Here’s an example of how to color your plot shapes and pch using an ifelse() statement. Ifelse() is handy as it creates an easy way to branch a function. The syntax is: ifelse(logical.condition, option1, option2). Meaning, if the logical condi... [Read more...]

The problem: We often want to plot data and assign plot attributes based on characteristics of the data. For example, if we have a group of students with the following IQs, we might want to indicate who is an outlier in the statistical sense. I like... [Read more...]

This is something I have had the occasion to do, and never remember how, so this is legitimately a reminder to my future self of how to do things with off-diagonal elements of a matrix. Select rows and columns are easy: mat[1:10, ] or mat[, -c(5)], for... [Read more...]

We’ve already briefly covered making a reproducible example, but I thought I’d go a little more in-depth on the very helpful function dput(). Whenever I am having trouble applying an operation to some R object, and need help, but want to av... [Read more...]

Chris and I started this blog as an outlet for the work we were already doing every day: writing code and trying to avoid forgetting how we wrote it. To that end, gist.github.com is an extremely useful resource, and this blog allows us to add a little ... [Read more...]