Re: [CODE4LIB] R?
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ Blog about R, info viz, etc.: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, that kind of thing. Check out the NSF funded Bibliographic Knowledge Network project ( http://www.bibkn.org). Details are sparse now, but I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more about this in the near future. I expect R will be put to good use given what I know about the PI's and their other projects/interests. Harrison Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org -- Harrison Dekker -- Head of Library Data Lab -- UC Berkeley Libraries Phone: 510-250-7901 :: Skype: ucbdekker :: Google Voice: 510-621-3282 IM: GTalk:vagrantscholar :: AIM:hdekker :: Yahoo!:hgdekker :: Meebo:ucbdekker Web: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/wikis/datalab/ ———- Q: Why is this email 5 sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es
Re: [CODE4LIB] R?
My son uses it at Biogen Idec doing statistical genetics programming. He gave me a demo last weekend. It reminded me of my first programming language, APL :) He loaded data and created very nice visualizations in about five lines of code. Let us know how it works for you! Rich Ackerman Director, Electronic Resources and Web Services Alvin Sherman Library Nova Southeastern University 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr. Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 hacke...@nova.edu 954-262-4536 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of William Denton Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] R? Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ Blog about R, info viz, etc.: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, that kind of thing. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] R?
I took some online courses in data mining last year at statistics.com, some of which featured R. I was pleased with it, although I haven't tried to integrate it in any programming project, and I only scratched the surface. I also would highly recommend the courses at statistics.com. Now if I could just work out the data collection to make use of the data mining techniques on our library data. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca wrote: William == William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: William Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional scaling (512--2) I do here: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html It is fast, backed by the stats braniacs, has a huge number of domain-specific modules (biology, genomics, geology, engineering, ). It is great. Slices bread, juliennes fries, casts my votes, does my taxes, feeds my dogs and submits my postings to code4lib. ;-) -glen William == William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: William Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ WilliamBlog about R, info viz, etc.: William http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ William I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around William with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for William visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, William that kind of thing. William Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org William www.frbr.org openfrbr.org -- Glen Newton | glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/tél http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu%0Atel/t%C3%A9l: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -- -- Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363
Re: [CODE4LIB] R?
At Rutgers, we use R for computing basic statistics (frequencies and cross-tabs) on our Eagleton Poll website: http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/eagleton/. Eagleton Polls have been conducted for many years in New Jersey and solicit opinions on sociopolitical issues with a heavy New Jersey focus. . So, for example, someone can see how a governor's popularity breaks down by gender or geography or how attitudes about illegal immigration vary by county. We used to use SPSS server which was fairly expensive so the switch to R has worked well and saved money also. If anyone would like more information, you can contact the Rutgers Digital Library Archtiect, Ron Jantz (rja...@rci.rutgers.edu) or the programmer who implemented R statistics, Jie Geng (g...@rci.rutgers.edu) Grace Agnew Cindy Harper wrote: I took some online courses in data mining last year at statistics.com, some of which featured R. I was pleased with it, although I haven't tried to integrate it in any programming project, and I only scratched the surface. I also would highly recommend the courses at statistics.com. Now if I could just work out the data collection to make use of the data mining techniques on our library data. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca wrote: William == William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: William Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional scaling (512--2) I do here: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html It is fast, backed by the stats braniacs, has a huge number of domain-specific modules (biology, genomics, geology, engineering, ). It is great. Slices bread, juliennes fries, casts my votes, does my taxes, feeds my dogs and submits my postings to code4lib. ;-) -glen William == William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: William Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ WilliamBlog about R, info viz, etc.: William http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ William I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around William with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for William visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, William that kind of thing. William Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org William www.frbr.org openfrbr.org -- Glen Newton | glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/tél http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu%0Atel/t%C3%A9l: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -- -- Grace Agnew Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems Rutgers University Libraries 47 Davidson Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: 732-445-5908 Fax: 732-445-5888
Re: [CODE4LIB] R?
Rich Ackerman wrote: William Denton wrote: Are any of you using R? (http://www.r-project.org/) My son uses it at Biogen Idec doing statistical genetics programming. He gave me a demo last weekend. It reminded me of my first programming language, APL :) He loaded data and created very nice visualizations in about five lines of code. Let us know how it works for you! You might also look into J. Statistics is only one of its applications (I've used it for music, stock market analysis, and library statistical data; others use it for numerical analysis, actuarial uses, number theory, graphics, image processing, modeling and simulation, puzzle solving, time series, and many other fields of interest in both the arts and sciences). J is a general (functional) programming language for array data, and I think it's far more powerful than R. (However, that power comes at the price of a rather steep learning curve.) Regarding the APL comment above: J is the advanced sibling/successor to APL http://www.jsoftware.com/. Like APL in the 1960's, it was invented by Ken Iverson 20 years ago; the most visible difference is that it uses standard ASCII characters instead of the special APL characters. The related array languages K and Q (developed by Arthur Whitney, a friend of Iverson) http://kx.com/ are used by a number of major Wall Street firms to handle and analyze the billions of pieces of data generated daily. Harvey
Re: [CODE4LIB] R?
Ironically, the first, and only other time, I heard of R was in a job description for the Democratic National Committee. I wonder if the Republicans will need D programmers. --- David Cloutman dclout...@co.marin.ca.us Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of William Denton Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] R? Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ Blog about R, info viz, etc.: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, that kind of thing. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm
Re: [CODE4LIB] R?
I'm not using R personally here but I've gotten a number of requests for it to be installed on library computers, so I think it's getting pretty popular. jf On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Cloutman, David dclout...@co.marin.ca.uswrote: Ironically, the first, and only other time, I heard of R was in a job description for the Democratic National Committee. I wonder if the Republicans will need D programmers. --- David Cloutman dclout...@co.marin.ca.us Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of William Denton Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] R? Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ Blog about R, info viz, etc.: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, that kind of thing. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm -- http://libgrunt.blogspot.com -- library culture and technology.
