Category: R software. These pages discuss how to program using R software, an open source package for statistical analysis. Articles are arranged by date with the most recent entries at the top. You can find the theme and closely related categories and other resources at the bottom of this page.
Stats: Running R on a web server (June 17, 2008). I'm working on a project for planning and monitoring accrual patterns in clinical trials. This will eventually lead, I hope, to a grant to support this work. I have some existing R scripts and want to examine the possibility of running those scripts on a web page.
Stats: Stair step interpolation in R (November 15, 2007). I am working on some charts that show discrete (sudden) jumps at specific time points. This requires the use of stair step interpolation, because if you just connected the lines, it would imply a linear transition between consecutive points.
Stats: useR! 2007 conference in Ames, Iowa (April 6, 2007). I may not be able to go to it, but the R community has an annual meeting, useR!, that will be held this year in Ames, Iowa from August 8-10. The web site for this conference (user2007.org) provides some of the details.
Stats: R Wiki (March 27, 2007). I use R software for a lot of my complex data analyses and have written up a few web pages about various things you can do with R. It turns out that R has a Wiki site, R Wiki: wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php.
Stats: Randomly dividing a dataset in R (March 16, 2007). I'm working with someone who wants to do a simple cross-validation of a statistcal procedure. One simple way to do this is to randomly divide a data set into two piece. Assume that you have a matrix or data frame (x) that has n rows and you want to split the data set into a group that has proportion p of the rows and a group that has the remaining proportion (1-p). You want to do this randomly. Here is the code in R to do this.
Stats: Modular arithmetic and rounding in R (February 1, 2007). In certain programming situations, you need to perform calculations involving division that produce whole numbers as a result. For example, if you divided 27 by 4, you would get 6.75, but if you were using whole numbers only, then your result would be 6 with a remainder of 3. In R, the operator
%/%produces an integer division, and the operator%%computes the remainder. So in R, the result of27%/%4would be6and the result of27%%4would be3.Stats: Graphics options in R (September 12, 2006). When you are producing graphics in R, the default option does not save your graphs for later review. You can change this in several ways. My comments will discuss the options for R running under Microsoft Windows. There are similar approaches that work for other systems.
Stats: Colors for R graphs (June 28, 2006). I tend to use color sparingly in graphs because most of my graphs end up in black and white in the final production. Even on my web pages, which appear in color, I try to avoid too much use of color because I often print these pages on a black and white printer.
Stats: Object oriented features of R (December 19, 2005). If you want to do any serious data analysis in R, you need to learn some of the object oriented features that this program has.
Stats: Two nice R libraries (October 14, 2005). I found a couple of nice libraries in R available from CRAN (Comprehensive R Achive Network). The first, vcd, was recommended by a regular contributor to the epidemio-l list. This library provides visualization techniques with special emphasis on categorical data. I found the second library, epitools, when I went searching on the web for resources to calculate an exact confidence interval for a Poisson rate. In addition to the exact Poisson intervals, the package can perform age standardization, draw epidemic curves, and has a variety of useful utility functions and interesting data sets.
Stats: A simple trick in R (October 11, 2005). There may be times when you have a string in R that represents a specific R command. How would you run this command?
Stats: Dates in Excel and R (August 10, 2005). Every program uses a slightly different method for calculating date values. Excel, for example, counts the number of days since the start of 1900 (January 1, 1900=1) for Windows, but for the Macintosh it uses 1904 instead of 1900. R counts the number of days since the start of 1970 (January 1, 1970=0). It ignores fractional portions of the day.
Stats: Moving R objects (July 28, 2005). I regularly work from home on my laptop, and when I need to re-run some analyses in R, I usually just re-create the original data sets. But there are several ways you can transfer objects from one R system to another.
Stats: String manipulations in R (May 10, 2005). As part of my efforts to analyze microarray data, I am finding that I need to do simple string manipulations in R. Here is a list of functions that might help.
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