March 2012

Julia, I Love You

March 31, 2012 | John Myles White

Julia is a new language for scientific computing that is winning praise from a slew of very smart people, including Harlan Harris, Chris Fonnesbeck, Douglas Bates, Vince Buffalo and Shane Conway. As a language, it has lofty design goals, which, if attained, will make it noticeably superior to Matlab, R ... [Read more...]

Back to Blogging

March 31, 2012 | John Myles White

If you’re subscribed to this blog, you’ve surely noticed the very long hiatus I’ve taken from writing over the last six months. I wish I’d kept up with blogging more faithfully this year, but, in my defense, I’ve been busy doing a few big things: ... [Read more...]

More on Philadelphia Homicide

March 31, 2012 | Josef Fruehwald

I've been doing more analysis of the Philadelphia Homicide data that the Philadelphia Inquirer has published, and presented some of it at the Philadelphia UseR group yesterday. My slides [pdf] and source [knitr .Rnw] are on github.I should be clear tha...
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GBLUP example in R

March 30, 2012 | Gregor Gorjanc

Shirin Amiri was asking about GBLUP (genomic BLUP) and based on her example I set up the following R script to show how GBLUP works. Note that this is the so called marker model, where we estimate allele substitution effects of the markers and not individual based model, where genomic ... [Read more...]

See the wind

March 30, 2012 | David Smith

The image below isn't a bearskin rug in the shape of the USA. It's fact, it's a visualization of the wind flowing over the United States, as of 4PM EDT today, March 30. You can click through to see the current wind conditions, based on latest data from the National Digital ... [Read more...]

R 2.15.0 "Easter Beagle" is released

March 30, 2012 | David Smith

The R core group today announced the availability of R 2.15.0, codenamed "Easter Beagle". If you build R yourself, the new source distribution (including packages for Debian Linux) is available now, and binaries for Windows, MacOS and Linux will be available from your local CRAN mirror over the next couple of ... [Read more...]

Slow R graphics via SSH

March 30, 2012 | Adam M. Wilson

I do most of my R work on a server via SSH.  Viewing graphics (i.e. plot()) can be excruciatingly slow through the SSH pipe, but it's easy to make it fast.  Simply run:        X11.options(type="Xlib")once in the R session....
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R 2.15.0 is released

March 30, 2012 | Tal Galili

Bellow is the announcement made by Peter Dalgaard: The build system rolled up R-2.15.0.tar.gz (codename “Easter Beagle”) at 9:00 this morning. This is the first [Read more...]

Bootstrap example

March 30, 2012 | Eran

Bootstrap your way into robust inference. Wow, that was fun to write.. Introduction Say you made a simple regression, now you have your . You wish to know if it is significantly different from (say) zero. In general, people look … Continue reading → [Read more...]
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