Rick Davies just wrote an interesting post which combined thoughts on QCA (and multi-valued QCA or mvQCA) and classification trees with thoughts on INUS causation and classification trees. The question was something like: how can we look at...
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Analysing time course microarray data using Bioconductor: a case study using yeast2 Affymetrix arrays
A few years ago I was involved in analysing some time-course microarray data. Our biological collaborators were interested in how we analysed their data, so this lead to a creation of tutorial, which in turn lead to a paper. When we submitted the paper, one the referees “suggested” that we write the paper using Sweave; 
introduction to R: learning by doing (part 1)
Geography is often about statistics as it is the basis for fast exchange of information: providing a mean and standard deviation to the audience is often much easier then showing raw data: Learning a script language for this purpose can be a hard-ass work. But I think it is more often a need of practice.
MatLab, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Excel users: Try R, damn it!
Due to my work with a multitude of statistical packages in my career I may be able to evaluate a lot of them. I’ve first used Excel for my calculations as most of the normal users do. I like the idea behind a spreadsheet and the combination of data and click-to-do functions. Nevertheless I’ve often
Rchievement of the day #3: Bloggin’ from R
I have become a complete knitr addict of late and have been using it in combination with RStudio’s R markdown support on a regular basis. In fact I wrote this post using it! It then dawned on me how great it would be if I … Continue reading →
Wrap-up on Blogging with R Markdown and tumblr
This is a wrap-up post to summarize a few of the issues I’ve found so far with blogging on tumblr with R Markdown.
tumblr Puts a 1Mb Cap On Its HTML Editor
Fair warning.
When I tried eating my own dogfood while writing the previous posts, I found that I had to manually upload all those pretty screenshots of the tumblr interface. For some...
Blog with R Markdown and tumblr: Part II
In Part I of this series I described how to set up your tumblr blog so that you can create posts like those on the example site R Markdown Blog.
Now I’ll describe how you can actually create such posts. I’ll be using the RStudio IDE for the desktop in all the steps below,...
reproducible documents/analytics in R: the knitr package
When I am working in new institutions and I am asking: “Do you have a document management system?” I often get the answer:”Yap, we are using folders” … OKAY. Making analysis, developing applications and keeping an eye on code, data and applications make this even harder as it has to be. Of course not many
Making Reproducible Research Enjoyable
Note: this is a contributed article for the ICSA Bulletin and the basic idea can be summarized in this picture. It is hard to convince people to think about reproducible research (RR). There are two parts of difficulties: (1) tools used to be for ex...
useR 2012: main conference braindump
I knew R was versatile, but DANG, people do a lot with it: > > … I don’t think anyone actually believes that R is designed to make *everyone* happy. For me, R does about 99% of the things I … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
