This post is re-published from my blog Context One of things I have to do quite often is create tables for papers and presentations. Often the “Table 1” of a paper has descriptives about the study, broken down by subgroups. For presentation purposes, it doesn’t look good (to me, at ... [Read more...]

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Quirks about running Rcpp on Windows through RStudio This is a quick note about some tribulations I had running Rcpp (v. 0.12.12) code through RStudio (v. 1.0.143) on a Windows 7 box running R (v. 3.3.2). I also have RTools v. 3.4 installed. I fully admit that this may very well be specific to my […] [Read more...]

I’ll often keep non-sensitive data on Dropbox so that I can access it on all my machines without gumming up git. I just wrote a small script to find the Dropbox location on each of my computers automatically. The crucial information is available here, from Dropbox. My small snippet ... [Read more...]

Chris Moffit has a nice blog on how to use the transform function in pandas. He provides some (fake) data on sales and asks the question of what fraction of each order is from each SKU. Being a R nut and a tidyverse fan, I thought to compare and contrast ... [Read more...]

A collaborator posed an interesting R question to me today. She wanted to do several regressions using different outcomes, with models being computed on different strata defined by a combination of experimental design variables. She then just wanted to extract the p-values for the slopes for each of the models, ... [Read more...]

I work in an ecosystem that uses Outlook for e-mail. When I have to communicate results with collaborators one of the most frequent tasks I face is to take a tabular output in R (either a summary table or some sort of tabular output) and send it to collaborators in ... [Read more...]

One of the most popular posts on this blog has been my attempt to create Kaplan-Meier plots with an aligned table of persons-at-risk below it under the ggplot paradigm. That post was last updated 3 years ago. In the interim, Chris Dardis has built upon these attempts to create a much ... [Read more...]

The package ReporteRs has been getting some play on the interwebs this week, though it’s actually been around for a while. The nice thing about this package is that it allows writing Word and PowerPoint documents in an OS-independent fashion unlike some earlier packages. It also allows the editing ... [Read more...]

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We have a data set dat with multiple observations per subject. We want to create a subset of this data such that each subject (with ID giving the unique identifier for the subject) contributes the observation where the variable X takes it’s maximum value for that subject. An R ... [Read more...]

If you have ever worked with US government data or other large datasets, it is likely you have faced fixed-width format data. This format has no delimiters in it; the data look like strings of characters. A separate format file defines which columns of data represent which variables. It seems ... [Read more...]

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My current work usually requires me to work on a project until we can submit a research paper, and then move on to a new project. However, 3-6 months down the road, when the reviews for the paper return, it is quite common to have to do some new analyses ... [Read more...]

About 3 years ago I published some code on this blog to draw a Kaplan-Meier plot using ggplot2. Since then, ggplot2 has been updated (from 0.8.9 to 0.9.3.1) and has changed syntactically. Since that post, I have also become comfortable with Git and Github. I have updated the code, edited it for a ... [Read more...]

I have always been provided SAS as part of my job, so I never really realized how much it cost. I’ve bought Stata before, and of course R . I recently found out how much a reasonable bundle of SAS modules along with base SAS costs per year per seat, ... [Read more...]

I’ve updated the R code for the enhanced K-M plot to include additions and improvements by Gil Thomas and Mark Cowley. Thanks fellows for the feedback and updates. http://statbandit.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/an-enhanced-kaplan-meier-plot/ [Read more...]