This is not an April Fool’s joke … The R-Podcast is back once again! In this episode, I discuss the concept of version control and how you can get started with using the Git VCS right now with your R projects. Also I discuss a big batch of listener feedback, and highlight a couple of
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“Building ractives is so addictive it should be illegal!”
clickme is an amazing R package. I was not sure what to expect when I first saw Nacho Caballero's announcement. I actually was both skeptical and intimidated, but neither reaction was justified. The examples prove its power, and his wiki tutorials ease...
On the acceptance of R
Some history and a prediction. Past A discussion broke out on the R-help mailing list in January 2006 about a technical report put out by the statistical computing group at UCLA. The report in question talked mainly about SAS, SPSS and Stata. It talked briefly — and not especially positively — about R. Someone accused
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EpiWorkshop 2013: DNA methylation analysis in R
Elemento Lab at Weill Cornell Medical College organized a workshop on Epigenomics. I had the opportunity to give a tutorial on DNA methylation analysis in R. The tutorial demonstrates how to analyze high-throughput bisulfite sequencing d...
Mumbai, Mar 2013 – Portfolio Tutorial
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Scholarly metadata in R
Scholarly metadata - the meta-information surrounding articles - can be super useful. Although metadata does not contain the full content of articles, it contains a lot of useful information, including title, authors, abstract, URL to the article, etc.
One of the largest sources of metadata is provided via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting or OAI-PMH....
On ENAR, or Statistical Meetings in General
John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats
In honour of the bicentenary of John Snow’s birth – and because I was asked to by someone via email – I have now released my digitisation of John Snow’s Cholera data in a few other formats: KML and as Google Fusion Tables. To save you reading my previous blog posts on the subject, I’ll
Cool GSS training video! And cumulative file 1972-2012!
Felipe Osorio made the above video to help people use the General Social Survey and R to answer research questions in social science. Go for it! Meanwhile, Tom Smith reports: The initial release of the General Social Survey (GSS), cumulative file for 1972-2012 is now on our website. Codebooks and copies of questionnaires will be
ggplot ggoldy
One of my graduate students worked some ggplot magic and created an almost Light Bright-esqe plot of our very own Goldy Gopher. She also, thoughtfully, published a tutorial on her blog. Read and enjoy!
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
