I found a golden website. The blog of Esteban Moro. He uses R to work on networks. In particular he has done a really nice code to make some great videos of networks. This post is purely a copy of his code. I just changed a few arguments to change colo...
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R: Barplot with absolute and relative values
In this short tutorial I will show how you can add the relative amount over the barplots, such that you have both, the absolute and relative Information in the plot. First, I create some artificial SNPs and TPMT-genotype. Now we calculate the percentage and reshape the data for ggplot. I used two times geom_bar as
Variability of predicted portfolio volatility
A prediction of a portfolio’s volatility is an estimate — how variable is that estimate? Data The universe is 453 large cap US stocks. The variance matrices are estimated with the daily returns in 2012. Variance estimation was done with Ledoit-Wolf shrinkage (shrinking towards equal correlation). Two sets of random portfolios were created. In both … Continue reading...
Quantile Autoregression in R
In the past, I wrote about robust regression. This is an important tool which handles outliers in the data. Roger Koenker is a substantial contributor in this area. His website is full of useful information and code so visit when … Continue reading →
Deploying Shiny Server on Amazon EC2
Setting up Shiny Server on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be a bit of a process if you’re unfamiliar with Linux system administration. Thankfully, we’ve done all the hard work for you! If you’re looking to get Shiny Server running in EC2 without delay, just boot up an instance of our public Amazon Machine
Getting staRted with R.
As a PhD student and researcher, I often hear friends and colleagues say that they want to learn R, but that the learning curve is so steep that they can't seem to get started. It's true that learning any tool as powerful as R can be confusing at...
New Rcpp page on upcoming events — including Master Class in New York
Lots of exciting things are happening with and around Rcpp. I just added a new page about Upcoming Events to the recently-created Rcpp site. This events page has lots to cover: an upcoming talk at Columbia on March 8 (details still TBD), a day-lon...
Tables from R into Word
A good looking table matters!
This tutorial is on how to create a neat table in Word by combining knitr and R Markdown. I'll be using my own function, htmlTable, from the Gmisc package.
Background: Because most journals that I submit to want...
analyze the survey of income and program participation (sipp) with r
if the census bureau's budget was gutted and only one complex sample survey survived, pray it's the survey of income and program participation (sipp). it's giant. it's rich with variables. it's monthly. it follows households over three, four, now five year panels. the congressional budget office uses it for their health insurance simulation. analysts read that sipp has...
General Navigation in R
So you’ve finally managed to install the pesky environment but have no idea what you are looking at when you open the program. This tutorial is for you. (Again, here is a version with screenshot pictures). When you open R, it might look different than the screenshots in the picture version of the tutorial. This 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
