Here’s an example of how to color your plot shapes and pch using an ifelse() statement. Ifelse() is handy as it creates an easy way to branch a function. The syntax is: ifelse(logical.condition, option1, option2). Meaning, if the logical condi...
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Functions for plotting and getting Greek in labels
The problem: We often want to plot data and assign plot attributes based on characteristics of the data. For example, if we have a group of students with the following IQs, we might want to indicate who is an outlier in the statistical sense. I like...
Modifying select off-diagonal items in a matrix
This is something I have had the occasion to do, and never remember how, so this is legitimately a reminder to my future self of how to do things with off-diagonal elements of a matrix. Select rows and columns are easy: mat or mat, for...
Converting an R object to text, with dput()
We’ve already briefly covered making a reproducible example, but I thought I’d go a little more in-depth on the very helpful function dput(). Whenever I am having trouble applying an operation to some R object, and need help, but want to av...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
