By this time next week, we'll already know the true vote intentions of Brazilians towards the candidates running for president. Not long time ago a runoff was taken as grant, but last polls have been converging on the feeling that Brazilians are about to reward the Workers' Party's government another ... [Read more...]

What is Ramarro? Ramarro is a book about advanced R pro [...] [Read more...]

A webpage for the book is now hosted on http://cas.uqam.ca/ So far, it is a very basic page, but information regarding the package can be found there. For instance, to install the package, with all the datasets, the R code is __ install.packages("CAS... [Read more...]

This year, BNOSAC offers 2 R courses in cooperation with the Leuven Statistics Research Center. The courses are part of the Leuven STATistics STATe of the Art Training Initiative and are given in Leuven (Belgium). For R users and data scientists... [Read more...]

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I am currently preparing a survey paper on the present state of computational statistics, reflecting on the massive evolution of the field since my early Monte Carlo simulations on an Apple //e, which would take a few days to return a curve of approximate expected squared error losses… It seems ... [Read more...]

I’ve been always wondering whether the efficiency of row search can be improved if the whole data.frame is splitted into chunks and then the row search is conducted within each chunk in parallel. In the R code below, a comparison is done between the standard row search and ... [Read more...]

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Over the summer I made two posts about using the dplyr package.  The first was an example of the dplyr verbs applied to fish data.  The second was an example of modifications that I had made to lencat() to work better … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The previous article introduced the seasonal matrices and the population growth rate λ of imaginary annual plant.  This article focuses on  the meaning of the eigenvector at first, and then … Continue reading → [Read more...]

There are many ways to run general Bayesian calculations in or from R. The best known are JAGS, OpenBUGS and STAN. Then some time ago Rasmus Bååth had a post Three ways to run Bayesian models in R in which he mentioned LaplacesDemon (not on CRAN) on top of ... [Read more...]

Mangalyaan is the spacecraft of Indian Space Research Orgnization’s Mars Orbiter Mission that entered the orbit of Mars last week. There were several tweets in Twitter with hashtag #Mangalyaan about it last week. I wanted to use R to explore … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Herbert Simon's "ant on the beach" does not search for food in a straight line because the environment is not uniform with pebbles, pools and rough terrain. At least the ant's decision making is confined to the 3-dimensional space defining the beach. C... [Read more...]

I see that Hadley Wickham’s new book, “Advanced R”, is being published in dead tree form and will be available a month or so. Hadley has generously made the material available online; I quickly skimmed the material a few months ago when I first heard about it and had ... [Read more...]

We’re pleased to announce first CRAN release of qdapRegex! You can read about qdapRegex or skip right to the examples. qdapRegex is a collection of regular expression tools associated with the qdap package that may be useful outside of the context … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I added an interval function to my ‘propagate’ package (now on CRAN) that conducts error propagation based on interval arithmetics. It calculates the uncertainty of a model by using interval arithmetics based on (what I call) a “combinatorial sequence grid evaluation” approach, thereby avoiding the classical dependency problem that often ... [Read more...]

A lot of people showed a huge interest in analyzing Facebook data with R. So I decided to write some more tutorials about the possibilities you have with Rfacebook package created by Pablo Barbera.... The post Gender Analysis of Facebook Post Likes appeared first on ThinkToStart. [Read more...]

Several months ago, I used R to analyze professional soccer players based on their attributes from the video game, FIFA14. Now that FIFA15 is upon us, let's take a similar look.FIFA 15 is a video game by EA Sports that mimics the experience of managing and playing for a soccer ... [Read more...]