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As Markus Gesmann recently pointed out, the new version of RStudio (0.96) has some really nice features for creating...
The traditional way to show that your topic is worth studying in front of an audience is to show...
Based on an analysis of Google Scholar data on usage of statistical software, Bob Muenchen makes a forecast: R...
Last Saturday I met the guys from RStudio at the R in Finance conference in Chicago. I was curious...
Learning to use a data analysis tool well takes significant effort, so people tend to continue using the tool...
Two R User Group meetings are happening soon thanks to the support of Mango-solutions (one of R-bloggers’ long term sponsors)....
As the researchpuzzler highlights in “a bad bet”, US bonds were a popular subject at the CFA Institute Annual...
I read in an article that Ian Cowe said that what normally chemometricians do is to look to the...
CRAN now tests packages against g++-4.7 (as this version has become the default on Debian's testing variant. This compiler switch once...
Few weeks ago GitHub announced, that its timeline data is available on bigquery for analysis. Moreover, it offers prizes...
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Plotting data and distribution simultaneously (with ggplot2)Ever wanted to see at a glance the distribution of your data across...
We had a great Twitter conversation last Thursday on the use of big-data analytics, Revolution R Enterprise, and IBM...
Looking to learn R, or to expand your R skills for data visualization or package development? Here are some...
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A recent arXiv posting of the paper “On the Generalized Ratio of Uniforms as a Combination of Transformed Rejection...
Today a new version of RStudio (v0.96) is available for download from our website. The main focus of this...
Introduction Continuing on with my series on the weaknesses of NHST, I’d like to focus on an issue that’s...
In example 9.30 we explored the effects of adjusting for multiple testing using the Bonferroni and Benjamini-Hochberg (or false...
A quick tip on how to source R-scripts from a Dropbox-account:(1) Upload the script.. (2) Get link with the...
Here is a simple application to transform text into a beautiful word cloud, Text Mining to WordCloud. The purpose...
A Poisson process provides a good model for events that happen rarely. That's what von Bortkiewicz realized in...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
