For my "off-task" reading I recent perused an excellent book on multilevel and longitudinal modeling in Stata by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal. The second edition (which I read) has been updated by including several chapters providing an over...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Visualizing Unemployment in Mexico
What has been the impact of the economic crisis on employment? And how has it affected the different regions of Mexico? To answer the questions the first step was to obtain the unemployment data from the Banco de Información Económica at the INEGI. ...
CPP package: exposing C++ objects
I've just started working on the new package CPP, as usual the project is maintained in r-forge. The package aims at exposing C++ classes at the R level, starting from classes from the c++ standard template library. key to the package is the CPP f...
Forecasting the weather with R
The US National Centers for Environment Prediction (NCEP) produces weather forecasts for the entire world from a model that's updated every 6 hours. The data is made freely available, and with a couple of free tools to convert the data and R you can easily produce am unpdated global weather forecast like this (click to enlarge): (Check out the...
Singapore, February 19-20: Computational Topics in Finance
With all of the winter snows in the US this weekend, a trip to equatorial climes sounds pretty good right about now. That makes this email announcement from Rmetrics leader Diethelm Wuertz all the more tempting: Conference on 'Computational Topics in Finance' February 19/20, 2010, National University of Singapore Dear R/Rmetrics Community, We would like to announce the first...
Animation video of rgl in action
Duncan Murdoch just posted a youtube video presenting an animation clip of a 3d rgl object. Duncan even went further and wrote an explanation on how he made the video: here are the steps I used: 1. Design a shape to be displayed, and then play with the animation functions to make it change over time. Use play3d to do
MCMCglmm
This R packages estimates Generalised Linear Mixed Models via MCMC. It provides a number of random error distributions and can be used for multivariate multilevel models (simultaneous equation model).I will do some tests and compare the results to othe...
Sweave in TeXShop
I love using TeXShop for GUI editing of LaTeX and particularly Sweave documents, but it is a pain not being able to get it to automatically generate the pdf output. Luckily I found this post which explains how to add a Sweave engine.Basically, make a f...
Sweave in TeXShop
I love using TeXShop for GUI editing of LaTeX and particularly Sweave documents, but it is a pain not being able to get it to automatically generate the pdf output. Luckily I found this post which explains how to add a Sweave engine.Basically, make a f...
Rcpp and inline example
Following up on yesterday's Rcpp 0.7.0 release, here is a quick example of why the new feastures can be so useful. The following R code defines a character variable gslrng. This variable contains a short C++ code segment, which is then transformed by ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
