My two favorite IDE’s for R – tips & tricks

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Max Gordon

The two IDE that I use for R are RStudio and Eclipse with StatET. They complement each other nicely, RStudio works out of the box while I previously shown how to get Eclipse & StatET going, you can find it here, which is slightly challanging.

RStudio

I use RStudio for all my statistics where I don’t want to create functions or more advanced programming. It’s great since it allows me to get immediate help, code completes the initiated variables. The settings are simple and you hardly need to do anything. Continue reading →

Setting up StatET & Eclipse in Windows

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Max Gordon

A view of the StatET plugin in the Juno Eclipse. The environment is perfect for developing R packages and creating more complex functions.

I wanted to write about creating R-packages in Windows but after trying to get StatET to work seamlessly in Windows I decided that maybe I should start with the very basics. I found Longhow Lam’s excellent PDF about StatET in a Windows environment to be very helpful.

My basic setup:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
R: 2.15.1 64-bit
Eclipse: Juno (3.8) 64-bit – Eclipse 4.2.0
StatET: 3.1 Continue reading →

Swedish orthopaedic surgery gets a bronze

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Max Gordon

Time for some bragging: In a paper from 2010 The 100 classic papers of orthopaedic surgery you can read that Sweden comes in third when looking at the most cited articles throughout orthopaedic times 🙂

At the top is (of course) USA with 77 articles, then comes England with 10 articles and by beating Canada with 1 article Sweden gets the bronze with 5 articles. For a country with only 9.5 million inhabitants I think that it’s rather impressive. Continue reading →

R – some introductory material

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Max Gordon

R is a statistical programming language and can be a little scary at first. I learned it during my first statistics class. While others used Stata, I decided to try if I could do the tasks in R. That was probably one of my best research-choices. Continue reading →

Encrypt your data

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Max Gordon

Keeping your stuff under lock and key. The image is CC by aussiegall.

We often have sensitive information that we want don’t want to fall into the wrong hands. When doing research this is extra important and while everyone talks about having a robust security few tell you how you should do this. I’ve therefore collected some useful tips on basic encryption and security. Continue reading →

The birth of G-Forge

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Max Gordon

Hello and welcome to the G-Forge blog. The blog is intended as a science blog where I will try to publish things that I’ve found interesting or fascinating. I hope you’ll find something of interest.