This is my tribute to the fantastic R package spatstat. All the artwork was 100% done in R, the source code is here. Click the images for hi-res (6000 x 4000) versions. License: This is a public domain work. Feel free to do absolutely whatever you want with the code … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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I have put together some basic material on survival analysis. It is available as: .html document with highlighted syntax here. Printer-ready .pdf document here. GitHub repository with all the source files here. Main motivation was that I wanted to learn the basics myself; also, it's tricky to find simple examples ... [Read more...]

The good reasons to write scientific reports and manuscripts in LaTeX or Markdown are: improved document integrity (always), simplicity (not always) and reproducibility (always). I prefer the lightweight Markdown over rich but more complex LaTeX -- I think that lightweight is good for reproducibility. I am also in love with … ... [Read more...]

Simple things are good. Here is a list of 12 things that I find simple and useful, yet not many of my colleagues use them. The list is R-biased. Knitr. Intuitive tool to integrate R and text to make reports with fancy fonts, figures, syntax-highlighted R code and equations. If … Continue ... [Read more...]

This post shows how to build a custom univariate distribution in R from scratch, so that you end up with the essential functions: a probability density function, cumulative distribution function, quantile function and random number generator. In the beginning all you need is an equation of the probability density function, … ... [Read more...]

Do you remember the time when you switched from graphical statistical software to R? I did it eight years ago, and I had hard time doing even a simple regression analysis without constantly searching for help, it was a pain. In desperation I frequently cheated and went back to Statistica … ... [Read more...]

Authors: Jan Smycka, Petr Keil This post introduces experimental R package bPCA which we developed with Jan Smycka, who actually came with the idea. We do not guarantee the very idea to be correct and there certainly are bugs – we invite anyone to show us wrong, or to contribute. … Continue ... [Read more...]