I’m a HUGE fan of Structural Equation Modeling. Heck, I’ve even begun teaching short SEM workshops. (seriously, if you want, email me and we’ll talk). For those of you unfamiliar with the technique, it’s awesome for three main reasons. It’s a method of teasing apart ... [Read more...]

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While we were at R/Finance in Chicago over the weekend (more on that later), it was a great pleasure to meet in person Paul Teetor, author of the R Cookbook (published by O'Reilly). If you haven't picked it up yet, I recommend checking it out: if you already have ... [Read more...]

I am not a big fan of those ceremonies, where some actors pretend that they are extremely happy to be there, and then some win a trophy, some don't, and those who win start to cry, and those who did not get a trophy try to pretend that they are ... [Read more...]

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Recently, Kevin Ummel gave a short conference about his PhD research at the Sustainable futures – Tyndall Centre researchers’ international conference. His work, named “Optimizing worldwide deployment of wind and solar power technologies via a high resolution, linear programming model”, is built with R. He is using the solaR package for ... [Read more...]

Although the official deadline is long past, I just became aware of this call for a postdoctoral position in Paris starting next Fall. Please feel free to apply: Summary Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are currently a very active field of research. MCMC methods are sampling methods, based ... [Read more...]

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The solar irradiance incident outside the earth’s atmosphere is called the extraterrestial or extra-atmospheric irradiance. It is derived from the solar constant only with geometric equations. It can be easily calculated with the calcSol function of the solaR package. With this post I will show an example with some ... [Read more...]

No “That” Left Behind? I came across a post on Language Log last week giving some evidence that Obama tends to add that to the prepared version of his speeches. For example, in a recent speech at George Washington University, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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I remember a few weeks ago, there was a challenge in the R-help list to make the prime symbol in R graphics. In LaTeX, we simply write $X'$ or $X^\prime$. R has a rough support for math expressions (see demo(plotmath)) and they are certainly unsatisfactory for LaTeX users. ... [Read more...]

Hamish Bowman recently posted a new GRASS module (d.barb) that can be used to depict the direction and magnitude components of some vector (e.g. wind field) along a raster surface or at points in space. An example (c/o Hamish): read more [Read more...]

When you first learnt about data frames in R, I’m sure that, like me, you thought “This is a lot of hassle having to type the names of data frames over and over in order to access each column”. library(MASS) anorexia$wtDiff [Read more...]

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Leading analyst firm Gartner has just published its "Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence" report for 2011 (download it here if you have a Gartner subscription). In the report, Revolution Analytics is named a Gartner Cool Vendor, and recognizes the company as "innovative, impactful and intriguing": Driven in part by ... [Read more...]

I was recently introduced to RStudio, a new integrated development environment for R, it is just amazing! It is free, and open, compatible with PC/Mac/Linux OSs. You can also choose to run it in the cloud, and access it from your favorite web browser. As you can see, ... [Read more...]

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Romain and I just posted our slides from yesterday's Rcpp workshop and class (preceding the now-ongoing R/Finance conference). You can access the slides via my presentation page, or directly from here as Part 1 (Introduction), Part 2 (Details), Part ... [Read more...]