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The summary blog post describing the RSpectra (formerly rARPACK) package made a convincing case for the improved decomposition speed of the...

Here is a brief exploration of the misc3d package, which has some nice functions that can be used in conjunction with rgl. I am especially p...

Just a quick note to announce that the makeGlobcolourField and isin.convert functions have been added to the sinkr package. In addition, the...

An interesting comment on conducting likelihood optimization (frequentist approach) (from http://www.petrkeil.com/?p=393 ): R code : ##...

While I like the hexbin package and see the advantage of having more circular bins, I find that square binning allowed me to take advan...

I recently came across a great new package for web scraping called rvest by Hadley Wickham. This nice little post got me ...

There is an updated version of the getcolors function available in the sinkr package, called getcolors2 . The previous version allowed ...

Here's a cheat sheet for map projection settings for the mapproject function ( mapproj package). I've repeated the same gen...

Here is a simple but useful function for adding text to a plot device using the relative x , y coordinates ( i.e. between 0 and 1)...

Walters and Martell (2004, Section 3.2) present an interesting example of harvest feedback policy exploration using basic spreadsh...