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file.path {base}:Construct Path to File
Construct the path to a file from components in a platform-independent way.

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hash
This package implements a data structure similar to hashes in Perl and dictionaries in Python but with a purposefully R flavor. For objects of appreciable size, access using hashes outperforms native named lists and vectors.

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Tools for making latex tables in R [closed]

On general request, a community wiki on producing latex tables in R. In this post I'll give an overview of the most commonly used packages and blogs with code for producing latex tables from less straight-forward objects. Please feel free to add any I missed, and/or give tips, hints and little tricks on how to produce nicely formatted latex tables with R.

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Finding Data on the Internet

What I would like is a nice list of all of credible sources on the Internet for finding data to use with R projects. I know that this is a crazy idea, not well formulated (what are data after all) and loaded with absurd computational and theoretical challenges. (Why can't I just google "data R" and get what I want?) So, what can I do? As many people are also out there doing, I can begin to make lists (in many cases lists of lists) on a platform that is stable enough to survive and grow, and perhaps encourage others to help with the effort.

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