# Monthly Archives: June 2013

## R package development

June 11, 2013
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Building R packages is not particular hard, but it can be a bit of a daunting endeavour at the beginning, particularly if you are more of a statistician than a computer scientist or programmer. Some concepts may appear foreign or like red tape, yet man...

## Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis

June 10, 2013
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Skewness and kurtosis in R are available in the moments package (to install an R package, click here), and these are:Skewness - skewnessKurtosis - kurtosisExample 1. Mirra is interested in the elapse time (in minutes) she spends on riding a tricycle fr...

## Scenario analysis for option strategies Pt. 2

June 10, 2013
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No vivid improvements since the last post. However, I got it to the stage, when I can share the code and let you try it yourself: https://github.com/afraid2trade/SCENARIO_ANALYSIS.git Once you downloaded it, the only thing you need to open is "sa_work...

## Microsoft Office Metadata with R

June 10, 2013
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Sometimes I need to retrieve various items of metadata from Microsoft Office files. For the 'old-style' (i.e. '.doc' and '.xls') files perhaps a solution in python, such as hachoir, was the best way to extract this data from the ole2 file format -...

## Bringing R to the Enterprise – new white paper available

June 10, 2013
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Check out this new white paper entitled "Bringing R to the Enterprise -  A Familiar R Environment with Enterprise-Caliber Performance, Scalability, and Security." In this white paper, we begin with "Beyond the Laptop" exploring the ability to run R code in the database, working with CRAN packages at the database server, operationalizing R analytics, and...

## In case you missed it: May 2013 Roundup

June 10, 2013
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In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users: Billions of geotagged Tweets create a beautiful map of the world when plotted with the ggmap package. A review of Ryan Sheftel's talk at R/Finance, on how he uses R on the trading desk at Credit Suisse. Also, a quick take on...

## Where is the R Activity?

June 10, 2013
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R has become one of the world’s most widely used

## The RStudio CRAN mirror

June 10, 2013
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RStudio maintains its own CRAN mirror, http://cran.rstudio.com. The server itself is a virtual machine run by Amazon’s EC2 service, and it syncs with the main CRAN mirror in Austria once per day. When you contact http://cran.rstudio.com, however, you’re probably not talking to our CRAN mirror directly. That’s because we use Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery

## Running time

June 10, 2013
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Marta and I are doing some re-analysis of our Eurovision contest (some context here and here). We have slightly modified our original model (mostly, I have navigated the mess in Marta's notation $-$ it's OK: I'm not at risk of her mighty wrath, as I've...