[R] [R-pkgs] Package "ore": Oniguruma Regular Expressions

Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the "ore" package (for "Oniguruma Regular Expressions"), which offers an alternative to base R's functions for searching, splitting and substituting text which matches (Perl-style) regular expressions. The package uses the Oniguruma/Onigmo rege

[R] [R-pkgs] New package for medical image manipulation: tractor.base

Dear all, The "tractor.base" package has recently been added to CRAN. This package provides functions to read, write, visualise and manipulate magnetic resonance images. The standard Analyze, NIfTI and DICOM file formats are supported (read-only for DICOM), and all metadata is stored with the imag

[R] Mirror of the R manuals with a new visual style

Dear all, I've created a new mirror of the HTML versions of the main R manuals at . This mirror does not modify the content of the manuals at all, but simply injects a new visual style with the aim of making the text easier to read and navigate. It will be updated aft

Re: [R] Mirror of the R manuals with a new visual style

Hi Barry, On 23 October 2012 14:00, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Jon Clayden wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I've created a new mirror of the HTML versions of the main R manuals >> at <http://r-manuals.flakery.org>. This mirror

[R] [R-pkgs] New package for medical image registration: RNiftyReg

The first release of "RNiftyReg", an R package for registration (alignment and resampling) of medical images, is now available on CRAN [1]. It may also be useful for other 3D array-like data sets. RNiftyReg is built on top of the NiftyReg library [2], and is written in a mixture of C, C++ and R. It

[R] [R-pkgs] New package for general-purpose global optimisation: "soma"

Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the release of an R implementation of the Self-Organising Migrating Algorithm (SOMA), a general-purpose, stochastic optimisation algorithm. The approach is similar to that of genetic algorithms, although it is based on the idea of a series of "migrations" by a fix

[R] [R-pkgs] Significant updates to medical imaging packages: TractoR and RNiftyReg

Dear all, There have been some recent major updates to the TractoR and RNiftyReg packages, which are available for medical image analysis applications. If you use R for these purposes, I hope you will find the updates useful. RNiftyReg is an image registration package, which provides a clean R-li

[R] [R-pkgs] New package for morphology and smoothing in any number of dimensions: mmand

Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the release on CRAN of the "mmand" package (for Mathematical Morphology in Any Number of Dimensions). It provides functions for performing mathematical morphology (erode, dilate, etc.), smoothing, and other kernel-based operations on array-like objects of any dime

[R] Standard input and R

Dear all, I am trying to wrap a *nix shell script around R for a particular purpose, for which I need to get R to execute predetermined commands but retain interactivity and allow user input during their execution. A straight redirection of standard input is therefore not appropriate, and

Re: [R] Standard input and R

the default packages manually. I would still suggest that getting R itself to do this -- most likely by changing the behaviour of the "-e" option to match that of ruby, perl and others -- would be very helpful (though I appreciate it may not be simple). Alternative suggestions are still