We’ve previously covered the convex hull here at is.R(), and in that post I admitted that I was somewhat hard-pressed to come up with a common use-case — at least for Political Science applications. Well, today’s Gist illustrates the...
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APSRtable: Getting Tables from R to \( \LaTeX \)
Oftentimes you might be writing in LaTeX and trying to push your results from R into your .tex file. This, at times, can be very frustrating. Luckily, there’s apsrtable, an R package that automatically produces the LaTeX code for your R model ...
Reading/Writing Stata (.dta) files with Foreign
Oftentimes we find ourselves collaborating with others who might not use R or prefer to use Stata to clean and manage their data. Luckily, there is the foreign package that permits handling data of different types (SAS, SPSS, Stata, etc.) within the R...
Scaling legislative roll call votes with wnominate
We’ve used NOMINATE scaling data before here at is.R(), but today’s Gist shows, in just a few lines of code, how to download up-to-date roll call data and run those votes through Keith Poole (et. al.)’s DW-NOMINATE procedure. ItR...
Rolling means (and other functions) with zoo
The zoo package is designed for use with (potentially irregular) time series data. It is widely used for any number of applications, but among its most frequently useful functions are the roll* functions, such as rollmean, rollmedian, rollmax, rollapp...
Using XML to grab tables from the web
We’re going to try, this December, to bring you an “Advent CalendaR,” for each of the 24 days leading up to Christmas. Each day, our hope is to unwrap a useful R package to show you a useful or interesting function inside! Today̵...
Finding a bright object
Finally, to return to the challenge I laid out in the first of this series on image manipulation in R: can we do anything as cool in R as can be done in Mathematica? Like, for example, this illustration of how to search images of the surface of Mars...
Images as Voronoi tesselations
This is probably the coolest-looking thing I’ve figured out how to do with raster images in R. Similar to (although not quite as impressive as) these images by Jeff Clark, I alter the simple k-means approach described in the previous post to...
"Dominant" Color Palettes with k-means
The idea of deriving color palettes from images has long been an interest of mine. There are places you can do this online, but it’s at least plausible that you might want to identify dominant colors programatically, for a large number of image...
Image Manipulation in R, Part 1
So, you know how to load PNG files, access their innards, and plot them as points in a scatter plot. But, is it possible to use R to do some of the awesome things you can do with Mathematica? Well, in this series of posts, I’ll introduce just ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
