I love the syntax of calls to lm and ggplot, wherein the dataframe is specified as a variable and specific columns are referenced as though they were separate variables. While developing some of my functions, I’d wanted to introduce something similar. I often find that I have a single large dataframe and want to execute 
It occurred to us recently that we don’t have any articles about Bayesian approaches to statistics here. I’m not going to get into the “Bayesian versus Frequentist” war; in my opinion, which style of approach to use is less about philosophy, and more about figuring out the best way to answer a question. Once you
The scope of this post it to show how simple it is to get data out of the Google Analytics and create your own reports (that you hope that they can be semi-automated at least) and you favourite statistical graphs (those that GA is currently missing). As you already know R is a favourite tool ...read more
After last post's setting up for a simulation, it is now time to look how the models compare. To my disappointment with my simple simulations of assessors behavior the gain is minimal. Unfortunately, the simulation took much more time than I ...
A few days ago there was an interesting R based article by diffuseprior on the decline and fall in the quality of The Simpsons The author scraped results from GEOS, an online survey of TV programs, and applied the R package changepoint to offer an analysis of the show over time This seemed a candidate aaaa
I already mentioned R for dummies a while ago on the ‘Og and never got around to read it from cover to back. Now that I am reduced to a dummy state with too much free time!, I can produce a full review of the book. R for dummies was written by two Belgian statistics 
This code has been kindly contributed by Robin Edwards
In the feature selection chapter, we describe several search procedures ("wrappers") that can be used to optimize the number of predictors. Some techniques were described in more detail than others. Although we do describe genetic algorithms and how they can be used for reducing the dimensions of the data, this is the first of series of blog posts that...
I believe that the NY Times interactive feature 512 Paths to the White House is one of the best visualizations of all time. It is even better when we have details on the process of creating this marvel. Although the graphic is not suited for other data sources (please tell me if this is not...
(This article was first published on There is grandeur in this view of life » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This week I held the second introductory seminar on R, and I think it went pretty well — though I guess you really should ask my colleagues if you want to know. The first seminar was a lecture,...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
