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Monthly Archives: September 2012
A Return to Reliable R
The saga with Statistica continues: Statistica kept crashing on me while doing my data processing. One of the big problems was a wonderful bug that occurred when some of my text data variables were coded (unsurprisingly) as text! Under this … Continue reading →
Style your ggplot2 charts with Themes
An update to the ggplot2 "grammar of graphics" package for R is now available on CRAN. This version introduces "Themes" for ggplot2 charts, and makes it possible to define and re-use your own preferences for title fonts and sizes, tick marks, grid color, etc. The system is heirarchically defined, so for example you can choose a font and have...
Near-instant high quality graphs in R
One of the main attractions of R (for me) is the ability to produce high quality graphics that look just the way you want them to. The basic plot functions are generally excellent for exploratory work and for getting to know your data. Most packages have additional functions for appropriate exploratory work or for summarizing 
BMS 0.3.1 Released
Version 0.3.1 of the BMS package for Bayesian Model Averaging has been released. This is a maintenance release for compliance with recent CRAN guidelines. The BMS package therefore is again available on CRAN in addition to bms.zeugner.eu. Changes with...
Animated Images of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Decline
This post shows how to download and animate a series of Arctic Sea Ice Extent images using R and the animation package. In my previous post, I showed how to download the daily arctic sea ice extent data and generate … Continue reading →
Thalesians, and other events
Featured Thalesians, London 2012 September 12. Chia Tan on “Practical Financial Modeling”. Abstract: Financial modelling is not a competition in the mastery of complexity. Rather, the aim is to come up with the simplest models adequate to capture salient market features of traded products. There exists a wide gulf between material covered by traditional books … Continue reading...
Kendall’s Tau
Kendall’s Tau This is an example of Kendall’s Tau rank correlation. This is similar to Spearman’s Rho in that it is a non-parametric measure of correlation on ranks. It is an appropriate measure for ordinal data and is fairly straight forward when there are no ties in the ranks. When ties do exist then variations
Amazing fMRI plots for everybody!
Dear valued customer, it is a well-known scientific truth that research results which are accompanied by a fancy, colorful fMRI scan, are perceived as more believable and more persuasive than simple bar graphs or text results (McCabe & Castel, 2007; Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson, & Gray, 2008). Readers even agree more with fictitious and unsubstantiated
Interactive web graphs with R – Overview and googleVis tutorial
Today I feel very lucky, as I have been invited to the Royal Statistical Society conference to give a tutorial on interactive web graphs with R and googleVis. I prepared my slides with RStudio, knitr, pandoc and slidy, similar to my Cambridge R talk. ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
