From one of the R lists I follow: Today (2012-08-23) on CRAN : “Currently, the CRAN package repository features 4001 available packages.” These packages are maintained by approximately 2350 different folks. Previous milestones: 2011-05-12: 3,000 packages 2009-10-04: 2,000 packages 2007-04-12: 1,000 packages 2004-10-01: 500 packages 2003-04-01: 250 packages http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
Blog Archives
Rudd, the last one standing?: Federal implications of QLD state election results
Labor won 15 of Queensland’s 29 House of Reps seats in the 2007 Federal election (AEC details here). Yet just three years later, in the 2010 Federal election, Labor won only 8 of 30 Queensland Reps seats, with 33.6% of 1st preferences (a swing of -9.3 percentage points). Labor’s best performance on 1st preferences in
pscl 1.04 live on CRAN
Update to my pscl package, now on CRAN. Biggest change: fixing a bug in the way MCMC draws for item parameters were being stored and summarized by ideal.
Bay Area R Users group has 1300 members
Impressive. You are not alone!
tracking Australian election betting markets again (now with sparklines)
The header of my blog (above) shows the latest prices on offer in some of Australia’s election betting markets. I convert the prices to an implied probability of ALP win (factoring out the bookie’s profit margin, the so-called “overround”). I’m using some Javascript by John Resig to make Tufte-ish sparklines, although the Google version of sparklines
roll calls, ideal points, 112th Congress
Now that classes are over, I took a little time to update my scripts that update the analysis of Congressional roll calls in close to real time. Links appear at the top of the blog. As of about 15 minutes ago, we’re up to 77 non-unanimous roll calls in the 112th Senate.
Sweave source for poll report
Sweave source for the poll report for those who expressed some interest. You’ll also need this file of R function definitions, utilities.R. I also wrote a little shell script that calls Sweave and xelatex etc, hacking the Sweave.sh script that ships with R.
Australians and Americans, 10 years after 9/11
With Lynn Vavreck at UCLA, I ran parallel public opinion surveys in Australia and the United States, measuring attitudes on security, the fight against terrorism, the wars in Afghanistan etc, some 10 years after the 9/11 attacks. Full report here (gene...
iPhone geo-tracking database
So the web lit up a little today with news that iPhones are collecting time-stamped location data, and in a form that isn’t particularly hard to look at (and even with some nice apps to make animated maps of your travels etc): The database is SQLite, and I used R (and the RSQLite package) to
Aquamacs customizations (auctex, ESS)
I gave an informal talk on my Mac based “workflow” at Stanford on Friday. I talked a lot about Aquamacs as a tool for editing LaTeX (I use MacTeX) and for working with R (thanks auctex and ess, respectively). Skim also got a mention; I emphasized TeX-PDF synchronization. Some of the students were asking for
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
