In this post, I want to address the following issue: several data files with a common trame have to be dealt with by an R function. The function should export files (such as images or data files or any other file type). I explain how to create filenames such that the function automatically exports files in the same directory...
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Web-Scraping in R
Web-scraping, or web-crawling, sounds like a seedy activity worthy of an Interpol investigative department. The reality, however, is far less nefarious. Web-scraping is any procedure by which someone extracts data from the internet. Given that it’s possible to get the internet on computers these days; web-scrapping opens an array of interesting possibilities to social-science researchers 
ggplot2 0.9.0 released
This announcement was made by Hadley Wickham in the mailing list. ———————- # ggplot2 ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends)...
ABC in Roma [R lab #1]
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Here are the R codes of the R labs organised by Serena Arima in supplement of my lectures. This is quite impressive and helpful to the students, as illustrated by the first example below (using the abc software). I am having a great time teaching this “ABC in Roma” course, in particular because of the 
Taking a Ride on the Wild Function – Introducing the dostats package
Lately I have been rather productive in my programming and frustrated at the same time. Trying to solve the problems of creating a demographics summary table proved to be a lesson in frustration with R. Since I love R, this was disheartening. I did eventually find the reporttools package which does make a great latex
Monitoring Progress Inside a Foreach Loop
The foreach package for R is excellent, and allows for code to easily be run in parallel. One problem with foreach is that it creates new RScript instances for each iteration of the loop, which prevents status messages from being logged to the console output. This is particularly frustrating during long-running tasks, when we are often unsure...
The reshape function
The other day I wrote about the R functions by, apply and friends, which allow me to operate on subsets of data. All those functions work nicely, if the data is given in the right format. More often than not it isn't and I have to reshape the data befo...
Trust in the EU and National Parliaments
I have been playing around with some data from Eurobarometer, to support some arguments for a small comment I am writing for the Maastricht Law Review. I got the data for the following two questions: I would like to ask you a question about how much ...
R is the easiest language to speak badly
I am amazed by the number of comments I received on my recent blog entry about "by", "apply" and friends. I had started my post by pointing out that R is a language. Well indeed, I have come to the conclusion, that it is a language with lots of irregul...
Say it in R with "by", "apply" and friends
Iris versicolor (Source: Wikipedia)R is a language, as Luis Apiolaza pointed out in his recent post. This is absolutely true, and learning a programming language is not much different from learning a foreign language. It takes time and a lot of pr...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
