February 2012

Revolution R and Fedora: Revisited

February 10, 2012 | EpiGrad

A previous post of mine had suggested that, despite them being extremely similar operating systems, and really there being no clear reason why, Revolution R 5.0, which does support Red Hat Enterprise Linux, refused to work on Fedora 16. The installation failed, dependencies could not be installed, tech support was singularly unhelpful ... [Read more...]

Revisiting homicide rates

February 10, 2012 | Luis

A pint of R plotted an interesting dataset: intentional homicides in South America. I thought the graphs were pretty but I was unhappy about the way information was conveyed in the plots; relative risk should be very important but number … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Reading Code

February 10, 2012 | leisuretronic

Code Readability is maybe the most important part of producing reproducible research. If it's impossible (i.e. very costly) for somebody else to read/understand the computer code that underlies your results, then the odds are that they will never be... [Read more...]

Visualising the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

February 10, 2012 | Corey Chivers

In a previous post, I demonstrated how to use my R package MHadapive to do general MCMC to estimate Bayesian models. The functions in this package are an implementation of  the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. In this post, I want to provide an intuitive way to picture what is going on ‘under ... [Read more...]

A new local R user group in Cambridge, UK

February 10, 2012 | David Smith

It turns out there's another local R user group in Cambridge, UK. It's called CambR, and organizing committee member Laurent Gatto described its history to me in an email: After meeting repeatedly at several R related conferences (Bioconductor meetings, useR 2011), some R enthusiasts thought Cambridge deserved a local R user ... [Read more...]

R charts used for analysis at Politico

February 10, 2012 | David Smith

Zack Abrahamson, the "data whiz" at political analysis site Politico, is apparently an R user. Politico's Feb 10 2012 chart of the day clearly uses the ggplot2 graphics package and (quoting Politico) looks into the disenchanted slice of the GOP that’s not engaged with its party’s primary. And that slice ... [Read more...]

managing projects using RStudio

February 10, 2012 | Nick Horton

We're continually amazed with new developments within RStudio, the integrated developed environment for R that we highlighted previously (Among others, Andrew Gelman agrees with us about its value). The most recent addition addresses one of our earlie...
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On Unpublished Software

February 9, 2012 | EpiGrad

sciseekclaimtoken-4f343317d3d60 I ran across this post at The Tree of Life entitled ‘Interesting new metagenomics paper w/ one big big big caveat – critical software not available”. The long and short of it? Paper appears in Science, has fancy new methodology, lacks the software for someone else to ... [Read more...]

Daily casualties in Syria

February 9, 2012 | Julyan Arbel

Every new day brings its statistics of new deaths in Syria… Here is an attempt to learn about the Syrian uprising by the figures. Data vary among sources: the Syrian opposition provides the number of casualties by day (here on Dropbox), updated on 8 February 2012, with a total exceeding 8 000. We note ... [Read more...]

Slides and replay for "A backstage tour of ggplot2"

February 9, 2012 | David Smith

Many thanks to Hadley Wickham for his informative and entertaining webinar yesterday, "A backstage tour of ggplot2". Thanks also to everyone who submitted questions -- with more than 800 attendees live on the line we had many more questions than we had time to answer. For more ggplot2 information, Hadley kindly ... [Read more...]

Monitoring Progress Inside a Foreach Loop

February 9, 2012 | Vik Paruchuri

The foreach package for R is excellent, and allows for code to easily be run in parallel. One problem with foreach is that it creates new RScript instances for each iteration of the loop, which prevents status messages from being logged to the console output. This is particularly frustrating during ... [Read more...]

Intentional Homicide in South America 1995-2010

February 9, 2012 | Altons

Intentional homicide is defined as unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person. The source of this stat is The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). I created the above image using ggplot2 which does 98% of the leg-work in most cases. Count is the number of ... [Read more...]

The reshape function

February 9, 2012 | Markus Gesmann

The other day I wrote about the R functions by, apply and friends, which allow me to operate on subsets of data. All those functions work nicely, if the data is given in the right format. More often than not it isn't and I have to reshape the data befo...
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GARCH estimation using maximum likelihood

February 9, 2012 | "We think therefore we R"

In my previous post I presented my findings from my finance project under the guidance of Dr Susan Thomas. The results in my paper suggested that there are macroeconomic variables, particularly the INR/USD exchange rates, that help us understand the dynamics of stock returns. Although the results that I ... [Read more...]
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