Having worked with Unix (BSD, HPUX, IRIX, Linux and OSX), Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, Vista and 7) for quite a while I have seen a lot of different software tools. I would like to quickly exhibit my “must have” list. These are the packages that I find to be the single “must have offerings” in Related posts:
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A repulsive random walk
Matt Asher posted an R experiment on R-bloggers yesterday simulating the random walk which has the property of avoiding zero by quickly switching to a large value as soon as is small. He was then wondering about the “convergence” of the random walk given that it moves very little once is large enough. The values 
Zone of instability
I woke up from my afternoon nap feeling a bit off-kilter, so I decided to go for another random walk. In particular, I wanted a journey that avoided the center, but didn’t just run for an exit either. After playing around for a while I came up with this: # Take a wacky walk, return
How many tanks? MC testing the GTP
It’s 1943 and you work for the good guys. A handful of German tanks have been captured, and each one has a serial number. This is back when serial numbers were still presumed to come in serial, one right after the other. Given your collection of numbered tanks, and assuming that any existing tank was
extrapolation and interpolation The most important lesson I…
extrapolation and interpolation The most important lesson I learned from this book: regression is reliable for interpolation, but not for extrapolation. Even further, your observations really need to cover the whole gamut of causal variables, inter...
Introduction to using R with org-babel, Part 1
This post originally appeared on my Wordpress blog on May 23, 2010. I present it here in its original form. In my opinion, the description of orgmode by its creator as a tool "for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning,...
Introduction to using R with org-babel, Part 1
This post originally appeared on my Wordpress blog on May 23, 2010. I present it here in its original form. In my opinion, the description of orgmode by its creator as a tool "for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning,...
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...
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 
Hitting the Big Data Ceiling in R
As a true R fan, I like to believe that R can do anything, no matter how big, how small or how complicated: there is some way to do it in R. I decided to approach my large, sparse matrix problem with this attitude. But here I sit a broken man.
There is no “native” big data support built into...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
