There's been a number of earthquakes in the Solomon Islands over the past few days, including one that caused a tsunami to partially destroy the village of Baniata on Rendova, Western Provence. You can see exactly how many earthquakes have occurred the...
Just before Christmas ggplot2 version 0.8.5 was released, closely following the release of version 0.8.4 a week or so earlier. Whilst both versions included included numerous bugfixes (25 in 0.8.4 and 17 in 0.8.5), the latest version also incorporated some new features. As ggplot2 is all about graphical display, so I went through the list 
The second issue of the R Journal is out now, and in addition to a bevy of contributed articles and some news from the R Core Group on the new help system introduced in R 2.10, there's an invited section called, intriguingly, "The Future of R". In that section John Fox provides an exhaustively researched and insightful review of...
R AnalyticFlow is an interesting piece of software. From its web site:"R AnalyticFlow is a software which enables state-of-the-art data analysis by drawing analysis flowcharts. You can effectively share processes of data analysis in collaborative wo...
The Latin square design is used where the researcher desires to control the variation in an experiment that is related to rows and columns in the field.
Remember that:
* Treatments are assigned at random within rows and columns, with each treatment once per row and once per column.
* There are equal numbers...
The Latin square design is used where the researcher desires to control the variation in an experiment that is related to rows and columns in the field.
Remember that:
* Treatments are assigned at random within rows and columns, with each treatment once per row and once per column.
* There are equal numbers...
A new littler release (now at 0.1.3) just went out of the door this evening. littler provides r (pronounced littler), a shebang / scripting / quick eval / pipelining front-end to the the R language and system. This version adds a few minor behind-...
A new littler release (now at 0.1.3) just went out of the door this evening. littler provides r (pronounced littler), a shebang / scripting / quick eval / pipelining front-end to the the R language and system. This version adds a few minor behind-the...
A new littler release (now at 0.1.3) just went out of the door this evening. littler provides r (pronounced littler), a shebang / scripting / quick eval / pipelining front-end to the the R language and system. This version adds a few minor behind-...
When grading homeworks for my Monte Carlo graduate class, I found that my students had pointed out two typos in the exercises of Chapter 2 of “Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R”.
– In Exercise 2.17, question d. should be “d. Show that the maximum of is attained at .“
– In Exercise 2.21, in item 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
