Lane Kenworthy, Yu-Sung Su, and I write: Income inequality in the United States has risen during the past several decades. Has this produced an increase in partisan voting differences between rich and poor? We examine trends from the 1940s thr...
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Kicking Ass with plyr
Tonight (October 29, 2009) at 5:30 PM is the Chicago R meetup at Jaks tap. Here’s more info. I’ll be making a presentation based on my earlier blog post about plyr. The presentation will only be 8 minutes long so I’ve had to pick and choose my info carefully. OK, who am I kidding? I
Go long on close and sell on open
I found a description of supposed to be profitable strategy on Bloomberg. The strategy is simple – buy S&P500 index on close and sell it on next day open. So, I tested this claim and got nice P/L curve: Yes, since 1993 this strategy has generated the profit >300%. But, neither commissions or slippage are included:) Let’s
Bioconductor 2.5 is out
For all bioinformaticians and R users out there: the Bioconductor project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data is out! A lot of interesting new stuff! See the full announcement here.
Tips for Using StatET and Eclipse for Data Analysis in R
My favourite editor for conducting analysis in R is the StatET plug-in for Eclipse. This post discusses an assortment of tips and tricks that I've discovered to make this editing environment even better.SearchSearch (Control + H): I maintain projects i...
Using the “foreign” package for data conversion
I was in a rush to convert a SPSS data into Stata format. Somehow my Stattransfer v.8 for Linux was lost and I did not want pause my work and go back to Windows just to get this one file converted. So fire Emacs+ESS+R, load the "foreign" package, did t...
MultBar : Advanced multiple barplot with SEM
Producing this kind of graphs (below) in R can be a pain in the a*s. Here is a simple code that requires that data are presented in lists (see the example below). multbar <- function(list.of.lists,...,condnames=0,pal=colorRampPalette(c('grey','cornsilk')),seriesnames=0,legendpos='topleft',legh=TRUE,do.pty='s') { par(pty=do.pty,mgp=c(1.9,0.8,0),oma=c(0,0,0,0),mar=c(4,3,2,1),bg='transparent',bty='o',tck=0.02,yaxs='i') NofList <- length(list.of.lists) NofSubList <- length(list.of.lists]) if(condnames==0){condnames=c(1:NofList)} if(seriesnames==0){seriesnames=c(1:NofSubList)} dim.mat.treat <- (NofList+1)*NofSubList pos <- c(1:dim.mat.treat) pos <- matrix(pos,nrow=(NofList+1)) nbreaks 
R 2.10.0 is Out!
The new R 2.10.0 is out! Get it from here. If you like take a look at these posts for some miscellaneous advices to make the upgrade easier. Fell free to contribute with suggestions about how to upgrade your R installation.
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
