I’ve just gone through a bit of a ‘journey of discovery’ in R while trying to plot a grid of plots for one of the research projects I’m doing. I wanted to write a simple function which could produce this grid of plots from a CSV file, allowing me to easily view the trends of
The FDIC regularly publishes a Failed Bank List and related statistics. This post uses data in the original XLS from the FDIC web site which is formatted for human consumption to produce the charts below using R. Note that 2010 data be...
Over at the Mozilla Metrics blog, Mozillan Hamilton Ulmer uses R and ggplot2 to look at when people (or at least, Firefox users that volunteered to share their usage data) enable private browsing. Turns out it isn't just "porn mode" after all: the main use turns out to be lunchtime browsing away from the employer's prying eyes: Follow the...
One of the top searches on rubyflow is “conference”. A recent post showed how to create a map with the location of the 2010 R User Conference. So why not expand on the subject and create a map with numerous conference locations thr...
In the following example, programming language popularity is measured based upon two data sets. The first is the number of contributors associated with a language on ohloh.net. The second is tag usage at stackoverflow.c...
Introduction This week I decided to start unit testing my R code, so I taught myself the bare minimum about the RUnit and testthat packages to be able to use them. Here’s what I found necessary to get started writing tests with both packages. RUnit Basic Example I’m going to assume that you’ve got a
Last Year I introduced you to R Commander, a nice graphical user interface (GUI) for R for those of you who are still hesitant to leave the clicky-box style research a la SPSS for the far more superior reproducible research using R. As most of you know...
The (excellent!) LearnR blog had a post today about making a rose plot in ggplot2. Following today’s announcement, by Ian Fellows, regarding the release of the new version of Deducer (0.4) offering a strong support for ggplot2 using a GUI plot builder, Ian also sent an e-mail where he shows how to create a rose plot using the new...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to R users. We reviewed the updates to Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 and plyr packages. We linked to an article about R co-creator Ross Ihaka in New Zealand's Sunday Star Times. We noted that the presentations from the R/Finance 2010 conference are available for download. We...
Ian fellows, a hard working contributer to the R community (and a cool guy), has announced today the release of Deducer (0.4) to CRAN (scheduled to update in the next day or so). This major update also includes the release of a new plug-in package (DeducerExtras), containing additional dialogs and functionality. Following is the e-mail he sent out with...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
