Re: [R] AT&T Researchers and the New York Times

R would have truly arrived if the Wall Street Journal mentions it as an alternative to SAS or Excel...but that is some years away... Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Robert Wilkins wrote: > Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New > York Tim

Re: [R] The R Inferno

excellent adaptation of Dante and R with real common sense tips to help beginners especially ..goes to the blogroll.. now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows dataset in less than ..eternity Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Patrick Burns

Re: [R] The R Inferno

Hi , I have been trying to convince Pat to come up with a book on this. He can add in the chapters on *Purgatorio* (Purgatory), and *Paradiso* (Paradise ) Regards, Ajay On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Jason Morgan w

Re: [R] R in the NY Times

more on the reasons R is bad for you http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/01/top-ten-rrreasons-r-is-bad-for-you/ On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > 2009/1/10 Tony Breyal : > > > [SAS marketroid quote] > > "In fact, SAS values open-source soft

Re: [R] U R ready for R! Now deploy your R models via cloud computing!

Hi Michael, Can you also build the PMML model on the cloud with R, paying for the processor ,memory usage. Any plans to extend the abilty to model, or is it just deploy PMML models on the cloud servers. Regards, Ajay http://www.decisionstats.com On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:29 AM, MZ wrote: > Fo

Re: [R] Analytics Training Institute launches course on R

Cool wrote: > Hi All, > > Now you can join for R course offered by G & K Analytics Training Institute > Pvt Ltd. > > We also provide online training Program for those who are willing to take > up > this course. > > To know more about the courses offered visit www.analyticstraining.in > > You can

[R] OT :Interview with the CEO , REvolution Computing : Commercial R launched

Dear List, Please find an interview with Richard Schultz, CEO REvolution Computing. REvolution Computing just launched their latest product, commercial as well as enterprise versions of R which include service contracts and tech support. The interview is viewable at http://www.decisionstats.com/20

[R] Corrected Links: OT :Interview with the CEO , REvolution Computing : Commercial R launched

Corrected Links > Dear List, > Please find an interview with Richard Schultz, CEO REvolution Computing. > REvolution Computing just launched their latest product, commercial as well > as enterprise versions of R which include service contracts and tech > support. > > The interview is viewable at >

Re: [R] sas.get under Linux

Hi, have you looked at the third party SAS language compilers WPS ( 600 dollars per desktop version http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/home/ ) and Carolina ( http://dullesopen.com/) if you need just base SAS. I think SAS institute existing products have

[R] Fwd: The Internet is an Error by Google

Dear List, In continuation of the Website Error Messages. Ajay www.decisionstats.com Looks like the boys from Mountain View did some testing for anti spam or denial of service ( depends on if you like/trust/dislike G) , and went live instead of sand boxing the tests... Article from Techcr

[R] Problems in Recommending R

etter website instead. You can check out www.knime.org which is an open source software , and free, and supports R---and notice the change in perception . Best Regards, Ajay Ohri www.decisionstats.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-h

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but aesthetic designhmm But a contest would the best way to get the best design and can be publicly asked from the graphics community ( not just the R community)..remember Tom Sawyer and the fence :) - I volunteer in both cases :)

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

6:45 PM, wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530, > >>>>> Ajay ohri (Ao) wrote: > > > Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but > aesthetic > > designhmm > > In most cases one can do more than mos

[R] Deploying a R model on a cloud computer using PMML

Dear List, Please find an interview from Michael Zeller ,CEO, Zementis. Mike talks about how to use an existing model ( created in R) , using PMML as an intermediate for exporting the model, and deploying it on a cloud computer for as low as 1 $ per hour. Regards, Ajay *Ajay-* *What are the trad

Re: [R] New York Times - R - article a fraud?

you should wait for the article on R by fox news Calvin Trillin - "Health food makes me sick." On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:19 AM, eugene dalt wrote: > I worked on some ad data before and I found NYT article very biaised and > not far from a fraud... Anyone knows if they got money from a - company

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

How much time do you think is needed to read 133 pages of FAQ. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Hadley wickham wrote: > >> The most useful thing (and quite rightly so) on the front page is the link >>> the the FAQ which should be the st

[R] SAS language to R :interview

Dear List, Please find a frank interview with Phil Rack, creator of Bridge to R ( from both SAS and WPS interfaces). For those unaware of WPS- it is basically a SAS language compiler (read SAS code,writes SAS code,Reads and writes SAS datasets) ,priced at 660 $ a licence ( or estimated 10 times

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

Quite nice and simple. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.Thanks a lot. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Hadley put together a couple of nice versions of the main Windows download > page cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base, and I've a

[R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

An amusing afterthought : What is a rival software (ahem!) was planting this, hoping for a divide between S and R communities.or at the very minimum hoping for some amusement. an assumption or even a pretense of stealing credit is one of the easiest ways of sparking intellectual discord Most users

[R] R on Mobile Devices (All)

Hi, I have been considering use of R on Windows Operating system and the market leader Symbiosis. I want to log on to my remote pc using remote desktop securely using the username and password, then run R as if I was in front of the PC itself ( PC got more RAM than Mobile ..still). Ditto for the A

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

esting thread ...] > >>>>>> "Ao" == Ajay ohri >>>>>> on Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530 writes: > >Ao> Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but > aesthetic >Ao> designhmm > > I tend to a

[R] Article on R and SAS in NY Times Blog

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 The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter 'R.' L

Re: [R] R as a web scraping tool using RCurl

Try Firefox and an add in called I Macros from www.iopus.com as an simpler alternative read some stuff here http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/01/web-crawling-automation/ regards, Ajay On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Harsh wrote: > Hi List, > I am trying to leverage my knowledge of R in try

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

Sometimes for the sake of simplicity, SAS coding is created like that. One can use the concatenate function and drag and drop in an simple excel sheet for creating elaborate SAS code like the one mentioned and without any time at all. There are multiple ways to do this in SAS , much better and simi

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

How would this agency be convinced of adopting R code also how would these things work. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr < f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program >

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

I would like to know if we can create a package in which r functions are renamed closer to sas language.doing so will help people familiar to SAS to straight away take to R for their work,thus decreasing the threshold for acceptance - and then get into deeper understanding later. since it is a pack

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

am not a Marxist. Karl Marx <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/karlmarx131048.html> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > on 02/27/2009 07:57 AM Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > > Ajay ohri wrote: > >> > >> I would like to know if we can crea

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

A further example of software pricing dynamics is the complete lack of awareness of WPS , a UK based software which is basically a base SAS clone with all the features of SAS ( coding read ,write and data read /write) and priced only at 660$ per desktop and 1400$ for server licenses ..very very c

[R] R tools help

Dear List, I am trying to create a R package and having some issues with setting the path on a Windows XP . Could you point me to a tutorial that helps in creating R packages . Also I tried installing Linux using the Windows installer wubi but it failed repeatedly and everytime it resets

Re: [R] R tools help

tel wrote: > > On 1 March 2009 at 22:54, Ajay ohri wrote: > | Dear List, > | I am trying to create a R package and having some issues with setting the > | path on a Windows XP . > | > | Could you point me to a tutorial that helps in creating R packages > . > >

Re: [R] R tools help

e first place. There is also > some relevant info there if you do want to change it anyways and > info on packages. > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Ajay ohri wrote: > > Dear List, > > I am trying to create a R package and having some issues with setting the &g

[R] R package.skeleton

Creating Read-and-delete-me ... Saving functions and data ... Making help files ... Done. I am referring to this document for creating R packages now http://biosun1.harvard.edu/courses/individual/bio271/lectures/L6/Rpkg.pdf Could you please let me know how to create the package. Regards, Ajay

Re: [R] R tools help

Ajay On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Ajay ohri wrote: > > Hi, > > I ran it . I placed it in C:\Rtools > > it ran for a sec and vanished > > Do you mean you placed Rcmd.bat in C:\Rtools? > > What you want t

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

for an " inefficient " language , it sure has dominated the predictive analytics world for 3 plus decades. I referred once to intellectual jealousy between newton and liebnitz. i am going ahead and creating the R package called "Anne". It basically is meant only for SAS users who want to learn R

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

so i have posted on it) http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/03/an-r-package-only-for-sas-users/ On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ajay ohri wrote: > for an " inefficient " language , it sure has dominated the predictive > analytics world for 3 plus decades. > I referred once to

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

no market for R packages exists in true economic sense as there is demand and supply and utility but no price Ajay Did Tom Sawyer create the first collaborative project ever ( to paint the fence ?) On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Jim Lemon wrote: > Ajay ohri wrote: > >

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

why didnt you call it procunivariate if that was exactly what you wanted to do . On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Ajay ohri wrote: > >> for an " inefficient " language , it sure has dominated the predictive >> analytics world for 3 plus

[R] SAS Macros for R Users Only

, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ajay ohri wrote: > > why didnt you call it procunivariate if that was exactly what you wanted to > do . > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr < > f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > >> Ajay ohri wrote: >> >

[R] OT : Interview with Anne Milley ,SAS

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 o

[R] OT: SAS on Open Source ,R and Code

coding ,and software as a service especially SAS Institute’s offering . She also reveals some preview on SAS ‘s involvement with R ,including an upcoming announcement on it and mentions cloud computing. You can see the interview here http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/16968 Best Regards, Ajay Ohri

Re: [R] popular R packages

Pricing each download at 99 cents ( the same as a song from I Tunes) can measure users more accurately. Thats my 2 cents anyways. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Max Kuhn wrote: > If is easy to get the download numbers, we should do it and deal with > the interpretation issues. I'd like to know

[R] Interview: Jon Peck on SPSS, R ,Python ...

Dear List, I recently got the chance to interview Jon Peck of SPSS Inc, a pioneering technical statistician working since 1983 (when there were only two substantial statistical software companies as per him ;) (not anymore ;) and currently he is a Principal Software Engineer and Technical Advisor

[R] R Textbook for SAS and SPSS Users

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. A

[R] R on Ubuntu Server

Dear List, Has anyone worked with R on Ubuntu Server edition. Also would it be possible to connect to this ever using remote desktop . In addition has anyone worked with using R from a Amazon EC2 cloud like structure. Any early previews of Azure SDk's and R . Could you guide me to a place where I

[R] R on Tesla

Has anyone tried the R on NVidia's Tesla, the desktop supercomputing priced at 1 usd.Tesla does run on Windows 64 and 32 OS but I just wanted to check this. Regards, Ajay http://www.decisionstats.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R

[R] R and the Web: A small Wordpress plugin RwebFriend

Hi, The web interfaces are great examples of using R from the web. The wordpress plugin is a great creative thought. Taking this further- since one critical point in R vs SAS or other Corporate Type Software is the way it handles memory, could we install say R web and these plugins on a cloud sc

Re: [R] Running R Script on a Sequence of Files

This is almost a macro problem. It could be done in SAS language using the WPS product (660 USD) I think. It is a familiar problem and I would be quite interested in the result. Is there any concept of Macros in R or a package to do the same. Regards, Ajay On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Chris

Re: [R] Running R Script on a Sequence of Files

eers, > Jagat > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Ajay ohri > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:59 PM > To: Chris Poliquin > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Running R Script on a Sequence of Files &g

Re: [R] re commended computing server for R (March 2009)?

A SAS spokesperson has confirmed to this blog that they have invested in the R –Core project to help build next generation algorithms . Details are sketchy but indications of some shift on cloud hosted SAS ,called SaaS are emerging.Also includes some details on Jim Davis ,SVP SAS marketing's sta

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