I'm heading out on vacation to my Australian homeland for the next two weeks, but fear not reader friends: we have an awesome lineup of guest bloggers to fill in while I'm away. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but you'll be seeing posts from: experts in data visualization about how they use R; members of the R...
Monthly Archives: September 2012
ggplot2 0.9.2 has been released!
The main changes in this version are to the theming system. There are also a number of enhancements to the theming system that make it easier to modify themes and we’ve renamed a number of functions to have more informative names. Your existing code should continue to work, although you may receive warnings about functions 
Book Review: R Cookbook
The R Cookbook is written by Paul Teetor, a developer with degrees in statistics and computer science, specializing in finance. The programming language R is a specialized language designed for deep statistical research, although it has some support for other mathematical fields, such as matrix algebra and signal processing. True to the O’Reilly cookbook format,
Conversion of Meucci’s MatLab Code
You might remember a second proposal I put forward for this summer’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This project was ambitious, looking to convert a subset of Attillio Meucci’s MatLab code to R. Thankfully, Brian Peterson took the lead mentor position for this particular project. Coincidently, the day before GSoC started we received a very 
That damn R-squared !
Another post about the R-squared coefficient, and about why, after some years teaching econometrics, I still hate when students ask questions about it. Usually, it starts with "I have a _____ R-squared... isn't it too low ?" Please, feel free to fi...
Topic Modeling 1: Simulated LDA Corpus
Because I am self-taught in many of the areas of computer science and more advanced statistics and probability theory I am most interested in, and because I have a deep aversion both to looking foolish and being full of it...
Add Text Annotations to ggplot2 Faceted Plot (an easier approach)
I recently posted a blog about adding text to a ggplot2 faceted plot (LINK). I was unhappy with the amount of time it takes to create the text data frame to then label the plot. And then yesterday when the … Continue reading →
RcppArmadillo 0.3.4.0
A new major released of Armadillo came out earlier today. I prepared the corresponding RcppArmadillo package 0.3.4.0 which also arrived on CRAN earlier today. This released contains a few performance improvements, the beginnings of support of sparse matrices and more, see below. We also post the NEWS entry for the beta release which was prepared, but not uploaded to CRAN to...
Kickstarter facilitates $50M in indie game funding
The social crowdfunding site Kickstarter announced today that it has enabled, via community contributions, $50M in funding in 2012 for new indie games. The second largest category of funding was for independent films. The blog post announcing the news includes analysis (using R, natch) of the breakdown in categories and funding sources. On a personal note, two Kickstarter projects...
New Book on Probability with R
My first book on probability is completed. HTML version is freely available at theanalysisofdata.com and print version coming soon at a discounted price. Also, check out chapters 4 and 5 (available in pdf format) of the upcoming second volume on R programming and R graphics. http://theanalysisofdata.com/probability/viewer1.html (single page viewer) http://theanalysisofdata.com/probability/viewer2.html (two page viewer) http://theanalysisofdata.com/probability/0/0-2.pdf (table
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
