About a year ago I wrote a post about producing scatterplot matrices in R. These are handy for quickly getting a sense of the correlations that exist in your data. Recently someone asked me to pull out some relevant statistics (correlation coefficient ...
A post over on Dang, another error (show me yours and I’ll show you mine) has a method of working with R which uses an IDE called Eclipse in conjunction with a plugin called StatET. Eclipse is one of a number of IDEs that I’m aware of (Tinn-R being another, but this Sciviews pages has 
In the post pairs trading issues one of the problems raised was the unstable estimates of the stock’s beta with respect to the market. Here is a suggestion for a possible solution, which is not really a solution but more … Continue reading →
This week I’m in Cyprus attending the COMPSTAT2012 conference. There’s been the usual interesting collection of talks, and interactions with other researchers. But I was struck by two side comments in talks this morning that I’d like to mention. Stephen Pollock: Don’t imagine your model is the truth Actually, Stephen said something like “economists (or was it econometricians?) have...
The German news magazine Der Spiegel published a series of articles around career developments. The stories suggest that career aspirations of young professionals today are somewhat different to those of previous generations in Germany. Apparen...
SocialDataBlog’s kind reference in post Horizon plots with ggplot (not) motivated me to finish what the post started. I knew that ggplot2 would be a little more difficult to use for the purpose of a horizon plot, but I felt compelled to provide...
Updates from RStudio support: (1) “Thanks for reporting and I was able to reproduce this as well. I’ve filed a bug and we’ll take a look.” (2) Taking a further look, this is actually a bug in the Markdown package and we’ve asked the maintainer (Jeffrey Horner) to look into it. As juejung points out 
Two significant R community milestones were achieved over the weekend. Firstly, the number of community-contributed R packages on CRAN is now above 4000. (As of this writing, it's 4004.) Figure 10 of The Popularity of Data Analysis Software charts the exponential growth of R packages: at the end of last year the figure stood at 3500, and the number...
The Timely Portfolio blog via R-bloggers has recently published some interesting entries about the value of horizon plots for visual comparison of a number of time series. Very nice it looks too. You can read more about them here. The trick to understanding them is to imagine that each row was orginally a line chart
I wrote before about heatmap tables as a better way of producing frequency or other tables, with a solution which works nicely in latex. It is possible to do them much more easily in ggplot2, like this library(Hmisc) library(ggplot2) library(reshape) data(HairEyeColor) P=t(HairEyeColor) Pm=melt(P) ggfluctuation(Pm,type="heatmap")+geom_text(aes(label=Pm$value),colour="white")+ opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(size = 15),axis.text.y=theme_text(size = 15)) Note that ggfluctuation will also take
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
