So if you’re in need of deploying that nifty Rook app you made, download the latest release 0.1-3 on my github account or wait for it to appear on CRAN. That is all. [Read more...]

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I’ve been writing functions in R for a while to do various things like talking to APIs, web scraping, model testing and data visualisation (basically thing which can get a bit repetitive!), but have always been slightly intimidated about turning those functions into a package, which I could then ... [Read more...]

Head on over to THT, and you should see a post by yours truly about calculating the size of umpire strikezones. Here I will open source the code for how to do that. The hard part though is that in order to make use out of the code, you need ... [Read more...]

I’m feeling chancy, just like those two angels who took a chance on me so many years ago… So I decided to release rApache 1.1.15. You can grab the source from rapache.net. Notable change includes support for deploying Rook applications, which you [Read more...]

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A commenter on this blog reminded me of one of the frustrating aspects faced by newbies, not only to R but to any other programming environment (I am thinking of typical students doing stats for the first time). The statement … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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I’ve friends favouring Stata rather than R, while others do the inverse. However, few of them actually know that it is possible to work on both softwares, simultaneously inclusive. It is possible to integrate R and Stata, complementing so we can run almost all kind of analyses using them. ... [Read more...]

Today I was typing to a friend who is working on a Ph.D thesis about my favor issue on elections: campaign contributions. We discussed about analyzing probabilities of a particular group/category grasp more money than the others, in this case, male and female given a district. A preliminary ... [Read more...]

Cointegration can be a valuable tool in determining the mean reverting properties of 2 time series. A full description of cointegration can be found on Wikipedia. Essentially, it seeks to find stationary linear combinations of the two vectors. The below R code, which has been modified from here, will test two ... [Read more...]

I recently participated in the Kaggle Algorithmic Trading Competition under the username VikP. For those who do not know what Kaggle is, it is a web site where individuals and corporations can host data analysis competitions. This particular competit... [Read more...]

This article linked below and the subsequent comments (some apparently from an Elsevier rep.) are interesting. It's not directly related to R, but is related to open source/science philosophy. Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to D... [Read more...]

This demo will use a study case, how a general insurance company use CloudStat to estimate outstanding claims. Background Forecasting outstanding claims and setting up suitable reserves to meet these claims is an important part of the business of a gen... [Read more...]

Integrating R into more traditional programming languages can be incredibly rewarding due to R's powerful built-in statistical tools, but it can also be extremely frustrating at times. Thankfully, like much else to do with Ruby, integrating R and Ruby... [Read more...]

R is used extensively in the financial industry; many of my recent clients have been working in or developing products for the financial sector. Some common applications are to use R to analyze market data and evaluate quantitative trading strategies. ... [Read more...]

The dog on the left is named Maya. She is a labrador retriever (field line), weighs 18 kilograms and is currently eight months old. My girlfriend and I carry the dog several times a day high in the fourth floor. … Weiterlesen → [Read more...]

On of Revolution Analytics' main missions is to support and foster the growth of the R community, and in 2011 we sponsored more than 25 local R user groups and meetings with cash donations for for venue hire, meetup.com dues, refreshments, and other group needs. We also sent hundreds of "I ... [Read more...]