Geomorph users,The function physignal() in version 2.0 has a mistake in the manual regarding the input matrix: only 3D array can be used at this time. The next version will have this generalized to 2D array and 3D array. In the meantime,... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert One of the remarkable features of the R language is its adaptability. Motivated by R’s popularity and helped by R’s expressive power and transparency developers working on other platforms display what looks like inexhaustible creativity in providing seamless interfaces to software that complements R’s ... [Read more...]

Hadley Wickam released the dplyr package in January 2014. Since then I have been itching to give it a try as it has been suggested to speed up some data manipulations and, more important to me, provide a singular framework … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Myfxbook provides an interface to your FOREX trading accounts as well as an active trading community. It has a broad range of functionality including a responsive interface to the FOREX market; tools for performing statistical analyses on your trades; the facility to mirror trades from other traders or systems; and ... [Read more...]

In today’s blog post, we shall look into time series analysis using R package – forecast. Objective of the post will be explaining the different methods available in forecast package which can be applied while dealing with time series analysis/forecasting. What is Time Series?A time series is a ... [Read more...]

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Matt Sundquist form the Plot.ly team. You can access the source code for this post at https://gist.github.com/sckott/10991885 Ggplotly and Plotly's R API let you make ggplot2 plots, add py$ggplotly(), and make your plots interactive, online, and ... [Read more...]

Ethan Siegel wrote a post entitled The Math of the Fastest Human Alive five years ago, using regressions. An alternative is too use extreme value models (I wrote a post a long time ago on the maximum length of a tennis match using extreme value theory a few years ago). ... [Read more...]

BitsanityThe awesome folks at Quandl (an amazing data collection and distribution service) have been so kind as to allow me to write for their blog.In my first post for them I demonstrate (with detailed R code) how a user of their free data services co... [Read more...]

As a language for statistical computing, R has always had a bias towards linear algebra, and is optimized for operations dealing in complete vectors and matrixes. This can be surprising to programmers coming to R from lower-level languages, where iterative programming (looping over the elements of a vector or matrix) ... [Read more...]

This is a follow-up blog-post to an earlier introductory post by Steven Brey: Using R: Working with Geospatial Data. In this post, we’ll learn how to plot geospatial data in ggplot2. Why might we want to do this? Well, it’s really …   read more ... [Read more...]

I’m pleased to announce that a rewrite of my first chapter of “Modeling Data With Functional Programming In R” is …Continue reading → [Read more...]

Here are my notes from a recent talk I gave on vectorization at a Davis R Users’ Group meeting. Thanks to Vince Buffalo, John Myles White, and Hadley Wickham for their input as I was preparing this. Feedback welcome! Beginning R users are often told to “vectorize” their code. Here, ... [Read more...]

Dear geomorph users,version 2.0 of geomorph brings new developments in how shape deformations from 3D coordinate shape data can be viewed. We have implemented warping of 3D surface files (e.g., .ply files), which allows the user to visualize the shape deformations along Principal Component axes, Multivariate Regression slopes, Partial ... [Read more...]

Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.0 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.Version 2.0 comes with substantial changes and new features: New function phylo.pls()for assessing the multivari... [Read more...]

Dear R users, the May 2014 public training course schedule for Milano (Italy) based courses is as follows: Web Applications with R and Shiny May 15, 2014 Reports in R with RStudio May 16, 2014 Basic R Programming May 22, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The MAPE (mean absolute percentage error) is a popular measure for forecast accuracy and is defined as     where denotes an observation and denotes its forecast, and the mean is taken over . Armstrong (1985, p.348) was the first (to my knowledge) to point out the asymmetry of the MAPE saying that “it ... [Read more...]

(Generalized) Linear models make some strong assumptions concerning the data structure: Independance of each data points Correct distribution of the residuals Correct specification of the variance structure Linear relationship between the response and the linear predictor For simple lm 2-4) means that the residuals should be normally distributed, the variance ... [Read more...]

I am excited to announce that this is supposed to be my first article published also on r-bloggers.com :) The processing of data needs to take dimensionality into account as usual metrics change their behaviour in subtle ways, which impacts the … Continue reading → The post Impact of Dimensionality on Data ... [Read more...]

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of posts from rOpenSci's recent hackathon. I recently had the pleasure of participating in rOpenSci's hackathon. To be honest, I was quite nervous to work among such notables, but I immediately felt welcome thanks to a warm and personable group. Alyssa ... [Read more...]

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, Government of India have started an Open Data Portal for making various data public. Most of the data-sets on the portal are available for manual download. Some of the data-sets though are also available to be a... [Read more...]