February 2013

Onepager Now with knitR

February 19, 2013 | klr

Since at some point I had trouble with a conflict between knitr and the latex package textpos, I used the lesser Sweave in Another Experiment with R and Sweave.  I ran the Sweave2knitr command and discovered that textpos and knitr play well togeth... [Read more...]

Visualize major league pitching data with PitchRx

February 19, 2013 | David Smith

Anyone interested in playing around with the data generated by the PITCHf/x cameras at major league baseball games should definitely check out the pitchRx package from Carson Sievert. Major League Baseball Advanced Media makes the data available for download, and this package provides an interface from R to the ... [Read more...]

Registration for ‘R in Insurance’ conference has opened

February 19, 2013 | Markus Gesmann

The registration for the first conference on R in Insurance on Monday 15 July 2013 at Cass Business School in London has opened. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in insurance. The 2013 R in Insurance conference builds ...
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Sketches Around Twitter Followers

February 19, 2013 | Tony Hirst

I’ve been doodling… Following a query about the possible purchase of Twitter followers for various public figure accounts (I need to get my head round what the problem is with that exactly?!), I thought I’d have a quick look at some stats around follower groupings… I started off ... [Read more...]

Working with R2MLwiN Part 2

February 19, 2013 | Sandy Muspratt

Specifying the modelThis is the second part of a series of notes demonstrating use of the R package, R2MLwiN, an R command interface to the multilevel modelling software package, MLwiN (see the MLwiN site for getting access to MLwiN). The first set of notes showed how to get started ... [Read more...]

Sector Rotation Back Test Shiny web application

February 18, 2013 | systematicinvestor

Today, I want to share the Sector Rotation Back Test application (code at GitHub). This is the last application in the series of examples (I have shared 5 examples) that will demonstrate the amazing Shiny framework and Systematic Investor Toolbox to analyze stocks, make back-tests, and create summary reports. The motivation ... [Read more...]

Data fishing: R and XML part 3

February 18, 2013 | beckmw

I’ve recently posted two blogs about gathering data from web pages using functions in R. Both examples showed how we can create our own custom functions to gather data about Minnesota lakes from the Lakefinder website. The first post was an example showing the use of R to create ... [Read more...]

10 R packages every data scientist should know about

February 18, 2013 | David Smith

The yhat blog lists 10 R packages they wish they'd known about earlier. Drew Conway calls them "10 reasons to always start your analysis in R". They're all very useful R packages that every data scientist should be aware of. They are: sqldf (for selecting from data frames using SQL) forecast (for ... [Read more...]

Saving R Objects in Oracle Database using Oracle R Enterprise 1.3 Datastore

February 18, 2013 | mhornick

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#15 Alkali Silica Template

February 18, 2013 | wilkinsondarren

Does what it says on the tin. DOWNLOAD THE CODE #------------------------------ #-------- INFORMATION --------- #------------------------------ # Plotting points from Hugh # Rallinson's "Using Geochemical # Data" book. Code compiled by # Darren J. Wilkinson, # Grant Inst. Earth Science # The University of Edinburgh # [email protected] #------------------------------ # -------- CONTROLS ---------- y.max = 16 ... [Read more...]

RQuantLib 0.3.10

February 18, 2013 | Thinking inside the box

A new minor release RQuantLib 0.3.10 is now on CRAN and in Debian. RQuantLib combines (some of) the quantitative analytics of QuantLib with the R statistical computing environment and language. The discount curve building code in QuantLib has s... [Read more...]

Simple tests of predicted returns

February 18, 2013 | Pat

Some ways to explore how good a method of predicting returns is. Data and model The universe is 443 large cap US stocks that have data back to the beginning of 2004.  The daily (adjusted) close was used. The model that is used as an example is the default signal from the ... [Read more...]
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