, I was bitten by the behavior of all() when given logical(0): It is TRUE! (And any(logical(0)) is FALSE.) Wouldn't it be better to return logical(0) in both cases? The problem surfaced because some un-named individual called randomForest(x, y, xtest, ytest,...), and gave y as a two-level factor, but ytest as just numeric vector. I thought I check for that in my code by testing

Dear R-devel, Can anyone give me some hints on how to go about debugging a strange segfault in my randomForest package? Here's the scoop: A user reported segfault when running predict() in the randomForest package. I asked for the data and code. The combination runs fine under WinXPPro, but does give segfault on one of our Linux boxes running R (1.7.0 through R-devel_2004-01-08) on

Before I do that, I would need to remove the gcj stuff that are in /usr/bin. If I know how to remove gcj, I'd gladly do that. However, for the particular version of the OS, the entire GCC seems to be bundled into one rpm, and I could not remove just the gcj component. Neither do I wish to mess with files that are part of some RPMs--- in my experience that's invitation for trouble later.

Dear DevelopeRs, I'd like to ask those who develop R packages with compiled code to please try avoiding dependency on GCC (gcc/g77/gfortran/g++) specific features in the code, for the simple reason that there are non-GCC compilers out there that might choke on such features. I found this out back when I was trying to build R-2.3.0-to-be on our dual Opteron based Scyld cluster. Because the