Today's guest post comes from Yihui Xie, author of the knitr package — ed. Hi, this is Yihui Xie, and I'm guest posting on the Revolutions blog to talk about one aspect of the knitr package: how we can integrate data analysis and reporting in R with the Web. This post includes both the work that has been done...
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Big data analysis, for free, in R (or “How I learned to load, manipulate, and save data using the ff package”)
Before choosing to support the purchase of Statistica at my workplace, I came across the ff package as an option for working with really big datasets (with special attention paid to ff dataframes, or ffdf). It looked like a good … Continue reading →
Second Milano R net meeting
September 27, 2012 - 18:00 - 21:00 Fiori Oscuri Bistrot & Bar (www.fiorioscuri.it) Via Fiori Oscuri, 3 - Milano (Zona Brera) Continue reading →
Connecting data to the real world – The next sexy job?
At last week's Royal Statistical Society (RSS) conference Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, gave a panel talk about 'Statistics at Google'. Could he get a better audience than the RSS? Hal talked about his career in academia and at Google. He remi...
Unit root, or not ? is it a big deal ?
Consider a time series, generated using set.seed(1) E=rnorm(240) X=rep(NA,240) rho=0.8 X=0 for(t in 2:240){X=rho*X+E} The idea is to assume that an autoregressive model can be considered, but we don't know the value of the parameter. ...
Extending Gold time series
While back-testing trading strategies I want all assets to have long history. Unfortunately, sometimes there is no tradeable stock or ETF with sufficient history. For example, I might use GLD as a proxy for Gold allocation, but GLD is only began trading in November of 2004. We can extend the GLD’s historical returns with its 
PDF and CDF for normal distributions with R
Below, we give the R code to plot the PDF and the CDF for normal distributions. We wish to get charts quite similar to the ones read on Wikipedia (Normal Distribution). The resulting charts are shown at the bottom. Notice that … Continue reading →
igraph 0.6 issues: Changed numbering of Vertices
I have tried one of my previous scripts with an updated igraph version and I got an interesting (pretty much unexpected) error:At type_indexededgelist.c:269 : invalid (odd) length of edges vector, Invalid edge vectorThe problem is that it was a well-te...
R-bloggers submission
I might be the 393rd blogger on the R-bloggers.com :-) http://www.r-bloggers.com/Wohoo!
Item Response Theory: Developing Your Intuition
Suppose that you accepted my argument from the last two posts on halo effects and bifactor models. As you might recall, I argued that when respondents complete rating scales, they predominating rely on their generalized impression with a more minor role played by the specific features that the ratings were written to measure. Consequently, we...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
