David, Using this mail I think I found a simple solution for something I knew I was going to have to learn about.
Thanks, Mark On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM, David M Smith<da...@revolution-computing.com> wrote: > I write about R every weekday at http://blog.revolution-computing.com > . In case you missed them, here are some articles from last month of > particular interest to R users. > > http://bit.ly/tygLz announced the release of the "foreach" and > "iterators" packages on CRAN, for simple scalable parallel programming > in R. > > http://bit.ly/FDS67 linked to Thomas Levin's Joy-Division-esque band > T-shirt made with R > > http://bit.ly/16zTph discussed R's involvement in the Netflix Prize > > http://bit.ly/dTOkF revealed that the New York Times uses R to create > graphics, including an interactive chart of Michael Jackson's musical > career > > http://bit.ly/PZRA2 described how to run batch jobs using R CMD BATCH > > http://bit.ly/hE56B reviewed "Data Mashups in R", an extended example > of corralling foreclosure data from various sources > > http://bit.ly/h9yfB announced a new "statistical learning web service" > implemented with R > > http://bit.ly/Ncmwe was one of a series of posts looking at fraud in > the Iranian election (including a now-famous analysis done in R) > > http://bit.ly/wTYAe linked to a widely-reproduced R graph on gay > marriage support > > http://bit.ly/11AV4k linked to free source code of many R graphs on > Wikimedia Commons > > http://bit.ly/npwoA demonstrated animation of R graphics using Flash > > http://bit.ly/VYvnD linked to a comparison of various statistical > analyses done in R, SAS and SPSS > > http://bit.ly/gxA3g showed how Twitter users can "tweet" using R code > > http://bit.ly/31AOs linked to an analysis of basketball plays done in R > > http://bit.ly/18quFi linked to a video walkthrough and code for bagged > decision trees in R > > http://bit.ly/BIdNp gave some tips, tricks and pitfalls on working > with dates and time zones in R > > http://bit.ly/TwlvR brought the news that R was used in a winning > entry of KDD 2009 > > (I've provided short URLs above because many mailers break the long > direct URLs.) > > Other non-R-specific stories in June covered Simpson's Paradox in > polling data, Google Squared, real random numbers, the chances of a > meteor bringing down an aircraft, amusing article titles from PubMed, > and open-source user interfaces. > > June was a record-breaking traffic month for the blog. The "Data > Mashups" article and the discussion of the Iranian Election were > highly visited. Thanks to everyone who provided comments and tips and > please keep them coming to da...@revolution-computing.com . > > Regards to all, > # David Smith > > -- > David M Smith <da...@revolution-computing.com> > Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com > Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) > > Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.