In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users. Information Age published a feature article on R, describing how new graduates are driving adoption of R in industry. Bob Muenchen has updated his list of R package equivalents to SAS and SPSS procedures. A history of Data Science, including Bill Cleveland's...
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Making an Animated Heart GIF in R
Messing around with animations, I created this toy example to make a growing outline of a heart in R. I have put it up as a gist on GitHub and embedded it below. It uses the animation and the ggplot2 packages--both of which make it incredibly simple to...
Animating Schelling’s segregation model
Recent blog post on Animations in R inspired me to write a code that generates animations of simulation model. For this task I have chosen Schelling's segregation model.Having written the code I have found that one year ago a similar code has been...
Real Time Structural Break
Yesterday as I played with bfast I kept thinking “Yes, but this is all in hindsight. How can I potentially use this in a system?” Fortunately, one of the fine authors very generously commented on my post Structural Breaks (Bull or Bear?...
Insights into Quantile Regression from Arthur Charpentier
At this Monday’s Montreal R User Group meeting, Arthur Charpentier gave an interesting talk on the subject of quantile regression. One of the main messages I took away from the workshop was that quantile regression can be used to determine if extreme events are becoming more extreme. The example given was hurricane intensity since 1978. 
Animations in R
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...
Animations in R
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
The post Animations...
Fancy HTML5 Slides with knitr and pandoc
Karthik Ram gave an Introduction to R a couple of weeks ago, and I strongly recommend you to take a look at his cool HTML5 slides. I started trying HTML5 slides last year, and now it is difficult for me to go back to beamer, which I have used for a few...
The age of sail, visualized
As anyone who's ever played Civilization knows, the advent of sailboats capable of crossing the oceans leads to an explosion of exploration, commerce and social development. And with the visualization below, you can see that explosion in action: Ben Schmidt used the R language and data recorded in by hand in ship logs to create the animation above. Like...
See the wind
The image below isn't a bearskin rug in the shape of the USA. It's fact, it's a visualization of the wind flowing over the United States, as of 4PM EDT today, March 30. You can click through to see the current wind conditions, based on latest data from the National Digital Forecast Database. But more importantly, as long as...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
