Dear all, recently I went through on the R6 OO system in R and was fascinated by its sleek network of environments. I have written a post whatever I could understand of the package. Click on  http://rpubs.com/sumprain/R6 for the post.Comments and ... [Read more...]

Geomorph users,When starting out in a geometric morphometrics study, the common questions are ones of repeatability and measurement error.How much of the variation in the Procrustes residuals is due to human (digitizing) error? How much is du... [Read more...]

One of the advantages of functional languages (such as R) is the ability to create and return functions “on the fly.” We will discuss one good use of this capability and what to look out for when creating functions in R. Why wrap/return functions? One of my favorite uses ... [Read more...]

I never got around to polishing my Small Area Estimation (SAE) “101” tutorial materials that I promised a while ago. So here they are, though still unedited and not as clean / self-explanatory as I’d like. The slides introduce a … Continue reading → [Read more...]

A new version of DeployR, the server-based framework that provides simple and secure R integration for application developers, is now available. (If you're new to DeployR, take a look at the DeployR Overview or download the white paper, Using DeployR to Solve the R Integration Problem.) This update brings several ... [Read more...]

A friend came to me with a question. The original question was a little complicated, but in essence it could be explained in terms of the familiar urn problem. So, here's the problem: you have an urn with 50 white balls and 9 black balls. The black balls are individually numbered. Balls ... [Read more...]

Why an R Tutorial on Reading and Importing Excel Files into R is necessary As most of you know, Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft. It is an easy accessible tool for organizing, analyzing and storing data in tables and has a widespread use in many different application ... [Read more...]

GithubI've been reading a few books on WW1 and wanted to see a time series plot of battle casualty/pow by country to get a better understanding of how the conflict fits together. I couldn't find any database for military casualties in WW1 but Wikipedia... [Read more...]

I have added a very rough draft of the Recruitment chapter to the Introduction to Fisheries Analysis with R (IFAR) page.  This chapter is a complete re-working of the old Stock-Recruitment vignette and includes a section on fitting non-linear stock-recruitment … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Introduction The latest version (4.9.0) of the PROJ.4 library is being incorporated into the development version of the oce R package. The work is not finalized yet, but I thought it might be useful to share an early version of the test suite, so people could get an idea of the ... [Read more...]

NYC Data Science Academy Kaggle Competition Write-up Julian Asano March 25, 2015 This post is meant to showcase some of the work of the students of […] [Read more...]

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by Joseph Rickert I have written a several posts about the Parallel External Memory Algorithms (PEMAs) in Revolution Analytics’ RevoScaleR package, most recently about rxBTrees(), but I haven’t said much about rxExec(). rxExec() is not itself a PEMA, but it can be used to write parallel algorithms. Pre-built PEMAs ... [Read more...]

Yesterday, I delivered a talk on "Interpretation of Results of Clinical Research" in Annual Alumni Meet of Hematology Department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Here is the link for the same. https://github.com/sumprain/bl... [Read more...]

So... the Hypergeometric distribution (as used in one of my previous posts). That was a bit of overkill, wasn't it? To recap the problem: we have an urn filled with a selection of white and black balls. We want to calculate the probability that all of the white balls and ... [Read more...]

Within geomorph are several functions that perform analysis of variance (ANOVA), includingprocD.lm()procD.pgls()advanced.procD.lm()pairwiseD.test()pairwise.slope.test()trajectory,analysis()bilat.symmetry()plotAllometry() Inherent in all of these functions is a common philosophy for ANOVA (although other philosophies exist).  The geomorph ANOVA philosophy is that: (1) ... [Read more...]

Contributed by Alex Adler as part of NYCDSA Bootcamp 1, February–April 2015. The following is a repost from my personal blog, approved for use by the NYCDSA. The […] [Read more...]

Motivation I often use Python and matplotlib for exploring measurement data (from e.g. accelerometers), even if I use R for the actual analysis. The reason is that I like to be able to flexibly zoom into different parts of the plot using the mouse and this works well for ... [Read more...]

Parallelizing Random Forests in R with BatchJobs and OpenLava By: Gord Sissons and Feng Li In his series of blogs about machine learning, Trevor Stephens focuses on a survival model from the Titanic disaster and provides a tutorial explaining how decision trees tend to over-fit models yielding anomalous predictions. How ... [Read more...]

Revolution R Open 8.0.2 is now available from MRAN. If you're already using Revolution R Open, you won't find any major changes. This release fixes a couple of bugs, includes a new version of the checkpoint package, and splits the installation into two parts on Windows and Linux (with a separate ... [Read more...]