This post provides information on (a) installing Git using the Eclipse plugin Egit. (b) uploading repositories to GitHub, and (c) links to resources on Git, Git and LaTeX, and Git and R. The focus is on version control for people working on R, Sweave, ...
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Getting Started with Git, EGit, Eclipse, and GitHub: Version Control for R Projects
This post provides information on (a) installing Git using the Eclipse plugin Egit. (b) uploading repositories to GitHub, and (c) links to resources on Git, Git and LaTeX, and Git and R. The focus is on version control for people working on R, Sweave, ...
Computing evidence
The book Random effects and latent variable model selection, edited by David Dunson in 2008 as a Springer Lecture Note. contains several chapters dealing with evidence approximation in mixed effect models. (Incidentally, I would be interested in the story behind the Lecture Note as I found no explanation in the backcover or in the preface. 
Analyst First – SURF
This presentation is aimed at all those working in commercial and government analytics, irrespective of what tools they use, and also to those students intending on such a career. R and other open source tools play a powerful, unique and … Continue reading →
Random variable generation (Pt 1 of 3)
As I mentioned in a recent post, I’ve just received a copy of Advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods. Chapter 1.4 in the book (very quickly) covers random variable generation. Inverse CDF Method A standard algorithm for generating random numbers is the inverse cdf method. The continuous version of the algorithm is as follows: 1. 
parser 0.0-12
I've pushed a new version of the parser package to CRAN. This is the first release that depends on Rcpp, which allowed me to reduce the code size and increase its maintainability. This also features a faster version of nlines, a function that r...
Rcpp 0.8.9
Rcpp 0.8.9 was pushed to CRAN recently. Apart from minor bug fixes, this release concentrates on modules, with lots of new features to expose C++ functions and classes through R reference classes. The Rcpp-modules vignette has all the details, a...
Computational efficiency of great-circle distance calculations in R
An obvious omission in my previous post on Great-circle distance calculations in R was a lack of discussion on the computational efficiency of the various methods, and in particular comparing different implementations of the same method. One of the comments … Continue reading →
LaTeX Typesetting – Basics
The LaTeX typesetting is used to create professional looking documents on a home computer. It may have a steeper learning curve than using a Word Processor, but this initial effort will often pay off reasonably quickly. The system is almost a necessity for anyone writing documents with a large amount of mathematics as most alternatives
Rcpp 0.8.9
A new release 0.8.9 of Rcpp is now available at CRAN and has just been uploaded to Debian. As always, sources are also available from my local directory here. This release comes a few weeks after the preceding 0.8.8 release and continues with a ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
