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Having heard people talk about the performance improvements that Fortran gives over R or Python, I got curious - how hard is it to learn? Turns out that more recent standards of Fortran, such as Fortran 95, are pretty easy to pick up, so I started …
Hierarchical clustering functionality in R is great, right? Between dist and vegdist it is possible to base your clustering on almost any method you want, from cosine to Canberra. However, what if you do want to use a different or custom method, and …
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post giving you an introduction to reproducible research in Python. While the principles of reproducibility stay the same no matter the language you are using, there are some specific libraries and tools that R has …
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to present at PyCon Australia, right here in my home town of Melbourne. My talk was on reproducible research, an increasingly important concept in science and data analysis as projects become more complicated and …
One of the things I really missed when I moved from Stata to R was how easy it was to do group operations; that is, being able to apply summary statistics by levels of a variable or variables in a dataset. Fortunately for me, I just needed a bit of …
