On the weekend, randomly after watching Catching Fire, I remember the problem of the typing monkeys (Infinite monkey theorem) in which basically could be defined as (Thanks to Wiki):# *******************#  INTRODUCTION# *******************The infi... [Read more...]

Hello Computer Science and/or R enthusiasts.This week I had the opportunity to try something that was in my To-Do list a while ago. The idea came almost instantly after reading Dr. Richard Dawkins book, The Selfish Gene (which was a BD gift, thanks Andy).I feel the obligated ... [Read more...]

I  was looking for some Game-Theory post in R-bloggers and found this very cool post,  obviously I decided to read the post, to look at the code and implement a version of it.The idea of the post was very cool for me that I thought it would b... [Read more...]

I will start this post with a disclaimer:The main intention of the post is to show how is the distribution of the school principal names in Mexico, for example, to show basic trends regarding about what is the most common nation-wide first name and so ... [Read more...]

I had a very weird issue when I tried to compile (install) certain R packages like "wordcloud", "RSNNS" or "GOSemSim" (a Bioconductor package). The installation always ended with a compiling error at the end.At first, I tried to solve the problem by fi... [Read more...]

Hello, I have programmed a function that converts different sources of IDs to Symbol IDs.The input ID types allowed are (at the moment):  Ensembl, Unigene, Uniprot and RefSeq.The code is available clicking hereNOTE: The function depends on the Bio... [Read more...]

Following the instructions from CRAN, you need to add the R backports in your source list.FIRST PART: ADD R BACKPORTS: First, open a Terminal and open the sources.list file:$ gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.listThen, add these lines a... [Read more...]

Say that you are implementing a non-linear regression analysis, which is shortly described by wikipedia as:"In statistics, nonlinear regression is a form of regression analysis in which observational data are modeled by a function which is a nonlinear ... [Read more...]

Hello, today I'm going to show you the difference of using two different common performance measures (useful not only for Machine Learning purposes, is useful in every scientific field). Until now, I have found more the accuracy values than F scores in... [Read more...]