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How to Create a Bar Chart with R

By chco : 18 April 2011 - 04:01 PM
Should you want to create a bar chart while using R, the following excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R will show you how. Use the barplot function. Th...
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How to Compute Basic Statistics with R

By chco : 05 April 2011 - 01:56 AM
Sometimes, when using R, you want to calculate basic statistics: mean, median, standard deviation, variance, correlation, or covariance. The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication 25 Reci...
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How to Import Data from External Files in R

By adfm : 16 June 2010 - 03:48 PM
There are many ways to grab external data in R. This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell will show you just how versatile R can be when it comes to gathering data. One of the nicest thing...
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Basic Operations in R

By adfm : 27 January 2010 - 03:39 PM
If you're eager to learn more about R and want a taste of what it's like, here's an introduction to the basic operations in R from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell. Let’s get started using R....
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Alternative Ways to Run R

By adfm : 20 January 2010 - 12:10 PM
Beyond the standard implementation there are other ways to run R. This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell lists some of the more popular open source projects implementing R. There are se...
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How to use R inside Microsoft Excel

By adfm : 20 January 2010 - 11:25 AM
Excel can be a safe comfort zone for some users, but sometimes you need access to more robust tools like R. Thankfully there's RExcel to bridge the gap. In this excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a N...
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Introducing the R Console

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 05:26 PM
This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R console. If you use R, you'll spend most of your time interacting with the console. The R console is the most important tool for usin...
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Introducing the R Graphical User Interface

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 04:20 PM
The following excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R Graphical User Interface. This is helpful if you would like to know what the R GUI looks like on other operating systems. ...
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R programming language - A link roundup

By adfm : 07 December 2009 - 10:55 AM
The R programming language and environment has gained a lot of attention lately for its ability to perform complicated analysis and visualization without the need to know the inner workings of the com...
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Importing Census Data into R

By jermdemo : 30 October 2009 - 02:17 PM
The US Census Bureau collects an extensive range of socioeconomic data that are interesting for our purposes. We can download some data involved in total population and total housing units that are in...
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