I’ve uploaded 20+ R tutorials to YouTube for a new undergraduate course in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at CU developed by Andrew Martin and Brett Melbourne, which in jocular anticipation was named IQUIT: an introduction to quantitative inference and thinking. We made the videos to address the most common R ... [Read more...]

I previously mentioned these, but I thought about it some more and went ahead and wrote an R implementation.  With very little work you could rejig this code to display all kinds of 3D bar plots; I’ve commented the code thoroughly so it should be easy to follow.  Immediately ... [Read more...]

One-day teaching workshop at ICCB/ECCB congress in Monpellier on August 1st, 2015. [Read more...]

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When switching to R from SPSS a common concern among psychology researchers is that R gives the "correct" ANOVA F-values. By "correct" they simply mean F-values that match those generated by SPSS. Because ANOVA F-values in R do not match those in SPSS by default it often appears that R ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert I recently rediscovered the Timely Portfolio post on R Financial Time Series Plotting. If you are not familiar with this gem, it is well-worth the time to stop and have a look at it now. Not only does it contain some useful examples of time series plots ... [Read more...]

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PrefaceI am writing this post more for reminding to myself some theoretical background and the steps needed to perform spatio-temporal kriging in gstat. This month I had some free time to spend on small projects not specifically related to my primary occupation. I decided to spend some time trying to ... [Read more...]

PrefaceI am writing this post more for reminding to myself some theoretical background and the steps needed to perform spatio-temporal kriging in gstat. This month I had some free time to spend on small projects not specifically related to my primary occupation. I decided to spend some time trying to ... [Read more...]

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I had an interesting email today saying that developers at the writer’s company wanted to use one of my packages, but weren’t allowed because it was under an unlimited license. I release quite a few of my packages under an unlimited licence, at least for toy projects and ... [Read more...]

When psychology researchers switch from SPSS to R a common first question is "Can I load SPSS data in R?". The answer is yes, and it's now easier than ever thanks to the Haven package which both reads and writes SPSS files. Previously, you might have used the foreign library ... [Read more...]

When psychology researchers switch from SPSS to R a common first question is "Can I load SPSS data in R?". The answer is yes, and it's now easier than ever thanks to the Haven package which both reads and writes SPSS files. Previously, you might have used the foreign library ... [Read more...]

by Andrie de Vries A few days ago I received an unexpected parcel in my letterbox. To my delight, it turned out to be a translation into Simplified Chinese of R for Dummies, co-authored by myself and Joris Meys. Let me clarify: Joris and I wrote the book, but were ... [Read more...]

The quarterly Manchester R meeting took place last night.  It was our first experience of the striking new HOME venue just past Oxford Road station.  The Cornerhouse team have exchanged the bohemian charm of the old venue for the light … Continue reading → [Read more...]

A new maintenance release 0.4.3 of RProtoBuf is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides R bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers ("Protobuf") data encoding library used and released by Google, and deployed as a language and operating-system agnostic protocol by numerous projects. This release comes upon the request of CRAN and adds ... [Read more...]