I searched around to see if there was a blog post somewhere describing how to customize one’s .rprofile but was surprised to find just one outdated post. So here is quick intro on the topic. If you are a power R user, you already know about what it does. For those of you that don’t,
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Modelling with R: part 1
When I started work about 3 months ago, I didn't know much more than loading data and executing standard Econometric commands in R. But now I feel much much much more confident in using R for work, for research, for puzzles, and sometimes just for fun....
Obama 2012 campaigning with analytics
The campaign to re-elect US president Barack Obama is hiring -- and the RDataMining blog noticed that several of the open positions seek R skills. If you want to be a Communications Analyst, Digital Strategy Analyst, or Statistical Modeling Analyst and you know R, there may be a job opening for you. Just goes to show there's no corner...
Googling Bayes’ pictures
I am writing way too many posts in a row on Google tools. I promise I will think about something else soon. I find amusing the possibility to launch a search in Google images by just dragging a picture into … Continue reading →
A brief introduction to R for SAS and SPSS users
If you've used SAS or SPSS and want a jump-start into the basics of the popular R language, next week's webinar, Introduction to R for SAS and SPSS Users will be of interest to you. While R, SAS and SPSS are all three software systems for data analysis and graphics, the underlying concepts in R are quite different to...
Connect JAVA to R part 2
To follow on from the earlier post on using R through Java, it is even easier to get jri up and running as a NetBeans module. Why is this useful? Well the platform that the NetBeans IDE is built on … Continue reading →
Paired sample t-test in R
Let’s walk through using R and Student’s t-test to compare paired sample data. The book Statistics: The Exploration & Analysis of Data (6th edition, p505) presents the longitudinal study “Bone mass is recovered from lactation to postweaning in adolescent mothers … Continue reading →
ttrTests This is a Test–Test 1 and Test 2
Just to remind everyone, THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE AND ANY ACTIONS TAKEN BASED ON THIS DISCUSSION WILL PROBABLY RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT LOSSES. We had fun with the ttrTests package in two previous posts ttrTests: Its Great Thesis and Incredible Poten...
The R Graph Gallery goes social
The R Graph Gallery, the website from Romain François that showcases hundreds of examples of data visualization with R, has new social features. Now, when you find a graph or chart you find appealing or useful, you can "Like" it on Facebook or "+1" it on Google+. This should be a great way of highlighting the best charts and...
Is the “Long Tail” a Useless Concept?
In response to my last post, “The Long Tail of the Pareto Distribution,” Neil Gunther had the following comment:
“Unfortunately, you've fallen into the trap of using the ‘long tail’ misnomer. If you think about it, it can't possibly be the length of the tail that sets distributions like Pareto and Zipf apart; even the negative exponential and Gaussian...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
