The Mexican government recently released data on all crime statistics from January 1997 to October 2010, as reported by the various police forces operating in Mexico. This information provides an unprecedented look at what has happened since the drug war began and allows for a frank assessment of the deterioration of security ... [Read more...]

Online classes are an easy and convenient way to learn more about a topic of interest. Not surprisingly, there are a variety of online resources, free and otherwise, to learn more about R. From online graduate classes, to the more “learn at your own pace” approach, here are some resources ... [Read more...]

This week(end), the Le Monde puzzle can be (re)written as follows (even though it is presented as a graph problem): Given a square 327×327 symmetric matrix A, where each non-diagonal entry is in {1,2,3,4,5} and , does there exist a triplet (i,j,k) such that Solving this problem in R ... [Read more...]

Sweave is a literate programming system included with R. It makes it possible to create a PDF document containing not just text, but also tables and charts generated from R. The process is automated, so once you've created an Sweave document (which includes both LaTeX text markup and R commands), ... [Read more...]

Earlier in the year, Romain and I did a bunch of initial work on a wrapper from R to the GNU GSL by way of our Rcpp package for seamless R and C++ integration. But other work kept us busy and this fell a little to the side. We have ... [Read more...]

I gave a presentation at Melbourne R Userson the topic of R Workflow. The presentation covered R code organisation, and useful R related tools including Eclipse, StatET, Git, make, Sweave and LaTeX. Also, the slides from the presentation provide link... [Read more...]

The visualization represented by Hans Rosling’s TED talk was very impressive. FlowingData provides a tutorial on making bubble chart in R. I prefer ggplot2 for graphics. [Read more...]

People rave about Sweave and the literate programing paradigm and I am guilty as charged. I speak Sweave, I think Sweave, I dream Sweave. As a matter of fact my default mode of operation is Sweave and anything else is an … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Gene Ontology is the de facto standard for annotation of gene products. It has been widely used in biological data mining, and I believe it will play more central role in the future. Publications mentioning GO was collected and deposited in GO ftp, and can be accessed (ftp://ftp.geneontology.... [Read more...]

The new RQuantLib release 0.3.5 is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. Most of the changes were made two and four weeks ago: fir... [Read more...]

Just released an updated version of our 'aqp' package for quantitative soils investigations, available on CRAN and R-Forge. Some of the major changes are listed below: from the aqp NEWS file: -------------------------- aqp 0.98-1 (2010-11-23) --------... [Read more...]

It's been a busy fall season for the team at Revolution Analytics. Over the past few months, we've announced major product enhancements for Revolution R -- RevoScaleR, for tackling big data sets, and RevoDeployR, for embedding Revolution R into wider applications. We've continued to add to our growing customer base ... [Read more...]

I’ve been messing around with using Amazon Web Services for a while. I’ve had some projects where I wanted to upload files to S3 or fire off EMR jobs. I’ve been controlling AWS services using a hodgepodge of command line tools and the R system() function to ... [Read more...]

rggobi is the first package which didn't survive my transition from 32-bit to 64-bit in R 2.11.1. Fortunately, installing the package from source fixes it, and Hadley Wickham has posted the prerequisites and procedure. [Read more...]

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This post provides an example of using Sweave to perform an item analysis of a multiple choice test. It is designed as a tutorial for learning more about using Sweave in a mode where console input and output is displayed. Copies of all source code a... [Read more...]

  With the rgl package it’s possible to interact with the 3d visualization of the timespace tracks. Code example: plot3d(lon,lat,timedate, xlim=range(lon), ylim=range(lat), zlim=range(timedate), ticktype=”detailed”, xlab=”longitude”, ylab=”latitude”, zlab=”Date”, col= as.POSIXlt(daten[,"Date"])$mday, type=”l”, main=... [Read more...]

I started to develop GOSemSim package two years ago when I was not quite familiar with R. I am very happy to see that someone use it and found it helpful. I try to learn S4 and redesign GOSemSim with S4 classes and methods in the pass two weeks, and ... [Read more...]

As so often happens these days, a brief post at FriendFeed got me thinking about data analysis. Entitled “So how many retractions are there every year, anyway?”, the post links to this article at Retraction Watch. It discusses ways to estimate the number of retractions and in particular, a recent ... [Read more...]

Probably everyone has seen Hans Rosling’s famous TED talk by now. I recently came across a couple of other exceptional talks on data visualization: Hans Rosling again: Let my dataset change your mindset. If only all statistics lecturers were this dynamic! David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization. Not ... [Read more...]