Many of you have heard about RStudio’s latest release and it’s new R Markdown feature. Today, I’d like to announce the markdown package for R, a tool for converting Markdown documents to HTML, created in collaboration with RStudio. It...
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Messy matters explores the probability of winning of basketball…
Messy matters explores the probability of winning of basketball game when you’re ahead by x points y minutes before the end of the game.
How to Convert Sweave LaTeX to knitr R Markdown: Winter Olympic Medals Example
The following post shows how to manually convert a Sweave LaTeX document into a knitr R Markdown document. The post (1) reviews many of the required changes; (2) provides an example of a document converted to R Markdown format based on an analysis of Winter Olympic Medal data up to and including 2006; and (3) discusses the pros...
Slidify: Things are coming together fast
Tools for using R/RStudio as a one-stop shop for research and presentation have been coming out quickly. I think this one has a good shot of being included in future releases of RStudio: The other day I ran across a new R package called slidify by Ramn...
Variability in maximum drawdown
Maximum drawdown is blazingly variable. Psychology Probably the most salient feature that an investor notices is the amount lost since the peak: that is, the maximum drawdown. Just because drawdown is noticeable doesn’t mean it is best to notice. Statistics The paper “About the statistics of the maximum drawdown in financial time series” explores drawdown … Continue reading...
PDF slides and R code examples on Data Mining and Exploration
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com There are some nice slides and R code examples on Data Mining and Exploration at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/, which are listed below. PDF Slides: - Overview of Data Mining http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/2012/slides/datamining_intro4up.pdf - Visualizing Data http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/2012/slides/visualisation4up.pdf - Decision trees http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/2012/slides/classification4up.pdf … Continue reading →
Make R analysis Modules just like MS Excel Templates: Derivative Calculator study case
In this video tutorial, it will show you how to make R analysis Modules just like MS Excel Templates using the Building Derivative Calculator app as study case. Let’s say we wanted to know the derivative of tan(x^2 + 3), commonly, we will use th...
Grid2Polygons
I’d like to introduce you to the Grid2Polygons function; an R function for converting sp spatial objects from class SpatialGridDataFrame to SpatialPolygonsDataFrame. The significance of this conversion is that spatial polygons can be transformed ...
Obtaining a protein-protein interaction network for a gene list in R
Building a network of interaction between a bunch of genes can help a great deal in understanding the relationships between the seemingly disparate elements from your list. It can seems challenging at first to build such network but it's less complicat...
How to draw a curve() with ggplot2
ggplot2 improves the graphics drawn with R. A (very) short adaptation time is needed to find how to make graphs equivalent to the ones of graphics. For example, to draw the curve of a function, there is no function similar to curve(). You have to use qplot() by setting the stat and geom arguments as
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
