Category Archives: R

Testing whether a list contains an element

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Simon Bonner

In the past I have always used is.null() in R to test whether a list contains a specified element. E.g., if I wanted to know whether a list, mylist contained the element x I would have used This failed me … Continue reading →

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Polymode for ESS

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Simon Bonner

I wrote my first vignette for an R package the other day and was amazed at the ease of writing Rmarkdown. Of course, I am using emacs and was looking for a mode that would allow me to edit these … Continue reading →

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First Attempts with the parallel Package

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Simon Bonner

The last time I worked with parallel processing in R I used the package Rmpi. This ws very flexible, but took a lot of setup to handle passing jobs, code, and data between the master and the slave. I have … Continue reading →

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