Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D Moore's reimagined version of the rather cheesy 70's sci-fi series) has been my favourite TV series (of any genre) of recent years, so I'm especially excited that Chris Bilder has given me the chance to blog about it. Chris, an Associate Professor in the Department of ... [Read more...]

I’m a little surprised by Andrew Gelman’s post today, doubting the wisdom of a passage from Gary Becker’s work that reads: According to the economic approach, therefore, most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if ... [Read more...]

This term, I’ve been sitting in on Rene Carmona’s course on Modern Regression and Time Series Analysis. Much of the material on regression covered in the course was familiar to me already, but I’ve never felt that I had a real command of times series analysis methods. ... [Read more...]

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R has a lot of functions. Add in all the packages on CRAN, and then there's a lot of functions. You can search through the contents of the function documentation at places like Rseek.org, but the R Graphical Manual takes a different tack on exploring the functions in R: ... [Read more...]

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I already wrote about R-bloggers on the R mailing list, so it only seems fitting to write about it more here. I will explain what R-bloggers is and then move to explain what I hope it will accomplish. R-Bloggers.com is a central hub of content collected from bloggers who ... [Read more...]

Since people have asked, here is a GitHub page with all of the code used to generate my R function usage analyses: cran-function-usage-analysis. [Read more...]

This morning, I got a chance to read enough of the R Language Definition to finish my implementations of push and pop. While I was at it, I also wrote implementations of unshift, shift, queue and dequeue. Here they are: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 push [Read more...]

Wow, doesn't time fly! It's hard to believe that this blog is one year old already: our first post was on December 9, 2008. I remember when we first had the idea of doing a blog exclusively devoted to R that some wondered if there would be enough news about R to ... [Read more...]

John Myles White (who did the Canabalt scores analysis from last month) was trying to decide which R functions to spend time learning, and asked the obvious followup question: Which functions in R are used the most? With no readily-available answer, John answered the question himself, by counting the number ... [Read more...]

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  Premise I was recently asked to print out a fabric pattern that could be used to cover a sphere, about the size of a ping pong ball, for the purposes of re-creating a favorite cat toy (quite important). Thinking this over, I realized that this was basically a map projection ... [Read more...]

This is a list of new or updated packages that were released for R in November, as announced on the r-packages mailing list. To include other updates on this list, please email David Smith. For a complete list of all updates on CRAN, see the CRANberries archive for November 2009. Follow ... [Read more...]

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Yesterday, Hadley Wickham commented on my post on the frequency of calling various R functions that it would be helpful to have the number of packages that call a function in addition to the number of times that the function is called. I compiled the relevant data last night: you ... [Read more...]

Having grown up with Perl, there are two functions that I desperately miss while programming in R: push and pop. Continually writing 1 vector [Read more...]