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We are making slow progress on the normal and regression chapters as we decided to write the package at the same time we revise the chapters… Jean-Michel transformed the variable selection and model choice R codes of the regression chapter into generic functions that will fit within the package. I rewrote the section on testing, 
Here's an interesting competition that may well lend itself to R: the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining is running a contest to find the best way of predicting traffic problems. There are three separate contests: Predicting congestion: a series of measurements from 10 selected road segments is given and the goal is to make short-term predictions of future...
There has been recent interest in the attention that Oracle has been giving to R. This has been related to the use of Oracle Data Mining which is a paid option to Oracle. This is the first in a series of posts that can be run using the Orac...
A little piece of code dealing with the subsampling of matrices, in R. Useful if you want to use something akin to bootstrap, or just check the size of your sample with regard to various statistics.
Progress on the ggplot2 user interface is coming along. Please check out this VLOG which will give a good idea of where I currently am in the process. http://neolab.stat.ucla.edu/cranstats/vlog2.mov As always comments and suggestions are welcome. If you would like to try it out yourself, you can install the development version of Deducer using install.packages("Deducer",,"http://www.rforge.net",type="source") 
The presentations from April's successful R/Finance 2010 conference in Chicago are now available online. (Revolution Analytics is a proud sponsor of the conference.) There's some amazing content here for anyone looking for the cutting-edge of financial engineering, with presentations from practitioners and researchers at institutions like Invesco Asset Management, Black Mesa Capital, and some of the leading academic institutions...
At the request of a commenter I just wanted to clarify that any code released here for R or anything else is free and open source unless specifically stated otherwise. The open source BSD license for any code on GGD can be found on this copyright page.
MYTHS AND TRUTHS ABOUT AN OFTEN-USED, LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD STATISTICAL PROCEDURE If you go to a consumer research conference, you will hear tales of how experiments have undergone particular statistical rites: the attainment of the elusive crossover interaction, the demonstration of full mediation through Baron and Kenny’s sacred procedure, and so on. DSN has nothing against any
Following discussion on the comments of the previous post, I thought about how it was possible to draw links going in several directions (i.e. there are no ‘clear’ differences between the levels, and species from level n can interact with species of level n, n+1, n-1, n±k, etc). This is now done, with a code 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
