useless but cool (ars gratia artis)

One R Tip a Day offers a package which enables one to display one's favorite strips from xkcd .  Here .

Sapir-Whorf and ggplot2

To some degree, we are constrained in our ability to solve problems if we only know a single language. This situation has been recognized di...

ESPN's Bill Simmons (aka The Sports Guy) recently suggested that the primary cause of dwindling interest in Red Sox games by fans is tha...

R in Action

On One R Tip A Day, an early review of Ron Kabacoff's R in Action .

head to head

Over on Learning R , the intrepid RLearner is going through Deepayan Sarkar's book on data visualization using Lattice and replicating t...

survival analysis using R

Survival Analysis A great many studies in statistics deal with deaths or with failures of components: they involve the numbers of deaths, th...

wie es eigentlich ist

If you measure the same thing twice you will get two different answers. If you measure the same thing on different occasions you will get di...

Looking at Data course

Courtesy of Flowing Data : Hadley Wickham (creator of the R package ggplot2) will be giving a 2-day course in Washington, DC, Looking at Dat...

Morrrrrrrrrre R

Kevin Connolly, author of the terrific Excel plot on language learning, has just send me a link to a MetaFilter page, Rrrrrgh , with many li...

inforr

I decided to ride my bike to the gym the other day; it wasn't locked up outside. 'Oh,' I thought, 'it must have been stolen....

meanwhile

I get an email from Ben Hinchliffe asking if I would be interested in a year's free trial of Inference for R, a plug-in which allows you...

intercostal clavicle

My mother is visiting Berlin. I've been preparing my apartment to sublet. Much running about. The second day of my mother's visit I...

more R

Have just found a new online introduction to R, Quick-R , which looks terrific. I have stacks of print-outs of R documentation littering th...

Best excuse ever

My dear friend Rafe Donahue has sent many helpful suggestions with regard to ggplot2. He comments: Don't think of the ± of 0.2 to each o...

losing the plot

In the previous post I mentioned the results of a couple of tests on memorisation of articles in a language class. A reader pointed out that...

pin factories and such

Via Marginal Revolution, came to a post by Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics on specialisation -- linked, on the one hand, to our failure to s...

One we made earlier

I got an e-mail from Rafe Donahue a couple of months ago with two plots that I couldn't get to display properly, and so time passed, tim...

Zoonekynd on Murrell on R Graphics

I was going through Zoonekynd's Statistics With R yesterday and came across a clock plot for website statistics. It was the work of a m...

Titanic

Panel of barcharts using the Lattice package in R, showing survivors/non-survivors of Titanic, divided by class (crew, 1st class, 2nd class,...

Bivariate Baseball Plot

Rafe Donahue, a biostatistician at the University of Vanderbilt, has sent me a link to an interactive website that uses the statistical grap...