Now that I have one enormous project on the go and one smaller one, I find it’s helping me considerably to have each project stored in separate RStudio projects. So, each project has its own scripting that I’ve been working … Continue reading →![]()
Now that I have one enormous project on the go and one smaller one, I find it’s helping me considerably to have each project stored in separate RStudio projects. So, each project has its own scripting that I’ve been working … Continue reading →![]()
Animated charts can be very helpful in illustrating concepts or discovering relationships, which makes them very helpful in teaching and exploratory research. Fortunately, creating animated graphs in R is fairly straightforward, once you have the right tools and understand a few basic principles about how the animations are created. In this article I’ll provide an
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The Penn World Tables are one of the greatest source of worldwide macroeconomic data, but dealing with its web interface is somewhat cumbersome. Fortunately, the data is also available as a R package on CRAN. Having some tools at hand … Continue reading →
So, I've been playing around with learning knitr, which is a Sweave-like R package for combining LaTeX and R code into one document. There's almost no learning curve if you already use Sweave, and I find a lot of knitr's design and usage to be a lot nicer.
I wasn't going to make a blog post or tutorial about...
This post provides links to various resources on getting started with Bayesian modelling using JAGS and R. It discusses: (1) what is JAGS; (2) why you might want to perform Bayesian modelling using JAGS; (3) how to install JAGS; (4) where to find furt...
We love them, we hate them: RANKINGS!Rankings are an inevitable tool to keep the human rat race going. In this regard I'll pick up my last two posts (HERE & HERE) and have some fun with it by using it to analyse R-Bloggers' web presence. I will use...
Good news for students wishing to attend the annual useR conference (useR!2012). Through generous sponsor support (ASA, and RStudio), a limited number of student scholarships1 are available for reimbursement of travel and registration costs up to $500. The allocation will be based on merit and need. Students who wish to apply should send an application to Tatsuki Koyama ([email protected]) no later than...
Compared to many other languages of equal popularity, there are realtively few development environments for R. In fact, the total number of production ready R IDEs could probably be counted on one hand. That deficiency is a small price to pay to use R and if you’re not already accustomed to using IDEs for other
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