How accurate or reliable are R calculations?

28Mar09

On the REvolutions Blog there is a nice posting treating the often raised concern on “How good or reliable R is”. At my university R is hardly used. Sometimes I was asked by lecturers wether the calculations done by R and its packages are accurate. The linked posting treats this matter and tries to clarify […]

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R: Zip fastener for two data frames / combining rows or columns of two dataframes in an alternating manner

27Mar09

Sometimes I find it useful to merge two data frames like the following ones   X1 X2 X3 X4 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 1  o  o  o  o X X X X 2  o  o  o  o X X X X 3  o  o  o  o X X X X by using zip feeding either […]

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Tags: data frame, zip fastener, merge, combine

R: Monitoring the function progress with a progress bar

16Mar09

Every once in while I have to write a function that contains a loop doing thousands or millions of calculations. To make sure that the function does not get stuck in an endless loop or just to fulfill the human need of control it is useful to monitor the progress. So  first I tried the […]

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Tags: progress bar