In this post, I cover an important aspect of using R that users of SPSS/Excel won’t be familiar with: working …
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CRdata vs. Cloudnumbers
Cloudnumbers and CRdata are two new cloud computing services.I tested the two services with a very simple script. The script simply creates a dataframe of 10000 numbers via rnorm, and assigns them to a factor of one of two levels (a or b). I then take ...
Migrating from SPSS/Excel to R
In this post, I give an outline for those interested in migrating from using SPSS and Excel for data processing/analysis …
R on the cloud
Just as scientists should never really have to think much about statistics, I feel that, in an ideal world, statisticians would never have to worry about computing. In the real world, though, we have to spend a lot of time building our own tools.It would be great if we could routinely run R with speed and memory limitations...
Use R!
In short: R is a free intuitive programming language that is used by practitioners in a plethora of academic disciplines. Therefore, it is on the cutting edge, and expanding rapidly. It creates stunning visuals, works seamlessly together with LaTeX, has really good online documentation and the community is unparalleled. A week...
p-Values for Cointegration Tests With Breaks in the Data
In an earlier post I went through some econometrics that involved the problem of testing for multivariate cointegration in the case where there are one or more trend-breaks or level-breaks in the time-series data. Specifically, I talked about the modified Trace tests introduced by Johansen et al. (2000), and I mentioned the really nice discussion of the application of these tests...
gretl
In comments on a recent post, "Ben" and Tal Galili very sensibly asked if I could make R code available for the econometric analysis in my posts, in addition to EViews code. I'll be trying to do this wherever I can, given the time constraints.
The important point implicit in these comments is that R is free, open-source, software, whereas...
Package RghcnV3
I am down to the last strokes of creating a package for downloading, importing and analyzing GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network0 Version 3. There were a few things holding me up, but I’ve manged to handle all of them except the last one. Let’s spend a little time looking at the package process so you 
RStudio
If you're a user of the R statistical software environment (and you should be - if you're not, it's the best free lunch in town), then the (fairly) recently released RStudio user interface will undoubtedly interest you. Here's a quote from the description on their website, to give you the flavour:
- "RStudio brings together everything you need to be...
RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94)
RStudio Beta 3 (v0.94) is available for download today. The goal for this release was to refine and improve our core features based on the feedback we’ve gotten on our first two betas. Highlights of the new release include: Source editor enhancements — New editor features include brace/paren/quote matching, more intelligent cursor placement after newlines, function 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
