Getting rid of white space at the beginning and end of a string

July 28th, 2011

There are situations where we are working with character strings extracted from various sources and it can be annoying when there is white space at the beginning and/or end of the strings. This whitespace can cause problems when attemping to sort, subset or various other common operations. Read the rest of this entry »

R.NET

July 4th, 2011

The R.NET project provides a mechanism for communicating with R from a .NET application. This appears to be a promising way to create simple interfaces to some of the functionality of R. Read the rest of this entry »