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hazexp

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    Comment #5209721

    It depends. For statistical graphics, it is hard to beat R simply because it has all of the statistical functionality built right in. Want an ACF plot for your ARMA model? No probl…

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    Comment #5056436

    The bonus with D3 is that (2) is up to you. Seeing as it's constructing SVG, you just need to design a plot such that it looks unique. I have a feeling that the reason why D3 sites…

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    Comment #5056410

    I think the point is that R can do both statistical analysis and graphing. You don't need ggplot2 to produce good plots in R, however, I do agree that ggplot2 is a very good graphi…

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    Comment #3524422

    Also, they can be combined into one HTTP request.

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    Comment #3418217

    If you're interested in good references for being able to produce `visual stories' I suggest you have a look into the R package `ggplot2' [1]. It's a great way (although a little c…

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    Comment #3104881

    As does R :) > c(1, 1, 1) + c(2, 2, 2) [1] 3 3 3 > matrix(c(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3), + ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE) + + matrix(c(4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6), + ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)…

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    Comment #2908467

    There's an easy to way to remember which is which. Gr E y is E nglish, gr A y is A merican.

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    Comment #2875778

    I suspect it's because it's the most relevant. For me personally I wouldn't be interested in using anything besides the most accurate prediction. However, I would probably make the…

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    Comment #1015628

    It also drastically lowers the amount of processing overhead per page served, after all, there's no dynamic code to process nor are there any database queries to execute.

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    Comment #930283

    I personally didn't find the learning curve to be that high. Perhaps because I was in a course learning taught by one of the founders of the R Project ;). The lecture slides he cre…

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    Comment #752590

    Auckland, New Zealand.