[R] How are R version types named ? Any convention (like Hurricanes etc)

2013-04-25 Thread Ajay Ohri
. Sincerely, Ajay Ohri Author- R for Business Analytics http://www.amazon.com/R-Business-Analytics-A-Ohri/dp/1461443423 Founder- Decisionstats.com http://decisionstats.com __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

[R] APIs and R

2012-07-30 Thread Ajay Ohri
. Many Thanks, Ajay ohri Websites- Technology http://decisionstats.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R

[R] how to get list of files within a particular local file folder

2012-07-04 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List, Say I can use getwd() and setwd() to change my working directory. How can I read in all the files within that directory using command line (like a ls() but for the path specified) Regards Ajay Websites- Technology http://decisionstats.com On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:30 PM,

Re: [R] how to get list of files within a particular local file folder

2012-07-04 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List, Say I can use getwd() and setwd() to change my working directory. How can I read in all the files within that directory using command line (like a ls() but for the path specified) Regards Ajay Websites- Technology http://decisionstats.com [[alternative HTML version

[R] Getting R In Torrents instead of Download Zip Files

2012-07-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List, Sorry for intrusion. I live in area of erratic internet download speeds. Can we get R in torrents instead of just download Zip files so we can resume downloads when broken Sincrely, A Ohri Websites- Technology http://decisionstats.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] Getting R In Torrents instead of Download Zip Files

2012-07-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
it does help people from developing world with erratic bandwidth, which is where I come from. Sincerely, Ajay Ohri Websites- Technology http://decisionstats.com On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:55 PM, peter dalgaard pda...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 2, 2012, at 12:17 , Ajay Ohri wrote: Dear List

[R] regression in R

2011-10-27 Thread Ajay Ohri
1) Packages to be used- For smaller datasets use these 1. CAR Package http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/car/index.html 2. GVLMA Package http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gvlma/index.html 3. ROCR Package http://rocr.bioinf.mpi-sb.mpg.de/ 4. Relaimpo Package 5. DAAG

[R] Regression Package - for large dataset with lots of variables

2011-10-07 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List, I am trying to create a model for a relatively big dataset of a few million obs. The number of variables is huge and runs into hundreds. What are my choices for creating regression model - and what are the drawbacks of using stepwise regression. Is the BigLM package helpful, or should

[R] R equivalent of proc varclus

2011-10-07 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List What is the R package equivalent of Proc Varclus or Information Value. ANy assistance in determining R equivalents of f Oblique Component Analysis (PROC VARCLUS), Information Value (IV) and Weight Of Evidence (WOE) analysis, and business intelligence

Re: [R] R equivalent of proc varclus

2011-10-07 Thread Ajay Ohri
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 18:19, Ajay Ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear List What is the R package equivalent of Proc Varclus or Information Value. ANy assistance in determining R equivalents of f Oblique Component Analysis (PROC VARCLUS), Information Value (IV) and Weight Of Evidence (WOE

[R] text mining analysis and word visualization of pdfs

2011-05-18 Thread Ajay Ohri
in enterprise software sponsored publications- and need to come up with a statistical threshold. Regards, Ajay Ohri Websites- http://decisionstats.com __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] Debian ?Ubuntu version of latest R using synaptic in Ubuntu 10.10

2011-01-23 Thread Ajay Ohri
if you have additional packages installed with 'install.packages(name, dependencies=TRUE)' in R you will have to reinstall them Regards Denis У Суб, 22/01/2011 у 12:20 +0530, Ajay Ohri піша: Dear List I use synaptic to download R on my Ubuntu 10.10. It seems latest version

[R] Debian ?Ubuntu version of latest R using synaptic in Ubuntu 10.10

2011-01-21 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List I use synaptic to download R on my Ubuntu 10.10. It seems latest version of R on Ubuntu is 2.11.1 Even when I use debian.cran.r-project.org to update my packages the problem remains (latest versions on CRAN are almost always 2 updates ahead of Debian packages) This is also true for a

Re: [R] Who uses R with multicore, SNOW or CUDA package for resource intense computing?

2010-11-20 Thread Ajay Ohri
R doesnot have a 1 million or two million users (thats an Urban legend thanks to Vance NYT article) . The exact number is not proven and estimated by a variety of association by proxy methods. It could be as low as 5,00,000 or as many as 5 million users. It's like speculating which private

Re: [R] About R and RKward

2010-11-17 Thread Ajay Ohri
some comparisons for interfaces to R on desktop-draft from blog post (JSS paper is submitted for GUI issue but not vetted) http://decisionstats.com/2010/10/05/interfaces-to-r/ RKward is number 4 have you researched out all R commander E plugins before settling on R Kward R commander is by J

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Ajay Ohri
wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de:

Re: [R] RMySQL on Windows 2008 64 Bit -Help!

2010-11-13 Thread Ajay Ohri
did you try the RODBC package as well. Regards Ajay Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Santosh Srinivas santosh.srini...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Group, I'm having lots of problems getting

[R] R Applications for Force.com/ Salesforce

2010-11-10 Thread Ajay Ohri
this info. Many thanks as always Regards Ajay Ohri Delhi, India Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do

Re: [R] OT : R Applications for Force.com/ Salesforce

2010-11-10 Thread Ajay Ohri
to a technical question. Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Gavin Simpson gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 13:38 +0530, Ajay Ohri wrote: Dear List Forgive me for the slightly off

Re: [R] R Applications for Force.com/ Salesforce

2010-11-10 Thread Ajay Ohri
/cdl/en/whatsnew/62580/HTML/default/viewer.htm#datasurveyorwhatsnew902.htm) I am just doing research on cloud computing and R and needed this info. Many thanks as always Regards Ajay Ohri Delhi, India Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com

[R] Qt interfaces to R/ Windows version as well as using PyQT

2010-11-09 Thread Ajay Ohri
Is the project on creating R GUIs using QT interfaces still on? Any plans of using PyQT Regards Ajay Ohri Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kari Ruohonen kari.ruoho...@utu.fi wrote: Hi, I

Re: [R] Rserve alternative?

2010-11-08 Thread Ajay Ohri
Alternatives to Windows platform are Linux. Try Ubuntu download from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors if you are a Linux newbie to use Rserve Also see Rapache at http://rapache.net/ for using Apache Web Server and R together. The third R interface on web is Rweb see

Re: [R] transforming a dataset for association analysis RESHAPE2

2010-11-01 Thread Ajay Ohri
0 0 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ajay Ohri Sent: 30 October 2010 16:27 To: Rhelp Subject: [R] transforming a dataset for association analysis Hi I would like to transform a data frame like

[R] transforming a dataset for association analysis

2010-10-30 Thread Ajay Ohri
Hi I would like to transform a data frame like SubjectItem Score Subject 1 Item 1 1 Subject 1 Item 2 0 Subject 1 Item 3 1 Subject 2 Item 1 1 Subject 2 Item 2 1 Subject 2 Item 3 0 *to * Subject Item1 Item2 Item3 .Item N Subject1 1 0 1 Subject2

[R] Using R with Google Storage/Big Query and Prediction API

2010-10-25 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List Google has new beta lists for storage, querying and prediction at http://code.google.com/apis/predict/docs/getting-started.html http://code.google.com/apis/predict/docs/getting-started.html http://code.google.com/apis/bigquery/docs/getting-started.html#intro

Re: [R] 140 packages in R Commander!!

2010-10-25 Thread Ajay Ohri
-project.org] On Behalf Of Ajay Ohri Sent: October-24-10 12:47 PM To: R-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] 140 packages in R Commander!! Dear List I just downloaded and installed R 2.12.0 and then installed R Commander . First it got RCmdr and Car, and then suggested for other packages

[R] 140 packages in R Commander!!

2010-10-24 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List I just downloaded and installed R 2.12.0 and then installed R Commander . First it got RCmdr and Car, and then suggested for other packages for utilizing the full functionality- I clicked yes! I got 140 packages installed!!! Cran Mirror was UCLA... Here is the list. Is this

[R] R 2.12 How many downloads

2010-10-17 Thread Ajay Ohri
A general question- and excuse me if you find it irrelevant Are you tracking how many people finally download a specific R version by counting the number of downloads through log/ analytics software like GA etc? If so- can we see some numbers Ajay Websites- http://decisionstats.com

Re: [R] Tinn R

2010-10-03 Thread Ajay Ohri
try eclipse,dude http://www.walware.de/goto/statet Eclipse Plug-In for R: StatET Homepage R Project www.r-project.org Homepage Eclipse www.eclipse.org This is an Eclipse plug-in, supporting you to write R scripts and documentations. R is a language and environment for statistical computing

[R] Programmaticly finding number of processors by R code

2010-10-03 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List Sorry if this question seems very basic. Is there a function to pro grammatically find number of processors in my system _ I want to pass this as a parameter to snow in some serial code to parallel code functions Regards Ajay Websites- http://decisionstats.com

Re: [R] Programmaticly finding number of processors by R code

2010-10-03 Thread Ajay Ohri
that attempts to do this in its function detectCores (see the source code). And on Sparc Solaris it is pretty useless as it gives virtual CPUs, 8x the number of real CPUs. On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Ajay Ohri wrote: Dear List Sorry if this question seems very basic. Is there a function to pro

[R] Running R on Amazon EC2 : Public Snapshot for use

2010-10-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
be interesting to see R visualizations on potentially huge huge datasets using this cloud computing R- if anyone tries it. Best Regards Ajay Ohri Websites- http://decisionstats.wordpress.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 AM

[R] Public Snapshot for using R

2010-10-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
-windows/ It would be interesting to see R visualizations on potentially huge huge datasets using this cloud computing R- if anyone tries it. Best Regards Ajay Ohri [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing

[R] Amazon EC 2 AMI for using R

2010-10-02 Thread Ajay Ohri
Platform:Windows Root Device Type:ebs Root Device:/dev/sda1 Image Size:30 GiB Block Devices:/dev/sda1=snap-3af4e951:30:true Regards, Ajay ps- I deleted the snapshot, instead using the AMI is faster. On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Ajay Ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I ave created

Re: [R] How many R packages are not free?

2010-10-01 Thread Ajay Ohri
http://depts.washington.edu/uwc4c/express-licenses/files/view/license/35/ http://depts.washington.edu/uwc4c/express-licenses/files/view/license/35/Only Revolution charges (but they have atleast 5 packages by now) apart from enhanced core libraries. Rattle has a commercial version as well _it is

[R] STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF TEXT EMAILS Re: Refreshments after SOMS Seminar Friday 3:30-4:30 in HBB 334

2009-12-05 Thread ajay ohri
Dear Professor Frank Guess, Why did you call me a Curious George? What is a curious george as in American context? Why did you address this email only to Laura and me. Why did you not answer my early query on what is a curious George? Why do you also send me emails saying I and Gandhi are

Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:

2009-10-21 Thread Ajay ohri
is about. Please refrain from posting things like this in the future. -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ajay ohri Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:52 PM To: r-help@r-project.org; sas-l; spssx-l Subject: [R

[R] How to run r and r GUIs

2009-09-21 Thread AJay Ohri
Apologize in advance for the question but could anyone tell how to run r Rattle and rcmdr on I Phone 3gs please regards ajay ohri u Tennessee At Knoxville Www.decisionstats.com Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2009, at 4:44 AM, Graham Williams graham.willi...@togaware.com wrote: Try

Re: [R] Using R with Hadoop/Hive for Big Data

2009-08-01 Thread Ajay ohri
...@mac.com wrote: I am not sure if I understood your question, but you may want to look at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/HadoopStreaming/HadoopStreaming.pdf Regards, Avram On Friday, July 31, 2009, at 02:39PM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Hive http://hadoop.apache.org

[R] Using R with Hadoop/Hive for Big Data

2009-07-31 Thread Ajay ohri
Hive http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/ is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop that provides tools to enable easy data summarization, adhoc querying and analysis of large datasets data stored in Hadoop files. It provides a mechanism to put structure on this data and it also provides

[R] Putting R Based open source analytics for collobrative spreadsheet working on the Cloud

2009-06-22 Thread Ajay ohri
or http://www.decisionstats.com/ Thanks, Ajay Ohri __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained

[R] SAS CMO and SVP Jim Davis on Open Source, BI , competition, leadership succession others

2009-06-05 Thread Ajay ohri
An interview with Chief Marketing Officer of SAS Institute, Jim Davis. Here is an extract- http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/05/interview-jim-davis-sas-institute/ *Ajay -It is rare to find a major software company that has zero involvement with open source movement (or as I call it with

[R] OT: Inference for R - Interview

2009-06-04 Thread Ajay ohri
as graphical capabilities. Best Regards, Ajay Ohri www.decisionstats.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R

[R] OT ; Interview with David Smith, REvolution Computing

2009-05-31 Thread Ajay ohri
, Ajay Ohri [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self

[R] OT : Interview SPSS 's Head Corporate Development Olivier

2009-04-29 Thread Ajay ohri
analytics. You can read it here http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/18342 (faster) or my site www.decisionstats.com (slower site) regards, Ajay Ohri [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

[R] SAS Institute to invest upto $20 m with R Project

2009-04-01 Thread Ajay ohri
A SAS spokesperson has confirmed to this blog that they have invested in the R –Core project to help build next generation algorithms . Details are sketchy but indications of some shift on cloud hosted SAS ,called SaaS are emerging.Also includes some details on Jim Davis ,SVP SAS marketing's

Re: [R] re commended computing server for R (March 2009)?

2009-04-01 Thread Ajay Ohri Decisionstats
A SAS spokesperson has confirmed to this blog that they have invested in the R –Core project to help build next generation algorithms . Details are sketchy but indications of some shift on cloud hosted SAS ,called SaaS are emerging.Also includes some details on Jim Davis ,SVP SAS marketing's

[R] R Language Bloggers and Web Sites Owners

2009-03-31 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear List, Apologies in advance for non bloggers for the spam on the slightly off topic. This is an invitation to all R language bloggers to help spread the world at a forum where leading authors come together. Current only 1 R blogger is there- David Smith, from Revolution Computing. There

[R] Interview: Jon Peck on SPSS, R ,Python ...

2009-03-17 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear List, I recently got the chance to interview Jon Peck of SPSS Inc, a pioneering technical statistician working since 1983 (when there were only two substantial statistical software companies as per him ;) (not anymore ;) and currently he is a Principal Software Engineer and Technical Advisor

Re: [R] popular R packages

2009-03-10 Thread Ajay ohri
Pricing each download at 99 cents ( the same as a song from I Tunes) can measure users more accurately. Thats my 2 cents anyways. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Max Kuhn mxk...@gmail.com wrote: If is easy to get the download numbers, we should do it and deal with the interpretation issues.

[R] OT: SAS on Open Source ,R and Code

2009-03-05 Thread Ajay ohri
coding ,and software as a service especially SAS Institute’s offering . She also reveals some preview on SAS ‘s involvement with R ,including an upcoming announcement on it and mentions cloud computing. You can see the interview here http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/16968 Best Regards, Ajay Ohri

[R] OT : Interview with Anne Milley ,SAS

2009-03-04 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear Lists, This is an off topic (OT ). I recently took Anne Milley's interview .In Part 1 of the interview , Anne talks about SAS, WPS, other softwares she studied like SPSS,.She also talks about the difference between small and big companies , what sets SAS apart and the famous licensing model

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-03-03 Thread Ajay ohri
://www.decisionstats.com/2009/03/an-r-package-only-for-sas-users/ On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: for an inefficient language , it sure has dominated the predictive analytics world for 3 plus decades. I referred once to intellectual jealousy between newton

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-03-03 Thread Ajay ohri
no market for R packages exists in true economic sense as there is demand and supply and utility but no price Ajay Did Tom Sawyer create the first collaborative project ever ( to paint the fence ?) On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: Ajay ohri wrote

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-03-03 Thread Ajay ohri
why didnt you call it procunivariate if that was exactly what you wanted to do . On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu wrote: Ajay ohri wrote: for an inefficient language , it sure has dominated the predictive analytics world for 3 plus decades

[R] SAS Macros for R Users Only

2009-03-03 Thread Ajay ohri
, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: why didnt you call it procunivariate if that was exactly what you wanted to do . On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu wrote: Ajay ohri wrote: for an inefficient language , it sure

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-03-02 Thread Ajay ohri
for an inefficient language , it sure has dominated the predictive analytics world for 3 plus decades. I referred once to intellectual jealousy between newton and liebnitz. i am going ahead and creating the R package called Anne. It basically is meant only for SAS users who want to learn R ,

[R] R tools help

2009-03-01 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear List, I am trying to create a R package and having some issues with setting the path on a Windows XP . Could you point me to a tutorial that helps in creating R packages . Also I tried installing Linux using the Windows installer wubi but it failed repeatedly and everytime it resets

Re: [R] R tools help

2009-03-01 Thread Ajay ohri
...@debian.org wrote: On 1 March 2009 at 22:54, Ajay ohri wrote: | Dear List, | I am trying to create a R package and having some issues with setting the | path on a Windows XP . | | Could you point me to a tutorial that helps in creating R packages . http://lmgtfy.com/?q=create+a+R

Re: [R] R tools help

2009-03-01 Thread Ajay ohri
. There is also some relevant info there if you do want to change it anyways and info on packages. On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear List, I am trying to create a R package and having some issues with setting the path on a Windows XP . Could you

[R] R package.skeleton

2009-03-01 Thread Ajay ohri
am referring to this document for creating R packages now http://biosun1.harvard.edu/courses/individual/bio271/lectures/L6/Rpkg.pdf Could you please let me know how to create the package. Regards, Ajay On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear List, I am

Re: [R] R tools help

2009-03-01 Thread Ajay ohri
...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ran it . I placed it in C:\Rtools it ran for a sec and vanished Do you mean you placed Rcmd.bat in C:\Rtools? What you want to do is issue the command PATH from the Windows console and put

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-27 Thread Ajay ohri
I would like to know if we can create a package in which r functions are renamed closer to sas language.doing so will help people familiar to SAS to straight away take to R for their work,thus decreasing the threshold for acceptance - and then get into deeper understanding later. since it is a

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-27 Thread Ajay ohri
am not a Marxist. Karl Marx http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/karlmarx131048.html On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Marc Schwartz marc_schwa...@comcast.netwrote: on 02/27/2009 07:57 AM Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Ajay ohri wrote: I would like to know if we can create a package

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-27 Thread Ajay ohri
A further example of software pricing dynamics is the complete lack of awareness of WPS , a UK based software which is basically a base SAS clone with all the features of SAS ( coding read ,write and data read /write) and priced only at 660$ per desktop and 1400$ for server licenses ..very very

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Ajay ohri
Sometimes for the sake of simplicity, SAS coding is created like that. One can use the concatenate function and drag and drop in an simple excel sheet for creating elaborate SAS code like the one mentioned and without any time at all. There are multiple ways to do this in SAS , much better and

Re: [R] Inefficiency of SAS Programming

2009-02-26 Thread Ajay ohri
How would this agency be convinced of adopting R code also how would these things work. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu wrote: If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to program in

Re: [R] R as a web scraping tool using RCurl

2009-02-18 Thread Ajay ohri
Try Firefox and an add in called I Macros from www.iopus.com as an simpler alternative read some stuff here http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/01/web-crawling-automation/ regards, Ajay On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Harsh singhal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, I am trying to leverage my

[R] Article on R and SAS in NY Times Blog

2009-02-16 Thread Ajay ohri
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/ SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a TimeBy ASHLEE VANCEhttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/ashlee-vance/ The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter 'R.'

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

2009-02-09 Thread Ajay ohri
to an interesting thread ...] Ao == Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com on Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530 writes: Ao Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but aesthetic Ao designhmm I tend to agree. A few months ago, we had volunteers to improve the ESS homepage (http

[R] R on Mobile Devices (All)

2009-02-06 Thread Ajay ohri
Hi, I have been considering use of R on Windows Operating system and the market leader Symbiosis. I want to log on to my remote pc using remote desktop securely using the username and password, then run R as if I was in front of the PC itself ( PC got more RAM than Mobile ..still). Ditto for the

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

2009-02-04 Thread Ajay ohri
Quite nice and simple. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.Thanks a lot. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.cawrote: Hadley put together a couple of nice versions of the main Windows download page

[R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

2009-02-04 Thread Ajay ohri
An amusing afterthought : What is a rival software (ahem!) was planting this, hoping for a divide between S and R communities.or at the very minimum hoping for some amusement. an assumption or even a pretense of stealing credit is one of the easiest ways of sparking intellectual discord Most users

Re: [R] New York Times - R - article a fraud?

2009-02-03 Thread Ajay ohri
you should wait for the article on R by fox news Calvin Trillin - Health food makes me sick. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:19 AM, eugene dalt eugened...@yahoo.com wrote: I worked on some ad data before and I found NYT article very biaised and not far from a fraud... Anyone knows if they got money

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

2009-02-03 Thread Ajay ohri
How much time do you think is needed to read 133 pages of FAQ. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: Hadley wickham wrote: The most useful thing (and quite rightly so) on the front page is the link the the

[R] SAS language to R :interview

2009-02-03 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear List, Please find a frank interview with Phil Rack, creator of Bridge to R ( from both SAS and WPS interfaces). For those unaware of WPS- it is basically a SAS language compiler (read SAS code,writes SAS code,Reads and writes SAS datasets) ,priced at 660 $ a licence ( or estimated 10 times

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

2009-02-02 Thread Ajay ohri
Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but aesthetic designhmm But a contest would the best way to get the best design and can be publicly asked from the graphics community ( not just the R community)..remember Tom Sawyer and the fence :) - I volunteer in both cases

Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R

2009-02-02 Thread Ajay ohri
, friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.dewrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530, Ajay ohri (Ao) wrote: Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but aesthetic designhmm In most cases one can do more than most think using HTML and CSS: Our universities corporate design

[R] Deploying a R model on a cloud computer using PMML

2009-02-02 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear List, Please find an interview from Michael Zeller ,CEO, Zementis. Mike talks about how to use an existing model ( created in R) , using PMML as an intermediate for exporting the model, and deploying it on a cloud computer for as low as 1 $ per hour. Regards, Ajay *Ajay-* *What are the

[R] Problems in Recommending R

2009-02-01 Thread Ajay ohri
website instead. You can check out www.knime.org which is an open source software , and free, and supports R---and notice the change in perception . Best Regards, Ajay Ohri www.decisionstats.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r

Re: [R] sas.get under Linux

2009-01-31 Thread Ajay ohri
Hi, have you looked at the third party SAS language compilers WPS ( 600 dollars per desktop version http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/home/ ) and Carolina ( http://dullesopen.com/) http://dullesopen.com/ http://dullesopen.com/ if you need just base SAS. I think SAS institute existing products have

[R] Fwd: The Internet is an Error by Google

2009-01-31 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear List, In continuation of the Website Error Messages. Ajay www.decisionstats.com Looks like the boys from Mountain View did some testing for anti spam or denial of service ( depends on if you like/trust/dislike G) , and went live instead of sand boxing the tests... Article from

Re: [R] Analytics Training Institute launches course on R

2009-01-30 Thread Ajay ohri
Cool nice initiative. Regards, Ajay Rodney Dangerfield - My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Analytics Training analyticstraining...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Now you can join for R course offered by G K

[R] OT :Interview with the CEO , REvolution Computing : Commercial R launched

2009-01-30 Thread Ajay ohri
Dear List, Please find an interview with Richard Schultz, CEO REvolution Computing. REvolution Computing just launched their latest product, commercial as well as enterprise versions of R which include service contracts and tech support. The interview is viewable at

[R] Corrected Links: OT :Interview with the CEO , REvolution Computing : Commercial R launched

2009-01-30 Thread Ajay ohri
Corrected Links Dear List, Please find an interview with Richard Schultz, CEO REvolution Computing. REvolution Computing just launched their latest product, commercial as well as enterprise versions of R which include service contracts and tech support. The interview is viewable at

Re: [R] U R ready for R! Now deploy your R models via cloud computing!

2009-01-22 Thread Ajay ohri
Hi Michael, Can you also build the PMML model on the cloud with R, paying for the processor ,memory usage. Any plans to extend the abilty to model, or is it just deploy PMML models on the cloud servers. Regards, Ajay http://www.decisionstats.com On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:29 AM, MZ

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-10 Thread Ajay ohri
Hi , I have been trying to convince Pat to come up with a book on this. He can add in the chapters on *Purgatorio* (Purgatoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatory), and *Paradiso* (Paradise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven) Regards, Ajay On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Jason Morgan

Re: [R] R in the NY Times

2009-01-10 Thread Ajay ohri
more on the reasons R is bad for you http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/01/top-ten-rrreasons-r-is-bad-for-you/ On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: 2009/1/10 Tony Breyal tony.bre...@googlemail.com: [SAS marketroid quote] In fact, SAS

Re: [R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread Ajay ohri
R would have truly arrived if the Wall Street Journal mentions it as an alternative to SAS or Excel...but that is some years away... Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Robert Wilkins irishhac...@gmail.comwrote: Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread Ajay ohri
excellent adaptation of Dante and R with real common sense tips to help beginners especially ..goes to the blogroll.. now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows dataset in less than ..eternity Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Patrick Burns

Re: [R] R and Excel

2009-01-08 Thread Ajay ohri
Hi Erich, I saw that it uses a remote server ( which can be the same machine ) to compute. Here is the question- What is the remote server is Amazon EC2 which has upscalaing and downscaling facillity for RAM and CPU... Will it work ? is there a SaaS version of this? Regards, Ajay On Thu,

Re: [R] R and Excel

2009-01-08 Thread Ajay ohri
Hi Erich, I would like to share and embed the RExcel Training video (just like youtube allows me to) . How can I do that ? Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Erich, I saw that it uses a remote server ( which can

[R] R in the NY Times-IAsians perspective

2009-01-07 Thread Ajay ohri
R and its GUI Rattle helped me establish a data mining consulting startup on my own, without taking bank credit . People I met on the forum and especially books like rforsasandspssusers.com/ http://rforsasandspssusers.com/ helped me ease the transition to the new Object Oriented method from the

Re: [R] R in the NY Times

2009-01-07 Thread Ajay ohri
you can use google alerts to track media coverage of R using some keywords regards, ajay On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:52 PM, David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Tony Breyal tony.bre...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank you for posting this, I found

[R] R ,SAS,New Tork Times etc

2009-01-07 Thread Ajay ohri
As someone who fwded initial story to both SAS and R lists, I find the messages on this forum and on SAS-L forum (which are publicly available) a contrast ( One list is partying like they won the World Series -the other one talks of either self denial.or of self appraisal and anguish)

Re: [R] Regarding Books on R

2009-01-07 Thread Ajay ohri
see www.rforsasandspssusers.com, excellent book which i have used also try r for beginners. regards, ajay ohri www.decisionstats.com On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Kishore gladikish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have good understanding on Econometrics and statistical techniques

[R] R Threatens SAS According to The NYT

2009-01-06 Thread ajay ohri
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, ajay ohri ajayo...@yahoo.com wrote: FYI..not a R -Help Topic, buy I dont know which list to post discussions like this. Regards, Ajay -- Forwarded message -- From: ajay ohri ajayo...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM Subject

Re: [R] I need course in R

2008-12-19 Thread Ajay ohri
You can also try the R for SAS and SPSS users at http://rforsasandspssusers.com/ in case you are an existing user of analytics software...its quite user friendly. Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com Douglas MacArthur - We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. On Fri,

Re: [R] Running R Script on a Sequence of Files

2008-12-05 Thread Ajay ohri
This is almost a macro problem. It could be done in SAS language using the WPS product (660 USD) I think. It is a familiar problem and I would be quite interested in the result. Is there any concept of Macros in R or a package to do the same. Regards, Ajay On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM,

Re: [R] Running R Script on a Sequence of Files

2008-12-05 Thread Ajay ohri
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajay ohri Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:59 PM To: Chris Poliquin Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Running R Script on a Sequence of Files This is almost a macro problem. It could be done in SAS language using the WPS product (660 USD) I

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