Cool woven artwork on the campus of Kansas University. The image is CC by Patrick Emerson
I recently started to work with Sweave (by Friedrich Leisch)...
Cool woven artwork on the campus of Kansas University. The image is CC by Patrick Emerson
I recently started to work with Sweave (by Friedrich Leisch)...
Back teaching a couple of subjects and it’s the constant challenge to find enough common ground with students so one can push/pull them to the other side of new concepts. We are not talking about complex hierarchical models using mixed … Continue reading →
Despite my preference for SAS over R, there are some add-ons to “basic” R that I’ve found that have made my learning process way easier. While I’m still in my infancy in learning R, I feel like once I found … Continue reading →
Getting Started Using R, Part 1: RStudio is an article from randyzwitch.com,...
Video (screencast) of the presentation by Szilard Pafka at the Los Angeles R users group. I summarized (with short demos) a few of the talks from the useR! 2012 conference. We are planning one more meetup to cover more talks. … Continue reading →
Petrol prices adjusted for inflation (Perth, Western Australia) The thought for this sprung to mind when I saw petrol drop below $1.20 per litre the other day, and it made me think, I remember paying that when I got to … Continue reading →
Regular readers may know that I often make R-based GUIs. They’re great for giving non-technical users safe and easy access to statistical models. The safety comes from the restrictions of a GUI: you can limit what the users does more easily than with a command line, helping to reduce the number of opportunities for bad 
This post presents the video of a talk that I presented in July 2012 at Melbourne R Users on using knitr, R Markdown, and R Studio to perform reproducible analysis. I also provide links to a github repository where the R markdown examples can be examin...
It’s all very well publishing a research paper that describes the method for, and results of, analysing a dataset in a particular way, or a news story that contains a visualisation of an open dataset, but how can you do so transparently and reproducibly? Wouldn’t it be handy if you could “View Source” on the 