Update: google earth files in the box: Personally I like to look at things backwards. Why are cool sites cool? So download the kml or kmz file and you can tour 62 sites: All with 90 years of data or more. All with a cooling trend. And all “supposedly” urban. what do you see at 
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Here is a (prompt!) reply from Mark Girolami corresponding to the earlier post: In preparation for the Read Paper session next month at the RSS, our research group at CREST has collectively read the Girolami and Calderhead paper on Riemann manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods and I hope we will again produce a 
The ggplot2 package offers powerful tools to plot data in R. The plots are designed to comply with the “grammar of graphics” philosophy and can be produced to a publishable level relatively easily. For users wishing to create a good map without too much thought I would recommend this worksheet. For those without their own
Code will be in the drop box in a bit, once I shower: This is a wholesale replacement of previous versions, completely rewritten in raster. It will be the base going forward. All of the analysis routines will be rewritten using raster. For time series functionality I will continue to use zoo as that 
In the world of data preparation a common task is to identify duplicate records in a file or data set. A few years ago, I did most development work in Java, and shudder to think of the amount of code required to accomplish this sort of task. &nbs...
In the world of data preparation a common task is to identify duplicate records in a file or data set. A few years ago, I did most development work in Java, and shudder to think of the amount of code required to accomplish this sort of task. &nbs...
From guest blogger Joseph Rickert. Last night I went to hear Ken Krugler of Bixolabs talk about Hadoop at the monthly meeting of the Software Developers Forum. Maybe because Ken is an unusually lucid speaker, or maybe because I just reached some sort of cumulative tipping point through the prep work of all those patient people who have tried...
Introduction Because R is, in part, a functional programming language, the ‘base’ package contains several higher order functions. By higher order functions, I mean functions that take another function as an argument and then do something with that function. If you want to know more about the usefulness of writing higher order functions in general,
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working at getting Moshtemp to work entirely in the raster package. I’ve been aided greatly by the author of that package, Robert, who has been turning out improvements to the package with regularity. For a while I was a bit stymied by some irregularities in getting source from 
After my recent posts fiddling around with heat maps for pitch location, Jason at It's About the Money, Stupid contacted me to ask if I would contribute some location maps for Yankee pitchers. Obviously, I couldn't pass up the chance to contribute to ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
