Tag Archives: R

Creating an R package

Posted on July 31, 2012 by joelgranados

I recently put all the EcoIP application into an R package. I was surprised at how easy it was and I wanted to share my experience :) Root Path Everything that is to be packaged needs to be in a … Continue reading →

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R. create a plot with non overlapping labels

Posted on May 4, 2012 by joelgranados

The X axis labels were a bit long and they were having trouble fitting into the plot correctly. I tried various solutions: R’s default and maptool’s pointLabel. The first did not really allow me to turn the labels 90 deg … Continue reading →

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The Flower counting algorithm lives

Posted on April 19, 2012 by joelgranados

I recently finished a flower counting algorithm and am very happy with the results. While the test was done with an easy set of images (yellow flowers over brown ground), I wanted to celebrate an important milestone in the project with … Continue reading →

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R: How to suppress package startup messages

Posted on April 10, 2012 by joelgranados

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(fields)) And you can still test the result of the `library` or `require` calls: a = suppressPackageStartupMessages(require(fields)) Variable ‘a’ will be TRUE if it was successful, FALSE otherwise.

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Very Painful EBImage install on Windows

Posted on April 5, 2012 by joelgranados

Short Version Follow this to install EBImage Go here to get GTK+. I used this one. Make sure you add the GTK+ “bin” directory to the path. If you have zlib1.dll problems, or any problems regarding the specific dll that is … Continue reading →

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Rscript, where were you all along?

Posted on March 24, 2012 by joelgranados

One of the things that I did not like about using R was that there was not “easy” way of calling it in a command sort of way. The test part of my R workflow consisted in going into the … Continue reading →

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