Before I decided to learn R in a serious way, I thought about learning Flash/Actionscript instead. Most of my work involves evolutionary models that take place over time. I need visual representations of change. It’s certainly possible to represent change and tell an evolving story with a single plot (see for example Tufte’s favorite...
To start sending all output to a file, do this: sink("path/to/filename") # Direct all output to file print("Hi there") # Will be printed to file sink() # Turn off buffing to file Related to this I recently had to use: flush.console() This forces your console to print out any buffered content. Doing this will cost time, but if you are...
$100 to the first person who can figure out how I created this plot and replicate it. Some hints: It was done in R. There is only one underlying probability distribution involved (one “rdist()“). Including the “plot” statement, I created this with 3 short lines of code. This is based on a random sampling of unstated size,...
I found this interesting question over here at mathoverflow.net. Here’s the question: If you have a country where every family will continue to have children until they get a boy, then they will stop. What is the proportion of boys to girls in the country. First off, there are some assumptions you need to make that...
Click on image for a larger version. Here is the code: par(bg="black") par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) plot(sort(rpois(10000,100))/rpois(10000,100),frame.plot=F,pch=20,col="blue")
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
