Introduction Because R is, in part, a functional programming language, the ‘base’ package contains several higher order functions. By higher order functions, I mean functions that take another function as an argument and then do something with that function. If you want to know more about the usefulness of writing higher order functions in general,
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Global done!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working at getting Moshtemp to work entirely in the raster package. I’ve been aided greatly by the author of that package, Robert, who has been turning out improvements to the package with regularity. For a while I was a bit stymied by some irregularities in getting source from 
IIATMS Guest Contribution
After my recent posts fiddling around with heat maps for pitch location, Jason at It's About the Money, Stupid contacted me to ask if I would contribute some location maps for Yankee pitchers. Obviously, I couldn't pass up the chance to contribute to ...
Visualizations of US neighborhoods by race and ethnicity
HOMOPHILY + MAPS WITHOUT MAPPING SOFTWARE In the past, Decision Science News has posted about homophily (“birds of a feather shop together“) and cool, lightweight visualizations (“maps without map packages in R“). Today, both topics come together in Eric Fischer’s fascinating set of images on Flickr called “Race and Ethnicity”(*). According to Eric: Red is
My Crappy Fantasy Football Draft
I compared the results of my fantasy football draft with the results of more than 1500 mock drafts at the Fantasy Football Calculator (FFC). I looked at where player X was drafted in our league, subtracted off the average draft … Continue reading →
The R-Files: Hadley Wickham
"The R-Files" is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile prominent members of the R Community. Name: Hadley Wickham Profession: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rice University Nationality: New Zealand Years Using R: 10 Known for: Developing popular R packages including ggplot2, plyr, reshape; creator of crantastic.org; author of ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis An Assistant Professor...
Data Mining in A Nutshell
# The following code may look rough, but simply paste into R or# a text editor (especially Notepad++) and it will look# much better.# PROGRAM NAME: MACHINE_LEARNING_R# DATE: 4/19/2010# AUTHOR : MATT BOGARD# PURPOSE: BASIC EXAMPLES OF MACHINE LEAR...
R Function Reference
The R Function Reference is a mind map that I've created to help novice and intermediate R users perform common tasks and analyses.
mapping the Australian election (2010 edition)
The AEC makes this reasonably easy, as do the authors of some very helpful R packages, the good people at Google Maps etc. Full description here (PDF); entire collection here; a sample here, showing Green 1st preferences, by polling places across metro...
EmEditor Professional as an R script editor
R is not supported "out of the box" by EmEditor, so here's a few tips I've found for using it as a great editor for R.
- Code Syntax highlighting
- Executing R scripts and capturing output
- Use ctags symbols to navigate files.
- If you create packages for CRAN or like neat code, you might like to use a macro to tidy it...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
