I have been sitting on this post for some time now and wanted to get it out there. The goal is to simply show how easy it is to pull live data from the web into R, massage it, and perform some analytics on it. I am not sure how useful this analysis really is 
Today we're pleased to announce the availability of the latest update to the Revolution R family, Revolution R Enterprise 4.2. This release includes all of the capabilities of the most powerful statistical software available, open-source R (version 2.11.1), plus additional components for big data analysis, integration, user experience and more. Version 4.2 includes a number of new features, including:...
Whenever a post on this blog requires some data analysis and perhaps a chart or two, my tool of choice is the versatile statistical programming package R. Developed as an open-source implementation of an engine for the S programming language, R is therefore free. Since commercial mathematical packages can costs thousands of dollars, this alone
Talking a bit with my friend Jarrod about math stats and econometrics, we both came to the conclusion that the standard presentation for basic inference is lacking. In an intro or intermediate applied statistics course you learn about first and … Continue reading →
There are two major threats to complex MCMC estimations:Wrong energy settings (hibernate after 2 hours of inactivity)Automatic Updates (install updates at 3 a.m.)I thought about the latter threat. At times, you may hand some R code to other co-workers,...
There are two major threats to complex MCMC estimations:Wrong energy settings (hibernate after 2 hours of inactivity)Automatic Updates (install updates at 3 a.m.)I thought about the latter threat. At times, you may hand some R code to other co-workers,...
useR! 2011, the annual R user conference supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing, will be held this year in the United Kingdom at the University of Warwick (which is located, oddly enough, in Coventry). Last year's conference featured dozens of presentations on R's use in pretty much every domain of analysis, science and research. There were talks...
Just wrapped up the slides for the first version of the The Joy of Sweave – A Beginner’s Guide to Reproducible Research with Sweave which I presented today in our lab. I am making the slides available under a Creative Commons … Continue reading →
Waiting for convergence of MCMC models can take some time, therefore it may be a good idea to use better starting values. Using paste, one can quickly convert any (parameter) vector in the workspace into a R-style vector (with c()). Here's a function t...
We're very excited to host a new webinar from some of the leading researchers in portfolio design: Diethelm Würtz and Mahendra Mehta for the Rmetrics Association. This webinar will give an overview on current and recent developments and tools for portfolio design, optimization and stability analysis with the R/Rmetrics software environment. This webinar will review content available in the...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
