As far as I know there are 3 different systems for producing figures in R: (1) base graphics, included with R, (2) the lattice package, and (3) ggplot2, one of the newer plotting systems which is, according to the creator Hadley Wickham, "based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice...
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Probability exercise: negative binomial distribution
What is the probability you get the 4th cross before the 3rd head, flipping a coin?The mathematical formula for solving this exercise, which follows a negative binomial distribution, is:$$f(x)=P(X=x)=\begin{pmatrix} x+y-1\\ y-1 \end{pmatrix} \cdot p^x ...
New RInside release
I just rolled up a new release of RInside, my C++ wrapper classes which facilitate embedding R into your own C++ application. This releases owes a big Thank you! to Miguel Lechón who not only noticed errant behaviour and occassional segfaults with ov...
New RInside release
I just rolled up a new release of RInside, my C++ wrapper classes which facilitate embedding R into your own C++ application.
This releases owes a big Thank you! to Miguel Lechón who not only noticed errant behaviour and occassional segfaults with overly long commands sent to the embedded R, but even traced it to an oversight of mine in a simple memory buffer class...
David Varadi’s RSI(2) alternative
Here's a quick R implementation of David Varadi's alternative to the RSI(2). Michael Stokes over at the MarketSci blog has three great posts exploring this indicator: Varadi’s RSI(2) Alternative: The DV(2) RSI(2) vs. DV(2) Last Couple...
A probability exercise on the Bernoulli distribution
What is the probability, flipping a coin 8 times, to obtain the sequence HHTTTHTT? (H = head; T= tail)The theory teaches us that to solve this question, we can simply use the following formula:$$f(x)=P(X=x)=B(n,p)=\begin{pmatrix}n\\ x \end{pmatrix} \cd...
Let us practice with some functions of R
Given the following data set, compute the arithmetic mean, median, variance, standard deviation; find the greatest and the smaller value, the sum of all values, the square of the sum of all values, the sum of the square of all values; assigne the ranks...
Book excerpts now posted
We've posted excerpts from the book on the book website. The excerpts include Chapter 3 (regression and ANOVA) in its entirety. This demonstrates how the entries (the generic descriptions of software functions) and the worked examples reinforce each ...
Parsing GEO SOFT files with Python and Sqlite
NCBI's GEO database of gene expression data is a great resource, but its records are very open ended. This lack of rigidity was perhaps necessary to accommodate the variety of measurement technologies, but makes getting data out a little tricky. But, a...
Simple Data Visualization
OK, so, I know I already raved about one Hadley Wickham project and how it has changed my life last week. But what can I say, the man is a genius. And if you are using R (and let’s face it, you should be) and you want simple sexy graphs made quick, the man has
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
