Season 2 of the R-Podcast is up and running! This episode begins a multi-part series on reproducible analysis using R. In this episode I discuss the usage of Sweave and LaTeX for producing reproducible reports, an introduction to the capabilities of the knitr package (more episodes will be coming dedicated to this package), and my
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visit to ISU
A short visit to ISU but and therefore a busy and proftable day! About ten appointments in Snedecor Hall after a nice morning run, a highly attended Zyskind Lecture, and many interesting discussions all over the day: e.g., I had a great time discussing using null recurrent Markov chains for integral approximations with Krishna 
Build Static HTML Help Pages for R Packages
Many R users may still remember the good old days when we had static HTML documentation for R packages. That was probably before R 2.10.0 (in 2009). Then we had the fancy dynamic HTML help based on the built-in httpd server, but it has never really mad...
Visiting FHCRC, JHSPH and Meeting Xi’an
I have been traveling during the last two weeks. I visited Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on Oct 16 and the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins at the invitation of Simply Statistics on Oct 23. Today Christian Robert was visiting our department at Iowa State, and I also talked to him. It is really cool...
Using consistent R and LaTeX fonts in Org (or knitr, or Sweave)
I love good typography, even more so as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint have debased our standards. When I see a really fine piece of technical typesetting, it’s almost always done using TeX and friends. Beautiful LaTeX documents are easy to … Continue reading →
Using R in Political Controversies: Unemployment Reduction Prowess Under Bush versus Obama Years
Editor’s note: R-bloggers does not take a political side. Since this is an important topic, this post has the comments turned on. Also, If you wish to write a reply post (which includes an R context), you are welcome to contact me to have it published. This post was written by Prof. H. D. Vinod. Fordham University, New York.
R courses in Belgium
Every year, the Leuven Statistics Research Center (Belgium) is offering short courses for professionals and researchers in statistics and statistical tools.
The following link shows the overview of the courses: http://lstat.kuleuven.be/consulting/shortcourses/ENcourse%20overview.htm or get it here in pdf: http://lstat.kuleuven.be/consulting/shortcourses/BRO_LSTAT_2012-2013.pdf
This year, BNOSAC is presenting the course on Advanced R Programming Topics, which will be held on Oktober 18-19.
This course...
Creating Scientific Posters using R, Latex, Beamer and Beamerposter
A while ago I had the need to produce some posters that included lots of data (scientific style). Having recently got back into R and learning LaTex I googled for a way to do this using R. Here's what I found and ended up with, using R, LaT...
Creating Posters using R, Latex, Beamer and Beamerposter
A while ago I had the need to produce some posters that included lots of data (scientific style). Having recently got back into R and learning LaTex I googled for a way to do this using R. Here's what I found and ended up with, using R, LaT...
Olimpic predictions – from an R web service provider’s point of view
Hello, world!
Back in July we have read Markus Gesmann’s great blogpost about a prediction for the 100m final in London. Soon we decided to create similar estimates about the forthcoming events and started to post our results on Facebook.We would like to emphasise again that these kind of extrapolated estimates are rather just for fun and we also think...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
