For those of you who teach, or are interested in seeing an illustrated series of analyses, there is a new compendium of files to help describe how to fit models for the extended case studies in the Second Edition of the Statistical Sleuth: A Course in...
R language has numerous IDEs – RStudio, Vim plugin, Eclipse plugin. RStudio really shines for R language, nevertheless Vim plugin might be well adapted for R if you are Vim guru. Eclipse? Who needs such behemoth? Turns out a student in Ljubljana badly needs it. Most of the time I use remote server for R
This week we have a guest blog post by Neil Kelley Last week, I stumbled on Vijay’s blog post demonstrating his new package rvertnet. Although I am a paleontologist, some of my research involves anatomical comparison between extinct species and extant relatives or ecological analogs, so I have some experience using VertNet to track down 
I am currently designing my RStudio - Dropbox - Mardown/Knitter/Wordpress - Github workflow. One problem is that working on multiple machines with different version of Windows means I somehow need to tell R where my Dropbox folder is located.I used to ...
By Josh Mills
sqldf package provides a mechanism to manipulate R data frames using SQL. Even for experienced R programmers, sqldf can be a useful tool for data manipulation. This site provides a useful introduction to SQL. 
Cool woven artwork on the campus of Kansas University. The image is CC by Patrick Emerson
I recently started to work with Sweave (by Friedrich Leisch)...
Back teaching a couple of subjects and it’s the constant challenge to find enough common ground with students so one can push/pull them to the other side of new concepts. We are not talking about complex hierarchical models using mixed … Continue reading →
Despite my preference for SAS over R, there are some add-ons to “basic” R that I’ve found that have made my learning process way easier. While I’m still in my infancy in learning R, I feel like once I found … Continue reading →
Getting Started Using R, Part 1: RStudio is an article from randyzwitch.com,...
Video (screencast) of the presentation by Szilard Pafka at the Los Angeles R users group. I summarized (with short demos) a few of the talks from the useR! 2012 conference. We are planning one more meetup to cover more talks. … Continue reading →
In my last post I was explaining the usage of QGis to do a layerstack of a Landsat-scene. Due to the fact that further research and trying out resulted in frustration I decided to stick with a software I know well: R. So download the needed layers here and open up your flavoured version of
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
