March 2011

Some upcoming R courses

March 18, 2011 | David Smith

A couple of quick notes about some upcoming R courses: In Vancouver, Canada, R trainer Isabella Ghement is presenting two R courses: An Introduction to the Statistical Software Package R, 8:30am-4:30pm, March 30-31, 2011, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (http://www.ghement.ca/RworkshopMarch30and31_2011.html) Advanced Statistical Modeling Using the ... [Read more...]

More fun with sed

March 18, 2011 | Gregor

So I have this strange date and time string, which I would like to convert to a “useable” date, i.e., something that a spreadsheet programme or R can work with. It looks like this (MON has 3 chars): ddMONyr:hh:mm:ss The … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Machine Learning Ex5.1 – Regularized Linear Regression

March 18, 2011 | al3xandr3

Exercise 5.1 Improves the Linear Regression implementation done in Exercise 3 by adding a regularization parameter that reduces the problem of over-fitting. Over-fitting occurs especially when fitting a high-order polynomial, that we will try to do here. Data Here's the points we will make a model from: # linear regression mydata = read.csv("... [Read more...]

The housing bubble by city

March 17, 2011 | dan

The housing bubble by city. Miami sailed high and fell far. Detroit rose modestly and but dropped more than it went up. Dallas held steady. DC is enjoying a bit of renewed growth, but are in and New York yet to fall? [Read more...]

More, Please!

March 17, 2011 | jebyrnes

Thanks to Jim, I’ve been using R in the shell more and more – in concert with vi. It’s been fun, and nice to integrate my workflows all on the server (although I haven’t had to do much graphing yet – I’m sure I’ll start kvetching then ... [Read more...]

Staying up to date on R packages

March 17, 2011 | Karthik Ram

Unless you regularly use particular R packages,  it’s becomes difficult to stay on top of updates and bug fixes.  Updates usually also include significant improvements in performance.  I wrote this short snippet of code which I run about once a month to keep up on updates. This short bit ... [Read more...]

Updated tty Connection for R

March 17, 2011 | BioStatMatt

Below are some links to a patch against the R-2.12.2 source code that implements a tty connection for R. Since the release of R-2.13.0 is coming soon, I’ll have a patch for it soon also. What’s a tty connection? The tty connection is an R interface to computer ... [Read more...]

$3.2M in prizes for predicting hospitalization

March 17, 2011 | David Smith

Heritage Health and Kaggle have teamed up to create the biggest data science competition thus far: the Heritage Health Prize, which challenges competitors to build a statistical model to predict the number of days a person is likely to spend in hospital over the next year, based on (anonymized) factors ... [Read more...]

basic ggplot2 network graphs

March 17, 2011 | Scott Chamberlain

I have been looking around on the web and have not found anything yet related to using ggplot2 for making graphs/networks. I put together a few functions to make very simple graphs. The bipartite function especially is not ideal, as of course we only w...
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Having a problem with R-2.12.2 64-bit and "gam’ package!

March 17, 2011 | Millsy

While working with some pitch location data recently, I ran across something strange when using my new computer (with R-2.12.2 64-bit) versus my work computer (with R-2.11.1 x64). Both are 64-bit computers, but I got the new one for portability (it's a laptop) and speed.Anyway, I had been doing ... [Read more...]
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