# Monthly Archives: April 2010

## REvolution R Community 3.2 now available

April 9, 2010
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REvolution R Community, REvolution's free distribution based on R from the R Project, has been updated to version 3.2 and is now available for download for Windows and MacOS. Some features of this release include: Upgraded R engine. This release is based on R 2.10.1, the latest release (as of this writing). This brings many new features to the...

## Chicago R User Group… It’s for the sexy people!

April 9, 2010
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I think we all know that Morris Day was talking about when he wrote the lyrics to “The Bird”: Yes! Hold on now, this dance ain’t for everybody. Just the sexy people. White folks, you’re much too tight. You gotta shake your head like the black folks. You might get some tonight. Look out! That’s right, he was talking about the new

## The Future of Math is Statistics

April 9, 2010
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The future of math is statistics… and the language of that future is R: I’ve often thought there was way too little “statistical intuition” in the workplace. I think Author Benjamin would agree.

## Maximum Probability of Profit

April 9, 2010
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To continue with the LSPM examples, this post shows how to optimize a Leverage Space Portfolio for the maximum probability of profit. The data and example are again taken from The Leverage Space Trading Model by Ralph Vince. These optimizaitons take ...

## GLMM using DPpackage

April 9, 2010
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I was able to fit a semi-parametric Bayesian GLMM model using DPpackage. It took me many hours to sample from the posterior distribution (DPM prior):MCMC scan 1000 of 5000 (CPU time: 18950.080 s)MCMC scan 2000 of 5000 (CPU time: 22510.100 s)M...

## Gravity Game in R

April 8, 2010
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So why should R only be used for ’serious’ stuff? No longer! I’ve written the following code in R which executes a little gravitational physics game. The goal of the game is simple. You supply a velocity and direction to a spaceship with the goal of getting the ship to the

## R: heatmaps with gplots

April 8, 2010
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I use heatmaps quite a lot for visualizing data, microarrays of course but also DNA motif enrichment, base composition and other things. I particular like the heatmap.2 function of the gplots package. It has a couple of defaults that are a little ugly ...

## R: heatmaps with gplots

April 8, 2010
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I use heatmaps quite a lot for visualizing data, microarrays of course but also DNA motif enrichment, base composition and other things. I particular like the heatmap.2 function of the gplots package. It has a couple of defaults that are a little ugly ...

## New R User Group in Dallas

April 8, 2010
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Wow, it's a big week for new R User Groups. Larry D'Agostino has started up a new R user group based in Dallas, Texas (USA). It's just getting started, and Larry posted the following request on the r-help mailing list: I would like to know if there is anyone like me interested in an R User Group in Dallas,...

Make sure to click on the image to see the large version. Code for this graph: moxbuller = function(n) { u = runif(n) v = runif(n) x = cos(2*pi*u)*sqrt(-2*log(v)) y = sin(2*pi*v)*sqrt(-2*log(u)) r = list(x=x, y=y) return(r) } r = moxbuller(50000) par(bg="black") par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) plot(r$x,r$y, pch=".", col="blue", cex=1.2)