Occasionally I'd like to plot a table alongside a chart in R, e.g. to present summary statistics of the graph itself. Thanks to the gridExtra package this is quite straightforward. The function tableGrob creates a table like plot of a data frame, while...

This paper by Alon Drory was arXived last week when I was at Columbia. It reassesses Jaynes’ resolution of Bertrand’s paradox, which finds three different probabilities for a given geometric event depending on the underlying σ-algebra (or definition of randomness!). Both Poincaré and Jaynes argued against Bertrand that there ...

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The jsonlite package implements a robust, high performance JSON parser and generator for R, optimized for statistical data and the web. This week version 0.9.16 appeared on CRAN which has a new prettifying system, improved performance and some additional tweaks for the new mongolite package. Improved Performance Everyones favorite feature of ...

A couple of handy tricks when working with ggplot that had escaped my radar until today. First up, I had a problem in a function I was using to generate a ggplot2 in which I wanted to accept a couple of optional arguments in to the function and then make ...