Manipulate Excel files from R without a local Office installation.
bit.ly/ZMsmMl
But requires Java (bleh)
#rstats
@ficaryl Academia. You have two cows with just enough food. Both cows hire a dozen other cows w/ grand promises of future pasture.
@ficaryl The French and Aussie corporations are my favorites.
@mrgunn 2-4 pm, 2063 VLSB
@kara_woo Do they baikalot to work or just ski? #badbaikalpuns
elizabethiorns Join us April 4 for SOBA: Science Gaming sciencegaming-estw.eventbrite.com #sobay
adactio Google launch a product called Keep? With a straight face? I’m waiting for Yahoo Preserve.
googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/google…
#irony #weeping #hashbang
Live in Berkeley? Want to learn about #ggplot2? I’m giving a 2 hour demo/lecture in VLSB/IB on April 9th.
Awesome article on bats and coronaviruses by @carlzimmer
bit.ly/YsBl3K ↬ @aetiology
liked it? go read @DavidQuammen’s new book.
@JacquelynGill Twice today (over email) I got ma’am. Guessing they couldn’t figure it out with ethnic sounding name.
@researchremix I use it as a catch-all for misc. things i find on the web. But for plain text notes, nothing beats simple-note.
@researchremix Why not Evernote? That’s the only focus of the company and they do it really well.
@msanclem bummed I didn’t buy much gear this year. I’ll be getting a :( dividend.
Berkeley stats nerds, there’s a Stan talk this Friday:
bit.ly/ZLsbku
Nice interview Jeroen Ooms of OpenCPU #rstats
bit.ly/ZLrmrW
A great t-shirt for my fellow academics.
i.imgur.com/OAxe4av.jpg
My interview with @programmableweb about @rOpenSci
bit.ly/ZLqCmw
@brookeborel Didn’t ancient Egyptians do exactly that? Drink low alcohol beer because it was safer than water?
@covert hat tip. Not all that different from via.
@mfenner Awesome work Martin!
@covert hah, I didn’t realize she was using it. Idea came from someone else. I regularly use ↬ and ᔥ
New YC-startup brings a combo of spreadsheets + SQL for messy data to the web. tcrn.ch/Yp8f8t ↬ @covert
DataONEorg Reminder: Tomorrow is the deadline for applications to the DataONE Summer Internship Program. ow.ly/jfUVW
revodavid "In the year 2020 R will be a dominant force in commerce" - @burnsstat. I'd bet on sooner. bit.ly/100g5UD #rstats
revodavid Anyone know a statistician/data scientist in the LA area available for #rstats consulting work?
Biology Letters now backed by @datadryad
bit.ly/100gUfX
neat!
@LizNeeley if you had a bad shutdown, it's running a disk utility check / repair and can take this long. Is the progress bar moving?
@jasonpriem exactly! All the pieces are already in place.
@ekansa @jasonpriem yep. Git is setup to be distributed so its easy to use both GitHub and institutions as remote hosts. Journals should too
@jasonpriem and journal ensures repo longevity. Anyone can fork and build upon. Contributions/corrections come as pull requests.
@jasonpriem I've been thinking along similar lines. Journals are Git organizations. Journals fork author repos. Final article is a tag.
@punkish where the hell are you? Beyond the PDF?