In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. The Environmental Performance Index website uses R to rank countries by measures like environmental health and ecosystem vitality. A log-linear regression in R predicted the gold-winning Olympic 100m sprint time to be 9.68 seconds (it was actually 9.63 seconds). Some R-related talks...
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Trends in run scoring – comparing the leagues
My previous two posts have looked a using R to create trend lines for the run scoring environments in the American and National leagues. This time around, I'll plot the two against each other to allow for some comparisons.
(The code below assumes that you've read the data into your workspace and calculated the LOESS...
RStudio server through ssh
R language has numerous IDEs – RStudio, Vim plugin, Eclipse plugin. RStudio really shines for R language, nevertheless Vim plugin might be well adapted for R if you are Vim guru. Eclipse? Who needs such behemoth? Turns out a student in Ljubljana badly needs it. Most of the time I use remote server for R
Why we are teaching massive open online courses (MOOCs) in R/statistics for Coursera
Editor’s Note: This post written by Roger Peng and Jeff Leek. A couple of weeks ago, we announced that we would be teaching free courses in Computing for Data Analysis and Data Analysis on the Coursera platform. At the same time, a number of ot...
Simulation: The modeller’s laboratory
In his 2004 paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Steven Peck argues: Simulation models can be used to mimic complex systems, but unlike nature, can be manipulated in ways that would be impossible, too costly or unethical to do in natural systems. Simulation can add to theory development and testing, can offer hypotheses about the 
Importing data directly from MS Excel
R is great for exploring, analysing and graphing your valuable data. No question about it. Unfortunately though, there’s no base package support for importing data directly from MS Excel. This means that you have to faff about saving it in another format, and THEN import this new file. This just adds another file to your 
Brokering Closure is moving
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RProtoBuf 0.2.5
A new release 0.2.5 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google Protobuf data encoding library used and released by Google. This release once again contains a number of patches kindly contributed by Murray Stokely...
48 Industries (Dendrogram Ordered) Over 50 Years
Thanks to reader AHWest for the comment on post 48 Industries Since 1963. “I think it would be interesting to see the industries ordered by some sort of similarity of returns.” I think this is a great suggestion, and I would like to see it also.&n...
2012 Summer Olympics: Home Court Advantage – How Will the Brits Perform?
The Olympics are a big deal on a global scale. How big? Perhaps Paula Radcliffe (an English long distance runner) said it best: "I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
