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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/ SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a TimeBy ASHLEE VANCE<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/ashlee-vance/> The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter 'R.' Last month, I wrote an

Version 0.9.0, a first release of cg, is published on CRAN and its mirrors. The "cg" name stands for "compare groups." Its genesis and evolution are driven by common "in-practice" needs to compare samples, treatments, administrations, conditions, etc. in medicine research & development. The current version provides comparisons of unpaired samples, i.e. a linear

Version 0.9.0, a first release of cg, is published on CRAN and its mirrors. The "cg" name stands for "compare groups." Its genesis and evolution are driven by common "in-practice" needs to compare samples, treatments, administrations, conditions, etc. in medicine research & development. The current version provides comparisons of unpaired samples, i.e. a linear

This article is accompanied by nice pictures of Robert and Ross. Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html January 7, 2009 Data Analysts Captivated by R?s Power By ASHLEE VANCE To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it?s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an attic?s insulation or

Greetings all, This isn't a request for help, but I thought the following article from the New York Times would be of interest to you all. Enjoy! Adam *Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power* By ASHLEE VANCE Published ONLINE: January 6, 2009 URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html A version of this article appeared in print edition on

Dear Lists, I got the chance to review Bob Muenchen's book - R for SAS and SPSS users. While my detailed review is online at www.decisionstats.com, the book is a welcome addition in R Textbooks for beginners and an especially nice one for people who have experience in SAS and /or SPSS languages. AT 50 USD, it's reasonably priced for all geographies (;) , and quite handy as a refernce book

STATISTICIAN / DATA ANALYST Centocor, an operating company of Johnson & Johnson, seeks a highly motivated statistician/data analyst to work in its newly formed Nonclinical Statistics group. We support innovative science in the discovery and research of biotechnology therapies, with obligatory emphasis on the application of modern statistical approaches. Primary responsibilities of the

Hi All, I have substantially expanded the table that compares SAS and SPSS add-on modules to somewhat equivalent R packages. This new version is at: http://r4stats.com/add-on-modules and I would very much appreciate any feedback you might have on it. The site http://r4stats.com is the replacement to http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com and includes the support files for both "R for SAS and SPSS

Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times. This is typical of the New York Times. Because they get to coast on the prestige and reputation of their brand , they have a history of just this sort of journalistic sloppiness. Whether it's the author or the editor at fault doesn't really matter, they do this screw-up all the time. Look, if you write an article on the first page of

Thanks very much to Paul Murrell and Frank Harrell for addressing my original query (repeated at end of this note). Paul's helpful suggestion with print.trellis and its more= argument, followed by trellis settings, works precisely as I needed. > # snipped from Paul's reply: > p1 <- xyplot(y ~ x, ylim=c(-5, 5)) > p2 <- xyplot(y2 ~ x, pch=16, ylim=c(-5, 5), ylab="

Deepayan, Paul: Thanks very much for the very useful leads. I just spent some time this afternoon implementing your suggestions and my early test results are very encouraging. Paul, I understand the potential device re-sizing issue with the convert family of functions in grid, and will be in touch in case it becomes problematic for my applications. I very much look forward to your upcoming

Dear R-helpers, I know of two ways to reading data within an R program, using textConnection and stdin (demo program below). I've Googled about and looked in several books for comparisons of the two approaches but haven't found anything. Are there any particular advantages or disadvantages to these two approaches? If you were teaching R beginners, which would you present? Thanks, Bob

Under v1.6.2, Windows NT4 OS, when a function contains an execution error and I have placed browser() in inside the function body, the call to browser is ignored. A brief example to illustrate: > foo <- function(x) { + y <- x ^ 2 + browser() + foo2(x) ## Intentional error + x ^ 3 + } > > foo(30) Called from: foo(30) Browse[1]> Error in foo(30) : couldn't find

Dear Lists, This is an off topic (OT ). I recently took Anne Milley's interview .In Part 1 of the interview , Anne talks about SAS, WPS, other softwares she studied like SPSS,.She also talks about the difference between small and big companies , what sets SAS apart and the famous licensing model of SAS Interview – Anne Milley, SAS Part 1<http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/16909>

Hi All, I don't know if this has been reported before, but according to Henrique Dallazuanna's program (below) the number of R packages has exceeded the 3,000 mark. The count today is 3,175. I ran this just a couple of months ago & the number was still in the high 2,000s, so it must be fairly recent. I think this represents about 50% growth in the last year. Not bad! Does

Hi, Bob Muenchen's book is now out on release. Its terrific for a step by step tutorial for doing stuff in R, even if all you know is SAS and SPSS. Check this out here http://rforsasandspssusers.com/ and at http://www.amazon.com/SAS-SPSS-Users-Statistics-Computing/dp/0387094172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217456813&sr=8-1 Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com

Dear colleagues: I use R 1.9.0 on Windows XP. One of my common tasks is to get R graphs into Word documents. A open windows() device, almost always trellis.device() for me, provides great convenience with the right-click shortcut menu item "Copy as metafile". I typically have the History > Recording feature turned on as well. Since upgrading to 1.9.0, I have experienced an

Hello, I wish to customize the tick marks and labels of axes in panels produced by high-level lattice functions, namely xyplot. I know I can use the scales argument to specify values for rot, cex, etc. in the top-level call. However, I am interested in determining values for cex and rot based on the current panel / viewport and device. More specifically, I would like to make adjustments when

Hi all, I would like to 1. Read in an arcmap image into R (I can export pretty much any type of image jpeg, bitmap etc from arcmap) 2. Use R to create a nice colour legend in the plot First of all, Is this possible? So far I'm stuck on point 1. I have tried read.pnm() from pixmap and read.jpeg() from rgl. the pnm example provided works fine x <-

I would like to produce a bar plot with varying-width bars. Here is an example to illustrate: ww <- c(417,153,0.0216,0.0065,556,256,0.0162,0.0117, + 726,379,0.0358,0.0501,786,502,0.0496,0.0837, + 892,591,0.0785,0.0795) yy<-t(t(array(ww,c(2,10)))) barplot(yy[,2*1:5],las=1,space=c(.1,.5),beside=T) produces a barplot of 5 pairs of bars that are of equal width