July 8, 2012

Easy tables for publication

I’m writing for a journal article today and it’s the familiar problem of how to export all of the beautiful tables and graphs from LaTeX to Word (using R, of course).

May 7, 2012

A joke about R

I’m so sorry, I’ve come across an R joke I must share.

April 26, 2012

R-Uni (A List of Free R Tutorials and Resources in University webpages)

List of R tutorials for beginners.

April 11, 2012

Great analogue visualisation

Perhaps another chapter in the infographics versus data graphics debate, a truly eye-catching visualisation of sugar contents in different drinks.

April 7, 2012

Parallelising with R

I’ve been fitting some generalised linear mixed effects models with 400,000 rows or so and it takes a while even on my quad core 3.

April 5, 2012

Quick R tip- making scripts work across OS’s

Quick thought for newbies to R. I have spent four years loading in data like this

April 2, 2012

Dr John Milton – Your days are numbered: Measuring clinical performance in mental health

Excellent post re: Moneyball and a clinician’s perspective.

March 24, 2012

Excellent post about R base graphics

If you’re a keen user of the base graphics functionality in R (and you should be) then you’ll love this excellent summary of some of the useful and esoteric options within:

March 9, 2012

Because it’s Friday- animated graphs

I’ve been analysing some data and we’re a bit unsure, as we often are, as to its quality.

March 5, 2012

Visualization series: Insight from Cleveland and Tufte on plotting numeric data by groups

Wonderful post about visualisation and The Problem with Pie Charts (I found a 3D pie chart in a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment this morning).