Perhaps you have a file written in Markdown with embedded R of the kind that RStudio makes so nice and easy but you’d like a range of output formats to keep your collaborators happy.  Say latex, pdf, html and MS Word.  Here’s what you might do I shall ... [Read more...]

Mango Solutions announces the next LondonR meeting which will take place on June 19th. The meeting is free and open to anyone interested in R.  If you would like to attend [Read more...]

I get asked frequently how to convert from one gene identifier to another. This can be tricky, especially when relying on gene symbols, as Will pointed out in a previous post a few years ago. There are several tools that can do this, including DAVID an... [Read more...]

Dear R people, It is a (VERY) rare event that I allow a non-R related content on R-bloggers. Today is one such rare a day. I do this in order to raise awareness of two bills [Read more...]

(This is a guest post based on Calver, Rob e-mail to the R-help mailing list) We are delighted to announce that our new series of books on R is up and running, with two [Read more...]

Update 10/11/2011: There’s a good discussion on RedditUpdate 10/12/2011: Note manipulate package and highlight data.table packageThe R statistical computing platform is a rising star that’s been gaining popularity and attention, but it gets no respect in the hood. It’s telling that a popular guide to R is called ... [Read more...]

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Here’s a funny story – friend of my, avid gamer at that time, was going downhill on a bicycle when wonderful idea flashed his mind: I need to save the current status… Just in case if I crash, I will start again from the top of the hill. If you ... [Read more...]

Yet again, I have conjured up an (academically) unusual dataset on democracy! This time it’s the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index, a weird little gem.  The dataset is the basis for a paper the Economist publishes every two years.  Because of this biannuality, there is data estimating the “... [Read more...]

Financial analyst Greg Troccoli was a lone wolf when he predicted in July 2010 that “If the [S&P500] Index held at or above our proprietary support zone (1000.00- 950.00 region), it would eventually trade to a new historical high within 12 - 18 months (July- December 2011 timeframe)”. For reference, the S&P500 all-time ... [Read more...]

Yesterday, we had a meeting of our EMILE network on statistics for population genetics (in Montpellier) and we were discussing our respective recent advances in ABC model choice. One of our colleagues mentioned the constant request (from referees) to include the post-ABC processing devised by Fagundes et al. in their 2007 ... [Read more...]

I wish I knew everything about R. I wish I could vectorise in my sleep. I wish there were perfect R packages out there to solve all my data transformation problems. I wish there were perfect data. If I were Paul Graham, would I ever write code like the... [Read more...]

R (www.r-project.org) is a free and strongly functional language and environment for statistical computing. You can explore data sets, make graphical displays of data, run statistical simulations and many more. If you never used R you should give it a try! R beginners: There are many courses, slides ... [Read more...]

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In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. Highlights of presentations from the R/Finance 2011 conference. Trulia uses R and statistical models to map local crime. Resources for data mining with R. K-means clustering on large data sets with the RevoScaleR ... [Read more...]

“We have seen that a perfect correlation is perfectly linear, so an imperfect correlation will be `imperfectly linear’.” page 128 This book has been written by two linguists, Shravan Vasishth and Michael Broe, in order to teach statistics “in  areas that are traditionally not mathematically demanding” at a deeper level than ... [Read more...]

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Tamino over at  Open Mind has a new post detailing his approach for calculating temperature averages. See his post here. His method is based on the Berkeley method as he notes and he uses it primarily for calculating regional or local temperature averages. Read his post for the math details ... [Read more...]

If a particular prediction comes true, how surprised should we be? The prediction The page that sparked my curiosity tells of a prediction made a year ago that the S&P 500 would beat its historic high by the end of 2011.  It says that at the point the prediction was made, ... [Read more...]

Today a lot of great mails arrived at my inbox. In one of them I was reading I’ve just added your feed to the site. Where did this mail come from? The sender of the email was Tal Galili. He is a researcher in BioStatistics at the Tel Aviv ... [Read more...]