Prompted by a passing thought about TextMate, I thought I'd make a comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and irrefutable survey of text editors by way of comparison to locations in The Lord of the Rings.
A once-great but now decaying city. Only the King has the power to renew it, but he is a long absent, indeed...
Prompted by a passing thought about TextMate, I thought I’d make a comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and irrefutable survey of text editors by way of comparison to locations in The Lord of the Rings. TextMate: Minas Tirith A quiet, long-overlooked land populated by simple folk who keep mostly to themselves. They are somewhat set in their
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npptor/files/npptor%20installer/NppToR-2.6.0.beta2.exe/download I’ve released beta 2 of NppToR 2.6.0. Please take a look and report any problems. This improves the installer and the uninstaller as well as a few bugs that popped up from the transition to UNICODE.
Okay so here is what has been happening:The yield curve has been going through a mad flattening- indicating that investors are "flying to safety" and that a recession may be looming around the corner. Why has it been flattening? Well, a string of bad n...
Guest post by Daniel Adler. Below is a real-time audio-visual multimedia demonstration – or in short ‘an intro’ – written in 100% pure R. It requires no compilation and runs across major platforms via the package rdyncall and preinstalled precompiled standard libraries such as OpenGL and SDL libraries. This ‘happy-birthday’ production runs about 3 minutes 
At the InformationManagement blog, Steve Miller talks about the applications of R to financial engineering, and reviews David Ruppert's book Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering. InformationManagement: Statistics and Financial Engineering
I recently came across a data visualization that perfectly demonstrates the difference between the “infovis” and “statgraphics” perspectives. Here’s the image (link from Tyler Cowen): That’s the infovis. The statgraphic version would simply be a dotplot, something like this: (I purposely used the default settings in R with only minor modifications here to demonstrate what
![[R][ggplot2][R-bloggers]RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2_0.0-3 is on CRAN now](http://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/t/triadsou/20110727/20110727205609.png)
RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2 (CRAN) I posted an Rcmdr plug-in for a ”ggplot2” GUI front-end on CRAN. This version supports Kaplan-Meier plot and other plots as follow: Kaplan-Meier plot Show no. at risk on inside Show no. at risk table on outside Histogram Colo
We start yet another series of post — challenge alerts. This series is intended to share news about machine learning or data mining challenges which may be interesting to the members of our community, possibly with some brief introduction to the problem. So if you hear about some contest, notify us on Skewed distribution. Today
![Le Monde puzzle [#29]](http://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=z%5Ea%5Ctext%7Bmod%7D%5C,17+=+(z%5Ctext%7Bmod%7D%5C,17)%5Ea%5Ctext%7Bmod%7D%5C,17%5C,,&bg=000000&fg=B0B0B0&s=0)
This week, the puzzle from the weekend edition of Le Monde was easy to state: in the sequence (8+17n), is there a 6th power? a 7th? an 8th? If so, give the first occurrence. So I first wrote an R code for a function testing whether an integer is any power: (The function returns the 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
