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  1. BA says:

    Hi,

    Your website is the best website I've ever visited – this is no mean statement given that in the past 7 years I have spent an average of 10 hours per day online!  
    If you wouldn't mind, could give me a template just like you have here? I would be eternally grateful!  

    BTW I also have interest in nonparametric statistics and data mining using R.

  2. tajuakins says:

    Hi,
    I'm a Nigerian who appreciate innovation and willing to learn from expert like you. I got to know about R from a friend some weeks ago. Today I'm fulfill by your website it is one of the best.

    I want to appreciate you. I got more interested to learn R after visiting your site. I will appreciate it if the can assist me in my learning. Thank you

    • Yihui says:

      Hi, I’m really glad that you like my web site, and I’ll do my best to make it as interesting as possible with the help of the powerful R languagegrin

  3. Silverman says:

    Hi,

    Maybe there is a way to use R with Blender? Wouldn’t it be great to have animation of statistics in a 3D animation program.

    http://www.blender.org

    uplook

    • Yihui says:

      Thank you for your advice! 3D animation is indeed in my schedule. Currently I’m not familiar with Blender, and I don’t know whether there are interfaces from R to Blender… Actually my initial plan was to use the package ‘rgl’ which has already provided a 3D visualization device system via OpenGL, which is also convenient.

      P.S. there is a very famous statistician also named Silverman; just now I suddenly forgot who he was and spent about 10 minutes thinking about it before I ultimately realized that it was Bernard Silverman… (I wonder whether you are him question)

  4. sheng says:

    hi,
      I send you one e-mail, which i got from one friend here, for get one AMOS program from you. Can you give me one response?
      thanks!
      sheng

  5. Fmy says:

    Hi! Yihui,
    I actually quite despert with statistics and the more despertly when my lecture ask me and all my classmate to do problems using R-language without teaching us firstly how to use it. Can you teach me hou to use r-language? It is definitly help my to pass this course.

  6. Neil says:

    Hi,
    I'm relatively new to R and stumbled upon your animation package. WOW!!! I teach an undergraduate course in econometrics and this will be HUGE help in my lectures. Well done!!!

    • Yihui says:

      Thanks, Neil, I'll add more animation functions to that package in future, and if you have any ideas in your teaching, please feel free to drop me an email :-)

  7. Michal says:

    Hi!

    Great site!!! I like the ideas for animations a lot.

    Did you think also about creating animations by producing a series of snapshots to BMP and then "merging" them together to an AVI film with a free tool 'bmp2avi'? Its a bit of more work, but you are able to produce an actual movie.

    Thanks a million for a lot of excellent examples!

    Cheers!

    Michal

    • Yihui says:

      Actually producing BMP images is easy, say, using the bmp() device before creating animations inside R. Then generate AVI films with bmp2avi. Or you may try the function saveMovie() in the package animation, which can also produce AVI movies with the help of ImageMagick.

  8. spoon says:

    To see a World in a Grain of Sand; And a Heaven in a Wild Flower; …

  9. michal says:

    hey again! :)

    are you planning to go to userR2008? i am.

    m.

  10. NewFriend says:

    Hi YH Xie,
    As an R daily user and a statistics student as well, I really have enjoyed your blog on Animation using R.
    Good on you, young man and I am pretty proud of that we share the same surname.
    Just one little suggestion.  You may be interested in having a quick experience with what is happening in the R China Forum at
    http://rbbs.biosino.org/Rbbs/
    后生可畏 前途无量
    with best regards,

    J.X.

  11. GC says:

    Hi Mr. Xie,
    I realized that using animation in R works fine in Windows but not in Unix. There is very significant flickering in the animation when running R animation in Unix. Do you know of any solution to this problem? By the way, I discovered this because I use R to create animations to demonstrate bootstrap computations.
    Regards,
    GC

    • Yihui Xie says:

      You may try to save the animation as Flash, GIF or HTML format; I think it will be more fluent than running the animation in R windows graphics device. For the different formats which the package supports, see:

      Yihui Xie and Xiaoyue Cheng. animation: A package for statistical animations. R News, 8(2):23-27, October 2008. [ bib | http | .pdf ]

  12. Oldi says:

    Hello,
    your blog is amazing! please keep up the work!
    perhaps you could make something on Javascript API – WebGIS – and R-Statistic ?
    :smile:
    cheers
    Jens

  13. Chris Bruno says:

    Great website! Ever considered using Adobe Flash for your animations? Maybe port flash over to R?

    • Yihui Xie says:

      Yes, Flash is already available for the animations. If you are using the animation package, you may see the function saveSWF(), which can save the animations as Flash via the SWF Tools. I think it’s not so easy to port Flash to R directly, but to create ActionScript with R might be much easier. Besides, there are also some packages that use SVG to create animations, one of which I know is SVGAnnotation by Duncan Temple Lang at Omegahat.

  14. Ximing Xu says:

    Hi, Xie 兄

    Great website! Admire what you have done in Cos.name :|

    向你学习。

    Best,
    Ximing

  15. Joe says:

    So, the analysis between predictor and response variables is too much? Covariance is at the heart of fractional factorial designs where we experiment with large numbers of variables, being aware of confounding of course. I am not sure how you fight a statistical method. Data exploration is a journey not a perfeced gem.

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