Last year I posted an animation created in R to celebrate the new year, and this year I’ve got a more fabulous animation. Unfortunately our Lord of CRAN (Kurt) has been out of office for several days, so I’m unable to publish my animation package on CRAN as scheduled. Anyway, for those who are curious about the new version the animation package, you can download the version 2.0-0 from my GitHub development page.
Set Fireworks in R 2011
The above animation comes from the demo('fireworks') in the R package animation 2.0-0. Thanks for the contribution of Weicheng Zhu.
Another demo I did not mention on this Christmas was demo('Xmas2'):
Xmas snowflakes in R
Thanks for the contribution of Jing Jiao.
There are a whole bunch of new features in the animation package v2.0-0 (this version is a milestone), but I will keep silent for the time being, since it is not published on CRAN yet.
I have to admit that the previous post on Christmas is actually not much fun. Today I received another pResent from Yixuan which is more interesting:
I'll take the train and go home tomorrow, which indicates my absence from the internet for about one month. During this month, I'll try to finish writing my book on statistical graphics with R as well as some other papers at home.
Adieu…
This is a special moment.
Time flies like a rocket… I must make full preparations for the new year because there might be great changes to my life one year later. Now my aim is to find an appropriate direction for me to study abroad. Recently I felt the directions for the applications of statistics are much easier than theories — I really dislike those pure mathematical theories (although I know the importance)…
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