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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Population Growth Models using R/simecol, Part 1 : The world population

September 22, 2016 | José Romero

In this entry, as part of the series on dynamic systems modeling with R and simecol, we'll take a look at population growth models, our main focus being on human population growth models and how they tie into other theoretical frameworks such as demographic transition theory and carrying capacity. These ...

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R Puzzle No. 1 – Five Sailors, a Monkey and some Coconuts

September 6, 2016 | José Romero

In a brief diversion from the simecol dynamic system models, which I promise to resume in the future, I'll start another series of entertaining posts about solving mathematical/logic puzzles using R, of which this post you're reading is the first. This time around, we'll take a crack at the ... [Read more...]

Simulation models of epidemics using R and simecol

August 31, 2016 | José Romero

[This article was first published on U.N.A. Matemáticas El Tigre, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to [Read more...]

How to simulate a bouncing ball in R – more on simecol events and external inputs

August 14, 2016 | José Romero

In this post I'll clarify the incorporation of external inputs in the dynamic model specification using simecol, again reviewing the relevant parts of the simecol simulation model for the Battle of Iwo Jima that I presented in the last post. I will also give an alternate specification for this model ...

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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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Presentation: Math, Statistics, R programming, online distance education and other topics covered in this blog.

August 3, 2016 | José Romero

This blog- or rather its predecessor Google site (now defunct)- originally began in 2009 as an auxiliary tool to communicate on-line with my students in the Universidad Nacional Abierta of Venezuela (UNA), a distance education university where I teach math and statistics. The original purpose of that site was to ... [Read more...]

Articles by José Romero

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