A Greek Professor of Economics has written up a thought-provoking series of articles on complexity fetishism. As part of his …
Monthly Archives: January 2012
A Short Example with R-Package osmar..
Following up my last post in which I praised the capabilities of the osmar-package I give a short example...ps: You can also find this example at GitHub HERE.library(osmar) # this pulls the data from the OSM-Api:mydistrict <- get_osm(relation(85647)...
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Exploring the functions in a package
Sometimes it can be useful to list all the functions inside a package. This is done in the same way that you would list variables in your workspace. That is, using ls. The syntax is ls(pos = "package:packagename"), which is easy enough if you can remember it. Unfortunately, I never can, and have to type 
How to create the best Interactive R Language Online Learning Platform from the views of R community?
How to create the best Interactive R Language Online Learning Platform from the views of R community?: R offers a breadth and depth in statistical computing beyond what is available in commercial closed source products. Yet R remains, primarily, a ...
Hottest 100 for 2011
Another year, another Australia Day. Another Australia Day, another Triple J Hottest 100. And that, of course, means an excellent excuse to set R to work on the chart data. For those outside Australia, the Hottest 100 is a chart of the most popular songs of the previous year, as voted by the listeners of
osmar – Don’t Miss this New R-Geo-Package!
The osmar-package enables you to retrieve all geographic elements of OpenStreetMap via its API.I.e., you can retrieve a street, river, state-boundary or whatever and use this as a spatial object in R.It's overwhelming thinking of the endless playg...
Paper on org-mode and reproducible research
As I was talking recently about reproducible research, I have to post this. A new paper by Eric Schulte, Dan Davison, Thomas Dye, Carsten Dominik. If you haven’t heard about them, you haven’t been on the org-mode mailing list. They could be called the main contributors to org-mode and the part of org-mode called babel, 
Announcing the winners of the Applications of R in Business contest
It's with great pleasure that the team at Revolution Analytics announces the winners of the inaugural "Applications of R in Business" contest: Grand Prize ($10,000): Shannon Terry and Ben Ogorek, Nationwide Insurance for 'A Direct Marketing In-flight Forecasting System' Runner Up Prize ($5,000): Jeffrey Breen, Atmosphere Research Group for 'Mining Twitter for Airline Consumer Sentiment' Congratulations to both winners,...
Random matrix theory and APT’s daily global model
Someone emailed me recently and asked about how APT uses random matrix theory in their factor model. Another question I …
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
