New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

Tonight I will give a talk at the Cambridge R user group about googleVis . Following my good experience with knitr and RStudio to create...

A friend of mine asked me the other day how she could use the function optim in R to fit data. Of course there are built-in functions for f...

Many thanks to all who participated in the survey about writing R package vignettes . Following my post last Thursday the responses came i...

Over the past couple of days I played around with the data sets of the World Bank, and I have to admit that I am blown away by it. It is ama...

Setting axis options in googleVis charts can be a bit tricky. Here I present two examples where I set several options to customise the layo...

Last Saturday I met the guys from RStudio at the R in Finance conference in Chicago. I was curious to find out what RStudio could offer. I...

Iris versicolor   By Danielle Langlois License: CC-BY-SA R is a language , as Luis Apiolaza pointed out in his recent post . This is ab...

If connecting data to the real world is the next sexy job , then how do I do this? And how do I connect the real world to R? It can be don...

The guys at RStudio have done a fantastic job with shiny . It is really easy to build web apps with R using shiny. With the help of Joe Ch...

After last week's kerfuffle I hope the roll out of googleVis version 0.3.2 will be smooth. To test the water I release this version in...