Setting up a beamer slideshow is tedious. Creating new slideshows with the same header/footer/style files every week for your course lectures is very very tedious. To solve this problem I created a simple bash shell script. When you run the script in...
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Graphically Comparing Confidence Intervals From Different Models
(This article was first published on Christopher Gandrud (간드루드 크리스토파), and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: Christopher Gandrud (간드루드 크리스토파). R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: visualization (ggplot2, Boxplots, maps, animation), programming (RStudio, Sweave, LaTeX, SQL,...
ggplot2 Self-deprecation
I've been in China working for a few weeks (where this blog is (oddly) blocked). So, I haven't been able to post much over the summer. To kick things off for the new (academic) year, I thought I might just re-post something good I saw on the Book of Sa...
Update to Data on Github Post: Solution to an RCurl problem
A reader of my most recent post tried the R code I had written to download the data set of electoral disproportionality from the GitHub repository. However, it didn’t work for them. After entering disproportionality.data <- getURL(url) they go...
Data on GitHub: The easy way to make your data available
GitHub is designed for collaborating on coding projects. Nonetheless, it is also a potentially great resource for researchers to make their data publicly available. Specifically you can use it to:store data in the cloud for future use (for free),track ...
Slidify: Things are coming together fast
Tools for using R/RStudio as a one-stop shop for research and presentation have been coming out quickly. I think this one has a good shot of being included in future releases of RStudio: The other day I ran across a new R package called slidify by Ramn...
knitr, Slideshows, and Dropbox
I just noticed that Markus Gesmann has a nice post on using RStudio, knitr, Pandoc, and Slidy to create slideshows. After my recent attempt to use deck.rb to turn a Markdown/knitr file into a deck.js presentation I caved in and also decided to go with ...
Aspirational & Useful: deck.rb with RStudio/knitr & Go2Shell
There has been some interest in the recent release of RStudio 0.96 and especially the ability to use combine its knitr Markdown functionality with Pandoc to integrate R and a variety of different documents types. I just wanted to add two quick things ...
Dynamic Content with RStudio, Markdown, and Marked.
As Markus Gesmann recently pointed out, the new version of RStudio (0.96) has some really nice features for creating dynamic reports with Yihui Xie’s knitr. You can integrate not just R and LaTeX, but also R and Markdown (as well as some other fo...
Graphing Predicted Legislative Violence with Zelig & ggplot2
In my previous post I briefly mentioned an early draft of a working paper (HERE) I've written that looks into the possible causes of violence between legislators (like the violence shown in this picture from the Turkish Parliament).
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
