October 2012

Quick and Easy Subsetting

October 1, 2012 | Slawa Rokicki

Public health datasets can be enormous and difficult to look at.  Often it is great to be able to only look at specific parts of the dataset, or to only run analysis on a specific part of a dataset.  There are two ways that you can subset a d... [Read more...]

Rcpp 0.9.14

October 1, 2012 | Thinking inside the box

Another release of Rcpp has just appeared on CRAN and was just uploaded to Debian. It addresses yet another issue we had on OS X and should hopefully put the build issues to rest. Three new (vectorized) sugar functions were added, along with some ne... [Read more...]

Making random, equally-sized partitions

October 1, 2012 | is.R()

Sometimes, as with cross-validation, one needs to generate k partitions, each with an equal number of observations. There are probably an infinite number of ways this could be done in R, but the Gist below illustrates one way to do it in four lines, w... [Read more...]

How to add a benchmark to a variance matrix

October 1, 2012 | Pat

There is a good way and a bad way to add a benchmark to a variance matrix that will be used for optimization and similar operations.  Our examination sheds a little light on the process of variance matrix estimation in this realm. Role of benchmarks Investing Benchmarks are common in ...
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