Next week on Friday, November 16, the RBelgium R user group is holding its next Regular meeting in Brussels.
This is the schedule of the upcoming RBelgium Regular meeting:
* Graphical User Interface developments around R, including tcltk2 and SciViews - Philippe Grosjean (UMons)
* Using R via the Amazon Cloud - Jean-Baptiste Poullet (stat'Rgy)
* Literature review: R books - Brecht Devleesschauwer (UGent, UCL)
The meeting will take place...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. Sponsorships for local R user groups from Revolution Analytics are now open to applicants worldwide. During the landfall of Hurricane Sandy in the US, several R-based apps used public weather and social media data to document its impact, like this timeline of...
I’ve been using R on a daily basis for more than seven years, and I’ve been developing R packages over the last three years. I consider myself an experienced useR and most of my coworkers consider me an R master. However, there are still a lot of things that I don’t know about R. To be … Continue reading...
It is obvious (after seeing the spectra of the calibration set), that we have at least three clusters, and that this can be related with the concentration of the active ingredient in the tablets. If we see the scores in the PC1-PC2 score map we will se...
Tom Brakke from http://researchpuzzle.com/ wrote a great thought piece Cash as Trash, Cash as King, and Cash as a Weapon for the CFA Institute blog. My favorite part comes in the last paragraph: “That’s the kind of analysis that should be br...
You’ve already seen everyone else’s electoral map (see this amazing array of maps from 2008), how would you like to make your own? Today’s Gist allows you to do just that — input (manually!) state-by-state results, and output a...
Just had my supper. Stomach is full of stewed beef and potato. I’d like to solve the 22nd Euler problem before tonight work (right, I’ll work late in my office). Using names.txt (right click and ‘Save Link/Target As…’), a 46K text file containing over … Continue reading →
I should start this with a disclaimer, ie that I'm not really claiming any "success" with this post. But I find it quite interesting that the estimations I produced with this very, very simple model turned out to be quite good.The idea was to use the e...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
