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Brief Analysis of Abdulmutallab (Christmas Day bomber) Web Posting Data
Thanks to Evan Kohlman at the NEFA Foundation for compiling, and Danger Room for publicizing, the data set of all of Farouk Abdulmutallab’s posts to the Islamic Forum on Gawaher.com. Since Evan took the initiative to download and save the raw HTML data, I thought it would be useful to go one...
Use plyr instead of _apply() in R
I've covered plyr once before, showing you how to get means and variances for two quantitative traits across multilocus genotypes. JD Long over at Cerebral Mastication recently posted a nice screencast illustrating how plyr "just works" as an alternative to R's family of apply commands. There's a set of R functions (apply, sapply, lapply,...
What’s up with Darwin’s weather?
Darwin is a the capital city of Australia's Northern Territory. Lying on the coast of far Northern Australia, it's situated well in the tropics and as a result has hot, steamy, monsoonal weather. Darwin's weather has already had impact on urban culture, and now it seems it's had a political impact too: it's been...
Top Ten Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists
The political scientist Drew Conway has come up with a useful list of his ten "must-have" R packages for social scientists. I agree with him for the most part, and his list highlights the usefulness of R (vis-a-vis Stata) for social network analysis (s...
Start your engines; it’s a Linux era!
Well, I’m writing this from my new system. After years on hiatus I migrated to Linux, once again. Setting up a full system on Linux for a Greek user had been one of the greatest challenges. First,of all setting up writing, reading & printing in Greek was the biggest obstacle, I still recall memories of...
C++ exceptions at the R level
pre{ solid black 1px;} I've recently offered an extra set of hands to Dirk to work on the Rcpp package, this serves a good excuse to learn more about C++ Exception management was quite high on my list. C++ has nice exception handling (well not ...
Speed-reading files, revisited
In a post earlier this month, it seemed as though compressing a data file before reading it into R could save you some time. With some feedback from readers and further experimentation, we might need to revisit that conclusion To recap, in our previous experiment it took 170 seconds to read a 182Mb text...
tooltips in R graphics; nytR package
At Doug Rivers’ suggestion, I started investigating tooltips as a way to label points in R graphs. An example appears at the top of my blog, where I plot the ideal points (revealed preferences) of the (current) 111th U.S. House of Representatives against Obama vote share in their district in 2008 (SVG). I’m using...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
