June 2012

Don’t recycle me!

June 19, 2012 | anspiess

For me, one of the most annoying features of R is that by default, rbind,  cbind  and data.frame recycle the shorter vector to the length of the longer vector. I still don’t understand why the standard generics don’t have a parameter like cbind(1:10, 1:5, fill = TRUE) to fill ... [Read more...]

Dynamical systems in R with simecol

June 18, 2012 | Markus Gesmann

This evening I will talk about Dynamical systems in R with simecol at the LondonR meeting. Thanks to the work by Thomas Petzoldt, Karsten Rinke, Karline Soetaert and R. Woodrow Setzer it is really straight forward to model and analyse dynamical systems...
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Tracking US Sentiments Over Time In Wikileaks

June 18, 2012 | Vik Paruchuri

Introduction I recently posted about using the Wikileaks cable corpus to find word use patterns, both over time, and in secret cables vs unclassified cables. I received a lot of good suggestions for further topics to pursue with the corpus, and probably the most interesting was the idea to do ... [Read more...]

Reproducible reports & research with knitr in R Studio

June 18, 2012 | Pairach

Arguably, knitr (CRAN link) is the most outstanding R package of this year and its creator, Yihui Xie is the star of the useR! conference 2012. This is because the ease of use comparing to Sweave for making reproducible report. Integration of knitR and R Studio has made reproducible research much ... [Read more...]

Updates to package ‘intergraph’

June 18, 2012 | Michał

On June 17 a new version (0.6) of package ”igraph” was released. This new version abandoned the old way of indexing graph vertices with consecutive numbers starting from 0. The new version now numbers the vertices starting from 1, which is more consistent with the general R convention of indexing vectors, matrices, etc. Because ... [Read more...]

Cross sectional spread of stock returns

June 18, 2012 | Pat

A look at a simplistic measure of stock-picking opportunity. Motivation The interquartile range (the spread of the middle half of the data) has recently been added to the market portrait plots.  Putting those numbers into historical context was the original impulse. However, this led to thinking about change in stock-picking ... [Read more...]

List of Free Online R Tutorials

June 17, 2012 | Pairach

According to the post on FREE online R tutorials from universities, I have received many email suggesting more and more tutorials. However some tutorials are not hosted in an academic institutes, so I decided to create this post to list such tutorials. If you know other tutorials, please kindly suggest ... [Read more...]

Negros Quake Animation in R

June 17, 2012 | arsalvacion

Taken from a previous post in other website, maps below show the locations of epicenters and sequence of earthquakes that struck Negros last February 6, 2012. The bottom image is the animation these maps using animation package in R. Data was taken fr...
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An exercise in R using local open data

June 17, 2012 | CL

Last week I went to the “Government Open Data Hack Day” ([@,#]godhd on twitter) in Birmingham (UK), organised by Gavin Broughton and James Catell. The idea was to get hold of local open data and try and make use of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

3D Maps in R

June 16, 2012 | arsalvacion

Talking about elevation, one can also plot a wire frame 3D view of an area using the persp function. Using the same data source from my previous post, 3D view of Marinduque, Philippines was produced using the following code below: ################...
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