As a quick dprint experiment, I thought I would try to do a quarterly return table that might potentially fit in knitR Performance Report 3 (really with knitr) and dprint. Although I do not think I will use it in the final report, I do think it i...
Monthly Archives: May 2012
RStudio v0.96.225 Update
There’s an updated release of RStudio v0.96 available that includes some small enhancements and bugfixes, including: Comment/uncomment for Sweave and LaTeX Additional in-product documentation for R Markdown Offline support for MathJax previews More flexible handling of MathJax inline equations The release notes include a full list all of the changes. We’ve also published some additional documentation on 
Slides for R/Finance 2012
Another succeessful* year of R/Finance is behind us. It was certainly more: a larger crowd, a longer session, more seminars, more presentations, more sponsors – perhaps even to the point where we’ve reaching a certain capacity. What began as an interesting idea among a few friends has more than credible momentum – it’s now more 
If You are a R Developer, Then You Must Try SAP HANA for Free.
This is a guest blog from Alvaro Tejada Galindo, my colleague and fellow R and SAP HANA enthusiast. I am thankful to Alvaro for coming and posting on "AllThingsR".Are you an R developers? Have ever heard of SAP HANA? Would you like to test&n...
Forecasting the Eurozone Misery index
Is Miss Stagflation coming to visit? The Misery index is the sum of inflation and unemployment rate. We would like them both to stay naturally low, and we are miserable when they are not. The index is currently floating in … Continue reading →
NYT charts the Facebook IPO with R
In conjunction with Facebook's record-setting IPO last Thursday, the New York Times created an infographic to put the size of the offer in context with other recent IPOs. A detail of the graphic as it appeared in the print edition appears below: ChartsNThings gives a fascinating peek into the weeklong process that went into creating this chart, where about...
Global Fires, the Amazon and Humans
Fires are natural - most of the time (click on image for larger view). Natural Global Fires Many plants and animals have evolved to depend on fires periodically occurring in certain parts of the world. This phenomenon has been occurring for...
knitR Performance Report 3 (really with knitr) and dprint
please see knitr Performance Report–Attempt 3, knitr Performance Report-Attempt 2 and knitr Performance Report-Attempt 1 alstated’s asked a very good question in his comment on knitr Performance Report–Attempt 3, and I’m not sure I could have a...
R-NOLD 2012-05-23 05:48:00
Mapping Global Earthquake using XML and MaptoolsEveryday the US Geological Survey (USGS) publish earthquake data (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html) all over the globe. Using XML and maptool packages of R I d...
Are scatterplots too complex for lay folks?
Usually, I like to write about the solutions to problems I’ve had, but today I only have a problem to write about. This is the second research job I’ve had outside of academia, and in both cases I’ve met with … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
