Update!: The latest version of Revolution R, which added support for RHEL 6, appears to work (it appears to at least install, run, and perform basic tasks). See this post for more details. I’ve come to enjoy using R. I had dabbled with it in the past, but found it painfully opaque, and the Effort:Reward 
After entirely too long, I am happy to announce the beta release of boolean3, an R package for modeling causal complexity. The package can be downloaded at the following links: Unix/Linux: boolean3_3.0.20.tar.gz Windows: boolean3_3.0.20.zip (Please let me know if you have any … Continue reading →
(This article was first published on R-statistics blog » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The followings introductory post is intended for new users of R. It deals with interactive visualization using R through the iplots package. This is a guest article by Dr. Robert I. Kabacoff, the founder of (one of) the first online R tutorials websites: Quick-R. Kabacoff has...
As I was exploring open data sources, I came across USA spending. This site contains information on US government contract awards and other disbursements, such as grants and loans. In this post, we will look at data on contracts awarded in the state of Maryland in the fiscal year 2011, which is available by selecting "Maryland"...
For those of who work in Enrollment Management and routinely analyze higher ed data, I wanted to share an easy way to convert ACT to equivalent SAT M+V scores in R. I am dynamically building a dataset that uses the concordance chart located here. Simply, use this data frame and merge it onto your existing
RBelgium is the latest local R user group to join the R community. Led by R user Jean-Baptiste Poullet, the group will host meetings on the first Friday of each month at the Alfot Hotel in Brussels, as well as weekly coffee get-togethers. The group also provides an on-line discussion forum on statistics and applications with R. You can...
This map has been produced before (and much better) by others but who cares. This effort was achieved purely via the standard R plot function*. I believe the only departure from predecessor maps has been to order the list by … Continue reading →
Last night I was working on a difficult optimization problems, using the wonderful DEoptim package for R. Unfortunately, the optimization was taking a long time, so I thought I'd speed it up using a foreach loop, which resulted in the fo...
Following on from the previous post here is an R function for visualising correlations between the explanatory variables in your data set. An interesting example is the North Carolina Crime data set that comes with the plm package. This has the following continuous variables: crmrte crimes committed per person prbarr probability of arrest prbarr probability … Continue reading...
Why returns have a stable distribution As “A tale of two returns” points out, the log return of a long period of time is the sum of the log returns of the shorter periods within the long period. The log return over a year is the sum of the daily log returns in the year. … Continue reading...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
