RStudio have announced R Notebooks. This adds an interactive execution model to R Markdown documents. In R Markdown documents text and code can be mixed to create active documents that perform and update analyses as they are run. However, R Markdown documents are executed in batch mode. This makes them more suitable for reporting than for teaching and investigation. With the introduction of R … [Read more...]
R at Microsoft
David Smith, R Community Lead at Microsoft, talks about how they are using R. He covers both how it is being integrated into the product line and how it is used internally to analyse operational data. … [Read more...]
ScaleR package now available as part of free Microsoft R Client
The ScaleR package provides functions for performing scalable and extremely high performance data management, analysis, and visualization in R. It was only available to those who had a Microsoft R Server license---until now. With the introduction of the free Microsoft R Client for Windows tool you can now work with the full set of ScaleR functions without having to part with a cent. Of course, … [Read more...]
Introduction to Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server
Familiar with R and wondering what Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server bring to the table? Then check out Lixun Zhang's article. … [Read more...]
Tufte in R
Lukasz Piwek maintains a resource that shows how the visualization practices developed by Edward Tufte can be replicated in R. His neat Tufte in R site currently contains examples of the following visualizations minimal line plot range-frame (or quartile-frame) scatterplot dot-dash (or rug) scatterplot minimal boxplot minimal barchart slopegraph sparklines stem-and-leaf display It's a living … [Read more...]