Use R! 2010 conference starts today

I think you understand the message I try to bring home to you through this image. Though this year the majority of R users is not presented at the conference, it's a nice challenge for the upcoming paper to do some nice research with/on R, write some nice paper about it, and participate in the conference. See you there next year!

And by now all we can and should do is track this conference via internet:

user2010.org

A following strongly readable blog entry talks about the statistics of the conference through the last years, with a code provided for one to program/plot it all by oneself:

R-Chart: Analyze Online R User Conference Data

Friday weirdo

Though I promised myself I would post twice a week in order to increase self-discipline and track my work flow, when it comes from words to their execution it somehow becomes incredibly hard...

Anyway, this nice and sunny Münchner Friday I would like to remind some of those who try artistic plotting with R that the whole range of colors is available by typing colors().

I did try artistic plotting and loved the following ones from the default pattern: "turquoise3", "sienna1" and "yellowgreen" (not to be mixed up with "greenyellow"!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)):



The data is taken from the Institut d'Estadistica de Catalunya (IDESCAT).

However, if defaults do not satisty your thirst for art, you can always reach all the RGB palette.

Have nice plots!

tweet with R

Pals,

I cannot load the twitteR package for R. After reading this brilliant entry on "R bloggers", I crave to do something alike, but fail to set the machine up.

I have downloaded the package and tried to call it, but R doesn't give me the green light. It says:

> library(twitteR)
Loading required package: RCurl
Error: package 'RCurl' could not be loaded
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In library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) :
there is no package called 'RCurl'

and when I look up this RCurl (which I have no idea what does) and try to load it manually, R says:

ERROR: dependencies ‘bitops’ are not available for package ‘RCurl’
* removing ‘/Users/lyolya/RCurl’

What shall I do with that, poor stupid me???