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What (Search Engines Think) People Want

July 17, 2010
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What (Search Engines Think) People Want

R O How G8 U R!Hey, R U there? Having used the R language for awhile now, I would like to let you know that R works - in fact R works really well. If you keep up with R news this should be no surprise...this is, after all...an r blog! R and R alone c...

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Funny Math in Governor Approval Ratings

July 9, 2010
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Andrew Gelman wrote today about some erroneous U.S. Governor approval ratings, noting that the ratings for Janet Napolitano sum to 108%. In fact most of these ratings do not sum to 100%. I prepared a clean CSV file of the ratings, making use of R‘s XML library and the readHTMLTable function. The ratings data file

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100 Prisoners, 100 lines of code

July 9, 2010
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100 Prisoners, 100 lines of code

In math and economics, there is a long, proud history of placing imaginary prisoners into nasty, complicated scenarios. We have, of course, the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma, as well as 100 prisoners and a light bulb. Add to that list the focus of this post, 100 prisoners and 100 boxes. In this game, the warden places

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Draw a trophic network with n levels

July 6, 2010
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In the last few weeks, I started focusing more on more of trophic systems with three levels or more. I wanted something to visualize the resulting trophic network, so I came up with a little R function called draw.mnet (which stands for draw a multiple-levels network).

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Excellent R Code Format Package

Excellent R Code Format Package

I have been looking for this type of package for several days, and luckily found it today. Unquestionable R is powerful, however, R programming is unfriendly as far as I concern, mainly due to the lack of format shortcut, which makes the R codes rathe...

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Manhattan plots for SNP marker effects using ggplot2

June 17, 2010
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Manhattan plots for SNP marker effects using ggplot2

At AIPL, we've been posting Manhattan plots of the marker effects for each breed-trait combination with each official release of our genomic predictions. For example, consider the plot of lifetime net merit for Holsteins from the April, 2010 run: Thes...

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Manhattan plots for SNP marker effects using ggplot2

June 17, 2010
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Manhattan plots for SNP marker effects using ggplot2

At AIPL, we’ve been posting Manhattan plots of the marker effects for each breed-trait combination with each official release of our genomic predictions. For example, consider the plot of lifetime net merit for Holsteins from the April, 2010 run: These … Continue reading

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R for Matlab Users

My favorite software is Matlab, but partly because R is free, more and more people & companies choose to use R as a major working language. Nothing wrong with that, I am at the moment changing some of my Kalman Filter Matlab codes to R.

One bothering issue is each software has its own...

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Clustergram: visualization and diagnostics for cluster analysis (R code)

June 15, 2010
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Clustergram: visualization and diagnostics for cluster analysis (R code)

About Clustergrams In 2002, Matthias Schonlau published in “The Stata Journal” an article named “The Clustergram: A graph for visualizing hierarchical and . As explained in the abstract: In hierarchical cluster analysis dendrogram graphs are used to visualize how clusters are formed. I propose an alternative graph named “clustergram” to examine how cluster members are assigned to clusters as...

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The Deepwater Horizon, in context

June 11, 2010
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The Deepwater Horizon, in context

The Earth is pretty big. Give or take, it's about 36,000 feet (11km) to the height of a 747 soaring above Everest, and (in pleasing symmetry) about the same distance down the bottom of the Mariana Trench. (Nonetheless, if you shrunk the Earth down to scale, it would still be smoother than a billiard ball.) So I was surprised...

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