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Another day full of interesting and challenging—in the sense they generated new questions for me—talks at the SuSTain workshop. After another (dry and fast) run around the Downs; Leo Held started the talks with one of my favourite topics, namely the theory of g-priors in generalized linear models. ... [Read more...]

I’ve just released version 1.6.5 of the Computational Journalism Server. This is going to be the last release for a while. Release notes: I removed CoffeeScript and Node.js. I wasn’t using them. I dropped back to Erlang R14B-1.1. Everything tes... [Read more...]

I’ve just received an announcement from Michael Lang that packages BatchJobs and BatchExperiments have been added to the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). From the announcement: The package BatchJobs implements the basic objects and procedu... [Read more...]

I have to admit, first, that finding Waldo has been a difficult task. And I did not succeed. Neither could I correctly spot his shirt (because actually, it was what I was looking for). You know, that red-and-white striped shirt. I guess it sho... [Read more...]

We are currently experiencing an extremely hot month in Montréal (and more generally in North America). Looking at people having a beer, and starting the first barbecue of the year, I was wondering: if we asked people if global warming was a good ... [Read more...]

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Pierre Jacob and Robin Ryder (from Paris-Dauphine, CREST, and Statisfaction) have just arXived (and submitted to the Annals of Applied Probability) a neat result on the Wang-Landau algorithm. (This algorithm, which modifies the target in a sort of reweighted partioned sampling to achieve faster convergence, has always been perplexing to ... [Read more...]

The raster package defines classes and methods for spatial raster data access and manipulation. The new rasterVis package complements raster providing a set of methods for enhanced visualization and interaction. It is now at CRAN. Several examples can ... [Read more...]

The version 0.24 of solaR is at CRAN and R-Forge. Some days before the 0.23 version was uploaded, but I had to make a quick fix to readMAPA: the url of http://www.mapa.es/siar has been changed to http://www.marm.es/siar. Moreover, this function has been renamed to ... [Read more...]

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(Guest post on R-bloggers by Charlie Sharpsteen) Cameron and I are pleased to announce version 0.6.0 of the tikzDevice package which should be available shortly at your local [Read more...]

Getting more into mixed models, I’ve been playing around with both nlme::lme and lme4::lmer. http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/10/3345.html was quite a good post at explaining the differences, which from what I gather is largely performance based when using crossed or partially crossed ... [Read more...]

A new version of the formatR package is available on CRAN now (binary packages are still on the way). There are three major updates: the inline comments will also be preserved in most cases (in earlier versions, only single lines of comments are preserved) tidy.source() gained a new argument ... [Read more...]

My first package, zipcode, is now available on CRAN. It contains the CivicSpace database of 43,191 U.S. zip codes. [Read more...]

The version 0.21 of the solaR package is now available at CRAN. This package provides a set of calculation methods of solar radiation and performance of photovoltaic systems. The package has been uploaded to CRAN under the GPL-3 license. solaR is now able to calculate from both daily and sub-daily irradiation ... [Read more...]

Rcpp 0.8.9 was pushed to CRAN recently. Apart from minor bug fixes, this release concentrates on modules, with lots of new features to expose C++ functions and classes through R reference classes. The Rcpp-modules vignette has all the details, a... [Read more...]

David Smith (alias @revodavid, see also on the Revolutions blog, here) pointed out that my R code was not easy to read (not only due to my computing skills, but mainly because of the typography I use). He suggested that I use the Pretty R tool (her... [Read more...]

50 days ago, I published a post, here, on forecasting techniques. I was wondering what could be the probability to have, by the end of this year, one million pages viewed (from Google Analytics) on this blog. Well, initially, it was on my blog at t... [Read more...]

I recently tried to answer a simple question, asked by @adelaigue. Actually, I thought that the answer would be obvious... but it is a little bit more compexe than what I thought. In a recent pool about elections in Brazil, it was mentionned in a ... [Read more...]