Very nice.

I’ve developed an R resource on http://www.stikir.com. It should be useful for those of you having trouble installing R, finding it difficult to climb the learning curve, or having problems accessing or using the large climate datasets.

It’s a wiki site where you can enter R scripts. The server will run it and provide your results. Everyone can see and modify your analysis. Using this technology the provenance of the results is clear. The data, the analysis, and the results are all fully transparent and auditable.

You can see some examples here:
GHCN_Climate_Data_Sandbox

If you press the “edit” button on the page, it should make sense how the tool can be used.

The sample analyses are not particularly clever, but are provided to illustrate the functionality. I’ll happily lend a hand to people wanting to publish any more substantial analysis.

The GHCN v2 temperature and precipitation data has been made available, as well as some Energy Information Administration data on carbon emissions. Steve, please let me know if this collated GISS data is in the public domain. If so, I’ll upload it to the site, along with any other data sets this community might be interested in.

Regards,
Mike

Did you try here?

http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maman/computerstuff/Rhelp/Rpackages.html

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~wand/webcpdg/rpack.html

TAC thanks that worked for me

Worked for me using a tablet computer, quite a surprise, also XP 64 bit.

I suggest go back and review R documentation, pick the section dealing with grammer and syntax and then watch proper use of quotes, parenthesis, brackets, having a reference as to what Should Be Correct.

If you didnt grow up in Unix, Yacc, perl, C, and Vi, then
I suspect R might be a steep ass hill to climb.

I’m stuggling and I’ve done this crap before.
However, I had a lobotomy when I left engineering.
It was required as part of the promotion package.

SteveMC..
I’m assuming you have hit this page

http://developer.r-project.org/

Which source of data is ‘considered’ to be the authoritative source when describing US temperatures – GISS or NCDC, I guess that would mean either NASA or the National Climatic Data Center? Sorry if I may seem a little thick, but I understand that NCDC still clings to the old saws about the last decade being the warmest years and that they haven’t accepted Hansen’s corrections.

Thanks Steve. So Hansen’s data is not used by GHCN although he uses their data.