Today I feel very lucky, as I have been invited to the Royal Statistical Society conference to give a tutorial on interactive web graphs with R and googleVis. I prepared my slides with RStudio, knitr, pandoc and slidy, similar to my Cambridge R talk. ...
I created an R package a while back to interact with some APIs that serve up data on what our elected represenatives are up to, including the New York Times Congress API, and the Sunlight Labs API. What kinds of things can you do with govdat? Here ...
So I want to mine some #altmetrics data for some research I'm thinking about doing. The steps would be: Get journal titles for ecology and evolution journals. Get DOI's for all papers in all the above journal titles. Get altmetrics data on each DO...
So I was trying to figure out a fast way to make matrices with randomly allocated 0 or 1 in each cell of the matrix. I reached out on Twitter, and got many responses (thanks tweeps!). Here is the solution I came up with. See if you can tell why it...
RStudio and knitr are an excellent conbination for generating dynamic reports. But in this blog, I will show you how to generate HTML-style presentaion using R only. OK, I confess that we still need something else: deck.js and markdown and R.utils. ...
My coworkers at Fred Hutchinson regularly use
the development version of R (i.e., R-devel) and have urged me to do the same.
This post details how I have set up the development version of R on our Linux server,
which I use remotely because it is much faster than my Mac.
First, I downloaded the R-devel source into ~/local/, which...
People have been telling me for a while that the latest version of RStudio, the IDE for R, is a great way to generate reports. I finally got around to trying it out and for once, the hype is justified. Start with this excellent tutorial from Jeremy Anglim. Briefly: the process is not so different 
One of the possible barriers to widespread adoption of open notebook science is knowing where to start. Video reports of lab experiments hosted on Youtube can be easily embedded in a hosted WordPress blog; a MediaWiki wiki can be used to provide one page per experiment, with change tracking/history on each page and a shadow 
Here's a quick demo of creating a map with an inset within it using ggplot. The inset is achieved using the gridExtra package. Install libraries, set directory, read file setwd("/Users/ScottMac/Dropbox/CANPOLIN_networks_ms/data") # change ...
People use the R language every day to create the elements of reports: tables, charts, analyses, and forecasts. But assembling all of that information into a print-ready document laid out with text can a hassle. You can cut-and-paste all of the elements into Word, but then what do you do when the data file gets updated at the last...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
