Articles by José Romero

Merry Christmas 2016 (with R)

December 22, 2016 | José Romero

I'd like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas 2016- R style! Behold my 3d Christmas tree created using the plot3D R package: While this might seem like yet another Christmas decoration done in R, it is unique in that the tree is rendered in 3d perspective. I ...
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How to send bulk email to your students using R

December 1, 2016 | José Romero

In this post I write about a technique I use to send personalized bulk emails to my students at the open and distance education university where I teach (the Universidad Nacional Abierta in Venezuela, or UNA, for short). Being able to mass-email students with personalized messages is should be an ...
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R Puzzle No. 2 – Where’s the zebra?

October 5, 2016 | José Romero

For the second R puzzle, we will tackle the famous Zebra Puzzle, sometimes known as Einstein's Puzzle or Einstein's Riddle. There are various implementations of solutions to the puzzle in different programming languages1, but here we will be using R and an R package called lpSolve, which is intended to ...
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R/simecol Simulation Model for the Battle of Iwo Jima

August 8, 2016 | José Romero

It was about 71 years ago today that the Second World War on the Asian front ended. After the tragic Little Boy and Fat Man detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August 1945, respectively, the Japanese surrendered in August 14th.When I taught the Simulation and Modeling ...
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