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Previously, I shared with the world a function to create a pairwise matrix of the number of transitions and transversions between two DNA sequences. Klaus Schliep kindly pointed out the possibility of a bug in the function and offered a faster, more accurate version. Thanks Klaus! titv mat res for(... [Read more...]

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I am showing three examples that will help an average R user to create beautiful graphs. The interesting (may be useful) parts of these examples are the use of some very smart but tricky functions to, for example, add a Greek symbol on a plot, add a title to a ... [Read more...]

A few hours ago, I sent the following to both the R development list and the informal R / GSoC list: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:27:29 -0500 To: R Development List CC: gsoc-r Subject: R and the Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Please welcome our new st... [Read more...]

I was delighted to see the following e-mail post from Dirk Eddelbuettel regarding the google-summer-of-code R google group: * * * Earlier today Google finalised student / mentor pairings and allocations for the Google Summer of Code 2010 (GSoC 2010). The R Project is happy to announce that the following students have been accepted: Colin Rundel, “... [Read more...]

The main R Project website, www.r-project.org, many of the primary CRAN mirrors (including cran.r-project.org), and r-forge.r-project.org are currently unavailable following a power failure at the master host in Austria. The US CRAN mirror, cran.us.r-project.org, and other mirrors not under the r-project.... [Read more...]

***UPDATED: June 3, 2010 – revert name from “tty” to “serial“, R version (2.11.1)*** I’m working on a patch for R (currently 2.11.1) that adds a serial connection feature for POSIX systems (i.e. Linux, Mac OS X, …). The serial connection works like the other connections. For example, the following code opens, writes a ... [Read more...]

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The R language has two closely related NULL-like values, NA and NULL ... Both are used to represent missing or undefined values. This has lead to much confusion. [Read more...]

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Update: In the end of the post I added simple step by step instruction on how to move to the new system. I STRONGLY suggest using the code only after you read the entire post. Background If you didn’t hear it by now – R 2.11.0 is out with a bunch ... [Read more...]

This logo means that the blog post is about something I have found interesting, but does not apply directly to the exact purpose of this blog. Note: These commands have been tested in pdflatex. I am not sure if they work in other distributions. Over the past couple of months, ... [Read more...]

This one's for the musicians out there. (By the way, in my purely anecdotal experience, musical aptitude appears to have a higher-then-expected representation amongst stats folks. I however am the exception that proves the rule, as anyone who's suffered through my Rock Band vocals can attest. But I digress.) What ... [Read more...]

At the Information Management blogs, Steve Miller has posted a great roundup of last weekend's R/Finance 2010 conference in Chicago. Here's Steve's overall take: This year's conference was even better than the 2009 inaugural, the in-excess-of-200 participants consumed by more than 20 consecutive high-powered presentations over the fast-paced day and a half. ... [Read more...]

The new version is here. R version 2.11.0 has been released on 2010-04-22. The source code is first available in this directory, and eventually via all of CRAN. Binaries will arrive in due course (see download instructions above). [Read more...]

The authors here invited ACM KDD Innovation Award and IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award winners to each nominate up to 10 best-known algorithms in data mining, including the algorithm name, justification for nomination, and a representative public... [Read more...]

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A common model used in the financial industry for modelling the short rate (think overnight rate, but actually an infinitesimally short amount of time) is the Vasicek model. Although it is unlikely to perfectly fit the yield curve, it has some nice properties that make it a good model to ... [Read more...]