We use R a lot. R takes care of many our basic data management needs. R is an awesome statistical analysis package. R allows you to produce exceptional data graphics. The only problem is … R has a wicked learning … read ...
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Short review of the R book
David Scott wrote a review of Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R in the International Statistical Review that is rather negative, since the main bulk reads as follows: I found some aspects of the book very disappointing. The first chapter (“Basic R Programming”) has some unfortunate mistakes and some statements, which are contentious at least 
My first R package: zipcode
My first package, zipcode, is now available on CRAN. It contains the CivicSpace database of 43,191 U.S. zip codes.
sab-R-metrics: Introduction to R
In a recent post, I briefly mentioned that I may turn a majority of the focus of this blog to teaching R commands for use with sabermetric analysis. Only a few days later, Ricky Zanker began a new column at The Hardball Times doing just that. But that's okay. Hopefully both his and mine...
sab-R-metrics: Introduction to R
In a recent post, I briefly mentioned that I may turn a majority of the focus of this blog to teaching R commands for use with sabermetric analysis. Only a few days later, Ricky Zanker began a new column at The Hardball Times doing just that. But that's okay. Hopefully both his and mine...
R-bloggers
Just a quick FYI note in case you haven't seen this site.R-bloggers is an awesome site, bringing together more than 140 blogs (including mine) about R in a single location. See Tal Galili's motivation for creating the site, and his notes on the site here.
New approach to analysis of phylogenetic community structure
Anthony Ives, of University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Matthew Helmus of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, present a new statistical method for analyzing phylogenetic community structure in an early view paper in Ecological Monographs. See th...
Adap’skiii [day 2]
![Adap’skiii [day 2]](http://www.r-bloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/img_7926-e1294224062331.jpg?w=450&h=264)
Another exciting day at Adap’skiii!!! Yves Atchadé presented a very recent work on the fundamental issue of estimating the asymptotic variance estimation for adaptive MCMC algorithms, with an intriguing experimental observation that a non-converging bandwidth with rate 1/n was providing better coverage than the converging rate. (I always found the issue of estimating the asymptotic 
How many gifts did my true love give to me on all twelve nights…
How many gifts did my true love give to me on all twelve nights of Christmas?
After seeing Information is Beautiful’s recent information animation, I decided that I’d make my own.
I used R to generate a PDF and then did a screencast of the PDF with ffmpeg to make a video with the appropriate timings. The code for the PDF...
Customizing the Theme of Your R HTML Help
R’s default theme of the HTML help pages is too plain for me to read, but we can easily modify the theme, which is essentially a CSS file. You can find the file under: file.path(R.home('doc'), 'html', 'R.css') Simply replace this file with my version: which looks like: Of course you can design your own R.css
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
