My first introduction with LaTeX was not very pleasant. I got tired and frustrated by writing so many codes for producing a simple document; but a few days ago I could write a function for producing an animated plot in R and also could export it to my LaTeX document ... [Read more...]

The R package dcemriS4 is a collection of functions, with examples and documentation, that allows one to perform voxel-wise quantitative analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) or diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data.  The primary app... [Read more...]

The R package oro.nifti contains functions for the input/output and visualization of medical imaging data that follow either the ANALYZE or NIfTI formats.  This package is part of the Rigorous Analytics bundle.The latest version of oro.nifti (0.... [Read more...]

The R package oro.dicom contains functions for the input/output of medical imaging data that conform to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard.  This package is part of the Rigorous Analytics bundle. The latest version... [Read more...]

Update: the competition was just launched. * * * What is the competition about? Drew Conway and John Myles Whyte have collected data from (52) R users about the packages they have installed. The data is now available on github for download and the contest will be run on the kaggle platform. For more ... [Read more...]

Neil is my new bioinformatics hero! (Sorry Pierre :)BioStar is a Q&A website for bioinformatics, just like the Blue Obelisk eXchange. Neil and Pierre have an ongoing struggle to gain the most karma, requiring Pierre to put in a formal complaint aga... [Read more...]

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Prof. Andrew Gelman, from both the Statistics and Political Science departements at Columbia presented this talk to the New York R Statistical Programming Meetup on October 7, 2010. Description: A challenge in statistics is to construct models that ar... [Read more...]

What makes an R package popular? The number of people that use a given R package is a common point of discussion, but it turns out that it's kind of tricky to get hard and fast data to answer this question. You can look at the "I use this" number ... [Read more...]

There is a new data mining competition aimed at predicting preferred data mining tools in R via dataists.com.   The concept of the competition is to try to determine which R packages are preferred in the R community via their CRAN package librarie... [Read more...]

After I spoke tonight at the NYC R meetup, John Myles White and Drew Conway told me about this competition they're administering for developing a recommendation system for R packages. They seem to have already done some work laying out... ... [Read more...]

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Those are the slides for the (basic) introduction of the paper by Mark Girolami and Ben Calderhead at the RSS next week. Not to be confused with my comments on the paper. Filed under: R, Statistics, Travel, University life Tagged: Hamiltonian, Langevi... [Read more...]

I just did this for what will hopefully be a book chapter on our Divided Education – Divided Citizens research project with NEPC. Explanation further below for anyone more interested in the actual topic About the graphic: I like raw-data plots like this, made possible by Hadley Wickhams’s amazing ggplot2 ... [Read more...]

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We've seen in the previous post (here)  how important the *-cartesian product to model joint effected in the regression. Consider the case of two explanatory variates, one continuous (, the age of the driver) and one qualitative (, gasoline ve... [Read more...]

On Dataists, a new collaborative blog for data hackers that I’m contributing to, we’ve just announced a data contest that’s custom made for R users. To win the contest, you need to build a recommendation system for R packages. To find out more, check out the official ... [Read more...]

by John Myles White and Drew Conway Editors’ Note: One theme likely to recur on dataists.com is that data hackers love using their tools to analyze, visualize, and predict everything. Data hackers also love discovering and learning about new tools. So it should come as no surprise that Dataist ... [Read more...]

This is Part 1 of a five-part article series, with new parts published each Thursday. You can download the complete article from the Revolution Analytics website. How Did a Statistical Programming Language Invented in New Zealand Become a Global Sensation? Much in the same way that social networking, reality TV and ... [Read more...]