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Auto-completion is fancy in a text editor. Notepad++ does not support auto-completion for the R language, so I spent a couple of hours on creating such an XML file to support R: Put it under ‘plugins/APIs‘ in the installation directory of Notepad++ (you can see several other XML files ... [Read more...]

After a month of on-again, off-again coding, I’ve finally completed a web site geared towards calculating the Value at Risk of the average investor’s portfolio. The site is visualvar.com. The big idea was to combine the statistical and visualization tools of R (especially ggplot2) with the web ... [Read more...]

For anyone who missed the useR! 2010 conference in Gaithersburg last month (or just wants to revisit some of the amazing talks), you can now find slides from many of the contributed presentations available for download. (Look for the [S] link to download slides.) The presentations from the Revolution team members ... [Read more...]

I have to say that it’s pretty exciting to watch your blog go from a few hits over its lifetime to getting almost 200 in a single day.  I am currently negotiating with Google over the purchase of this blog.  Or maybe not.  Again, thanks be to @revodavid for posting ... [Read more...]

I commited the 2000th revision of Rcpp svn today, so I wanted to look back at what I did previously with the 50 000th R commit. Here are the number of commits per day and month ... the same thing, but focused on the period since I joined the project ... and now ... [Read more...]

Plenty of people have been scraping data from the web using R for a while now, but I just completed my first project and I wanted to share the code with you.  It was a little hard to work through some of the “issues”, but I had some great help ... [Read more...]

I'll be presenting Rcpp at the next LondonR, which is currently scheduled for october 5th Here is one picture I found on flickr, searching for london speed bus, ... there are many other [Read more...]

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Here are some tricks I collected for making Notepad++ a more comfortable text editor for me in general in for the R programming language in particular.Switch between tabs in Notepad++ with Ctrl-PageUp/DownNotepad++'s default behaviour is to use Ctrl+(S... [Read more...]

In the early days of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the rate of flow of oil from the spill was of great concern: estimating it accurately was key to coordinating the scale and scope of the response to the emergency. Unfortunately, estimates from independent sources ... [Read more...]

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ESPN's Bill Simmons (aka The Sports Guy) recently suggested that the primary cause of dwindling interest in Red Sox games by fans is that baseball games these days are too long. "It's not that fun to spend 30-45 minutes driving to a game, paying for parking, parking, waiting in line ... [Read more...]

I have mentioned the AQP package in previous entries. One of the functions in this package generates aggregate soil profile data, from a collection of soil profiles that are related by some factor: common lithology, common landscape position, and so on... [Read more...]

...continuing our way though John Verzani's Using R for introductory statistics. Previous installments: chapt1&2, chapt3.1, chapt3.2 Relationships in numeric data If two data series have a natural pairing (x1,y1),...,(xn,yn), then we can ask, &ld... [Read more...]

A contingency table presents the joint density of one or more categorical variables. Each entry in a contingency table is a count of the number of times a particular set of factors levels occurs in the dataset. For example, consider a list of plant ... [Read more...]

CHART CRITICS, GRAPHICS CURMUDGEONS, COME ONE COME ALL Once upon a time there was this graph (graph 1). Andrew Gelman went all graphics curmudgeon on it, calling it an “ugly, sloppy bit of data graphics“, so it became this graph (graph 2). Now the question is, which is better: graph 2 or graph 3? ... [Read more...]

I recently decided to revisit some R code that implements a Gibbs sampler in an attempt to decrease the iteration time. My strategy was to implement the sampler state as an R environment rather than a list. The rationale was that passing an environment to and from functions would reduce ... [Read more...]

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India-based data scientist Harsh Singhal has compiled "State of the R": a list of more than 50 links to R-related websites, which has generated much discussion on the R Project group on LinkedIn. Now, even if you're not on LinkedIn, you can find the list at the new Links4R Twitter ... [Read more...]