I lived for 10 years within sight (on a clear day, anyway) of Mount St. Helens, and had seen and heard a lot about the devastation caused by the eruption and pyroclastic flow 30 years ago. But I'd heard relatively little about the effects of the ash cloud settling on land. I was surprised to learn about the effect...
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Color choosing in R made easy
I don’t know about you, but when I want to make a graph in R, I handpick the colors, line widths etc… to produce awesome output. A lot of my time is spent on color choosing, I had to find a more convenient way of doing so. Earl F. Glynn’s “Chart of R colors” posted 
R 2.11.1 scheduled for May 31
As announced by the R Core Team, the next update to R will be 2.11.1 to be released on May 31. Despite being a minor-minor version increment, this release is expected to sport at least one new feature: BIC (in package stats4) will work with multiple fitted models, like AIC does. There will also be some improvements to the...
Tip of the day: Keep the console active in R Productivity Environment
Jared Lander on Twitter asks: When I alt-tab into R Enterprise how do I make the #rstats console the active window by default. Now it goes to solution explorer. Revolution's crack Support engineer Stephen Weller offers this solution: The best way to do this is to right-click on the R-Console window and make it a 'Tabbed Document'....
Random sudokus [p-values]
![Random sudokus [p-values]](http://www.r-bloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/morepvalues.jpg?w=450&h=450)
I reran the program checking the distribution of the digits over 9 “diagonals” (obtained by acceptable permutations of rows and column) and this test again results in mostly small p-values. Over a million iterations, and the nine (dependent) diagonals, four p-values were below 0.01, three were below 0.1, and two were above (0.21 and 0.42). 
highlight 0.1-8
I've pushed version 0.1-8 of highlight to CRAN. highlight is a syntax highlighter for R that renders R source code into some markup language, the package ships html and latex renderers but is flexible enough to handle other formats. Syntax highligh...
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
Pierre Lecuyer is the new editor of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) and he has asked me to become an Area Editor for the new area of simulation in Statistics. I am quite excited by this new Æditor’s hat, since this is a cross-disciplinary journal: The ACM Transactions on Modeling and 
R: A random walk though OOP land.
If you are used to object oriented programing in a different language, the way R does things can seem a little strange and backwards. “proto” to the rescue. With this library you can simulate “normal” OOP. I found the examples for proto not so helpful, so to figure out how the package works I sent
Load Testing Think Time Distributions
One of my gripes about some commercial load testing tools is that they only provide a think time distribution (Z) that is equivalent to uniform variates in the client-script. If you want some other distribution, you have to code it and debug it yoursel...
Calling all T-shirt designers
Got design skills as well as R skills? The organizers of the useR! 2010 conference are looking for a design to be used on the conference T-shirts. Mango Solutions (who are sponsoring the T-shirt) will select the winner, but personally I'd give extra points for designs that use R itself -- it's been done before! R-statistics blog: useR-2010 is...
Tutorial: Principal Components Analysis (PCA) in R
Found this tutorial by Emily Mankin on how to do principal components analysis (PCA) using R. Has a nice example with R code and several good references. The example starts by doing the PCA manually, then uses R's built in prcomp() function to do the s...
RcppArmadillo 0.2.0 (and 0.2.1)
With the Rcpp 0.8.0 release on Monday, Romain, Doug and I were able to follow-up with a new RcppArmadillo release. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and a few dozen lines of 'glue') to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson's impressive Arma...
RcppArmadillo 0.2.0 (and 0.2.1)
With the Rcpp 0.8.0 release on Monday, Romain, Doug and I were able to follow-up with a new RcppArmadillo release. RcppArmadillo uses Rcpp (and a few dozen lines of 'glue') to provide a transparent interface from R to Conrad Sanderson's impressive Arm...
Prediction in the cloud: turbulent
While Microsoft rolled out its Technical Computing Initiative -- promising new tools for distributed parallel computing on large data sets in the cloud -- with much fanfare earlier this week, Google made a rather more understated response. In a post to the developer-focused Google Code Blog, they quietly announced two new, but potentially disruptive, products. Google BigQuery promises super-fast...
Introduction to Revolution R webinar tomorrow, May 20
A quick reminder that I'll be hosting a free webinar tomorrow. Mainly intended for those new to R and Revolution, An Introduction to Revolution R will give an overview and history of the R Project and the additional features of the Revolution R products. But even if you've used R before, there will be lots of useful tips and...
useR-2010 is looking for a T-shirt design
Katharine Mullen has just published on the R mailing list a call for designeRs who might be willing to design a T-shirt aRt design for the shirt that will be given in useR 2010. I consider such contests as one of those good-for-the-community things, and hope regular useRs, R bloggers, and companies that are based on R – will...
Updated R code and data for ARM
Patricia and I have cleaned up some of the R and Bugs code and collected the data for almost all the examples in ARM. See here for links to zip files with the code and data....
Mining and Analyzing Online Social Graph Data
Drew Conway, PhD student in NYU's Department of Politics, provides an introduction to mining social graph data from the Internet that focuses on the technical, substantive and ethical concerns related to this type of analysis.
Random [uniform?] sudokus [corrected]
![Random [uniform?] sudokus [corrected]](http://www.r-bloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/diagoku1.jpg?w=450&h=450)
As the discrepancy in the sum of the nine probabilities seemed too blatant to be attributed to numerical error given the problem scale, I went and checked my R code for the probabilities and found a choose(9,3) instead of a choose(6,3) in the last line… The fit between the true distribution and the 
RcppArmadillo 0.2.1
Armadillo Armadillo is a C++ linear algebra library aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. Integer, floating point and complex numbers are supported, as well as a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions. Various matr...
Random [uniform?] sudokus
![Random [uniform?] sudokus](http://www.r-bloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/diagoku.jpg?w=450&h=450)
A longer run of the R code of yesterday with a million sudokus produced the following qqplot. It does look ok but no perfect. Actually, it looks very much like the graph of yesterday, although based on a 100-fold increase in the number of simulations. Now, if I test the adequation with a basic chi-square 
LSPM Joint Probability Tables
I've received several requests for methods to create joint probability tables for use in LSPM's portfolio optimization functions. Rather than continue to email this example to individuals who ask, I post it here in hopes they find it via a Google...
MLB Baseball Pitching Matchups ~ downloading pitch f/x data using the XML package in R [updatedx6]
![MLB Baseball Pitching Matchups ~ downloading pitch f/x data using the XML package in R [updatedx6]](http://probabilitynotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/grabpitchfx.png?w=594&h=243)
Update x6 (Jul 27): so I guess people want pitch counts. The data @ MLB seems to only give the pitch count of the end result and the strikes/balls/outs of the particular pitch. Of course you can combine them to get the pitch count. Stupid WordPress comments strip out necessary HTML to properly display code, 
robot (SPX) DNA Management Techniques
Yes, this is related to trading, but no, it is not my thesis on why the Euro is going to parity. Instead, it is sort of a workshop for robot(SPX) developers on how to organize their digital DNA. As you begin to use programming as a money extraction
Confusing slice sampler
Most embarrassingly, Liaosa Xu from Virginia Tech sent the following email almost a month ago and I forgot to reply: I have a question regarding your example 7.11 in your book Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R. To further decompose the uniform simulation by sampling a and b step by step, how you determine the 
R: Dueling normals
More playing around with R. To create the graph above, I sampled 100 times from two different normal distributions, then plotted the ratio of times that the first distribution beat the second one on the y-axis. The second distribution always had a mean of 0, the mean of first distribution went from 0 to 4,
Parallel Computing with R for Life Sciences
I hadn't heard of the CloudAsia 2010 conference before, but from the programme the workshop Master Class on HPC Application For Life Sciences looked like it was interesting. One workshop session in particular caught my eye: Practical Parallel Computing in R by Xie Chao and Tan Tin Wee (from the National University of Singapore). The workshop notes (PDF) provide...
Prototype: Web-Friendly Visualizations in R
Developing web-friendly data visualizations is not very difficult, though as far as I know, a package that allows one to do this directly in R does not exist (e-mail me if you know of one). As someone who has been developing lots of data-oriented software tools, it's always nice to post visualizations online. To facilitate
JAGS 2.1.0 and rjags 2.1.0 are released
JAGS 2.1.0 is now available from Sourceforge. You will find the source as well as binary packages for Windows and Mac OS X. Binary packages for Debian are available through the usual Debian channels, and packages for RPM-based Linux distributions … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
