A conversation with Robert Scoble
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I had the pleasure of visiting technology guru Robert Scoble at Rackspace Labs a few weeks ago. We had a great...
View ArticleCheck if a Variable Exists in R
(This article was first published on Mollie's Research Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) If you use attach, it is easy to tell if a variable exists. You can simply use exists to...
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24 Days of R: Day 5
(This article was first published on PirateGrunt » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Some time back, I started a project on GitHub wherein I would explore the efficacy of financial literacy...
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Incidental Parameters Problem with Binary Response Data and Unobserved...
(This article was first published on Econometrics by Simulation, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) It is a well known problem that in some models as the number of observations becomes large,...
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New package: jsonlite. A smart(er) JSON encoder/decoder.
(This article was first published on OpenCPU, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This week we released a new package on CRAN: jsonlite. This package is a fork of RJSONIO by Duncan Temple Lang and...
View ArticleThree Quick and Simple Data Cleaning Helper Functions (December 2013)
(This article was first published on Christopher Gandrud (간드루드 크리스토파), and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) As I go about cleaning and merging data sets with R I often end up creating and using...
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On the growth of R and Python for data science
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) A recent article by Matt Asay claims that "Python is displacing R as the language for data science". Python has...
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24 Days of R: Day 6
(This article was first published on PirateGrunt » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I've finally had some success at munging some HTML. For quite some time, I've wanted to render a county...
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24 Days of R: Day 14
(This article was first published on PirateGrunt » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I've had a statistical question that I've wanted to answer for more than 20 years. In college, I often...
View ArticleVisualization of 2012 Crime Rates of Different States in the US using rCharts
In this post, I look at crime rates (per 100,000 people) in 2012 for different crimes in different states. Data from FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports site were used for this analysis. The methodology used...
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Trapezoidal Integration – Conceptual Foundations and a Statistical...
(This article was first published on The Chemical Statistician » R programming, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Introduction Today, I will begin a series of posts on numerical integration, which...
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plotting y and log(y) in one figure
(This article was first published on Wiekvoet, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Sometimes I have the desire to plot both on the linear and on the log scale. To save space just two figures is not...
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The Complexities of Customer Segmentation: Removing Response Intensity to...
(This article was first published on Engaging Market Research, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) At the end of the last post, the reader was left assuming respondent homogeneity without any means...
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Probability and Monte Carlo methods
(This article was first published on Cartesian Faith » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This is a lecture post for my students in the CUNY MS Data Analytics program. In this series of lectures...
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24 Days of R: Day 15
Over the course of the next few days, I'm going to try to find enough time to build up a reasonably simple simulation of insurance exposure and claims. I'll be taking a hierarchical view of the...
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Processing EXIF Data
(This article was first published on Exegetic Analytics » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I got quite inspired by the EXIF with R post on the Timely Portfolio blog and decided to do a similar...
View ArticleThe most common linear mixed models in psycholinguistics, using JAGS and Stan
(This article was first published on Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics blog), and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) As part of my course in bayesian data analysis, I have put up some common linear...
View ArticleRProtoBuf 0.3.2
(This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) A new version 0.3.2 of RProtoBuf, is now on CRAN. RProtoBuf provides GNU R bindings for the Google...
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Plotly Beta: Collaborative Plotting with R
(This article was first published on R-statistics blog » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) (Guest post by Matt Sundquist on a lovely new service which is pro-actively supporting an API for R)...
View ArticleRevolution R Enterprise 7 now generally available
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Now that the limited availability period is complete, we're pleased to announce that Revolution R Enterprise 7...
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