Wisdom And Wonder

CRANberries for R

CRANberries aggregates information about new, updated and removed packages from the CRAN network for R

DATA-COPE

DATA-COPE seeks to provide information for research analysts accessing and using administrative data. A key aspect of this mission is resource sharing and curation of quality information that is recommended by our members.

Should your R code get compiled for speed gains?

Should your R code get compiled for speed gains?
This post says “yes”.

This discussion demonstrates the surprise that partial matching in R provides. One option to avoid this, if you do not want it to occur, is either to not to use the $ operator or tell R both to warn when it does occur and then handle it as an error:

options(warnPartialMatchDollar=TRUE)
options(warn=2)
options(error=recover)

statebins for R

statebins – U.S. State Cartogram Heatmaps in R; an alternative to choropleth maps for USA States

Who would ever tell lies with such a thing?!
Looks like a very pleasant to use API.

SDMX

1. What is SDMX?
SDMX stands for Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange-the electronic exchange of statistical information. Its goal is to explore e-standards that could allow us to gain efficiency and avoid duplication of effort in our own work and possibly in the work of others in the field of statistical information.