June 2016

identify method for ggtree

June 28, 2016 | R on Guangchuang Yu

We are happy to announce that ggtree supports interactive tree annotation/manipulation by implementing an identify method. Users can click on a node to highlight a clade, to label or rotate it etc. Here is an example of highlighting clades using geom_hilight with identify: Here is another example of ... [Read more...]

Loading Data with Pandas

June 27, 2016 | quintuitive

On at least a couple of occasions lately, I realized that I may need Python in the near future. While I have amassed some limited experience with the language over the years, I never spent the time to understand Pandas, its de-facto standard data-frame library. Where does one start? For ...
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Interactive Q-Q Plots in R using Plotly

June 27, 2016 | Sahir Bhatnagar

Introduction In a recent blog post, I introduced the new R package, manhattanly, which creates interactive manhattan plots using the plotly.js engine. In this post, I describe how to create interactive Q-Q plots using the manhattanly package. Q-Q plots tell us about the distributional assumptions of the observed test ... [Read more...]

nichEvolve documentation and code

June 27, 2016 | Javi Fernández-López

Here you have some documentation about the nichEvolve model and a link to download the NetLogo code. I will write soon some practical experiments to test with the model... enjoy!Link:  nichEvolve.nlogo*(Don't you have NetLogo installed in your computer? NetLogo is a nice tool to implement simple agent-based ...
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How to use R for matching samples (propensity score)

June 27, 2016 | Norbert Köhler

According to Wikipedia, propensity score matching (PSM) is a “statistical matching technique that attempts to estimate the effect of a treatment, policy, or other intervention by accounting for the covariates that predict receiving the treatment”. In a broader sense, propensity score analysis assumes that an unbiased comparison between samples can ... [Read more...]

Example gitlab-ci.yml for R Projects

June 26, 2016 | Brandon Bertelsen

Most people are running open source projects, so they can easily use github and travis for free. I don't have that luxury, but gitlab has really caught my attention lately. Combining gitlab, gitlab runner with docker makes things very straightforward. Here is an example .gitlab-ci.yml file that you would [Read more...]

Interactive flow visualization in R

June 26, 2016 | Kyle Walker

Exploring flows between origins and destinations visually is a common task, but can be difficult to get right. In R, there are many tutorials on the web that show how to produce static flow maps (see here, here, here, and here, among others). Over the past couple years, R developers ... [Read more...]

Interactive flow visualization in R

June 26, 2016 | Kyle Walker

Exploring flows between origins and destinations visually is a common task, but can be difficult to get right. In R, there are many tutorials on the web that show how to produce static flow maps (see here, here, here, and here, among others). Over the past couple years, R developers ... [Read more...]

XLConnect 0.2-12

June 26, 2016 | Mirai Solutions

We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2‑12, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository. This release is comprised of the following: Moved to Apache POI 3.15-beta1 Upgraded to Apache Commons Codec 1.10 Upgraded... [Read more...]

XLConnect 0.2-12

June 26, 2016 | Mirai Solutions

We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2‑12, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository. This release is comprised of the following: Moved to Apache POI 3.15-beta1 Upgraded to Apache Commons Codec 1.10 Upgraded... [Read more...]

WifRA: a quick walkthrough

June 26, 2016 | guillotantoine

After the quick overview, here is a quick walkthrough to some categorical analysis. Open the app: Here 1. Import the data: Here are some homemade data, done with the following R code: set.seed(3467) x=1:400+rnorm(400,0,1) y1=x*2.5+40+rnorm(400,0,50) y2=x*4.5+80+rnorm(400,0,50) group=rep(c('G1','G2'),each=400) x=...
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another wrong entry

June 26, 2016 | xi'an

Quite a coincidence! I just came across another bug in Lynch’s (2007) book, Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists. Already discussed here and on X validated. While working with one participant to the post-ISBA softshop, we were looking for efficient approaches to simulating correlation matrices and ...
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Which countries have Regrexit?

June 26, 2016 | John Johnson

This doesn't have a lot to do with bio part of biostatistics, but is an interesting data analysis that I just started. In the wake of the Brexit vote, there is a petition for a redo. The data for the petition is here, in JSON format.Fortunately, in R, ...
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