One of the first functions in the FSA package was lencat(), which served me well over the years. However, I have been bothered by the use of a formula and data= to identify a single column to be “transformed” and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

DataCamp first to offer free interactive R tutorials via the OpenIntro platform. In one week, the ten-week Coursera course on Data Analysis and Statistical Inference by prof. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel of Duke University comes to an end. At DataCamp it was one of our first experiences providing interactive R exercises on ... [Read more...]

In this third post on Measles data I want to have a look at some high incidence occasions. As described before, the data is from Project Tycho, which contains data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. These data are freely available to anybody ... [Read more...]

The MathWorks has an interesting demo on how the shape of a circus tent can be modeled as the solution of a quadratic program in MATLAB. In this post, we'll show how to solve this same problem in R using the quadprog package and also provide the technical details not ... [Read more...]

With the recent release of R-3.1.0, and the near-recent release of OpenBLAS 0.29rc2, it was time to recompile Rblas.dll and do some new speed tests. The test computer has an Intel i7-2600K, overclocked to 4.6Ghz with 16GB RAM and runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. For the first ... [Read more...]

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For the previous article I needed a quick way to figure out if two sets of points are linearly separable. But for crying out loud I could not find a simple and efficient implementation for this task. Except for the perceptron and … Continue reading → The post Testing for Linear Separability ... [Read more...]

I've lost about 100 hours over the past week to the black hole of 2048. In an attempt to extricate myself, I thought I'd try writing an R script to play for me. While there are already a ton of great algorithms for the game, I haven't seen any implemented in R. ... [Read more...]

We are in the midst of what many are calling a "golden age" of the NBA.  Being in the midst of a time where attention to the sport has seemingly increased is difficult to quantify.  For most people who have had an interest in the NBA over a l... [Read more...]

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Today's exercise is another nice and simple one, and allows you to get used to manipulating datasets in R.Exercise 3 - How to reorder the dataset alphabetically by specimen name.Say you have a 2D array dataset with specimen names (here species) as the ... [Read more...]

We use R to take a very brief look at the distribution of e-book sales on Amazon.com. Recently Hugh Howey shared some eBook sales data spidered from Amazon.com: The 50k Report. The data is largely a single scrape of statistics about various anonymized books. Howey’s analysis tries ... [Read more...]

The Mountain View Voice is a weekly newspaper serving the Silicon Valley area, and is a familiar sight to anyone wandering the streets of Palo Alto or Menlo Park. Angela Hey writes for 'Hey Tech!', an online blog of the Voice, and has just published a feature on R ... [Read more...]

A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a panel discussion for DM Radio: "Still Sexy? How's that Data Scientist Gig Working Out?". The title was provocative, but the discussion mostly revolved around the rise of data science and how advanced analytics (often implemented with R) is changing the way ... [Read more...]

Just after Easter, I'll go for a very quick trip to lovely Girona, where Marc Saez has invited me to give two talks.The first one will be a re-run of the short course on INLA that I did at Bayes Pharma last year. It's scheduled (and prepared) as a 3... [Read more...]

As I often manipulate time series from different sources, I rarely come across the same date format twice. Having to reformat the dates every time is a real waste of time because I never remember the syntax of the as.Date function. I put below a few examples that turn ... [Read more...]

We are happy to introduce Reot, an R package designed for empirical orthogonal teleconnection (EOT) analysis of gridded geo-scientific space-time data based on the method by van den Dool et al. (2000). EOT denotes a regression-based approach to decompose spatio-temporal … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Gitbook has been getting some (deserved) attention. For those who haven’t seen it, Gitbook is a system to create really beautiful interactive web (or PDF and ebook) books. For me, the timing of discovering this framework could not be better as I am preparing documentation for propensity score analysis ... [Read more...]

Publishing in GitHub Publishing in GitHubI struggled to make my first repository in GitHub. I finally found out the steps to do so. Make your folder in local host and add the required files in the folder (SRCFOLDER). One of the required files is README.md, which will contain overview ... [Read more...]

Dear all, recently I have designed a database for Multiple Myeloma, which can easily be extended to include other malignancies and chronic diseases.The database and its guide can be downloaded from GitHub Repository.Bye. [Read more...]