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Some history and a prediction. Past A discussion broke out on the R-help mailing list in January 2006 about a technical report put out by the statistical computing group at [...]

The email address patrick@burns-stat.com was out of action for a few hours today.  It is back now.

Customization in R. Basics Several features benefit from being customizable — either because of personal taste or specifics of the environment. The way R implements this flexibility is through the [...]

How to control the limits of data values in R plots. R has multiple graphics engines.  Here we will talk about the base graphics and the ggplot2 package. We’ll create [...]

Several packages on CRAN provide (or relate to) interfaces between databases and R.  Here is a summary, mostly in the words of the package descriptions.  Remember that package names are [...]

Chapter 32 of Tao Te Programming advises you to make bricks instead of monoliths.  Here is an example. The example is written with the syntax of R and is a [...]

There is a mechanism that allows variability in the arguments given to R functions.  Technically it is ellipsis, but more commonly called ”…”, dots, dot-dot-dot or three-dots. Basics The three-dots [...]

Many people are of the opinion that R has a corner on convenient data analysis.  That may or may not be true. But now R literally has a corner that [...]

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