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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 >> >> -- >> >> Glen Newton | [log in to unmask] >> Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research >> & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative >> http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu >> tel/tél <http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu%0Atel/t%C3%A9l>: 613-990-9163 | >> facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 >> Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) >> National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road >> http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ >> Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) >> Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal >> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 >> Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada >> -- >> >> > > > > -- Grace Agnew Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems Rutgers University Libraries 47 Davidson Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: 732-445-5908 Fax: 732-445-5888