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R-statistics blog
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R-statistics blog is a personal blog at r-statistics.com about data and programming. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this R blog for R how-tos and tool recommendations, such as Excel-to-R tips and an R web front-end (R-Node). No commenter comments on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog on statistics and R
What Hacker News says?
Hmmm, I'm not sure there is an Excel style graph wizard, although there's this package which is close https://www.r-statistics.com/2016/11/ggedit-interactive-ggpl... For PML() kinds of functions, I often just google something like "Excel PML() function in R" and something usually turns up: - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/optiRum/optiRum.pdf - https://gist.github.com/econ-r/dcd503815bbb271484ff Another good…
Comment linking /2016/11/ggedit-interactive-ggplot-aesthetic-and-theme-editor/
on “R for Excel Users”Submitted Calling R lovers to work together on “The R Programming wikibook” as a story · 74 points
HN discussionWe're[1] using reactive programming in our web framework to simplify UI programming. If you've done UI programming before you know it's all about event handlers. If you have multiple inputs and outputs, and a complicated graph of what inputs affect what outputs (either directly or indirectly) then it gets extremely messy to try to track all that with event handlers. Often you end up having one big function that take…
Comment linking /2012/11/comparing-shiny-with-gwidgetswww2-rapache/
on “Reactor.js: simple reactive programming for Javascript”Submitted Did StackOverFlow just lose it to MetaOptimize? And is it good or bad? as a story · 73 points
HN discussionHave a look at deducer, probably the best R GUI out there: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/08/ggplot2-plot-builder-is-...
Comment linking /2010/08/ggplot2-plot-builder-is-now-available-on-cran-through-deducer-0-4-gui-for-r/
on “Visual R”Submitted Top 14 R posts of 2010 (from over 140 R blogs) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionAlso check out R-Node, a Web front-end to R with Protovis. It's still alpha but worth taking a look. http://www.squirelove.net/r-node/ http://gitorious.org/r-node http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/r-node-a-web-front-end-t...
Comment linking /2010/04/r-node-a-web-front-end-to-r-with-protovis/
on “Visual R”Submitted R 3.3.2 is released as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top 20 R (statistics) posts of 2011 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it harder to advertise to the more educated? (we don't know yet...) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding up R code using a just-in-time (JIT) compiler as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open source and money why paying R developers might not help the project as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Audio from Richard Stallman's talk at useR 2010 on software and freedom as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ggedit 0.0.2: a GUI for advanced editing of ggplot2 objects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Could we run a statistical analysis on iPhone/iPad using R? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted R 3.3.1 is released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slides from useR 2011 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diagram for a Bernoulli process using R as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open source and money - should FOSS developers be paid? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Presidential Election Predictions 2016 (an ASA competition) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interactive Graphics with the iplots R Package as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 38% discount coupon off of all programming books at Manning publishing house as a story · 1 points
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