February 2009

Positioning charts with fig and fin

February 9, 2009 | bryan

R offers several ways to spatially orient multiple graphs in a single graphing space. The layout() function and mfrow/mfcol parameter settings are adequate solutions for many tasks and allow the graphing space to be broken up into tabular or matrix-ba... [Read more...]

Princeton Graduate Student Housing

February 8, 2009 | John Myles White

For any Princeton graduate students who are interested, here’s the success rate for graduate students applying for school housing. These charts were built using the data from the 2008-2009 Room Draw Statistics pamphlet provided by the Division of Hou... [Read more...]

Our new R package: R2jags

February 8, 2009 | Yu-Sung Su

I have got emails occasionally from JAGS users, asking about our new R package: R2jags. Basically, R2jags runs JAGS via R and makes postanalysis easier to be done in R. Taking advantage of the functions provided by JAGS, rjags a... [Read more...]

Baby Got Stats!

February 8, 2009 | jebyrnes

I was completely tickled last year with the oh so amusing Statz Rappers. It kept me and my nerdy stats friends laughing for days. Rapping. Stats. The Internet. Good times. But little did I know that rapping about statistics was really just hitting its stride on youtube. This is Why ... [Read more...]

ave

February 8, 2009 | vikasrawal

I discovered a new, very useful, R function yesterday: ave. This is what it does: “Subsets of ‘x[]‘ are averaged, where each subset consist of those observations with the same factor levels.” But interestingly, you can use any function other than average. The output of that function is set against ... [Read more...]

Online R programming resources

February 2, 2009 | bryan

R can legitimately be called both a programming language and a statistical package. Many books address both the programming and statistical components of R, but invariably the discussion of statistical topics is more detailed than the discussion of pr... [Read more...]

Don’t group Figures in Word

February 1, 2009 | [email protected]

One of my ongoing annoyances with Microsoft Word is its inability to handle figures in a consistent way. The last quirk I discovered is the following: if you group a figure with a textbox -- something often done for creating captions -- the print quali... [Read more...]
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