In R, every comma matters. When creating a vector, c(1, 2, 5) will do the right thing, but add one unfortunate comma and c(1, 2, 5,) will greet you with a deadly Error in c(1, 2, 5, ) : argument 4 is empty.
Other languages like Perl are less strict when defining basic data structures: having a comma after...
It happens all the time: you have a vector of fruits and you want to replace all bananas with apples, all oranges with pineapples, and leave all the other fruits as-is, or maybe change them all to figs. The usual solution? A big old nested `ifelse`: ...
Troyis™ is an addictive online flash game where you move a chess knight through increasingly difficult puzzles. After hours and hours of playing, sometimes late into the night, I decided I'd waste even more of my time and write a little program tha...
Last week, in a post entitled Bridget Riley exhibition in London, the author Markus Gesmann wrote an R script reproducing one of Riley's famous art pieces: Movement in Squares.This reminded me of my own first "brush" with Op art. It was in art class ye...
As much as I love Craigslist, I sometimes find the interface a bit limited. My biggest wish? That there was an option for showing the search results as an image gallery, like eBay has. This could prove quite useful for browsing things like antiques,...
Ask anyone what makes R a great language, one argument that often comes back is its very active community. Proof is the impressive number of packages contributed by developers from all horizons and backgrounds. The CRAN website alone lists 3,725 p...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
