Create HTML page containing all package examples using knitr and markdown body, td { font-family: sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 12px; margin: 8px; } tt, code, pre { font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Droid San...
Create HTML page containing all package examples using knitr and markdown body, td { font-family: sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 12px; margin: 8px; } tt, code, pre { font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Droid San...
The xts package by Jeff Ryan and Josh Ulrich is an immensely powerful tool that is widely used for timeseries work with R. Recently, the question about how to use it from Rcpp came up on StackOverflow and in a thread on the rcpp-devel list.
In fact, xts has had an exposed API since 2008, but it...
The xts package by Jeff Ryan and Josh Ulrich is an immensely powerful tool that is widely used for timeseries work with R. Recently, the question about how to use it from Rcpp came up on StackOverflow and in a thread on the rcpp-devel list.
In fact, xts has had an exposed API since 2008, but it...
Just like a lot of political science departments, here at Rice a group of faculty and students meet each week to discuss new research in political methodology. This week, we read a new symposium in Political Analysis about the pre-registration of studies in political science. To briefly summarize, several researchers argued that political scientists should 
There are two online courses starting soon on Coursera, which are free to register. 1. Data Analysis (with R) It is a 8-week online course starting on Jan 22nd 2013 <https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis>. This course is an applied statistics course focusing on … Continue reading →
the hrs is the one and only longitudinal survey of american seniors. with a panel starting its third decade, the current pool of respondents includes older folks who have been interviewed every two years as far back as 1992. unlike cross-se...
For power users of Google Analytics, there is a heavy dose of spreadsheet work that accompanies any decent analysis. But even with Excel in tow, it’s often difficult to get the data just right without resorting to formula hacks and manual table formatting. This is where the Google Analytics API and R can come very
Mango Solutions announce the inaugural meeting of a new R user group in Manchester, UK. Date: 7th Feb 2013 Venue: Odder Bar, Manchester (14 Oxford Road, M1 5QA) http://oddbar.co.uk/odder Timings: · 6:00 – 6:30 Getting started in R by Chris Campbell. A free pre-meeting workshop to give an introduction to R for complete beginners. · 7:00 – 7:10 Welcome by...
In two weeks (on January 24), Think Big Analytics' Jeffrey Breen will present a new webinar on using R with Hadoop. Here's the webinar description: R and Hadoop are changing the way organizations manage and utilize big data. Think Big Analytics and Revolution Analytics are helping clients plan, build, test and implement innovative solutions based on the two technologies...