R-bloggers

• R in 2012: Shamelessly Stealing the New Years’ Python Meme
  In a previous post I reviewed my interactions with Python the programming language and the community following the New Years’ Python Meme that’s making the rounds on Twitter and the like. And now, I’m shamelessly stealing it to look at how I used R in 2012. I figure I should probably let the #2012pythonmeme stay Python-only, […]
• Computers are Machines
  When people try out Julia for the first time, many of them are worried by the following example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 julia> factorial(n) = n == 0 ? 1 : n * factorial(n - 1)   julia> factorial(20) 2432902008176640000   julia> factorial(21) -4249290049419214848 If you’re not familiar with computer architecture, this […]
• What your choice of statistics software says about you
  Sean Taylor, a PhD candidate in Information Systems at NYU’s Stern School of Business, describes the "Statistics Software Signal" and his observation that some software packages are correlated with bad science. While, I don't agree with all of his points (some fine analyses have been done with Stata, for example), I thought this was an interes […]
• Let’s Rapplicate!
  It's been a while since you last heard from Rapporter, and we came up with a (hopefully) good excuse for our absence from the blogosphere: Rapplications. To demystify: we developed an API that allows you to create dynamic reports by using the R templat... […]
• (Semi-)automating the R markdown to blogger workflow
  In his recent post 100 most read R posts for 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages Tal Galili - the guy behind R-Bloggers - presents his wishlist for 2013. Among other things he states &ldquo... […]
• 100 most read R posts in 2012 (stats from R-bloggers) – big data, visualization, data manipulation, and other languages
  R-bloggers.com is now three years young. The site is an (unofficial) online journal of the R statistical programming environment, written by bloggers who agreed to contribute their R articles to the site. Last year, I posted on the top 24 R …Read more » […]
• R version 3 scheduled for April
  Ringing in the New Year, Peter Dalgaard announced yesterday on behalf of the entire R Core Team that the R language will graduate to Version 3 around April 1. This is only the third time that R has incremented its primary version number. Version 1.0.0 (released on February 29, 2000) was the first version deemed stable for production use. R moved to version 2 […]
• You can’t spell loss reserving without R
  Last year, I spent a morning trying to return to first principles when modeling loss reserves. (Brief aside to non-actuaries: a loss reserve is the financial provision set aside to pay for claims which have either not yet settled, or have not yet been reported. If that doesn’t sound fascinating, this will likely be a […]
• Computing for Data Analysis, and Other Free Courses
  Coursera's free Computing for Data Analysis course starts today. It's a four week long course, requiring about 3-5 hours/week. A bit about the course:In this course you will learn how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis. Y... […]
• R code for book “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies”
  R code for book “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” is now available at http://www.rdatamining.com/docs. An online PDF version of the book (the first 11  chapters only) can also be downloaded at the link. Below are its details … Continue reading → […]