Not just a speedy way to import data into R, fread has useful options for importing subsets of data, setting data types for columns, running system commands, and more Like all functions in the ...

Thanks to dwindling research budgets and the rising cost of science software, “open science” advocates may be succeeding at getting science to go open source. And it’s thanks in part to a little-known ...

The RNA-seq platform 1,2 addresses a multitude of applications, including relative expression analyses, alternative splicing, discovery of novel transcripts and isoforms, RNA editing, allele-specific ...

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R is hot. Whether measured by more than 10,000 add-on packages, the 95,000+ members of LinkedIn’s R group or the more than 400 R Meetup groups currently in existence, there can be little doubt that ...

Once you’ve installed and configured R to your liking, it’s time to start using it to work with data. Yes, you can type your data directly into R’s interactive console. But for any kind of serious ...