Let's imagine that you're teaching an econometrics class that features hypothesis testing. It may be an elementary introduction to the topic itself; or it may be a more detailed discussion of a particular testing problem. We're not talking here about a course on Bayesian econometrics, so in all likelihood you'll ... [Read more...]

Make your own hotly criticized circle graph! The recent critical post on R-bloggers has got me wanting to make my own bubble graphs despite the popular criticism of the graph. After some attempts I have produced something that looks similar but needs s... [Read more...]

The key to making data science successful is making sure you can deploy the machine learning code that data scientists create into applications that rely on the results of the analysis. Microsoft has tackled this problem with Azure ML: machine learning in the cloud. This short video neatly summarizes the ... [Read more...]

R is great when it works. Not so much, when it doesn’t. Specifically, this becomes a concern when the packages are not fully illustrated in the accompanied help documentation, and the author/s of the package don’t respond (in time).I am not suggesting that the package authors ... [Read more...]

Part 2 of the dplyr tutorial is now available! Hadley will be covering Grouped Mutate/Filter, Joins,... [Read more...]

Recently, with @3wen, we wanted to play with isodensity curves. The problem is that it is difficult to get – numerically – the equation of the contour (even if we can easily plot it). Consider the following surface (just for fun, in order to illustrate the idea) __ f=function(x,y) x*... [Read more...]

R enables us to "test drive" statistical models by running simulations and analyzing actual data. We can look at the output and get some sense of how the whole thing works. The goal is to provide a realistic application that is not too difficult to fol... [Read more...]

So Harry Long recently posted several articles, a couple of them all that have variations on a theme of a … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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It has been a long time coming. Vegan now has in-built, native ability to use restricted permutation designs when testing effects in constrained ordinations and in range of other methods. This new-found functionality comes courtesy of Jari (mainly) and my efforts to have vegan permutation routines use the permute package. ... [Read more...]

Have you wondered how stable are weather forecasts? Since curiosity + R = fun, let’s do a little test. I’ve used a function getWeatherForecast {SmarterPoland} (github release) to download weather forecasts from the Dark Sky API. Hourly forecasts are downloaded every 10 minutes and stored in this repository based on archivist ... [Read more...]

A few days ago, Conrad provided another minor release of Armadillo. Once again, I had created a GitHub-only pre-release of his pre-release which was tested against (then) all ninety (!!) CRAN dependents of our RcppArmadillo package, providing a further test for Conrad's code and uploaded RcppArmadillo 0.4.500.0 to CRAN and Debian once ... [Read more...]

Recently, Harry Long posted not one but four new articles on Seeking Alpha called It’s Amazing How Well Dumb Things … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This is the last post of testing Laplaces Demon algorithms. In the last algorithms there are some which are completely skipped because they are not suitable for the problem. Reversible Jump is for variable selection. Sequential Metropolis-within-Gibbs,... [Read more...]

Similar to SQLDF package providing a seamless interface between SQL statement and R data.frame, PANDASQL allows python users to use SQL querying Pandas DataFrames. Below are some examples showing how to use PANDASQL to do SELECT / AGGREGATE / JOIN operations. More information is also available on the GitHub (https://github.... [Read more...]

Today I’m introducing new version of rmongodb (which I started to maintain) – v1.8.0. Install it from github:

<span>library</span><span>(</span>devtools<span>)</span>
install_github<span>(</span><span>"mongosoup/[email protected]"</span><span>)</span>

Release version will be uploaded to CRAN shortly. This release brings a lot of improvements to rmongodb: Now rmongodb correctly handles arrays. mongo.bson.to.list() rewritten from scratch. R’s ... [Read more...]

Quite a few people emailed me regarding my post on Econ Job Market. This post is about how you can use very basic and simple R tools to help you in sorting through the Job Openings for Economists list from the American Economic Association.This definitely helped me in developing ... [Read more...]

Today, I would like to quickly introduce our package “Rsenal”. It is basically a collection of R functions that we use in our daily lives at Environmental Informatics Marburg. The package is hosted at GitHub and can be installed using … Continue reading → [Read more...]