It seems like a lifetime ago that I developed the weaver package for caching code chunks in Sweave documents. The paper that I presented at the DSC 2007 has finally been published in Computational Statistics. The title is Caching Code Chunks in Dynam...
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Paper describing the weaver package published in Computational Statistics
It seems like a lifetime ago that I developed the weaver package for caching code chunks in Sweave documents. The paper that I presented at the DSC 2007 has finally been published in Computational Statistics. The title is Caching Code Chunks in Dynamic Documents: The weaver package. Here’s the abstract: Authoring dynamic documents
Testing for missing values of numeric (double) vectors in R
I just came across this bit of R trickiness when trying to improve the error messages for one of our packages. I tried adding a check at the C level for NA_REAL, but to no avail. The test failed even when I was certain that I was passing down a vecto...
Testing for missing values of numeric (double) vectors in R
I just came across this bit of R trickiness when trying to improve the error messages for one of our packages. I tried adding a check at the C level for NA_REAL, but to no avail. The test failed even when I was certain that I was passing down a vector containing missing
Yes, it can
Joel on Software’s latest post is about having first class functions in your programming language. He shows how you can use functions as arguments to functions to reduce code duplication. IReducing code duplication is a nice way to motivate languag...
Yes, it can
Joel on Software’s latest post is about having first class functions in your programming language. He shows how you can use functions as arguments to functions to reduce code duplication. IReducing code duplication is a nice way to motivate language features since the process of removing duplication almost always results in improved code.
Here’s an improved system.time function for R
R’s current system.time function doesn’t name the vector of return values. Doing so makes it easier to understand the output. IMO, the current code has two uglies: it sets an on.exit hook and then calls on.exit() explicitly. It also computes the ...
Here’s an improved system.time function for R
R’s current system.time function doesn’t name the vector of return values. Doing so makes it easier to understand the output. IMO, the current code has two uglies: it sets an on.exit hook and then calls on.exit() explicitly. It also computes the elapsed time twice (once for the stdout message and once for the
Aggregating Results from Unreliable Functions in R
I posted this as a response to a question on R-help. I think the idea of a “collect” function could be useful both in the context of unreliable functions that sometimes error out and also in filtering contexts where currently one creates a list co...
Aggregating Results from Unreliable Functions in R
I posted this as a response to a question on R-help. I think the idea of a “collect” function could be useful both in the context of unreliable functions that sometimes error out and also in filtering contexts where currently one creates a list containing good elements and some sort of sentinel, usually NULL,
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
