How many R related books have been published so far? Who is the most popular publisher? How many other manuals, tutorials and books have been published online? Let's find out. A few years ago I used the publication list on r-project.org as an argument ...
Today I had a meeting with Emmanuel. He is a guy from inside Janssen who is very good with R-scripts. He made a lot of great plots which I had to use for our reports. During the meeting we came to a conclusion that all the difficult R-scripting he did,...
A more or less anonymous reader commented on our last post, where we were reading data from a file with a varying number of fields. The format of the file was:1 Las Vegas, NV --- 53.3 --- --- 12 Sacramento, CA --- 42.3 --- --- 2The complication in the...
Why regular expressions are your friend. This is written in Stata but applies to any language where regular expressions exist.Original version if length("`qx'")==3 { ...
I recently had to clean up a BibTeX database containing around 1,000 references. One of the clean up tasks was to ensure that page numbers were separated with en-dashes as opposed to hyphens. This post sets out how I used regular expressions in R to co...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).