Two R tutorials for beginners I am currently in the process of rescuing some of the pages from my now defunct datajujitsu.co.uk blogger blog and moving to this Github/Clojure/Bootstrap version. I also today gave a tutorial to the University of Manche... [Read more...]

Functional programming in R This post is based on a talk I gave at the Manchester R User Group on functional programming in R on May 2nd 2013. The original slides can be found here This post is about functional programming, why it is at the heart of the R language ... [Read more...]

Develop in RStudio, run in RScript I have been using RStudio Server for a few months now and am finding it a great tool for R development. The web interface is superb and behaves in almost exactly the same way as the desktop version. However, I do have one gripe ... [Read more...]

Mapping academic collaborations in Evolutionary Biology This post is a repubication of a visualisation I did in 2011 for my (now defunct) datajujitsu.co.uk blog. It was a naive first attempt at web-scraping from an academic publishers website. It was done before I was aware of the problems surrounding access ... [Read more...]

R was certainly not designed to be a publishing engine, but in my workflow, R is the primary method of content creation.  With that in mind, I have been thinking about a very different use case of rCharts in which we might want to include inflexible a... [Read more...]

FastCompany magazine recently published an in-depth feature on Open Science, with a focus on the R language and the ROpenSci project. If you're not familiar with ROpenSci, the article gives a nice introduction from Ted Hart, a member of the ROpenSci development team: A big sea change was the need ... [Read more...]

Has this ever happened to you?I hate it when the labels on the x-axis overlap, but this can be hard to avoid. I can stretch the figure out, but then the data become farther apart and the space where I want to put the figure (either in a talk ... [Read more...]

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing (Sofia Kovalevskaya) How beautiful is this fractal! In previous posts I colored plots using module of complex numbers generated ... [Read more...]

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by Joseph Rickert Generalized Linear Models have become part of the fabric of modern statistics, and logistic regression, at least, is a “go to” tool for data scientists building classification applications. The ready availability of good GLM software and the interpretability of the results logistic regression makes it a good ... [Read more...]

The Homeless EconometricianThe amazing growth and success of CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) is marked by the thousands of packages have been developed and released by a highly active user base.  Yet even so, one of the founders and primary... [Read more...]

The marathon is dominated by African runners.  David Epstein in a relatively recent interview mentions about a specific tribe in Kenya called the Kalenjin, "There are 17 American men in history who have run under 2:10 in the marathon...there were ... [Read more...]

Consider some ARCH() process, say ARCH(), where with a Gaussian (strong) white noise . __ n=500 __ a1=0.8 __ a2=0.0 __ w= 0.2 __ set.seed(1) __ eta=rnorm(n) __ epsilon=rnorm(n) __ sigma2=rep(w,n) __ for(t in 3:n){ + sigma2[t]=w+a1*epsilon[t-1]^2+a2*epsilon[t-2]^2 + epsilon[t]=eta[t]*sqrt(sigma2[t]) + } __ par(... [Read more...]

Today I gave a presentation for GSO(Graduate Student Organization) of our department, mainly about the idea of dynamic document and its implementation using knitr. Here are the slides I showed in the talk, written with Markdown and knitr. [Read more...]

I've been spending the week at the Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit in Las Vegas, and R has been quite prominent here. Of course, R got namechecked several times on the panel about the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics, and several of the regular talks mentioned R as ... [Read more...]

Social Science Goes R: Weighted Survey Data Social Science Goes R: Weighted Survey Data To get this blog started, I'll be rolling out a series of posts relating to the use of survey data in R. Most content comes from the ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques R course, ... [Read more...]

I decided to promote this from a Twitter comment to a blog post.  I had hoped to do a prototype javascript interactive rebalancing visualization of Unsolved Mysteries of Rebalancing integrating this, but I have not had the time, so  I’ll release it... [Read more...]

Prize4Life, and NEALS are proud to announce the launch of the Pooled Resources Open Access ALS Clinical Trial (PRO-ACT) database. It is a database of ALS clinical trials and [Read more...]

A couple of years ago I found online a script to merge several .asc grids into a single file in R.I do not remember where I found it but if you have the same problem, the script is the following: setwd("c:/temp") library(rgdal) library(raster) # ... [Read more...]

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference is this weekend in Philadelphia. I was lucky to have a paper accepted into the conference. I am presenting a meta analysis that I have been working on for the past two years or so titled: Model misspecification and assumption violations with ... [Read more...]