[R] General help - online statistics courses?

2011-09-08 Thread kensuguro
I understand this isn't a r specific question. I'm switching departments to work with the analytics team at my company as a "service" side manager to better incorporate the analytics process into product design / production. We're an online gaming company. As I'm going through tools like R, rapi

Re: [R] how to make this sequence: 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1

2010-03-05 Thread kensuguro
so basically, it's impossible to do with just seq() and rep().. Doesn't seem like a good question for chapter 1... Also, problem 1.13 is even more crazy.. it asks you to build the fibonacci sequence. Now I'm a programmer, and so went way ahead in the book to see how functions were written, and

[R] how to make this sequence: 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1

2010-03-04 Thread kensuguro
I'm just beginning R, with book Using R for Introductory Statistics, and one of the early questions has me baffled. The question is, create the sequence: 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1 using seq() and rep(). Now, as a programmer, I am punching myself to not be able to figure it out.. I mean, as simple as a f

[R] newb question: chron and hist()

2010-01-26 Thread kensuguro
Hi all, I'm just getting started in R so bear with my newbness. I am trying to create a very simple histogram of logins by time, with data coming in from a MYSQL query. the raw data looks like this: "id" "user_id" "experience_given" "created_at" "ip_aton" "1" XXX 2445626 0 "2010-01-21 00:00:0