This is a quick set of analyses of the California Test Score dataset. The post was produced using R Markdown in RStudio 0.96. The main purpose of this post is to provide a case study of using R Markdown to prepare a quick reproducible report. It provides examples of using plots, output, in-line R code, and...
Recently I was writing a code allowing to plot multiple ggplot2 plots on one page. I wanted to replicate standard behavior of plot function that plots graphs in sequence according to mfrow/ mfcol option in par...
This post examines the features of R Markdown using knitr in Rstudio 0.96. This combination of tools provides an exciting improvement in usability for reproducible analysis. Specifically, this post (1) discusses getting started with R Markdown and knitr in Rstudio 0.96; (2) provides a basic example of producing console output and plots...
Surprising results For purposes of this article, any mention of homicide rates refers to reported homicide rates. Open vs Closed In mostly open countries (full democracies), the homicide rates are rather low when compared to other types of...
Milano R net, in collaboration with Quantide, organizes an "Introduction to R" course Milano; June 7-8, 2012 Continue reading →
The recent Sonification Handbook has a chapter devoted to exploratory data analysis using sound. With some help from Sam Ferguson, one of the chapter's authors, I've made it easy to implement those techniques using R with playitbyr.
After having a look to this video: http://www.screenr.com/UxH8 from rtwotutorials, and reading some tutorials, I decided to modified the script from the previous post: Practicing Script with “ R”: Monitor , in order to make it more r...
Part II Explains More Complex Wide to Long With base reshape In part I of this base reshape tutorial we went over the basics of reshaping data with reshape. We learned two rules that help us to be more efficient … Continue reading →
I have said it already in multiple posts, but Kenneth French’s data library is one of the most generous and powerful contributions to the financial community. To build on Systematic Investor’s series on factors, I thought I should run some ba...
I love to benchmark. Maybe I’m a bit weird but I love to bench everything in R. Recently I’ve had people raise accuracy challenges to the typical system.time and rbenchmark package approaches to benchmarking. I saw Hadley Wickham promoting the … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
