[Warning: this post about a race I ran yesterday is unlikely to be of interest for most readers!] Following my (un)reasonable time last year, I registered again for the annual “Cross de Bercy”  run by the Sport Club of the Finance Ministry (with whom/which CREST is affiliated). This ... [Read more...]

I’m writing this post for two reasons: i) someone searched on Google for the term ‘what is ordisurf doing’ and ended up on my blog, and ii) because I have been on the receiving end of reviewers comments on a paper I co-authored where they didn’t know what ... [Read more...]

I’ve been a big fan of ggplot2 for a long time but plyr has been in my toolkit for less than a year and it is now one of my most-used R packages. It is how aggregate/*apply would have been if they were awesome. In five lines this ... [Read more...]

An interesting sampling method that was covered briefly in my Bayesian statistics course was rejection sampling. Since I have nothing better to do, I thought it would be fun to make an acceptance-rejection algorithm using R. FUN!The Rejection Sampling method is usually used to simulate data from an unknown ... [Read more...]

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Overview: How to setup R on an EC2 instance of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) How to setup Apache Tomcat 6.0 web server and configuring it with basic authentication so that we can view our output from R on a password … Continue reading → [Read more...]

R-bloggers is a site that aggregates many of the best R blogs on the internet. We're glad they've allowed our R-related posts to be aggregated there. If you mainly write in R, it's worth checking them out. [Read more...]

R is many things, but it's not exactly speedy like a Patas Monkey. In fact, while it is much faster than many other solutions, R is notably slower than Stata (even inspiring talks that it should be rewritten from scratch!).Fortunately, Radford Neal ha... [Read more...]

I have now released a new collection of 30 patches to speed up R version 2.13.0. You can get them here Assessing how much these patches speed up R is difficult. First of all, the speedup varies tremendously with the type of program. It also varies quite a bit with the machine ... [Read more...]

"The R-Files" is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile prominent members of the R Community. Name: Jeroen Ooms Background: Ph.D. Candidate, Statistics, UCLA Nationality: Netherlands Years Using R: 3 1/2 Known for: Developing web applications for popular R packages including ggplot2, lme4, stockplot and irttool Jeroen Ooms is ... [Read more...]

My neighbour is an half-retired entrepreneur who still runs his electric engine company. A few weekends ago, he came to me with the following physics question related with one of those engines: given a primary disk rotating at the angular speed of ω0 and a secondary disk located on the first ... [Read more...]

The *.gslib file format originates from the Geostatistical Software Library, but is also used in the follow-up of that software, i.e. the Stanford Geostatistical Modelling Software (SGeMS). Since not all geostatistical algorithms are implemen... [Read more...]

Thanks to this great post http://www.imachordata.com/?p=730 we can now put multiple plots on a display with ggplot2. This provides somewhat similar functionality to ‘par(mfrow=c(x,y))’ which would allow multiple plots with the base plot function. gridExtra doesn’t have quite the same level ... [Read more...]

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An interested PR piece I got from Janet Dobbins: ————— Luis Torgo is teaching an online course, “Data Mining in R: Learning with Case [Read more...]

There are any number of short tutorials on making add on R packages on your Windows machine. This is yet another version of that process. I’ve explained what I did in 10 easy steps on the pages, but I’ll give a brief overview here. In the first step I ... [Read more...]

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In the 2011 edition of the Sybase Capital Markets Guide, Revolution Analytics CTO David Champagne talks about the need for up-to-date analytics in Finance, and how you can integrate Revolution R with quality real-time data sources. Here's an excerpt: R represents a radically different approach to the challenges posed by analyzing ... [Read more...]