Author Archives: alexanderploner
Reading an international SPSS file into R
Background I admit I have a certain weakness for SPSS: I have used it extensively during my first university job (when R was still at version 0.63) and more importantly, the first course I was fully responsible for was an … Continue reading
Building ROracle on Windows 7
Background ROracle is an add-on package that allows you to easily access an existing Oracle server from the command line of the R statistical environment: you can list existing tables, display their structure, download data – either on a fairly … Continue reading
The why and the how of installing Rtools
Some background One of the great things about R statistical language & environment is that it is open source and cross-platform. Admittedly, these are kind of two things, though you might argue that any sufficiently popular open source software will … Continue reading
Hello world!
I guess you have to start somewhere, which in my case is here. Let me propose the following question for today: why is it butterfingered, but ham-fisted, and not butter-fingered and hamfisted? Though I kind of see why hamfingered and … Continue reading
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