March 2018

Generating codebooks in R

March 2, 2018 | sandsynligvis.dk

A codebook is a technical document that provides an overview of and information about the variables in a dataset. The codebook ensures that the statistician has the complete background information necessary to undertake the analysis, and a codebook do... [Read more...]

dockerfiler is now on CRAN

March 1, 2018 | Colin Fay

{dockerfiler} is a package that comes with a simple, object oriented API for Dockerfile creation, straight from your R session. Now on CRAN. Installation You can install {dockerfiler} from GitHub with: # install.packages("remotes") remotes::install_... [Read more...]

JAWS-4 Dashboard User Guide

March 1, 2018 | Analytical Endeavors

Introduction The purpose of this dashboard is to provide tools to evaluate nominees for the Reds Hall of Fame. Its primary feature is the JAWS-4 statistic. JAWS-4 is a version of Jay Jaffe’s JAWS statistic that’s been modified to apply to a franchise’s Hall of Fame. The ...
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Visualizing the Capital Asset Pricing Model

March 1, 2018 | R Views

In a previous post, we covered how to calculate CAPM beta for our usual portfolio consisting of:
+ SPY (S&P500 fund) weighted 25%
+ EFA (a non-US equities fund) weighted 25%
+ IJS (a small-cap value fund) weighted 20%
+ EEM (an emerging-mkts fund) weighted 20%
+ AGG (a bond fund) weighted 10%
Today, we will move on to visualizing the CAPM beta and explore some ggplot and highcharter functionality, along with the broom package. Before we can do any of this CAPM work, we ...
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RcppArmadillo 0.8.400.0.0

March 1, 2018 | Thinking inside the box

RcppArmadillo release 0.8.400.0.0, originally prepared and uploaded on February 19, finally hit CRAN today (after having been available via the RcppCore drat repo for a number of days). A corresponding Debian release was prepared and uploaded as wel... [Read more...]
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