LondonR
4th May 2010
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Some R News
Richard Pugh, rich@mango-solutions.com
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News
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R v2.11 released on 22nd April 2010
New packages and updates to packages
The R Journal in December
Some interesting blog articles
More local user groups being set up
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R v2.11 Released!
• 64-bit Windows platform (from REvolution)
• The new function vapply is like apply, but checks for consistency
of the return value
• Quantile can be used on some time/date objects
• Support for selecting a repository for BioConductor packages
• Support for rendering bitmap images in graphics devices, via a
new function rasterImage
• Various speedups and minor bug-fixes
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New Packages + Updates
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New Packages + Updates
Package
Description
debug
Allows advanced code debug features. Updated to 1.2.2
mvbutils
Package preparation utilities. Updated to 2.5.1
formatR
Automated code layout with UI. New
SOAR
Stored object caches with R. New
glmnet
Regularization path regression. Updated to 1.2
micEconSNQP
Symmetric Normalized Quadratic (SNQ) profit function. Split
micEconCES
Estimating the Constant Elasticity of Scale (CES) function. Split
micEcon
economic analysis. Split
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New Packages + Updates
Package
Description
WriteXLS
Perl-based XLS creation. Updated to 1.9
JM
Joint modelling of longitudinal and T2E data. Updated to 0.6
datatable
Fast table transformations. Updated to 1.4.1
ordinal
cumulative link (mixed) models for ordinal (ordered categorical) data
ggplot2
Grammer of graphics plotting. Updated to 0.8.7
Deducer
UI to data manipulation and analysis capabilities. New
rms
Regression Model Strategies. Updated to 2.2
extracat
Visualisation of categorical data. New
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The R Journal
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The R Journal
Article by John Fox
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The R Journal
Article by John Fox
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The R Journal
Article by John Fox
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The Next Big Thing!
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More Local User Groups
+ China, Israel, Japan, Australia
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BaselR Launched!
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First event on 28th April 2010
Run by Mango AG
Modelled on LondonR
32 people attended
Introduction to BaselR (Tillmann Krahnke, Mango AG)
Graphing Pharma Data (Andreas Krause, Actelion)
Graphics using ggplot2 (Yann Abraham, Novartis)
Web based R reporting (Charles Roosen, Mango AG)
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Simple-R
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Mango Training
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Intro
R for
R for
R for
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Developers
Finance
Pharmaceuticals
• Some public, mostly private
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Private Course
• Existing users of Excel (not programmers)
• See that they can use R to replace Excel time
• 2 days + 2 webinars:
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Import from CSV files
Manipulate Data
Fit Models
Produce Graphics
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Can we see some code?
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The Reaction
• Too complex
• Not very approachable
• What are all these $ signs and squared
brackets!
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The Course Design
• 2 days + 2 webinars:
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Import from CSV files
Manipulate Data
Fit Models
Produce Graphics
The Challenge: No $ or [ … ]
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The Outcome
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2 days + 2 webinars for users
Half day for “Super Users”
A new library for this company
A training course with no & or [ … ]
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The Code
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The Code
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The Code
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Comparison with SAS
• SAS Language
– Low level: Macro Language
– Procedural Language: proc something, data steps
• The R Language
– Low Level: What we use?
– High Level: Simple-R?
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Enough of that …
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Agenda
6.00pm
Richard Pugh
Introduction
6.15pm
Helen Thornewell
Introducing the Royal Statistical Society's
Young Statisticians Section
6.50pm
Markus Gesmann
Getting started with integrating R and MS Office
7.25pm
Patrick Burns
Portfolio Probe: Changing Fund Management
8.00pm
John James
Use of and Using R as on Object Oriented Language
8.30pm
Drinks and Networking
Richard Pugh, rich@mango-solutions.com
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Agenda
6.00pm
Richard Pugh
Introduction
6.15pm
Markus Gesmann
Getting started with integrating R and MS Office
6:50pm
Patrick Burns
Portfolio Probe: Changing Fund Management
7.25pm
John James
Use of and Using R as on Object Oriented Language
8.00pm
Drinks and Networking
Richard Pugh, rich@mango-solutions.com
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