At Rutgers, we use R for computing basic statistics (frequencies and
cross-tabs) on our Eagleton Poll website:
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/eagleton/. Eagleton Polls have been
conducted for many years in New Jersey and solicit opinions on
sociopolitical issues with a heavy New Jersey focus. . So, for example,
someone can see how a governor's popularity breaks down by gender or
geography or how attitudes about illegal immigration vary by county. We
used to use SPSS server which was fairly expensive so the switch to R
has worked well and saved money also. If anyone would like more
information, you can contact the Rutgers Digital Library Archtiect, Ron
Jantz ([log in to unmask]) or the programmer who implemented R
statistics, Jie Geng ([log in to unmask])
Grace Agnew
Cindy Harper wrote:
> I took some online courses in data mining last year at statistics.com, some
> of which featured R. I was pleased with it, although I haven't tried to
> integrate it in any programming project, and I only scratched the surface.
> I also would highly recommend the courses at statistics.com. Now if I could
> just work out the data collection to make use of the data mining techniques
> on our library data.
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>>>>>>> "William" == William Denton <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>>>>>>>
>> William> Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/
>>
>> I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional
>> scaling (512-->2) I do here:
>>
>> http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html
>>
>> It is fast, backed by the stats braniacs, has a huge number of
>> domain-specific modules (biology, genomics, geology, engineering,
>> ....).
>>
>> It is great. Slices bread, juliennes fries, casts my votes, does my
>> taxes, feeds my dogs and submits my postings to code4lib. ;-)
>>
>> -glen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>>> "William" == William Denton <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>>>>>>>
>> William> Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/
>>
>> William> Blog about R, info viz, etc.:
>> William> http://blog.revolution-computing.com/
>>
>> William> I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around
>> William> with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for
>> William> visualizing searches, usage, networks of information,
>> William> that kind of thing.
>>
>> William> Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org
>> William> www.frbr.org openfrbr.org
>>
>> --
>>
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