R posts in other languages
Following Tal Galili example and using part of his code, I want to plot the balloonplot you can see here using R and the excellent ggplot2 package by Hadley Wickham.
### I retrieve the data from the google document you can find here using Tal Galili code: ## I slightly modified Tal code to include popularity...
I added another plot to the output generated by my overnight ideal point scripts: a scatterplot of estimated Senate ideal points against Obama vote share in their state (color coded by party, local linear regression overlays by party, labels for some big residuals). I suppose I’m surprised by the way that the loess curve for
Earlier today, Google announced the list of accepted mentor organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2010 (GSoC 2010). And we are happy to report that the R Project is once again a participating organization (and now for the third straight year) jo...
Earlier today, Google announced the list of accepted mentor organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2010 (GSoC 2010). And we are happy to report that the R Project is once again a participating organization (and now for the third straight year) joi...
Earlier today, Google announced the list of accepted mentor organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2010 (GSoC 2010). And we are happy to report that the R Project is once again a participating organization (and now for the third straight year) jo...
A few months ago I showed you in this post how to use some code I wrote to produce manhattan plots in R using ggplot2. The qqman() function I described in the previous post actually calls another function, manhattan(), which has a few options you can s...
On April 14 I'll be giving a new webinar in partnership with Microsoft on High-Performance Computing with R. I'll be focusing on the new parallel programming capabilities of REvolution R Enterprise 3.1 for Windows, and how to use the features of Microsoft HPC Server to enable computing on clusters. Here's the complete agenda, and you can register at the...
Yesterday, I gave my short (3 hours) introduction to computational Bayesian statistics to a group of 25-30 highly motivated students. I managed to cover “only” the first three chapters, as I included some material on Bayes factor approximation and only barely reached Metropolis-Hastings. Here are the slides, modified from the original Bayesian Core slides: (It 
Tim O'Reilly's keynote talk at OSBC this evening was thought-provoking to say the least. The title of the talk was "The Real Open Source Opportunity", and the surprise for me was that he wasn't talking about Open Source software. Tim's insight, and it's a profound one, is that the next frontier for freedom and openness -- and indeed, the...
All the tools I am using at the moment are free of charge. The one that comes to mind first is R. It’s a language for statistical computing which comes with a decent GUI. R comes with some time series support out of the box, but there are plenty of packages (R extensions are called 
The vanilla Rao-Blackwellisation paper with Randal Douc that had been resubmitted to the Annals of Statistics is now back for a revision, with quite encouraging comments: The paper has been reviewed by two referees both of whom comment on the clear exposition and the novelty of the results. Both referees point to the empirical results 
I'm at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco today and tomorrow; I'll report in with updates after the talks. I'm particularly looking forward to the panel discussion on The Shifting Open Source Opportunity moderated by Ashlee Vance, the New York Times reporter who wrote the major story on R last year. (Interesting aside: I learned recently that...
Hin-Tak Leung mailed me about a problem with certain malformed XML documents from FlowJo. There are namespace prefixes (prfx:nodeName) with no corresponding namespace declarations (xmlns:prefix=”uri”). How do we fix these? Well, the XML parser can read this but raises errors. We can do nice things to catch these errors and then post-process them. Then we 
When writing R code it is useful to be able to assess the amount of time that a particular function takes to run. We might be interested in measuring the increase in time required by our function as the size of the data increases. To illustrate using the system.time function to calculate the time taken to
It's funny how things happen. Yesterday I was working away on a project in R and the unenjoyable happens---the process hangs for longer than desired. I operate R in the standard GNOME terminal in Ubuntu and the only way I knew was to close the entire a...
It's funny how things happen. Yesterday I was working away on a project in R and the unenjoyable happens---the process hangs for longer than desired. I operate R in the standard GNOME terminal in Ubuntu and the only way I knew was to close the entire a...
Major credit card issuing networks (including Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express) allow simple credit card number validation using the Luhn Algorithm (also called the “modulus 10″ or “mod 10″ algorithm). The following code demonstrates an implementation in SAS. The code also validates the credit card number by length and by checking against a short 
One of the most common exersices given to Statistical Computing,Simulation or relevant classes is the generation of random numbers from a gamma distribution. At first this might seem straightforward in terms of the lifesaving relation that exponential and gamma random variables share. So, it’s easy to get a gamma random variate using the fact that
One of my favourite shows on TV right now is The Big Bang Theory. For those who haven't seen it: it's like Friends, except instead of New York yuppies, it's PhD physicists and engineers at CalTech. It's nice to see geeks and smart people be the focus (rather than the comic relief) of a sitcom. Also, the equations on...
Now that the two packages oro.dicom and oro.nifti have been released, we can put them together and perform the much sought after conversion from DICOM format to NIfTI format (entirely in R). Why? Because DICOM is the international "standard" for medical imaging data coming off the scanners, but it's not the easiest thing to manipulate on...
Now that the two packages oro.dicom and oro.nifti have been released, we can put them together and perform the much sought after conversion from DICOM format to NIfTI format (entirely in R). Why? Because DICOM is the international "standard" for medical imaging data coming off the scanners, but it's not the easiest thing to manipulate on...
Versions 0.7.7 to 0.7.9 of Rcpp contained a bug: protecting paths with quotes was supposed to help with Windows builds, but did the opposite at least in 'backticks mode' for getting path and/or library information. Using the shQuote() function instead ...
Versions 0.7.7 to 0.7.9 of Rcpp contained a bug: protecting paths with quotes was supposed to help with Windows builds, but did the opposite at least in 'backticks mode' for getting path and/or library information. Using the shQuote() function instead...
Given the wrong solution provided in Le Monde and comments from readers, I went to look a bit further on the Web for generic solutions to the rectangle problem. The most satisfactory version I have found so far is Mendelsohn’s in Mathematics Magazine, which gives as the maximal number for a grid. His theorem is 
In 1827, the botanist Robert Brown was studying pollen particles as they floated in water. When viewed through a microscope, he observed that the particles seemed to move around as if the were alive. Although he couldn’t have known at the time, the seemingly random motion was caused by the collision of water molecules
Physicist and weather scientist Joe Wheatley used R to design and create a useful visual representation of how drought affects a region over long time-scales. Instead of charting absolute rainfall (or lack thereof), he instead charts the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), where extreme values (above 2 or below -2) indicate extreme wetness or dryness compared to the usual precipitation...
Conditional inference trees (ctree) in package party allows weighting which is useful when one classification outcome is more important than another. Useful examples are not difficult to imagine: in a marketing direct mailing, a false positive (non-res...
In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.1 Over the next ten years, I hope that more and more mathematically
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
