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Reproducible Research: With Us or Against Us?
Last night this article by Chris Drummond of the Canadian National Research Council (Conseil national de recherches Canada) popped up in my Google Scholar alert. The title of the article, “Reproducible Research: a Dissenting Opinion” would seem to indicate that he disagrees … Continue reading →
Some Thoughts on Teaching R to 50,000 Students
Two weeks ago I finished teaching my course Computing for Data Analysis through Coursera. Since then I’ve had some time to think about how it went, what I learned, and what I’d do differently. First off, let me say that it was a lot of fun....
Computing for Data Analysis (Simply Statistics Edition)
As the entire East Coast gets soaked by Hurricane Sandy, I can’t help but think that this is the perfect time to…take a course online! Well, as long as you have electricity, that is. I live in a heavily tree-lined area and so it’s onl...
Really Big Objects Coming to R
I noticed in the development version of R the following note in the NEWS file: There is a subtle change in behaviour for numeric index values 2^31 and larger. These used never to be legitimate and so were treated as NA, sometimes with a warning.
Johns Hopkins Coursera Statistics Courses
Computing for Data Analysis Data Analysis Mathematical Biostatistics Bootcamp
An R script for estimating future inflation via the Treasury market
One factor that is critical for any financial planning is estimating what future inflation will be. For example, if you’re saving money in an instrument that gains 3% per year, and inflation is estimated to be 4% per year, well then you’re losing m...
Plotting BeijingAir Data
Here’s a bit of R code for scraping the BejingAir Twitter feed and plotting the hourly PM2.5 values for the past 24 hours. The script defaults to the past 24 hours but you can modify that by simply changing the value for the variable ‘n’. You c...
Contributions to the R source
One of the nice things about tracking the R subversion repository using git instead of subversion is you can do git shortlog -s -n which gives you 19855 ripley 6302 maechler 5299 hornik 2263 pd 1153 murdoch 813 iacus 716 luke 6...
New O’Reilly book on parallel R computation
New O'Reilly book on parallel R computation: Looks like it covers snow, multicore, parallel (package), and some others. Anyone know anything more about this book?
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
