Being professional involved with analyzing source code I get to work with a much larger number of programming languages than most people. There is a huge difference between knowing the intricate details of the semantics of a language and being able to fluently program in a language like a native ... [Read more...]

Following on from my earlier post on creating a table of ICD codes in R, here is how I am currently counting these codes and storing the codes in a dataframe: Firstly create a dataframe to store the results in: hosp_count [Read more...]

A brief first post on what I hope will be a series of posts on analysing hospitilisation data, which is recorded using ICD codes (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) Initially here is an R file. This can be read in and will create a list, 218 long, ... [Read more...]

his blog post is mainly for Stat 579 students on the homework for week 7, since I received too many “gory” loops in the homework submissions and I think it would help a bit to write my thoughts on R loops for beginners. The immortal motto for newbies in programming is: If ... [Read more...]