Now that Spain has won the World Cup, it's interesting to go back and look at some metrics from the matches and see if we can tease out what characteristics made for a winning Cup team this time around. Fortunately, the Guardian's Data Blog has made a wealth of World Cup statistics available, with data on every player of...
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Example 8.2: Digits of Pi, redux
In example 8.1, we considered some simple tests for the randomness of the digits of Pi. Here we develop a different test and implement it. If each digit appears in each place with equal and independent probability, then the places between recurrences...
Launch R document from Smultron / Fraise
A short code to launch R documents from Smultron / Fraise
A robust Hotelling test…
Recently I was in need of testing a mean vector. I wrote a few lines of code in R and had it done perfectly. Hotelling test is one of the least interesting test to me. never really figured out why… At that time I had some time to search more about it. One of the
World Cup 2010 Statistics Plotted with R
Opta agreed to let the UK Guardian Data Blog publish 2010 World Cup Team and Player statistics. The data is available in a Google Docs spreadsheet. There are two tabs on this spreadsheet - one is PLAYERS the other is TEAM st...
using R + ess-remote with screen in emacs
Dear list, I brought up this issue before but a good solution never arised: being able to use screen on a remote server (so if something goes wrong on my side I can always resume that R session) inside of emacs in order to utilize ESS. The closest thing I found to a good work
Area Plots with Intensity Coloring ~ el nino SST anomalies w/ ggplot2
I see many economy indicator graphs that show emphasis by shading in the curve under the area (while x-axis is time). The shade is stronger at higher values (example). I did this in R below (ggplot2). This was a little more difficult that I’d expected. The color gradients are good to color each individual points 
CoRe in CiRM [3]
![CoRe in CiRM [3]](http://www.r-bloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cda_displayimage2.jpg?SGWID=0-0-16-301393-0)
Still drudging along preparing the new edition of Bayesian Core. I am almost done with the normal chapter, where I also changed the Monte Carlo section to include specific tools (bridge) for evidence/Bayes factor approximation. Jean-Michel has now moved to the new hierarchical model chapter and analysed longitudinal datasets that will constitute the core of 
World Government Data Store API (R and Ruby)
The UK Guardian Data Blog has great visualizations on the topics of the day - along with with specific references to data sets and online resources in use. You can find out more about the origins and plans of this and related data sites in t...
Rcpp 0.8.4
Dirk uploaded Rcpp 0.8.4 to CRAN yesterday. This release quickly follows the release of Rcpp 0.8.3, because there was some building problems (particularly on the ppc arch on OSX).
Rcpp sugar
Already available in Rcpp 0.8.3, the new sugar feature was extended in 0.8.4 to cover...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
