2012 in review by The WordPress.com

Here is a 2012 annual report for this blog produced by The WordPress.com. My top post this year based on number of views are R-Uni (A List of Free R Tutorials and Resources in Universities webpages) 29 COMMENTS February 2012 R Style Guide 7 COMMENTS June 2012 Click here to see the complete … Continue reading

Learn to use R for FREE with Coursera

Coursera is offering free courses about R among other interesting subjects. The first one on the application of R in financial econometrics is happening this week (but you can still enroll). There are two more courses starting in January 2013 are more about using R to analyse the data. The … Continue reading

R in the Press

Here is the list of press reports and news about R Bits (A bog under The New York Times) R you ready for R? by Ashlee Vance Published: January 8, 2009, 1:52 PM The New York Times Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power by Ashlee Vance Published: January 6, 2009  InfoWorld The BI battle … Continue reading

My Course Wish List at CMSE next year

Here is the list  of courses I wish to teach next year at Chiang Mai School of Economics, not so sure about the demand there! Undergraduate (B.Econ.) ECON 304: Economics Statistics (with R) ECON 408: Research Design in Economics ECON 417: Managerial Economics ECON 419: Economic Theory and … Continue reading

List of Free Online R Tutorials

According to the post on FREE online R tutorials from universities, I have received many email suggesting more and more tutorials. However some tutorials are not hosted in an academic institutes, so I decided to create this post to list such tutorials. If you know other tutorials, please kindly … Continue reading

Using R in/for Governments

Recently British government (by Office  of National Statistics: ONS) just published their version of R manual for analysis of the government survey. The links to PDF and MS word versions of the manual including the R syntax are as below. Note: The R syntax link is not working now. I am contacting … Continue reading