Last week I wrote:This is actually a more difficult calculation (or I forgot too much probability). Luckily a bit of brute force comes in handy. To reiterate, in general simulated data shows 0.54 redraws because of the first person etc.colSums(countsto... [Read more...]

It has been just announced that during ESSA2013 conference I am planning to organize a special track on "Statistical analysis of simulation models". I hope to get some presentations using GNU R to promote it in social simulation community.It is obvious that GNU R excels in analysis of simulation ... [Read more...]

For a statistical analyst, the first step to start a data analysis project is to import the data into the program and then to screen the descriptive statistics of the data. In python, we can easily do so with pandas package. Tonight, I’d like to add some spice to ... [Read more...]

I write R scripts on both my laptop and desktop, so the main issue I have is making sure that the R scripts are updated on these devices. There are several ways to ensure this happens:Use a version control system (on the cloud), e.g GithubWrite R scrip... [Read more...]

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Hello Friends,This time I thought to bring in little more spice and thought of focusing on movies.  I don’t know about you but I am a movie buff. Often on a weekend when I am trying to pick up a movie from my movie repository, which spans to ... [Read more...]

Josh Ulrich and Jeff Ryan mentored a Google Summer of Code (GSOC) project this summer focused on experimental functionality for xts in collaboration with R. Michael Weylandt, a student in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton. You might recognize Michael from his presentation at R/Finance this year, where ... [Read more...]

Here is a link to a wonderful ggplot2 tutorial: http://www.ceb-institute.org/bbs/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/handout_ggplot2.pdf by R. Saccilotto and the Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology …Continue reading » [Read more...]

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Triangle, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal, and octagonal numbers are all figurate (polygonal) numbers and are generated by the following formulae: Triangle P3,n=n(n+1)/2 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, ... Square P4,n=n2 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ... Read More: 1439 Words Totally [Read more...]

Before tackling the main subject, two quick notes:I did not post for quite a while in part because I followed the Coursera online course Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.  It was a nice refresher, extremely well pre... [Read more...]

Dear R-Users, a question: I am the author of the ‘qpcR’ package. Within this, there is a function ‘propagate’ that does error propagation based on Monte Carlo Simulation, permutation-based confidence intervals and Taylor expansion. For the latter I recently implemented a second-order Taylor expansion term that can correct for nonlinearity. ... [Read more...]

nice ggplot intro tutorial. Just run the commands, about 6 pages = flexible 1-3 hours of learning, depending how much reading you want to pair it with by Ramon Saccilotto [Read more...]

Email One of the historic difficulties of doing research on urban energy systems has been the limited availability of data at sufficiently detailed spatial resolutions. Without this data, you might end up relying on aggregate information about the built environment, building occupants, and local geography that doesn't apply to the ... [Read more...]

The folks over at is.R() brought along an "adorable Turkey". I guess we'll thank them for their gift - and pardon the Turkey. Personally I thank them for a bucket of hints and tricks I freely used and will continue to do so.Tal brought us a great ... [Read more...]

In many circumstances, you might want to connect R directly to a database to store and retrieve data.  If the source database is an Oracle database, you have a number of options: ROracle RODBC RJDBC   Using ROracle should theoretically… Read more › [Read more...]

One of the most popular posts on this blog is the very first one, solving the issue of mapping certain ranges of values to particular colors in heatmaps. Given the abundance of ggplot2 usage in R plotting, I thought I’d … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Today’s post is mostly to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. We will be taking the rest of the week off, and will return on Monday. Below is some code to reproduce the adorable Turkey above; enjoy! https://gist.github.com/4122464 [Read more...]

I want to follow up with Extending Gold time series post by showing how we can extend Commodity time series. Most Commodity ETFs began trading in 2006, please see the List of Commodity ETFs page. I will use DBC – PowerShares DB Commodity Fund, one on the most liquid Commodity ETFs as ... [Read more...]

POSIXct is the signed number of seconds since “the epoch”. For example it was 1351298112 UTC (GMT) when I wrote this. (1351298112 UTC = Sat Oct 27, 2:35 am GMT = Fri Oct 26, 8:35 pm EST = Fri Oct 26, 5:35 pm PST = 2:35 pm HST) POSIXlt is one of many text | character | string formats such as: May 17, 2017 17/5/2017 17-5-17 05:24:39 [Read more...]