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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 know Browser usage statistics of your target audience

By mvark : 14 July 2010 - 03:11 AM
An extremely important thing to note before you start developing a website is to know what browsers your target audience would be using. You would not want your site to fail due to some cross-browser ...
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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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How to build your own Baseball Stats database

By MikeH : 14 December 2009 - 02:54 PM
As a kid, I did not like math until I figured out it was related to sports. As I grew older, I realized that stats were not only related, but closely intertwined - and this was long before MoneyBall. ...
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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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