ifelse statements in R are the bread and butter of recoding variables. Normally these are pretty easy to do, particularly when we are recoding off one variable, and that variable contains no missing values. There are lots of examples on how to do this ... [Read more...]

A couple of weeks ago, I had a discussion with a practitioner, working in some financial company, about ruin, and infinite time. And it remind me a weird result. Well, not a weird result, but a result I found disturbing, at first, when I was a stud... [Read more...]

The Google Summer of Code project provides funding for students to write and contribute code to open-source projects of interest to Google. And given that R is widely used at Google, it's certainly a project of significant interest. So for the fifth year running the R Project will mentor students ... [Read more...]

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What I really love about Twitter is that everything they do seems to be data-based. They’re so data-driven, they even analyze the ingredients of their lunch to ensure everyone at the company is living a healthy lifestyle. So, the decision for Berlin as their German headquarter cannot be a ... [Read more...]

By Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com If you have tried social network analysis or graph mining with R, you might have already come across package igraph before. The package is designed for graphs and network analysis in R. It can handle large … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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[This article was first published on twotorials by anthony damico, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to [Read more...]

[This article was first published on twotorials by anthony damico, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to [Read more...]

Google has again accepted R as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. R has successfully participated in GSoC in multiple previous years, and is excited to be [Read more...]

1.1 Signatures of the d-p-q-r functions in libRmath Users of R are familiar with the functions for evaluating properties of and for sampling from probability distributions, the so-called d-p-q-r functions. The designation d-p-q-r reflects the fact t... [Read more...]

I consider ggplot2 to be nothing short of a revolution in R graphics. I simply haven't found anything like this package for quickly and elegantly producing usable graphics.  I covered the quick and dirty basics of ggplot2 in a previous post. Now I... [Read more...]

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The missing link between beta and volatility is correlation. Previously “4 and a half myths about beta in finance” attempted to dislodge several myths about beta, including that beta is about volatility. “Low (and high) volatility strategy effects” showed a plot of beta versus volatility for stocks in the S&P 500 ... [Read more...]

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UPDATE: Some problems arose with my previous host so I have now updated the links here and elsewhere on the blog. The companion web site for Serious Stats has a zip file with R scripts for each chapter. This contains examples of R code and and all my functions from ... [Read more...]

In this episode: Site updates, additional screencasts about R from other sites, listener feedback, and discussion on the fundamental data structures for R: vectors, matrices, lists, and data frames. The R code discussed in this episode is available in our GitHub repository, see the show notes for details. Leave us ... [Read more...]

As you can see, R is relatively popular (but more so on StackOverflow than GitHub):For the original graph, click here. This scatter plot is a reminder that R is useful to learn not only for statistical modeling (since there are so many excellent packag... [Read more...]

First CCA pattern of Sea Level Pressure (SLP) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) monthly anomalies for the region between -180 °W to -70 °W and +30 °N to -30 °S. The following post demonstrates the use of Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) for diagnosing coupled patterns in climate fields. The method produces ... [Read more...]