I’ve just finished and uploaded another climate data package for R. This one focuses on CRN the climate Reference Network Here is their home page The package for now is really simple, but all of the packages I’m building are getting simpler. In the end ( whenever that is ) I think I’ll end 
Following on from some of my earlier posts, this is purely about, hopefully, saving some other people some time in putting this together. Height z-scores are required to then calculate the blood pressure z-scores. The CDC (Center for Disease Control … Continue reading →
I've added facebook like button in the home page of the R Graph Gallery and on each image page, i.e. this one which I "like".
In Recession Forecasting Part II, I compared the accuracy of Hussman's recession forecasts to the accuracy of a naive forecast that assumed the current state of the recession variable would continue next month. An anonymous comment...
I just released the first official version of the ‘intergraph’ R package. With the functions provided in the current version (1.1-0) you can convert network data objects between classes ‘igraph’ and ‘network’. The package supports directed and undirected networks, and handles the node, tie, and network (graph) attributes. Mutliplex networks (i.e., with possibly multiple ties 
This seems like as good a day as any to review CrossValidated, and the whole StackExchange constellation of websites. It’s been a month since I joined, exactly, and today I also crossed the 1,000 reputation threshold on the site. So why not give my impressions of it? First, how I got there in the first 
Which traits make an alien species invasive?Due to what traits an alien species becomes established in a foreign flora?This kind of questions could be analysed by the use of recursive partitioning and classification trees..(the below example also inclu...
In cricket a player who can perform well with both the bat and bowl is a great asset for any team and across the history of international cricket there have been a number of cricketers that hall into this bracket. It is difficult to specify a set of criteria to determine whether a player can
Julien Cornebise has pointed out a recent Guardian article. It is about commercial publishers of academic journals, mainly Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley, with a clear stand from its title: “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist“! The valuable argument therein is that academic publishers make hefty profits (a 40% margin for Elsevier!) 
The R package rJava allows R to be accessed in Java programs. The part of the package that allows this is jri. The notes on the rJava site about getting jri to work didn’t help me much getting it to … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
