This post provides links to a range of resources related to the use and interpretation of correlations. I wanted to provide a page with links to a number of additional resources that would be useful both for those of my students who might be keen to le... [Read more...]

In this post, I cover an important aspect of using R that users of SPSS/Excel won’t be familiar with: working …Continue reading » [Read more...]

I just got the following email from PNAS about our Lack of confidence in ABC model choice. Editor's Remarks to Author: both referees now find the manuscript acceptable for publication as do I. Each suggests small changes which I encourage the authors to make prior to having the manuscript go ... [Read more...]

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In response to my last post, Chris had the following comment:           I am actually trying to better understand the distinction between mixture models and mixture distributions in my own work.  You seem to say mixture models apply to a small set of models – namely regression models.This comment suggests that ... [Read more...]

Guest post to R-bloggers by Dr Kris Boudt. ——————– R has always been my favorite language to forecast financial risk in my research [Read more...]

For the last month or so, I have been using the test_that unit testing package for R (a quick note on names: both testthat and test_that are used in the documentation. The library, as available from CRAN has no underscore, so use install.packages('testthat') to get a ... [Read more...]

Kevin Goulding is working on a Master’s degree in Applied Economics at Montana State University, and offers 10 reasons why grad students should choose R for statistical analyses, homework problems, and thesis research: R is free, and lets grad students escape the burdens of commercial license costs. R has really ... [Read more...]

We've noted before that with the RGoogleVis package, it's easy to make motion charts in R, and create a web-based interactive chart that reflects the synchronous movements of two or three variables over time. R user Jeffrey Breen has a great new blog post showing exactly how easy it is, ... [Read more...]

Los Angeles R users group July 12 2011 meeting (see meetup info here): 1. Using R for multilevel modeling of salmon habitat, by Yasmin Lucero download slides from here 2. Calling C from R, by Rob Zinkov download slides from ]....[ [Read more...]

Following on from my earlier post on creating a table of ICD codes in R, here is how I am currently counting these codes and storing the codes in a dataframe: Firstly create a dataframe to store the results in: hosp_count [Read more...]

This inaugural post in my "one-liners which make me love R" series highlights the googleVis package which makes it easy to use the Google Visualization API from R. Thanks to googleVis, just one line of R generates the 165 lines of HTML and (mostly) JavaScript required to create a Hans Rosling-style ... [Read more...]

Sanjog Misra, who uses Rcpp for Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) analyses in quantitative marketing, kindly set me a short example of Rcpp use. The example is based on a blog post by Darren Wilkinson which itself discusses and compares the suitabilit... [Read more...]

This week in our blog we started a list of great R code (www.r-project.org) snippets: http://cloudnumbers.com/what-is-your-favorite-r-feature We are going to extend this list with several more nice R features. Please feel free to add comments with your favorite R code snippets. Descriptive statistics: A huge ... [Read more...]

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you read the full July edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Beta Test Revolution R Enterprise 5.0. Are ... [Read more...]

Here is a quick post responding to a request by Bob Carpenter at one of my favorite nerd blogs: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science. While a lot of the Bayesian theory is out of my league, Dr. Gelman really makes you think about ... [Read more...]

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Being a big fan of XKCD and, of course, of the R programming language, I thought that a package which allows to display my favorite strips  would something (useless) but cool! So, mimicking the approach (and the code) of the fortunes pac... [Read more...]

A brief first post on what I hope will be a series of posts on analysing hospitilisation data, which is recorded using ICD codes (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) Initially here is an R file. This can be read in and will create a list, 218 long, ... [Read more...]

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