A new release of RcppArmadillo is now on CRAN. RcppArmadillo makes it easy to write highly efficient and highly readable C++ code for linear algebra (based on Armadillo) in R extensions (using Rcpp for the interface). This release upgrades the incl...
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Red-R
Red-R seems to have some interesting ideas behind it. Of course it needs some time to mature.
IMIS & AMIS
A most interesting paper by Adrian Raftery and Le Bao appeared in the Early View section of Biometrics. It aims at better predictions for HIV prevalence—in the original UNAIDS implementation, a naïve SIR procedure was used, based on the prior as importance function, which sometimes resulted in terrible degeneracy—, but its methodological input is about 
Pie Charts in ggplot2
...and other isomorphic data shape presentations...The Pie Chart has been widely criticized in recent times by statisticians. Edward Tufte goes as far as to call this the "prevailing orthodoxy." The reasons generally cited:The rel...
A free book on probability and statistics with R
G Jay Kerns has published a 400+ page introductory text on Probability and Statistics. All of the examples and illustrations are done using R (as Jay puts it, "The people at the party are Probability and Statistics; the handshake is R") so if you want to brush up on your probability and learn R at the same time, this...
Bootstrap, strap-on, anal-yzing… statistics is getting weirder by the moment
I have spent the better portion of the day trying to get a bootstrap working. I have adapter a pre-written bootstrap function, but I wanted to use a generic function, mostly for reaping fame and glory. My hypothesis was that writing a hand-written, unoptimized function will consume more computer time than the generic, presumably optimized, 
Taking R to the Limit: Parallelization
Video, slides and code of the talk “Taking R to the Limit: Parallelization” by Ryan Rosario at the Los Angeles area R Users Group in July 2010 as follows. Slides: R code: here. Video: If you have a question to … Continue reading →
Notes from useR! 2010
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used by a growing number of economists, engineers, and data analysts every day at Google. We’ve even published our R Style Guide on Google Code. The R community has...
Notes from useR! 2010
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used by a growing number of economists, engineers, and data analysts every day at Google. We’ve even published our R Style Guide on Google Code. The R community has...
Taking R to the Limit, Part I – Parallelization in R
Tuesday night I had the opportunity to present on high performance computing in R, and the Los Angeles R Users’ Group. There was so much to talk about that I had to split my talk into two parts. The first part was parallelization and the second ...
Blogging about R – presentation and audio
At the useR!2010 conference I had the honor of giving a (~15 minute) talk titled “Blogging about R”. The following is the abstract I submited, followed by the slides of the talk and the audio file of a recording I made of the talk (I am sad it got a bit of “hall echo”, but it’s still listenable…) P.S:...
RUG Introduction: Los Angeles area R Users Group
A nice group of people from academia and industry meeting about once a month at UCLA. Attendance is usually 30-40, but gradually increasing (also about 300 registered members). If you’d like to join, visit the group’s website: http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/, you’ll find … Continue reading →
IPSUR book used LyX-Sweave
Jay Kerns wrote a book titled "Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R" or IPSUR for short. He has put up a web site for the book and Rcmdr plugin. There are at least two very important points from my side (I did not read the book, yet): 1. ...
IPSUR book used LyX-Sweave
Jay Kerns wrote a book titled "Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R" or IPSUR for short. He has put up a web site for the book and Rcmdr plugin. There are at least two very important points from my side (I did not read the book, yet): 1. ...
Taking R to Eleven
R, the open-source statistical software system, is certainly a hot topic these days. It's been the subject of increasing media interest over the last year or so, and the user community is expanding rapidly: there are now about 40 R user groups around the world, and last week's worldwide R User Conference was the most successful ever. So why...
Extension to an R Package: brew gets a weave
I’ve had enough of copy and pasting output from my R session into my email editor, blog, etc. I need something like Sweave for plain text files. In particular, I want the result of parsing <<echo=TRUE>>= f <- function(x) { x + 1 } f(1) @ with Sweave, but without the latex markup. For example,
Social contagion? Maybe not…
Recently there was a lot of racket about results presented in papers by a pair Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler. Their papers gained a lot of attention both in the academic world as well as in media. In their papers they claim to provide evidence for social contagion (transmission through social networks) of several types 
Seamless R and C++ integration
Video of the talk “Seamless R and C++ integration” by Dirk Eddelbuettel at the Los Angeles area R Users Group in March 2010 (to see the video in a larger size, click inside the video but outside the play button):
Web applications with R
Video of the talk “Web applications with R” by Jeroen Ooms at the Los Angeles area R Users Group in January 2010:
Juggling with fire
People were juggling with fire sur la place de la Comedie tonight in Montpellier
Revolution in the News
Revolution's CEO Noman Nie has been busy recently spreading the good word about R and Revolution. Here's a quick roundup: In an audio interview with Mary Joe Nott at B-eye Network, Norman talks about the "perfect storm" around R, "the most complete statistical tool in the world". In Business Management magazine, Norman Nie describes how predictive analytics is changing...
A summer of books
The summer started with a research in pair session in CiRM on the R edition of Bayesian Core, but I am also involved two other book projects. The first one was mentioned in a previous post, namely the translation of Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R into French. I have now recovered all translated chapters, 
Hadley Wickham’s ggplot2 / Data Visualization Course Materials
Hadley Wickham, creator of ggplot2, an immensely popular framework for Tufte-friendly data visualization using R, is teaching two short courses at Vanderbilt this week. Once we opened registration to Vanderbilt students and staff we instantly filled al...
Mystery solved: The discrepancy in homicide data
I've been complaining about how homicide statistics from police sources were too low in 2009, with the entire state of Chihuahua having less homicides than its biggest city. I was thinking of finding out if I could use the IFAI (Freedom of Information Access) to obtain the original CIEISP forms which the state police forces are supposed to fill out each month...
Mystery solved: The discrepancy in homicide data
I've been complaining about how homicide statistics from police sources were too low in 2009, with the entire state of Chihuahua having less homicides than its biggest city. I was thinking of finding out if I could use the IFAI (Freedom of Information Access) to obtain the original CIEISP forms which the state police forces are supposed to fill out each month...
rgeos – Update
So I have been remiss in posting updates of progress on rgeos as my summer has gotten busier but the project is progressing smoothly and everything is on schedule. We have just recently passed an important personal milestone, parsing and running of all the JTS unit tests are now working and the rgeos code passes 
Statistical Analysis StackExchange site now available
The Q&A site for statistical analysis, data mining, data visualization, and everything else to do with data analysis has finally been launched. Please head over to stats.StackExchange.com and start asking and answering questions. Also, spread the word to everyone else who may be interested — work colleagues, students, etc. The more people who use the
Hacker News User Base Changed?
There are lots of references on Hacker news to the fact that the "good old days" are gone and that the character of the site has changed since it started. The visualization above was based on a sample of users that posted on the site in recent ti...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
