R has a new platform-R-Forge-that enables developers and users to communicate with each other. More importantly, it is a version control platform that enables different developers to keep track on what others have been working on. So that ideally, if... [Read more...]

In R, apply() is NOT faster than a loop!!I don't know where I pick up this perception about apply() being faster than a loop in R. For a long time, I always think that apply() runs a function (for example, mean()) on a data structure (row or column) i... [Read more...]

JAGS is a cross platform BUGS. Because it runs in a command mode, it is somewhat faster than other BUGS. However, I found it is a bit tacky to use it as a Windows/PC user. I found the manual very useful but some of the language is a bit ... [Read more...]

I coauthor a paper with Ozan, a friend who I know when I was TAing Bayesian Methods in ICPSR. The paper tries to see if the 9/11 has any effect on American's attitudes on Muslim. We have dataset from different years: 2 from pre-9/11 periods and 2 from ... [Read more...]

I used to fit Bayesian model using WinBUGS via R a lot. But now I am more and more prone to run models on OpenBUGS directly. I have document the reason why I like OpenBUGS and wrote a auto OpenBUGS function here. In short, I like to be able to ... [Read more...]

Since the release of R_2.6.0, R package developers were advised to use the ``codetools" package to check potential bugs. However, as I am not familiar with computer language, I found the warning messages a bit confusing. For example:__ checkUsage(glm.fit): no visible binding for global variable ‘n’I don't ... [Read more...]

I was trying to plot figure in R like the one below, which is basically the veto player model of Tsebelis. Based on my knowledge of R now, I encountered 2 major problems:I don't know if there is a function that can draw archs, or at least partial curves from ... [Read more...]