The recent elections in Pakistan on May 11 were a great success by all means. In spite of the threats for violence by Al-Qaeda and its local franchises in Pakistan against those who would vote, millions of Pakistanis indeed stepped out to vote for an elected government. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) claimed a voter turnout of 60%....
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full May edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Gaming Analytics FTW! Join us on 13Jun13 at 10:00 AM PDT for our webinar...
I am delighted to announce that the programme and abstracts for the first R in Insurance conference at Cass Business School in London, 15 July 2013, have been published. The conference committee received strong abstracts from academia and the industry,...
There is about two weeks remaining until R/Finance 2013 - being held on May 17th and 18th at UIC in Chicago. Make sure you register beforehand to ensure you have a spot, and – yes - you do want to come to the conference dinner on Friday. I am particularly excited about the lineup of keynotes 
Revolution R Enterprise 6.2 is now available, and includes many new features that enhance the performance, scalability and enterprise readiness of R. On May 1, product manager Thomas Dinsmore will give an overview of the new features in a 30-minute webinar. You can register for the webinar (and the post-webinar slides and replay) at the link below. Revolution Analytics...
I was trying to change few levels in my factor variable by simply coercing characters on that factor variable but it dint seem to work.
data(iris)
iris$Species <- rep("Random", 71)
## Warning: invalid factor level, NAs generated
iris$Species
## setosa ...
I already introduced some stuff I did with the last.fm API. But did you ever wonder if your taste of music changes over the year? Sunny music in the sunny months and dark music in darker months? Well, I did. And I want to check it out with the RLastFM ...
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full April edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Now Available: Revolution R Enterprise 6.2. Released today, this update further enhances the performance,...
This is an overview of tools for speeding up your R code that I wrote for the Davis R Users’ Group.
It’s customary to quote Donald Knuth at this point, but instead I’ll quote my twitter buddy Ted Hart to illustrate a point:
I’m just going to say it.I like for loops in #Rstats,...
Enrollments are still open for the Level III Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques class to be held during the week May 6—10. Early-bird discounts are still available. Enquire when you register. As usual, all classes are held at our lovely Larkspur...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
