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When is R Slow, and Why? Computational speed is a common complaint lodged against R. Some recent posts on r-bloggers.com have compared the speed of R with some other programming languages [1], and showed the favorable impact of the new compiler package on run-times [2]. I and others have written about ... [Read more...]

My talk went well; here are the slides and a link to the paper pre-print. Hadley Wickham gave an excellent tutorial on dplyr. Based on the talk I saw, I think I will take the data sets from the book and make some public visualizations on the Plotly we... [Read more...]

I have made an example of time series forecasting with R, demonstrating currency exchange rate forecasting with the ARIMA and STL models. The example is easy to understand and follow. R source files are provided to run the example. The … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The Poisson cumulative distribution function (CDF) \begin{equation} F(α,n) = \sum_{k=0}^n \dfrac{α^k}{k!} \; e^{-α} \label{eqn:pcdf} \end{equation} is the probability of at most $n$ events occurring when the average number of events is α, i.e., $\Pr(X \le n)$. Since \eqref{eqn:pcdf} is ... [Read more...]

In honor of the 4th of July, I thought a quick example of a pie chart on beer using the wonderful new d3pie library would be appropriate.  The rCharts binding with d3pie is simply an experiment now, but expect more in the near future.   Using slidify... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert UserR! 2014 got under way this past Monday with a very impressive array of tutorials delivered on the day that the conferences organizers were struggling to cope with a record breaking crowd. My guess is that conference attendance is somewhere in the 700 range. Moreover, this the first year ... [Read more...]

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PSAboot is an R package to assist with bootstrapping propensity score methods. I gave a talk today at the useR! 2014 Conference. The slides can be downloaded from the PSAboot Github page or directly here. The package is described at jason.bryer.org/PSA... [Read more...]

This post will begin to experiment with long-term directional detection using relationships between two FRAMA indicators. By observing the relationship … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Sort of via @jottevanger, it seems that Tata Communications announces the first challenge in the F1® Connectivity Innovation Prize to extract and present new information from Formula One Management’s live data feeds. (The F1 site has a post Tata launches F1® Connectivity Innovation Prize dated “10 Jun 2014″? What’s that ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics, founded in 2007, was the first company devoted to the R project. Since then, we've been behind several R initiatives, including the RHadoop project and the network of R user groups around the world. I gave this short presentation today at the useR! 2014 conference in Los Angeles with some ... [Read more...]

FactoMineR is a quick and easy R package for generating biplots, such as the following plot showing the columns as arrows with the rows to be added later as points. As you might recall from a previous post, a biplot maps a data matrix by plotting both ... [Read more...]

Chris, Richard and I tested this last March in Canada (see also here) and things seem to have gone quite well. So we have decided to replicate the experiment (so that we can get a bigger sample size!) and do the short course this coming November (... [Read more...]

I’m at UCLA for the UseR Conference. I attended once before, and I really enjoyed it. And I’m really enjoying this one. I’m learning a ton, and I find the talks very inspiring. In my comments below, I give short shrift to some speakers (largely by not ... [Read more...]

translateR is the new service from German based R specialist eoda, which helps users to translate SPSS® Code to R automatically. Today we presented translateR at the useR!2014 in L.A., the world’s most popular conference for the R statistical language. translateR allows a fast and easy migration from ... [Read more...]

Following yesterday’s post on Rao’s, Liu’s, and Dunson’s paper on a new approach to intractable normalising constants, and taking advantage of being in Warwick, I tested the method on a toy model, namely the posterior associated with n Student’s t observations with unknown location parameter μ ... [Read more...]

Roughly a year ago I published an article about parallel computing in R here, in which I compared computation performance among 4 packages that provide R with parallel features once R is essentially a single-thread task package. Parallel computing is incredibly useful, but not every thing worths distribute across as many ... [Read more...]

Noticed all these posts on r-bloggers about ggplot2 and shiny? Do you want in? My course “Building Interactive Graphs with ggplot2 and Shiny” (published by Packt Publishing) covers those 2 packages in a series of 40 videos, each one dedicated … Continue reading → [Read more...]