Lately I had to write a seminar paper for a class and I decided to overdo it.But let's start at the very beginning. Here is my evolution of how I used to write stuff and how I got from this:to that:School: OpenOffice - I guess everyone has some&nb...
I am a big fan of lattice/latticeExtra. In fact, nearly all visualisations I have produced so far make use of this great package. The possibilities for customisation are endless and the amount of flexibility it provides is especially valuable for … Continue reading →
In this post I want to highlight the second core function of the metvurst repository (https://github.com/tim-salabim/metvurst): The windContours function It is intended to provide a compact overview of the wind field climatology at a location and plots wind direction and … Continue reading →
It is Sunday, it's raining and I have a few hours to spend before I am invited for lunch at my parents place. Hence, I thought I'd use the time to produce another post. It has been a while since … Continue reading →
Recently, I have been doing some analysis for a project I am involved in. In particular, I was interested what role pacific sea surface temperatures play with regard to rainfall in East Africa. I spare you the details as I … Continue reading →
Over the past two months I have tried to convert completely to HTML5 slides, HTML reports and R + knitr. The switch from Sweave came with a few frustrations but I think overall it is way better - it is incredibly efficient and while some flexibility on...
OK, so the scenario is as follows: we have a list of 2 elements which in turn are again lists with 2 elements (each of which is a data frame). None of the elements in question carry names (neither the … Continue reading →
Since it seems to be the fashion, here’s a post about how I make my academic papers. Actually, who am I trying to kid? This is also about how I make slides, letters, memos and “Back in 10 minutes” signs to pin on the door. Nevertheless it’s for making academic papers that I’m going to
Hi, I presented today at INSEE R user group (FLR) how to use knitr (Sweave evolution) for writing documents which are self contained with respect to the source code: your data changed? No big deal, just compile your .Rnw file again and you are done with an updated version of your paper! is easy. Some 
The R blogger Rolf Fredheim has recently wrote a great piece called “Reproducible research with R, Knitr, Pandoc and Word“, where he advocates for Pandoc as an essential part of reproducible research workflow in R, in helping to turn documents …
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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